Were you bothered by how quickly people traveled in DS9?

[You_Will_Fail]

The crew of DS9 were seemingly able to just hop on a transport and travel hundreds of lightyears within a number of days, did this bother you?
Ironically it was Voyager who seemed to treat distance with some seriousness as to travel only a couple of dozen lightyears would actually take them several days- although the other species in the Alpha Quadrant seemed to have some magic propulsion system that allowed them to show up whenever the writers felt like it *cough* Flesh and Blood *cough*.

For me, I think I'm willing to suspend my disbelief regarding the lightyears/warp issue because in the end, I just want to watch a show that can tell good stories.

 

[scotpens]

Like turbolifts, starships travel at the speed of plot.

 

[SchwEnt]

Shouldn't this be in the DS9 forum?

Anyway, I think the series stayed fairly consistent.
DS9 (near the Denorios Belt) was about a six hour journey from Bajor, per whatever regular shuttles made the route.
This stayed pretty much the same throughout the series.

And DS9 to Earth was about two weeks travel, I believe.

Of course, whatever vessel running at whatever top speed could change everything.

But Bajor<-->DS9 and DS9<-->Earth stayed consistent (if not accurate) most of the time.

Any other destinations and travel times escape me at the moment...

 

[C.E. Evans]

IMO, Deep Space Nine wasn't that terribly far from Earth, but it was still established outside of Federation space as the Bajor Sector sat between Federation and Cardassian territory. Ships traveling at fairly high warp could probably make the journey from Earth to DS9 in a week, but that still doesn't diminish the station being a frontier outpost, since beyond it was non-Federation space.

The Federation is probably laid out like a messy inkblot--rather than a perfect sphere--and is sandwiched between other galactic governments in the Alpha Quadrant. In that regard, some borders of Federation space may only be a few light-years from Earth, while others could be hundreds or thousands of light-years away.

 

[The_Baroness]

Bajor is actually Earths moon.

Problem solved.

 

[Finn]

In the premire, Bashir talked as if Bajor was a distant world, like someone from Virginia moving to an army post in the rockies in the 1830s.

 

[Timo]

...Let's remember that the guy doing the talking was quite wet behind the ears, tho. For Bashir, "far frontier" might indeed have meant 50 ly from home.

Amusingly, references to Bajor/DS9 transit times also included "The Storyteller", where a non-emergency trip took two hours, not six. Which makes absolutely perfect sense: two hours from DS9 to Bajor's orbit, and then either zero or four hours from Bajor's orbit to Bajor, depending on which side of the star the planet happens to be that day!

It also gives us distance data. The Denorios Belt is 160 million kilometers from Bajor's orbit in "Emissary". By the above logic, Bajor lies that same distance (the same number of travel hours) from the system's star, meaning DS9 orbits the star at 320 Gm...

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Finn]

^I kinda disagree Yes, Bashir was kinda wet behind the ear. But he's gifted and probably very educated (lot of it self educated) so I don't see him considering a world 50 light year from Earth "far froniter" just over 300 years after first contact and 200 years of Federation history, especially since the NX-01 made it 100 light years from Earth by the second season IIRC.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I don't care about such things. The only time I noticed was that Odo went to a distant world during a break in the trial in the episode "Dax' and made it back in time for the resumption of the trial.

 

[Michael]

I don't care about such things.

This.

 

[Willieck]

Were you bothered by how quickly people travelled in DS9?

er..... nope.

 

[JiNX-01]

I'm not susceptible to motion sickness, so it didn't bother me a bit.

 

[Starbreaker]

Never noticed anything of the sort, but I'm not a clipboard carrier.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

You will Fail, where is your av from?

 

[Jack Bauer]

It seemed like every season Bajor got closer and closer to Earth. At the start of the show it took weeks to get to Earth. By the final season it seemed like it was just a few days away. It all depended on the plot.

 

[Robert DeSoto]

When the show first started, Deep Space Nine was supposed to be this distant outpost far away from the Federation fleet. But it never felt that way. There were constantly Federation starships coming and going from the station. And Starfleet could always mobilize its fleet and deploy it to DS9 in a couple of days. Which makes more sense with the station being so close to Cardassian territory, the Badlands and the DMZ. Just like how Starfleet keeps ships near the Romulan Neutral Zone outposts, they gotta keep ships near DS9 as well.

It seemed like every season Bajor got closer and closer to Earth. At the start of the show it took weeks to get to Earth. By the final season it seemed like it was just a few days away. It all depended on the plot.

What bothered me more is how Jack Bauer can get anywhere in Los Angeles, Washington D.C. and New York City in 10 minutes. You never seem to run into any traffic jams eh, Agent Bauer?

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Moving to DS9