Are Denobulans from the star Denebola?
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I recently thought about this question, too. However, the star Denebola is way too young to realistically support any planets with complex life forms on it. It would only work if the Denobulans had developed elsewhere and moved there later on.
97? 
Seems a bit far away for Denobulans to work together with Humans so early. Is that in the Star Trek Star Charts or from somewhere on the net? I've been wondering lately where some of the Trek planets are located but couldn't find much on Memory Alpha.
Seems a bit far away for Denobulans to work together with Humans so early. Is that in the Star Trek Star Charts or from somewhere on the net? I've been wondering lately where some of the Trek planets are located but couldn't find much on Memory Alpha.
I don't think the writers thought that far ''ahead''
^Good question!
And the Sheliak must be from the Sheliak star system.
I doubt the writers gave the location od Denobula a thought. Thats what fans and folks at Pocket Books are for,I don't think the writers thought that far ''ahead''
97?
It's from 'Star Charts.' I don't have the book handy, but I recall reading it.
Some are from Romii.
Nope. 'Cos Diane Duane invented the terms and, as a tie-in writer for hire, Ms Duane signed away all of her rights to the names when she agreed to the terms of her book contracts.
I realized a little earlier that I'd flubbed and said Carey when I meant Duane. I'm glad that if anyone was going to point it out before I got back to fix it that it was you.
Its from Star Charts. The distance isn't explicitly displayed in that book, but a quick Wikipedia search revealed the distance of Iota Bootis from Sol.97?
As to the distance, the show often showed the ship traveling HUNDREDS of light years in mere days or weeks. In the pilot episode they made a run to the Klingon homeworld in 4 days - at warp 5 that would put it closer than Alpha Centauri. In Daedalus the go out for a quick jog to The Barrens - a region of space with no stars for 50 light years. They play pretty fast and loose with interstellar distances on Star Trek. Always have.
ENT was a bit hit and miss in this regard. On the one hand, there are the discrepancies you mentioned, on the other hand, they seemed to pay attention to the TOS Warp scale and mentioned the right distance to Vulcan. Well, for the most part, we don't know which stars the Trek planets orbit, so the writers can do what they want, anyway.
