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For the novel of the same name, see Belle Terre (novel).

Belle Terre is the fourth planet in the Occult system, in Cluster Z-80 of the Sagittarian Stellar Group, six months distant from the United Federation of Planets in the 23rd century.

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A lush, Class-M world, Belle Terre (French for "Beautiful Earth") nonetheless remained uninhabited until the 2270s when sixty-thousand or so Federation citizens set out on the Belle Terre Colonial Expedition to settle the planet. (TOS - New Earth novel: Wagon Train to the Stars)

The planet had nine moons, including a tectonically active satellite nicknamed the "Quake Moon", which was discovered to have vast quantities of the rare substance quasar olivium. Three weeks after the colonists arrived at Belle Terre, pressure within the unstable Quake Moon built to the brink of a catastrophic eruption. The planet would have been rendered uninhabitable had the USS Enterprise not intervened. It led the colony ships in using tractor beams to crash "the Needle" (a small moon of the twelfth planet in the system, a gas giant) into the Quake Moon, alleviating the pressure. Even so, the Quake Moon's eruption bombarded Belle Terre's largest continent with radiation, and released the olivium into the atmosphere, causing severe weather conditions across the planet. (TOS - New Earth novel: Belle Terre)

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planets visited by the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) (2273-2285)
James T. Kirk's second five-year mission (2273 - 2278)
2273 EarthNelestraLorinaSherman's PlanetEarthStarbase 16 planetYannid VIAndrea IVOmega IXTuragesMoonsek897-JOJCalibus VIIEarthManliktGrokhShadirToltan colonyForma VIAgena IVTarsus IIZaran IITelosAbarisMycenaStarbase 8 planetBarak VIIHohweyn VIICragon VAndronicusStarbase 28 planetPersephone IISherman's PlanetRakatan
2274 MestikoHus-24Arroool planetSarsithiaVulpecula 12 IVIskoniaHamal IV (Starbase 18) • MimitEarthThoris Amarnis IVZeta-AtezArgus IVCytheriusPhaetonHephaestusZeta Reticuli IIStarbase 9 planetMiaplacidus VValerianGoran IVNordstralHelvaCephalus IV
2275 EarthFlyspeckVulcanFeeniks-Denn IVNova EmpyreaYkoMiri's homeworldPerinda IVOblik IIIGarrus
2276 Sigma 1212Zenna IVDuran XIIShadParides IVLevaeri VArtaleirh
2277 Manark VMurakami IXLycos VVarda IIIMyraKhepriPollox IVUpsilon Xi IIILieberman's WorldMacedon IIIMarris VOmicron Theta VAyin Aleph IIILam Qaf Kha IIKappa Rho IV
2278 CathyGranotoulomines planetHippocrates IVDekkanarMarsAkkallaEarth
Spock's command (2278 - 2285) Bright TreeKaferiaMestikoEarthFortenueCirce IIEarthBelle TerreThieurrullStarbase 12Regula IEarthHellguardEarthDelta IVRatorYkoMestikoEarth
Admiral Kirk's command (2285) EarthRegula IGenesis PlanetAzphariOrganiaBeta Epsilon VIBabelVulcanRomulan planetoidEarthGenesis Planet
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