Gamma Serpentis

Gamma Serpentis, also known as 41 Serpentis, was a star system in the Alpha Quadrant. It was close to the heart of Federation space. (ENT: "Cold Front"; PRO: "Mindwalk")

Components

Stellar system

This was a single star system. The primary Gamma Serpentis was a F-type dwarf.

History

In 2384, Asencia plotted the course of the USS Protostar to a restricted sector near Gamma Serpentis. (PRO: "Mindwalk")

She activated the living construct when she contacted the USS Dauntless, which spread its corrupting code to the Starfleet ship and other ships that arrived in response to its distress signal. Despite assistance from the Federation's allies, including the Klingons, Ferengi, and Gorn, the construct continued to corrupt Starfleet's vessels as they destroyed themselves and their allies. Realizing the situation would otherwise end with Starfleet's annihilation and seeing no other way to remove the construct, the Protostar's crew elected to destroy the ship. Under the command of Hologram Janeway, Protostar was destroyed along with the construct, ending the signal. (PRO: "Supernova, Part 1", "Supernova, Part 2")

Stellar cartography

The Gamma Serpentis system was visible from Earth in the constellation Serpens. It was approximately 36 light years from Sol.

In the 2150s, this system's position was labeled on an United Earth star chart which was displayed in several crew and guest quarters aboard the Enterprise. (Star Trek: Enterprise, set decoration))

In 3191, this system's location was labeled in a star chart. (DIS: "Red Directive")

Information on this system was derived from the episodes and films, the reference works Star Trek: Star Charts and Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library, and real-world sources. The reference works were used extensively in the creation of star charts seen in Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Picard, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Star Trek: Prodigy, and Star Trek: Lower Decks. The real-world information added to the article was current as of 2025.
The star chart seen in the series Star Trek: Enterprise made its first appearance in Crewman Daniels quarters in "Cold Front". It was also seen in several other episodes of the series, from 2151 to 2154. (For more information, see Federation star charts#United Earth Alpha/Beta star chart)

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