Comments on: Life in Epsilon Eridani? Fascinating, Captain.

By: Strenik

Strenik — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:30:05 +0000

You mean, you knew the Eridani bit was correct. Roddenberry himself said 40 (Omicron 2) Eridani A (Keid) (Nevasa, in Vulcan) is where the Vulcan home world is located. Btw, it took me a couple of minutes to fact check all of the alternate names. (It took me another two minutes to find three references to Roddenberry's letter in Sky & Telescope, 1991 July, including Memory Alpha and Wikipedia.)

By: Casey

Casey — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:55:00 +0000

Is that so! Well, thank you for the correction. :) I knew that the Epsilon bit was correct, so when I read that, I just assumed they knew what they were talking about.

By: Casey

Casey — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:55:00 +0000

Is that so! Well, thank you for the correction. :) I knew that the Epsilon bit was correct, so when I read that, I just assumed they knew what they were talking about.

By: beammeup

beammeup — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:49:00 +0000

Wrong! Epsilon Eridani is NOT the star that Vulcan orbits. That particular award goes to 40 Eridani, a trinary system. However, Epsilon Eridani was CONSIDERED as Vulcan's homestar, but because of its young age, the distinction was given to 40 Eridani.

By: beammeup

beammeup — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:49:00 +0000

Wrong! Epsilon Eridani is NOT the star that Vulcan orbits. That particular award goes to 40 Eridani, a trinary system. However, Epsilon Eridani was CONSIDERED as Vulcan’s homestar, but because of its young age, the distinction was given to 40 Eridani.