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I believe you're slightly mis-remembering what Farrand was talking about. It wasn't the name of the planet, rather it was a visual effect / matte painting.

Here is the paragraph from the DS9 Nitpickers Guide page 34 (OCR'd for Thunderforge)

6. The Colonists of Eternal Doom. Some legends are almost too sorrowfully strange to tell. The creators give us the briefest hint of one such legend in “The Maquis, Part I.” During this episode, we see an exterior shot of a colony. In the background, an aqueduct snakes up a mountain. It just so happens that this exterior shot is a reuse from the episode “Ensigns of Command” (TNG). Since nitpickers don’t deal in reality, we must conclude that these poor colonists first crashed on a planet bathed in hyperonic radiation. Many died, but they finally adapted, only to have the Enterprise come and evacuate them because their world was deeded to the Sheliak. (We know this from “Ensigns of Command”) Then ...these poor people moved to another world, started all over, built an exact replica of their old colony...only to have the Federation deed their planet to the Cardassians!

I believe this is the exterior shot in question (this is from the DS9 episode mentioned above).

And here is the same background from the Next Generation episode

Other than the moon in the DS9 episode and a slight difference in color shading, they look the same.

I believe you're slightly mis-remembering what Farrand was talking about. It wasn't the name of the planet, rather it was a visual effect / matte painting.

Here is the paragraph from the DS9 Nitpickers Guide page 34 (OCR'd for Thunderforge)

6. The Colonists of Eternal Doom. Some legends are almost too sorrowfully strange to tell. The creators give us the briefest hint of one such legend in “The Maquis, Part I.” During this episode, we see an exterior shot of a colony. In the background, an aqueduct snakes up a mountain. It just so happens that this exterior shot is a reuse from the episode “Ensigns of Command” (TNG). Since nitpickers don’t deal in reality, we must conclude that these poor colonists first crashed on a planet bathed in hyperonic radiation. Many died, but they finally adapted, only to have the Enterprise come and evacuate them because their world was deeded to the Sheliak. (We know this from “Ensigns of Command”) Then ...these poor people moved to another world, started all over, built an exact replica of their old colony...only to have the Federation deed their planet to the Cardassians!

I believe this is the exterior shot in question (this is from the DS9 episode mentioned above).

And here is the same background from the Next Generation episode

Other than the moon in the DS9 episode and a slight difference in color shading, they look the same.

I believe you're slightly mis-remembering what Farrand was talking about. It wasn't the name of the planet, rather it was a visual effect / matte painting.

Here is the paragraph from the DS9 Nitpickers Guide page 34 (OCR'd for Thunderforge)

6. The Colonists of Eternal Doom. Some legends are almost too sorrowfully strange to tell. The creators give us the briefest hint of one such legend in “The Maquis, Part I.” During this episode, we see an exterior shot of a colony. In the background, an aqueduct snakes up a mountain. It just so happens that this exterior shot is a reuse from the episode “Ensigns of Command” (TNG). Since nitpickers don’t deal in reality, we must conclude that these poor colonists first crashed on a planet bathed in hyperonic radiation. Many died, but they finally adapted, only to have the Enterprise come and evacuate them because their world was deeded to the Sheliak. (We know this from “Ensigns of Command”) Then ...these poor people moved to another world, started all over, built an exact replica of their old colony...only to have the Federation deed their planet to the Cardassians!

I believe this is the exterior shot in question (this is from the DS9 episode mentioned above).

I believe you're slightly mis-remembering what Farrand was talking about. It wasn't the name of the planet, rather it was a visual effect / matte painting.

Here is the paragraph from the DS9 Nitpickers Guide page 34 (OCR'd for Thunderforge)

6. The Colonists of Eternal Doom. Some legends are almost too sorrowfully strange to tell. The creators give us the briefest hint of one such legend in “The Maquis, Part I.” During this episode, we see an exterior shot of a colony. In the background, an aqueduct snakes up a mountain. It just so happens that this exterior shot is a reuse from the episode “Ensigns of Command” (TNG). Since nitpickers don’t deal in reality, we must conclude that these poor colonists first crashed on a planet bathed in hyperonic radiation. Many died, but they finally adapted, only to have the Enterprise come and evacuate them because their world was deeded to the Sheliak. (We know this from “Ensigns of Command”) Then ...these poor people moved to another world, started all over, built an exact replica of their old colony...only to have the Federation deed their planet to the Cardassians!

I believe this is the exterior shot in question (this is from the DS9 episode mentioned above).

And here is the same background from the Next Generation episode

Other than the moon in the DS9 episode and a slight difference in color shading, they look the same.

I believe you're slightly mis-remembering what Farrand was talking about. It wasn't the name of the planet, rather it was a visual effect / matte painting.

Here is the paragraph from the DS9 Nitpickers Guide page 34 (OCR'd for Thunderforge)

6. The Colonists of Eternal Doom. Some legends are almost too sorrowfully strange to tell. The creators give us the briefest hint of one such legend in “The Maquis, Part I.” During this episode, we see an exterior shot of a colony. In the background, an aqueduct snakes up a mountain. It just so happens that this exterior shot is a reuse from the episode “Ensigns of Command” (TNG). Since nitpickers don’t deal in reality, we must conclude that these poor colonists first crashed on a planet bathed in hyperonic radiation. Many died, but they finally adapted, only to have the Enterprise come and evacuate them because their world was deeded to the Sheliak. (We know this from “Ensigns of Command”) Then ...these poor people moved to another world, started all over, built an exact replica of their old colony...only to have the Federation deed their planet to the Cardassians!

I believe you're slightly mis-remembering what Farrand was talking about. It wasn't the name of the planet, rather it was a visual effect / matte painting.

Here is the paragraph from the DS9 Nitpickers Guide page 34 (OCR'd for Thunderforge)

6. The Colonists of Eternal Doom. Some legends are almost too sorrowfully strange to tell. The creators give us the briefest hint of one such legend in “The Maquis, Part I.” During this episode, we see an exterior shot of a colony. In the background, an aqueduct snakes up a mountain. It just so happens that this exterior shot is a reuse from the episode “Ensigns of Command” (TNG). Since nitpickers don’t deal in reality, we must conclude that these poor colonists first crashed on a planet bathed in hyperonic radiation. Many died, but they finally adapted, only to have the Enterprise come and evacuate them because their world was deeded to the Sheliak. (We know this from “Ensigns of Command”) Then ...these poor people moved to another world, started all over, built an exact replica of their old colony...only to have the Federation deed their planet to the Cardassians!

I believe this is the exterior shot in question (this is from the DS9 episode mentioned above).