Gamma Trianguli VI

Gamma Trianguli is a yellow giant with eleven planets and three major asteroid belts. Planets eight through eleven are gas giants, while nine and ten are ringed.

Gamma Trianguli VI is the only inhabited planet in the system. A tropical jungle world, it has a mean temperature of seventy-six degrees, even at its poles. One dangerous native feature is a common, rainbow-hued mineral containing a mixture of elements that make the rock violently unstable and explosive when treated to any sudden shock.

The planet has a native humanoid population of less than one thousand, with life spans approaching two hundred and fifty years. Rather simple in their ways, these people are primitive in culture and have no native technology beyond basic hand tools. At one time, the lives of the population were controlled by an underground computer system called "Vaal" by the natives. Built by whatever civilization planted the humanoids on the planet, this supercomputer controlled all aspects of the natives' lives, including their environment. The system was destroyed before Federation researchers could learn the computer's methods of climate control. (TOS: "The Apple")

Reference(s)

• Johnson, Shane. Star Trek: The Worlds of the Federation, New York: Pocket Books, 1989. ISBN: 0-671-66989-3.