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| rdfs:comment | - In 2256, this star's location was labeled on the star chart "Alpha/Beta Quadrant Overview" in the ready room aboard the USS Discovery. (DIS: "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad") According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 62) and Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("Federation Historical Highlights, 2161-2385"), Beta Rigel was an A-class star. According to the ENT novel Tower of Babel by Christopher L. Bennett, the Beta Rigel system was the home of the Rigelians, the turtle-like Chelon and the primitive Kalar.
- Beta Rigel, or simply "Rigel", was a star system located in Federation space, in the Kandari sector of the Beta Quadrant. To its inhabitants, the star was known as Raij, and the associated planetary system the Raij'hl system. Because the name was a homophone with the Human name for the much more distant star Rigel (Beta Orionis), it was also referred to as Beta Rigel. (ENT - Rise of the Federation novel: Tower of Babel)
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| abstract | - Beta Rigel, or simply "Rigel", was a star system located in Federation space, in the Kandari sector of the Beta Quadrant. To its inhabitants, the star was known as Raij, and the associated planetary system the Raij'hl system. Because the name was a homophone with the Human name for the much more distant star Rigel (Beta Orionis), it was also referred to as Beta Rigel. (ENT - Rise of the Federation novel: Tower of Babel) It was named "Beta Rigel" by astronomers on Earth, due to its apparent proximity to the "true" Rigel, also called Beta Orionis. It was in fact much closer to Earth. It consisted of a single star, an A class blue star with spectral class A5V, and a brightness of absolute magnitude 6.2. (ST reference: Star Charts) Beta Rigel was likely created to solve the problem of how the Enterprise (NX-01) managed to travel the 773 light-years (according to the source) to Rigel in only 4 days at warp factor 4 in the ENT episode: "Broken Bow", by positing a much closer star instead. As a supposed companion of Rigel, it may in fact be the fourth star of Beta Orionis once postulated by astronomers.
- In 2256, this star's location was labeled on the star chart "Alpha/Beta Quadrant Overview" in the ready room aboard the USS Discovery. (DIS: "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad") According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 62) and Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("Federation Historical Highlights, 2161-2385"), Beta Rigel was an A-class star. According to the ENT novel Tower of Babel by Christopher L. Bennett, the Beta Rigel system was the home of the Rigelians, the turtle-like Chelon and the primitive Kalar.
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