This is why we hate you
This is why we hate you
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OK, fine. You can be crummy quadrant alpha; we'll be quadrant one.
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Or the mongooses! That's a good team name. The Flighting Mongooses!
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Oh, is this some intergalactic Sony vs Xbox console war?
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Romulans: The damned Vulcans put 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 Quadrant 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.
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Oh bravo.
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Beautiful
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This quadrant kinda feels like a beta, you know?
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What a sigma move
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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.
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Well yeah, because of the Federation falls, they're next in line.
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based federation
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Here's the deal; Give us physical proof that you're an alien, and you're in the club!
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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.
This of the kind of accurate pedantry I can get behind.
I'm not the least surprised that people made a map of the Star Trek star systems.
But I'm impressed anyway.
It does bother me that (afaik) we still don’t have a solid 3D model of the ST galaxy…
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.
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.
Quadrants never made sense to be. Wouldn't you want to with octants - having the center of the galaxy being the dividing point?
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.
This map makes me more excited for that new PDX game
The what now?
But wait, the sun moves around in its orbit around the galaxy. How can the sun be straddling the line at all times? You can't even solve that by saying the division is exactly in the same plane as the sun's orbit because it varies up and down due to differences in the galactic make-up. Does the dividing line just move with the sun like some sort of sol-centric division?
There's no way to define a direction of a galaxy really, so you'd have to choose some arbitrary direction as "north" or whatever you call it. I assume that's what they've done. They define the direction to Sol as the line upon which everything else is measured.
So which was is the Delta quadrant in that image? Also, where does the other end of the wormhole pop out?
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:
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 ~9 times the distance that this maps shows away in the direction of the Romulans (Kathy and crew have to travel 70000 light years). That's my best guess as I can't find a reliable quadrant map.
Delta and Gamma quadrants would be on the opposite side of the galactic center and aren't pictured. I'm not sure whether they would be off the top or the bottom of the page, but that yellow line dividing the Alpha and Beta quadrants is also the line dividing Gamma and Delta.
You can't out-woke the Federation