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Ceti Alpha V was the uninhabited fifth planet of the Ceti Alpha system. This system was located in Sector 25712. The planet was the homeworld of the non-sentient Ceti eels. This planet was formerly inhabited from 2267 to 2285 by the crew of the SS Botany Bay.

The planet was "barely Minshara-class" in 2156 and was considered "habitable, although a bit savage, somewhat inhospitable" in 2267. (TOS: "Space Seed"; ENT: "Twilight")

Ceti Alpha V was located a considerable distance from the Delphic Expanse and the planet Denobula as well as three days away from Regula I at an unspecified warp speed. The nearest starbase was Starbase 12. (ENT: "Twilight"; TOS: "Space Seed"; Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)

History

In 2267, after discovering the Botany Bay adrift in space in an unnamed sector, the ancient spacecraft was rigged for towing by crew from the Enterprise. Traveling at warp factor 2, the Enterprise, with the Botany Bay traveling alongside, entered the adjacent Sector 25712 on a heading toward the sector's command base - Starbase 12. This heading brought the starship near the Ceti Alpha star system. After a failed spacejacking by Khan Noonien Singh, he, his lover Marla McGivers, and his Augment followers were settled on this planet by Captain James T Kirk. (TOS: "Space Seed")

Only six months later, Ceti Alpha VI exploded, shifting Ceti Alpha V's orbit and turning it into a desert-like world, dominated by craylon gas and high-velocity winds. The planet thus became inimical to life, with the only remaining known indigenous species being the Ceti eel.

In 2285, the USS Reliant visited the planet as part of Project Genesis. Mistaking it for Ceti Alpha VI, Captain Clark Terrell and XO Commander Pavel Chekov beamed down to the surface, only to be taken prisoner by Khan and his surviving followers. Khan then hijacked Reliant and stranded its crew on the planet's surface. The crew were later recovered by the USS Enterprise, following Khan's death at the Battle of the Mutara Nebula. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)

In an alternate timeline, Ceti Alpha V was the refuge for the last 6,000 members of the Human race from 2156 to 2165 – survivors of the devastating Xindi attacks on Earth and its colonies – as it was far from the Delphic Expanse. The colony's location was kept secret for a great deal of time, but a Yridian discovered it by tailing Doctor Phlox, thus allowing the Xindi to attack. (ENT: "Twilight")

Ceti Alpha V inhabitants

Khan Noonien Singh and his followers including Ling, McPherson, Otto, Joaquin, Joachim, Rodriguez, and Kati, as well as Marla McGivers were the first known settlers. Many of the original Augment survivors of the Botany Bay went on to produce children of their own while on-planet.

Temporary inhabitants included the crew of the Reliant comprising of Kyle (a commander at that time), Helmsman Beach, and others.

Appendices

Appearances

ENT:
- "Twilight"
TOS:
- "Space Seed" (Mentioned only)
Star Trek films
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Background information

Starbase 12's sector was named in the The Next Generation episode "Aquiel".

In the script of "Twilight", the surface view of Ceti Alpha V was described thus: "Dozens of makeshift human dwellings are clustered in this small valley. We're on a harsh but habitable Class-M world... only a few occasional patches of vegetation are visible here and there." The writers joked on the audio commentary for "Twilight" that, if it wasn't bad enough the Xindi killed off almost all of Humanity, a hundred years from "Twilight", Ceti Alpha V would have been destroyed as well.

Apocrypha

The spin-off novel To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh explicitly addressed the above issue. Spock postulated that Ceti Alpha VI's destruction and the environmental impacts on Ceti Alpha V had another, shared cause (possibly a small black hole passing through the system), while apparently the miscounting resulted from the Reliant's crew counting inward, finding the outermost planet (and mistaking the remains of Ceti Alpha VI for part of an outer asteroid belt).

In Vonda N. McIntyre's novelization of Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan, there was some dialog between the Reliant's bridge crew speculating about the cause of the discrepancy between the planet count of the system reported by an old interstellar probe (20) and the current count (19) – one possible conclusion they drew was that the limitations of the probe's imaging systems had led to inaccurate data being reported. This dialog occurred shortly before Terrell and Chekov decided to beam down to the planet.

