Star Trek's Planet Classifications
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- Опубликовано: 6 июн 2019
- There are a lot of Planets in Star Trek.
At least 2.
...Maybe 3?
Anyway, Starfleet needs a way of keeping track of all the different types of planet that they stumble across so they took what the Vulcans had and worked from there.
What we end up with is a classification system from M to Y with D,T,P and many others in between.
But what do they all mean?
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I'm thinking a Class X Planet is a Planet that seems to flat out violate the laws of physics just by existing. For example, the gas planet from the intro to Voyager that if you work out the math you discover that it's no larger than a medium size city.
Lol
I would actually love to see someone recreate and animate that same scene with Voyager flying above Saturn's planetary rings, but to the proper and correct scale.
Or Meridian from DS9? I'd say an entire planet disappearing for 60 years violate the laws of physics plenty.
@@AstralArbourSys With Subspace Physics that seems just really, really unlikely. You make a good point though.
@@user-roninwolf1981 That... would not look like much of anything, because you would either be so close to the rings that you can't discern any structures, just some rocks drifting about, or view the ship flying by with the planet a great distance away or you'd have to zoom out so far that you can't see the ship anymore. In any case, you'll lose the cool reflection effect on the rings.
Class X I would assign to planets that are broken into chunks, but gravity is still holding the chunks in a planetoid shape.
So... Remnant's moon in RWBY?
So could possibly coalesce back into a planet at some future point??? Neet ^_^7
I support this idea. ✔💯
A planet like that would eventually become spherical due to gravity actually
The core would melt together again.
There would just remain small (maybe 1m wide at maximum) crevasses (just with land, I dont know the word right now)
There are 46 letters in the Vulcan Alphabet. Or 51. Or 32. Depending on how you want to count the vowels. And you have three alphabets to choose from; traditional, calligraphic, and handwriting.
No, I'm not geek enough to know this... but I am geek enough to google it and count from the tables provided on Omniglot.
That's cool . kinda like Japanese :D
@@MistedMind I was thinking the same. Though with Japanese, the traditional set is several thousand characters long
@@JohnDoe-xx8yw Kanji isn't an alphabet though
... since when do you use different alphabets calligraphy and handwriting? I guess they stole a bit from the Japanese alphabets but normally you use different alphabets to classify different thinks, if you use more than one. Like nouns or foreign words. Handwriting is normally done in the same manner as the traditional writing, only often a bit less "correct" and calligraphy is normally the more extravagant writing, but can be done to any alphabet in asia.
@@b-chroniumproductions3177 at some point, you also might want to go into Bon-Ji and other forms of exotic Kana... of which I might note there were a few....
_Starfleet considers all of these "uninhabitable planets"_
*Adeptus Mechanicus:* _Laughs in binary_
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@Mighty Fist Of Zeon! I think it's more like "who would bother colonizing this PoS when there are many other better planets."
Ironically a culture like the federation would actually stand a chance of defeating chaos. Whereas the empire of man is doomed to lose.
I would assign class X to planets that were once spherical but now are damaged/fractured by some violent event with big chunks of the planet missing/floating nearby, making the planet somewhat resemble a sphere it once was, but clearly with irregularly-shaped peice/peices missing. STO has several of those.
So literally an eX-planet then. Good shout.
That's ingenious. (y)
Makes perfect sense
Владимир Кузнецов Vovacat17 I have multiple thoughts about a X planet 1. A Borg infested planet 2. The Machine planet from original Star Trek movies.
I was thinking along the same lines. And it works as a pun too. X-planet = Ex-planet. ;)
*certifiablyingame, talking about class-J planets*: These are not suitable for colonization, as there is no surface to settle."
*IsaacArthur has joined the chat*
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Honestly I'd really like IA to do something with either CI or Lore Reloaded.
Would be fun.
@@unintentionallydramatic Hell, I'd go so far as to fund that
*laughs in orbital habitat*
Class w planets are made of green cheese lol
No surface to settle?
Orbital rings! _Build_ your own surface!
As much as I like the classification system, the way star trek goes about space colonization is pretty one-dimensional and boring considering how many far more interesting things could be done with their kind of technology. From proper space habitats to cloud-city-like colonizations of gas giants to any number of weird and and adapted structures on hostile worlds, there is so much potential and so little of it is ever used.
