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Star Trek Into Darkness: Creating the Red Planet

Cast and crew discuss ditching the idea of shooting in Hawaii and share the painstaking details behind creating Nibiru, both the leafy red surface and the volcanic set piece. The supplement ... Read all Cast and crew discuss ditching the idea of shooting in Hawaii and share the painstaking details behind creating Nibiru, both the leafy red surface and the volcanic set piece. The supplement also examines alien design and the technical details and challenges behind shooting the se... Read all Cast and crew discuss ditching the idea of shooting in Hawaii and share the painstaking details behind creating Nibiru, both the leafy red surface and the volcanic set piece. The supplement also examines alien design and the technical details and challenges behind shooting the sequence.

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15 Star Trek planets you need to visit this year (pictures)

Can't wait for the upcoming Star Trek flick? Maybe you should make plans for which planets you'll visit during your gap year after graduating from Starfleet.

"Star Trek Beyond," the next installment in the series of reboot films, sees the Enterprise crew trapped on a mysterious planet. The movie is set to be released July 22 in the US and UK and July 21 in Australia.

If that planet is anything like these classic Trek worlds, we absolutely cannot wait.

Let's start with Risa: tropical luxury resorts, miles of pristine beaches, steam pools and subterranean gardens, and more than 200 very, very accommodating Nuvian masseuses...

Risa: Yeah, there are beaches too

And no weapons allowed. Risa gets the nickname "The Pleasure Planet" for good reason. (Editors' note: The "Star Trek" TV series is a property of CBS, which also owns CNET.)

Depending on which timeline you're in, Vulcan may have been destroyed, or may be about to be destroyed. If at all possible, we recommend seeing it while you still can.

Vulcan: Get it while it's hot

Make sure to check out the lava pools, active volcanos, religious buildings, and the iconic Fire Plains. Oh, and pack light clothing: They don't say things are "hot as Vulcan" for nothing.

If you're feeling a little lonely, look no further than Trill, a planet where there are two beings for every one person. We're talking about some mighty welcoming symbiotes, but the pluses don't end there...

Trill: Look familiar?

Yes, the oceans are purple, but if you squint, it looks remarkably like Earth. (If you squint very hard, you may notice a passing resemblance to the Huntington gardens in Pasadena, California.) Plan a visit to the Caves of Mak'ala and a hike through the ice cliffs of Tenaran.

Ba'ku is a lush planet with rolling hills, sparkling lakes, and exciting local wildlife. But its most important feature is one that's not on the surface...

... Metaphasic rings that regenerate health and give inhabitants eternal life and inexplicable sexiness. The veins of kelbonite in the mountains make transporting off-world difficult, so be sure to snag a ticket for the ferry.

Architecture buffs will get a kick out of Pollux IV, where the Greek gods retreated after the people of Earth stopped worshipping them. Their species died out after an encounter with Captain Kirk, but they left their stunning buildings behind for tourists to enjoy.

Plan the timing of your visit to Meridian very, very carefully. Every 60 years, Meridian undergoes a quantum energy shift that transforms inhabitants from physical beings to incorporeal consciousnesses. You really don't want to be there when they're shifting back into energy...

Meridian: Fabulous food

However, visitors shouldn't miss the chance to participate in the "First Meal" and "Last Meal" celebrations the locals use to mark their return to corporeal forms.

Andoria is just a short trip from Vulcan. Unfortunately, you'll need to pack an entirely new wardrobe: It's an ice moon. If you visit in the summer, temperatures should hover around a pleasant -22 degrees Fahrenheit...

Andoria: True blue natives

Pack your skis for some unforgettable trips down the mountain on the surface, and cozy up with your first mate (or your favorite blue-skinned native) in some of the romantic underground caves that are popular with honeymooners.

The sacred Klingon planet is the location of the Boreth monastery, where according to Klingon tradition, the warrior Kahless (or just his " Next Generation " clone) would return to lead the people.

Boreth: Don't miss the temples

When you're done touring the temples, pay a visit to the lava caves.

Omicron Ceti III

On this planet, you'll find complete happiness and contentment, thanks to a native species of spore. The spores also protect inhabitants from Berthold rays, which once killed everyone and everything on the planet.

Omicron Ceti III: You'll never want to leave!

Make sure you have a friend who's willing to pull you out if you get a little too content.

Another tropical paradise floating through space, Eden is an incredibly peaceful planet. That's largely because it has no native animal species, including humans. The local trees, grasses, and other flora are stunning to look at, but be warned: Everything is acidic and causes severe burns. Look, don't touch, on this one.

Ceti Alpha VI

Not to be confused with Ceti Alpha V, Ceti Alpha VI is home to an important piece of Starfleet technological history. It is the Genesis Planet, where terraforming technology was deployed to make it inhabitable once again. Admittedly, that only happened after a minor incident with a man named...

Ceti Alpha VI: You've got one guy to thank

Argelius II

Sick leave is no joke in Starfleet. If you're lucky, you may get assigned to recover on Argelius II. Its government is based entirely on love, which has led to some bureaucratic inefficiencies, but makes it ideal for a relaxing trip. Don't miss the dancing girls in the local cafes. The local prefect assures us that the murderous incorporeal entity that once plagued the planet has definitely moved on!

Sigma Iotia II

Get your zoot suit dry cleaned and your tommy gun oiled: Sigma Iotia II is best known as the "gangster planet." The native Iotians, who are not yet warp-capable, accidentally got their hands on an Earth textbook called "Chicago Mobs of the Twenties." Today, the entire planet is a replica of Prohibition-era Chicago. Make sure to ask the locals to show you how to play Fizzbin.

Vaskan-Kyrian

If you happen to get your hands on a Bajoran time cube, be sure to pay a visit to the Vaskan-Kyrian homeworld 700 years from now. The planet is home to the Kyrian Heritage Museum, where you can retrace the steps of the original Voyager mission to broker peace between the Vaskans and Kyrians. Thanks to The Doctor's input, it has been updated to more accurately reflect the exact sequence of events.

A planet eternally plunged into darkness may not sound like a vacation hot spot, but Dakala is home to a wide variety of bioluminescent plants and animals. Pack your night-vision goggles and enjoy the hot gases that vent from the planet's core.

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The bright, optimistic future of Star Trek entailed regular scientific exploration, which was part of Starfleet’s mantra. That included an entire lexicon of terms, to better sell the show’s setting and to provide the sheen of rigor to its various dramatic plots. Planets were grouped according to class – each one with different features and details – which became a part of the world-building and continued to be used in subsequent Star Trek series. The most enticing was Class M , which was a planet capable of sustaining humanoid life. That meant new alien beings, new cultures and civilizations, or even just a suitable spot to set up a colony.

But class M wasn’t the only type of planet in the Star Trek lexicon. Nine others were mentioned at one point or another during the series, each with a letter demarking their status. A list of all classifications follows, along with a brief description of their conditions.

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Class D: Barren Rock

Class D referred to a planet or planetoid completely devoid of atmosphere. The most prominent example in canon was Regula, the planetoid from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan . Spock described it as “a great rock in space,” composed of unremarkable elements and of little note beyond that.

Class H: Uninhabitable

The class H designation in Star Trek canon was vague, though largely uninhabitable by most humanoid species. One exception was the Sheliak, an “R-3” lifeform consisting of what appeared to be sentient blobs. They laid claim over several Class H worlds, which the Federation ceded to them as part of a treaty. However, a class H planet named Tau Cygna V was inhabited by human colonists, provoking a diplomatic incident with the Sheliak that the Enterprise-D resolved in Star Trek: the Next Generation Season 3, Episode 2, “The Ensigns of Command.”

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Class J: Gas Giant

Class J was designated a manner of gas giant, akin to Jupiter. They are uninhabitable by humanoid life forms though their varying layers of atmosphere could conceivably carry life of a non-humanoid sort. The most prominent onscreen appearance came in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Season 4, Episode 7, “Starship Down.” The Defiant engaged in a game of cat-and-mouse with the Jem’hadar in the atmosphere of a remote planet fitting the classification.

Class K: Habitable with Modifications

A class K planet was deemed habitable in many ways, but with surface conditions too harsh to support humanoid life. That could include anything from extreme temperatures to lack of a breathable atmosphere. People could live on such worlds with help from technological devices such as pressurized air domes or underground structures, but exposure to the surface without protective gear would be lethal. The Original Series Season 2, Episode 12, “I, Mudd” was set on a class K planet, beneath a dome controlled by androids where Harry Mudd set himself up as king.

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Class L: Marginally Habitable

Class L planets held all of the components suitable for human life, and could often support such life for extended periods of time. They are usually quite barren, though some contain arable land and others are able to support colonies of hundreds of thousands of people. Class L planets are mentioned regularly throughout the franchise, notably in multiple episodes of Star Trek: Voyager .

Class M: Habitable

The vast majority of Star Trek’s alien worlds are class M, featuring a sustainable oxygen atmosphere, viable ecology and other Earth-like qualities. That allows all manner of life to develop on them and provides a convenient location for franchise's stories. Most civilized worlds in the Star Trek universe are class M, including Earth, Vulcan, Qo’noS and Andoria -- though Andoria is technically a moon. The “M” stands for “Minshara,” a Vulcan term used in Star Trek: Enterprise , though none of the other planetary classes had in-canon designations beyond the letters.

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Classes N and R: Habitable With Unknown Modifiers

Both class N and class R planets are deemed habitable, though they differ from Class M planets in a manner that the Star Trek canon has yet to lay out. In both cases, their respective atmospheres are sensitive to specific types of explosives. Beyond that, their properties are unknown. Both were mentioned for the first time in The Next Generation Season 4, Episode 17, “Night Terrors.”

Class T: Gas Giant

A class T is a gas giant, similar to a class J. As with classes N and R, there is no current in-canon explanation for the differences between the two. Class T planets have thus far only been mentioned once in the franchise: Voyager Season 6, Episode 20, “Good Shepherd.” The Delta flyer encounters one bearing rings, though it’s unknown if those are the distinguishing factor for the class or not.

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Class Y: Demon Planet

Class Y planets were designated “demon planets” due to their overtly toxic and dangerous atmospheres, and for their often hellish surface appearance. That could include surface temperatures higher than 500 degrees Kelvin and radiation discharges that were actively harmful to humanoid life. Its most notable appearance came in Voyager Season 4, Episode 24, “Demon,” which used a class Y planet as its primary focus.

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Real-life 'Star Trek' planet was actually just an illusion caused by a 'jittery' star

New research shows that a planet spotted around the real-life star 40 Eridani A, famous for hosting Dr. Spock's fictional home world in 'Star Trek', may have been an optical illusion all along.

An illustration shows a Vulcan like planet HD 26965 b orbiting the star Keid.

A planet beyond the solar system that has been compared to Spock's homeworld Vulcan in the Star Trek franchise may have been nothing more than an illusion caused by a jittery star.

The extrasolar planet or " exoplanet " (a term for a planet outside of our solar system) was proposed to orbit a star called 40 Eridani A or "Keid," which is part of a triple star system located around 16.3 light-years from Earth. In Star Trek, this star is also home to the planet Vulcan. First announced in 2018 , the planet caused quite a stir thanks to its similarities with Spock's fictional home planet.

