Epsilon Eridani
Epsilon Eridani was a star system in the Alpha Quadrant, located approximately ten light years from Sol. This system was home to the star Epsilon Eridani. ( production art)

In 2364, the location of Epsilon Eridani was labeled in a star chart of a stellar neighborhood with Sol at the center. This chart was stored in the  library computer. (, production art)

Later that year, the chart was scanned by Outpost 63. (, production art)

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Background information 

This system's quadrant of origin is inferred based on the position of neighboring locations – 61 Cygni, Alpha Centauri, Procyon, Sol, Tau Ceti, and Wolf 359 – as seen in the star charts appearing in the  episode  and in the  episode .

The chart naming stars within twenty light years of Sol was drawn by Rick Sternbach for the Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology (p. 77) in the late 1970s. This chart showed Earth commercial and exploration routes after the use of warp drive began. Epsilon Eridani was the destination for two major commercial routes, Alpha Centauri-Epsilon Eridani and Sol-Epsilon Eridani.

According to Star Trek: Star Charts (p. 66) and Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library ("Federation Historical Highlights, 2161-2385"), the Epsilon Eridani (Axanar) star system was the home for the inhabited planet  (the Axanar homeworld). The binary system had two K-class stars.

Epsilon Eridani has, on occasion, been misidentified as 's sun. In 1991, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, along with three scientists from the , instead endorsed 40 Eridani A for the location of the Vulcan system. Their rationale was that, since Epsilon Eridani is less than a billion years old, "life on any planet around Epsilon Eridani would not have had time to evolve beyond the level of bacteria. On the other hand, an intelligent civilization could have evolved over the aeons on a planet circling 40 Eridani. So the latter is the more likely Vulcan sun." 

By 2019, the star has been confirmed to have one exoplanet, the gas giant named .

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