Camus II

Camus II

Camus II was a formerly-inhabited planet, where all life had ceased to exist long before the 23rd century. At that time, visitors had to avoid exposure to celebium, which is deadly to humanoid life, by using celebium shielding.

Doctor Janice Lester was sent here with a team of archaeologists to investigate this planet. When Dr. Lester found a life-energy transfer machine she developed a plan to take over the body of James T. Kirk and assume command of the starship USS Enterprise. (TOS: "Turnabout Intruder")

In 2367, the USS Enterprise-D was due at this planet for an archaeological survey, but diverted to Turkana IV responding to a distress call from the Arcos. (TNG: "Legacy")

Background

The writing system of Camus II has symbols identical to Scalosian.

Camus II was later mentioned as a small note on a very large star chart graphic created for TNG: "Conspiracy". It was the image behind a chair in a room where Dexter Remmick was killed. It appears to be located within an outlined block, which may indicate that it was surrounded or was even a part of Federation territory at the time.

Camus II was referred to in "Legacy", the 80th episode of TNG, as an intentional reference to "Turnabout Intruder", the 79th and last episode of TOS.