A team of scientists led by astronomer Abigail Burrows of Dartmouth College now thinks that the "wobble" of this planet's parent star isn't the result of an orbiting world tugging on it at all. Burrows and colleagues discovered using a NASA instrument called NEID located at Kitt Peak National Observatory that the origin of this wobble is actually "pulses and jitters" of Keid itself.

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Sorry Keid, you're on your own...

The fictional version of Vulcan was first introduced during Gene Roddenberry's seminal original series run of Star Trek , mentioned in the 1965 unaired pilot episode "The Cage." In the 2009 J.J. Abrams-directed Star Trek reboot , Vulcan was destroyed by a time-traveling enemy of Kirk, Spock, and the rest of the Enterprise crew.

By wiping out the real-life Vulcan, officially designated HD 26965 b, this new research shows that sometimes life imitates art.

There are several ways to detect exoplanets orbiting distant stars, but the two most successful techniques are the transit method and the radial velocity method . Both of these techniques consider the effect an orbiting planet has on its star.

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The transit method, employed to great success by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) , measures the tiny dips in light a planet causes as it crosses the face of its parent star.

While the transit method is by far the more fruitful of these two exoplanet detection methods , the radial velocity method is useful for spotting exoplanets that don't pass between the face of their star and our vantage point in the solar system.

The radial velocity method uses tiny shifts in the light of a star as an orbiting planet gravitationally tugs on it. As a star is pulled away from Earth, the wavelength of the light it emits is stretched, causing it to move to the "red end" of the electromagnetic spectrum, a phenomenon called " redshift ." The converse happens when the star is pulled toward Earth, the wavelengths of light compress, and the light is "blue-shifted" toward the "blue end" of the electromagnetic spectrum.

This is analogous to the Doppler effect, which impacts sound waves on Earth. When an ambulance races toward us, the soundwaves from its siren are compressed, making them sound higher-pitched. When the ambulance races away, the sound waves are more spaced out, and the siren becomes lower-pitched.

An illustration showing the Doppler effect

The radial velocity method is best for detecting especially massive planets , as these exert a larger gravitational pull on their stars and thus generate a more pronounced shift in the starlight from that stellar body. However, it is less robust for detecting planets with masses lower than that of Jupiter, the solar system's most massive planet.

When HD 26965 b was first potentially detected using the radial velocity method, its mass was estimated to be about 8 times greater than that of Earth but less than that of Neptune, making it a so-called "super-Earth" planet. The faux-Vulcan was suspected to orbit its parent star at around 22% of the distance between Earth and the sun , completing a year in around 42 Earth days.

Yet even the scientists who discovered this planet warned that it could be a misdetection caused by Keid's inherent jitteriness. By 2023, researchers had cast major doubts on the existence of this exoplanet. These new high-precision radial velocity measurements, which were not yet available in 2018, are the final nail in the coffin of the Vulcan-like HD 26965 b.

The disappointing news for Star Trek fans was delivered by NEID, the name of which rhymes with "fluid." NEID is an instrument that uses radial velocity to measure the motion of nearby stars with extreme precision.

NEID separated out the suspected planetary signal into its constituent wavelengths representing light emitted from various layers in the structure of Keid's surface or photosphere . This allowed the team to detect significant differences in the individual wavelengths compared to the total combined signal.

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The upshot is that the signal implied the existence of HD 26965 b is actually the result of something flickering at the surface of Keid approximately every 42 Earth days. This effect could also be created when hot and cold plasma rises and falls through Keid's convection zone and interacts with surface features like dark sunspot patches or bright, active regions called " plages ."

While this discovery isn't great news for Keid and its planetary prospects, or for fans of Star Trek, it is a positive step for exoplanet-hunting scientists.

That's because the finely tuned radial velocity measurements of NEID promise that planetary signals can be more accurately separated and distinguished from the natural jitters of stars in the future.

The team's research is published in The Astronomical Journal.

Originally posted on Space.com .

Editor's note: The headline of this article was changed on May 31. A previous version described the phenomenon as a mirage, rather than an illusion, which is a separate atmospheric phenomenon not relevant here.

Robert Lea is a science journalist in the U.K. who specializes in science, space, physics, astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology, quantum mechanics and technology. Rob's articles have been published in Physics World, New Scientist, Astronomy Magazine, All About Space and ZME Science. He also writes about science communication for Elsevier and the European Journal of Physics. Rob holds a bachelor of science degree in physics and astronomy from the U.K.’s Open University

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List of Star Trek planets (A–B)

The fictional universe of the Star Trek canon , which evolved out of the 1966–69 TV series Star Trek , is a vast complex of planets, organizations, and peoples that together comprise an example of the science fiction practice of worldbuilding .

