Sentient Planets

[JHoffman555]

Hello Trek friends -

Racking my brain to find an example of a "Sentient Planet" in the Star Trek Universe, kinda like Mogo from the DC Universe?

I feel that there must be something (I just checked - the entity from Encounter at Farpoint was just a city, not a planet) but can't think of anything.

Any help is appreciated!!

 

[Finn]

Watch Voyager's Darkling

 

[JHoffman555]

Finn - are you referring to the "living asteroid" that is discussed?

 

[Joeman]

What about Voyager's Demon? Isn't it kind of inferred that those beings and the planet are tied together as one? The planet's "silver blood" duplicates the crew and becomes sentient for the first time.

I guess that wouldn't necessarily make the planet itself sentient. Depends on how you look at it.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Maybe most planets are sentient, but they talk far too slowly for us to understand them--could take ten years just to say "Hello, how are you guys?"

Then again, maybe they communicate by shifting tectonic plates around.

 

[T'Girl]

Either the novel "the galactic whirlpool" or "how much for just the planet?" Has Kirk and Spock discussing sentient worlds and the fact they (the planets) though it was damn funny the Enterprise's crew took so long to figure it out.

 

[Elias Vaughn]

I don't remember a sentient planet in Trek, but I think I remember Voyager meeting a living nebula once.

 

[The Wormhole]

^^First season episode The Cloud.

 

[Finn]

Finn - are you referring to the "living asteroid" that is discussed?

Yes

 

[sbk1234]

One of the earliest Trek novels, The Abode of Life dealt with a living planet, something like that. It's been a few decades since I read it, and only once, so I don't remember too many details.