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In planetary classification, a class A geothermal planet is a type of planet. As the name describes, the planet is generally geothermally active, generating heat. This type of planet is usually in the very early stages of development and are likely to evolve into other classes. No lifeforms have ever been discovered on these planets.

In planetary classification, a class B geomorteus planet is a type of planet. This type of planet is usually very close to, and heated by, a parent star, featuring very little native geothermal energy. The atmosphere of these worlds is usually tenuous, and features little or no chemically active particles. No lifeforms have ever been discovered on these planets. Mercury is an example of a class B geomorteus planet.

In planetary classification, a class C geoinactive planet is a type of planet. As the name describes, the planet is generally geothermally inactive, generating no heat energy. This type of planet is usually in the very late stages of development and has likely evolved from other classes. No lifeforms have ever been discovered on these planets.

In planetary classification, a class D planetoid is a type of planet. Planets of this type are generally smaller asteroids or moons that are locked into the gravitational pull of a larger planetary body. Class D worlds are usually composed of metals, predominantly nickel, iron and silicate. Bodies of this type generally do not support lifeforms.

A Class E planet is one that has a high temperature and a molten surface.

A Class F planet is a planet that has volcanic eruptions due to a molten core.

Class G geocrystalline, in planetary classification, is a type of planet. The relatively young geocrystalline worlds have also been classified as class F planets on other scales, and are possessed of a mostly carbon dioxide atmosphere with some toxic gases, released as the planet cools and crystallizes. Lifeforms usually only exists as single-celled organisms due to the absence of free water on the young world. These planets are generally between three to four billion years old and measure 10,000 to 15,000 kilometers in diameter.

A Class H planet is a planet that is hot and arid with little or no water.

A Class I planet is a planet that has a very tenuous surface made up of gasseous hydrogen and hydrogen compounds.

A Class J planet is a planet that has a surface composed of gasseous hydrogen and hydrogen compounds.

A Class K planet is a planet that can be adapted for humanoid habitation.

In planetary classification Class L is a category of planet, only marginally habitable by humanoid life. Such planets are though capable of supporting humanoid colonization.

The Class M (or Minshara-class) planet is the most stable type for humanoid habitation. Class M planets may feature large areas of water, if water or ice covers more than 80% of surface then the planet is considered Class O or Class P.

A Class N planet is a planet that has a high surface temperature due to a greenhouse effect and water exists only as vapor.

In planetary classification Class O or Pelagic planets are those who's surfaces are comprised of 80% or more water. These planets may have some land, but it is not a majority feature. An example of a class O planet is Argo, the planet Earth is very close to Class O.

A Class P planet is a planet that is covered by water ice and is capable of supporting life.

The Class Q, from the old Vulcan Quaris class, is a type of planet that has rarely been encountered by the Federation. Conditions vary widely on class Q worlds, with very hot and cold regions and great variety in surface conditions.

A Class R planet is a planet that drifts through interstellar space or in cometary halos.

Classes S and T planets are planets of enormous size that have very tenuous surfaces made up of gasseous hydrogen and hydrogen compounds.

A Class Y planet is a planet that has a turbulent atmosphere, saturated with toxic chemicals and thermionic radiation.

Planetary classification

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Planetary classification systems were used by many races to categorize planets . Various factors were taken into consideration, including atmospheric composition, surface temperature, vegetation , and size. The classification system used by the Federation used single-letter designations such as class M to describe a planet able to support humanoid life for long periods, while the Vulcans used the term " Minshara class " to describe a similar planet.

• 1 Planetary classes
• 2.1 Class M
• 3.1 Background information
• 3.2 External links

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The Star Trek: Star Charts book, which was authored and advised by Trek staffers, listed many other planetary classes which may one day be recognized on-screen, but as of now they remain conjectural.

One such was "class F", which was geologically inactive with no atmosphere . Janus VI was given as an example of this.

The Worlds of the Federation also features an expanded classification system, though it differs from the Star Charts version. The Memory Beta article (linked below) lists both systems in their entirety.

According to the Star Charts , a class P planet is a "glaciated" planet. They have an age that ranges from three to ten billion years and a diameter between 10,000 and 15,000 kilometers. Class P planets are located in the ecosphere of a star system . A glaciated planet is categorized by a surface comprised of 80%+ water ice and an atmosphere consisting of nitrogen , oxygen , and trace elements . Lifeforms found on class P planets include hardy vegetation , animal life, and occasionally native humanoids . It is widely believed that Breen is also a class P planet. However, according to Weyoun , it was in fact a lush world with a temperate climate, in which case it would have to be categorized as class M. ( DS9 : " When It Rains... ")

Examples of class P planets:

External links [ ]

• Planetary classification at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• Planet classification  at Ex Astris Scientia
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M Marks the Spot: Star Trek's Planet Classifications, Explained

Star Trek's characters use a very specific system to classify the planets they encounter. Each letter and category has its own specific meaning.

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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Star Trek : Planetary Classification

3.1.1 The situation of the Federation

The United Federation of Planets is located - and that is accepted by all official sources - in the heart of the known Star Trek universe, about 24000 ly away from the Galactic center in the Local Arm of the Milky Way. The Federation is the largest of the six known empires in local space and the sole power to extend over two quadrants - the Alpha- and the Beta Quadrant, therefore the Federation takes a special position concerning the Jankata Accords signed by all powers. Although the quadrant border, the position of the most important planet: Earth, with the Federation Council, the Federation President's Office and Starfleet Headquarters, is situated nearly in the center of the territory of the Federation, the share of the total area that is located in the Alpha Quadrant is nevertheless larger than the part in the Beta Quadrant. Surrounded by the 5 other larger alliances and empires, and a dozen smaller ones like the Talarians, the Tzenkethi, the Gorn and the Trill, the Federation is a typical "middle power" - it is the "connecting piece" between the classical empires of the Klingons and Romulans at the Eastern border in the Beta Quadrant and the territories of the Cardassian Union, Bajor, Ferenginar and the Breen at the Western border in the Alpha Quadrant, regions that were not discovered until the 24th century.

3.1.2 The size and structure of the Federation

Undoubtedly the United Federation of Planets is the strongest power in the Alpha and Beta Quadrant, however, the officially fixed extension of the Federation is so large that the resulting problems can't be simply ignored without further considerations, but have to be solved. In the end, this isn't possible without a sophisticated theory, which shall be developed in the following section after the examination of the aspects "pro large Federation" and "con large Federation".

1. The official size

To say it straight to the point: according to the Star Trek Encyclopedia, the Federation has a diameter of 10000 ly, a figure that is also affirmed by all other official documentations and has been specified to 8000 ly in Star Trek: First Contact. It is true that we know only few further definite facts about the extension of the Federation, however, most official sources mistakenly imply that the Federation would cover 8000 ly with a more or less unified territory, an assumption that is supported especially by the infamous "Milky Way maps", which depict a several (ten) thousand light years large territory for every single power. But what is wrong with this "theory of a large Federation" (TLF)? Plain and simple: with regard to the technical limitations of the warp-driven ships of the Federation and nearly all other known empires, it is totally impossible and contradicts in many respects with the everyday life of Star Fleet that we've experienced in both TNG and DS9. Within a few days, weeks and sometimes months the vessels in these series reach their destination and travel all over the Federation. But warp speed is - and this fact has not only officially been fixed, but was also confirmed by many episodes from the new series - not nearly as fast as the authors would like it to be, and therefore it would take a vessel - that admits the Encyclopedia frankly - many years to travel through the Federation. Not to speak of the fact that it would be extremely difficult and would require a highly decentralized infrastructure to hold such an inflated empire together, another, even more graver problem arises because of this: because of the official positions of the Klingon Empire and the Cardassian Union at opposite sides of the Federation (the "Eastern" and "Western" frontier), the journeys of the Enterprise-D within one season - in one episode near the Cardassian border, in another episode in Klingon space - and the journey of the Klingon/Romulan fleets to DS9/Cardassia within a few weeks, perhaps months become completely impossible. And Voyager would have never been able to reach DS9 from Earth, there she was put into service only three months before the first mission in the Badlands. How different the times shown in the episodes and the "officially" defined times for travelling through the Federation are, following table clarifies:

Consequently, even at maximum warp, a patrol ship would need several years to travel through the giant empire only once - not to speak of the fact that the vessels of everyday traffic like freighters and personal transporters mostly can only attain the cruising speed of warp 6 and furthermore have to stop at a starbase after some weeks of flight for maintenance, repair or fuelling (typical ships need tons of deuterium and a antimatter replacement every 3 years). These circumstances increase the horrendous travel time of decades still by many years.

2. The size favored by the episodes

Although the official extension of the Federation given by the official publications was fixed too often and too definitely not to be regarded as an affirmed basis figure in the Star Trek universe, amazingly in most episodes and movies, which finally have built up most of the Star Trek Galaxy, the size of the Federation is not the same, but considerably differs. Especially in The Next Generation episodes, the shown maps of the galaxy, which are usually based on the official Federation size or even depict larger space regions, contradict completely with the shown travels of the Enterprise within very limited time (usually hours or days at maximum). But also in the other Star Trek series, maps or given distances don't match with the longest possible duration for the journeys (e.g. the time between two episodes). In Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, however, first signs of a realistic   redefinition of the distances in the Star Trek universe are recognizable, because merely detailed maps are used instead of maps of the entire Milky Way, and the mentioned distances to important planets (Cardassia, Ferenginar, Trill) are all within 100 ly from DS9. With its three-dimensional astrometric maps, Voyager hasn't gone into the size of the Federation yet, but the permanent disregard of the Beta Quadrant (the most obvious error was in "Barge of the Dead": "the Borg have assimiliated a Klingon Bird of Prey in the Alpha Quadrant") and doubtful ideas like the Jankata Accords, which actually shouldn't apply to the Federation as a inter-quadrant power, mars the hope for the future. Now, the following detailed examples will prove how the various TV episodes and movies support a "theory of a small Federation" (TSF) in most cases, instead of the officially supported "theory of a large Federation".

