Route of Voyager...

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Season One:

Total distance Traveled: 300LY's
Made First Contact with the Kazon, Ocampa, Talax and the Vidians
Passed through the Komar Nebula

Season Two:

Total Distance Traveled: 438LY's
Crossed Paths with Dreadnought
Met the "37's" on New Earth

Season Three:

Total Distance Traveled: 438LY's
Almost got home through the Barzan Wormhole
Met up with the Swarm
Passed by a class-17 Nebula and a Inversion Nebula, got through the Nekrit Expanse

Season Four:

Total Distance Traveled: 10,238LY's
Passed through a class-9 nebula, a class-1 nebula, the Agrat-Mot Nebula and the Swallow Nebula (Mutara-Class)
Made first Contact with the Hirogen
Sent to Doc to the AQ using the Hirogen Relay Network

Season Five:

Total Distance Traveled: 32,938LY's
Passed throught the Void, A Mutara Class Nebula, Proton Nebula, Subspace Sandbar, Class-3 Nebula and a Class-Y Cluster
Made first contact with the Malon, The Devore Imperium
Got shortcuts by going through: The Malon Vortex 2,500LY's, 10,000LY's Slipstream, and 20,000LY's BORG Transwarp

Season Six:

Total Distance Traveled: 1,238LY's
Passed through a Class-2 Nebula, A Class-K Nebula, A Class-J Nebula and
Passed close to a Class-T Nebula and the Particle Fountain
Crossed Paths with the Graviton Elipse (One Small Step) and a BORG Transwarp Conduit
Got shortcuts by going through Vaadwaur Subspace Corridor 200LY's, Graviton Catapult 600LY's
OH Yeah, Ran into a ship called Equinox at the end of Season Five and the first episode of season Six

Season Seven:

Total Distance Traveled: 438LY's
Passed though a Class-T Nebula, A Pulsar Cluster and a Void
Took part in a inter-stellar road race
Found some Talaxians living in a Astroid, left Neelix off, Went to go find Friendship One and got Lt. Carey Killed. Ran in Admiral Janeway, found one of six BORG Transwarp Hubs in the Galaxy. Admiral Janeway get assimilited, however in the process infects the Queen exit the BORG.
Voyager takes one of the conduits back to the AQ, not after destroying the entire BORG Transwarp Network though
In seven years Voyager travelled 46,028LY's in total, which averages out to about 6,575.4286 LY's per year...WAY TO GO VOYAGER

 

[cyph]

Wow. Good job!

 

[Finn]

^^They travelled more than that in season seven...

 

[Tom]

Well he is obviously not including the transwarp conduit home, which by the above math would be 29,000 lY's , totaling the 75,000 LY's

 

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I got all my data from the book, Star Trek: Star Charts, it's a real good reference guide for looking up Maps and Charts of Trek. I use it a lot, when I need to know about any about any quadrant, planet, ships lost..ect

 

[Lindley]

It always bugged me that early on they didn't even discuss options like heading for the Gamma Quadrant terminus of the Bajoran wormhole. Retcons have placed that almost as far from their starting point as the Alpha Quadrant, but it would have been nice to see the possibility considered.

 

[Timo]

Why? That wormhole was off limits to Starfleet vessels when Janeway departed: Commander Sisko had just sworn to blow it up at the first sign of Jem'Hadar nastiness, and everything indicated that the Jem'Hadar would continue to be nasty creatures indeed. And they were 100% sure to be there at the end of the wormhole, whereas the odds of any other foe blocking any other route were automatically lower.

All sorts of options no doubt existed - but none would warrant heading in a direction other than Earth.

The Star Charts route description makes a couple of assumptions that might not quite hold up, as we don't know the direction of the big "jumps" the ship made. More often than not, Janeway was not in control of that direction, so a 2,500 ly jump might only take the ship some 1,800 ly closer to Earth. Basically, that's not a big problem, because the longest jumps were indeed controlled: Kes no doubt gave proper direction to the ship for that 10,000 ly hop, for example.

