Epsilon Indi was the primary of the Epsilon Indi system. Orbiting this star, there were the two brown dwarfs Epsilon Indi Ba and Epsilon Indi Bb. This system, in the Beta Quadrant, was located approximately twelve light years from Sol.
History[]
Wesley Crusher spotted this star when he was looking out of the windows in Ten Forward after his mother was transferred to Starfleet Medical in 2365. (TNG: "The Child")
Stellar cartography[]
In 2364, the location of Epsilon Indi was denoted in a star chart of a stellar neighborhood with Sol at the center. This chart was stored in the USS Enterprise-D library computer. Later that year, the chart was scanned by the Portal of Outpost 63. (TNG: "The Naked Now", production art; TNG: "The Last Outpost")
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Background information[]
{This star's quadrant of origin was inferred based on the position of neighboring locations – 61 Cygni, Alpha Centauri, Procyon, Sol, Tau Ceti, and Wolf 359 – as seen in the star charts appearing in the Star Trek: Discovery episode "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad" and in the Star Trek: Picard episode "Maps and Legends".
The star chart naming stars within twenty light years of Sol was drawn by Rick Sternbach for the Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology in the late 1970s. Found on page 77, this chart showed Earth commercial and exploration routes after the use of warp drive began.
By 2019, the star has been confirmed to have one exoplanet, which was named Epsilon Indi Ab.
The current location of Epsilon Indi in the Beta Quadrant was based on the most recent star charts seen in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds and Star Trek: Section 31.
External links[]
- Epsilon Indi at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Epsilon Indi at Wikipedia
- Epsilon Indi at the Internet Stellar Database
- Epsilon Indi at ExtraSolar.net