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Aaamazzara – Homeworld of the Aaamazzarite species. [1]
Acamar III – Homeworld of the humanoid Acamarians, who finally reunited the marauding Gatherers into their world's mainstream with Capt. Picard's help in 2366. [2]
Achrady VII – Site of a conference supposedly attended by Lwaxana Troi before she changed her plans to visit Enterprise -D. This is likely a ruse by Deanna Troi to get Capt. Picard off-ship for a vacation. [3]
Adarak Prime – Planet in Cardassian space and location of a weapons depot. [4]
Adelphous IV – Destination of the USS Enterprise -D at the time Worf handed over the conn to Data for the night watch after O'Brien's wedding in 2368. [5]
Adigeon Prime – Planet where young Julian Bashir was genetically modified by his parents to enhance his mental and physical skills. [6]
Agaron – Planet whose government was allied to Vulcan in the 22nd century.
Ajilon Prime – Lone Class-M planet of Ajilon in the disputed Archanis sector, three days' warp from Deep Space Nine , and home to a Federation colony. Half the residents were trapped after Klingons captured two settlements in the northern hemisphere. Kalanda's besieged hospital was located at one end of a peninsula near a Starfleet base at Tananda Bay. [7]
Akaali homeworld – The third planet of the Omega Sagittarii star system. Minshara-class homeworld of the Akaali species, visited by the Enterprise NX-01 in 2151. [8]
Akritiri – Delta Quadrant planet with a fascist police state that maintained a prison satellite in 2373. [9]
Alastria – A Delta Quadrant planet with a binary star about 40,000 light-years from Sikaris, accessed via the spatial trajector. [10]
Aldea – A supposedly mythical world in the Epsilon Mynos system whose inhabitants constructed a planet-wide cloaking device to hide their planet from marauders. The cloak effect deteriorated the ozone layer and, over time, rendered the Aldeans sterile with radiation poisoning. [11]
Aldebaran III – Third planet in the Aldebaran system; a longtime Federation member planet on which Janet and Theodore Wallace performed experiments using carbohydrate compounds to slow the aging of plants. [12] It is the location of the Aldebaran Music School. [13] Grand Nagus Zek's nephew Belongo was once detained on Aldebaran III by Starfleet. [14] Dr. Ira Graves, who attempted to cheat death by uploading his consciousness into Lt. Cmdr. Data, wanted to flee to a location in the Aldebaran system, so he could live on with his love, Kareen Brianon. [15] The Aldebaran system is the home of a particularly tight-mouthed creature called the Aldebaran Shellmouth. [16] Scott and Picard share a bottle of Aldebaran whiskey. [17]
Alderaan – In 2135, HMS New Zealand was on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan. [18] The Bajoran criminal Ibudan, chartered a space flight out of Alderaan. [19]
Alfa 177 – Class-M planet geo-surveyed by the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 on stardate 1672.1, when a transporter malfunction trapped Lt. Sulu's landing party on the surface overnight during freezing cold that left some suffering severe frostbite. [20]
Algeron IV – Destination of the Enterprise -D after leaving Relva VII in 2364. It is near the Romulan Star Empire and the namesake of the Romulan-Federation "Treaty of Algeron" which banned the UFP from developing cloaking technology. [21]
Alondra – an uninhabited planet in the remote Federation system of Pallas 14. It was engulfed by a matter-energy cloud on star date 5371. [22]
Alpha III – Planet where a code of law ethics known as the "Statues of Alpha III" were written. [23]
Alpha Carinae II – Class-M planet on which Dr. Daystrom's M-5 computer was tested in 2268. [24] Note: In Bayer-system nomenclature, Alpha Carinae is the technical catalog name for Canopus . [ citation needed ]
Alpha Carinae V – The home planet of the Drella, an entity that absorbs in love it senses around it. [25]
Alpha Centauri – Alpha Centauri is the closest inhabitable world to Earth and was thus one of the earliest planets to be colonized by Humans. In the late 22nd century, Earth-born Zephram Cochrane took up residence on Alpha Centauri and lived there, in retirement, until his mysterious disappearance.
Alpha Cygnus IX – Ninth planet of Alpha Cygni , the classical Bayer-format name for the star more commonly known as Deneb . It lends its name to an historic yet otherwise unspecified treaty negotiated by Ambassador Sarek . [26]
Alpha Eridani II – Planet where the Redjac entity may have been responsible for various murders in the city of Heliopolis. [25] Note: In Bayer-system nomenclature, Alpha Eridani is the technical catalog name for Achernar .
Alpha Laputa IV – Planet on which the USS Zhukov makes cultural observations. [27]
Alpha Leonis system – The Enterprise -D is ordered to take medical supplies from Starbase 343 to an unspecified planet in the Alpha Leonis system. [2] Note: In Bayer-system nomenclature, Alpha Leonis is the technical catalog name for Regulus .
Alpha Majoris I – Short form for the first planet orbiting Alpha Ursae Majoris . Homeworld of a lifeform known as the Mellitus, which is gaseous in transit but becomes solid when still. [25] Note: In Bayer-system nomenclature, Alpha Ursae Majoris is the technical catalog name for Dubhe . [ citation needed ]
Alpha Omicron VII – A Jupiter-like gas giant where a large space-faring alien was found and unintentionally killed. It was discovered that the alien was pregnant and its baby was birthed post-mortem. The baby was then reunited with other adults. [28]
Alpha Onias III – A barren yet light blue Class-M planet with hazy clouds, considered uninhabited until Barash's species was discovered there in 2367. One large cavern 2 km below the surface contains stalactites, stalagmites, and volcanic gases including methane, sulfur dioxide and hydrogen sulfide. [29]
Alpha Proxima II – One of several planets where female residents were brutally stabbed to death in the style of Jack the Ripper . A lifeform that fed off terror and fear was responsible. [25]
Alpha V – An Earth colony that was home to some of Charles Evans' relatives in 2266. [30]
Alpha-441 – Planetoid which was home to a Maquis munitions base in or near the Demilitarized Zone. It was the original programmed target of the Cardassian Dreadnought missile. [31]
Alsaurian homeworld – Inhabited Delta Quadrant planet ruled by the Mokra Order, a military dictatorship suppressing its Alsaurian population while claiming to be helping its self-defense. [ citation needed ]
Altair III – Third planet located in the Alpha Aquilae star system; where Lt. Cmdr. Riker refused to let his commanding officer on the USS Hood , Captain Robert DeSoto, beam down due to a potentially dangerous situation. [32] [33] The Hood transported Tam Elbrun to the Enterprise -D after DeSoto had communicated with by-then CDR Will Riker.
Altair IV – Fourth planet located in the Alpha Aquilae star system; LT Darien Wallace was born on Altair IV. [34] In 2371, Dr. Henri Roget, of the Central Hospital of Altair IV, was awarded the prestigious Carrington Award for his work in medicine. [35]
Altair VI – Center of the Altair system, the planet was recovering from a longtime intersystem war when the USS Enterprise was ordered to attend its new president's inauguration ceremony in 2267. [16] In the Kobayashi Maru scenario, the ship was nineteen periods out of Altair VI. [36] (Inspired the name of the Altair 8800 .) [ citation needed ]
Altamid – A Class-M planet within the Necro Cloud Nebula, beyond the edge of Federation space. In 2164, the USS Franklin crash-landed on Altamid, where Captain Balthazar Edison used abandoned technology left by the extinct natives to survive, mutating in the process and becoming known as Krall. Krall woould later launch an attack on the Federation from the planet in the Kelvin Timeline. [37] [ circular reference ]
Althos IV – Homeworld of the Bzzit Khaht species. [38]
Alture VII – Planet whose protein baths and meditation chambers were simulated by Quark's holosuite. Dr. Crusher wanted to try the program when the Enterprise -D visited Deep Space 9 in 2369. [39]
Amargosa – System where the Amargosa Observatory was located. In 2371, Dr. Tolian Soren used a trilithium missile to destroy the Amargosa star in an attempt to redirect the Nexus Energy Ribbon. [40]
"Amerind" homeworld – A Class-M planet, otherwise unnamed, located in a dense asteroid belt and home to a colony of Native American Indians that were transported there from Earth by an ancient race known as the Preservers centuries ago. The planet, first surveyed by the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 in 2269, was protected from the asteroids by a defense shield obelisk created by the Preservers. [41]
Amleth Prime – Location of a Cardassian base in the Amleth Nebula. The nebula's emissions rendered cloaking devices inoperable making a sneak attack on the base difficult. [42]
Andevian II – Vacation planet known for its moons and breathtaking landscapes. [43]
Andoria – The Andorian homeworld, a frozen M-class moon orbiting the blue gas giant Andor ( Procyon VIII), is a longtime member of the Federation whose inhabitants are distinguished by their blue skin, white hair and antennae. Andoria is near the Vulcan homeworld, and the Vulcans and Andorians are (perceived to be) traditional enemies. Andoria is also host to an Andorian subspecies called the Aenar, who live in isolation from the rest of their world. The albino Aenar are blind but strongly telepathic. [44] [45] [46] [47] Vulcan ambassador V'Lar negotiated the first treaty between Andoria and Vulcan. [48] According to Data, Andorian marriages require groups of four. [5] It is not known whether the Andor/Andoria system is located in the Epsilon Indi star system ( Star Trek: The Original Series ) or Procyon system ( Star Trek: Star Charts ).
Andros III – Home of Dr. Bathkin. [49]
Angel I – A remote Class-M planet orbiting Alpha Gruis , located near the Romulan Neutral Zone. Targeted as a potential Federation member, no doubt due to its strategic location. Its humanoid matriarchy was visited by a UFP ship in 2302 before the USS Enterprise -D came looking for a disabled freighter's survivors 62 years later. It has no traces of naturally occurring platinum. [50]
Angosia III – Homeworld of the Angosian species, who emerged victorious from its war with the Tarsians. In 2366, the Angosians's bid to join the Federation was jeopardized after Capt. Picard discovered that the native authorities had imprisoned its bio-altered veterans on a lunar colony once the war was over. [51]
Antede III – Homeworld of the fish-like Antedean species. [52]
Antica – A planet in the Beta Renner system and homeworld to a canine-like carnivorous race who are deadly enemies of their system neighbors, the Selay. [53]
Antos IV – Home to both a species of giant energy-generating worms and an intelligent species who have perfected the techniques of cellular metamorphosis. Captain Garth learned the ability while convalescing on this planet; it undermined his sanity. [54]
AR-558 – Planet in the Chin'toka system of the Alpha Quadrant which is inhospitable to humanoid life. It was the location of a Dominion communications array. During the Dominion-Federation War, AR-558 was invaded by Federation troops and held for five months without relief forces and minimal supplies. [55]
Archanis IV – Federation colony world which Gowron wanted evacuated in 2372-73; Sisko says it's "a long way from [DS9]". [56] [57] While under the power of a hostile entity, Pavel Chekov once claimed that the research outpost on this planet was the site of an attack on his non-existent brother, Piotr. [58]
Archer IV – The fourth planet in the 61 Ursae Majoris system, and the first habitable M-class planet discovered and explored by the Enterprise (NX-01) . In the 22nd Century, the pollen of plants on this planet had a powerful hallucinogenic effect that nearly caused Commander Trip Tucker to murder Science Officer T'Pol on suspicion of colluding with imaginary aliens against the Enterprise crew. [59] By the 23rd Century, this problem was solved, and the planet became the home of a thriving Federation colony and was named after Captain Jonathan Archer . [60] In the 24th Century, the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) was en route to Archer IV when it encountered a temporal rift; in the alternate timeline created by this incursion, the planet was the location of a major battle in which Federation forces defeated those of the Klingon Empire. [61]
Archer's Comet – Not a planet, but the largest comet ever discovered and large enough for an away team to land on it with a shuttlecraft and collect core samples. [62] Note: Proper reference to it should be to "Comet Archer". [ original research? ]
Archer's Planet – Planet in the Gamma Trianguli sector. Not to be confused with Archer IV which is a different planet. It was the Enterprise -D's destination when it encounters a temporal rift. [61]
Arcturus IV – Homeworld of the Arcturian species. [63]
Ardana – Third planet orbiting the star Rasalas ( Mu Leonis A). A Federation member in 2268, despite then supporting two widely disparate castes; the privileged upper-class lived in the city of Stratos, considered the finest example of sustained anti-gravity elevation in the galaxy, while the lower-class "troglytes" were forced to stay on the surface and mine zenite. James Kirk helped end years of mistrust between the two in 2269 while retrieving zenite to stop a plague, and the caste differences were eliminated at Federation request. [64]
Argana II – The Enterprise's destination as they leave Eminiar VII for their next assignment. [65]
Argelius II – Planet strategically important for its port for space-faring races, especially thanks to its hedonistic and hospitable humanoid natives. It was beset by the murdering Redjac entity in 2267. [25] His stateroom on the Enterprise-D is so spacious that Scotty says it reminds him of a hotel room on Argelius. [17]
Argratha – Gamma Quadrant homeworld of the Argrathi species. [66]
Argus X – Planet surveyed by the crew of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 where they encounter a vampiric entity. [67]
Ariannus – A planet threatened by a bacterial invasion in 2268, until the Enterprise conducted an orbital decontamination. [68]
Arkaria – Inhabited planet and the site of a support base for the orbital Remmler Array, where would-be terrorists and local administrators tried to hijack trilithium resin waste from the Enterprise -D's warp drive during a baryon sweep. [69]
Arloff IX – Geordi mentions that the starship USS Charleston will make an extended stop at Arloff IX. [70]
Armus IX – Riker wore an outfit during a diplomatic conference made of ceremonial feathers from Armus IX. [50]
Arret – Counterpart of Earth ("Terra" spelled backwards) in the alternate universe where time flows backward. [71]
Arvada III – Site of a tragic disaster where a young Beverly Crusher and her grandmother were two of the few surviving colonists. The elder woman's knowledge of medicinal roots saved them when medical ships were late. [72]
Aschelan V – A Cardassian fuel depot in the DMZ near the Badlands. It was the target of the Cardassian Dreadnought weapon which was reprogrammed by the Maquis. The weapon was intercepted first by the Caretaker Array and sent to the Delta Quadrant where it targeted the inhabited planet Rakosa V. [31]
Astral V – Federation colony with a museum dedicated to spacecraft. [73]
Atalia VII – Site of a diplomatic conference delayed by the Enterprise -D's involvement in Dr. Galen's genetic puzzle. [74]
Atbar Prime – Cardassian planet, site of the Cardassian Liberation Front's headquarters. The base was destroyed by Dominion forces in 2375. [75]
