Federation Members: Antares
November 7th, 2009
Antares is a binary star system located approximately 600 lightyears from Earth. Beta Antares IV is inhabited by the humanoid Antarans.
An Antaran male
- Federation Member: Beta Antares IV
- Member since: 23rd century
- Rationale: Star Trek: Star Charts and several earlier novels indicate membership.
The Antares system is the source of such items as Antarean brandy and Antarean glow water.When Captain Kirk of the Enterprise invented the game fizzbin, he claimed it was played on Beta Antares IV. The Beta Antares Ship Yards are mentioned on the dedication plaque of the USS Prometheus in Voyager’s “Message in a Bottle”.
In a nutshell, that is all to go on for Antares in televised Star Trek until the Antarans were featured on Enterprise in “The Breach”. These Antarans, who we can presume to come from the Antares system, and likely from Beta Antares IV, had a history of warfare with the Denobulans. In the later Titan novel Sword of Damocles, one of these Antarans named Loolooa Tereshini serves aboard the USS Titan in the 24th century.
In other novels Antares is also frequently portrayed as a Federation world. The 1981 TOS novel Death’s Angel features the Antaran ambassador Marmaluke, who heads the Federation Diplomatic Corps. In Prime Directive, the Antares Corona Worlds is the government of the Antarans, and is represented on the Federation Council.
In conclusion, Antares is generally portrayed as a Federation world in novels, and canon works seem to indicate it is an allied planet. For the purposes of this list, I’d go with the novels on this one.
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