We certainly didn't get enough of that, but I'd settle for planets not being depicted as having just one climate everywhere
Didn't TOS have a cloud city in the episode with the silicon creature they antagonized by mining it's eggs?
Sadly the TV show had to stay in the bounds the lack of digital sets set, and nothing beyond that cought on.
How did you like Starbase Yorktown in Star Trek Beyond. I'm no JJTrek fan, but I'd bring that beauty to the Prime Universe in Planck time.
@@robertmartinu8803 No, the cloud city was the people who had telekinetic powers from the food they ate and thought they were Greek Gods and philosophers. Not they're not to be confused with Apollo the actual Greek god they ran into. It was a simple underground mining team on Janus that was accidentally killing the Horta's eggs.
@@3Rayfire yeah
I'd put X down for planets that interact with the regular universe in an aberrant way - such as the world Voyager encountered that would travel out of the universe on occasion into another dimension.
I prefer to have X as artificial planet-like structures, like the extracted and contained ocean from that other weird Voyager episode, or a shellworld, or a discworld (yes, those are possible, with active support).
@@theuncalledfor or dyson sphere maybe?
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That is not a planet-like structure. A dyson sphere is so much larger than a planet that it cannot reasonably be treated as one.
Also, I kinda hate "dyson spheres" since they arose from a misunderstanding of the original idea. The original "dyson sphere" is now known as a Dyson Swarm, a large cluster of objects orbiting a star in such a dense pattern that virtually all the energy from the star is captured and put to use. "Dyson spheres" are possible, sort of, but they are nowhere near as useful as Dyson Swarms.
@@theuncalledfor eh
There are ultragiants so yeah
8:00; Let me think.
U: Unknown, anomaly around, near, or from the planet prevent any observation or fit outside the classification of planet.
V: Tiny gas planets smaller than Neptune but large enough to have a semi-spherical shape.
W: Planets made entirely from liquids other than water (except possible core if pressure is too great).
X: A shattered world, one that has been fragmented in pieces.
Z: An artificial world, like a ring world or a Dyson sphere.
Class Z worlds are classed as worlds assimilated by the Borg.
If your classification is correct, then Titan (Saturn's largest moon) would be a class W
If Z is a world like a Dyson Sphere, then you could have lettered subvariants. Like a class Z-M Dyson sphere. Z for being a DS with a class M environment lining its interior.
I like your X and Z designations.
Z in the Star Trek: New Horizons mod for Stellaris replaces the base game's designation of tomb world - i.e. a nuked-out wasteland with an ash-covered surface and nuclear winter.
There also needs to be a designation for brown dwarfs - extremely huge gas giants that are very hot and bright but failed to gain enough mass to start fusion and become a star.
So would a D-Class covered in gravity plating in order to have the "Mass Effect" required to sustain an atmosphere become a ZDM.
If so what world do we need to create in order to end up with a ZPM for all us Trekkies who also love Stargate
I like “The Birth of the Federation “ classification system. M Class is Earth like. L Class is jungle. O Class is oceanic. G Class is desert. J Class is barren. Y Class is volcanic. Class P is polar.
X, Y or Z for Dyson spheres or something like the ring from halo, entirely artificial but containing and sustaining like an M-class.
JJx Noice
JJx but don’t we then get into the dangerous territory of needing to class starships as planets?
Even if we say “ok, just anything artificial that orbits a star”, there’s two problems.
The first, and least, is that rogue planets don’t have to orbit a star, but are still classed as planets. So we’re inventing a requirement that other things classed as planets don’t need, just to fudge a distinction for the sake of it.
The second, and worst, problem is that it still means that any starship that momentarily orbits a star becomes a planet by definition.
I don’t think your suggestion is a bad idea. It highlights, though, the problems with trying to define what a planet is (something that isn’t settled despite what the IAU want to pretend 😉😂), and thinking about it serves as a good exercise in what makes this task of classification - even definition - so difficult.
JJx Y is already the "demon" class
Yes X for artificial planets like onyx and Shield 0459.
Z for ring worlds or Halo rings
@@MahraiZiller ~ The thing about rules is there are always certain exceptions. You just have to _accept_ the exceptions exist and make allowances for them, you don't have to go and change the rules just for that incredibly tiny minority of "snowflakes".
