Zeon (planet)

Zeon is one of two M-class planets orbiting M43 Alpha. The outer planet, Zeon is sister to the inner planet Ekos, and is home to the humanoid Zeon race.

By the mid 23rd century, Zeon had developed interplanetary spaceflight. Seeing the troubles that the neighboring Ekosian people were going through, Zeon began providing assistance. Also during the mid 23rd century, Federation historian John Gill visited Ekos. When Gill found Ekos in the throes of anarchy, he chose to violate the Prime Directive in order to help the Ekosians. Gill tried to institute a benign version of a Nazi government on Ekos, but failed to realize was that such a government inherently invited abuse, and was soon co-opted by his subordinate Melakon. When Melakon took over, the Nazis of Ekos soon began exhibiting the same brutal tendencies that the original Nazis had, and the people of Zeon found themselves the targets of Ekosian hatred, much like the Jewish people had on Earth under Nazi Germany.

Captain James T. Kirk and the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) arrived to find out what had happened to Gill, and discovered that his tampering in the Ekosian government had led to the rise of the Nazi state on Ekos. When they arrived, Melakon was preparing his final solution - a massive attack on the people of Zeon. The Enterprise crew found the drugged Gill, and revived him in time to put a stop to stop the attack on Zeon. (TOS episode Patterns of Force).