[Arkcon]

This was treated in a novel. I don't want to spoil it for you -- So

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The Enterprise went back with a ship captained and crewed by Horta members of the Federation. Do they ever have fun, they really enjoy digesting their way through the planet and moon that orbit inside the sphere. It appears they are also hollow spheres, with inner stars and inhabited inner surfaces.

Meanwhile, the sphere is drifting, running the risk of burning its surface. It turns out an automated system is trying to avoid a neutron star fragment on a collision course -- apparently, the sphere builders have enemies, who bear extremely long-lived grudges and are very powerful in their own right.

This is all the sort of stuff that lends itself to a more for a novel, and less for a TV show or movie.

Here's a philosophical debate bought up by the novel. To build the Dyson sphere, the builders had to scavenge material from the entire solar system, if not from other ones. They swept the surrounding area of cometary debris and dust gas. Their world is pristine and beautiful. Now, no other worlds can evolve life because of their actions. Isn't that just a little bit selfish. Maybe even evil.