[dr_lew]

Actually, and I remember this from the SciFi channel's Star Trek Special Edition, they were cuboctahedrons:

[MacMattico]

Cuboctahedrons. Oh. Explains the one question I got wrong on my SAT’s!

[isom35]

crushed cube trivia: the actress playing the ensign was at one point married to James Cromwell who played Cochran in First Contact.