Athos IV – Planet which was the location of the last pocket of the Maquis resistance who hid below the surface. The group was wiped out in 2373 by Dominion forces. [76]
Atifs IV – Planet where the ruling Oligarchy employs a stone-knocking ritual of thanks during mealtime, echoing that of the Betazoid and Oolan cultures' meal chimes. [52]
Atlec – Planet located in the Omega Sagitta system. Along with the people of Straleb, its population makes up the Coalition of Madena. War between the planets almost broke out in 2362, when the rogue freighter captain Thadiun Okona was accused of stealing the Straleb "Jewel of Thesia" for Yadar, the daughter of Atlec's leader Debin. [77]
Atrea IV – This planet's cooling core magma was reheated by the Enterprise -D while working with its native scientist, Dr. Pran Tainer, and his wife, Juliana, onetime wife of Dr. Soong and co-creator of Data. [78]
' Aucdet IX – Planet with a Federation medical facility visited by the Enterprise-D. (It is spelled with an apostrophe and a small a in the subtitle track.) [79]
Aurelia – Homeworld of the Aurelians and a member of the United Federation of Planets . [ citation needed ]
Avenal VII – Planet in Cardassian space that Klingon ruler Gowron ordered a disastrous attack upon in 2375, where all Klingon ships were destroyed. [80]
Avery III – Planet in the Delta Quadrant within the Vidiian Sodality. It was the location of a hidden Vidiian base. [81]
Axanar – Located in the well-known Epsilon Eridani system. Homeworld of the Axanar species. [82] It was also the site of a historic mission led by Garth of Izar. [54]
B'Saari II – Homeworld of the B'Saari species. [83]
Ba'ku – Class-M planet hidden inside a region of space called The Briar Patch. The planet had unique metaphasic particle rings that generate a rejuvenation effect on its inhabitants, a lost colony of Son'a who settled there sometime in the 21st Century. In 2375, an attempt to strip the rings of its particles by the Son'a commander Ru'afo and the recently widowed Vice Admiral Matthew Dougherty of Star Fleet was foiled by the crew of the Enterprise -E. [84]
Babel – Neutral planet where the Federation Council met in 2267 to determine the admission of the Coridian planets to the Federation. The Articles of Federation were signed on this planet in 2161. [85] Babel orbits Wolf 424 , close to Sol & Earth. [ citation needed ]
Bajor – Homeworld of the Bajoran species. It is the 7th planet in the B'hava'el system. The system is known for being near the Bajoran Wormhole which provides access to the Gamma Quadrant. The space station Deep Space Nine orbits near the system. [39]
Bajor VIII – Eighth planet in the Bajoran star system with six colonies containing several thousand Bajoran settlers. Its proper name is Andros and it has at least two moons. Terrorist Tahna Los , after picking up the explosive bilitrium from the Duras sisters behind the "lower" moon, threatened to blow up the planet's colonists in 2369 if Major Kira did not take him to Deep Space Nine. [86]
Balancar – Alpha Quadrant planet and the source of "syrup of swill". [87]
Balosnee VI – A vacation planet (pronounced "BOWEL-us-nee") where the soothing harmonies of the tides can cause stimulating hallucinations. The world was one of Zek's two choices for his first vacation in 85 years after his short-lived "retirement" as Grand Nagus, but he eventually opted for Risa and its "voluptuous females" before faking his death. [88]
Banean homeworld – Delta Quadrant homeworld to the Banea, an independent spacefaring culture in competition with its rival neighbor, the militaristic Numiri. During a stop by the USS Voyager in 2371 to repair a damaged collimator, Paris was convicted of murder and forced to relive the act repeatedly through memory implants, the Banean penal method, until a Numiri spy was revealed to be the true killer. [89]
Barisa Prime – Federation colony located near Tzenkethi space. In 2371, the USS Defiant answers a faked distress call from Barisa indicating the world was attacked by Tzenkethi forces. [90]
Barkon IV – Alpha Quadrant homeworld to a Renaissance-level culture [91] ruled by village elders and a magistrate. A downed probe was retrieved by Data, who suffered memory loss on the mission and subsequently contaminated the inhabitants of a nearby village with radioactive material. He later found a way to cure the inhabitants of the resulting radiation sickness. [92]
Barradas III – Planet where Riker was captured by mercenaries led by Arctus Baran while searching for Capt. Picard's killers. Riker discovers Picard posing as one of the mercenaries to infiltrate their theft of artifacts. [93]
Barson II – Planet where the Enterprise -D transported medical supplies to fight a viral outbreak. [34]
Barzan – An independent Alpha Quadrant planet that is home to a poor but proud race whose hopes for progress based on a nearby wormhole were dashed in 2366 when it was discovered to be unstable. [94]
Beltane IX – A trading planet of some merchant marine repute within a shuttlecraft's range of Relva VII. Jake Kurland, a rejected Starfleet Academy finalist, intended to "run away" from the Enterprise -D and sign on aboard a freighter there. [21]
Benecia Colony – A young Federation colony with only minimal medical facilities in 2269, when Dr. Janice Lester used them to hide her life-energy transfer with James T. Kirk. [95] Also, presumably, the location of the rehabilitation colony where the Karidian Company was slated to perform, but where Lenore Karidian herself was instead treated for a psychotic break after killing her father Anton. [96]
Benthos – Homeworld of the Benthan species. [97]
Benzar – homeworld of the Benzite species, in orbit of Securis, better known as Delta Pavonis . One native, Ensign Mendon, served on the Enterprise -D as part of an exchange program. Another, Mordock, became the first of his race to be admitted to Starfleet Academy. [21] In 2374, Benzar was conquered by the Dominion during the Dominion War , and later liberated by Romulan forces. [98] [99]
Berengaria VII – A planet known for its dragon-like lifeforms. [100] In 2151, the Enterprise NX-01 scouted the planet as a proposed site for one of the Federation's first starbases. [101] In 2373, Winn Adami asked Captain Benjamin Sisko rhetorically whether the Federation would sacrifice Berengaria to protect Bajor from the Dominion. [49]
Bersallis III – Planet with renowned firestorms, which occur every seven years. In 2369, the storms forced the Enterprise -D to evacuate the Federation outpost there. [102]
Beta III – Planet whose society is ruled over by a computer called Landru. [103]
Beta VI – Federation colony and destination of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701, before crew were abducted by the entity Trelane to his planet Gothos. [104]
Beta XII-A – Location of a Federation agricultural colony. In 2268, an alien entity sent a fake distress call the Enterprise NCC-1701 claiming the world was attacked by the Klingons. It was all an elaborate ruse to get the crew of the ship to fight the Klingons so the entity could feed off their negative energy of hatred and anger. [58]
Beta Agni II – Federation colony whose water supply was contaminated with tricyanate by trader Kivas Fajo as a diversion to kidnap Lt. Cmdr. Data. [105]
Beta Antares IV – World mentioned as the home of a confusing, and terribly complicated, card game called fizzbin made up by James Kirk in a ruse to escape captors on Sigma Iota II in 2268. [106]
Beta Aurigae – The USS Enterprise was to rendezvous with the USS Potemkin at Beta Aurigae, but Dr. Janice Lester, in Kirk's body, diverted the Enterprise to the Benecia Colony. [95] Note: In Bayer-system nomenclature, Beta Aurigae is the technical catalog name for Menkalinan . [ citation needed ]
Beta Aquilae II – Second planet in the Beta Aquilae star system. Location of a Starfleet Academy annex. [34] Note: In Bayer-system nomenclature, Beta Aquilae is the technical catalog name for Alshain . [ citation needed ]
Beta Cassius – another name for the Class M planet Haven. [107]
Beta Kupsic – Destination of the Enterprise -D after leaving Starbase Montgomery. [108]
Beta Niobe I – Also known as Sarpeidon, this class M planet was visited by the USS Enterprise in 2269 hours before its star Beta Niobe went supernova. The Enterprise crew discovered the natives of the world had escaped their fate by time traveling to their world's past. [109]
Beta Stromgren – Star system claimed to be in Romulan territory where a red supergiant was on the verge of going supernova. It is the system where the Vega Nine probe found the living spaceship "Tin Man" ( a.k.a. Gomtuu) orbiting near the star. The ancient living ship, apparently the last of its kind, was lonely and ready to accept its suicidal destruction before joining with the Betazed prodigy Tam Elbrun who had been in psychic contact with it. [110]
Beta Ursae Minoris II – Location of a Starfleet Academy annex. [34] Note: Beta Ursae Minoris is the Bayer designation for Kochab . [111]
Betazed – Also called Beta Zeta V, Betazed is the homeworld of the Betazoid species, and member of the United Federation of Planets. It is the homeworld of Counselor Deanna Troi, and her mother Ambassador Lwaxana Troi. [52] [63] [112] In 2374, Dominion forces took over Betazed, but it was liberated by the Federation's Tenth Fleet. [113]
Betelgeuse II – Homeworld of the Betelgeusan species. [114]
Beth Delta I – Planet where Dr. Paul Stubbs offered to take Counselor Troi to see the city of New Manhattan over champagne. [115]
Bilana III – Planet where a science institute served as the base of operations for an experimental type of propulsion called a Soliton Wave. The wave was generated by field coils on Bilana III and pushed a test vessel toward Lemma II at warp speeds without the ship itself generating the warp field. At Lemma II, a dispersion field would stop the wave and the ship would exit warp. [116]
Bilaren – System with a Federation colony. Amanda Rodgers' adoptive parents were stationed at Bilaren. [117]
Blue Horizon – Terraformed planet, the site of a Federation colony. The planet was visited by Benjamin Sisko and his son Jake on a vacation trip. [118]
Bokara VI – Planet and site of a neuropsychology seminar attended by Deanna Troi in 2369. Troi was abducted from Borkar VI by the Romulan underground, who used her in a plan to help M'Ret defect to the Federation. [119]
Bolarus IX – Federation planet and home to the Bolian species. The planet has an uneasy truce with the Moropa. It sent at least two delegates to the biennial Trade Agreements Conference on Betazed. [120] [121] [122]
Bopak III – Uninhabited Class-M world in the Gamma Quadrant where Bashir and O'Brien encountered Jem'Hadar trying to break their Ketracel-white addiction. Its plants have a high degree of chlorophyll for the planet of a red giant star. [123]
Boraal II – Homeworld of the medieval Boraalan species. Its atmosphere suddenly began a catastrophic dissipation in 2370. The Enterprise -D answered the distress signal sent by Dr. Nikolai Rozhenko, Worf's foster brother, who fell in love with a native woman while disguised as a cultural observer and broke the Prime Directive to save her village. [124]
Boradis III – Site of the first Federation outpost in the Boradis system founded in 2331, and the first of 13 that have since been settled in the sector as of late 2365. Julian Bashir recalls the time he cured a plague on Boradis III. [125] [126]
Boreal III – Planetary home port or residence of the non-Starfleet transport ship Kallisko , destroyed by the Crystalline Entity. [127]
Boreth – The most sacred place of Klingons (pronounced "bore-OTH") where Kahless was supposed to return. It hosted a monastery for clerics keeping watch until his return and was maintained after their cloned version became Emperor in 2369. Worf went to Boreth to seek the return of Kahless and found a clone version instead. [128] Worf visited Boreth again after the destruction of the Enterprise -D. [129] DS9 had several artistic depictions of Borath on the promenade deck and in the replimat eatery. [130]
Borg Prime – The homeworld of the Borg (speculative). The exact location is unknown, but most likely deep in the Delta Quadrant where the Borg control a huge empire, however it is not the center of governance, that is located in their unicomplex. [ original research? ]
Boslic – Homeworld of the Boslic species. [131]
Bracas V – A planet where La Forge has skin-dived among coral reefs. [132]
Braslota – System with three with planets Totoro (Braslota I), Yuri (Braslota II) and Kei (Braslota III), which were fictitious codenames used in "Operation Lovely Angel", a battle simulation between the USS Enterprise -D and the 80-year-old USS Hathaway . [133] Note: The names were only seen on a computer screen and come from the anime series Dirty Pair .
Brax – Planet in the Gamma Quadrant whose inhabitants call Q the "God of Lies". Vash visited Brax while in Q's company, though they were not particularly welcome. [134]
Brechtian cluster – System with two inhabited planets threatened by the Crystalline Entity. [127]
Bre'el IV – An inhabited world facing the planetwide chaos of quakes, massive tidal waves, and climate-altering dust clouds when its asteroidal moon threatened to fall out of orbit, (until Q helped out). [135]
Breen homeworld – The frozen wasteland home of the Dominion-allied Breen species, who must use armored pressure suits when living on many Class-M worlds. Its climate is well-known to off-worlders. Cardassia, for one, has an embassy there. [4] [42] [136] [137] [138]
Brekka – Native name for Delos IV, the Class-M home of felicium, an organic narcotic used by its natives to keep prosperous after they kept system neighbor Ornara secretly addicted to it for 200 years. [139] Note: This Delos IV should not be confused with the planet of another system, commonly called Delos, that is the site of an established Federation-world medical facility.
Brentalia – A planet where endangered lifeforms from different worlds can be brought for refuge. Two of the last fourteen surviving gilvos of Corvan II were transported by the Enterprise -D here for refuge breeding. [116] Worf took Alexander to see the planet's zoo. [140]
Brinda V – Inhabited planet where half the population of a small planet was reported to have been transported away by Orion traders to work as slave labor in their mining camps. Constable Odo had read of the incident and initially compared it to the situation on the Yadera colony. [13]
Bringloid V – Class-M planet endangered by increasing stellar flares and instability in 2365, home to the 223 descendants of the mostly forgotten Neo-Transcendentalists dropped off by the S.S. Mariposa colony ship that left Earth in 2123. Anachronisms even then, the people took refuge 30 meters below the surface but repeatedly refused to develop advanced technology. [18]
Browder IV – Planetary site of a terraforming effort by the USS Hood in 2366, to which the Enterprise -D was bound after helping end a plague on Cor Caroli V. Picard's kidnapping by aliens as part of a bizarre study on authority delayed that mission. [120]
Brunali homeworld – Homeworld of the Brunali species. [141]
Bryma – A former Cardassian colony site in the Demilitarized Zone where the Deep Space 9 runabouts held off a Maquis attack on a confirmed illegal arms depot amid the civilian center. The system included an Oort Cloud. Commander Sisko worried that a forced Cardassian response to the attack would destroy the fragile peace treaty with the UFP. [142]
Bynaus – A planet orbiting Beta Magellan and home to the Bynar race, a computer-dependent culture threatened by a nearby supernova's electro-magnetic pulse. In 2364, natives commandeered the Enterprise -D, the only mobile computer large enough to store their master banks. [143]