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 | SurfaceCap      = A Human colony on Ceti Alpha V in an alternate timeline in 2156
-| Class           = [[Class M|Minshara]] ([[2156]])
+| Class           = [[Class M]] ([[2156]])
 | Type            = [[Planet]]
 | Satellites      =
 | Native Species  = [[Ceti eel]]
-| Location        = [[Ceti Alpha system]]
+| Location        = [[Ceti Alpha system]]<br />[[Sector 25712]]
 | Affiliation     =
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-'''Ceti Alpha V''' was the [[uninhabited planets|uninhabited]] [[fifth planets|fifth]] [[planet]] of the [[Ceti Alpha system]] and the [[homeworld]] of the non-sentient [[Ceti eel]]s.
+'''Ceti Alpha V''' was the [[uninhabited planets|uninhabited]] [[fifth planets|fifth]] [[planet]] of the [[Ceti Alpha system|Ceti Alpha]] [[star system|system]]. This system was located in [[Sector 25712]]. The planet was the [[homeworld]] of the non-sentient [[Ceti eel]]s. This planet was formerly [[inhabited planets|inhabited]] from [[2267]] to [[2285]] by the crew of the {{SS|Botany Bay}}.
 The planet was "barely [[Class M|Minshara-class]]" in [[2156]] and was considered "habitable, although a bit savage, somewhat inhospitable" in [[2267]]. ({{TOS|Space Seed}}; {{ENT|Twilight}})
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 == History ==
+In 2267, after discovering the ''Botany Bay'' adrift in [[space]] in an unnamed [[sector]], the ancient [[spacecraft]] was rigged for towing by crew from the ''Enterprise''. Traveling at [[warp factor]] 2, the ''Enterprise'', with the ''Botany Bay'' traveling alongside, entered the adjacent Sector 25712 on a heading toward the sector's command base - Starbase 12. This heading brought the [[starship]] near the Ceti Alpha star system. After a failed spacejacking by [[Khan Noonien Singh]], he, his lover [[Marla McGivers]], and his [[Augment]] followers were settled on this planet by [[Captain]] [[James T Kirk]]. ({{TOS|Space Seed}})
-In [[2267]], [[Khan Noonien Singh]] and his [[Augment]] followers were [[exile]]d to this planet by [[James T Kirk]], after Khan's attempted mutiny aboard the {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701}}. ({{TOS|Space Seed}})
 Only six months later, [[Ceti Alpha VI]] exploded, shifting Ceti Alpha V's orbit and turning it into a desert-like world, dominated by [[craylon gas]] and high-velocity winds. The planet thus became inimical to [[life]], with the only remaining known indigenous species being the [[Ceti eel]].
-In [[2285]], the {{USS|Reliant}} visited the planet as part of [[Project Genesis]]. Mistaking it for Ceti Alpha VI, Captain [[Clark Terrell]] and [[XO]] [[Commander]] [[Pavel Chekov]] [[beam]]ed down to the surface, only to be taken prisoner by Khan and his surviving followers. Khan then hijacked ''Reliant'' and stranded its crew on the planet's surface. The crew were later recovered by the USS ''Enterprise'', following Khan's death at the [[Battle of the Mutara Nebula]]. ({{film|2}})
+In 2285, the {{USS|Reliant}} visited the planet as part of [[Project Genesis]]. Mistaking it for Ceti Alpha VI, [[Captain]] [[Clark Terrell]] and [[XO]] [[Commander]] [[Pavel Chekov]] [[beam]]ed down to the surface, only to be taken prisoner by Khan and his surviving followers. Khan then hijacked ''Reliant'' and stranded its crew on the planet's surface. The crew were later recovered by the USS ''Enterprise'', following Khan's death at the [[Battle of the Mutara Nebula]]. ({{film|2}})
 ''In an [[alternate timeline]], Ceti Alpha V was the refuge for the last 6,000 members of the Human race from 2156 to [[2165]] &ndash; survivors of the devastating [[Xindi]] attacks on [[Earth]] and its [[earth colonies|colonies]] &ndash; as it was far from the [[Delphic Expanse]]. The colony's location was kept secret for a great deal of time, but a [[Yridian]] discovered it by tailing [[Doctor]] [[Phlox]], thus allowing the Xindi to attack.'' ({{ENT|Twilight}})
 == Ceti Alpha V inhabitants ==
+Khan Noonien Singh and his followers including [[Ling]], [[McPherson]], [[Otto]], [[Joaquin]], [[Joachim]], [[Rodriguez]], and [[Kati]], as well as Marla McGivers were the first known settlers. Many of the original [[Augment]] survivors of the ''Botany Bay'' went on to produce children of their own while on-planet.
+Temporary inhabitants included the crew of the ''Reliant'' comprising of [[Kyle]] (a [[commander]] at that time), [[Helmsman]] [[Beach]], and others.
