Earth, denoting Novosibirsk in Siberia.
Siberia was a subnational entity on the Asian continent of the planet Earth. It was a vast portion in northeastern Russia that occupied the Siberian sub-continent.
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Siberia was well known for its inhospitably frigid climate and wastelands. (TOS novel: The Ashes of Eden) However, winter in Siberia felt warmer than the centuries-long winter on Rigel XII. (Decipher RPG module: Worlds) Nights and days each were six months long. (TOS novel: Ice Trap) Siberian summers were quite short. (TOS - The Janus Gate novel: Future Imperfect)
Siberian forest cats were native to the region. (TOS novel: Enterprise: The First Adventure)
In the 20th century, Soviet Union prison camps were located in Siberia, and rebel dissidents were sometimes exiled to the region. (Last Unicorn RPG module: All Our Yesterdays: The Time Travel Sourcebook, TOS novel: Ex Machina)
In 1908, an unmanned Vulcan robot probe in the Sol system detected a cometary fragment heading for a highly populated area of central Europe and redirected it to strike a sparsely populated region of Siberia, near Tunguska. (TOS novel: Prime Directive, TOS episode & Star Trek 9 novelization: That Which Survives)
By the 1970s, Russians recovered frozen woolly mammoths in Siberia. (TOS - The Eugenics Wars novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 1)
In the early 23rd century, Dr. Emanuel Tagore studied at the University of Akademgorodok in Siberia. (TOS novel: The Final Reflection)
In the 2360s, Captain Jacob Walch had a holodeck program that simulated the Siberian steppes. (TNG novel: Sins of Commission)
The arctic world New Siberia in the Oeth system was named for the region, similar to that system's other inhabited planet New Sahara being named for the Sahara Desert on Earth. (FASA RPG module: The Federation)
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- TOS novelization: The Wrath of Khan
- TOS novel: The Three-Minute Universe
- TOS novel: Prime Directive
- TOS novel: The Fearful Summons
- TOS novel: Twilight's End
- TNG - The Q Continuum novel: Q-Space
- TNG - The Q Continuum novel: Q-Strike
External links[]
- Siberia article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Siberia article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.