References [ edit ]

↑ 2.0 2.1 TNG : " The Vengeance Factor "
↑ TNG : " Captain's Holiday "
↑ 4.0 4.1 DS9 : " When It Rains… "
↑ 5.0 5.1 TNG : " Data's Day "
↑ DS9 : " Doctor Bashir, I Presume? "
↑ DS9 : " ...Nor the Battle to the Strong "
↑ Ent : " Civilization "
↑ Voy : " The Chute "
↑ Voy : " Prime Factors "
↑ TNG : " When the Bough Breaks "
↑ TOS : " The Deadly Years "
↑ 13.0 13.1 DS9 : " Shadowplay "
↑ DS9 : " Past Tense "
↑ TNG: " The Schizoid Man "
↑ 16.0 16.1 TOS : " Amok Time "
↑ 17.0 17.1 TNG : " Relics "
↑ 18.0 18.1 TNG : " Up the Long Ladder "
↑ DS9 : " A Man Alone "
↑ TOS : " The Enemy Within "
↑ 21.0 21.1 21.2 TNG : " Coming of Age "
↑ TAS : " One of Our Planets is Missing
↑ TOS : " Court Martial "
↑ TOS : " The Ultimate Computer "
↑ 25.0 25.1 25.2 25.3 25.4 TOS : " Wolf in the Fold "
↑ TNG : " Sarek "
↑ TNG : " Brothers "
↑ TNG : " Galaxy's Child "
↑ TNG : " Future Imperfect "
↑ TOS : " Charlie X "
↑ 31.0 31.1 Voy : " Dreadnought "
↑ TNG : " Encounter at Farpoint "
↑ TNG : " The Pegasus "
↑ 34.0 34.1 34.2 34.3 TNG : " Eye of the Beholder "
↑ DS9 : " Prophet Motive "
↑ Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
↑ "Star Trek Beyond" .
↑ Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
↑ 39.0 39.1 TNG : " Birthright, Part I "
↑ Star Trek Generations
↑ TOS : " The Paradise Syndrome "
↑ 42.0 42.1 DS9 : " Return to Grace "
↑ DS9 : " The Forsaken "
↑ Ent : " The Andorian Incident "
↑ Ent : " These Are the Voyages... "
↑ Ent : " United "
↑ Ent : " The Aenar "
↑ Ent : " Fallen Hero "
↑ 49.0 49.1 DS9 : " In the Cards "
↑ 50.0 50.1 TNG : " Angel One "
↑ TNG : " The Hunted "
↑ 52.0 52.1 52.2 TNG : " Manhunt "
↑ TNG : " Lonely Among Us "
↑ 54.0 54.1 TOS : " Whom Gods Destroy "
↑ DS9 : " The Siege of AR-558 "
↑ DS9 : " Broken Link "
↑ DS9 : " Apocalypse Rising "
↑ 58.0 58.1 TOS : " Day of the Dove "
↑ Ent : " Strange New World "
↑ Ent : " In a Mirror, Darkly "
↑ 61.0 61.1 TNG : " Yesterday's Enterprise "
↑ Ent : " Breaking the Ice "
↑ 63.0 63.1 TNG : " Ménage à Troi "
↑ TOS : " The Cloud Minders "
↑ TOS : " A Taste of Armageddon "
↑ DS9 : " Hard Time "
↑ TOS : " Obsession "
↑ TOS : " Let That Be Your Last Battlefield "
↑ TNG : " Starship Mine "
↑ TNG : " The Neutral Zone "
↑ TAS : " The Counter-Clock Incident "
↑ TNG : " The Arsenal of Freedom "
↑ TNG : " Booby Trap "
↑ TNG : " The Chase "
↑ DS9 : " The Dogs of War "
↑ DS9 : " Blaze of Glory "
↑ TNG : " The Outrageous Okona "
↑ TNG : " Inheritance
↑ TNG: " The Child "
↑ DS9 : " Tacking into the Wind "
↑ Voy : " Faces "
↑ Ent : " Fight or Flight "
↑ Ent : " Horizon "
↑ Star Trek: Insurrection
↑ TOS : " Journey to Babel "
↑ DS9 : " Past Prologue "
↑ DS9 : " The Magnificent Ferengi "
↑ DS9 : " The Nagus "
↑ Voy : " Ex Post Facto "
↑ DS9 : " The Adversary "
↑ "STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION "Thine Own Self " " . Star Trek Minutiae: Exploring the Details of Science Fiction . Retrieved 11 February 2018 . Barkon Four. The level of technology on this planet is roughly equivalent to that of the Renaissance on Earth
↑ TNG : " Thine Own Self "
↑ TNG : " Gambit "
↑ TNG : " The Price "
↑ 95.0 95.1 TOS : " Turnabout Intruder "
↑ TOS: " The Conscience of the King "
↑ Voy : " Vis à Vis "
↑ DS9 : " The Ship "
↑ DS9 : " The Reckoning "
↑ TOS : " This Side of Paradise "
↑ Ent : " Bound "
↑ TNG : " Lessons "
↑ TOS : " The Return of the Archons "
↑ TOS : " The Squire of Gothos "
↑ TNG : " The Most Toys "
↑ TOS : " A Piece of the Action "
↑ TNG : " Haven "
↑ TNG : " The Icarus Factor "
↑ TOS : " All Our Yesterdays "
↑ TNG : " Tin Man "
↑ "The Guardians of the Pole | EarthSky.org" . earthsky.org . Retrieved 2018-01-18 .
↑ TNG : " Half a Life "
↑ DS9 : " In the Pale Moonlight "
↑ Star Trek: The Motion Picture
↑ TNG : " Evolution "
↑ 116.0 116.1 TNG : " New Ground "
↑ TNG : " True Q "
↑ DS9 : " Second Sight "
↑ TNG : " Face of the Enemy "
↑ 120.0 120.1 TNG : " Allegiance "
↑ DS9 : " Invasive Procedures "
↑ DS9 : " Who Mourns for Morn? "
↑ DS9 : " Hippocratic Oath "
↑ TNG : " Homeward "
↑ TNG : " The Emissary "
↑ DS9 : " The Quickening "
↑ 127.0 127.1 TNG : " Silicon Avatar "
↑ TNG : " Rightful Heir
↑ DS9 : " The Way of the Warrior "
↑ DS9 : " The Muse "
↑ DS9 : " The Homecoming "
↑ TNG : " The Loss "
↑ TNG : " Peak Performance "
↑ DS9 : " Q-Less "
↑ TNG : " Déjà Q "
↑ DS9 : " Indiscretion "
↑ DS9 : " For the Uniform "
↑ DS9 : " Crossfire "
↑ TNG : " Symbiosis "
↑ TNG : " Imaginary Friend "
↑ Voy : " Child's Play "
↑ DS9 : " The Maquis (Part II)"
↑ TNG : " 11001001 "
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Re-Used Planet Sets

by Jörg Hillebrand and Bernd Schneider

Matte Paintings & Models Real Locations

Many sets used in Star Trek were later modified or even recycled without changes to represent a different environment. Here are quite a few examples of planet surfaces. Please note that every statement made here is based on observation, we can only speculate why and how exactly modifications were done. Finally, please take everything with a grain of salt. We are not supposed to watch attentively enough to notice that two planets look the same.

Matte Paintings & Models

The backdrop representing Talos IV in "The Cage" also appears as Delta Vega in TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before".

A characteristic tree on Gothos can also be seen on Cochrane's planet. We thought that this was an Araucaria , but the flower stalk of an Agave americana seems to be a better match.

The footsteps of the big white rabbit in TOS: "Shore Leave" and of the Mugato in TOS: "A Private Little War" are arguably the same.

TOS planets

All re-used matte paintings of TOS and their modifications for TOS-R are shown in the extensive article on Planet Surfaces in TOS and TOS Remastered .

A matte painting that debuted in TNG: "Angel One" could be seen in no less than five more episodes, each time representing a different planet. Read more in the separate article Re-Uses of the Angel One Matte Painting . The article also shows if and how these were modified for TNG-R.

The matte painting of a planet with a characteristic building on the edge of a cliff was first seen as Gagarin IV in TNG: "Unnatural Selection".

A couple of minor modifications were made when the picture was going to represent the Arkaria Base in TNG: "Starship Mine". The sky is somewhat different here but has the same cloud patterns. The building is identical. The only obvious alteration is that the shuttle in which Dr. Pulaski arrived on the planet was removed. The rest can be attributed to just a different hue on film.

The matte painting underwent some more extensive alterations for Ohniaka III in TNG: "Descent I". A new building was added on the left side of the crevice, the mountains were altered, the main building got a second dome, some gaps in its structure were filled and an antenna was removed.

Buildings from "Logan's Run"

The Sandmen Headquarters from the science fiction movie "Logan's Run" (1976) appears on two occasions in Star Trek, in TNG: "Final Mission" and "Tapestry". Mike Okuda tells us: "That wasn't a miniature building, but rather a large painted backdrop. I love 'Logan's Run', so I tried to push the use of those backings from that film whenever it seemed appropriate, although the actual choices were made by the production designers.... In 'Logan's Run', that painted backdrop would have been based on their (very large) miniature city, and that particular building in the miniature was based on a real building in Texas that was used for location filming in the movie. (I think it was Sandman headquarters.)"

Mike Okuda pointed us to another re-use of the "Logan's Run" city in Star Trek. A portion of the cityscape with is characteristic pyramids appears on the Enterprise's viewscreen, behind Admiral Bennett, in "Star Trek V".

Delta Rana IV

The matte painting of the devastated planet Delta Rana IV from TNG: "The Survivors" was modified and reappeared as Melona IV in TNG: "Silicon Avatar".

Tau Cygna V

A matte painting was used to extend the set of the human colony on Tau Cygna V in TNG: "The Ensigns of Command".

The matte painting returned in DS9: "The Maquis I", here as the Maquis colony on Volon II. No differences are visible on the actual painting. Even the aqueduct that used to play an important part in the TNG episode was retained. But while there were no celestial bodies on Tau Cygna V, a moon and later on a sunrise or sunset was inserted on Volon II.

The devastated planet Turkana IV was represented by a matte painting in TNG: "Legacy".

