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In "All Our Yesterdays", Spock stated that Sarpeidon was "millions of [[light year]]s away" from [[Vulcan]]. {{TAS|The Counter-Clock Incident}} and "The Explored Galaxy" star chart established however the planet and star system were still located inside the [[Milky Way Galaxy]]. In "The Explored Galaxy" star chart, Beta Niobe was located between the [[Tholian Assembly]] and [[Romulus]]. Both were identified in {{DS9|Call to Arms}} as being in the Alpha Quadrant. |
In "All Our Yesterdays", Spock stated that Sarpeidon was "millions of [[light year]]s away" from [[Vulcan]]. {{TAS|The Counter-Clock Incident}} and "The Explored Galaxy" star chart established however the planet and star system were still located inside the [[Milky Way Galaxy]]. In "The Explored Galaxy" star chart, Beta Niobe was located between the [[Tholian Assembly]] and [[Romulus]]. Both were identified in {{DS9|Call to Arms}} as being in the Alpha Quadrant. |
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Revision as of 14:27, 3 June 2014
Sarpeidon (or Beta Niobe I) was the only planet in the Beta Niobe system. This inhabited planet was classified as M-class. The planet was the homeworld for a pre-spaceflight humanoid species, the Sarpeidon natives. The planet was destroyed in the Beta Niobe supernova of 2269. (TOS: "All Our Yesterdays") The Beta Niobe system was located in the Alpha Quadrant. Its location in the Milky Way Galaxy was depicted on a Federation star chart in 2293. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)
The location of Beta Niobe in "The Explored Galaxy" star chart
Many events of Sarpeidon's past paralleled events in Earth history, including an extended period of global glaciation, an ethnic or cultural group named Anglos, and paranoia due to fears of witchcraft. The planet was once ruled by a tyrant named Zor Kahn.
In 2269, hours before the sun went nova, the USS Enterprise arrived to warn the native species of their impending doom. However, they found that prior to the planet's destruction, all of its inhabitants had evacuated back in time, using a time portal known as the Atavachron, into various eras of the planet's past. (TOS: "All Our Yesterdays")
See also
Background information
For the 2007 remastered version of "All Our Yesterdays", Sarpeidon was given a CGI-makeover, now a unique planet rather than a reuse of stock footage.
In "All Our Yesterdays", Spock stated that Sarpeidon was "millions of light years away" from Vulcan. TAS: "The Counter-Clock Incident" and "The Explored Galaxy" star chart established however the planet and star system were still located inside the Milky Way Galaxy. In "The Explored Galaxy" star chart, Beta Niobe was located between the Tholian Assembly and Romulus. Both were identified in DS9: "Call to Arms" as being in the Alpha Quadrant.
In the novel No Time Like the Past, Spock speculates that the Sarpeidons pursued time travel rather than space travel as a means of escape as the lack of other planets in their solar system meant that they had no real incentive to develop space travel out of a lack of anywhere to go in their immediate vicinity. During the novel, a time-displaced Seven of Nine meets a projection of Nepwa, the original inventor of the atavachron, who reveals that he left his people for the distant past out of disgust at what his work had come to.