I've looked through the comments, and being the astronomy buff you've mentioned... I felt it was my duty to drop in a quick note about the stellar classification system. It's not color, it's surface temperature and the peak of the Planck curve associated with that temperature. O type stars are really hot, 30,000 Kelvin on the surface. M-type stars, the little red dwarfs, are around 3,000 kelvin, barely capable of glowing at all. It's kind of like if you heat a piece of metal, it just emits infrared radiation at first (you feel heat coming off it), then as it gets hotter, it starts to glow red, and brightens as the temperature further increases, eventually reaching "white hot".
You’re referring to the Harvard spectral classification.
You’re pretty much right, more or less.
Star classes relate to spectral characteristics, which are determined by surface temperature.
Here’s the fun thing: they were originally created to relate to a star’s spectral characteristics, and it was only later that we realised it actually related to the star’s effective temperature.
So, you’re actually more correct about the Star classification system than you think 😉
Class X? Clearly it's a planet overrun by xenomorphs...
Don't you mean XenoPHOBES?
Another bughunt then.
@@jamegumb7298 Bugs? YUM! Clispy fly por mee la!
Xeno means foreign and morph means shape. So literally every non-Earth planet with life is full of xenomorphs.
@@patrickmccurry1563 Just like SCIENTOLOGISTS & their 'God'!
My thought at Class X:
The Class X planet classification refers to a special form of Demon planet, one who's conditions have been caused by some persistent technology that has not yet or cannot be disabled. Immense terraforming engines ran by malignant AI, nanotechnology gone virulent, genetically engineered wildlife that is resistant to nothing short of an orbital bombardment, these are all causes for a planet to be classified "X."
This led me to the idea of Z class planets being planets controlled by and inhabited by reality bending species, best avoided completely.
Class T:
120 000 000, that almost 1 Astronomical Unit (0.8). If a gas giant is so big, then it's called star....
STNG was made before even brown dwarfs were proven.
A star isn't entirely about size but about hydrogen fusion. A hypothetical totally unrealistic mega planet that for some reason lacks sufficient protium, the common form of hydrogen, to fuse would technically be a planet not a star.
@@patrickmccurry1563 it was known that time too that this is not possible, astrophysx is older...
With this size and without fusion the whole thing just collapses into itself. Also with this size, most of the gas would start to fuse.
Id say this is for Mega structure like planets
Anything that has structures that Covers the entire surface like a city world
Ok, time to get my science historian on! If we are going to apply a classification of X to a planetoid type, then we need to look at what we use X for when designating things. Traditionally X is used for denoting the experimental, theoretical, or improbable, such as the us of NX for experimental ships, or Planet X for a theoretical planet, and even Mystery X for the potential identity of an improbable mystery that has yet to be solved. All of these share one thing in common, that while known, they are not understood as they are at that time.
Taking that into account, I think the X designation would likely be for planetoids which do not fallow the conventional laws of the universe as we know them. This would include worlds that should by all accounts be uninhabitable yet are habitable by species that normally couldn't survive in such an environment unprotected through unknown means, artificial worlds that are still unknown as to how they are sustained, and odd worlds such as the torus world seen in the Voyager episode "Blink of an Eye" (one of my favorites) where through unknown means a tachyon field is generated by the planetoids core causing it to become temporally displaced and well... theoretically improbably shaped for a planet.
Or in more lamence terms... an X class planet is a geologist wet dream and a physicists nightmare.
or the title asteroid planet that's impossibly small according to physics
Oh and if they even discover planet pandasia from Pandalian which is literally doughnut shaped that would be a very odd discovery in star trek i can see a vulcan going fascinating discovery. A habits world by small but humanoid creatures resembling planet terra panda.
@@christopherbridges7902 Actually in one episode of voyager they did discover a torus planet (aka donut planet) where it was temporally accelerated the closer you got to the core, then compared to the rest of the universe. In what was a few days for the crew, hundreds if not thousands of years past for the denizens.
@@christopherbridges7902 Episode: "Blink of an Eye"
2:38 You Forgot One! The Planet in the Voyager Episode “the 37’s” was Also Class L with a Oxygen Argon Atmosphere!
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I think they need a class of planet for city covered planets like coruscant in star wars. This type of world would need atleast 80% of its land used by buildings.
The city isn’t part of the planet so it would have no bearing on the planet class.