Star Trek: The Next Generation - [019] Conspiracy

Star Trek: The Next Generation - [124] The Chase

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - [019] In the Hands of the Prophets

In Keiko O'Brien's school, we see some very interesting charts on the wall - among them, a map of the Milky Way which looks somehow familiar to us. On closer examination, we see that it is indeed an extended version of the map from [TNG] Conspiracy. The single stars in the cubic spatial volumes are now labeled, and a degree-based graduation is recognizable. Whiles it seemed to be a communications map of the Federation in [TNG] Conspiracy, the chart now seems to represent the whole known part of the Galaxy. Correspondingly, not only Federation planets, but also the core planets of all other known empires of the Alpha and Beta quadrants are marked, e.g. Bajor, Cardassia, Qo'noS, Romulus and Trill. Although undoubtedly, the chart is the most complete and detailed map of the entire explored space ever seen in Star Trek, it nevertheless isn't realistic at all, but is "only" one of the many maps in the series created for mere aesthetic purposes, which just wasn't drawn on the basis of the numerous facts and distances established over the years and the information provided by the real astronomy. This is proven by the wrong situation or distance of the contained real stars Alpha Centauri, Tau Ceti, Sirius, Rigel and especially Deneb (which shouldn't be included in the map at all, since this star is more than 3000 ly away from Earth), and the positions of some of the contained planets not affirmed by the voyages shown in the episodes such as Trill and Qo'noS, which are both located at far too remote places on the map. At any rate, canon or noncanon, scientifically correct or not, the map seems to support the "theory of a small Federation" as well, if the distances of the correctly marked real stars are used as a scale.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - [069] Family Business / [073] The Way of the Warrior (1)

"Cestus III is located at the opposite border of the Federation, so far away that even a suspace transmission travels 3 months to reach this planet.

"At maximum warp, Cestus III is almost  8 weeks away from the station."

It is a rather unexpected case of luck that twice, the distance to a planet at the border of the Federation in the Beta Quadrant is mentioned. However, at least the numbers of the first statement must be wrong because an amplified subspace transmission (V = warp 9.9999 = 199516c) can cover almost 50000 ly in 90 days, what is then far too much for the diameter of the Federation. However, on the basis of the first statement (Cestus III as a fixed point at the "Eastern" border of the Federation), the second one is more useful. Although we don't know exactly what the "maximum speed" is considered to be, we can assume a speed between warp 9 and warp 9.9 - what results in a small Federation diameter of 200-500 ly .

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - [104] Trials and Tribble-ations

"The distance to our previous location [near Cardassia] is almost 200 ly [...] We're orbiting K-7, one of the old deep space stations near the Klingon border."

This quote does not directly deal with the size of the Federation, but because the Cardassian and Klingon Empires directly adjoin the Federation in the "West" / "East" and therefore the distance between these two empires defines the diameter of the Federation, we can indeed say something about the size of the Federation by analyzing the given distance. Undoubtedly, the Federation must have a horizontal diameter of less than 200 ly according to the statement. We can even specify this assumption: according to the map of the Bajor Sector in the ST:DS9 TM, Starbase 375 (which is located at the border of the Federation in the Alpha Quadrant) is located approximately 30 ly away from DS9, whose distance to the Defiant is merely a few light years at the moment of the time travel. Hence, a Federation diameter of about 170 ly is used in this episode, what again supports the "theory of a small federation". However, on the other hand, the figure is a bit too low in comparison with other DS9 episodes. Nevertheless, we can still argue that Dax roughly rounded the distance, and that K-7 is located in the "lower part" of the Federation-Klingon border, what would considerably boost the distance to DS9.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - [075] The Visitor

"Therefore he appeared somewhere near you, even if you were hundreds of light years away from the place the accident happened."

This statement is very similar to that one from [DS9] Trials and Tribble-ations , but this time, the distance Earth-DS9 is directly mentioned. However, that doesn't seem to help us much, since an exact figure is not mentioned. Nonetheless it confirms a considerably smaller Federation size, since the quote suggest that Earth is " hundreds of light years " (and not thousands or even tens of thousands of light years, how one could think in view of the official Federation diameter) away from Deep Space Nine.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - [146] Valiant

"The training mission should last 3 months [...] It was our mission to fly around the entire Federation [...]"

Again, this statement indicates a much smaller and more logical Federation diameter.  Of course, to travel 10000 ly (taking this diameter, the actual perimeter of the Federation would even be considerably larger) in 3 months is completely impossible, even at the maximum speed, which can be sustained for only a few hours (Defiant class vessels: Warp 9.982). On the basis of the given time of three months and the maximum permanently sustainable speed of the Defiant class - warp 8.9 (at speeds of warp 9 and above, ships of this class have difficulty in maintaining structural integrity) -, we get a maximum Federation perimeter of 361 ly, and therefore a maximum diameter of only 90.25 ly , assuming a nearly quadratic shape. Indeed, a Federation with a diameter of less than one hundred light years seems to be the favored model since DS9's 6th season - although a too small extension is as problematic as a two large one.

Star Trek: First Contact

"The Federation consists of 150 planets, spread over 8000 ly"

The sole movie which provides an exact figure concerning the size of the Federation, clearly seems to support the model of a large Federation, continuing the tradition of The Next Generation, where remote regions of the Federation were explored, and in contrast to Deep Space Nine, where all core planets and empires were crowded in a region with a diameter of hardly a hundred light years. Not only does this statement underpin the official extension of 10000 ly fixed by the Star Trek Encyclopedia, but it also specifies it. And since it apparently hasn't any reference to the actual plot, we can assume that it is an universal, theoretical statement.

Beside the various quotes from episodes and movies, there are indeed some further arguments,  supporting the one or the other theory.

3. The size of the Federation with regard to the numbered sectors

In fact, using some simple mathematic formulae, the maximum Federation size can be also calculated by examining the numbers of the contained sectors. It is well-known that the sectors at the farthest "Western" border, near the Cardassian Union, have 5-digit numbers, by 25,000 ( [TNG] The Wounded etc.). Because these sectors were the last ones to join the Federation (expansion of the Federation only in the Alpha quadrant in the 24th century - see the "Growth aspect"), we can assume that there are 25,000 Federation sectors at maximum. Probably, there are much less considering that the sectors are often numbered inconsistently or arbitrarily. Using this assumption, we now can calculate the maximum Federation area. Depending on the used sector definition - 20 ly as the diameter of a cubic volume, resulting in a side length of 11.5 ly (20/sqrt(3)), or 20 ly as the diameter of a two-dimensional plane with a side length of 14.1 ly (20/sqrt(2)), or simply 20 ly as the side length of a sector, there are different results. Since we anyway want to calculate the area and not the spatial volume of the Federation and, with regard to mathematics, the latter assumption is completely incorrect, we use 14.1 ly. With this side length, a sector area of 200 ly� can be calculated (0.5*20�). Provided that there are 25000 Federation sectors, this results in a total Federation area of 5,000,000 ly�. If the Federation has nearly a quadratic shape, the side length then is 2236 ly and the maximum diameter is 3162 ly . Hence, a Federation extending over several thousand light years is at least supported by the sector system.

4. Calculation of the size based on transgalactic situational relations

5. The size of the Federation in view of real stars

Although most real stars that were mentioned in Star Trek as Federation outposts or outposts close to the Federation are located within 200 ly from Earth and therefore seems to clearly fix the core region of the Federation, there are three stars which are very far away from Earth and are nonetheless within or near Federation space. These three stars - Deneb, Antares and Rigel - are therefore often called "boundary stones" of the Federation. They mark the outmost borders in the West, North and South of the sphere of influence of the Federation, and they consequently restrict its region to a certain size, because at the sole "open" side - the East - the empires of the Romulans and Klingons limit the extension of the Federation. The star Deneb , which is 3230 ly away from Earth (mere horizontal distance: 3209 ly), marks the Western border of the Federation, because Farpoint Station on Deneb IV is regarded as the last outpost before "the great unknown that starts behind" ( [TNG] Encounter at Farpoint ). With a distance of 773 ly (mere vertical distance: 619 ly), Rigel is a boundary star in the "South" of the Federation, because without UFP protection , the mining colony on Rigel XII "would never get help this far out" ( [TOS] Mudd's Women ). Generally, Antares is considered to be the "boundary stone" to the center of the Galaxy with a distance of 604 ly (vertical distance: 580 ly), although in this case, there is some scope for a still larger extension of the Federation because it seems illogical to place one of the most important yards of the Federation (the Antares IV Fleet Yards) at the border to the totality of unknown space. Consequently, on the one hand the large number of near real stars which undoubtedly belong to the Federation, for example Tau Ceti, Vulcan (40 Eridani-A), Gamma Hydrae etc., supports a quite small Federation (<200 ly), while the also often mentioned, but much farther away boundary stars indicate a Federation extension of several thousand light years and therefore affirm the theory of a large Federation.

