OK, fine. You can be crumby quadrant alpha; we’ll be quadrant one.
This is why we hate you
Submitted 11 months ago by Stamets@startrek.website to risa@startrek.website
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charonn0@startrek.website 11 months ago
dalekcaan@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Or the mongooses! That’s a good team name. The Flighting Mongooses!
Comment105@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Oh, is this some intergalactic Sony vs Xbox console war?
Etterra@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Romans: The damned Vulcans out you up to this, didn’t they.
Vulcans: We did not; however we do see the logic in their clarification and designation methodologies.
Andorians: Hell yeah we do! Up yours Romuloosers!
Tellarites: I still think we should have called your side the Asshole Zone.
Humans: We voted, with four ‘yeas’ and one ‘nay.’ And here on earth we have a saying, “If you don’t vote you can’t complain.”
Romulans: But- You- I- Wait. Hold on a second. Who was the fourth “yea?”
Klingons: We wanted to be the Alpha sector, but the humans threatened to blow our planet up. It’s not our fault they can’t just resolve disputes with a good war like a civilized species.
Romans
Stamets@startrek.website 11 months ago
TheFonz@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Beautiful
littlecolt@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Oh yeah well we call your quadrant the ligma quadrant.
Worx@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
What’s a quadrant?
killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Not much, what’s a quadrant with you?
bingbong@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Ligma quadrant lmao gottem
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 11 months ago
What’s quadrant?
samus12345@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Johanno@feddit.de 11 months ago
What a sigma move
TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.page 11 months ago
And also for the entire Dominion war we forget that half the federation, the Klingons, and the romulans are all in the beta quadrant. But we’re fighting to save the alpha quadrant.
Etterra@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well yeah, because of the Federation falls, they’re next in line.
spiderkle@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
based federation
somegadgetguy@lemdro.id 11 months ago
Inalien? If you could only hear yourselves. Human rights. Why, the very name is racist. The Federation is no more than a “homo sapiens only” club.
kalkulat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Here’s the deal; Give us physical proof that you’re an alien, and you’re in the club!
teft@startrek.website 11 months ago
The United Federation of Planets straddles the line between the Alpha and Beta quadrant. They are about 50/50 on either side. In fact the line runs right through the Sol system so half the year we Earthers are in the Alpha quadrant and the other half we’re in the Beta quadrant.
Image
Snowcano@startrek.website 11 months ago
This of the kind of accurate pedantry I can get behind.
marcos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m not the least surprised that people made a map of the Star Trek star systems.
But I’m impressed anyway.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
It does bother me that (afaik) we still don’t have a solid 3D model of the ST galaxy…
ApostleO@startrek.website 11 months 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.
grue@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
lolrightythen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Quadrants never made sense to be. Would you want to with octants - having the center of the galaxy being the dividing point?
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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.
bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
This map makes me more excited for that new PDX game
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 11 months ago
The what now?
fluxion@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You can’t out-woke the Federation
ramble81@lemm.ee 11 months ago
So which was is the Delta quadrant in that image? Also, where does the other end of the wormhole pop out?
dublet@lemmy.world 11 months 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
teft@startrek.website 11 months 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.
grue@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Delta and Gamma quadrants would be on the opposite side of the galactic center and aren’t pictured.