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Shouldn't the explorable sector space be more centered around Earth?

sophlogimosophlogimo Member Posts: 6,507 Arc User
in Tribble - General Discussion and Feedback
Currently, we can fly through what will eventually be the Beta Quadrant, or part of it. But there is no Alpha Quadrant equivalent, just a lightyear from Sol or so there is nothing but "Deep space".

Shouldn't the 23rd century sector block at east have some space around the "western" side of Sol that can be flown through? I mean, are we supposed to believe that Starfleet really did not send a single ship into that direction?

But I like the handling of the Romulan Neutral Zone. :)

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  • aeonjeanaeonjean Member Posts: 137 Arc User
    This would have been a great chance to have the Sol System actually in the Alpha Quadrant like in the official lore.
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  • aeonjeanaeonjean Member Posts: 137 Arc User
    edited May 2016
    Where are you getting your info from that part of the Sol is in the beta quadrant? I don't mind being wrong, I've just never heard that before. However, even if part of the Sol system is in Beta, they've clearly said Earth is in Alpha plenty of times.

    The Sol system was located less than ninety light years from the Qo'noS system, a system in the Beta Quadrant. This system was located at the boundary line between the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. (ENT: "Broken Bow", "Two Days and Two Nights"; Star Trek: Insurrection; Star Trek Into Darkness)
    The Star Trek Encyclopedia states that the Federation was spread across the Alpha and Beta Quadrants in order to explain why the USS Enterprise was often the "only ship in the quadrant", though the term quadrant has been often used to refer to smaller segments of the galaxy as well.
  • nikeixnikeix Member Posts: 3,972 Arc User
    So memory Alpha is NOT in the TOS zone?
  • kamenriderzero1kamenriderzero1 Member Posts: 906 Arc User
    They're probably still cleaning up from the Zetar incident.
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  • jaturnleyjaturnley Member Posts: 1,218 Arc User
    aeonjean wrote: »
    Where are you getting your info from that part of the Sol is in the beta quadrant? I don't mind being wrong, I've just never heard that before. However, even if part of the Sol system is in Beta, they've clearly said Earth is in Alpha plenty of times.

    The Sol system was located less than ninety light years from the Qo'noS system, a system in the Beta Quadrant. This system was located at the boundary line between the Alpha and Beta Quadrants. (ENT: "Broken Bow", "Two Days and Two Nights"; Star Trek: Insurrection; Star Trek Into Darkness)
    The Star Trek Encyclopedia states that the Federation was spread across the Alpha and Beta Quadrants in order to explain why the USS Enterprise was often the "only ship in the quadrant", though the term quadrant has been often used to refer to smaller segments of the galaxy as well.

    There have been many, many debates on the subject. In short, most of the references to it being in the Alpha Quadrant come from Voyager, but DS9 and TNG have on-screen maps showing that Sol is the border between alpha and beta, with delta above beta and gamma above alpha. Even if Sol WERE in alpha, the entire "need to return to the alpha quadrant" idea is dumb, because Voyager would need to go through beta to get there, and the Federation is as much there as it is in alpha no matter what source you look at. The folks at Cryptic chose to use the book Star Trek Star Charts by Geoffrey Mandel for their maps, and it uses the Sol as a divider rule.
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