Tarsus IV is a Class M planet located in the Tarsus system of the Beta Quadrant.

By the 2240s, Tarsus IV was home to a colony of 8,000 inhabitants. In 2246, a mutagenic virus struck the crops being grown on the planet's surface and a famine ensued. Only having food supplies for half the colony's inhabitants, Governor Kodos had the other half put to death, in what became known as the Tarsus IV Massacre. (TOS episode & Star Trek 1 novelization: The Conscience of the King; TOS - Enterprise Logs short story: "Though Hell Should Bar the Way"; TOS novel: Academy: Collision Course)

The planet had been long abandoned by 2373, though the Symmetrists had a hidden base there, from which they manufactured their virogen plague. (ST novel: Avenger)

External linkEdit

• Tarsus IV article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.