Also are there any city planets in Star Trek?
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The Vulcans likely used words rather than letters for greater precision and potential type variance, and Starfleet adapted their terminology via abbreviation rather than coming up with their own system.
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It makes more sense to classify Venus as a class Y than a class N. High temperature, extremely toxic/corrosive atmosphere, extreme pressure, etc.
Class Z could be a planet the shifts to and from this universe. The plant I'm thinking of is the one Dax wanted to stay on but couldn't be shifted with the planet in DS9.
They pulled this same story in an episode of The Orville. Very cool episode btw.
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Great video!
What if on the founder's homeworld the air they're breathing is a bunch of changelings
Lol! That's actually quite disturbingly possible!
@@goransekulic3671 if Laal can become fog and fire...
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Very informative. Thanks.
A class X planet could be a planet covered by a symbiotically interconnected eco system possessing a single collective consciousness.
Borg?
@@Timberwolf69 or the Pahvans from season 1 of discovery
A noosphere, per old philosophy...
@@chrissonofpear1384 It has also been referred to as a gestalt mind.
Yes, where intelligences link together in common purpose, or all advancement on the world is in synch. Perhaps using energy most effectively to avert entropy.
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Minshara (Class M): Terra, Vulcan, Tellar Prime.
Class L: "Hadley's Hope" by Weyland-Yutani?
Class K: The original LV-426, before Weyland-Yutani's atmosphere processors.
Class J: "Bespin"? (Jupiter and Saturn)
Class T: "Ultra gas giant" (Rigel IV)
Class N: Venus-hostile.
Class H: Post-Nuke/Pre-Warp Earth in Zefram Chochrane's time? (Tau Cygna V)
Class D: "Belter' mining colony"? (Luna and Ganymese)
Class Y: "Demon" planet (Jeraddo)
Class R: (Founders' home world)
Class A: The geologically young Earth? (Gothos)
Class B: Mercury?
Class C: Mars? (Pluto)
Class E: A young star? (Excalbia)
Class F: Janus VI
Class G: Minbar? (Delta Vega)
Class I: Q'thal
Class O: Solaris? (Argo)
Class P: Andoria
Class Q: As unstable as "The Q."
Class S: Gaseous ultra giant. (Corot-38)
Class X is Discworld. Flat, riding on the back of four elephants that are in turn, riding on the back of a giant space turtle.
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X class - Machine World - A world that is a entire machine (think Cybertron)
According to Memory Beta, Cybertron is (or was at least) Class R.
Ranosian Regardless of what it is currently classified as (in accordance to the Star Trek planetary classification system), Cybertron was originally NOT a machine planet, it was originally a terrestrial planet very similar (based on the remains of it extinct organic inhabitants) to Earth. The Borg assimilation of Earth, as seen as in "Star Trek: First Contact", would be a comparable example to how Cybertron's transformation into a machine planet occurred.
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Class X I would probably say are some form of dimensionally or temporally displaced world regardless of it's Starfleet designation otherwise. Like the one covered in the DS9 episode where Defiant crash lands and it's inhabitants are forced to try to survive through the centuries through normal colonial means or the other planet in DS9 where Jadzia goes on holiday but she can't stay because of contractual obligations to the show.
What class would the Discworld be?
Remember to count Great A’Tuin and the four elephants as part of the Discworld.
A Dyson sphere or artificial planet would be a class X planet.
Since there are some many letters for near habitable planets, I'd say X is a superearth, like we've detected in othe systems. More than 1.5G of surface gravity, and usually a thick atmosphere that may be breathable, like the air in a submarine at high pressures.
I go according the Stellaris classification
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The Vulcan "Alphabet" has 28 "letters"
Also wouldn't Venus be a Class Y not N? I mean it's atmosphere could burn, poison, and asphyxiate you all at once.
It's certainly CLOSE to Y, I would think.
I vaguely remember hearing that Venus was partially terraformed by the 24th Century, so my guess is that current day Venus would be Y Class, but a partially terraformed Venus would be N class.
@@samuelvine There is indeed Venus Colony, but it's under a dome and not open to the elements. The planet is still Class Y.
I would like to see a classification for worlds with loads of ruins from fallen civilisations. We've seen one or two of those over the decades. Prime pickings for archaeologists.
When you mentioned the K class. One thing that pops into my head is Tholians.
