I'm finally rewatching Voyager, and I just finished season 1. Overall, I think the season was pretty solid, and did most with the potential Maquis-Starfleet rivalry.
However, I'm still pondering one episode: Jetrel. In the episode, Janeway orders Voyager to head towards the Talaxian System. Now I looked up Talax and Rinax in the Star Charts, and it's actually further removed than the Caretaker's array! And they had been travelling for months at that point! Chakotay points out it's a significant detour, but besides that one remark, no other word is mentioned. I find it bizarre that Janeway would travel ALL the way back (even further), even though they believed it would save Neelix' life at that point.
What puzzles me more is that the Star Charts contain a detailed log of Voyager's route towards the Alpha Quadrant, but that the above mentioned detour is not specified.
Weird.
This is a subject which I've been thinking about ever since I bought "Star Charts". A truly wonderful book but also a book with many errors, especially when it comes to Voyager's route.
Here are the errors I've discovered in seasons 1-3 of the series:
Page 82
Talax and Rinax are placed somwhere beyond the Caretaker’s array while they should be located on page 83 between Avery (Vidiia) and Briori, somewhere near the text “Kazon Collective”.
The quantum singularity in “Parallax” has been located near the Komar Nebula on page 83 when it should be placed between Ocampa and Markov-Kalto on page 82. Maybe Ilidaria should be relocated there too and the Ilidaria planet near the Komar Nebula should be renamed “Ilidarian colony” or something like that. There can't be two Ilidaria
Page 83
The Leola root planet in “State Of Flux” is missing.
The photonic star in “Heroes and Demons” is missing.
The cloud of spaceborn creatures in “Elogium” is missing.
The distortion ring in “Twisted” is missing.
Page 84
The time stream where Kim was sent into an anlternate future is missing. Should be after Tarok on Voyager's route.
Sky Spirits Homeworld (“Tattoo”)and Suspirias Array (“Cold Fire”)should change places with each other and be placed between Planet Hell (“Parturition”) and Mokra (“Resistance”) somewhere after Botha Space (if following Voyager’s route) with the Sky Spirit Planet coming before Suspiria’s array.
Mokra and Pralor should also change place with each other so that Mokra is coming after Suspirias Array and before Pralor on Voyager's route. The order of the objects on Voyager's route should be: Planet Hell, Botha Space, Sky Spirit's Planet, Suspiria's Array, Mokra and Pralor.
Planet Mithren should be located near Botha space, not in the Hakonian Order on page 82.
Page 85
Fina Vidiia should be placed between Rakosa and Hemikek.
Page 86
Planet Mislen should probably be placed after The Swarm area in Voyager’s direction since Janeway promised the dying captain from the Mislen ship to inform the authorities there what happened to the ship.
Page 87
Nezu (“Rise”)and Mikal Traveler Outpost (“Darkling”)should change place with each other with Nezu coming before Mikal on Voyager’s route.
After buying "Star Charts" I spent some time to scan the pages with Voyager's route in seasons 1-3 and then re-edit them for private use, including planets and other objects from the Voyager novels as well. Later on I did a remake of the maps and put them on the Kes Webpage. For obvious reasons, I didn't want to publish the re-made Star Charts pages on a website, I preferred to make something similar but still a bit different.
So here is my version of "Star Charts" with certain objects in the right order. I suppose that the location of Talax and Rinax are more accurate here:
http://lynx677.110mb.com/maps.html
