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AT: "xx" Tau Ceti was the primary of the inhabited Tau Ceti system, located less than twenty light years from Sol. (TNG: "The Naked Now", production art)

According to Doctor Beverly Crusher, CMO of the USS Enterprise-D, a planet in this system was the homeworld of the The Traveler's species. (TNG: "Journey's End")

History

Some time before 2151, the Tau Ceti system was the site of the Tau Ceti Accords, a set of peace agreements, signed between the Vulcan High Command and the Andorian Empire. (ENT: "Shadows of P'Jem")

At some point prior to 2268, the USS Enterprise, under the command of Captain James T. Kirk, engaged and defeated a Romulan vessel near Tau Ceti, using the Cochrane deceleration maneuver. (TOS: "Whom Gods Destroy")

In Starfleet Academy's Kobayashi Maru scenario, in 2285, Amber on Tau Ceti IV was named as the home port of the tanker/transport Kobayashi Maru. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)

In 2293, the location of Tau Ceti in the Milky Way Galaxy was named in a star chart that was in Captain James T. Kirk's quarters aboard the USS Enterprise-A. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, production art)

Some time before 2348, Jean-Luc Picard first met Walker Keel at an exotic bar on Tau Ceti III. Some time after this Keel introduced Jack Crusher to Beverly Howard. (TNG: "Conspiracy")

Some time before 2358, the father of Kathryn Janeway, Vice admiral Janeway, died under the polar ice cap of Tau Ceti Prime. (VOY: "Coda")

In 2364, the location of Tau Ceti was named in a star chart of a stellar neighborhood with Sol at the center. This chart was stored in the USS Enterprise-D library computer. Later that year, the chart was scanned by Outpost 63. (TNG: "The Naked Now", production art; TNG: "The Last Outpost")

In 2155, in the mirror universe, Tau Ceti was the system in which the Terran Empire lost twelve ships in a battle against alien rebels. Propaganda had spread that this was a major victory for the Terran Empire, when in fact it was a sign they were losing. (ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly")

Appendices

Background information

The chart naming stars within 20 light years of Sol was drawn by Rick Sternbach for the Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology in the late 1970s. Found on page 77, this chart showed Earth commercial and exploration routes after the use of warp drive began. Tau Ceti was the destination on an exploration route. According to the Spaceflight Chronology, the UNSS Bonaventure, under the command of Captain Hadrian Huckleby, began Earth's warp drive era with a trip to Tau Ceti four years after the first successful demonstration of warp technology.

According to The Worlds of the Federation, Tau Ceti III was the planet Kaferia, homeworld of the insectoid Kaferians. In TNG: "Where No One Has Gone Before" and TNG: "Remember Me", The Traveler was also said to be a native of Tau Alpha C, suggesting Tau Alpha C was located in the Tau Ceti system.

According to Star Trek: Star Charts (pg. 44), from the mid-22nd century, Tau Ceti was located in or near Federation space, in the Alpha Quadrant. The planet Kaferia was the third planet. Tau Ceti was a G-class star with a magnitude of +5, which was the same brightness as Sol.

Apocrypha

According to the novel Enterprise: The First Adventure, Tau Ceti was located along the Romulan Neutral Zone and the inhabitants of Tau Ceti II were widely regarded as possessing great mineralogical expertise, using sapphires as the local currency.

External links

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Tau Ceti at Wikipedia
Tau Ceti at the Internet Stellar Database
Tau Ceti at SolStation.com