Yeah the tholians love class k and class y conditions
In the episode Meridian Ds9 encounters a planet that keep shifting between dimensions and in the episode Children of Time they encounter a planet that is stuck in a Time bubble (sends you back in time if you visit it).
So perhaps a Class X could be a "planet that is inhabitable (ClassM) but Time/Space distortions make it unsafe to colonize or visit."
Very interesting. Other than using letters as inspiration, it's an entirely different system than the main sequence star class system. M stars: red dwarfs, our Sun is G, blue and white giants B and A. Generally it ranges from L (brown dwarf) red to A (white), cool to hot, with small stars having an extremely long life span of many billion years, to giants that live maybe 100 million years.
Class X. A planetoid that was once a different classification but suffered a cataclismic event, such as the burning off of its atmosphere, or being knocked out of orbit such as with Seti Alpha 5. This could also pertain to a planet that has shattered, making navigation difficult.
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I'd include some kind of anomalous classification, like the world with a quantum Flux, or is temporarily out of phase with normal matter: Conditions that are determined by more than temperature and gas composition.
I would classify class X as one we cannot identify for various reasons. Scanners would not be able to take readings from atmosphere or geological conditions, and possibly even gravitational anomalies preventing us from determining its mass.
Class X planets are the only sources for the shaving cream atom.
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Rogue planet is also in an episode Rogue Planet (Star Trek: Enterprise)
Type X a conscious living world.Type Y a world found in a layer of sub-space. Type Z a world from another Universe.
MysticLibrarian Y is the Demon planets
@@admiraldestroyer100 Ah yes true that =D
How about the two artificial planets. Gothos... Episode: The Squire of Gothos. Also the artificial planet that to my knowledge was not given a name in the episode "THAT WHICH SURVIVES" one of my all time favorites. According to Trek information from the episode this body was classified as a planet the size of Earth's moon but younger in geological age.
Both of these planets it would appear were manufactured. Gothos had a poison gas atmosphere except the area immediately adjacent to Squire Tralane's castle complex. However official TREK Canon lists both of these bodies as "Planets." I feel you should have included mention of them here. NOTE: This was in a time before poor little Pluto got demoted.
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Class X could be used to refer to planets which are theorized to exist, but have not yet been discovered or confirmed. The planet which some people speculate could be orbiting somewhere beyond the orbits of Pluto and the Kuiper belt would be an example.
Pluto isn’t regarded as dead anymore. It has fascinating geological processes going on.
While I understand the production limitations, I hate that Star Trek never shows the effects of different gravities of planets when they beam down. Only a handful of examples of gravity even being an issue, like that DS9 episode with Melora.
I would put tidally locked "eyeball" worlds in the "class X" catagory. They orbit so close to a star that the atmosphere is being ripped away by the solar wind, like a commet tail, and the side facing the star can get red or even white hot. The other side lives in perpetual darkness and may even be cold, depending on how much heat is conducted through the planet and if the atmosphere is around to blow it over there. Truely a hell world. These guys take "the floor is lava" to another level entirely.
Class Q could result from extreme or unstable axial tilt, along with an eccentric orbit carrying the planet from the inner to the outer edge of the stellar ecosphere. Fun!
Class Q is something Q created, duh
Type X planets have a rare gas in their atmosphere that causes everyone to be happy all the time. Violence against others is unheard of. Rain consists of gumdrops and candy canes, and the unicorns constantly fart rainbows.
Hello and thanks for this amazing video! Sorry but I disagree with Venus, due it matches more as Demon Class!
we could have fun with those missing letters :D
like for example
X - could be a deuterium planet (something like in Discovery)
Y - could be a hypothetical planet even to starfleet / something like an antimatter planet
Z - could be something entirely different a planet made out of "exotic" particles (also hypothetical for starfleet)
Would be cool :D
There is a type of planet that the entire planet is a sligle lifeform and while it may be habital for most humans it has other effects on inhabitants that can make it much harder for people to live their own lives or they may be forced to stay on the planet by some means. Most of the planets that fit into the description of a living planet don't have any way to communicate with other things without a someone who has psychic powers. This is of course if they have anything that can even vaguely be called a mind.
Class W would be a world made 100% completely of water with very few, if any, contaminants. This would include a world that was one solid block of ice. The one encountered in Voyager would NOT be included as it was artificially created.
