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This is why we hate you (startrek.website)

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[–] ApostleO@startrek.website 25 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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 20 points 2 years 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 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Quadrants never made sense to be. Wouldn't you want to with octants - having the center of the galaxy being the dividing point?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I spose a galaxy is largely planar. Makes sense

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years 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?