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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] All right, the Charts arrived yesterday! They look good next to my copy of the Kalevala... Heck, they'd look good no matter what. I guess people might buy this book just for the pretty pictures. I have mixed feelings about the Alpha/Beta quadrant map art, though. Mainly because it's virtually identical to what I originally drew atop Christian's real stars. No, I'm certainly not bitter about copyright or anything - I'm definitely happy the art is there. I just sigh for the lack of surprises. :) I just love what Mandel did with "Sierra" and "Tango" and "Epsilon" and "Gamma" and the assorted seemingly nonstandardly named outposts. And it's a wonderful idea to use known Romulan and Klingon ship names as Romulan and Klingon stellar names. And the various TAS bits are generally really subtle... Too bad we didn't get a better look at the DS9 war maps before - the legend boxes would have revealed that the dashed lines were indeed supposed to represent prewar borders. Sigh. Then again, only the first map bears close scrutiny - in the later editions, Jem'Hadar formations suddenly start attacking Cardassian space, Ferenginar careens madly across the sector, and AR-558 is more mobile than the Cardassian fleets... Overall, I think Alpha ended up being a pretty good match for those maps. Some missing highlights there, like the Mutara nebula and Genesis planet, or Benzar. Some of the "freely positionable" things could have been squeezed closer together IMHO, like the Lembatta cluster and Archanis which are tied together by "Nor the Battle". Overall, though, no big complaints... Except for the positioning of Talax/ia! The "Enterprise" maps look very good. Yes, it seems a mistake to say that the ship returned to Earth after "Broken Bow" - but since Mandel says there was a "warp highway" between Earth and Qo'noS, it would make sense for Archer to use that to return most of the way, even if he didn't return all the way. It's exciting to be in the deep end of the pool, but Qo'noS is a bit TOO deep. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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