two-dimensional being theme

A being that perceive only two spatial dimension, like those sentient geometrical figures occupying a two-dimensional world described in the satirical novella "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" by E. A. Abbott.

Examples

The Enterprise-D came into contact with a plane of 2D beings floating towards a cosmic string in tng4x10 "The Loss", and got stuck.

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StoryLevelMotivation
movie: Flatland (2007) choice The story follows a square, by the convenient name of A Square, as he comes to understand that there is more (or less as the case might be) to the cosmos than the 2D surface in which he and everything he ever knew reside.
movie: Flatland: The Movie (2007) choice The story follows a square, by the convenient name of A Square, as he comes to understand that there is more (or less as the case might be) to the cosmos than the 2D surface in which he and everything he ever knew reside.
tng4x10 choice The Enterprise encountered a swarm of 2D life forms.