After realizing that Spock and Rocky from Project Hail Mary come from the same solar system, I decided to imagine what it would look like if an Eridanian served in Starfleet! [https://imgur.com/a/TlctWOV](https://imgur.com/a/TlctWOV) I realized yesterday that Vulcan and Rocky's homeworld Erid both orbit the real-world star 40 Eridani A. Erid is the first planet in the system, and Vulcan is the second. Knowing that Spock and Rocky are neighbors despite their respective planets being completely inhospitable to each other made me wonder what it would take for an Eridanian to serve aboard a Starfleet vessel! This is what I came up with: Rocky is wearing a simple life-support apparatus using known Star Trek technology to provide him with the necessary conditions for his species to live; a hot, highly pressurized, ammonia-based atmosphere.…