When is the next announcement of new novels?

[Christopher]

Isn't there now some kind of discussion about whether it really was the galaxy's edge?

Well, that depends on how you define "edge." If you're looking at it 2-dimensionally and assume it means the outer rim of the galactic disk, then obviously that would be an implausibly long journey. But the nearest face of the galactic disk, which can just as validly be called an edge because it is a 3-dimensional structure, is more like 5-600 light-years away -- though that's still a substantial journey by modern understandings of Trek cartography and warp velocities.

 

[Scout101]

The books with Enterprise on weeks-long mapping missions you can probably make work. It's the more far-reaching ones, where the plot advances for months or even a year or so that require the Enterprise to be stuck in an event horizon or something to wedge them all in.

All that said, the more, the merrier. Bring on more TOS!

 

[BrotherBenny]

Isn't there now some kind of discussion about whether it really was the galaxy's edge?

Well, that depends on how you define "edge." If you're looking at it 2-dimensionally and assume it means the outer rim of the galactic disk, then obviously that would be an implausibly long journey. But the nearest face of the galactic disk, which can just as validly be called an edge because it is a 3-dimensional structure, is more like 5-600 light-years away -- though that's still a substantial journey by modern understandings of Trek cartography and warp velocities.

How far is Vanguard from that dorsal edge of the galaxy, since they stopped by on their way back to the core worlds? And why didn't they pass by that way on their way to the edge?

 

[Christopher]

How far is Vanguard from that dorsal edge of the galaxy, since they stopped by on their way back to the core worlds? And why didn't they pass by that way on their way to the edge?

Who knows? It's never been formally mapped. And when they were flung from the barrier, it seemed to be at FTL speeds, because they ended up in range of the Delta Vega system when they'd initially been "beyond the farthest star" when they reached the barrier. So they could've ended up at a different place than they started and thus taken a slightly different route back.

 

[F. King Daniel]

It's got to be the rim of the galaxy in WNMHGB and the rest just by what the barrier was shaped like. A horizontal pink bar of death makes no sense running across the galaxy's "ceiling"

 

[BrotherBenny]

It's got to be the rim of the galaxy in WNMHGB and the rest just by what the barrier was shaped like. A horizontal pink bar of death makes no sense running across the galaxy's "ceiling"

Why can't the galaxy be wrapped in pink cloud? That whole plot device was preposterous in the first place.

 

[Christopher]

It's got to be the rim of the galaxy in WNMHGB and the rest just by what the barrier was shaped like. A horizontal pink bar of death makes no sense running across the galaxy's "ceiling"

Oh, come on. The galactic disk is hundreds of light-years thick even at its thinnest. On the scale of a starship, it would still effectively stretch far "above" and "below" them as well as from side to side. For Pete's sake, if the barrier actually were a slender "ribbon" as shown, they could've just gone above or below it! You can't take 1960s special effects literally.

Besides, it's not like the barrier could actually be naked-eye visible, or it would obscure our view of other galaxies. What was shown onscreen must've been some kind of subspace sensor return. Maybe the apparent linearity was due to some sort of polarization effect, so that they could only register the parts of it that were at a narrow angle above or below the sensors.