Earth
Class:	M
Type:	Planet
Satellites:	Luna
Native Species:	Human Voth Humpback whale
Location:	Sol system Alpha Quadrant
Affiliation:	United Earth Coalition of Planets United Federation of Planets

Earth (or Sol III) was the third planet of the Sol system. It was the primary planet of the United Earth government and one of the founding member states of the United Federation of Planets. Earth was the capital planet of the Federation, serving as the seat of the Federation Council and of the office of the Federation President, and serving as the central headquarters for the Federation Starfleet. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, TNG: "Conspiracy", "The Best of Both Worlds", DS9: "Homefront", "Paradise Lost", VOY: "In the Flesh", ENT: "Broken Bow", "Zero Hour", "Home")

Contents 1 Astronomical data 1.1 Location 1.2 Names 1.3 Moon 2 History 2.1 Attacks on Earth 2.2 Climate and geography 2.2.1 Land features, geographical markers, and formations 2.2.2 In Art 2.2.3 Human-created points of interest 3 Parallel universes 3.1 Mirror universe 3.2 Reverse universe 4 Appendices 4.1 Appearances 4.2 Related topics 4.3 Apocrypha 4.4 External link

Astronomical data Edit

Location Edit

• Sol sector (Sector 001)
  • Sol system
• Grid 325 Borg spatial designation for the region of space containing Earth

Names Edit

• Sol III
• Earth
• Sector 001 (refers to the entire Sol system)
• Terra (in the mirror universe, Earth was sometimes referred to as Terra)

Moon Edit

• Luna (the Moon)

Planetary bodies in the Sol system
Mercury • Venus • Earth • Mars • Jupiter • Saturn • Uranus • Neptune • Pluto

History Edit

The first life was formed on Earth from a group of amino acids combined to form the first proteins approximately 3.5 billion years ago. From this start, at least three known sentient species evolved on Earth, Human, Voth, and Humpback whales. The first two species share the basic humanoid appearance, which may be the result of the genetic seeding that occurred long ago by the first sentient species to inhabit the galaxy. Tens of millions of years prior to the development of modern man, the Voth society abandoned the Earth, thrusting itself towards the stars, leaving no apparent trace on Earth of the civilization that existed. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home; TNG: "The Chase", "All Good Things..."; VOY: "Distant Origin")

Earth has been the birthplace of several major religions, such as Christianity and Judaism. Some of these religions, in one form or the other, have survived to the 23rd and 24th century. (TOS: "Balance of Terror", DS9: "Penumbra", VOY: "The Killing Game")

Galileo Galilei was an early scientist who told the people that the Earth moved around the sun. For these theories he was found guilty by an inquisition. (DS9: "In the Hands of the Prophets")

Earth has also been visited, observed, and occasionally manipulated during its history, prior to official First Contact by the Vulcans. These include an ancient humanoid species, the Preservers, descendants of Humans abducted around 4000 BC, and Vulcans themselves, although there is still dispute about this as there is no proof or evidence offered by the Vulcan High Command. The Humpback whales were being observed by an unknown entity, who upon loss of contact with the species, sent a probe to investigate the absence of whale song. The visit by this probe almost resulted in the end of life on Earth, but this was avoided thanks to the heroic actions of then Admiral James T. Kirk and his crew in 2286. In the 19th century, a race called the Skagarans abducted several thousand Humans from the American west and then used them as slave labor. In the 1930s the Briori visited Earth and abducted several individuals including famous pilot Amelia Earhart. (TOS: "Assignment: Earth", "The Paradise Syndrome"; Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home; TNG: "The Chase"; ENT: "Carbon Creek"; VOY: "The 37's")

See also: Distant Origin theory, HMS Bounty, Human history

Attacks on Earth Edit

During its long history, the existence of the planet has been threatened by both natural disasters and actions of alien intelligences.

• In 2153, Earth was preemptively attacked by the Xindi, who were unwittingly helping a faction fighting the Temporal Cold War. Using a smaller, prototype version of the planned Xindi superweapon, the weapon destroyed a section of the planet stretching from Florida to Venezuela, killing seven million people. This event began what was later known as the Xindi crisis. (ENT: "The Expanse")

• On February 14th of 2154, a working version of the Xindi superweapon entered Earth orbit to destroy the planet. The weapon was destroyed by Captain Jonathan Archer before it could complete its task. This marked the end of the Xindi crisis. (ENT: "Zero Hour")

• In an alternate timeline where Jonathan Archer's brain was infected by interspatial parasites, Earth was destroyed by the Xindi superweapon in 2154. This timeline was erased in 2165 when these parasites were destroyed by a subspace implosion aboard Enterprise - because the organisms existed outside normal spacetime, their elimination prevented Archer from ever being infected in the first place. (ENT: "Twilight")

• In 2155, Terra Prime - under the command of John Frederick Paxton - used the verteron array on Mars to attack Starfleet Headquarters. Thanks to the efforts of Commander Charles Tucker III, the array fired harmlessly into the San Francisco Bay. (ENT: "Terra Prime")

• In 2258 of the alternate reality he created, the Romulan mining vessel Narada fired on Earth using a drill platform. Nero was attempting to dig to Earth's core so that he could use red matter to create a black hole that would destroy the planet. Luckily, Spock was able to destroy the drill well before it could reach the planet's core. (Star Trek)

• In 2273, a massive machine lifeform called V'Ger threatened to destroy all biological life on Earth if its demands were not met. The attack was narrowly averted by the crew of the USS Enterprise. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)

• In 2286, an alien probe of unknown origin wreaked ecological havoc while trying to contact an extinct species of Humpback whale by transmitting massive amounts of energy into Earth's oceans and unintentionally caused them to begin evaporating. The threat was ended when the former crew of the USS Enterprise, having used a stolen Klingon Bird-of-Prey to travel back in time to before the species' extinction, returned to the present with two Humpbacks, and after the two whales gave a response to the probe, it departed the Solar System with little, if any, real harm done to the planet. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

