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Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :

Okay, I finally got around to doing a new calculation of Voyager's distance traveled and current location:

From "Caretaker" to "Scorpion" (original warp speed)

1151.38579875 light-years.

From "Scorpion" to "Year of Hell" (due to avoidance of Borg)

88.0776743846 light-years.

From "Year of Hell" to "Unimatrix Zero" (avoidance of Borg + astrometrics lab)

1220.53901605 light-years.

Jumps

9500 light-years ("The Gift," exact distance stated)
300 light-years ("Hope and Fear," exact distance stated)
2500 light-years ("Night," exact distance stated)
9540.408278 ("Timeless," ten years off journey)
20000 light-years ("Dark Frontier," exact distance stated)
200 light-years ("Dragon's Teeth," exact distance stated)
600 light-years ("The Voyager Conspiracy," 30 sectors crossed)

Total Distance Travelled

45100.4107672 light-years.

Total Distance Remaining

24899.5892328 light-years.

Current Position

X = 5767.256
Y = 1722.4751

Distance to Beta Quadrant

1770.6250944 light-years.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

What would even possess you to carry one of these numbers out to the tenth decimal place? You can't think you're calculations are that accurate... :-)

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Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :

Heya Krenim! Long time no see.

I'm kinda curious as to how the "Voyager's in the Beta Quadrant" numbers got dropped. You used to stand by them so religiously...

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Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :

That was before "Pathfinder," which established Voyager's average speed to be Warp 6.2, instead of the presumed speed of about Warp 8.

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Posted by spyone on :

In "Dragon's Teeth, the distance travelled was given, but as they sort of blundered into those conduits its entirely possable that they weren't going in the right direction. I mean, 200ly closer to the Beta/Delta Quadrant border would be something less than 200ly closer to home.

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Posted by Timo (Member # 245) on :

Many of those jumps were partially or completely out of the control of the crew, and could have taken the ship off its optimal route. So if a jump is specifically said to have shortened the journey by ten years, then this has to be taken as the real net effect of all the meandering - but if the ship is said to have jumped exactly 2356 lightyears, three feet and four inches, then the real journey home may have been

a) shortened by at most 2356 ly 3' 4"
b) *lengthened* by at most 2356 ly 3' 4"
c) something in between.

So of the jumps listed by Krenim, I'd take the following as indicating the true shortening of the trip:

"The Gift" (Kes would probably have known where she was sending the ship)
"Timeless" (The crew did seem to know how to navigate)

The following must be considered approximate but in the general correct direction:

"Dark Frontier" (The crew had less of an idea of how to navigate, and less of time to plot a course)

The following may have been in a random direction and may not actually have shortened the trip home appreciably:

"Hope and Fear" (the only one with the crew actually at the helm, but the tech was unfamiliar to them, and they did back-pedal quite a bit at first)
"Night" (random wormhole out of the Void - probably not in the optimal direction)
"Dragon's Teeth" (conduits laid by aliens not interested in going straight to Alpha)
"The Voyager Conspiracy" (alien construct of questionable reliability)

Timo Saloniemi