6. The minimum size and the growth aspect

Despite all speculations and assumptions about the "theory of a small Federation", it should be taken into consideration that a too small Federation is as problematic as a too large one. It is an official fact that their are at least 150 Federation members, which all have their own home planet and possibly several  dozen colonies, therefore for all these planets, a certain space is needed. Consequently, at any rate a - not necessarily homogenous and jointed - space region of at least 1000 ly would be realistic, taking into account that, although nearly all stars have planets in the Star Trek universe (as mentioned in one episode), not every planet is of class M and not every class M planet is inhabited by an intelligent species that has already invented warp propulsion and furthermore wishes to be a member of the Federation, or is at least allowed to become one in view of the strict admission criteria (global government, high social standards etc.). These various requirements are probably a reason for the fact that the Federation hasn't grown significantly in the last one hundred years - there are about 50 new members since 2265 (in contrast to about 100 new members since the foundation of the Federation 2161 and 2265). And we furthermore shouldn't forget: not even our own home planet accomplishes a single of the criteria for a Federation membership at the moment. The moderate growth leads to yet another problem for a too small Federation territory: because since the 23rd century, beside the size of the Federation also the usual cruising speed of vessels (300-400c) hasn't changed significantly, those species first discovered in the 24th century like the Ferengi and Cardassians, whose empires are located near the current Federation border in the Alpha quadrant, should have been discovered much earlier. It's true that the Federation was probably mostly located in the Beta Quadrant in the 23rd century, and the "Western" border was correspondingly nearer to Earth (whereas the "Eastern" border was nearly the same at that time due to the adjoined empires), but it was always Starfleet's mission to explore the vastness of unknown space beyond the final frontier. However, if we examine the task area of the first Enterprise during its fifth five year mission in the 2260s (mostly near Earth and in the Beta quadrant), the suspicion seems to harden that the deep Alpha quadrant was actually "taboo" in the 23rd century. A possible reason could be for instance contemporary historical and political backgrounds, of which we don't know anything: after all, during the few exploring missions in the Alpha quadrant, the Enterprise always encountered a dangerous, powerful new species. Consequently, it is possible that the empires of these species were much larger than in the late 24th century and also included the regions currently belonging to the Cardassians and Ferengis, who perhaps where restricted to their home systems at that time, limiting the size of the Federation in that way.

7. Summarizing overview of both theories

Although nearly every episode, every movie, every book and every map seems to use another Federation size, the numerous mentioned examples have shown that the episodes, movies, books and other aspects of the Star Trek universe each always  - whether directly or indirectly - plead for one of two theories: the theory of a large Federation, which suggests a Federation size of 10000 ly (more precisely: 8000 ly), or the theory of a small Federation, which postulates a considerably smaller Federation size in the range of a few hundred till less than hundred light years.

8. Solution of the size problem by a synthesis of both theories

Apparently, we now have two theories for the size of the Federation, both supported by a considerable number of aspects and which both can't be disregarded without further considerations: after all, the 8000 ly large Federation has been officially confirmed, and the whole DS9 universe is based on a small Federation, that would collapse like a house of cards if the distances between the core planets of all important empires were longer than 100 ly. Because both theories consequently have a right to exist, there is no point in the further search for the ultimate proof for the one or the other theory; instead, a unification of both has to be considered, although this seems to be impossible at the first glance.

However, the solution, which has been mentioned briefly several times in the course of the argumentation, is surprisingly simple and on closer examination, it can be easily derived from one of the apparently most persuasive proofs for the theory of a large federation:

With this quote of Captain Picard, the extension of the Federation territory is fixed to the 10000 ly suggested by the Encyclopedia, that is incontrovertible. However, one should pay attention to the tricky wording, which does not explicitly demand a Federation territory of several thousand light years in the end. Instead, the spatial distribution of the planets over a region with a diameter/length/width/height of 8000 ly is mentioned. This finally leads to the idea that the Federation territory, where quite a lot non-aligned planets like Antede or Antica are located and that therefore naturally must have numerous "holes", not only resembles a Swiss cheese - even then the territory would still be far too large to facilitate the short distances seen in ST:DS9 -, but is distributed over this area in several fragments - what eventually corresponds to a synthesis of both competing theories, which shall be elaborated in the next paragraph.

That means: on the one hand, there is a core region of the Federation that is only few hundred light years or even less than hundred light years large, where all core planets (Earth, Alpha Centauri, Vulcan, Andor, Tellar) are situated. This area is restricted by the five adjoining powers and has not significantly changed its size for hundred or more years. In the relatively small core region, the whole action of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine takes place, what explains the short distances and travelling times in this series as well as the huge ship fleets that operate in a pretty small volume. On the other hand, the Federation also extends outside the space taken up by the "Core Federation" and the five other empires far into deep space - within a region with just the considered diameter of 8000 ly. Here, there are several single planets settled by the Federation, but the area is primarily dominated by agglomerations or concentrations of Federation planets that are far more extensive in size and population and which form autonomous "fragments" of the Federation each. Examples for such Federation fragments, which are detached from the core region and completely self-sufficient with an own administration and defense, are the regions around Deneb, Antares and Rigel - just those stars which there mentioned as "boundary stars"   of the Federation territory with regard to the theory of a large Federation. This wide-ranging and all in all more sparsely populated Federation region was explored by the Enterprise-D within seven years. On the one hand, the Enterprise could travel through the vastness unknown space between the different core regions without encountering large fleets of the Federation, and on the other hand, she could fly to the single "fragments" - mainly the core region, but also the Denebian region (in the first year) and the Rigel region (near Mintaka, in year five)

We have reached the point where of course the legitimate question arise how this theory can be conclusively proven. Basically, the plausibility and logic supports this solution of the Federation size problem, if we consider the political structure of the Federation, Starfleet's mission and the general state development in deep space (even though this point has not been empirically proven yet). At any rate, we cannot compare interstellar planetary alliances with international alliances, how Rick Sternbach (who has quasi laid the foundation for this theory with his own Federation+colonies thesis) has constantly remarked. From a general point of view, space actually is a single, homogenous, politically neutral zone, since 99.9% are vacuum. Only in extremely long distances - within the Milky Way every 1pc on average, there is a point that can be claimed at all, and in still longer distances there is a class M planet, which is inhabitable and only therefore relevant for a interstellar empire. In addition, the Federation isn't an empire like the Romulan Star Empire or the Klingon Empire, but a loose alliance of planets with any spatial position, which fulfill certain criteria. Consequently, the possibility of a compact, clearly isolated region, how it is the case with a empire based on conquest and subjugation, is not given from the very beginning, but a) a certain distance of the planets and b) a very large spatial volume, in which these planets are scattered, is forced.

However, plausibility, logic and realism are not the sole arguments by any means, which support this new theory. In the end, all arguments which were mentioned with regard to the two apparently opposing theories, do also apply to the synthesis of both theories: as already mentioned, there is no reason that the diverse indications for the Federations size in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine always applied merely to the core region, which in the end is the main part of the Federation. In contrast, in ST:TNG, the non-aligned space between the Federation and the other Federation regions were explored. With the survey of these extensive, several thousand light years large regions by the Enterprise-D and numerous other deep space vessels, the large numbers of the sector system are understandable: with a mere chronological designation of newly discovered sectors, already countless regions outside the core region were explored and numbered, when the new sectors in the Alpha Quadrant joined the Federation, what then results in numbers in the range of 21000 near Cardassian space. Because stars like Barzan, Rigel, Antares and Deneb do not belong to the core region of the Federation, the transgalactic situational relations and the situation of real stars does not contradict with the other arguments concerning the Federation size any longer. But forming a coherent alliance is made much more difficult due to the technical limitations of warp propulsion (maximum sustainable speed still warp 6) and of subspace radio (interstellar only realizable with subspace relay stations every 22.65 ly). Basically, one has to assume that the regions are completely self-contained concerning supply and defense, proven by the situation of important fleet yards near Antares IV and Rigel. Because of the self-organization, there is no need for defense and support. However, also a political independence to a large extent cannot be prevented, but because the Federation isn't an empire and all really important planets are concentrated within the central core region, a political connection between the outer regions and the core regions is actually not necessary. These regions do mostly profit from the Federation membership - for example due to the opportunity to set up own ship yards according to the pattern of the Federation and to form own tactical fleets within Starfleet (what leads to the described situation, that "the left hand of Starfleet does not know of the actions of the right hand"), while raw material deliveries (e.g. Dilithium from the mines of Rigel XII) or technology transfers (with the construction of starships in the yards of the outer regions and the following re-assignation and transportation to a yard in the core region) are only necessary to a low extent. In the end, the Federation membership mainly refers to the belief in common values - freedom, legal protection, protection of the dignity of all life forms and a common purpose of life - in order to attempt to advance the own existence as well as the rest of the Federation, irrespective how far the rest of the "large family" is away.

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The Planet Classification System was developed by the Federation as a means of conveniently categorizing planets using a uniform criteria consisting of a number of elements including, but not limited to: atmospheric composition, age, surface temperature, size, and the presence of life. The system uses the Terran alphabet, more specifically the Latin alphabet to designate the different planetary classes.

