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teft@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Snowcano@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This of the kind of accurate pedantry I can get behind.

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• marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m not the least surprised that people made a map of the Star Trek star systems.

  But I’m impressed anyway.

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It does bother me that (afaik) we still don’t have a solid 3D model of the ST galaxy…

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    • ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s our galaxy, and it is, relatively speaking, fairly flat.

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      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        his pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking

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      • cloudy1999@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Another one of those flat galaxyers

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• ApostleO@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wow, I legitimately never knew this. I thought all these civilizations were in the Alpha Quadrant. I only remembered the Beta Quadrant being mentioned once in TOS.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think the much more frequent mentions of the Alpha quadrant in TOS are less about where the Federation was located and more about where the Enterprise was assigned to explore on its five-year mission.

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    • toasteecup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah quadrants don’t pop up with regularity until the TNG. The movies make some mention, but TOS is set during the exploratory days where no one really knows what’s out there

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      • LaggyKar@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And of course later on the alpha quadrant gets most of the mentions since that’s where the wormhole to the gamma quadrant is located. Though presumably Voyager would have spent half of their voyage home in the beta quadrant, had they not found a shortcut.

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  • lolrightythen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Quadrants never made sense to be. Would you want to with octants - having the center of the galaxy being the dividing point?

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah I don’t see why you would want some random arm of the spiral to be the dividing point.

      But quadrants still make sense though.

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      • lolrightythen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I spose a galaxy is largely planar. Makes sense

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• captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t know; I always got the sense that the use of the word “quadrant” varied from writer to writer, and what makes up a “quadrant” changes not only show to show but episode to episode. Voyager spent 7 years in the Delta quadrant, while in Star Trek 6 Sulu’s Excelsior was inconveniently far away from the Enterprise because “We’re now in…(pause to check console) Alpha quadrant.” and had to “fly her apart then!” to get to Enterprise in a matter of minutes or hours.

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• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This map makes me more excited for that new PDX game

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The what now?

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    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      store.steampowered.com/app/…/Star_Trek_Infinite/

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      • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh, I’m jumping on this hype train for sure

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• fluxion@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You can’t out-woke the Federation

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• ramble81@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So which was is the Delta quadrant in that image? Also, where does the other end of the wormhole pop out?

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  • dublet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Delta Quadrants is not featured in that image, only the lower two quarters. Putting into context, that map is the lower blob in this:

    Quadrants

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    • VindictiveJudge@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The Alpha-Beta blob should be shifted down a bit, and possibly shrunk. Earth is significantly closer to the galactic rim, on that arm that currently goes across the southern edge of the Alpha-Beta blob.

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    • mosiacmango@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Is that Borg collective BJ or PJ (before Janeway/post Janeway)?

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      • Rhaedas@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Time traveler: "Yes."

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  • teft@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Sol system is ~26,000 light years from the center of the galaxy. The UFP is about 8000 light years distant according to Picard in First Contact. So the Delta quadrant would be triple the distance that this maps shows away in the direction of the Romulans. That’s my best guess as I can’t find a reliable quadrant map.

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    • Infynis@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      So, if they had had to take the long way home, would they have wound up stuck on the other side of the Romulans? I’m sure the Romulans would love the story about the Star Fleet ship just happened to end up on the other side of their border because of unexplainable godlike powers. That definitely wouldn’t cause any issues. I’m sure they’d have given Voyager safe passage back to the Federation

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      • teft@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Well the Romulan Government knew of Voyager and where they were because of that time voyager contacted Telek R’mor through a micro wormhole into the past. Barclay even mentions that the Romulans were very interested in Voyager for some time.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Delta and Gamma quadrants would be on the opposite side of the galactic center and aren’t pictured.

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