...If anything, this helps us slightly shorten the distance covered if we otherwise risk taking the ship across the Delta/Beta border.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Tom]

I just watched Scorpion again and they talked alot about turning back and setting on a planet, funny they did not mention turning back and heading to the Gamma Quadrent as a option but perhaps the GQ wormhole was much further away and they would have to backtrack again through Kazon and Videan space.

 

[Guy Gardener]

A couple episodes before scorpion, when they found that Borg Corpse, and Kathryn said some thing like "We always knew that we were going to enter Borg Space some day." I was thinking, "Honey, the Borg are unfefeatable boogeymen, one Cube almost took out your entire empire and you want to head towards that sort of certain death? You're either mad, stupid or suicidal." Her only excuse for heading toward Borg space with a smile was because if she thought that something else would probably kill her on the way there so that it wasn't even worth fretting about yet until it was too late and completely imminent and maybe she could rely on providence.

Then of course there's the fact that show was using half inverted maps that Janeway would not have to traverse Romulan and Klingon Space in the beta quadrant to get home but go straight from the dq to the aq. I always found that unconscionable on the part of tptb to rubbish the encyclopedias like that so damn offhandly. But really, if she also had to wade through the entire realm of Borg Space, the entire Romulan star empire and the entire klingon Empire to find the Federation boarder, exactly how serious a threat shoud she make of this "Dominion" because it merely swatted a single bajoran Colony? because I don't mean to write fanfiction right now, but when I heard that Humans were playing baseball on Cestus III on Deep Space Nine, my first thought was "My God, there must be a couple Gorn teams in the League! Gorn playing baseball! Wow!"

 

[Timo]

Umm, Janeway had no advance knowledge of where the Borg might live (except "somewhere and probably everywhere") - so the "Blood Fever" discovery simply told her that this was it now, not that turning into heading XYZ would allow her to avoid the bogeymen. She didn't really have alternate course options at that point. Or before, or after.

As for the inverted quadrant order, they seemed to snap out of it pretty quickly, if they ever had it at all. The only time it looks like they might would be "Message in a Bottle", right? With that chart about the relative positions of the ship, the Hirogen net, and the Prometheus? The final-season maps proudly portray the correct order.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Lynx]

I got all my data from the book, Star Trek: Star Charts, it's a real good reference guide for looking up Maps and Charts of Trek. I use it a lot, when I need to know about any about any quadrant, planet, ships lost..ect

Unfortunately, "Star Charts" have a lot of errors when it comes to Voyager. Objects placed in the wrong order or missing.

Which is a pity actually because the purpose of the book is brilliant. Fortunately the maps over the Alpha and Beta quadrants seem to be more accurate.

I really hope that they would come up with a new "Star Charts" in the future, with the errors corrected and with more information about different systems, maybe a combination of "Star Charts" and that old "Worlds Of The Federation" which also was a masterpiece.

As for Voyager maps, feel free to check my season 1-3 Voyager maps at: http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Park/1964/maps.html

 

[Guy Gardener]

Umm, Janeway had no advance knowledge of where the Borg might live (except "somewhere and probably everywhere") - so the "Blood Fever" discovery simply told her that this was it now, not that turning into heading XYZ would allow her to avoid the bogeymen. She didn't really have alternate course options at that point. Or before, or after.

Except right at the beginning if the Bajoran wormwhole was equidistant if not closer, that it should have been a coin toss if there are impossible villians perched waiting in either direction, not that Ransom didn't exact a decidedly different course as well, since Equinox probably had to make more "stop overs" because of it's lesser independent capabilities than Voyager... Hell, they'd be mesuring time in light years if time traveled has a relationship with distance plotted (See! Han Solo did know what he was talking about.).

[COU-CYTHERIA-GH!!!!] ... Federation allies living near the centre of the galaxy with space folding technology, totally within range of the Sakarian pan galactic transporters, that at the very least a subspace message could have been fired off from the nearest Sikarian outpost to Cytheria. (Re TNG: the nth Degree, and VOY: Prime Factors.)