Planetary classes [ ]

• Class A Geothermal ( Gothos )
• Class B Geomorteus ( Mercury )
• Class C Geoinactive ( Psi 2000 )
• Class D Asteroid/Moon ( Luna )
• Class E Geoplastic ( Excalbia )
• Class F Geometallic ( Janus VI )
• Class G Geocrystaline ( Delta Vega )
• Class H Desert ( Rigel XII )
• Class I Gas Supergiant ( Q'tahL )
• Class J Gas Giant ( Jupiter )
• Class K Adaptable ( Mars )
• Class L Marginal ( Indri VIII )
• Class M Terrestrial ( Earth )
• Class N Reducing ( Venus )
• Class O Pelagic ( Argo )
• Class P Glaciated ( Breen )
• Class Q Variable ( Genesis Planet )
• Class R Rogue ( Dakala )
• Class S and T Ultragiants
• Class X , Y and Z Demon ( Tholian homeworld (Class Y))

External links [ ]

• Planetary classification article at Memory Alpha , the canon Star Trek wiki.
• Planetary classification article at Memory Beta , the non-canon Star Trek wiki.

NASA — Top 10 Star Trek Planets Chosen by Our Scientists

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What would happen if the crew of the Starship Enterprise handed over the controls to our scientists and engineers? It turns out many are avid Star Trek fans with lengthy itineraries in mind.

What is perhaps the most famous Star Trek planet was placed by creator Gene Roddenberry in a real star system: 40 Eridani. This trinary system of three dwarf stars, about 16 light-years from Earth, could play host to exoplanets; none have been detected there so far. The most massive is 40 Eridani A, chosen as Vulcan’s sun.

An icy “M-class” (Star Trek’s term for “Earth-like”) moon of a much larger planet—a gas giant—that is home to soft-spoken humanoids with blue skin, white hair and stylish antennae. In our solar system, gas giants play host to icy moons, such as Jupiter’s Europa or Saturn’s Enceladus , that possess subsurface oceans locked inside shells of ice. Our missions are searching for lifeforms that might exist in these cold, dark habitats.

Another Trek M-class planet known for its engineered tropical climate and its welcoming humanoid population.  The planet is said to orbit a binary, or double, star system—in Star Trek fan lore, Epsilon Ceti, a real star system some 79 light-years from Earth. The first discovery of a planet around a binary was Kepler-16b, which is cold, gaseous and Saturn-sized.

4. “Shore Leave” planet, Omicron Delta region

This is another amusement park of a planet, where outlandish characters are manufactured in underground factories straight from the crew members’ imaginations. In real life, astronauts aboard the International Space Station print out plastic tools and containers with their own 3-D printer.

“Star Trek: Into Darkness” finds Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy fleeing from chalk-skinned aliens through a red jungle. Red or even black vegetation could exist on real planets that orbit cooler, redder stars, an adaptation meant to gather as much light for photosynthesis as possible. An example may be Kepler-186f, a planet only 10 percent larger than Earth in diameter. At high noon, the surface of this planet would look something like dusk on Earth.

6. Wolf 359

A star best known in the Star Trek universe as the site of a fierce battle in which a multitude of “Star Trek: Next Generation” ships are defeated by the Borg. But Wolf 359 is a real star, one of the closest to Earth at a distance of 7.8 light-years. Wolf 359 is also a likely observational target for the Kepler space telescope in the upcoming Campaign 14 of its “K2” mission.

7. Eminiar VII/Vendikar

These two planets are neighbors, sharing a star system. So, of course, they’ve been at war for centuries. While we have no signs of interplanetary war, multiple rocky worlds have been discovered orbiting single stars. A cool dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1 is orbited by three Earth-size planets; two have a chance of being the right temperature for liquid water, with possible Earth-like atmospheres.

The planets Romulus and Remus are home to the Romulan Empire (ancient Rome, anyone?), although Remus seemed to have gotten the raw end of the deal. Remus is tidally locked, one face always turned to its star. Tidally locked worlds might well be a real thing, with many possible candidates discovered with our Kepler space telescope. The habitable portion of the surface of such planets might be confined to a band between the day and night sides called the “terminator zone”—a.k.a. the twilight zone.

9. Janus VI

A rocky world lacking an atmosphere, perhaps similar to Mars. While humans must maintain an artificial underground environment to survive, the innards of the planet are a comfortable home to an alien species known as the “Horta.” Their rock-like biochemistry is based on silicon, rather than carbon, inspiring us to imagine the many forms life might take in the universe.

In the Star Trek universe, Earth is home to Starfleet Headquarters; the real Earth is, at least so far, the only life-bearing world we know. No true Earth analogs have been discovered among the real exoplanets detected so far. But a new generation of space telescopes, designed to capture direct images of exoplanets in Earth’s size range, might one day reveal an alternative “pale blue dot.”

Learn more about exoplanets at: exoplanets.nasa.gov

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We’re looking for a new class of astronauts to join the NASA team, and if you’re thinking about applying , there are a few things you should know.

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MYTH: All astronauts have piloting experience.

FACT: You don’t need to be a pilot to be an astronaut. Flying experience is not a requirement, but it could be beneficial to have.

MYTH: All astronauts have perfect vision.

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MYTH: You must be a certain age to be an astronaut. 

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OK, but what are the requirements?

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• Completed a Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, or related medical degree (or foreign equivalent) in an accredited college or university.
• Completed or be currently enrolled in a Test Pilot School (TPS) program (nationally or internationally recognized) and will have completed this program by June 2025. (Must submit proof of completion or enrollment.)
• If TPS is your only advanced technical degree, you must have also completed a bachelor’s degree or higher (or foreign equivalent) at an accredited college or university with major study in an appropriate technical field of engineering, biological science, physical science, computer science, or mathematics.
• Have at least three years of related professional experience obtained after degree completion (or 1,000 Pilot-in-Command hours with at least 850 of those hours in high-performance jet aircraft for pilots). For medical doctors, time in residency can count toward experience and must be completed by June 2025.
• Be able to pass the NASA long-duration flight astronaut physical.

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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

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Omicron Ceti III

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What is perhaps the most famous Star Trek planet was placed by creator Gene Roddenberry in a real star system: 40 Eridani. This trinary system of three dwarf stars, about 16 light-years from Earth, could play host to exoplanets; none have been detected there so far. The most massive is 40 Eridani A , chosen as Vulcan’s home world. Home to the “pointy eared, green blooded” Vulcans and to Star Trek’s iconic Mr. Spock, Vulcan is said to be a hotter, more massive planet than Earth, with stronger gravity and a thinner atmosphere. Desert and mountainous expanses are interspersed with seas. The planet makes an appearance in several Star Trek films and series episodes and (spoiler alert) is destroyed in J.J. Abrams’ alternate timeline. An example of a real exoplanet being destroyed—by its own sun, not vengeful aliens—is HD 209458b , a “hot Jupiter” orbiting so close to its star that its atmosphere is being blown away into space, leaving a large, detectable tail.

An icy “M-class” (Star Trek's term for “Earth-like”) moon of a much larger planet—a gas giant—that is home to soft-spoken humanoids with blue skin, white hair and stylish antennae. A bit of a dust-up takes place in the original Star Trek series when an Orion poses as an Andorian during an ambassadorial mission (“Journey to Babel”). Definitive “exo-moons” have yet to be discovered, but some could be both icy and habitable. In our solar system, gas giants play host to icy moons, such as Jupiter’s Europa or Saturn’s Enceladus , that possess subsurface oceans locked inside shells of ice. NASA missions are searching for lifeforms that might exist in these cold, dark habitats.

Another Trek M-class planet known for its engineered tropical climate and its welcoming humanoid population. This earns it a designation as a “pleasure planet” from the United Federation of Planets, of which it is a member. Crew members from the “Next Generation,” “Deep Space Nine” and “Enterprise” series all paid visits there. The planet is said to orbit a binary , or double, star system—in Star Trek fan lore, Epsilon Ceti, a real star system some 79 light-years from Earth. While no real planets have yet been discovered around these stars, many exoplanets have been found in orbit around binaries. The first unambiguous such discovery, Kepler-16b found in 2011, is cold, gaseous and Saturn-sized, but still invites comparisons to Tatooine , the double-sunset planet in the competing space franchise Star Wars. A 2014 study suggested that as much as half the stars that play host to exoplanets could be binaries– equaling billions of worlds.

4. “Shore Leave” planet, Omicron Delta region

This is another amusement park of a planet—provided someone lets you in on it before you beam down. Unwitting members of the original crew are assailed by strafing aircraft, a jousting knight and a laughing bully named Finnegan (“Shore Leave”) before they realize it’s all just in good fun—manufactured in underground factories straight from the crew members’ imaginations. In real life, astronauts aboard the International Space Station print out plastic tools and containers with their own 3-D printer, and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., is among the research centers experimenting with this technology. But the “Shore Leave” planet takes it to a whole new level.

“Star Trek: Into Darkness” finds Captain Kirk and Dr. McCoy fleeing from chalk-skinned aliens through a red jungle. Welcome to planet Nibiru. In the second installment of the latest round of Star Trek films Kirk interferes, yet again, with a primitive culture, even if it is to save their lives. Red or even black vegetation could cover land surfaces on real exoplanets that orbit cooler, redder stars, an adaptation meant to gather as much light for photosynthesis as possible. Several planets discovered by NASA’s Kepler space telescope could fit this profile, orbiting in the “habitable zones ” of red dwarf stars—where liquid water can exist on a planetary surface. Perhaps the most famous is Kepler-186f , only 10 percent larger than Earth in diameter, orbiting a star some 500 light-years away. At high noon, the surface of this planet would look something like dusk on Earth.

