Rigel VII Rigel VII was the inhabited seventh planet of the Rigel system . The planet had one moon . This was the homeworld of the Kalar , a pre - warp humanoid species . The Rigel VII Lagrange colony was associated with it . ( ; ) Location . In the 2250s , Rigel VII was several weeks away from the Vega colony at the maximum cruising speed of a heavy cruiser . ( ) History . In 2254 , a landing party from the starship , led by Captain Christopher Pike , visited Rigel VII . While inside an apparently abandoned Kalar fortress , Pike and crew were attacked by the native Kalar warriors . Three crew members , including Pike ' s personal yeoman , were killed . Seven more were injured ( including Spock , Navigator Tyler and a ship ' s geologist ) ; some of these were so severely wounded that they required treatment at the Vega colony . Pike later regretted his decision to enter the fortress , stating that " the swords and the armor " should have alerted him to the possibility of a trap . ( ) There was a song called " " Moon over Rigel VII " " . Captain Kirk proposed singing it around a campfire while taking shore leave at Yosemite National Park on Earth with Captain Spock and Doctor McCoy in 2287 . ( ) During the 2360 s , Kobliad fugitive Rao Vantika used a subspace shunt to access and purge everything in the active memory of computer systems on Rigel VII . He later attempted the same on Deep Space 9 in 2369 . ( ) In the 2370s , a view of the surface of Rigel VII was depicted on several viewscreen s on Deep Space 9 ' s Promenade and replimat , ( ) advertising a visit to the " spectacular castles of Rigel VII " . ( ) Appendices . Background information . In the story outline for " The Cage " ( as reprinted in " The Making of Star Trek " , pp . 47 - 65 ) , this planet ' s name was given as Endrex II . ( " The Making of Star Trek " , p . 51 ) As evidenced by the script for " The Cage " , the planet ' s name was then changed to Rigel 113 . Before it finally became Rigel VII , Harvey P . Lynn – a physicist from the RAND Corporation who served as an unofficial adviser on both " The Cage " and , later , the first season of – suggested to Gene Roddenberry that he consider changing Rigel 113 to Vega 113 , due to Rigel being " mighty far away . " ( " The Making of Star Trek " , p . 95 ) In stage directions from the first draft script of " The Cage " , Rigel 113 was mentioned as having an " adobe - type terrain . " The same script also remarked , " " The sky is reddish , a quarter of it dominated by a huge moon . " " In the second revised final draft of the script for " The Cage " , the planet ' s surface was described as featuring " rocks and strange vegetation . " In " The Cage " and " The Menagerie , Part II " , the surface of Rigel VII ( including the exterior of the Rigel fortress ) was depicted with a matte painting that was created by Albert Whitlock . The same matte painting was re - used , unaltered , for Holberg 917G in the original version of ( though it was replaced by a new CG matte painting for that episode ' s version ) . According to , Rigel VII was in a double planet system . In " Two Days and Two Nights " , the , set a milestone several months after its mission to Rigel X , by becoming the first Earth ship to travel ninety light years away from the Sol system . Apocrypha . In the short story version of " The Cage " ( titled " The Menagerie " and published in " Star Trek 4 " ) , this planet was Rigel VIII . According to " " ( p . 54 ; " United Federation of Planets III " ) , Rigel VII ( Beta Orionis A VII ) was a quarantined planet . The planet was an world . The planet was non - aligned , with its status pending the development of warp drive . The dominant species was the Kalar . There was a conjectural count of 725 , 000 Kalar in 2370 . First contact with this world was made by the " Enterprise " in 2254 . This planet was in the Beta Quadrant , in the " true " Rigel ( Beta Orionis ) system . According to the comics series " " , the building was named the Zemtar fortress , and the " Kalar " warriors attacked because of their reluctance to see their homeworld join the peaceful Federation . In Decipher ' s " Star Trek Roleplaying Game " , the green Orion race was from Rigel VII .