Betazed
Facts
- Primary: Beta Veldonna
- System Name: Beta Veldonna V
- Also known as: Sentok (Cardassian) (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
- Class M
- Inhabitants: Betazoid
- Nation
- - c.2300s - Present: United Federation of Planets
Government
- Has a local military (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
- Largely a regulatory force; seldom needed in practice since its establishment (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
History
- c.mid-20th century: Beginning of psychiatry as a discipline on Betazed (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
- Warp-capable by mid-23rd century (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
- Due to Rigelian fever being brought to Betazed around that point
- September 7, 2374: Occupied by Dominion forces during Dominion War (DS9: "In the Pale Moonlight"; TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
- January 2375: Occupation repelled with Starfleet aid via empathetic projection techniques developed by Hent Tevren (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
- Resulting Betazoid casualties reach 15000, 40% of participating telepathic individuals, due to the intensity of and exhaustion induced by the technique (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
Locations
Surface
- Cities
- Condar Village
- Outlying agricultural community (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
- Condar Village
- Geographical sites
- Loneel Mountains (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
- Vast cave complex about an ancient extinct caldera (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
- Local rocks lined with veins of fistrium, obscuring sensor readings within the caves (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
- Loneel Valley (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
- Loneel Mountains (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
Indigenous Life
Plant
- Cavat (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
- Staple crop similar to corn (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
- Corzon (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
- Reed-like plant used historically to form blow guns (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
- Sadi (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
- Fruiting tree
- Teskali tree (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
- Tarna (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
- Thorned bush (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
- Zintaba (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
- Incredibly poisonous root (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)