Plato

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For the mirror universe counterpart, see Plato (mirror).

Plato was a noted Greek philosopher, a student of Socrates, who lived on Earth during the 5th and 4th centuries BC.

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As a noted philosopher, Plato preserved the tales of the ancient city of Atlantis which had been swallowed up by the ocean.

Plato was the author of The Republic. (DS9 - S31 novel: Abyss)

His philosophy influenced a group of alien refugees on Earth during his lifetime, who named themselves Platonians and later fashioned a society on the planet Platonius based on his works. (TOS episode: "Plato's Stepchildren")

By the 24th century, the Atlantis Project had created a man-made island in the Atlantic Ocean on Earth and had named it Platonis in honor of Plato. (NF novel: Stone and Anvil)

While discussing the fame and notoriety of Starfleet Fleet Admiral Karis Tatenen in 2277, Spock compared meeting Tatenen to him meeting Surak, however James T. Kirk disagreed, stating that Spock meeting Surak would be like Kirk meeting Plato. (TOS - Star Trek II Short Stories short story: "The Blaze of Glory")

In 2286, Spock encountered Plato, Socrates, and Euclid in a mass illusion of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy poem Inferno. Plato lamented that Dante had put them in the first level of Hell because they had lived before Jesus Christ, and hoped Spock might remain with them. Spock told him he'd been trying to achieve Plato's idealized self, but hadn't succeeded. He wondered if it were possible in the afterlife. (TOS - Who Killed Captain Kirk? comic: "Hell in a Handbasket")