Antares (star)
Antares, also known as Alpha Scorpii A, was the central star of a binary star system in the Antares sector, Beta Quadrant. It was one of the brightest stars in Earth's night sky.
The primary star Antares was a first magnitude M-type red supergiant. Its companion was the B-type dwarf Alpha Scorpii B.
Antares was mentioned as a distant location, "somewhere, beyond the stars", in the song "Beyond Antares". (TOS: "The Conscience of the King", "The Changeling")
Stellar cartography
Antares was visible from Earth in the constellation Scorpius. It was approximately 554 light years from Sol.
In 2293, the location of this star was labeled in a star chart found on the navigation console of the USS Enterprise-B. (Star Trek Generations)
In 2366, in an alternate timeline, during the Federation-Klingon War, Antares' position was labeled on a tactical situation monitor on the bridge and in the ready room of the USS Enterprise-D. (TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise", okudagram)
In 2367, the location of Antares was labeled on a tactical situation monitor in Captain Benjamin Maxwell's ready room on the USS Phoenix. (TNG: "The Wounded", okudagram)
See also
Appendices
Background information
This star's quadrant of origin was inferred based on the position of neighboring locations – the Altair system (Altair III), Andor, Babel, Delta Vega, Eminiar, Janus VI, and Rigel – as seen in the star charts appearing in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and in the Star Trek: Picard episode "Maps and Legends". More recently, in the Star Trek: Prodigy episode "Starstruck", the Antares sector, and, by association, the star Antares, was located in the Beta Quadrant.
Apocrypha
In the Webster episode "Webtrek", the Enterprise-D went to red alert as it struggled to "clear the gravitational pull of Antares" and enter the 'time continuum'.
External links
- Antares at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Antares at Wikipedia
- Antares at the Internet Stellar Database