it cant be earth becuase the klingons never attacked earth according to DS9
Changeing face of evil the klingons were never so bold as to do that so wht planet is the Discovery star base one above if not earth? any plantt ideas really it seems a good thing that the missin seems to be accessable from any where until they have a system for it,
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Starbase 1 was a Federation starbase administered by Starfleet. It was located one hundred au from Earth, near a planetary body.
The established distance from Earth places the starbase in the scattered disc of the Sol system. It may orbit one of the many icy dwarf planets found in this region of space.
Close inspection of the planet shown below the starbase seems to reveal features from Earth, such as Lake Michigan and the Florida peninsula. The latter must likely be regarded as a VFX error.
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Technically that is still accurate. No facility or anything WITHIN the Sol System was attacked. Earth was about to, but it was called off.
As for the second House mentioned... in the show we see the aftermath where House D'Ghor claimed the station.
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Eris largest distance from the sun, its Aphelion, is about 97.651 AU, it's Perihelion is 37.911 AU. It is possible the writers either ignored that its distance is so variable, only taking into account its largest distance, or that they actually confused Aphelion and Perihelion distances, since around the time Discovery plays, the dwarf planet is closest to its Perihelion, so not at~100 AU, but more around ~40 AU.
Eris is currently estimated the heaviest known dwarf planet of the solar system.
It's orbit is not just eccentric, it is also about 44 degrees of the sun-Earth plane.
Maybe that would be useful to the operation of the base, as it means travel to it can avoid travel lanes between the other planets in our star system and it might have also uninterrupted communication lines to Earth (though I figure the other planets don't matter much to that, the Moon might.) It might be less practical without Star Trek's advanced tech though, I imagine slingshot maneuvers using the other planets would be a lot harder to pull off, since none of them are directly en route.
It is a very bright/reflective world with an albedo of 0.96, and believed to be covered with ice. This would be relatively consistent with the depiction in the show.
People believe they see landmarks resembling Earth landmarks, but I would argue the similarities are very superficial and could be more based on our preference to see patterns, even if it's just coincidence.
Though it is possible the VFX team decided to start with an Earth model and then distort it a bit and brighten it up, rather than start from scratch.
Of course, it could be any other, yet unidentified dwarf planet in that area.