- For other uses, see Xanadu.
Xanadu was a 13th century Earth city in Asia, an early Mongolian capital city. It was later immortalized as a beautiful, mythical city in the famous poem "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
History[]
It was located in Outer Mongolia. In 1279, China was ruled from Xanadu. (TNG episode: "Code of Honor")
Legacy[]
In 2152, while fleeing from rebels in a desert on the Torothan homeworld, Jonathan Archer kept an exhausted Charles Tucker III's mind active with a geography naming game. Archer cited Xanadu, but Tucker said it wasn't a real location. (ENT episode: "Desert Crossing")
In 2371, B'Elanna Torres was reminded of Xanadu when she saw a massive diffuser grid built by the Furies. Kathryn Janeway thought of Coleridge's description of Xanadu as she, Tuvok and Neelix were taken to a Fury prison. (VOY - Invasion! novel: The Final Fury)
In 2374, Jean-Luc Picard envisioned Xanadu and the mythical Sha Ka Ree as he wondered what a visit to the Q Continuum would be like. Q asked if Picard expected to see Shangri-La. (TNG - The Q Continuum novel: Q-Space)
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References[]
- ENT episode: "Desert Crossing"
- VOY - Invasion! novel: The Final Fury
- TNG - The Q Continuum novel: Q-Space
External links[]
- Xanadu (city) article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Shangdu article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.