Sherman's Planet

Facts

• Located within Beta Quadrant in Donatu Sector (TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles")
  • One week from Deep Space Station K-7 at Warp 6 (SCE Short Stories: "Oaths")
• Source of name unclear; either to pay a bar tab, to impress a woman, or to warn about a particular colonist during initial settling (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")
• Also known as SermanyuQ in tlhIngan Hol (TOS Novel: Forged in Fire)
• Population
  • 2376: ~3,500,000 (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")
• Class M
• Inhabitants: Human
• Nation
  • 2267 - : Disputed (TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles")
    • Claimed by both Federation and Klingon Empire
  • - 2270 - 2376 - : United Federation of Planets
• Head of state: Planetary Administrator
  • - 2376 - : NFN Orosz
• Earth plants generally maladapted for the environment of Sherman's Planet (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")
  • Noted exceptions include grapes, quadrotriticale (and later cultivar quintotriticale) (TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles"; TAS: "More Tribbles, More Troubles"; SCE Short Story: "Oaths")
    • Success of grapes, including mutation through blending with native fauna, resulted in a number of noted varieties of wine (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")
• About the size of Venus (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")

History

• 2267: Colonization efforts by both the Federation and the Klingon Empire begin; under the Organian Peace Treaty, the planet is to be ceded to the government best able to develop it. (TOS: "The Trouble with Tribbles")
  • By 2270, the Federation's claim is verified. (TAS: "More Tribbles, More Troubles")
• 2270: Federation colony is struck by famine. (TAS: "More Tribbles, More Troubles")
• August 1, 2376: Quarantined due to eruption of Sherman's Plague (SCE Short Story: "Oaths")