Another Way Home?
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I think this question came up in another thread (Name?), and the Cliffs Notes version is... "no, not really."
Edited to say "found it". http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=117662
Edited to say "found it". http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=117662
Nah, the cliff notes is Bermen is an idiot for not making it look less like an option.
The unreal star trek view of the galaxy is an equally quartered circular two dimensional plane, with a radius of 50 thousand lightyears.
There are very damn few place you can launch from to travel a distance of 70 thousand years and not wind up in the intergalactic void, especially when you consider that by season 7 Janeway "voyaged" nearly 50 thousand lightyears and was still well within in the boundaries of the delta Quadrant, which would put bajor and the bad lands a lot closer to the Great barrier than most would have suspected likely when earth is generally considered to be bloody close to the Galactic Barrier fencing off the rim of the liveable galaxy.
Now if Janeway was so close to the Galactic barrier, apart from the fact she didn't have a Medusan on Board you would have to wonder if the option of leaving the galaxy didn't come up and then travelling against the gravametric current of the galactic plane till space it self was moving and Voyager was standing still watching known space spin at some colossal speed. Even at that speed, most of the crew would have to go into stasis, but at least it would be semisafe out there just waiting in the void where nothing else exists to screw with them even if it takes thousands f years to get home this way, at least they'll all be vital when they do get there.
However grumpy Kim from Timeless said that the slipstream drive dumped him a nipples width into the Alpha Quadrant from where from he could contact Starfleet with ease, which would suggest that "some" bulk of Starfleet's influence is located near the centre of the Galaxy, or at least the frontier perimeter bordering the Great Barrier which could extend thousands of lightyears from the actual core of the Galaxy.
The unreal star trek view of the galaxy is an equally quartered circular two dimensional plane, with a radius of 50 thousand lightyears.
There are very damn few place you can launch from to travel a distance of 70 thousand years and not wind up in the intergalactic void, especially when you consider that by season 7 Janeway "voyaged" nearly 50 thousand lightyears and was still well within in the boundaries of the delta Quadrant, which would put bajor and the bad lands a lot closer to the Great barrier than most would have suspected likely when earth is generally considered to be bloody close to the Galactic Barrier fencing off the rim of the liveable galaxy.
Now if Janeway was so close to the Galactic barrier, apart from the fact she didn't have a Medusan on Board you would have to wonder if the option of leaving the galaxy didn't come up and then travelling against the gravametric current of the galactic plane till space it self was moving and Voyager was standing still watching known space spin at some colossal speed. Even at that speed, most of the crew would have to go into stasis, but at least it would be semisafe out there just waiting in the void where nothing else exists to screw with them even if it takes thousands f years to get home this way, at least they'll all be vital when they do get there.
However grumpy Kim from Timeless said that the slipstream drive dumped him a nipples width into the Alpha Quadrant from where from he could contact Starfleet with ease, which would suggest that "some" bulk of Starfleet's influence is located near the centre of the Galaxy, or at least the frontier perimeter bordering the Great Barrier which could extend thousands of lightyears from the actual core of the Galaxy.
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Ummm. This was not long after the Odyssey was destroyed. Janeway wasn't about to head for something that may be gone, not to mention enter a territory controlled by a power that managed to destroy a Galaxy class starship- the Borg never destroyed one.
Earth was a sure thing that they could count on being there.
Why are your sentences always so frakking long? PERIODS. USE THEM.
Why would it be gone? It was the first stable wormhole ever discovered.
Replied in the other thread for the most part...that's less than a month old, btw.
You mean the stable wormhole that the Prophets collapsed themselves in the pilot episode, or the stable wormhole that the Romulans destroyed in Visionary, or the stable wormhole that Dukat destroyed in Tears of the Prophets, or the stable wormhole that the Feds tried to collapse in In Purgatory's Shadow?
Just asking.
Though it would have been totally worth it to see them go all the way to the GQ only to find the wormhole not there for the expressions on the crew's faces. Especially if it was punctuated by hundreds of Dominion ships pursuing them.
You mean the stable wormhole that the Prophets collapsed themselves in the pilot episode, or the stable wormhole that the Romulans destroyed in Visionary, or the stable wormhole that Dukat destroyed in Tears of the Prophets, or the stable wormhole that the Feds tried to collapse in In Purgatory's Shadow?
Just asking.
Though it would have been totally worth it to see them go all the way to the GQ only to find the wormhole not there for the expressions on the crew's faces. Especially if it was punctuated by hundreds of Dominion ships pursuing them.
Thanks much. I'll head over to that thread for opinions. We can just let this thread die.
Thanks for the answer, though apparently we're caught in time loop and have done this all before. Or I missed the other thread--one or the other.
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I've gotten some stern abuse for my short sentences too.
I don't have Gym Class any more and I never had a female reproductory system anyway. I'm sorry but that is about the only use I can think of for periods that has any merit ever.
It's not like there will ever be period powered automobiles.
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