The scenery was modified to depict the planet T'Lani III in DS9: "Armageddon Game". The color of the sky was changed, a wall was inserted into the foreground, and finally a new smaller building was added in the center of the picture. This is the one where O'Brien and Bashir seek shelter.

It is worth mentioning that T'Lani III with all of the above mentioned modifications to the original look could be seen very briefly in one of the visions of the linked Cooperative in VOY: "Unity".

Stock footage of the isolated Earth colony on Moab V from TNG: "The Masterpiece Society" was used for the surface of Torman V in TNG: "Chain of Command I".

The Carraya prisoner camp set as seen in in TNG: "Birthright II" is composed of the model of a building complex that is inserted into a jungle landscape. The model can be seen from two different angles: a side view and an aerial view. The first one was filmed as a day version, a dusk/dawn version and a night version.

The side views were recycled for DS9: "The Storyteller" to act as a Bajoran village. The day and dusk/dawn takes were taken over without alterations. Only the sky is somewhat more reddish on the latter than on Carraya.

The aerial view of Carraya was modified more extensively and became the settlement on the planet Meridian. A large hall was added to the model, and this matches with the full-scale set of Meridian . Carraya, as a prison, was naturally surrounded by walls. In order to make Meridian look more pleasant, a small building was put outside the walls and the watch towers were modified too.

The Enterprise-D enters an asteroid in TNG: "The Pegasus", which is represented by a model.

The asteroid that Voyager enters in VOY: "Phage" uses the same model. It was filmed from a slightly different angle, but we can see that the rock structure around the entry hole is identical in both cases.

The matte painting of Ronara in TNG: "Preemptive Strike" shows the Maquis colony in the daytime and in the dusk or dawn.

Both versions were re-used for Yadera II in DS9: "Shadowplay". The daylight picture was almost unnoticeably modified, the mountain range in the background is now different. The same change was made to the night version. In addition, the sky was darkened and more lights in the windows were inserted.

Rock plateau

The rock on the rebel headquarters planet in DS9: "Through the Looking Glass" is the same as the one the Raven sits on in VOY: "The Raven".

A view of the Ocampa underground city reappears on a screen as Argala habitat on the Nyrian ship in VOY: "Displaced".

The exotic landscape of Risa from DS9: "Let He Who Is Without Sin" reappeared one year later in VOY: "Random Thoughts" as a view of the Mari homeworld. It becomes obvious at the first glance that the central building with its characteristic chamfered tubes, the shore with the palm trees and the bridge on the left were taken from the Risa scenery. The building with the columns in the foreground on the right is the Delmar T. Oviatt Library of California State University, Northridge.

The rest of the structures on the Mari homeworld is not new either but was taken from various other episodes, including Ronara from TNG: "Preemptive Strike" (see above), the Chronowerx building from VOY: "Future's End, Part II" and Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco from DS9: "Homefront". The building with the round tower from the latter episode can be seen at a different angle on the Mari homeworld. It is obviously a model. Some of the smaller structures on the left may have been taken from Ligon II (TNG: "Code of Honor") or Kataan (TNG: "The Inner Light"). It seems that the Mari are not satisfied re-using various small items , they have a collection of entire buildings from the Alpha Quadrant on their planet!

Zahl colony

The Zahl colony, one of Annorax's targets in VOY: "Year of Hell", could be seen once again as the Qomar homeworld in VOY: "Virtuoso".

"Weird Planet"

The planet from VOY: "Blink of an Eye" is out of sync with the rest of the universe, which gave the Art Department the unique opportunity to show how the same location on that planet evolved throughout the centuries.

But even in this exceptionally beautiful sequence of shots there are at least two re-used elements: The building on the right in the modern cityscape of the planet originally appeared on the outpost in VOY: "Darkling". The dome with the triangular segments on the left is taken from Risa.

Torothan homeworld

A CG model with characteristic cone-shaped buildings could be seen as the Torothan homeworld in ENT: "Desert Crossing". It reappeared without open fire and with new small windows, insinuating a larger size, as the Klingon Qu'Vat colony in ENT: "Affliction".

The same digital translight represents Keto-Enol in ENT: "Canamar" and Andor in ENT: "Proving Ground".

Real Locations

Bronson canyon.

Griffith Park in Los Angeles and particularly the portion known as Bronson Canyon is among the most often used filming locations of Star Trek. TOS: "This Side of Paradise" shows the location only briefly, and no prominent portions. TOS: "Bread and Circuses", on the other hand, features plenty of shots, including the hilltops, the cave entrance and a striking steep rock. TNG: "Darmok" was filmed here too and shows several rock formations but mostly doesn't feature wide angles. For TNG: "Ensign Ro", some junk was arranged as a refugee camp. The footage of Patrick Stewart on Kataan in TNG: "The Inner Light" was filmed at Bronson Canyon and shows a very similar shot of the rock as already at one point of "Bread and Circuses"; the village was added in post production.

The next time the location appears is in TNG: "Attached" and TNG: "Homeward". In both episodes we can see some rock formations but no prominent features. The hilltops are visible again in DS9: "Shadowplay". VOY: "State of Flux" just shows the valley bottom.

We can see an almost total view of the U-shaped Bronson Canyon in DS9: "Shakaar", together with Shakaar's house. VOY: "The 37's" once again shows the prominent rock from "Bread and Circuses". DS9: "Nor the Battle to the Strong", on the other hand, has mostly close shots of the location. Bronson Canyon was purportedly used for VOY: "Flesh and Blood" as well, but this is hard to verify.

We can see a screen image of the already mentioned Bajoran camp on Valo II from "Ensign Ro" in VOY: "Displaced", this time supposed to depict the Tanatuva habitat on the Nyrian ship.

Additionally, the interior of the Bronson Canyon cave was used in "Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country" for some shots of Rura Penthe and in ENT: "Strange New World" for a cavern on Archer IV.

40 Acres backlot

The 40 Acres backlot in Culver City serverd for the production of numerous films such as notably "Gone with the Wind" as well as many television series. An American small town set was erected around 1960 and was most extensively used as Mayberry in the The Andy Griffith Show. Three TOS episodes were filmed in this set, which remained largely unchanged each time: "Miri", "The Return of the Archons" and "The City on the Edge of Forever". Different sections were used each time, but we can spot a couple of buildings that are the same, all located at the same street crossing.

Additionally, scenes for "The Cage" and for "Return of the Archons" were shot in the "Arab village" set of the 40 Acres backlot. The whole area was razed in 1976 and is a business park today.

"Roman" buildings

In TOS: "Bread and Circuses", stock footage of neoclassical buildings represents the "Roman" planet 892-IV, among them the San Francisco Main Library (today: Asian Art Museum), the Palace of Culture and Science in Warsaw (formerly dedicated to Joseph Stalin), the Great Dome of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge (we can read the inscription in HD) and the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco (with the french motto "Honneur et Patrie").

Tillman Water Reclamation Plant

One of the most prominent real locations of Star Trek is the building and the Japanese Garden of the Donald C. Tillman Water Reclamation Plant in the San Fernando Valley. It was used for the first time to film the Edo Planet in TNG: "Justice".

With different upper stories the Tillman Plant appeared as two distinct buildings of Starfleet, namely of the Academy in TNG: "The First Duty" and as the supposed Headquarters in DS9: "Homefront". In DS9: "Paradise Lost", the building could be seen up close and without upper stories, so perhaps this is yet another Starfleet building of the same style?

The Tillman Plant was used for the devastated nameless planet in VOY: "Time and Again" and appeared one more time as Starfleet Academy (or a replica thereof) in VOY: "In the Flesh".

Looking at the photo of the real building, we can see the stone garden as it appeared in VOY: "Homefront" and also in VOY: "In the Flesh", although the building itself looks different in the two episodes.

Huntington Library Gardens

The Huntington Library Gardens were used as a filming location for at least three Trek episodes. They appear as the Edo planet in the famous flowerbed scene in TNG: "Justice", rather than the Japanese garden directly adjacent to the Tilman Water Reclamation Plant. The gardens can also be seen in TNG: "Ménage à Troi" as Betazed and in DS9: "Meridian" as the planet of the same name.

Toronto City Hall

The then modernistic city hall of Toronto (opened in 1965) is one of the places showing up in the Iconian gate in TNG: "Contagion". It may be supposed to represent an alien planet here, rather than Earth, which was no place of interest at the time of the Iconians (at least none that we know of).

Brandeis-Bardin Institute

The Brandeis-Bardin Institute is a Jewish retreat located in Simi Valley, California. A matte painting of the futuristic building (apparently with some liberties) can be seen in "Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country" as the Khitomer conference hall. It appears as a real location and as a matte painting (again with some modifications compared to the real building) as Lore's headquarters in TNG: "Descent II".

El Mirage Dry Lake

The El Mirage Dry Lake Bed in the Mojave Desert appeared as the moon Lambda Paz in TNG: "Final Mission". The location was filmed from the same angle for VOY: "Caretaker". The mountain range in both episodes is clearly the same.

Hanon IV rocks

VOY: "Basics I" shows a location shot for the planet Hanon IV. The same location (probably not stock footage) was chosen as the foreground of the Skagaran colony in ENT: "North Star".

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Thanks to Sebastian Prooth for the notification that we can see Bronson Canyon in "Ensign Ro". Thanks to David Schwarz for the hint about the species of the re-used "tree".

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The artist's depiction shows one possible vision of Kepler 452b, the closest thing to an Earth cousin seen by NASA's Kepler telescope.

How to See ‘Star Trek’ Worlds in the Night Sky

Boldly go outside and spot some of the real-life counterparts of the show’s habitable M-class planets.

In the Star Trek universe, habitable worlds abound, fueling the adventures of the intrepid crew of the starship Enterprise . In the latest movie, Star Trek Beyond , much of the action takes place on Altamid, a rugged wilderness world filled with exotic forests and perilous canyons and mountains.

Across the franchise, such Earth-like worlds are designated as M-class planets , a fictional classification derived from the Vulcan word Minshara .

Trek fans will know many examples of famous class M-class planets, such as Vulcan, Romulus, and Qo'noS, the home worlds of key alien species. While many of these worlds were conjured up by the show’s writers decades ago, today’s planet-hunting astronomers are finding scores of real-life counterparts outside our solar system. (Find out what else the fictional Star Trek universe got right about real-world science .)

Rocky planets like Earth are relatively puny compared to their host stars, making these worlds hard to see and even harder to characterize. But in the last two decades, astronomers have successfully developed indirect detection methods to find ever smaller, more Earth-like planets. Today the tally of confirmed alien worlds has reached nearly 3,000, with a handful that are considered rocky and potentially habitable.

And in a landmark moment for planetary science, scientists just announced the discovery of dense, compact atmospheres similar to those of Earth and Venus around the Earth-size planets TRAPPIST-1b and TRAPPIST-1c, located only 40 light-years away.

These small, rocky worlds orbit close enough to their dim, red host star that they might even be able to support liquid water on their surfaces, although astronomers have a lot more work to do before they can say whether either world is habitable.

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In the meantime, Earth-bound stargazers can peer into the night sky and find these real-life counterparts to Star Trek ’s fictional M-class worlds.