6. Wolf 359

A star best known in the Star Trek universe as the site of a fierce battle in which a multitude of “Star Trek: Next Generation” ships are defeated by the Borg (“Best of Both Worlds”). But Wolf 359 is a real star, one of the closest to Earth at a distance of 7.8 light-years. Wolf 359 is also a likely observational target for the Kepler space telescope in the upcoming Campaign 14 of its “K2” mission.

7. Eminiar VII/Vendikar

Another case of Captain Kirk playing fast and loose with the Prime Directive—that is, the prohibition on interfering with civilizations on other planets (“A Taste of Armageddon”). These two planets are neighbors, sharing a star system. So, of course, they’ve been at war for centuries. Real exoplanets have shown no signs of interplanetary war, although multiple rocky worlds have been discovered orbiting single stars. One of the latest examples: A cool dwarf star called TRAPPIST-1 , orbited by three planets in Earth’s size-range; two have a chance of being in the star’s habitable zone, with possible Earth-like atmospheres. The Kepler space telescope will further study the star TRAPPIST-1 in the upcoming Campaign 12 of its “K2” mission.

The planets Romulus and Remus are home to the Romulan Empire (ancient Rome, anyone?), although Remus seemed to have gotten the raw end of the deal. Remus is tidally locked, one face always turned to its star, where a lower caste of Romulan society labor in dilithium mines. Reference is made to Remus in the original series as the Enterprise gives chase to a Romulan warship, called a bird of prey (“Balance of Terror”), and in the film “Star Trek: Nemesis.” Tidally locked worlds might well be a real thing, with many possible candidates among the thousands of exoplanets discovered with NASA’s Kepler space telescope. The habitable portion of the surface of such planets might be confined to a band between the day and night sides called the “terminator zone” —a.k.a. the twilight zone. On these planets, one hemisphere would be seared by its sun, the other plunged permanently…into darkness.

9. Janus VI

A rocky world lacking an atmosphere, perhaps similar to Mars, that is the site of a Federation mining colony (“Devil in the Dark,” original series). While humans must maintain an artificial underground environment to survive, the innards of the planet are a comfortable home to an alien species known as the “Horta.” Their rock-like biochemistry is based on silicon , rather than carbon, inspiring us to imagine the many forms life might take in the universe—some that might not be obvious at first.

In the Star Trek universe, Earth is home to Starfleet Headquarters; the real Earth is, at least so far, the only life-bearing world we know. Earth returns again and again in Star Trek series and films, in many guises, from the raucous 1960s, to 1980s San Francisco (“Star Trek: The Voyage Home”), to a troubled 21 st century (“Star Trek VIII: First Contact”). Strange Earth analogs also appear, inhabited by centuries-old children (“Miri”) or a modern-day Roman Empire worried about TV ratings for its gladiatorial games (“Bread and Circuses”), both in the original series. No true Earth analogs have been discovered among the real exoplanets detected so far. But a new generation of space telescopes , designed to capture direct images of exoplanets in Earth’s size range, might one day reveal an alternative “pale blue dot.”

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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.

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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.

Clear skies!

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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List of Star Trek planets (C–F)

