Asteroid

Asteroids were celestial bodies that were smaller than a planetoid and are the primary component of asteroid belts. They might host asteroid colonies.

Spock once made the distinction between a planetoid and asteroid while describing Gamma Canaris N as "more than an asteroid," "like a small planetoid." 

An asteroid hit the Terra Nova colony in 2083 and the toxic debris forced the colonists of the Terra Nova Expedition to relocate under the surface. 

In the 22nd century, Nausicaan pirates built cargo bases into asteroids. 

In an alternate timeline, Commander Charles Tucker III and Sub-Commander T'Pol had their honeymoon in cargo bay 3 of , which Tucker filled with sand they dug up from a passing asteroid.

In 2268, an asteroid threatened to collide with the planet Amerind. The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) was ordered to prevent it, but was unsuccessful. The asteroid was eventually deflected by a device placed on the planet by an earlier civilization when the device was activated by Commander Spock. 

Also that year, what was initially believed to be a mere asteroid was in fact a spaceship. In the mid-2270s, while on an intercept course with V'ger, the Enterprise was trapped in an unstable wormhole created by an antimatter imbalance of the warp core, and was briefly threatened by an asteroid with a mass of point seven. Lieutenant Pavel Chekov destroyed it with a photon torpedo causing the wormhole to collapse freeing the Enterprise.

In 2365, while on approach to Bringloid V, the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) passed an asteroid. 

The Dominion was fond of constructing facilities on or around asteroids, such as internment camps like Internment Camp 371 and ketracel-white facilities. 

According to Croden, the Chamra Vortex is home to millions of asteroids. Croden concealed his daughter Yareth in one of the larger asteroids. 

The infamous Klingon penal colony Rura Penthe was constructed on a particularly inhospitable asteroid. 

In 2373, the Etanian Order bombarded a Nezu colony with manufactured asteroids as a prelude to annexing the planet. 

Asteroids

 * List of asteroids

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Asteroide Asteroïde