Finish what word?
It only got confusing when TNG came up with "The Alpha Quadrant". Before that the usage was clear.
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It only got confusing when TNG came up with "The Alpha Quadrant". Before that the usage was clear.
When you say "Quadrant", you usually mean ¼ of something.
So what unit of volume or area are they refering to?
The word is usually attached to something, not left by itself.
At least with TNG, and now that it's widely accepted.
The Quadrant is splitting our Milky-way Galaxy into 4x chunks from a Top-Down Orthographical PoV.
There's clarity in it's meaning.
That would be a phrase not a word.
The characters would have the context to understand what’s meant. If I say it’s the only one in the state, the person I’m talking to understands that it’s the state we are in. Just as the crew of the Enterprise understands which quadrant they are in if they are identified as “the only ship in the quadrant.”They don’t need to be told which quadrant it is.
As for quadrant of what? I’d say sector. The galaxy is divided into sectors and each sector is divided into quadrants.
Maybe TNG’s writers should have paid closer attention to how quadrant was used in TOS.
Or they have their reasons to change the meaning of the word.
And now it generally sticks in newer Trek productions.
That tends to be how it works.
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