Kepler 452b

Since its launch in 2009, NASA’s Kepler space telescope has discovered more than 2,000 verified planets—and thousands more candidate worlds await confirmation. Its haul includes one of the most Earth-like planets known, Kepler 452b.

About 1,400 light-years away, this planet orbiting a sunlike star is only slightly larger than Earth and has a year lasting 385 days, putting it in the right place to possibly host pools of liquid water. ( Read more about Kepler 452b. ) Future telescope technology could help us scan the atmospheres of this and other Kepler planets to look for the chemical fingerprints of potential life, including methane, oxygen, and even chlorophyll.

Kepler’s hunting ground is easy to find for sky-watchers in the Northern Hemisphere during the summer months. The spacecraft stares deep into the constellation Cygnus, the swan, to look for tiny dips in starlight caused by planets passing in front of their hosts.

Cygnus is visible with the naked eye even in light-polluted suburbs. The pattern is also known as the Northern Cross, with its distinctive cross-shaped display of six bright stars.

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The fictional home world of the Vulcans is considered a fairly typical M-class planet that is slightly hotter and drier than Earth, sporting vast deserts, a thinner atmosphere, and stronger gravity. Vulcan’s deserts and craggy mountains feature prominently in the Star Trek: Enterprise TV show episode “The Forge” and the 2009 Star Trek movie—and they bear a strong resemblance to the ruddy planet Mars.

While the real Mars is not home to an intelligent alien race, plenty of enthusiasts are hopeful for a human presence on the red planet in the near future. And in the Star Trek universe, Mars is home to thriving human colonies, while the starships Enterprise , Voyager , and Defiant were all built in the Utopia Planitia shipyards in Martian orbit.

For sky-watchers, the red planet is easy to find in the July evening sky. After darkness falls, look toward the southwest for a triangle pattern of three bright, naked-eye stars. The orange “star” marking the upper right corner of the celestial triangle is Mars.

The faint star Keid is the main candidate for hosting the fictional planet Vulcan, home of Mr. Spock.

For his part, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry endorsed 40 Eridani, a triple star system about 16 light-years away, as a possible candidate site for a real-world planet Vulcan .

One of the members of this system is the glowing corpse of a dead star, while another is a red dwarf that shoots out deadly x-ray flares. But while no planet has been found there yet, the third star, known as 40 Eridani A or Keid, has the right stuff to host a potentially habitable world.

This star is a bit redder and smaller than our sun, so to host liquid water on its surface a planet there would have to orbit much closer than Earth does to our sun. For any real-life Vulcans looking up at the sky, Keid would appear 30 percent larger than our sun, and it would be joined by the neighboring pair of fainter, white and red suns during the daytime.

Keid is easily visible to the unaided eye as a faint star that sits in the southern constellation Eridanus. Sky-watchers in more southern latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, including the southern United States, can hunt down Keid from their backyards thanks to its proximity to some of the brightest stars visible in the early evenings between January and April.

To find Keid, face the southern sky and look for the bright stars Saiph and Rigel, which mark the knees of the great Greek mythological hero Orion. Draw an imaginary arc through these brilliant stars toward their right until you hit the faint star Beid about 20 degrees away, equal to the width of two fists held side by side at arm’s length. Just below Beid lies the slightly fainter Keid.

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Andrew Fazekas, the Night Sky Guy, is the author of Star Trek: The Official Guide to Our Universe . Follow him on Twitter , Facebook , and his website .

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Real-life 'Star Trek' planet was actually just an illusion caused by a 'jittery' star

A planet beyond the solar system that has been compared to Spock's homeworld Vulcan in the Star Trek franchise may have been nothing more than an illusion caused by a jittery star.

Related: NASA space telescope finds Earth-size exoplanet that's 'not a bad place' to hunt for life

By wiping out the real-life Vulcan, officially designated HD 26965 b, this new research shows that sometimes life imitates art.

Sorry Keid, you're on your own...

The transit method, employed to great success by NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) , measures the tiny dips in light a planet causes as it crosses the face of its parent star.

While this discovery isn't great news for Keid and its planetary prospects, or for fans of Star Trek, it is a positive step for exoplanet-hunting scientists.

That's because the finely tuned radial velocity measurements of NEID promise that planetary signals can be more accurately separated and distinguished from the natural jitters of stars in the future.

The team's research is published in The Astronomical Journal.

Real-life 'Star Trek' planet was actually just an illusion caused by a 'jittery' star

Red Dwarf: 10 ways the Brit sci-fi sitcom proved it was as smart as Star Trek

It may be engineered for gags, but the 35-year-old show has never shied away from sophisticated sci-fi ideas.

Still from the British sci-fi sitcom called Red Dwarf. Here we see four of the main cast pointing at the camera. From left to right: The Cat, Lister, Rimmer, and Kryten.

Focused on a quartet of mismatched characters forced to live together by circumstance, "Red Dwarf" is a situation comedy in its purest form. The thing that sets it apart is that said situation is somewhere in the middle of deep space, three million years in the future on a dilapidated, city-sized spaceship Red Dwarf, arguably one of the coolest spaceships in sci-fi .

For all the gags and unashamed silliness, however, the show has been built on solid science fiction foundations since it first materialized on the BBC in 1988. With " Doctor Who " on hiatus between 1989 and 2005, "Red Dwarf" became the highest profile sci-fi show on British T.V., and writers/creators Rob Grant and Doug Naylor frequently came up with concepts every bit as smart as those encountered by Jean-Luc Picard and co in " Star Trek: The Next Generation ." That instinct for pushing the limits of the final frontier has continued since Grant departed the show following 1993's series VI.

Below we've pulled together 10 of the most sophisticated – and unconventional – sci-fi ideas from "Red Dwarf"'s epic 35-year history. And, it's worth noting that they've done it all without any alien visitations...

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1. Holograms and hard light

Still from the British sci-fi sitcom called Red Dwarf. From the episode 'The Promised Land,' here we see diamond light Rimmer, a superhero version of himself with great powers, that have a very short battery life.

It's a bold move to bump off one of your lead characters in your debut episode, but the show had the ideal way back for Red Dwarf second technician Arnold Judas Rimmer. After his shoddy repair work caused the deaths of all his crewmates, he was resurrected as a hologram to keep Dave Lister, the last human in the universe, company – seven years before " Star Trek " introduced a holographic crew member (the Doctor) of its own in "Voyager."

In early seasons, Rimmer was unable to interact with solid objects, but the introduction of a "hard light" emitter in "Red Dwarf VI" episode "Legion" gave him physical form, emulating the solid light found in "Star Trek"'s holodecks, and making life a lot easier for actor Chris Barrie. Rimmer got another upgrade in 2020's feature-length "The Promised Land," thanks to a "diamond light" drive that briefly turned him into a superhero. This was a superlative evolution with one minor flaw – his battery life was shockingly bad.

2. Three million years of evolution

Still from the British sci-fi sitcom called Red Dwarf. From the episode 'The Promised Land', here we see three Felis sapiens (cats that have evolved over thousands of year into humanoids with cat features).

"Red Dwarf" may have steadfastly avoided close encounters with aliens over its 35-year run, however, that doesn't mean it hasn't created new species. When Lister awoke from his three-million-year stay in stasis in the first-ever episode "The End" – punishment for his refusal to surrender his pet cat, Frankenstein, to the authorities – he was introduced to a shallow, vain humanoid evolved from that very same feline.

We subsequently learned that, in the many millennia since "Cloister the Stupid" was frozen in time, those Felis sapiens had developed their own society, fought holy wars, and subsequently abandoned Red Dwarf to find the promised land of "Fuchal" (aka Fiji). Cat was one of those left behind, though the boys from the Dwarf did run into more of the species in "The Promised Land."

3. Artificial lifeforms

Still from the British sci-fi sitcom called Red Dwarf. Here we see Lister talking to the extremely attractive Camille, a pleasure GELF (genetically engineered lifeform).

Another way "Red Dwarf" has deftly sidestepped its "no aliens" rule is by packing the universe with numerous types of artificial beings. Many of these are genetically engineered life forms (usually referred to as "GELF"s in the show) and have ranged from standard sci-fi humanoids to monsters that feed on emotions (polymorphs) and shapeshifters (the pleasure GELF "Camille," the Psiren of "Psirens").

The crew have also encountered several cyborg Simulants (usually notable for their passionate dislike for humans) and a giant genetically-engineered "despair squid," whose ink could induce mass hallucinations ("Back to Reality"). Perhaps the most intriguing lifeform, however, was Legion, a "gestalt entity" with the ability to combine any mind in close proximity into a being with an intellect greater than the sum of its parts – who else could have created the wonder of anti-matter chopsticks?

4. Virtual reality

Still from the British sci-fi sitcom called Red Dwarf. Here we see Rimmer, the Cat, and Lister wearing virtual reality helmets.

Where "Star Trek: The Next Generation" generally used the holodeck to get away from it all, "Red Dwarf" has traditionally preferred virtual reality. Decades before metaverses became fashionable, the show was strapping the gang into artificial reality headsets, some of which looked more like bicycle helmets than anything like the cutting edge tech of the best VR headsets we have today.

From the game-gone-wrong of "Better than Life" to "Gunmen of the Apocalypse"'s Western-themed assault on a computer virus, the show has frequently explored the comedic potential of transporting yourself to another world. Best of the bunch, however, was "Back to Reality," in which the aforementioned despair squid caused the crew to hallucinate that they'd spent the last four years playing a total immersion videogame called "Red Dwarf." It's the most emotionally powerful episode in the show's history – and no, Cat does not want to be Duane Dibbley.

5. The backwards universe

Still from the British sci-fi sitcom called Red Dwarf. Here we see the Cat and Lister in the episode 'Backwards' looking at a backwards poster.

On one level, a world where time runs in reverse is simply an excuse for gags that would be impossible in any other sitcom – it's best not to think too hard about what going to the toilet would involve. Nonetheless, "Red Dwarf III"'s "Backwards" was also based on the ingenious sci-fi premise of an anti-universe , as Rimmer, Lister, the Cat, and service mechanoid Kryten (by this point a regular member of the crew) landed on a planet where time's arrow had been flipped. Christopher Nolan's "Tenet" riffed on similar ideas in 2020, though it was nowhere near as funny.

6. The Justice Field

Still from the British sci-fi sitcom called Red Dwarf. From the episode 'The Justice Field', here we see Rimmer as he watches as Lister sets the bed alight and then his own jacket erupts in flames.

Science fiction loves finding cruel and unusual ways to incarcerate the worst of the worst, from "Superman: The Movie"'s two-dimensional Phantom Zone to "Escape from New York"'s abandoned Manhattan. But, few prisons are as ingenious as the facility in "Red Dwarf IV"'s "Justice," where committing any crime is impossible thanks to the site's in-built Justice Field.

Any criminal act you perform will instantly be inflicted back on you – in other words, when Lister tried setting some bed sheets alight, his own jacket quickly caught on fire. Luckily for the Dwarfers, they were able to turn the prison's unique security measures to their advantage, when they goaded the ruthless simulant on their tail into blasting himself to smithereens.

