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Revision as of 15:20, 16 February 2011
Alderaan is a planet located in or near the Ficus sector.
In 2135, HMS New Zealand was on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan. (TNG: "Up The Long Ladder")
At some point in the 2360s, the starship USS Thomas Paine was assigned to a diplomatic mission to Alderaan, according to a Starfleet report titled Starship mission status. (TNG: "Brothers", et al.)
- The Thomas Paine reference was on a computer display that listed the name of the place as "Aldaraan".
On his way to space station Deep Space 9 in 2369, the Bajoran criminal Ibudan chartered a space flight out of Alderaan Spaceport. (DS9: "A Man Alone")
Background
The name of this planet originally appeared on an okudagram that appeared on Picard's desk monitor, and was not verbally referenced on screen. It was also a gag in the "A" section of the locations index for reference book "Star Trek Chronology"; listed as, "Never visited by the crew of the Enterprise." A legible version of the okudagram would appear in the reference book, Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission.
The reference to this planet, as well as the wording of the okudagram, is an in-joke. Alderaan is, of course, the adopted homeworld of Star Wars' Princess Leia, who claimed to be on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan when captured by Darth Vader in the opening scene of Star Wars. For more on that planet, see the official Star Wars site.
External link
- Alderaan on Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki