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davids
05-10-2005, 12:30 PM
Terriformed to be earth like. I know they mentioned having cities on the moon and mars. But I can not remember if ever mentioned that mars was terriformed? Just curious.

Michael P
05-10-2005, 04:01 PM
In "Generations," Picard mentions his ancestors who helped establish the first Martian colony.

Ryan K
05-10-2005, 05:04 PM
The Star Trek Encyclopedia (1994 Edition) has this listed under Mars.

Fourth planet in Sol system, location of the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards, where the Enterprise-D was built; also location of Martian Colonies, where important legal declarationson human rights were written; birthplace of Mira Romaine.

'Booby Trap' (TNG), 'Emissary' (DS9), 'Court Martial' (TOS), 'The Lights of Zetar' (TOS)

No mention of terraforming that I can remember. But I haven't seen most of Voyager or Enterprise.

Ontir
05-10-2005, 05:41 PM
Other than the mentions Kirk cited, I don't think we've seen or heard anything about Mars. I know way back when, they'd intended to deal with Mars and planets imagined around real stars, but Harlan Ellison told Roddenberry that if anyone ever pulled out a star chart, they'd see that the Enterprise was just meandering aimlessly, and that it was better to make up the stars, as well as the worlds.

Dr. Banner
05-10-2005, 09:14 PM
In TNG's episode "Parallels", or, as my friend likes to call it, "A Worf by Any Other Name", we do get a glimpse of Utopia Planetia on the computer screen in Engineering when Picard, Worf, Data, and Geordi are looking at 4 images taken from the Argus array. The bottom right image is of the planetary base of Utopia Planetia (they have an orbiting section as well), and it is still the red Mars (with craters) having an enclosed base and domes on top. Which, thought not absolute, heavily implies that no terraforming was done to Mars.

(edit: In Archer's time, it most definately was not terraformed, as seen in the last episode "Demons")

Yup, I knows my Trek.