Delta Vega I
| Delta Vega I | |
|---|---|
| Stellar Cartography | |
| Region | Sagittarius Reach |
| Sector | Delta Vega |
| Moon(s) | 1 |
| Class | L |
| Physical | |
| Societal | |
| Major cities | S |
Delta Vega was an uninhabited planet, a desolate world, slightly smaller than Earth. The planet was rich in crystals and minerals.
Location
Delta Vega was located in the Delta Vega sector, a few light days away from the galactic barrier at impulse speed for a Constitution-class heavy cruiser. (TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before"; TNG: "Aquiel", okudagram)
History
Prior to 2265, the Galactic Mining Company, working with the Federation, established the Delta-Vega Station on this planet. An automated lithium cracking station was established in a valley. This station was, at most, visited by ore ships every twenty years. Another valley was, from the station's perspective, to the left of some mountains with pointed peaks, beyond which flatlands were situated. In the same general direction was a small clearing, amid a rock-strewn area. Delta Vega's terrain was generally very rocky and the planet's weather was known to include winds, such as a dusty breeze during one day.
After the USS Enterprise suffered warp drive damage when crossing the galactic barrier in 2265, Delta Vega was visited by the crippled starship so that helmsman Lee Kelso and engineering crewmen could make repairs to the vessel. By the time of their arrival, the danger posed by the mutation of Gary Mitchell, via the barrier, into a continually strengthening psionic being was undeniable, and Kirk planned to maroon his old friend on the planet. Mitchell objected, escaped, and fled into the hills of Delta Vega, taking Elizabeth Dehner with him.
Although Dehner thereafter opined that surviving on the planet would take "almost a miracle," the landscape was then miraculously seeded with vegetation, a result of Mitchell using some of his powers. For example, the small clearing became a garden ripe with plants (plentiful in flowers) around a little pool of water and a spring, due to Mitchell's intervention. Moments later, he also made a Kaferian apple tree appear in the same area.
The presence of both Kirk, who had meanwhile been tracking the pair, and Mitchell caused considerable disturbance in the area and a battle between them culminated in a load of rocks burying Mitchell in a grave he had conjured up for Kirk. After Dehner died (as a result of having fought against Mitchell herself), the remains of both Mitchell and Dehner were left behind on Delta Vega and – in an entry of the captain's log of the Enterprise, made while the ship left the planet – they were noted for having given their lives in the line of duty.