Class X would be a planet which somehow fell outside all the other classes of planets or a planet that had a feature that was deemed impossible or highly improbable to have before, such as the planet that the Defiant Crew encountered in DS9 that could slip in and out of phase with the rest of our dimensional plain.
Class Z would be a rating for planets deemed off-limits for EVERYONE. They would have a feature, or the system they were in would, or would be so dangerous, that would make it completely impossible to approach it in any way, shape, of form. Such as a planet that was orbiting just outside the event horizon of a Blackhole.
The water-world (hehe 😀) in "Thirty Days" was artificial, so it might not count as a planet at all. 🤔
Type 'U' is a planetoid consisting of Cheese...
...as the moon was once miscategorized as...xD
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What about the one in Voyager where the planet was made of water
That wasn't a planet, that was a planet's ocean, kept there in an artificial containment field for some incomprehensible reason.
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An type X planet could be a planet with temporal anomalies across its surface. Like the planets in Blink of an Eye or Time and Again(Voyager).
The one in Blink of an Eye was also toroidal which gives it an extra unusual classification. 🤔
You're right at the end I was just thinking I wonder what letters the Vulcans use...!
I think X or Z could be reserved for planets that don't fit into any other category.
Star Trek also uses planet classes for moons - don't they? I think they have M class moons in some episodes (or L class).
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Although habitation of the surface of a class D is impossible but inside it is another matter. The Genesis cave is a very good example although it was made habitable through artificial measures.
W would be a classification reserved for ice giants like neptune and uranus, possibly even andoria prime, but that's just my fun idea
Class X could be a theoretical class for planet(oids) on which the surface (mostly) is or is covered by a singular lifeform
Class X could possibly be the planet Voyager encountered in "Blink of an Eye" which is out of time sync with the rest of the universe because the dynamo effect between it's inner and outer core produces a tachyon field in addition to a magnetic field.
Class V planets are either completely artificial like a Dyson Sphere, or are something like a Shell World that has the original planet at its core like an M Class. Examples of such could be Vega, ships that are so big they may as well be planets.
A class X planet could be one that exhibits something from outside the norm of most others in the galaxy. An example would be the planet from the Voyager episode "Blink of an Eye" that had an extremely fast rotation, and thus an extremely fast progression of time. As I recall one second in our time was equal to one year in their time.
I imagine a good type for X would be an artificial world - so perhaps the Dyson sphere encountered by the Enterprise-D
Class X could be a Dyson Sphere or man-made planet.
I'd have a class for 'uncategorized'/'mega ultra weird' stuff, that you put stuff into that is so out of the ordinary that nothing else fits. I'm thinking stuff like the planet from voyager where the time went by much faster at the planet's surface. And I'd have maybe Z as 'uncategorized'.
Honestly, I think Venus fits better with the Y class designation rather than N class.
And as for X class... ...Maybe we can assign that to brown dwarfs, since they're a cross between a planet and a star.
Brown dwarfs would be counted as stars, or gas giants.
Class X should be artificial planet-like structures IMO. Basically anything that uses real gravity as opposed to spin gravity or artificial gravity plating.
@@theuncalledfor
See, that's just it; Brown dwarfs can't be classified as one or the other, or even as both. It needs its own unique class.
If you want Class X to be artificial planets, then at least have Brown Dwarfs as Class Z (if it's not already taken).
A Planet which has had it's core removed but has enough mass to not break up or crush. might be a possible type - sort of torus or hollow sphere type.
U: "unknown"; Planets that seem to defy the laws of physics like the one in the Voyager episode "Blink of an Eye."
V: Super-earth worlds. Planets with at least 1.5 earth's mass and a class M-like atmosphere.
W: terrestrial planets with surfaces composed mostly of a single crystalline element, like the dilithium planet from the end of Discovery season 3, or the IRL hypothetical diamond planets.
X: Planets that have been strip-mined, with missing chunks of the planet large enough to be visible from space.
Z: city worlds; terrestrial planets with sprawling megacities and spires visible from space. (To give some non-Star Trek examples: Corusant from Star Wars or Cybertron from Transformers.)
There should be a class H for Hot Jupiters. They are quite distinct going by their potential habitability. A regular class J or class S could support, for instance, a base floating amidst the cloud tops (think Cloud City on Bespin from Star Wars), whereas that would be absolutely lethal on a Hot Jupiter.
