An uninhabited planet rich in plant life whose entire biosphere was burnt away in 2369 to keep rivals from a fragment of an ancient genetic puzzle.
Indri VIII is an uninhabited planet that had abundant vegetation but no animal or intelligent life. It appears in the sixth-season Next Generation episode The Chase.
After the death of his old teacher Professor Galen, Picard pursues the research Galen left behind: a set of numbers pointing to DNA fragments on widely scattered worlds. The trail leads the Enterprise-D to Indri VIII, a planet of no obvious value to anyone.
The ship arrives to find a plasma reaction sweeping through the lower atmosphere and destroying every living thing on the surface. Someone has already taken a sample and then made sure nobody else could. The culprits prove to be Klingons, who are competing with the Cardassians and the Romulans for what all of them believe is a weapon or a source of power. The complete code turns out to hold a message from the first humanoids.