Egypt was a country on the planet Earth, located in northern Africa and traditionally considered part of the Middle East. It bordered the Red Sea, Israel, Sudan, Libya, and the Mediterranean Sea.
Its Arabic name was Misr. (Last Unicorn RPG modules: TOS Core Game Book, The Way of Kolinahr)
Ancient Egypt
The Egyptians created a vast empire beginning circa 3150 BCE, and achieved many technological advances in mathematics, medicine, art and architecture. The Egyptians used obsidian blades to perform delicate surgeries. (TOS novel: Vulcan's Forge)
The Kingdom of Egypt was ruled by a monarch called a Pharaoh. Ramses II was one notable pharaoh who ruled for nearly six decades. (TOS episode: "Patterns of Force") Other notable pharaohs were Queen Nefertiti and King Tutankhamen. (TOS novels: Strangers from the Sky, Probe, TNG novel: Indistinguishable from Magic).
The ancient Egyptians were particularly noted for their method of mummifying their dead, and for the elaborate tombs created for their rulers. Many of these tombs were discovered in what became known as the Valley of the Kings. The mysterious pyramids of Egypt, such as the Great Pyramid, were still objects of great interest to temporal scientists in the 31st century. (ENT episode: "Cold Front")
The Doctor and his two human friends, Amy Pond and Rory Williams, once visited ancient Egypt. There they discovered an escaped alien criminal who'd been posing as vizier to the Pharoah for several decades. After evading Egyptian soldiers, they made their way through the Pharoah's palace and confronted the disguised alien vizier in the throne-room. Though the Doctor gave the alien criminal a chance to flee, it transformed into its true form and threatened to attack. The Doctor sucked the alien back into its cell and explained to the Pharoah that the alien had been planning to harness the Nile's kinetic energy to power a tachyon pulse inverter, which would have ignited Earth's atmosphere and burned half of its surface. The Doctor gained the Pharoah's assistance in finding the TARDIS. (TNG - Assimilation² comic: "Issue 1")
Ancient Egyptian writings, hieroglyphs, remained untranslatable until the discovery of the Rosetta Stone. (DSC episode: "Rosetta")
In the late 23rd century, the USS Enterprise discovered a near-duplicate of ancient Egyptian culture on the planet Zeta Reticuli II. (TOS comic: "We Are Dying, Egypt, Dying!")
Ensign Cathe Telakwitha and Lieutenant Nyota Uhura were both fans of ancient Egyptian art. (TOS novel: Heart of the Sun)
Theology
The ancient Egyptians were polytheistic, worshiping multiple gods. Many of them, such as Thoth, were discovered in the late 24th century to have been alien Beings, who had visited Earth in the earliest days of human civilization. (NF novels: Being Human, Gods Above)
Dieties
- Anubis (TOS comic: "We Are Dying, Egypt, Dying!", Decipher RPG module: Through a Glass, Darkly, NF novels: Being Human, Gods Above)
- Aten (TOS novel: Strangers from the Sky)
- Isis (possibly)
- Khnum (TOS comic: "We Are Dying, Egypt, Dying!")
- Ra (TNG novel: Masks, NF novel: Being Human)
- Sekhmet
- Thoth
The planet Amenhotep IX was named for Egyptian god Amenhotep. (TOS novelization: The Search for Spock)
Modern Egypt
In the year 1840, Egypt accepted the Treaty of London. (TOS novel: Federation)
The Regulan humans were originally of Egyptian descent. (TOS - Star Trek II Short Stories short story: "The Blaze of Glory")
Parneb sent a landing party from the Starfleet starship USS Enterprise in 2264 to Egypt in 2045. (TOS novel: Strangers from the Sky)
Egypt in the 24th century was known for producing good quality crops. (DS9 novel: The Laertian Gamble) In the year 2266, James T. Kirk, Spock, Leonard McCoy and Montgomery Scott visited the Great Pyramid along with famous mathematician and pacifist Alfred Bleikoff. Bleikoff was amazed at the progress made in reclaiming the desert around the monument. (TOS comic: "Prophet of Peace")
In 2273, Rear Admiral James T. Kirk was on leave in Egypt when he was alerted to the V'Ger crisis. (TOS novelization: The Motion Picture)
Ven Kaldarren and his son, Jason Garrett, visited Egypt and the Valley of the Kings in 2335. (TLE novel: Well of Souls)
The USS Enterprise-E's chief science officer Dina Elfiki was a native of Egypt. (TNG novel: Greater Than the Sum)
Starfleet has named starships for famous Egyptians. The 23rd century Akula-class frigate USS Arafat was named for politician Yasser Arafat. The 24th century USS Farouk El-Baz and USS Enterprise-D's type-15 shuttlepod El-Baz were named for scientist Farouk El-Baz.
Alternate realities
Kelvin timeline
According to Khan Noonien Singh, in September 1992 Augment Dictator Ama Owusu annexed Egypt into United Africa. By 1996, John Ericssen had taken Egypt from Owusu, adding it to his Pax Europa territories, before the Augment dictatorships were overthrown. (TOS - Khan comics: "Issue 2", "Issue 3")
Mirror universe
Priest-king Menes created a theocracy in Egypt through worship of the deity Anubis. Later, Greece under Agamemnon leveled the pyramids and destroyed Egyptian civilization. (Decipher RPG module: Through a Glass, Darkly)
Geography
The Nile was a river in Egypt. (TNG - Assimilation² comic: "Issue 1")
Points of interest
- Alexandria
- Alexandria II
- al-Karnak (TNG novel: Imbalance)
- Aswan Dam
- Cairo
- City of the Dead
- Egypt-Israeli Museum
- Giza
- Great Pyramid
- Great Sphinx
- Heliopolis
- Library of Alexandria
- Nile
- Rashid
- Sadat City
- Suez Canal (ST - The Eugenics Wars novel: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonien Singh, Volume 2)
- Thebes
- Valley of the Kings
Notable Egyptians
- Cleopatra
- Dina Elfiki
- Cleante alFaisal (TOS novel: Dwellers in the Crucible)
- Menes (Decipher RPG module: Through a Glass, Darkly)
- Nefertiti
- Claudius Ptolemaeus
- Ramses II
- Anwar el Sadat
- Tutankhamen
Appendices
Connections
External links
- Egypt article at Memory Alpha, the wiki for canon Star Trek.
- Egypt article at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.