Okay, so. The Delta Quadrant is simply a quartered section of the Milky Way galaxy, yeah? Voyager finds itself there and has to travel for 75 years to get home, yeah? Assuming the ST maps out there are accurate, all of the quadrants are basically the same size. So this suggests that travel in either the Beta or Alpha Quadrants could involve super lengthy timelines like this.
I guess what I’m trying to get at is why VOY makes such a big deal out of the 75 years to get to the Alpha Quadrant when getting there might also involve another several decades of travel after crossing the “border.” Sure, there are allies and all that. But it’s still deep space. Like, the closest point between the quadrants is going to be near the galactic center/core (or are they accounting for the spin of the Milky Way and are thus traveling against that, so as to bring “home” closer while they themselves travel toward it?). So if it takes 75 years from their location in “Caretaker” to get to the core, then they’re looking at a similar amount of travel to Earth or whatever, right? Or did I miss something where they said that it would take 75 years to get to Earth?
they barely explored the delta quadrant by the time voyager was running to get home so much potential arcs in that quadrant. even the gamma quadrant has some things that are unexplored.
a show based in the gamma quadrant after the Dominion War would be kinda cool (if done right). That’s a show that could appeal to long-term fans while also potentially drawing in new ones because it would like TOS (and what VOY was originally supposed to be) in that there’s new worlds and cultures to be seen.
Okay, so. The Delta Quadrant is simply a quartered section of the Milky Way galaxy, yeah? Voyager finds itself there and has to travel for 75 years to get home, yeah? Assuming the ST maps out there are accurate, all of the quadrants are basically the same size. So this suggests that travel in either the Beta or Alpha Quadrants could involve super lengthy timelines like this.
I guess what I’m trying to get at is why VOY makes such a big deal out of the 75 years to get to the Alpha Quadrant when getting there might also involve another several decades of travel after crossing the “border.” Sure, there are allies and all that. But it’s still deep space. Like, the closest point between the quadrants is going to be near the galactic center/core (or are they accounting for the spin of the Milky Way and are thus traveling against that, so as to bring “home” closer while they themselves travel toward it?). So if it takes 75 years from their location in “Caretaker” to get to the core, then they’re looking at a similar amount of travel to Earth or whatever, right? Or did I miss something where they said that it would take 75 years to get to Earth?
The caretakers array that pulled them to the Delta quadrant is located 70,000 lightyears from earth.
they barely explored the delta quadrant by the time voyager was running to get home so much potential arcs in that quadrant. even the gamma quadrant has some things that are unexplored.
a show based in the gamma quadrant after the Dominion War would be kinda cool (if done right). That’s a show that could appeal to long-term fans while also potentially drawing in new ones because it would like TOS (and what VOY was originally supposed to be) in that there’s new worlds and cultures to be seen.