The planet Vulcan viewed from orbit.

In the fictional Star Trek universe, Vulcan, or Vulcanis, is a reddish Minshara-Class planet orbiting the star 40 Eridani A, 16 light years from Earth, and is the homeworld of the Vulcans. Image File history File linksMetadata Vulcan2286. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Vulcan2286. ... The Three Graces, here in a painting by Sandro Botticelli, were the goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity and fertility in Greek mythology. ... Star Trek collectively refers to an American science-fiction franchise spanning six unique television series (which comprise 726 episodes) and ten feature films, in addition to hundreds of novels, computer and video games, fan stories, and other works of fiction — all of which are set within the same fictional universe... In the fictional Star Trek universe, a Class M planet is the classification used to refer to a planet that is suitable for supporting life. ... A planet is generally considered to be a relatively large mass of accreted matter in orbit around a star. ... 40 Eridani (also known as Omicron 2 Eridani, or Keid, from the Arabic word qayd (egg) shells) is a triple star system less than 16. ... Earth (often referred to as The Earth) is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance from the Sun, and the fifth in order of size. ... Vulcans are a humanoid species in the fictional Star Trek universe who reside on the planet Vulcan and are noted for their attempt to live by reason and logic, with no interference from emotion. ...

Much of its surface consists of deserts and mountain ranges, and large areas are set aside as wilderness preserves. It is much hotter than Earth and its atmosphere is thinner; as a result, humans tend to tire out more quickly. Zones of habitation are divided into provinces. According to Spock, Vulcan has no moon, although it does have a lunar colony, according to the episode Unimatrix Zero (VOY). The film Star Trek: The Motion Picture featured what appeared to be a large moon; the non-canonical novel Spock's World explained that this was a second planet, not a moon. Desert view in Saudi Arabia. ... Mount McKinley (Denali) in Alaska (USA) has the largest visible base-to-summit elevation difference on Earth. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... Atmosphere is the general name for a layer of gases that may surround a material body of sufficient mass. ... This article is about political regions. ... Spock, also called Mr. ... Moons of solar system scaled to Earths Moon A natural satellite is a moon (not capitalized), that is, any natural object that orbits a planet. ... The starship Voyager (NCC-74656), an Intrepid-class starship. ... Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Paramount Pictures, 1979; see also 1979 in film) is the first feature film based on the popular Star Trek science fiction television series and is released on Friday, December 7. ... Spocks World is a novel by Diane Duane, set in the fictional Star Trek universe. ...

It was theorized that Vulcan was settled by colonists from Sargon's planet in approximately 500,000 B.C.E. with their descendants becoming the Vulcan people; this was later contradicted by the Progenitor discovery in TNG's "The Chase." Artists conception of a space habitat called the Stanford torus, by Don Davis Space colonization, also called space settlement and space humanization, is the hypothetical permanent autonomous (self-sufficient) human habitation of locations outside Earth. ...

Locations

• Fire Plains of Raal
• Gol (ancient city destroyed before the Great Awakening)
• Mount Seleya
• ShirKahr
• ShirKahr Academy
• T'Karath Sanctuary
• Temple of Amonak
• Vulcan's Forge (often abbreviated as 'The Forge')
• Vulcan Science Academy
• Vulcana Regar

It is possible to walk from the Forge to the outskirts of the capital city within a few days.

Native Lifeforms

• favinit (similar to an orchid)
• sehlat (described as a giant teddy bear with six-inch fangs)
• Vulcan molluscs
• Vulcan sandworms

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Trivia

• According to the non-canonical book Star Trek Star Charts, Vulcan's population in the 2370s is 4.9 billion.

• In the original release of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, a scene on Vulcan showed a moon, contradicting a statement made by Spock to Uhura in Star Trek: The Original Series. In the 2001 Special Edition, this was removed.

• Early references to the planet in novels and other background material created for Star Trek: The Original Series gave the planet's name as Vulcanis and its inhabitants were called Vulcanians.

• The 40 Eridani-A Starfleet Construction Yards are located in Vulcan's star system, perhaps in orbit of Vulcan or elsewhere in the system. These yards are one of the larger starship construction facilities in the Federation.

• Star Trek fanon placed the planet around either Epsilon Eridani or 40 Eridani. The Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Home" set the distance between Vulcan and Earth at 16 light years, making 40 Eridani the correct location. 40 Eridani A is confirmed to be Vulcan's home star in Star Charts (Pocket Books, 2002).

• Several non-canonical Star Trek sources, including the novel Spock's World by Diane Duane, have reconciled the conflicting statements on whether Vulcan has a moon by making Vulcan part of a double planet system. Vulcan's smaller sister planet is named T'Kuht (sometimes spelled T'Khut), a feminine name that means "watcher" in the Vulcan language; Terran astronomers call it Charis, after one of the Graces who married the god Vulcan in some versions of Roman mythology. While non-Vulcans often describe T'Kuht as "Vulcan's moon" (compare Pluto's so-called moon Charon), Vulcans themselves reject this usage as imprecise and illogical - hence Spock's statement that "Vulcan has no moon." However, T'Kuht has not yet been mentioned in any canonical source, although according to the Star Trek Star Charts, T'Khut is listed as Class-G.

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See also:

• Vulcan (planet)

Vulcan was the name given to a small planet proposed to exist in an orbit between Mercury and the Sun, in a 19th century hypothesis which has now been superseded by Albert Einsteins theory of general relativity. ...

External links

• Memory Alpha entry
• Gene Roddenberry and 3 astronomers propose Vulcan as 40 Eridani