Aldebaran III was the inhabited third planet orbiting the primary Aldebaran, in the Alpha Quadrant. This planet was located near the Ficus sector. (TOS: "The Deadly Years"; TNG: "Up The Long Ladder", okudagram; DIS: "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad")
A few years prior to 2267, Janet and Theodore Wallace performed experiments using carbohydrate compounds to slow the aging of plants at the Federation outpost on this planet. (TOS: "The Deadly Years")
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Background information
"al-DEB-uh-ron" was the pronunciation for this planet's name from the script pronunciation guide for "Prophet Motive".
According to StarTrek.com, Aldebaran III was a long-time Federation member. This website, and the Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 16) - in an article about the Aldebaran system - treated Aldebaron III and Aldebaran III as the same planet.
According to Star Trek: Star Charts ("United Federation of Planets I") in 2378, Aldebaran III (Alpha Tauri III) was listed as a Federation member.
Aldebaran, the primary of Aldebaran III, was located in the Alpha Quadrant on a star chart seen in the Star Trek: Discovery episode "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad".
External link
- Aldebaran III at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works