7. The white hole

Still from the British sci-fi sitcom called Red Dwarf. From 'The White Hole' episode, here we see Lister, Kryten, and Rimmer standing in front of a complicated looking computer terminal with a lot of wires.

Based on the idea that every action has an equal and opposite reaction (and, as it turns out, there’s actually some real-life science behind the theory), the white hole the posse encountered in season IV regurgitated the time and matter sucked out of the universe by its more famous cousin, the black hole . In the "Red Dwarf" universe, the concept was inevitably used as an excuse for some timey-wimey comedy – "What is it?" "I've never seen one before – no one has – but I'm guessing it's a white hole." And repeat…

However, there were undoubted parallels with the anomaly that spewed anti-time into the universe in "The Next Generation" finale "All Good Things" (which debuted three years later). Indeed, it remains a shame that Jean-Luc Picard didn't follow Lister's lead, playing pool with planets to permanently seal the fissure. Trick shot!

8. The luck virus

Still from the British sci-fi sitcom called Red Dwarf. Here we see an insane Rimmer with his Mr. Flibble puppet (from the episode 'Quarantine').

What if a winning streak really was infectious? Series V episode "Quarantine" made the silly but ingenious suggestion that luck was a tangible property (see also "Deadpool 2"'s Domino) that could be passed on in the form of a "positive" virus engineered by scientists.

Yes, it was incredibly convenient when Lister used a literal dose of good fortune to enter the correct door code to escape quarantine, and when he found all of the correct components to defeat a Rimmer driven insane by a nasty holo virus (alongside Mr. Flibble, his evil penguin hand puppet) . Even so, deus ex machina has rarely been so funny, or felt so justified in terms of the plot.

9. Lister’s parentage

Still from the British sci-fi sitcom called Red Dwarf. Here we see Lister and Kristine Kochanski leaning on a barrier, chatting.

If you thought "Back to the Future" (one of the best time travel movies of all time) had cornered the market on time travel -induced Oedipal complexes, you've never seen "Red Dwarf." In series VII's "Ouroboros" we learned why Lister had been left in a box under a pool table as a baby – and that he was actually his own dad. To make matters even more confusing, it also turned out that Kristine Kochanski – the woman Lister has been infatuated with since the show began – was his mother, and that he was the one who'd left his younger self in that Liverpool pub.

The whole scheme was part of Lister's destiny to form an unbreakable circle in time – the ouroboros symbol represents a snake eating its own tail – to ensure the human race never became extinct. It was also the reason why Lister subsequently sent himself a Father’s Day card every year ("Fathers and Suns").

10. Quantum entanglement

Still from the British sci-fi sitcom called Red Dwarf. Here we see the Cat and Kryen in the episode 'Entangled' as they experience Cat and Kryten experience quantum entanglement, where they end up mirroring each others moves.

Many of "Red Dwarf"'s most memorable sci-fi moments have come when the scripts have riffed on ideas born in real-life science and spun them out in bizarre new directions – usually in the name of getting a laugh.

Series X's "Entangled" paid homage to one of the more esoteric concepts in contemporary physics, when a "quantum rod" from the S.S. Trojan's drive system caused Kryten and the Cat to experience quantum entanglement on a macroscopic scale – and, in a beautifully choreographed sequence, they ended up mirroring their actions in perfect unison.

Writer Doug Naylor's interpretation of quantum theory probably wouldn't stand up to much scientific scrutiny, but, let's face it, you could frequently say the same of "Star Trek".

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Ahsoka has brought back familiar Star Wars planets while introducing new ones, and their filming locations are interesting. The original Star Wars trilogy was shot through a mix of location shooting, studio sets, and matte painting inserted with a blue screen. The prequel trilogy relied more heavily on blue screen and digitally created environments, and Star Wars: Episode III was able to shoot entirely in-studio. The Mandalorian then took this further by incorporating StageCraft technology, where actors stand in facilities called volumes where the walls display computer-generated images.

This was the primary method for filming Ahsoka , allowing the team to create an array of Star Wars planets in striking detail. California was a prominent filming location for Ahsoka , with most studio shots done in Los Angeles. However, the series still required several natural backdrops, so California location shooting was done in Yucca Valley and Glendale. The result was a series that faithfully captured the look of the Star Wars universe and recreated iconic locations from Star Wars animation. Five planets are featured in Ahsoka 's episodes 1 and 2, two that have appeared before, and two brand-new worlds.

Ahsoka visited Arcana shortly after confronting Morgan Elsbeth to search for the map leading to Grand Admiral Thrawn. The planet was a stronghold for the Nightsister witches of Dathomir in ancient times, and many of their structures were still intact. Until now, the Nightsisters have been confined to Dathomir in Star Wars , but Arcana suggests that they were a far-reaching civilization at some point in time. This would explain how a human such as Morgan could be a Nightsister, as Dathomirian women are much paler with black facial tattoos. The complex underground structures also reveal a less magic-based side of the Nightsisters.

Ahsoka finally brings Lothal to live-action, the home planet of Ezra Bridger and a prominent setting in the Star Wars Rebels animated series. Despite its simple appearance, Lothal has a rich and highly significant history in the Star Wars timeline, hosting a Jedi temple that Ezra and his master, Kanan Jarrus, visited on several occasions. The temple contained murals of the Force gods of Mortis, but more importantly, it served as the gateway to the World Between Worlds . Lothal was one of the first planets to push back the Empire before the Rebel Alliance had scored its first victory, thanks to Ezra and the Ghost crew.

A dark world with oceans, rocky surfaces, and red forests, Seatos was once inhabited by the Dathomiri, "an ancient people from a distant galaxy" and Lady Morgan's ancestors. This civilization left behind a mechanism powered by a star map that revealed the Pathway to Peridea, which could guide travelers to the other galaxy. The language identified in Ahsoka 's end credits suggests a connection to the ancient Sith, while some images seem to represent the purrgil that took Ezra and Thrawn into hyperspace. Further exploration of their history on Seatos will likely rewrite the Star Wars timeline and open new storytelling possibilities for the franchise.

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Corellia once built Star Destroyers for the Imperial Navy but switched to redistributing parts for the New Republic defense fleet. Unfortunately, many of its citizens remained loyal to the Empire following its collapse and secretly worked to supply ship components to Imperial projects. This makes Han Solo's backstory more tragic since Corellia was his homeworld, which suffered greatly during the Imperial occupation. Learning that his people were still loyal to the Empire he fought against would likely have devastated Han, especially since the Empire's grip on Corellia forced children like him into joining gangs to survive.

Corellia now represents a widespread problem facing the New Republic that future Star Wars movies and TV shows must address. Episode 2 confirmed that former Imperials are still in positions of power at every level of the New Republic government, something previously hinted at in The Mandalorian season 3. This foreshadows the eventual rise of the First Order, which had spies in the New Republic senate long before launching their galactic invasion. Corellia is now crucial to Star Wars ' past, present, and future, and only time will tell what further role the planet will play in Ahsoka and the rest of the Mandoverse.

Peridea once hosted the Witch Kingdom of the Dathomiri long before time was recorded, but it also served as a graveyard for the purrgil. The planet was grim and barren yet hosted an impressive array of alien lifeforms, including Ezra and Thrawn, following their exile. While many questions about Peridea have been answered in Ahsoka , the biggest mystery is who or what is called Baylan. Whatever this dark power is, it's supposedly enough to frighten the Imperials and could end up being the real villain of Ahsoka . Peridea is a fascinating world that will be developed more in Ahsoka or another Star Wars project.

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Mars has a distinct structure in its mantle and crust with discernible reservoirs, and this is known thanks to meteorites that scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego and colleagues have analyzed on Earth.

Meteorites that formed roughly 1.3 billion years ago and then ejected from Mars have been collected by scientists from sites in Antarctica and Africa in recent decades. Scripps Oceanography geologist James Day and his colleagues report May 31 in the journal Science Advances on analyses of the chemical compositions of these samples from the red planet.

These results are important for understanding not only how Mars formed and evolved, but also for providing precise data that can inform recent NASA missions like Insight and Perseverance and the Mars Sample Return, said study lead Day.

"Martian meteorites are the only physical materials we have available from Mars," said Day. "They enable us to make precise and accurate measurements and then quantify processes that occurred within Mars and close to the martian surface . They provide direct information on Mars' composition that can ground truth mission science, like the ongoing Perseverance rover operations taking place there."

Day's team assembled its account of Mars' formation using meteorite samples that all came from the same volcano, known as nakhlites and chassignites. Some 11 million years ago, a large meteor impact on Mars sheared away parts of the planet and sent the rocks hurtling into space. Some of those landed on Earth in the form of meteorites, with the first of these being discovered in 1815 in Chassigny, France and then in 1905 in Nakhla, Egypt.

Since then, more such meteorites have been discovered in locations including Mauritania and Antarctica. Scientists are able to identify Mars as their place of origin because these meteorites are relatively young, come from a recently active planet, have distinct compositions of the abundant element oxygen compared to Earth, and retain the composition of Mars' atmosphere measured on the surface by the Viking landers in the 1970s.

The team analyzed the two keystone nakhlite and chassignite meteorite types. Nakhlites are basaltic, similar to lavas erupting in Iceland and Hawaii today, but are rich in a mineral called clinopyroxene. Chassignites are almost exclusively made of the mineral olivine. On Earth, basalts are a main component of the planet's crust, especially under the oceans, while olivines are abundant in its mantle.

The same is true on Mars. The team showed that these rocks are related to each other through a process known as fractional crystallization within the volcano in which they were formed. Using the composition of these rocks, they also show that some of the then-molten nakhlites incorporated portions of crust close to the surface that also interacted with Mars' atmosphere.

"By determining that nakhlites and chassignites are from the same volcanic system , and that they interacted with martian crust that was altered by atmospheric interactions, we can identify a new rock type on Mars," said Day. "With the existing collection of martian meteorites, all of which are volcanic in origin, we are able to better understand the internal structure of Mars."

The team was able to do this because of the distinctive chemical characteristics of nakhlites and chassignites, as well as the characteristic compositions of other martian meteorites . These reveal an atmospherically altered upper crust to Mars, a complex deeper crust and a mantle where plumes from deep within Mars have penetrated to the base of the crust , while the interior of Mars, formed early in its evolution, has also melted to produce distinct types of volcanoes.

"What's remarkable is that Mars' volcanism has incredible similarities, but also differences, to Earth," said Day. "On the one hand, nakhlites and chassignites formed in similar ways to recent volcanism in places like Oahu in Hawaii. There, newly formed volcanoes press down on the mantle generating tectonic forces that produce further volcanism."

"On the other hand, the reservoirs in Mars are extremely ancient, separating from one another shortly after the red planet formed. On Earth, plate tectonics has helped to remix reservoirs back together over time. In this sense, Mars provides an important link between what the early Earth may have looked like from how it looks today."

Besides Day, Marine Paquet of Scripps Oceanography and colleagues from the University of Nevada Las Vegas and the French National Center for Scientific Research contributed to the study.

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