The Barrens
From Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference
The Barrens is an area surrounded by a subspace node, a "bubble" of curved space-time, in the Alpha or Beta Quadrant where no star systems exist. It stretched for over one hundred light years.
In 2154, Emory Erickson, inventor of the transporter on Earth, traveled aboard the Enterprise NX-01 through the Barrens in an effort to return his son, Quinn, to normal space after his transporter signal had been trapped in the subspace bubble nearly fifteen years before. (ENT: "Daedalus")
