Rigel VII

From Memory Alpha, the free Star Trek reference.

Rigel VII is an M-class world, the seventh planet in the Rigel system.

In 2254, a landing party from the starship USS Enterprise, led by Captain Christopher Pike, visited Rigel VII. While inside an apparently abandoned fortress, Pike and crew were attacked by the native Kaylar warriors. Three crew members, including Pike's personal yeoman, were killed. Seven more were injured (including Spock, Navigator Tyler and a ship's geologist); some of these were so severely wounded that they required treatment at the Vega Colony. Pike later regretted his decision to enter the fortress, stating that "the swords and the armor" should have alerted him to the possibility of a trap. (TOS: "The Cage", "The Menagerie, Part I", "The Menagerie, Part II")

There is a song called "Moon over Rigel VII," apparently inspired by a large, natural satellite orbiting the planet. Captain Kirk proposed singing it around a campfire while taking shore leave at Yosemite National Park on Earth with Captain Spock and Doctor McCoy in 2287 (Star Trek V: The Final Frontier).

During the 2360s, Kobliad fugitive Rao Vantika used a subspace shunt to access and purge everything in the active memory on Rigel VII. He would do the exact thing to starbase Deep Space 9 in 2369. (DS9: "The Passenger")

A view of the surface of Rigel VII was depicted on several viewscreens on Deep Space 9's Promenade and replimat, (DS9: "The Muse") advertising a visit to the "spectacular castles of Rigel VII". (DS9: "What You Leave Behind")

The matte painting was re-used for Holberg 917G in TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah".

[edit] Apocrypha

According to the comics series Star Trek: Early Voyages, the building was named the Zemtar fortress, and the Kaylar warriors attacked because of their reluctance to see their homeworld join the peaceful Federation. None of these facts was derived from any actual production info; they were devised solely for the non-canon comic.

In Decipher's Star Trek Roleplaying Game, the green Orion race is from this planet.

Rigel system
Rigel
Rigel II • Rigel III • Rigel IV • Rigel V • Rigel VII • Rigel X • Rigel XII