Tarsus IV

Tarsus IV is a Class M planet located in the Tarsus system of the Beta Quadrant.

By the 2240s, Tarsus IV was home to a colony of 8,000 inhabitants. In 2246, a mutagenic virus struck the crops being grown on the planet's surface and a famine ensued. Only having food supplies for half the colony's inhabitants, Governor Kodos had the other half put to death, in what has know become known as the Tarsus IV Massacre. (TOS episode: "The Conscience of the King" and short story: "Though Hell Should Bar the Way").