did DSC mention any new systems with planets, that we did not know about from all of the other series?
It's an actual planet that we've found about 20 light years from Earth. It's part of that system we found that had planets close enough to their star to support life....But the moon implies a planet. Ditto with "the seventh moon of Eridani D" in "Lethe". Although there the omission of a mention of the planet is jarring, while in the Veda case the planet is both of no concern plotwise and also grammatically-contextually irrelevant.
Or are we to think that Eridani D is a planet rather than a star? Or perhaps both?
(The name sounds as if it were the fourth star in the system Somethingsomething Eridani. Are there quaternary systems or bigger in Eridanus?)
Timo Saloniemi
It's an actual planet that we've found about 20 light years from Earth. It's part of that system we found that had planets close enough to their star to support life.
If reality is incompatible for Star Trek and Trek wants to pretend to be our future, they should probably become compatible with reality instead of the other way around....But of course it is incompatible with Star Trek, where planets are designated by Roman numerals, not (lowercase) letters.
Science really screwed up when adopting the lowercase letters, when about 100% of scifi had used the Romans for a century or so...
Trek has Dytallix B, though. That's the proper name for a planet, a corporately owned one at that. Eridani D (or Eridani d) might be one of those. Even when Eridani A is clearly a star...
Timo Saloniemi
Reality has been copying Star Trek since 1966If reality is incompatible for Star Trek and Trek wants to pretend to be our future, they should probably become compatible with reality instead of the other way around.
Depends on your definition of canon.For those Canon/continuity minded. How many star fields(all from Star Charts?) were displayed and do they "count"?
Off the top of my head, Pahvo and the Binary Star system, which wasn't named.
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