• In 2367, a Borg cube entered Earth orbit following the Battle of Wolf 359 with the intention of assimilating the planet and its population. It was destroyed by the USS Enterprise-D before it could attack the planet. (TNG: "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II")

• In 2373, a second Borg cube attacked Earth, and after a devastating battle was destroyed in orbit by a Starfleet armada. As the cube exploded, a Borg sphere escaped from within the craft and subsequently traveled into the past, where its complement of Borg drones attempted to prevent Humanity's First Contact with Vulcans in 2063. (Star Trek: First Contact)

• In an alternate timeline, the Borg were successful at preventing First Contact and had no problem assimilating Earth. The Enterprise-E was the only ship to be aware of the original timeline, having been protected by the temporal wake of the Borg sphere. In 2373, the assimilated Earth had an atmosphere which contained high concentrations of methane, carbon monoxide and fluorine. It had a population of approximately nine billion drones.

• In 2375, the Borg decided to create another strategy, since all direct assaults on Earth had failed thus far. They planned to detonate a biogenic charge in Earth's atmosphere, infecting all lifeforms with nanoprobe viruses, triggering a gradual assimilation. According to the Borg Queen, half the population would be drones before the effects were discovered. (VOY: "Dark Frontier")

• Also in 2375, the Breen Confederacy attacked Earth in a surprise attack on Starfleet Headquarters in San Francisco during the Dominion War. (DS9: "The Changing Face of Evil")

• In 2379, Praetor Shinzon attempted to destroy all life on Earth using a thalaron weapon built into the Reman warbird Scimitar. The Scimitar was destroyed by the USS Enterprise-E, IRW Valdore, and an unidentified Valdore-type warbird in the Battle of the Bassen Rift. (Star Trek Nemesis)

Climate and geography Edit

From at least the dawn of Humans, Earth has been a Class M world by 23rd century planetary classification standards. Since that time, Earth has had several major landmasses and a wide variety of climatic and surface conditions, ranging from tundra to desert. By the 24th century, Humans had installed a weather modification network to alter the natural weather patterns of Earth, including dissipating destructive weather phenomena such as tornadoes. (TNG: "True Q")

Land features, geographical markers, and formations Edit

• Alps
• Caspian Sea
• El Capitan
• International Date Line
• Mount Cook
• Mount Everest
• Mount McKinley
• North Pole
• Pacific Ocean
• Tibetan plateau
• Tropic of Cancer
• Ural Mountains
• Yosemite National Park

See also: Geopolitical Regions (Countries and States), Cities and Towns

Continents of Earth
Africa • Asia • Antarctica • Australia • Europe • North America • South America

In ArtEdit

Once Humans began leaving Earth in the 20th century, they photographed and drew pictures of the planet for various reasons. These pictures were then displayed in homes, offices, and recreation facilities. The earliest depictions of Earth were from the space agencies which sent Humans into space. These included official mission photos and insignias. Many of these images were preserved into the 22nd century and beyond. (TOS: "The Cage", ENT: "First Flight"}

Human-created points of interest Edit

• Eiffel Tower
• Golden Gate Bridge
• Great Wall of China
• Millennium Gate
• Stonehenge

Parallel universesEdit

Mirror universe Edit

In the mirror universe, Earth's counterpart was the capital of the Terran Empire. History followed a similar yet skewed course on this Earth, by comparison to the history of Earth in the United Federation of Planets, with a more violent, war-ridden past. According to Jonathan Archer, the Empire existed "for centuries" prior to 2155. As a result of the official First Contact with the Vulcans in 2063, Earth gained interstellar technology, allowing the Empire to expand. (ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly")

The Klingon-Cardassian Alliance conquered the Terran Empire sometime before 2370. (DS9: "Crossover")

Professor Jennifer Sisko had an image of Earth on a uniform she wore while working for the Alliance in 2371. (DS9: "Through the Looking Glass")

Reverse universeEdit

In the reverse negative antimatter universe, where the flow of time was reversed, Arret was Earth's counterpart. In 2270, Karla Five and her son Karl Four helped the crew of the USS Enterprise to return back to the prime universe. (TAS: "The Counter-Clock Incident")

Appendices Edit

Appearances Edit

Related topics Edit

• Earth animals
• Duplicate Earth
• Objects in Earth orbit

Apocrypha Edit

• According to Gene Roddenberry's novelization of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, there is a dam across the Straits of Gibraltar. This allowed the level of the Mediterranean Sea to be lowered, creating new farm and park land along the coast, and the world's largest hydro-electric project.
• In the alternate future in the Deep Space Nine book series Millennium, Earth was destroyed in 2388 by the violent Grigari. Among the casualties were William T. Riker, Deanna Troi, Geordi La Forge, Beverly Crusher, Tom Paris, B'Elanna Torres, and the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-F.
• In the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Dominion Wars video game, if the player plays as the Dominion, the Founders destroy the Federation, bombard Earth, and then declare it to be a secondary homeworld from which to rule.
• According to the Star Trek: Star Charts, on page 32, the United Earth government was established in 2113, fifty year after the planet became warp capable, and this planet was a founding member of the United Federation of Planets in 2161. Major capitals of Earth included San Francisco, Paris, Kyoto, Lima, Cape Town, and Chrischurch. There are 4.2 billion humans and 8.1 million cetaceans living on the planet. Major attractions included UFP Council Chambers, Starfleet Headquarters, Starfleet Academy, Cochrane Memorial, Yosemite Valley, and Angel Falls.

External link Edit

• Earth at Wikipedia
• Earth at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works