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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• Caere – A planet Dr. Richard Galen planned on going to by way of an Al-Leyan transport from Deep Space 4. [1]
• Cairn homeworld – The unnamed home of the Cairn species. They are members of the Federation who have advanced powers of telepathy and are unable to communicate verbally. [2]
• Cait – Planet in the 15 Lyncis star system; the homeworld of the ailuroid (cat-like) Caitian species. [3]
• Calder II – A planet with a Federation outpost. Known to have valuable archaeological artifacts of a past civilization. [4]
• Caldik Prime – The site of a Star Fleet facility with a hospital, where Lieutenant Paris was stationed when his court-martial offense occurred. [5]
• Caldonia – The home world of the Caldonian species and a major source of naturally occurring Trillium 323. [6] Possibly a reference to The Atreides Home world in Frank Herbert's Dune Series.
• Caldos II – A planet that was one of the Federation's earliest successful terraforming projects. [7]
• Caleb IV – A Federation outpost near the Klingon border. [8]
• Callinon VII – A planet of the Gamma Quadrant where the Dominion maintains an unmanned, and lightly secured, subspace relay station that handles comm traffic from various Dominion-related members, such as the Karemma. [9]
• Calondia IV – Jadzia's wrestling coach says he is on his way to Calondia IV as he leaves her quarters. [10]
• Camor V – The home world of the Camorite species. Miranda Vigo, Capt. Picard's lover 24 years in the past, moved to Camor V, and Picard goes there to meet his supposed son Jason Vigo. [11]
• Campor III – Site of a new colony est 2371. The colony's crucial field hospital was being outfitted from Deep Space Nine, needing medical supplies from Vulcan that are delayed circa stardate 48467.3. [12]
• Camus II – A planet that once was home to a highly advanced species which, though its people apparently never developed space flight, did manage to develop technology, unknown to the UFP, that enabled two intelligent beings to exchange life-entities. Their ruins have long been studied by Federation scientists. In 2269, a Federation team headed by Dr. Janice Lester and Dr. Arthur Coleman was wiped out by Lester to keep the secret of the life-exchange project. The radioactive element celebium, which emits a unique type of particulate radiation that is deadly to humans, is found in large quantities there; apparently, it is the decay product of an ancient thermo-nuclear war. [13] On star date 42215.2, the Enterprise was on its way to Camus II for an archaeological survey when it was diverted by a distress call." [14]
• Canopius Planet – The home of Phineas Tarbolde when he wrote The Nightingale Woman in 1996. [15]
• Capella IV – The home world of the advanced, yet still tribally governed, Capellan species. Dr. McCoy was stationed on the planet for several years and was familiar with the strict Capellan customs. [16] An ailuroid quadruped whose specimens, possessed of the power to discharge lightning-like bolts of electrical energy powerful enough to kill a humanoid, all hated captivity so much that they always had to be killed within four days of capture, the Capellan power cat, was also described as inhabiting the planet. [17]
• Cardassia III – The third planet of the Cardassia system, where Zek obtained the Bajoran Orb of Wisdom from a contact. This was his last stop before heading into the wormhole to seek future advice from its builders. [18]
• Cardassia IV – The fourth planet of the Cardassia system, from which Major Kira and Chief O'Brien rescued Bajoran prisoners of war still being held in a labor camp, including Li Nalas. [19]
• Cardassia V – The fifth planet in the Cardassia system; it hosts a museum where Quark's cousin Kono once stole bone carving artifacts. [20]
• Cardassia Prime – The primary home world of the Cardassian species, and the capital of the Cardassian Union. It is the 7th planet in the Cardassian system and is usually referred to simply as "Cardassia." [21] Few people refer to it by its proper nomenclature, "Cardassia VII."
• Carema III – The second proposed site of testing experimental particle fountain mining technology. [22]
• Carnel – A planet in the midst of a civil war. It was where Capt. Jean-Luc Picard first met Lt. Tasha Yar. Impressed at Yar's heroism in rescuing civilians from a minefield, Picard recruited her to serve aboard the Enterprise -D as head of security. [14]
• Carraya IV – A jungle world on the edge of Romulan space which is the site of a secret camp for 73 reluctant Klingon survivors of the Khitomer massacre in 2346. [23]
• Casperia Prime – A ringed Class-M planet which the Starfleet Bureau of Information calls the "vacation capital of the Horvian Cluster." Jadzia Dax planned her and Worf's honeymoon there in 2374. [24]
• Castal I – One of several sites of border skirmishes between the Talarians and the Federation, where Endar's son was killed. [25]
• Catulla – The people of the planet have delicate relations with the Federation . It orbits Theta Pictoris and is known as Cendo-Prae by the Catullans. [26]
• Celtris III – A Cardassian border planet erroneously thought to have a subterranean development site for metagenic weapons. The "base" was later found to be an elaborate hoax perpetrated specifically to capture Captain Picard himself. [21]
• Centauri VII – The immortal Flint possessed some of the works of the artists Taranullus of Centauri VII. [27]
• Cerberus II – A planet whose natives had developed a rejuvenation process for the body and shared the secret with Admiral Mark Jameson after he had negotiated a treaty for the planet, only to have him administer an ultimately deadly overdosage of the drugs used in the process to himself. [28]
• Cestus III – A Federation colony near the Gorn Hegemony that was attacked by the Gorns in 2267. A powerful alien species of sapient discorporates, intolerant of war, that was known as the Metron Consortium mediated a peace treaty, and now the Federation and the Gorns share the planet equally. [29] In 2371, the colonists formed a baseball league with six teams, including the Cestus Comets and the Pike City Pioneers. [30]
• Ceti Alpha V – A then barely habitable planet where, in 2267, Captain James T. Kirk marooned the renegade ruler Khan Noonien Singh and his followers after Khan tried to hijack the Enterprise and murder Kirk. [31] Six months later, Ceti Alpha VI exploded and caused the destruction of Ceti Alpha V's ecosystem, shifting its orbit and rendering it a barren wasteland. At least one native life form survived, the parasitic Ceti eel. The story of Khan's survival is chronicled in the 2006 non-canonical novel, To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh . In 2285, the USS Reliant went to Ceti Alpha V, mistaking it for Ceti Alpha VI, which had been chosen for testing the Genesis Device. Khan stole the ship and set out to avenge himself on Kirk. [32] In addition, years before any of this occurred, in an alternate future in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " Twilight ", after the Xindi destroyed Earth in 2154, the planet became the new homeworld of what was left of Humanity (chosen by episode writer Mike Sussman as a "cruel joke" since the planet would become all but uninhabitable in a hundred years anyway). Note: It is uncertain whether Ceti Alpha is the same as Alpha Ceti , a real star system 220 light years from Earth. Under the Bayer designation system, the Greek letter should precede the constellation name, however, in the novelization of "The Wrath of Khan," Alpha Ceti V is indeed the form used.
• Ceti Alpha VI – A sister planet to Ceti Alpha V, and presumably the outermost planet in the system. The planet exploded sometime around 2267 and destroyed Ceti Alpha V's ecosystem by shifting its orbit. The cataclysmic event apparently went unnoticed by the Federation who chose planet VI as the test site for the Genesis Device in 2285. During the survey mission, the USS Reliant goes to Ceti Alpha V by mistake assuming it was sixth planet. [32]
• Chalna – The home world of the Chalnoth species, a people who have no laws or organized system of government. Captain Picard visited the planet when he commanded the USS Stargazer. [33]
• Chaltok IV – The site of a Romulan research colony nearly destroyed during the test of a polaric ion device, which led to the Polaric Test Ban Treaty of 2268. [34]
• Chandra V – The home world of the Chandran species. The Betazed Tam Elbrun spent time on the planet as a Federation delegate. The peaceful and loving Chandrans have a three-day ritual just for greeting newly arrived visitors. [35]
• Chaya VII – A planet where Enterprise -D designer Dr. Leah Brahms headed up a series of engineering debates. [36]
• Cheron – A planet orbiting the star 83 Leonis located within Romulan space, whose civilization wiped themselves out through racial bigotry. [37] The Cheron system, by coincidence, is also the site of the "Battle of Cheron" between the Federation and the Romulans. Considered a "humiliating" defeat by the Romulans, according to Admiral Jarok. It led to the creation of the Romulan Neutral Zone and thus likely climaxed the original Romulan War in 2160. [38]
• Chrysalian homeworld – The Chrysalians are bidders for the wormhole near Barzan II. They are represented by Devinoni Ral, a charming and deceptive negotiator. [6]
• Cirrus IV – The location of the Emerald Wading Pool, recreated in a holodeck program. [39]
• Coltar IV – A Federation colony that experienced the "Manheim Effect" time disruption produced by Dr. Manheim's dimensional experiment on Vandor. [40]
• Cor Caroli V – The location of an outbreak of Phyrox plague in 2366. For unspecified reasons, Star Fleet deemed the incident classified. Picard mentions the incident to Haro, a Bolian Star Fleet cadet he was imprisoned with. When Haro remembers details of the event, of which a first-year cadet would have no knowledge, Picard realizes Haro is not who she claims to be. [33] Cor Caroli is also the name of the star Alpha Canum Venaticorum .
• Coridan – Planet in the Chi¹ Orionis star system. At least one homeworld of the Coridan species, which was important in the early development of the Federation for its rich deposits of dilithium and other minerals. Mining rights were a heated debate between the Tellarites and Vulcans . [41] Ambassador Sarek of Vulcan was credited with achieving the consensus toward admitting the planet to the Federation. [42] [43] In 2374, Coridan's dilthium mines were attacked by the Dominion . [44] [45]
• Corinth IV – The location of a Federation starbase. After the mission at M-113, Kirk sets off to Corinth IV to drop off a supply of Mexican chilli peppers to an associate of his at the station. [46]
• Corvan II – The homeworld of the Corvan species. [47]
• Cravic homeworld – A Delta Quadrant planet with a civilization destroyed by robots. [48]
• Cygnet XIV – The 14th planet in the Cygnet system, inhabited by a female dominated society. The Enterprise had a computer update at the planet, and the Cygnetians gave the female voice of the system a flirtatious personality that annoyed Captain Kirk. [49]
• Cygnia Minor – A Federation colony near the Planet Q. [50]
• Dakala – A rogue planet discovered in 2151 by the Enterprise NX-01. It exists in perpetual darkness, however the surface is teeming with non-photosynthetic plant life and a diverse animal population, many of which possess bioluminescence. Geologic gases venting from the interior keep the planet warm and most of the life is concentrated near them. [51]
• Daled IV – Planet with a hostile atmosphere with composition almost exactly similar to Clauvdia III. The inhabitants were shape-shifting energy beings. [52]
• Danula II – Planet where in 2323, young Cadet Jean-Luc Picard won the annual Starfleet Academy Marathon. [53] The Captain kept the certificate he won in his photo scrap book. [54]
• Daran V – a Federation colony doomed to be struck by the asteroid Yonada. [55]
• Davlos Prime – Planet orbiting Nu Tauri near the Klingon border. Klingons visiting Deep Space 9 used a device manufactured on Davlos III to turn a replicator into a transporter to secretly beam espionage equipment into a bulkhead near the Romulan quarters. [56]
• Dayos IV – Planet where Klingon Commander Kang retrieved an amulet belonging to The Albino's wife, which contained the location of The Albino's secret fortress on Secarus. [57] The alias "Connelly", used by Miles O'Brien when he attempted to infiltrate the Orion Syndicate, spent two years in prison for dealing in stolen equipment on Dayos IV. [58]
• Decos Prime – Site of a Federation base. [59]
• Dedestris – Delta Quadrant planet accessible from Sikaris via the Sikarin Spatial Trajector. [60]
• Deinonychus VII – Planet where the Enterprise -D awaited the arrival of the USS Biko . [61]
• Dekendi III – Homeworld of the Dekendi species. [62]
• Delb II – Home of Nellen Tore, assistant to Admiral Norah Satie who investigated sabotage aboard the Enterprise -D. [63]
• Delinia II – In 2209, doctors from Delinia II were the first to diagnose transporter psychosis. [64]
• Delios VII – Janeway mentions that the shamans of the Karis tribe on Delios VII practice a ritual that increases the electrical resistance of their skin. [65]
• Delos III – Delos III, also known as Ornara, is home to the Ornarans who have become addicted to the drug Felicium by the inhabitants of Delos IV, the Brekkians. [66]
• Delos IV – Planet where Dr. Beverly Crusher had training under Dr. Quince. [67] This is not to be confused with another Delos IV also known as Brekka. [66]
• Delphi Ardu IV – A star system with a planet that the USS Enterprise -D chased a Ferengi warship to. The planet was the site of an ancient Tkon Empire outpost still protected by a mysterious guardian. [68]
• Delta IV – Homeworld of the Deltan species. [69]
• Delta Vega – A remote, uninhabited planet, near the edge of the galaxy and site of a semi-abandoned lithium cracking facility, where Captain Kirk attempted to maroon Lt. Cmdr. Gary Mitchell after he developed dangerous psychic powers and threatened the Enterprise . [15] A planet called Delta Vega also appears in the 2009 Star Trek movie. Both the elder Spock and Kirk are marooned there in an arctic region. Spock was left on the planet by the Romulan Nero so he could watch his home world of Vulcan be destroyed. Here, Vulcan and Delta Vega appear close to each other and are possibly in the same star system. (However, according to the semi-canon book Star Trek Star Charts by Geoffrey Mandel, Vulcan is in the 40 Eridani A system which does not include Delta Vega.) After Kirk disrupts the Enterprise mission, he is marooned on Delta Vega by the younger Spock on star date 2252.48. Kirk eventually encounters the older Spock and the two find Montgomery Scott working in a Federation research facility on the planet. Star Trek writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci , however, have stated that, while the similar name is intentional, the Delta Vega in the episode and the film are not the same planet. [ citation needed ]
