[tlhIngan Hol] Are arabic numerals canon ?

[Alan Anderson]

On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 3:59 PM, SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:

> Klingons undoubtedly think Federation Standard is dumb for getting this
> all mixed up.
>

Star Trek's planet-naming scheme follows longstanding Science Fiction
convention, which arguably evolved organically rather than having been set
down with a strict definition.

In the real world, the pattern for labeling exoplanets is based on their
order of discovery and has nothing to do with the orbital distance from
their parent star. This is a relatively recent extension of the
International Astronomical Union's rules for multiple-star systems -- back
when Star Trek started calling things "Rigel 6" etc., no exoplanets had yet
been observed and there was not yet a need for a way to name them.

-- ghunchu'wI'
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