Alderaan was a planet.
At some point in the mid-2360s, the starship USS Thomas Paine was assigned to a diplomatic mission to Alderaan, according to a Starfleet report titled Starship mission status. (TNG: "Brothers", et al.)
On his way to space station Deep Space 9 in 2369, the Bajoran criminal Ibudan chartered a space flight out of Alderaan Spaceport. (DS9: "A Man Alone")
Background information
The name of this planet originally also appeared in TNG: "Up The Long Ladder", on an okudagram on Picard's desk monitor as the destination of HMS New Zealand in 2135. It was also a gag in the "A" section of the locations index for reference book "Star Trek Chronology"; listed as, "Never visited by the crew of the Enterprise." A legible version of the original okudagram would appear in the reference book, Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Continuing Mission. For the remastered version of the episode the destination was renamed as Aldebaran.
The reference to this planet, as well as the wording of the okudagram, was an in-joke. Alderaan was, of course, the adopted homeworld of Star Wars's Princess Leia, who claimed to be on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan when captured by Darth Vader in the opening scene of Star Wars. For more on that planet, see the official Star Wars site.
External links
- Alderaan on Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Wiki
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