Rigel in fiction
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Rigel (Beta Orionis), the brightest star in the constellation Orion, is a well-known star in Earth's northern hemisphere night sky and hence a popular science fiction setting or feature.
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[edit] Literature
- Some sci-fi short stories of the 1940s and 1950s gave Rigel as the home system of various aliens.
- In "Doc" Smith's Lensman series, Rigel IV is home to the Rigellians, one of the most important member races of Civilization.
- In Jack Vance's Demon Princes novels, Rigel is the parent star to a system of twenty-six habitable planets, the Rigel Concourse.
- Rigel is a planet with a robotic culture in Isaac Asimov's Empire series.
[edit] Film and television
- In the Star Trek Universe, Rigel is orbited by at least twelve planets, many of which have been colonized by the Federation:
- Rigel II, mentioned by Dr. Leonard McCoy in the TOS episode Shore Leave as home to a cabaret where he met a couple of chorus girls.
- Rigel III, mentioned in TNG episode "All Good Things...".
- Rigel IV, mentioned in the TOS episode "Wolf in the Fold".
- Rigel V, mentioned in TOS episode "Journey to Babel".
- Rigel VII, mentioned in TOS episode "The Cage" as home to a race of humanoid barbarians who are not allied with the Federation, at least not as of the time of the episode.
- Rigel X, mentioned in Enterprise episode "Broken Bow".
- Rigel XII, featured in the TOS episode "Mudd's Women".
- In the Simpsons universe, Rigel 7 is the home of Kang and Kodos.
- Rigel 7 is mentioned during the twenty-second episode of the third season of Friends.
- It is unclear which, if any, of these planets is home to the Rigellians, a reptilian race seen in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
[edit] Comics and anime
- In the universe of Marvel Comics, the Rigellians (short large-headed humanoids) are rulers of the largest and most powerful interplanetary empire in the Milky Way Galaxy. The thunder god Thor has frequently become involved in their activities.
[edit] Games
- In Star Control II: The Ur-Quan Masters, Beta Orionis is the homeworld of the joke obsessed, blob-like Umgah race. However, it is interesting to note that both "Beta Orionis" and "Rigel" are not one and the same ingame: the star named Rigel is infact quite a distance away from the Orionis star group.
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