Changes: Altair IV

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Darien Wallace personnel file — Wallace's personnel file details his birth on Altair IV

Altair IV was the inhabited fourth planet of the Altair system. This system was located in Sector 9. It was a Federation planet. (TOS: "Amok Time"; Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; TNG: "Eye of the Beholder", okudagram; DS9: "Prophet Motive")

In 2285, in the Genesis cave, a Federation container bore the name of this planet. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)

In the 2340s, on stardate 22991.6, Lieutenant Darien Wallace was born on Altair IV. This lieutenant's personnel file appeared in a hallucination of Deanna Troi's. (TNG-R: "Eye of the Beholder", okudagram)

In 2371, Dr. Henri Roget, of the Central Hospital of Altair IV, was awarded the prestigious Carrington Award for his work in the field of medicine. (DS9: "Prophet Motive")

Appendices

Background information

"AL-tair" was the pronunciation for this planet's name from the script pronunciation guide for "Prophet Motive".

"Planet Altair IV was the setting for the classic 1956 science fiction film Forbidden Planet." (Star Trek Encyclopedia, 3rd ed., p. 9)

According to the Star Trek: Star Charts ("United Federation of Planets I") and the Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("Federation Historical Highlights, 2161-2385"), Altair IV (Alpha Aquilae IV) was located in the Alpha Quadrant.

Apocrypha

In the novel Beneath the Raptor's Wing, an Earth colony had been settled on Altair IV, and narrowly avoided destruction by Romulan weapons.

External link

Altair IV at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works

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 [[File:Darien Wallace personnel file.jpg|thumb|Wallace's personnel file details his birth on Altair IV]]
-'''Altair IV''' was the [[inhabited planets|inhabited]] [[fourth planets|fourth]] [[planet]] of the [[Altair system|Altair]] [[star system|system]]. This system was located in [[Sector 9]]. ({{TOS|Amok Time}}; {{film|2}}; {{TNG|Eye of the Beholder}}, ''[[okudagram]])
+'''Altair IV''' was the [[inhabited planets|inhabited]] [[fourth planets|fourth]] [[planet]] of the [[Altair system|Altair]] [[star system|system]]. This system was located in [[Sector 9]]. It was a [[Federation]] planet. ({{TOS|Amok Time}}; {{film|2}}; {{TNG|Eye of the Beholder}}, ''[[okudagram]]; {{DS9|Prophet Motive}})
 In [[2285]], in the [[Genesis cave]], a [[Federation]] container bore the name of this planet. ({{film|2}})
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 "AL-tair" was the pronunciation for this planet's name from the {{st-minutiae|resources/scripts/462.txt|script}} pronunciation guide for {{e|Prophet Motive}}.
-Altair IV was also the name of the alien world featured in the film {{wt|Forbidden Planet}}.
+"''Planet Altair IV was the setting for the classic 1956 science fiction film {{wt|Forbidden Planet}}.''" (''[[Star Trek Encyclopedia]]'', 3rd ed., p. 9)
-According to the ''[[Star Trek: Star Charts]]'' (p. 44) and on the chart "United Federation of Planets I", the Altair system was located in the Alpha Quadrant. This system, also known as Alpha Aquilae, was a single star system. Primary was a [[Star Trek: Star Charts#Spectral class|Class A star]] with a magnitude of +3, which was ten times brighter than [[Sol]]. Altair IV was listed as a member planet of the Federation in [[2378]].
+According to the ''[[Star Trek: Star Charts]]'' ("United Federation of Planets I") and the ''[[Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library]]'' ("Federation Historical Highlights, 2161-2385"), Altair IV (Alpha Aquilae IV) was located in the [[Alpha Quadrant]].
 === Apocrypha ===