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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Harry: [QB] Quark wanted to go to Orion to drop stuff off or something. Here's an interesting excerpt from Trimble's Concordance: [QUOTE] [i]� Orion planet: [/i] The originally colonized, most inhabited planet in the Orion star system, noted for traders, treachery and green animal women. Dr. Roger Korby improved immunization techniques with information from the Orion ruins ("What Are Little Girls Made Of?"). Orion smugglers raid Coridan for dilithium crystals, and when discovered, both and Orion spy destroy themselves ("Journey to Babel"). [..snip!..] Orion also has pirates. The planet tries to maintain an air of neutrality, but it is a thinly veiled license to pray on anyone ("The Pirates of Orion"). Kirk, Spock and historian Erikson go through the time portal into the past of Orion to study it firsthand ("Yesteryear"). Kirk and Mendez seem slightly regretful that they have no personal experience with Orion slave girls ("The Menagerie"). [i]� Orion colony: [/i] An area of Orion inhabited by a variety of species, several of which are humanoid and intelligent: the golden-skinned interpreter of the laws, Devna ("Time Trap"), Thelev ("Journey to Babel"), Orion pirates ("Pirates of Orion") and the semi-intelligent, green-skinned, tailed Orions ("The Cage"). The vile business may be eradicated, to judge from the lack of reference to it by Thelev ("Journey to Babel") and Marta ("Whom Gods Destroy"). [/QUOTE]My guess would be that the planet Orion is that officially neutral world, perhaps with an old Earth colony gone corrupt (which isn't unusual in Kirk's days), and the Orion Syndicate is basically it's mafia, with a lot of influence on a number of planets (like DS9's Farius Prime) and sponsoring pirating, smuggling and the trade in sex slaves. It would seem that Orion has to have something valuable to it that would ensure it's 'neutrality' towards the Federation, despite ovbiously supporting criminals. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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