• Delvos Prime – Location of a Federation long-term care center. [70]
• Deneb II – Second planet in the Deneb Kaitos system. Site of mass murders of women by the killer Redjac, where he was known as Kesla. [71] Note: Non-canon sources state that the true "Deneb" star is not the primary of this planet.
• Deneb IV – Fourth planet in the Alpha Cygni system. The location of Farpoint Station, and was visited by the USS Enterprise -D during its maiden voyage. [72] Note: Non-canon sources state that the true "Deneb" star is not the primary of this planet.
• Deneb V – Also known as Deneb Kaitos V, where the Federation Academy of Sciences is based. Harry Mudd escaped the planet after being sentenced to death for fraud . [73] Note: Non-canon sources state that the true "Deneb" star is not the primary of this planet.
• Deneva – Planet orbiting Kappa Fornacis; a Federation colony that was attacked by strange neural parasites. Captain Kirk's brother Sam resided on Deneva with his family. [74]
• Denius III – Capt. Donald Varley of the Federation starship Yamato mentions an Iconian artifact found on this planet. [75]
• Denobula – A planet in the Denobula Triaxa ( Iota Boötis ) system, the homeworld of the Denobulan species. Enterprise character, Dr. Phlox , is a Denobulan. [76] The population is 12 billion, all of which live on a single continent.
• Deriben V – Planet where Lt. J.G. Aquiel Uhnari was previously stationed before being reassigned to Relay Station 47. [77]
• Dessica II – Planet where the Enterprise -D crew believed Capt. Picard was killed in a bar fight. [4]
• Detria – System where in 2369, two gas giants, Detria II, and Detria VI, collided and formed a new protostar. The Enterprise-D went there to monitor the rare event. [78]
• Devidia II – Homeworld of the Devidians visited by the Enterprise -D in 2368 to uncover the mystery behind a Devidian fossil found on Earth in the 24th century. [79]
• Devos II – Son'a controlled world in the Gamma Quadrant. [80]
• Dimorus – Planet infested with poisonous dart-shooting rodents. Gary Mitchell was shot with one of these darts which was intended for his friend James T. Kirk. [15]
• Dinaal – Planet in the Delta Quadrant which is densely populated by the Dinaali species. Their complex healthcare system is managed by the Jye species who operate massive hospital ships that float above the over-populated Dinaali cities. [81]
• Donatu V – Planet near the Klingon-Federation disputed Sherman's Planet. [82] In 2374, during the Dominion War, the Klingon warship Rotarran escorted Klingon freighters to Donatu V. [83]
• Doraf I – The Enterprise -D was headed to Doraf I, a new Federation colony, for a terraforming mission but received and emergency call from Starbase 234. [84]
• Dorvan V – Planet adopted by a colony of Native American Indians which became annexed by the Cardassians according to the Federation-Cardassian Treaty of 2370. It was Capt. Picard's painful task to relocate this colony to a new planet after having discovered one of his Earth ancestors may have helped drive Indians from their native lands centuries ago on Earth. [85]
• Dosi homeworld – Dominion allied planet in the Gamma Quadrant. Quark negotiates for trade rights with the Dosi. The name of their planet is never mentioned in the show however it appeared on tactical readout screens as Dosi. [86]
• Dozaria – Alpha Quadrant planet located between Cardassian Union and the Breen Confederacy. In 2372, Major Kira mounts a rescue mission to find her friend Loret Akrim, whose prison transport ship was shot down and crashed on Dozaria by Breen warships during the Cardassian Occupation of Bajor . Also on the doomed transport was Gul Dukat's illegitimate daughter Tora Ziyal . [87] Dozaria could be traveled to through the Iconian gateway on Vandros IV. [88]
• Draken IV – Planet with a Federation starbase near the Romulan Neutral Zone. [89] [90]
• Drayan II – Homeworld of the Drayan species. [91]
• Draygo IV – An M-class planet considered for the relocation of the Boraalans, but since it lies near Cardassian space, it could not be chosen as a refuge. [92]
• Draylax – Planet in the Epsilon Indi system; homeworld of the Draylaxian species. [93] [94]
• Draylon II – Uninhabited planet. The refugee Skrreea, who thought Bajor was their mythical refuge Kentanna, resettled on Draylon II after the Bajoran provisional government declined their request to settle on Bajor. [95]
• Drema IV – Planet in the Selcundi Drema sector with a pre-warp civilization on the verge of destruction by seismic turbulence. The Enterprise is the first manned vessel to visit the system. Lt. Commander Data was contacted by a young Dreman girl named Sarjenka asking for help. He went against orders and the Prime Directive and went to the surface to help her. Later, Wesley Crusher came up with the idea of launching probes onto the surface that would emit harmonic vibrations that could quell the tectonic stresses at the core. [96]
• Dreon VII – Location of a Bajoran colony. [97]
• Dulisian IV – A Federation colony near the Romulan border. In their attempts to invade Vulcan, the Romulans tried to lure away the Enterprise -D from the Romulan Neutral Zone with a fake distress call from Dulisian IV. [84]
• Durenia IV – Destination of the Enterprise -D after it left Starbase 133. [67]
• Duronom – Enolian penal colony. [98]
• Dytallix B – The fifth planet in the Omicron Ceti star system, also called Mira V, it is an abandoned commercial mining planet where CAPT Jean-Luc Picard secretly rendezvoused with CAPT Walker Keel to discuss a conspiracy within Starfleet. The planet is owned by the Dytallix Mining Company. [99] Note: In Bayer-system nomenclature, Omicron Ceti is the technical catalog name for Mira .
• Earth – Also known as Terra, or Sol III. Earth is the homeworld of the Human species, and the location of the capital of the United Federation of Planets in Paris , as well as Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco . [69] Residents of Earth were called Terrans in the alternate "Mirror" universe. [100] Earth's moon, called Luna, or Sol IIIa, is also colonized. The capital is Tycho City. [101] At least one other sentient race evolved on Earth in the past, the reptilian Voth species. Possibly descended from Hadrosaurids , the Voth became advanced and developed space travel, escaping Earth before an asteroid impact 65 million years ago . They relocated to the Delta Quadrant. [102] Another likely-sentient race evolved on Earth along with Humans, as humpback whales are strongly implied to be sentient based on their communication with Spock and the probe orbiting Earth in Star Trek IV .
• Earth Colony 2 – A Federation settlement. [103]
• Eden – A planet sought by the insane Dr. Sevrin and his group of young followers. They believed the planet lay in the Romulan Neutral Zone and forced the Enterprise NCC-1701 to go there. The planet they find, however, though it is a lush paradise, proves to be teeming with plant life containing deadly, highly corrosive acid. [26] Note: Eden was also the human name given for the mythical planet Sha Ka Ree which lay at the center of the galaxy. [104]
• Efros – Homeworld of the Efrosian species. [3]
• Ekos – The "inner" planet of its system whose inhabitants, the Ekosians, modeled their society after Nazi controlled Germany of mid-20th Century Earth. This was implemented by a Human observer, the historian Professor Dr. John Gill, Ph.D., who believed that, under a benevolent Führer (himself), what he wrongly perceived as the regime's order and efficiency [105] could be achieved without its brutality. This contaminated the development of the planet's culture, and after the Ekosian Melakon, a power-hungry leader more in line with the "real" Nazis, secretly took control and made Gill his puppet, Ekos declared war on the "outer" planet of Zeon. [106]
• Elas – A planet whose people sought peace with a warring neighbor world, Troyius, with an arranged marriage. The tears of Elasian females have an aphrodisiac effect on men, apparently through an infectious microbe that Elasian women carry with no apparent effect on themselves. [107] Scott tells the story of transporting the Dohlman of Elas. [108]
• El-Adrel IV – A planet where a dimensional-shifting creature resides. In 2368, a Tamarian captain named Dathon took Picard there, against the latter's will, to fight the beast together. [109] Dathon's attempts at intelligent communication and cooperation were hampered by the Tamarian language structure, which consisted of cultural metaphor and allegory, but Dathon hoped that a common, shared danger against which the two captains might have to join forces could help his people, "The Children Of Tama," and the Federation reach a non-aggression pact. That commitment proved to be one for which he was willing to give his life, and indeed, he so gave it and thus became a martyr for the cause.
• El-Auria – The home of the El-Aurian species, which was destroyed by the Borg. In 2293, two El-Aurian refugee ships were caught in the Nexus Energy Ribbon. Guinan was among those rescued from one of the ships before it was destroyed. [54]
• Elanu IV – A planet visited by Sisko and Curzon Dax. [110]
• Elaysian homeworld – The low-gravity homeworld of the Elaysian species. [111]
• Elba II – An inhospitable planet on whose surface an asylum for the criminally insane is maintained inside a pressure dome. [112] Perhaps ironically, Elba is also the name of an island off Italy where Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled; insane people are sometimes comically depicted as believing they are Napoleon and appear dressed like him.
• Ellora homeworld – The home of the Ellora species. It is one of the three planets ruled over by the Son'a Solidarity. [113]
• Emila II – The destination of the Enterprise -D after its mission at Tanuga IV. [114]
• Eminiar VII – The home world of the Eminian people. The inhabitants are discovered to be engaged in a simulated war with the people of the planet Vendikar. [115] The original cause of the war between the Eminians and the Vendikans, who were originally Eminian colonists, is never given in the installment.
• Enara Prime – The Delta Quadrant home world of the Enaran species. [116]
• Endicor – Destination of the Enterprise -D until it found a shuttle craft with a duplicate of Jean-Luc Picard from six hours into the future aboard. [117]
• Epsilon 119 [118]
• Epsilon IV – Fourth planet orbiting the star Epsilon Hydrae , located in Klingon space. [119]
• Epsilon Canaris III – A planet whose inhabitants wish to join the Federation but are at war with each other. [120] "Epsilon Canaris" is actually short for Epsilon Canis Majoris , otherwise known as Adhara .
• Epsilon Eridani [121] – Well-known star system orbited by the famous Federation planet of Axanar. Note: In Star Trek: The Original Series , Epsilon Eridani was thought to be the home system of the Vulcans. Star Trek: Star Charts later placed Vulcan in the 40 Eridani system, supported by the fact that Charles "Trip" Tucker III mentioned in an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise that Vulcan is 16 light-years from Earth; 40 Eridani is indeed 16 light-years from Earth.
• Epsilon Indi II – The birthplace of Walter Pierce. [122] Note: In Star Trek: The Original Series , Epsilon Indi was thought to be the home system of the Andorians. Star Trek: Star Charts later placed Andoria in the Procyon system.
• Epsilon West IV – The planet the SS Manila was bound for. Indicated on a shipping manifest. [123]
• Erabus Prime – A planet in the Gamma Quadrant visited by Vash and Q. Vash was bitten by a poisonous bug on the planet and would have died if not for Q's intervention. [124]
• Errikang VII – A Gamma Quadrant planet whose inhabitants nearly killed Vash while in Q's company. [124]
• Evadne IV – The destination of the Enterprise -D until it uncovered an unstable wormhole near the Ngame Nebula. [125]
• Evora homeworld – The home of the Evora species, which is a citizen race of the Federation. [113] [126]
• Excalbia – A volcanic planet home to an alien species who had Kirk and Spock battle illusionary enemies in a test of good and evil. [127]
• Exo III – An icy Class P planet where Nurse Christine Chapel's former fiancée Dr. Roger Korby had a research station. The planet once sustained an ancient civilization, whose ruins are now found underground; it was evidently destroyed by the androids its people created without ever developing space flight. [103]
• Fabrina – Homeworld of the Fabrini species whose world was destroyed by a supernova explosion. The Fabrini used Yonada, a hollow asteroid as a lifeboat to save themselves from annihilation. [128]
• Fahleena III – Planet that lies along a Valerian trade route who periodically supplied Cardassians with weapon making materials. [110]
• Farius Prime – Heavily industrialized home of the Farian species and headquarters of the Orion Syndicate crime organization. [129]
• Faynos – Delta Quadrant planet. [130]
• Felton Prime – Planet in Cardassian space with a military base and relay station. [8]
• Fendaus V – Planet whose hereditary leaders have a genetic condition that results in them being born without limbs. [131]
• Ferenginar – Alpha Quadrant homeworld of the Ferengi species and capital of the Ferengi Alliance. The planet known to be dismal with overcast skies, nearly constant planet-wide torrential rainfall, deep swamps of rotting vegetation, and thick muddy rivers. [30]
• Fina Prime – A Vidiian planet in the Delta Quadrant. [132]
• Finnea Prime – Homeworld of the Finnean species. [133]
• Feris VI – featured in the DS9 episode " Life Support ".
• Flaxian homeworld – Flaxian assassins are known to use pheremonic sensors to detect their intended targets. [134]
• Folnar III – Troi shows guests a Jewel Plant from Folnar III in the Enterprise's arboretum. [2]
• Forcas III – In 2370, Lt. Worf returns victorious from the Bat'leth competition on Forcas III. [135] Guinan offers Lt. Cmdr Data a bitter alcoholic beverage from Forcas III which he expressed dislike, however he chose to continue drinking the beverage to experience the feelings of bitterness caused by his new emotion chip. [54]
• Forlat III – Planet whose colony fell victim to an attack by the Crystalline Entity. [136]
• Fornax – when Fornax's sun went supernova, the Enterprise saved the colonists. [137]
• Founders' homeworld – A barren Gamma Quadrant planet and homeworld of the Founders. It is a rogue planet in the Omarion Nebula in the center of Dominion space. The Founders themselves exist as a massive "ocean" of amber liquid known as "The Great Link". [138]
• Freehaven – Bajoran colony. [88]

