- For other uses, see Cerberus.
Cerberus was a mythological guardian of the underworld Hell on the planet Earth, a dog with three heads. The heads barked of the past, present and future. It was an Other-worlder.
The constellation Eta Lupi (also known as Cerberus) was named after the character, as well as the Federation Cerberus colony.
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According to Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy poem Inferno, Cerberus guarded the Third Circle of Hell.
In 2286, Lieutenant Castille projected mass illusions of USS Enterprise-A personnel descending through Dante's version of Hell. During the journey, they fought Cerberus. Spock had them fill the creature's mouths with dirt to avoid being eaten. (TOS - Who Killed Captain Kirk? comic: "Hell in a Handbasket")
In 2366, Deanna Troi had a waking dream in which the shape-changer Proteus and a band of Other-worlders assaulted CephCom, the headquarters of Cephalic Security in the city of Verity on the planet Rampart. Proteus shape-changed into Cerberus, frightening the security officers. (TNG novel: Gulliver's Fugitives}
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| Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Characters | Achilles • Dante Alighieri • Antaeus • Attila the Hun • Beatrice • Bertran de Born • Marcus Junius Brutus • Centaurs • Cerberus • Charon • Cleopatra • Euclid • Eurydice • Furies • Geryon • Ugolino della Gherardesca • Harpies • Judas Iscariot • Jason • Lucifer • Medusa • Minotaur • Minos • Orpheus • Phlegyas • Plato • Socrates • Ulysses • Ruggieri degli Ubaldini • Virgil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Locations | Abominable Sands • Dis • Garden of Eden • Heaven • Limbo • Neutral Zone • Nine Circles of Hell • Purgatory • River of Acheron • River of Cocytus • River of Philegethon • River Styx • underworld • Wood of the Suicides | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||