News "Alien world ‘home to Star Trek’s Spock’ is ‘space illusion’ as scientists warn we’re being tricked"

[Lynx]

If Star Trek were set in our universe, the characters would be able to solve every problem (except canon violations!) by looking up what happened in the films and TV series...

It would spoil the fun, wouldn't it?
Both for us and for them.

 

[publiusr]

One could always say the stellar activity was an artificial disguise to mask Vulcan's presence from the Vegan Tyranny.

Gliese 12b could make for a good Vulcan.

Your own nebula
https://www.space.com/nasa-chandra-x-ray-instagram-experience

 

[Lynx]

One could always say the stellar activity was an artificial disguise to mask Vulcan's presence from the Vegan Tyranny.

Gliese 12b could make for a good Vulcan.

You have two very valuable points here.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Both those cities looks like New York to me.

Let me know when there's a building with a giant globe on the roof in NYC. Both are genric big cities. Sometimes an artist will use NYC as a reference. Because that's what artists do. Doesn't make Gotham or Metropolis NYC anymore than filming a show set in NYC in Toronto makes Toronto NYC.

Maybe, but I'm a nitpicker and I want to know where Vulcan is located.

If I write a story about a Federation starship visiting Vulcan, should I state that "the ship has entered the 40 Eridani A system" where there obviously are no planets or should I mention some other system with an appropriate distance from Earth where there are planets and one of them could be Vulcan?

If I was in charge of Star Trek, I would make a statement about "Vulcan is obviously not located in the system of 40 Eridani A but it can be located at (the name of some possible star with planets) and therefore this star will be regared as Vulcan's sun in the future".

Or at least start checkinfg up possible locations for Vulcan.

Nah, you say "Set course for the Vulcan System".

 

[Lynx]

Let me know when there's a building with a giant globe on the roof in NYC. Both are genric big cities. Sometimes an artist will use NYC as a reference. Because that's what artists do. Doesn't make Gotham or Metropolis NYC anymore than filming a show set in NYC in Toronto makes Toronto NYC.

I've heard that there is a giant dome in Chester's Mill, Maine. Maybe both Metropolis and Gotham City is inside that one.

Anyway, I think the Metropolis and Gotham City that we have seen in different movies do look like New York even it they are filmed in other places.

Nah, you say "Set course for the Vulcan System".

Definitely an easy way out. But as the nitpicker and details-obsessed lunatic I am, I would rather go for a future "Gliese 12b solution" in the long run.

Maybe the Vulcan homeworld was located in another system before the 21th century but the risk of that system going supernova, they decided to move the planet to 40 Eridani A at the end of the 21th century?

Or maybe they have just moved it to Gliese?

 

[fireproof78]

 

[Shawnster]

Epsilon Eridani has, on occasion, been misidentified as Vulcan's sun. In 1991, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, along with three scientists from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, instead endorsed 40 Eridani A for the location of the Vulcan system. Their rationale was that, since Epsilon Eridani is less than a billion years old, "life on any planet around Epsilon Eridani would not have had time to evolve beyond the level of bacteria. On the other hand, an intelligent civilization could have evolved over the aeons on a planet circling 40 Eridani. So the latter is the more likely Vulcan sun." [1]


"Star Trek 2" by James Blish (Bantam, 1968) and "Star Trek Maps" by Jeff Maynard and others (Bantam, 1980) name the star 40 Eridani as Vulcan's sun. "The Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology" by Stan and Fred Goldstein (Pocket, 1980) cites Epsilon Eridani instead.