McCoy with two cabaret girls from Rigel II recreated by the Shore Leave Planet
Rigel II was the inhabited second planet of the Rigel system. The planet was located in the Alpha Quadrant.
The planet was approximately 5.4 billion solar years old. (SNW: "Among the Lotus Eaters")
Lieutenant Commander Leonard McCoy of the Federation starship USS Enterprise once met a pair of scantily-clad women in a cabaret chorus line on Rigel II. In 2267, the two women were recreated from Dr. McCoy's imagination on the Shore Leave Planet in the Omicron Delta region. (TOS: "Shore Leave")
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This planet's quadrant of origin is inferred based on the position of its star system as seen in the star chart appearing in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
The planet's age was inferred from the age of its sister planet, Rigel VII, with the assumption that they formed at about the same time.
Assuming it was in the same system as Rigel X, it was presumably located less then ninety lightyears from Earth. This is because Enterprise visited Rigel X before it visited Risa, which in "Two Days and Two Nights" was said to be ninety light years away and the furthest Humans had ever traveled from their home.
In the Star Trek: Star Charts (pp. 52, 59, "United Federation of Planets I"), Rigel II, also known as Beta Rigel II, was classified as an M-class planet. The planet was a member planet of both the United Rigel Colonies (β) and the United Federation of Planets. Rigel II was admitted, along with the United Rigel Colonies, to the Federation in 2202.
| Rigel system |
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| Rigel |
| Rigel II • Rigel III • Rigel IV • Rigel V • Rigel VI • Rigel VII • Rigel X • Rigel XII • An asteroid belt |
| See also: • Beta Rigel • Rigel Beta |
External link[]
- Rigel II at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works