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
- Councillor Cort Enaren (2379 - 2380 - ) (TNG Novel: A Time to Heal; Novel: Articles of the Federation)
- - 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
- By mid-2250s: First contact with Federation (DIS: "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad")
- Telepathic abilities still not widely known for some years (DIS Novel: Drastic Measures; TOS Novel: The Captain's Oath)
- 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 1200, 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
- Lake Cataria (TNG: "Dark Page", "All Good Things..."; TNG Novel: A Time for War, A Time for Peace; VOY Short Story: "Letting Go")
- 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)
- Unknown
- Byram Hall (TNG Novel: A Time for War, A Time for Peace)
- Destroyed during Dominion War (TNG Novel: A Time for War, A Time for Peace)
- Replaced with Amick Hall (TNG Novel: A Time for War, A Time for Peace)
- Enaren University (Novel: Articles of the Federation)
- University of Betazed (TNG: "Tin Man", "Ménage à Troi"; TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed; DS9 Novel: Mission Gamma: This Gray Spirit)
- Open since at least 2352 (TNG Novel: The Battle of Betazed)
- Byram Hall (TNG Novel: A Time for War, A Time for Peace)
Indigenous Life
Animal
- Betazed oyster (SCE Short Story: "Wildfire, Book 1")
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)
- Hilrep (Novel: Articles of the Federation)
- Fruiting tree
- 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)