At the start of the game, the corner square counts as a populated planet for the first four turns.
Just within the Community of Worlds itself there are more than three thousand populated planets.
Our sensors picked up readings of violence in space near this system's other populated planet.
That thing is heading for the heart of our galaxy-thousands of populated planets!
Alderaan was the only populated planet ever destroyed by the Death Star.
There isn't a populated planet in the Galaxy with a satellite like that.
It just means that the statistics on populated planets are incomplete.
An entire populated planet going about its business.
"He'd burn off an entire populated planet to make the ruins, if the idea ever occurred to him," said Kirk.
We don't land an interstellar ship on a populated planet until open communication or alliance is established.