Sol

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Sol is a yellow dwarf star located in the Sol system on the Alpha Quadrant/Beta Quadrant border, and is orbited by eight planets and various planetoids, asteroids and other celestial bodies. The star was born five billion years ago. (ST roleplay module: All Our Yesterdays: The Time Travel Sourcebook)

The USS Enterprise used the slingshot effect around Sol to travel back to the 23rd century after she was sent back in time to the 1960s when it was dragged into the gravity well of a black star. (TOS episode: "Tomorrow is Yesterday")

In 2285, Admiral James T. Kirk and his crew used the Klingon Bird-of-Prey, HMS Bounty, to sling-shot around Sol so that they could travel back to 1986 and bring two humpback whales forward in time to save Earth from the Cetacean Probe. (TOS movie: Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home).

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