On the subject of S2 maps,
this one showing the route of Spock's shuttle is another reuse of Star Charts material. Only, we have to disregard the apparent orientation and scale wrt what looks like the shape of the Milky Way on the background; perhaps this is just Pike's default background art for his graphics?
"In reality", the elongated block of space we see goes from Sol (at the far end) towards
Star Charts right or anticlockwise (at the close end), "horizontally" cutting through the area where Klingon space brushes against Romulan space. We see Spock go past highlights such as Beta Lankal, H'Atoria and SB 105, while flying through the Mempa Sector or thereabouts.
Or, since the map is so vague, Spock is flying above or below Mempa, or at least above or below the Klingon-controlled parts of Mempa. This region of Klingon space was always intended in the original maps to be but a slender pseudopod the Klingons are extending towards the Romulans, in a region of space the Feds feel is their own, so that the Romulan Neutral Zone of human making extends all the way to this area. (It's also probably where the Delphic Expanse used to reside, keeping the usual suspects away from each other's throats until Archer's team removed the obstacle!)
In any case, this is one of the poorer maps of the spinoff. A Class C shuttle traveling across all those sectors in the mere weeks allotted is potentially doable, but a bit curious. And since it's all a sham and Spock sent the shuttle on its merry way while himself hiding in his parents' basement, we can't argue the shuttle would be making pit stops to facilitate its long journey. Also, the heroes appear to warp to that location, rather than spore-jump; their warping begins with "Obol for Charon" but is rudely interrupted there, and is concluded very soon thereafter in "Saints of Imperfection", at most hours after said interruption. How did the apparently slowish hero ship go across all those sectors if the starting point was a location where they could pick up Nhan and get visited by Number One?
Or did those two (and arguably also Reno) themselves travel across multiple sectors to meet with Pike? In the episode before that, "Point of Light",
everybody came, including Amanda née Grayson. Were they all out in the sticks, too? If not, what excuse did Pike have to travel from the "Point of Light" spot to the putatively distant "Obol for Charon" spot when he had no leads and no mission?
But that's yer standard Trek travel time and distance mystery-fuckuppery fer ya. The map itself is its own issue, and as such another reuse of standard stock. Without any mention of a quadrant border, I might add, even though it would run through that map in all interpretations!
Timo Saloniemi
