Galorndon Core

"Welcome to Galorndon Core, where no good deed goes unpunished."

-Geordi La Forge (TNG: "The Enemy")

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Galorndon Core in 2366.

Galorndon Core and its moon in 2368.

Galorndon Core is a geologically unstable, barely habitable planet in Federation space, located 0.5 light years from the Romulan Neutral Zone. The atmosphere of the planet created severe electromagnetic storms that interfere with sensors and transporters.

The Romulan commander Chulak was defeated at Galorndon Core. (VOY: "The Thaw")

As Galorndon Core is within Federation space and the battle is recorded in Starfleet records, it may indicate a battle of the Earth-Romulan War.

In 2366, the Romulan scoutship Pi crashed on this planet and the USS Enterprise-D was sent to investigate. The away team sent to the planet found the Romulan scoutship destroyed (deliberately, after it had crashed) and recovered a surviving crewmember. Unfortunately, Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge was trapped on the surface of the planet with another Romulan survivor, Centurion Bochra. Prolonged exposure of humanoids to the intense magnetic fields on Galorndon Core will result in synaptic breakdown. Romulans suffer from erratic metabolism and loss of sensation in their lower limbs while La Forge became blind, even though his VISOR worked perfectly. (TNG: "The Enemy")

According to Admiral Alidar Jarok, the incident at the Galorndon Core was common knowledge among Romulans. (TNG: "The Defector")

In Barash's holographic future he created for William Riker, the simulation contained a replica of Tomalak, whose friendly persona was a vast departure from the Tomalak Riker remembered, who threatened to take the Enterprise back to Romulus as a war trophy at Galorndon Core. (TNG: "Future Imperfect")

In 2368, Galorndon Core was the rendezvous point for the delivery of a stolen deflector array to a Barolian freighter. (TNG: "Unification I")

Apochrypha

In the computer game Star Trek Generations, Galorndon Core was a major Romulan base of operations and the site of a secret launch point for Soran's weapon. The base was headed by a Commander Tala, who appears twice ingame, who was helping Soran synthesise Trilithium from Galorndon Core I.