I agree with the end result, but not with how the author got there. Therefore, by unpopular demand, I present (again) my computations for Voyager's position as of "Equinox."
Season 1
Normal warp: 684.4 light-years.
Season 2
Normal warp: 1000.0 light-years.
Season 3
Normal warp: 1000.0 light-years.
Season 4
Normal warp: 1069.6 light-years. This is due to the effect of the astrometrics lab. Rather than instantaneously transporting Voyager 5000 light-years closer to the Alpha Quadrant, it increases Voyager's average speed, since they can now detect obstacles farther away and plot better courses. Assuming Voyager's speed before "Year of Hell" was 1000 ly/year, it's new speed is 1095.2 ly/year.
Kes catapult: 9500 light-years.
Quantum slipstream: 300 light-years.
Season 5
Normal warp: 1095.2 light-years.
Spatial vortex: 2500 light-years.
Quantum slipstream: 10952 light-years. I choose to take Janeway's line of "ten years closer to home" literally. This is further evidenced by her line in "Dark Frontier," which says that 20000 light-years is about 15 years worth of normal warp, indicating they are travelling faster than 1000 ly/year.
Borg transwarp: 20000 light-years. She said 20000 light-years! Not 15000!
Grand total
48101.2 light-years, assuming that Voyager recieved no boosts in the last few episodes of Season 5 that I missed.
70000 - 48101.2 = 21898.8 light-years from home.
Please note that, at this distance, there is no possible way that Voyager is still in the Delta Quadrant. They are in the Beta Quadrant. Period. End of discussion.
------------------ Garak: Interesting. You saved the day by destroying the world. Bashir: I bet they didn't teach you that in the Obsidian Order.
Well according to Relativity, Voyager is still in the Delta quadrant. When Lt. Ducane prepares to enlist 7 of 9 he says the position of USS Voyager to be in the Delta quadrant, looks like the writers screwed us again.
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[This message was edited by USS Vanguard on June 01, 1999.]
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That proves it, Janeway's a stupid little cow.
She sets course from the Delta quadrant to get home, and they're currently in the Beta Quadrant. Why didn't she just set course for the wormhole in the Gamma Quadrant leading straight to DS9 and Bajor?
Because she's stupid! Now kill that woman and put someone else in command.
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Well, for one thing, Its just about as far to the Wormhole as it is to go straight home. Not to mention that the Dominion might not like them wandering through their territory.
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You know... We're assuming all those jumps and accelerations were all in a straight line towards the Alpha Quad. maybe after an hour or so they realise they've screwed up.
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This makes me wonder though, maybe the producers could have begged Genevieve Bujold to stay after leaving the show after one day. Hmmm, I wonder if she found out how the writers really were...
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