How about Class-X being a planet that is otherwise habitable for humanoid life but is located in a system that either naturally or by accident/manipulation is located in a zone or system that has no subspace (a planet polluted by destabilized Omega particles, for instance). These planets could be colonized by only traveled to by ships or beings not reliant on warp drive as we know it, or these planets could be wonderful places inhabited by very advanced civilizations that think warp drive or FTL travel don't exist since the laws of warp physics aren't the same there. Wormholes or some other method of travel (such as the "thought-based" FTL travel used by The Traveler and Wesley Crusher, or impulse travel coupled with stasis/freezer technology) could enable them to participate in galactic civilization.
If I had to come up with a class X planet, it either would be one composed mostly out of carbon so it would technically be a planet sized diamond. Or maybe an eccumenopolis such as Coruscant in Star Wars, or one of the hive worlds from Warhammer 40K... meaning a planet wide city build on a world stripped of all its resources, flora and fauna, entirely reliant on outside resources and an artificially maintained atmosphere/climate system housing something like 500 billion to up to 1 trillion people...
I can't recall ever seeing an eccumenopolis in StarTrek, but please correct me if I'm wrong!
Cool.
By the way, there IS an "X Class". It refers to a planet which, regardless of physical features, scared the bloody hell out of the Star Fleet guys who discovered it, making them shudder in fear and forbid ANY further contact with it. An example for this *might* be the first planet EVER to have been presented on the Series - the one visited by Captain Christopher Pike and his crew at the original pilot, "The Cage".
I hate how STO has trails off the warp nacelles
And apparently planetary rings are only twice the width of a starship or so. And the moon is like, oh, 17 miles or so from Earth. God that game bugs me in so many ways.
I wonder what that world that was faster than the rest of the universe Voyager encountered would be.
Class F, for Fucked Up.
It was definitely a class M world but just stuck in a bubble of spacetime that makes everything happen tens or hundreds of thousands times faster.
I just wished they had used *some* kind of breathing apparatus, cooling/heating apparel, or individual gravity modulators at least occasionally when on away missions or whatever. I realize that the expense and ‘unnecessary’ attention to detail wouldn’t appeal to a TV producer but it does seem like the crews of Starfleet transport themselves into wildly dangerous environments pretty regularly. Enterprise gives a little service to this idea but even then, the pretense is dropped pretty quickly
I think a good example of a class Q planet would be one with a sever elliptical orbit around a star. For much of the time it could exist in a "Goldilocks zone", maybe even for several (Earth) years but at the far ends of its orbit it is either way too close to the star or much too far away.
Class X: Any stellar body which has been converted into a plant wide cityscape (think Coruscant, Taris, or Nar Shaada from Star Wars). I imagine the Borg may have a few Class X planets under their control.
Good one.
See also a ecumenopolis.
Matthew Stryletz the classification might also include artificial planets, stations that orbit a star as they are too large to orbit a planet and other star orbited artificial structures primarily for supporting life.
Venus is not a low gravity planet, it has at least 90% earth gravity.
Yeah it fits more the Demon Y class...
My understanding that they use something expanded from the real-life system, but they also have a bunch of nicknames based on lived experience.
one of the unused letters should be artaficel/machine worlds like the ones in stellaris or the planet cybertron (could also work for dyson spheres)
Do a video on Hodgkin's Law / Theory of Parallel Planetary Development
Class X could be reserved for artificial planets. So basically everything manmade (or alienmade) that is big enough to be considered a planet and has other characteristics of a planes like a core and its own gravity. That might include the water sphere Voyager found in one of the later episodes.
Class W-X-Z: Sundered Planets or Planetoids, meaning that they have broken into chunks that are loosely held together by gravity but still present a landable surface and otherwise adhere to the defenition of a planet or natural satellite.
Class W: Sundered planet but otherwise adheres to the specifications of a Class M. Colonization requires precautions in case the planet becomes unstable.
Class X: Sundered planet but otherwise adheres to the specifications of a Class L. Additional precautions must be in place before settlement.
Class Z: Considered a Class Q, and is additionally a sundered planet. Very close to falling off the planetary specifications without intervention.
x/y/z could be used for machine worlds , Dyson spheres ect