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+'''Tau Ceti''' was the [[star|primary]] of the inhabited Tau Ceti [[star system|system]], located less than twenty [[light year]]s from [[Sol]]. ({{TNG|The Naked Now}}, ''production art'')
+According to [[Doctor]] [[Beverly Crusher]], [[Chief medical officer|CMO]] of the {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701-D|-D}}, a planet in this system was the [[homeworld]] of the [[The Traveler]]'s [[species]]. ({{TNG|Journey's End}})
-'''Tau Ceti''' was the [[star]] of an inhabited [[star system]] with at least four planets. ({{film|2}})
-The location of Tau Ceti was depicted on two [[Federation]] [[star chart]]s. In the first chart, first seen in [[2293]], it was depicted as being near [[Sol]], [[Alpha Centauri]], and [[Sirius]]. ({{film|6}}
-In [[2364]], several small charts depicted Tau Ceti in the same general area of space with [[Barnard's Star]], Sol, [[Alpha Centauri]] A, B, C, [[Lalande 21185]], [[Wolf 359]], [[Procyon]] A, B, [[Sirius]] A, B, [[Epsilon Eridani]], [[Groombridge 34]] A, B, [[Ross 248]], [[Luyten 789-6]], [[Epsilon Indi]], [[61 Cygni]] A, B and [[Ross 154]].({{TNG|The Naked Now|The Last Outpost}})
-The system was also quite some distance away from [[Starbase 133]], at [[Warp factor|warp 9.5]] it took 123 days to get there. ({{TNG|Remember Me|Journey's End}})
 ==History==
 Some time before [[2151]], the Tau Ceti system was the site of the [[Tau Ceti Accords]], a set of [[Diplomacy and law|peace agreements]], signed between the [[Vulcan High Command]] and the [[Andorian Empire]]. ({{ENT|Shadows of P'Jem}})
-''In [[2155]], in the [[mirror universe]], Tau Ceti was the system in which the [[Terran Empire]] lost [[Unnamed Earth starships#Tau Ceti assault fleet|twelve ships]] in a battle against [[alien]] [[Terran Empire rebellion|rebels]]. [[Propaganda]] had spread that this was a major victory for the Terran Empire, when in fact it was a sign they were losing.'' ({{ENT|In a Mirror, Darkly}})
 At some point prior to [[2268]], the {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701}}, under the command of [[Captain]] [[James T. Kirk]], engaged and defeated a [[Romulan]] vessel near Tau Ceti, using the [[Cochrane deceleration maneuver]]. ({{TOS|Whom Gods Destroy}})
-In [[Starfleet Academy]]'s [[Kobayashi Maru scenario]], in [[2285]], [[Amber]] on [[Tau Ceti IV]] was listed as the home port of the [[tanker]]/[[transport]] ''[[Kobayashi Maru]]''. ({{film|2}})
+In [[Starfleet Academy]]'s [[Kobayashi Maru scenario]], in [[2285]], [[Amber]] on [[Tau Ceti IV]] was named as the home port of the [[tanker]]/[[transport]] ''[[Kobayashi Maru]]''. ({{film|2}})
+In [[2293]], the location of Tau Ceti in the [[Milky Way Galaxy]] was named in a [[star chart]] that was in [[Captain]] [[James T. Kirk]]'s [[quarters]] aboard the {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701-A|-A}}. ({{film|6}}, ''production art'')
 Some time before [[2348]], [[Jean-Luc Picard]] first met [[Walker Keel]] at an exotic bar on [[Tau Ceti III]]. Some time after this Keel introduced [[Jack Crusher]] to [[Beverly Howard]]. ({{TNG|Conspiracy}})
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 Some time before [[2358]], the father of [[Kathryn Janeway]], [[Vice admiral]] [[Janeway (Male Admiral)|Janeway]], died under the polar ice cap of [[Tau Ceti Prime]]. ({{VOY|Coda}})
+In [[2364]], the location of Tau Ceti was named in a star chart of a stellar neighborhood with Sol at the center. This chart was stored in the {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701-D|-D}} [[USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) library computer|library computer]]. Later that year, the chart was scanned by [[Outpost 63]]. ({{TNG|The Naked Now}}, ''production art''; {{TNG|The Last Outpost}})
-[[Tau Alpha C]] was the [[homeworld]] of [[The Traveler]], ({{TNG|Where No One Has Gone Before}}) located in the Tau Ceti system ({{TNG|Journey's End}}) Members of the Travelers species were capable of existing outside of [[time]], and had very little interest in associating with other more primitive species, until the [[2360s]], when they became aware of [[Human]]s like [[Wesley Crusher]]. ({{TNG|Where No One Has Gone Before}})
