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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] There are three distinct locations in the Khan saga: the site of his discovery, the Ceti Alpha system, and the Regula system. The first has to be within about 150 ly of Earth, since Khan's ship supposedly lacked warp drive. That's all we know canonically, although the Encyclopedia noncanonically suggests this place is in the Mutara sector, and thus supposedly within 20 ly of the nebula. The second ought to be somewhat off the beaten path in the TOS and TFS eras, or Khan would have been rediscovered earlier. Kirk probably deliberately chose such a system to hide Khan from the Federation; and by that same token, Kirk wouldn't have loitered too far from his designated patrol area (that is, the first location) or the Federation would have found out. The third ought to be sufficiently distant from the second so that it would not be the very first system explored by the [i]Reliant[/i]. It also ought to be within reach of the [i]Enterprise[/i], which had departed Earth at most three weeks prior (the movie makes it look like a couple of hours only, but we can't tell for sure; all we know is that Kirk expected to be back to Earth in three weeks). It should be sufficiently distant that the simultaneous presence of two starships is a real surprise, and that nobody immediately checks when a starship goes silent there. And of course, the Mutara nebula must be within a short sublight hop from Regula; in fact, Regula practically was IN the Mutara nebula to begin with. All this really sets no constraints worth mention to the Regula location... Anything from 50 to 500 ly out is all right even by Okudaic speeds and distances, and the rest is negotiable. OTOH, Klingons later manage to sneak in to this system, so it might be a good idea to put this fairly close to Klingon space. Not so close that the Feds would actually expect a Klingon invasion, though. Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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