Ceti Alpha V
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The harsh environment of Ceti Alpha V requires protective gear
In the science fiction universe of Star Trek, Ceti Alpha V is the fifth planet in the Ceti Alpha star system, consisting of a Class M, or Earth-like environment.
It was eventually settled in the year 2268 by the legendary ruler Khan Noonien Singh and his small group of fellow genetically-engineered supermen who were in their search for a new existence away from Earth, as they flee punishment and defeat following their loss of the Eugenics Wars of the 1990s.
The system was surveyed as safe by U.S.S. Enterprise just prior to Khan's settlement. The ship's captain James T. Kirk, exiled Khan and his people there after they attempted to steal his ship.
Unbeknownst to Kirk, the planet was infested with a deadly parasitic bug-like creature that Khan named the Ceti Eel. The eel lays young in the ear canal of a human victim, and the worm burrows into the brain, which slowly destroys the victim's mind. The eel killed many of Khan's people, including Khan's wife Marla McGivers who was once a member of Enterprise's crew.
To make things worse for Khan's people, the nearby planet of Ceti Alpha VI exploded six months after their arrival, and the shock shifted Ceti Alpha V's orbit, and made the planet nearly uninhabitable.
Khan spent 20 years on the hellish world until years later, Ceti Alpha V was mistakenly visited by the science ship U.S.S. Reliant. The Reliant's crew believed it to be Ceti Alpha VI and the potential test site for the Genesis Device. Khan manages to hijack the Reliant and then seeks to avenge his 15 years of hell out on Captain Kirk.
In addition, years before any of this ocurred, Captian Jonathan Archer of the starship Enterprise (NX-01) and Vulcan T'Pol lived here in an alternate future in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode Twilight. Due to temporal parasites, Archer had become unable to form new memories. Eventually, the parasites were eliminated from time and this future never took place.