-''In [[2367]], in an [[alternate universe]] created by the thoughts of [[Doctor]] Beverly Crusher inside a [[warp bubble]], Tau Alpha C disappeared along with the entire universe when the warp bubble began to collapse.'' ({{TNG|Remember Me}})
+''In [[2155]], in the [[mirror universe]], Tau Ceti was the system in which the [[Terran Empire]] lost [[Unnamed Earth starships#Tau Ceti assault fleet|twelve ships]] in a battle against [[alien]] [[Terran Empire rebellion|rebels]]. [[Propaganda]] had spread that this was a major victory for the Terran Empire, when in fact it was a sign they were losing.'' ({{ENT|In a Mirror, Darkly}})
-==System==
-The primary was Tau Ceti. There were at least five planets in the system that were [[inhabited planets|inhabited]] planets: [[Tau Alpha C]], [[Tau Ceti III]], [[Tau Ceti IV]], [[Tau Alpha C]], and [[Tau Ceti Prime]].
 <gallery>
-File:Star-chart alpha-beta quadrant.jpg|''The Explored Galaxy'': The location of Tau Ceti
+File:The Explored Galaxy.jpg|The location of Tau Ceti in "The Explored Galaxy" star chart
-File:Spaceflight Chronology starchart 1.jpg|''Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology'': The location of Tau Ceti
+File:Spaceflight Chronology starchart 1.jpg|The location of Tau Ceti on a star chart
 File:Kobayashi Maru data.jpg|The ''[[Kobayashi Maru]]'' data screen mentioning [[Tau Ceti IV]]
 </gallery>
-== Background ==
+==Appendices==
+=== Background information ===
-=== ''[[Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology]]'' ===
-The ''Enterprise'' computer's star chart was a drawing by [[Rick Sternbach]] that had originally been published in 1979 on page 77. This chart showed Earth commercial and exploration routes after the use of [[warp drive]] began. Tau Ceti was a destination on an exploration route.
+The chart naming stars within 20 light years of Sol was drawn by [[Rick Sternbach]] for the ''[[Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology]]'' in the late 1970s. Found on page 77, this chart showed Earth commercial and exploration routes after the use of [[warp drive]] began. Tau Ceti was the destination on an exploration route. According to the ''Spaceflight Chronology'', the UNSS ''Bonaventure'', under the command of Captain Hadrian Huckleby, began Earth's warp drive era with a trip to Tau Ceti four years after the first successful demonstration of warp technology.
-=== ''The Explored Galaxy'' ===
-This chart was also seen in several ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' and ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine]]'' episodes set in the [[24th century]], from the year [[2364]] to [[2370]]. These were: {{TNG|Conspiracy|The Measure Of A Man|The Emissary|The Mind's Eye|The Game}} and {{DS9|In the Hands of the Prophets|Cardassians}}.
+According to ''[[The Worlds of the Federation]]'', Tau Ceti III was the planet [[Kaferia]], homeworld of the [[insectoid]] [[Kaferian]]s. In {{TNG|Where No One Has Gone Before}} and {{TNG|Remember Me}}, The Traveler was also said to be a native of [[Tau Alpha C]], suggesting Tau Alpha C was located in the Tau Ceti system.
-=== ''[[Star Trek: Star Charts]]'' ===
-Tau Ceti was located in the [[Alpha Quadrant]]. The planet [[Kaferia]] was located in this system. The system's primary was a [[Star Trek: Star Charts#Spectral classification|Class G star]]. Magnitude of this star was +5, which was the same brightness as [[Sol]]. This system was named as a stop on the Vulcan trade routes in the mid-[[22nd century]]. By [[2378]], this system was an affiliate of the Federation.
+According to ''[[Star Trek: Star Charts]]'' (pg. 44), from the mid-[[22nd century]], Tau Ceti was located in or near Federation space, in the [[Alpha Quadrant]]. The planet Kaferia was the third planet. Tau Ceti was a [[Star Trek: Star Charts#Spectral classification|G-class star]] with a [[magnitude]] of +5, which was the same brightness as [[Sol]].
-== Apocrypha ==
-According to ''[[The Worlds of the Federation]]'', Tau Ceti III was the homeworld of the Kaferians. ({{mbeta|Kaferian}})
+=== Apocrypha ===
 According to the novel ''[[Enterprise: The First Adventure]]'', Tau Ceti was located along the [[Romulan Neutral Zone]] and the inhabitants of Tau Ceti II were widely regarded as possessing great mineralogical expertise, using sapphires as the local currency.
-== External links ==
+=== External links ===
+* {{NCwiki}}
 * {{Wikipedia|Tau Ceti}}
 * {{ISDb|id=13600|name=Tau Ceti}}