the Nekrit Expanse

[LastStarDate]

Just got through watching "Fair Trade" and they talked about this Nekrit Expanse, but then the next episode has nothing to do with it! An episode of them going through this expanse would have been great, so are we supposed to forget about it?

Tuvoc said there's no way around it and at the end Voyager is seen coming away from it, WTF! This show aggrivates me sometimes!!

 

[LastStarDate]

Another thing, why the heck can't these ships go up or down. When something's in the way, they either go through it or around it. Never over it or below it, why? Space isn't just a disk. Just something else I've noticed, maybe food for thought.

 

[Augustus]

well, not that I have any real informed opinion, but to me it seems like those things are in the way, they also go up or down and they may go so far up or down that it is quicker just to go through...

Don't know...
The only show I ever saw depict the "up and down" of space is B5, and even then just very briefly...

 

[JNG]

Just got through watching "Fair Trade" and they talked about this Nekrit Expanse, but then the next episode has nothing to do with it! An episode of them going through this expanse would have been great, so are we supposed to forget about it?

Tuvoc said there's no way around it and at the end Voyager is seen coming away from it, WTF! This show aggrivates me sometimes!!

They entered it in "Fair Trade" and were through it by "Darkling." It was too big to go around, so they went through it, and the episode "Unity" took place inside it. I don't see what you have got to be aggravated about.

Another thing, why the heck can't these ships go up or down. When something's in the way, they either go through it or around it. Never over it or below it, why? Space isn't just a disk. Just something else I've noticed, maybe food for thought.

In space, "around" versus "over" or "below" are not meaningful differentiations. You know...because space isn't just a disk. (The galaxy, however, is sort of a disk.) Obviously the Nekrit Expanse isn't a disk either. It's a nebular region, and despite its shifting nature, the fact it wasn't charted and the navigational and systems difficulties that might be experienced within it, they went through rather than circumnavigating it because it would have taken a lot longer to avoid entering its more dense areas.

 

[propita]

I figured "going around" was any way that wasn't "through"--whether that meant going to the top, bottom, left, or right around the object/expanse.

 

[LastStarDate]

understood guys, thanks! Only a few more episodes till I get to see Species 8472!! I'm getting excited!!