Benzar
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In the fictional Star Trek universe, Benzar is home to the Benzites. This planet's first appearance was in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode A Matter of Honor.
Benzar is described as a starkly beautiful world with an atmosphere high in gaseous ammonia and low in oxygen. Elaborate crystalline rock structures dominate its landscape. Small, heavily armored animals skitter across its surface, feeding on tough-skinned plants and one another. Blue and orange clouds streak its violet sky. Massive charges of static electricity in its atmosphere periodically discharge, filling the sky with light and emitting a cracking sound so loud that people on the surface can feel it vibrate in their bones. Of the nine planets in the Securis system, only Benzar sustains complex life. According to Starfleet's planetary classification system, Benzar has an atmosphere similar to Class M norms, but contains a mixture of gases unique to the planet. Most humanoid species could not survive here without life-support suits or domed structures with oxygen-rich atmospheres.