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Pallas Athene or Athena was a Being, a member of the race who visited Earth in 2500 BC and were worshiped as the Greek gods.
Background[]
She was a goddess of war. (TOS novel: The Entropy Effect)
She was said to have emerged from Zeus' head fully-formed. She was known as Athena in Greece and Minerva in Rome.
Several cities were named after her, including Athens on Earth, Athenae on Tenaran, New Athens on Centaurus, and New Athens on Macedon III.
She also had several Federation starships named after her, including the USS Athena (NCC-26282) and the USS Minerva (NCC-26287).
History[]
When Apollo recalled his time on Earth, he said Zeus, his sister Artemis, and Athene knew Earth well 5,000 years earlier. (TOS novelization: Who Mourns for Adonais?)
The Greek sculptor Praxiteles created a gold statue of Athena, which became lost to history. (TAS - Log One novelization: Yesteryear)
Amelinda Lukarian named her equiraptor Athene after the goddess. (TOS novels: The Entropy Effect, Enterprise: The First Adventure)
Flint recalled that Johannes Brahms's patron Robert Schumann once described the musician as one "who reveals his mastery, not in a gradual unfolding, but like Athena springing full-armed from the head of Zeus." (TOS novel: The Cry of the Onlies)
Hikaru Sulu was reminded of the goddess one evening while in command on the bridge, watching the USS Aerfen above the planet Aleph Prime. He quoted aloud from The Iliad by Homer, "In such likeness Pallas Athene swept flashing earthward." (TOS novel: The Entropy Effect)
Dr. Robert Halliday wrote in his field notes about the myth of Thanopstru of Thanet, who formed the cosmos. He regarded that the planet's culture seemed to "spring full-grown out of nowhere... like the goddess Athena from the head of Zeus." (TNG novel: Do Comets Dream?)
When Data regarded his origins, lacking a childhood, he considered it "like Athena, fully grown from his father's head." (TNG novel: Spartacus)
Katherine Pulaski was familiar with Athena's origin. (TNG novel: A Call to Darkness)
Worf's favorite human myth was Athena's origin. (DS9 - Rebels novel: The Liberated)
Kathryn Janeway had a spontaneous insight on how to save an away team, which she compared to Athena's origin. (VOY novel: Mosaic)
Appendices[]
Locales named for Athena[]
- The city of Athens on Earth
- The city of Athenae on Tenaran
- The city of New Athens on Centaurus
- The city of New Athens on Macedon III
- The Athenaeum building on Dynasia
- Athena Preserve on Centaurus
- New Athens Spaceport on Centaurus
References[]
- TOS novel: The Entropy Effect
- TOS novelization: Who Mourns for Adonais?
- TOS novel: Enterprise: The First Adventure
- TOS novel: The Cry of the Onlies
- TOS novel: Crisis on Centaurus
- TOS novel: Timetrap
- TOS novel: A Flag Full of Stars
- TNG novel: Do Comets Dream?
- TNG novel: Spartacus
- TNG novel: A Call to Darkness
- TNG novel: The Devil's Heart
- TNG novel: The Captains' Honor
- DS9 - Rebels novel: The Liberated
- VOY novel: Mosaic
External links[]
- Athene (god) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Athena article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.