Beta Rigel

Beta Rigel was a planet in the Beta Quadrant, a part of the United Federation of Planets. It was one of the worlds targeted by the Borg during their invasion in 2381. The assault on that world was halted by Erika Hernandez -- as were simultaneous assaults on Vulcan, Andor, Coridan, and Qo'noS -- and the Borg forces destroyed. Among the ships defending Beta Rigel was the USS Nansen. .

In an alternate universe in which Khan Noonien Singh won the Eugenics Wars, he went on to fight across the ironfields of Beta Rigel on his way to creating an interplanetary Khanate.


 * Beta Rigel was first mentioned in Star Trek: Star Charts as a ten-planet star system, six of which were inhabited. It was apparently supposed to be the Rigel system mentioned multiple times in Trek; however, subsequent references to Beta Rigel do not make this connection clear.