Certainly by the time of Bloodfever it was inevitable they would meet the Borg, but the size and location of Borgspace was still not only unknown but totally mutable because of all the temporal issues leaving the state of their union in flux to the point of nonexistence, because originally in the before and after timeline, despite that they pursued a similar course, the Alternate Voayager didn't encounter Borgspace at all.

 

[USS Fardell]

[COU-CYTHERIA-GH!!!!] ... Federation allies living near the centre of the galaxy with space folding technology, totally within range of the Sakarian pan galactic transporters, that at the very least a subspace message could have been fired off from the nearest Sikarian outpost to Cytheria. (Re TNG: the nth Degree, and VOY: Prime Factors.)

That would have been an interesting story. Assuming that the Cytherians would have known where Sikaria was...

 

[Guy Gardener]

Kim teleported 40 thousand light years from Voyager towards the Federation in a matter of seconds.

If that isn't near the "centre of the galaxy", it's probably well past it, since it's a fair chunk more than half way home, which means that the Sikarans had the capability to inflict reparations and/or vengeance on Voyager for stealing their technology right up until the final season.

 

[ryan123450]

The whole 300 to 400 lyrs per year thing in the original post makes no sense. If 70,000 lyrs were supposed to take 70 years to travel, then Voyager should have traveled about 1000 lyrs per year. At the rate of 300 to 400 per year it would have taken like 150 years to get home.

 

[Guy Gardener]

In Resolutions it took voyager 6 weeks to cruise 70 light years away from where they dumped Janeway.

taking that into account, they'd be traveling 606.67 light years per year.

However in the same episode they managed to rendezvous with a Vidiian convoy which was 1.5 light years away in a matter of minutes, which means that they can trek 70 ly in a matter of hours if they need to.

 

[Finn]

^Unless they were travelling closer to Voyager at the time so...

 

[Guy Gardener]

Actually, Captain Tuvok had ordered his intrepid crew to runaway.

Kim tried to talk the Vulcan around and failed, but if Kim can't do it, then you send in a tiny little blond child to do do the job. I mean she talked Janeway into killing Tuvix after she decided to give the Halfling a chance, so honestly why couldn't her Manga-like cuteness frizzle the iron of Vulcan logic?

It was a day later after, spending what constitutes a day/night/shift cycle on Voyager, sleeping, that Captain Tuvok decided to engage the Vidiians. So, really, they were even further separated than we were first lead to believe before their division was closed to spitting distance.

 

[Timo]

Except right at the beginning if the Bajoran wormwhole was equidistant if not closer, that it should have been a coin toss if there are impossible villians perched waiting in either direction

Hmm... That would only take to account the best-case and worst-case scenarios: the ones where the Bajoran wormhole works perfectly, and where the enemies are victorious in both directions. In any middle-ground situation, it would be disastrous to run into trouble in the Gamma direction, as compared to running into trouble on the direct route to Earth: if the wormhole failed to pan out, the Gamma course would leave the ship with needless additional decades to cover.

The whole 300 to 400 lyrs per year thing in the original post makes no sense. If 70,000 lyrs were supposed to take 70 years to travel, then Voyager should have traveled about 1000 lyrs per year.

But nobody thought they would get home in 70 years. Janeway said that even at maximum speed, it would take 70 years - and they couldn't do maximum speed for seven decades straight, so that wasn't an option. The crew never believed they would spend seven decades en route. It was either shortcut or bust - a few years or then so many decades or centuries that they'd all be dead.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Guy Gardener]

I was actually considering if the Dominion war was still waging and if Janeway had made (i agree with you Timo, but I have been at this for so long I'm jenga with the hypotheticals.) it to the dominion Boarder, then they'd have quickly been beaten down and then been treated as POW, at which point they might have been viable for prisoner exchange during mediation to end the war. Then after when Odo was the louder voice in the choir, they would have had a lush trip home through friendly space... not that Janeway was aware of this possibility when she was making her decision during Caretaker.