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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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      • kameecoding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        but when The Romulans are tricked into invading through the wormhole by the founders they so ot woth the excuse of making safe/saving the appha quadrant.

        Although I am only halfway through DS9 I assumed the federation, Klingon and Romulans are all within the alpha quadrant.

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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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      • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yeah I was thinking a spiral galaxy such as ours, split it into quadrants. There’s some level of depth there, but still relatively “flat”

        Still doesn’t quite match up with OPs pic, which might be canon?

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