See also [ edit ]

• List of Star Trek planets: A–B  • G–L  • M–Q  • R–S  • T–Z

References [ edit ]

• ↑ TNG : " The Chase "
• ↑ 2.0 2.1 TNG : " Dark Page "
• ↑ 3.0 3.1 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
• ↑ 4.0 4.1 TNG : " Gambit "
• ↑ Voy : " Caretaker "
• ↑ 6.0 6.1 TNG : " The Price "
• ↑ TNG : " Sub Rosa "
• ↑ 8.0 8.1 DS9 : " Once More Unto the Breach "
• ↑ DS9 : " The Search, Part I "
• ↑ DS9 : " Playing God "
• ↑ TNG : " Bloodlines "
• ↑ DS9 : " Defiant "
• ↑ TOS : " Turnabout Intruder "
• ↑ 14.0 14.1 TNG : " Legacy "
• ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 TOS : " Where No Man Has Gone Before "
• ↑ TOS : " Friday's Child "
• ↑ TAS : " How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth "
• ↑ DS9 : " Prophet Motive "
• ↑ DS9 : " The Homecoming "
• ↑ DS9 : " Shadowplay "
• ↑ 21.0 21.1 TNG : " Chain of Command, Part II "
• ↑ TNG : " The Quality of Life "
• ↑ TNG : " Birthright, Part I & Part II "
• ↑ DS9 : " Change of Heart "
• ↑ TNG : " Suddenly Human "
• ↑ 26.0 26.1 TOS : " The Way to Eden "
• ↑ TOS : " Requiem for Methuselah "
• ↑ TNG : " Too Short a Season "
• ↑ TOS : " Arena "
• ↑ 30.0 30.1 DS9 : " Family Business "
• ↑ TOS : " Space Seed "
• ↑ 32.0 32.1 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
• ↑ 33.0 33.1 TNG : " Allegiance "
• ↑ Voy : " Time and Again "
• ↑ TNG : " Tin Man "
• ↑ TNG : " Booby Trap "
• ↑ TOS : " Let That Be Your Last Battlefield "
• ↑ TNG : " The Defector "
• ↑ TNG : " Conundrum "
• ↑ TNG : " We'll Always Have Paris "
• ↑ Ent : " Shadows of P'Jem " and " Demons "
• ↑ TOS : " Journey to Babel "
• ↑ TNG : " Sarek "
• ↑ DS9 : " In the Cards "
• ↑ DS9 : " One Little Ship "
• ↑ TOS : " The Man Trap "
• ↑ TNG : " New Ground "
• ↑ Voy : " Prototype "
• ↑ TOS : " Tomorrow Is Yesterday "
• ↑ TOS : " The Conscience of the King "
• ↑ Ent : " Rogue Planet "
• ↑ TNG : " The Dauphin "
• ↑ TNG : " The Best of Both Worlds, Part II "
• ↑ 54.0 54.1 54.2 Star Trek: Generations
• ↑ TNG : " For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky "
• ↑ DS9 : " Visionary "
• ↑ DS9 : " Blood Oath "
• ↑ DS9 : " Honor Among Thieves "
• ↑ DS9 : " Treachery, Faith, and the Great River "
• ↑ Voy : " Prime Factors "
• ↑ TNG : " A Fistful of Datas "
• ↑ Ent : " Stigma "
• ↑ TNG : " The Drumhead "
• ↑ TNG : " Realm of Fear "
• ↑ Voy : " Sacred Ground "
• ↑ 66.0 66.1 TNG : " Symbiosis "
• ↑ 67.0 67.1 TNG : " Remember Me "
• ↑ TNG " The Last Outpost "
• ↑ 69.0 69.1 Star Trek: The Motion Picture
• ↑ DS9 : " Time's Orphan "
• ↑ TOS : " Wolf in the Fold "
• ↑ TNG : " Encounter at Farpoint "
• ↑ TOS : " I, Mudd "
• ↑ TOS : " Operation: Annihilate! "
• ↑ TNG : " Contagion "
• ↑ Ent : " Dear Doctor "
• ↑ TNG : " Aquiel "
• ↑ TNG : " Ship in a Bottle "
• ↑ TNG : " Time's Arrow "
• ↑ DS9 : " Penumbra "
• ↑ Voy : " Critical Care "
• ↑ TOS : " The Trouble with Tribbles "
• ↑ DS9 : " Sons and Daughters "
• ↑ 84.0 84.1 TNG : " Unification: Part II "
• ↑ TNG : " Journey's End "
• ↑ DS9 : " Rules of Acquisition "
• ↑ DS9 : " Indiscretion "
• ↑ 88.0 88.1 DS9 : " To the Death "
• ↑ TNG : " Gambit, Part I "
• ↑ TNG : " Face of the Enemy "
• ↑ Voy : " Innocence "
• ↑ TNG : " Homeward "
• ↑ Ent : " Broken Bow "
• ↑ Ent : " Fortunate Son "
• ↑ DS9 : " Sanctuary "
• ↑ TNG : " Pen Pals "
• ↑ DS9 : " For the Cause "
• ↑ Ent : " Canamar "
• ↑ TNG : " Conspiracy "
• ↑ DS9 : " Through the Looking Glass "
• ↑ Star Trek: First Contact
• ↑ Voy : " Distant Origin "
• ↑ 103.0 103.1 TOS : " What Are Little Girls Made Of? "
• ↑ Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
• ↑ Contrary to what Professor Dr. Gill perceived, Nazi government, in reality, was actually a notoriously in efficient government; almost no two Nazi officials considered each other friends, their jurisdictions were semi-autonomous and more often than not overlapped and/or collided, and virtually none were truly selfless in their ambitions – in reality, Hitler to a great degree intended his government to be inefficient, as the animosities among his subordinates made it unlikely that they would band together and thereby threaten his power.
• ↑ TOS : " Patterns of Force "
• ↑ TOS : " Elaan of Troyius "
• ↑ TNG : " Relics "
• ↑ TNG : " Darmok "
• ↑ 110.0 110.1 DS9 : " Dramatis Personae "
• ↑ DS9 : " Melora "
• ↑ TOS : " Whom Gods Destroy "
• ↑ 113.0 113.1 Star Trek: Insurrection
• ↑ TNG : " A Matter of Perspective "
• ↑ TOS : " A Taste of Armageddon "
• ↑ Voy : " Remember "
• ↑ TNG : " Time Squared "
• ↑ DS9 : " Second Sight "
• ↑ Voy : " Equinox, Part 2 "
• ↑ TOS : " Metamorphosis "
• ↑ Voy : " Pathways "
• ↑ TNG : " Eye of the Beholder "
• ↑ TNG : " Inheritance "
• ↑ 124.0 124.1 DS9 : " Q-Less "
• ↑ TNG : " Clues "
• ↑ DS9 : " What You Leave Behind "
• ↑ TOS : " The Savage Curtain "
• ↑ TOS : " For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky "
• ↑ DS9 : " The Maquis ", " Honor Among Thieves "
• ↑ Voy : " Homestead "
• ↑ TNG : " Loud as a Whisper "
• ↑ Voy : " Lifesigns "
• ↑ DS9 : " A Simple Investigation "
• ↑ DS9 " Improbable Cause "
• ↑ TNG : " Parallels "
• ↑ TNG : " Silicon Avatar "
• ↑ TNG : " Future Imperfect "
• ↑ DS9 : " The Search, Part I & II "
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