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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 22:11:46 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   The four founding worlds of the United Federation of Planets are Earth, Vulcan, Andoria and Tellar. Everybody knows that. But we didn't actually know this until Enterprise season four!

   Brannon Braga called Mike Sussman for a quick question, hey, who were the founding members except Earth and Vulcan? Sussman, who was a real Trekkie, and also a writer and producer on Enterprise, had to make a decision:
   

   > What flipped through my mind was that it had never been established, but there had been a lot of fan speculation going back to “Journey to Babel” that many of those races … were among the founding members. For that quarter of a second I’m thinking, “What do I tell him? If I say it’s never been decided, he might make up a couple of new races and that might set certain people off.” So I basically lied to him and said, “Oh yeah, it’s Andorians and Tellarites.” He put it in the script and now it’s canon!

   
   TIL.

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   1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 26-Oct-2023 00:49:49 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to

      With four founding members, why are there three stars on the Federation flag?

      The flag was designed long before the founding members were suddenly (see parent post) a settled fact:

      > According to the Star Trek Sticker Book (Pg. 9), by Michael Okuda, "At one time, it was thought that the three bright stars in the starfield might represent Earth, Vulcan, and the Klingon Homeworld, since during early episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation it was thought that the Klingons might have actually joined the Federation. When later episodes made it clear they had not, the three bright stars were left undefined."

      
      memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/F…

      https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Flag_of_the_Federation?file=United_Federation_of_Planets_flag.svg