-[[Khan Noonien Singh]] and his followers including [[Ling]], [[McPherson]], [[Otto]], [[Joaquin]], [[Joachim]], [[Rodriguez]], and [[Kati]] as well as [[Marla McGivers]] were the first known settlers.Many of the original [[Augment]] survivors of the [[Botany Bay]] went on to produce children of their own while on-planet.
-Temporary inhabitants included the crew of the [[Reliant]] comprising of [[Kyle]] (now a [[Commander]]), [[Helmsman]] [[Beach]] and others.
 <gallery>
-File:Ceti Alpha V, 2285.jpg|Ceti Alpha V in [[2285]]
+File:Ceti Alpha V, 2285.jpg|Ceti Alpha V in 2285
-File:Ceti Alpha V surface, 2285.jpg|[[Commander]] [[Pavel Chekov]] and [[Captain]] [[Clark Terrell]] on Ceti Alpha V in [[2285]]
+File:Ceti Alpha V surface, 2285.jpg|Commander Pavel Chekov and Captain Clark Terrell on Ceti Alpha V in 2285
 </gallery>
-== Appendices ==
+==Appendices==
+===Appearances===
+<div class="appear">
+*{{ENT}}
+**{{e|Twilight}}
+*{{TOS}}
+**{{e|Space Seed}} <small>(Mentioned only)</small>
+*{{Star Trek films}}
+**{{film|2}}
+</div>
 ===Background information===
+Starbase 12's sector was named in the ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|The Next Generation]]'' episode {{e|Aquiel}}.
-Whether the Ceti Alpha system is still located in the [[Mutara sector]] has not been established in [[canon]].
-In the script of {{e|Twilight}}, the surface view of Ceti Alpha V was described thus; "''Dozens of makeshift human dwellings are clustered in this small valley. We’re on a harsh but habitable Class-M world... only a few occasional patches of vegetation are visible here and there.''" The writers have joked on the [[audio commentary]] for "Twilight" that, if it wasn't bad enough the Xindi killed off almost all of Humanity, a hundred years from "Twilight", Ceti Alpha V would have been destroyed as well.
-Due to its dry nature, Ceti Alpha V was apparently a [[Class H]] planet or almost matching that classification after the destruction of Ceti Alpha VI.
+In the script of {{e|Twilight}}, the surface view of Ceti Alpha V was described thus: "''Dozens of makeshift human dwellings are clustered in this small valley. We're on a harsh but habitable Class-M world... only a few occasional patches of vegetation are visible here and there.''" The writers joked on the [[audio commentary]] for "Twilight" that, if it wasn't bad enough the Xindi killed off almost all of Humanity, a hundred years from "Twilight", Ceti Alpha V would have been destroyed as well.
-There was no explanation given as to how the loss of one planet in a star system could affect others to the degree shown.
 ===Apocrypha===
 The spin-off [[novels|novel]] ''[[To Reign in Hell: The Exile of Khan Noonien Singh]]'' explicitly addressed the above issue.  Spock postulated that Ceti Alpha VI's destruction and the environmental impacts on Ceti Alpha V had another, shared cause (possibly a small [[black hole]] passing through the system), while apparently the miscounting resulted from the ''Reliant''{{'}}s crew counting inward, finding the outermost planet (and mistaking the remains of Ceti Alpha VI for part of an outer asteroid belt).
-In [[Vonda N. McIntyre]]'s novelization of ''[[Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (novel)|Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan]]'', there was some dialog between the ''Reliant''{{'}}s bridge crew speculating about the cause of the discrepancy between the planet count of the system reported by an old interstellar probe (20) and the current count (19) &ndash; one possible conclusion they drew was that the limitations of the probe's imaging systems had led to inaccurate data being reported. This dialog occurred shortly before Terrell and Chekov decided to beam down to the planet.
+In [[Vonda N. McIntyre]]'s novelization of ''{{dis|Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan|novel}}'', there was some dialog between the ''Reliant''{{'}}s bridge crew speculating about the cause of the discrepancy between the planet count of the system reported by an old interstellar probe (20) and the current count (19) &ndash; one possible conclusion they drew was that the limitations of the probe's imaging systems had led to inaccurate data being reported. This dialog occurred shortly before Terrell and Chekov decided to beam down to the planet.
 ===External link===
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