The Sol system (or Solar system or Terran system) was a star system located in Sector 001, in the Alpha Quadrant. The Borg designation for the this area of space was Grid 325. (VOY: "Dark Frontier")

The Solar system formed approximately 5 billion years ago out of a slowly condensing cloud of debris and gas, probably left over from previous supernovae.

In an alternate timeline, all major inhabited planets and colonies in the Sol system were destroyed by the Xindi superweapon. This ended when the Enterprise NX-01 crew sacrificed themselves to change the future by erasing interspatial parasites from Jonathan Archer, allowing him to remain in command and find and destroy the weapon.(ENT: "Twilight")

In another alternate timeline, the entire Sol system was destroyed in a temporal explosion when Henry Starling took the timeship Aeon from the 20th century to the 29th century without properly calibrating the temporal matrix. This event nearly happened but was stopped when Captain Janeway manually fired a photon torpedo from Voyager at the Aeon as it entered the temporal rift, destroying it and killing Starling. (VOY: "Future's End", "Future's End, Part II")

A graphic depicting the Sol system was displayed in the office where Rain Robinson worked, at the Griffith Observatory in California in 1996. The same graphic was displayed in Deep Space 9's classroom in 2370. (VOY: "Future's End"; DS9: "Cardassians") Deep Space 9's classroom featured a painting of four planets of the Sol system including Earth and Saturn earlier. (DS9: "The Nagus")

In 2371, a microscopic singularity passed through the system and exploded. (DS9: "Past Tense, Part I")

The Borg maintained a transwarp conduit with an aperture less than a light year away from Earth. The conduit was collapsed by the USS Voyager in 2378. (VOY: "Endgame")

SystemEdit

• Sol (primary star)
  • Mercury (planet)
  • Venus (planet)
  • Earth (planet)
    • Luna (The Moon; moon)
    • see objects in Earth orbit for more.
  • Burke (comet; crashed into Mars 2155)
  • Mars (planet)
    • Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards (orbiting drydocks)
  • Jupiter (planet)
    • Ganymede (moon)
    • Moons of Jupiter (moons)
    • Jupiter Station (space station)
  • Saturn (planet)
    • Mimas (moon)
    • Titan (moon)
  • Uranus (planet)
  • Neptune (planet)
  • Halley's Comet (comet)
  • Pluto (planet)

Background Edit

The depiction of the Sol system in The Worlds of the Federation also included a tenth planet beyond Pluto.

The real-world debate on the status of Pluto as a planet was referenced in the novel Before Dishonor.

External link Edit

• Sol system at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works