On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

All but three of the Triangle region star systems from FASATrek now have host stars matched to them for Edge of Midnight purposes. The remaining three are Stork's Rest, Altharra and Passarra's Dream.

Yes, there still is such an event. The Pandemic hasn't killed it. I hope everyone who goes, is careful and has fun. In that order, please?

https://apt613.ca/tips-on-what-to-see-at-oiaf-2023/

Meanwhile, I'm trying to figure out an alternative to epsilon Eridani for Axanar's host star. This leaves me with a history question: how much of the local galactic region was already charted out by the Vulcans before first contact with Earth?

I don't think they knew about Axanar - the planet or the species - going by "ENT: Fight or Flight". So, while the first contact between Earth and Axanar may well have happened at epsilon Eridani, I don't think that species' homeworld should be there as well.

Astronomy question for those so inclined: Willem Jacob Luyten compiled one star catalogue or two? I'm leaning towards two, and there's a Star Trek trivia point that might ride on this re: "The Doomsday Machine".

Two star systems are noted as losing some/all of their planets to the titular device in the prologue of the episode, both identified by catalogue number:

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/System_L-370

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/System_L-374

The device is subsequently described as headed for the Rigel system. Given that we have more than one star with "Rigel" - or "Rijil" - in any of its recognized names, even before bringing "Beta Rigel" from the Enterprise pilot episode "Broken Bow" into things...knowing where L-370 and L-374 might be might help us map things out better.

We've lost the Dog River grain elevator by fire.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/corner-gas-grain-elevator-fire-1.6238606


Funeral music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFg3MlXhNKQ

I recognize that logo on Lemont Brown's shirt in today's edition of Candorville.

Well, this was a quiet day too. The House reruns keep playing on CTV Drama upstairs, and for all the trouble I went to over the years to accumulate the DVD collection I currently have, I can't be bothered to watch a one of them yet.

No, for me it's Randy Bachman's Vinyl Tap on Radio One right now.

I may be about to sell another book from my personal library. More on that tomorrow, maybe.

Rereading dduane's Star Trek: TNG novel "Intellivore" and geeking out a bit - again - over the star name-dropping. Looking up "B Hydri" via SIMBAD is bringing up nothing. Should I go to AAVSO?

And of course, I'd rediscover my copy of the Star Trek Deep Space Nine Technical Manual now, in the midst of my culling efforts. Missing in action for years...

In forty-three years, in another universe near enough for our imaginations to reach out and envision, this will be the date of official First Contact between the peoples of Earth/Sol III and Vulcan/T'Khasi/40 Eridani A-II/Nevasa II.

I note this retroactive anniversary with hope and some degree of satisfaction.

Joe George at startrek.com has some thoughts on the subject, given this year's context.

Since the system got name-checked on Picard this week, it seems a good moment to work up a blog entry linking to relevant informations about it.

SIMBAD:

http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=alf%20Dor

Kevin Jardine's Galaxy Map:

http://galaxymap.org/dr2/index.html?search=Alpha%20Doradus&tileset=SGD&distanceEstimator=bj

Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_Doradus

Jed Whitten's Starmap Site:

http://starmap.whitten.org/index.php?x_c=-10&y_c=-130&z_c=0&xy_zoom=30&z_zoom=150&m_limit=&select_star=15002&image_type=normal&image_size=1500&max_line=0&trek_names=1

Some random thoughts.

( Spoilers for the X-Men comics' stories in progress! )