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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] Quadrants as we now know then first appeared in TNG "The Price", which predates "BoBW" but not "Q Who?". But by the internal chronology of the Trek universe, they were already in use during ST6:TUC. There is no specific reason to assume that they weren't adopted in 2161 already, with the founding of the Federation - or even earlier than that. In any case, J-25 cannot be in Delta. It was mere 7,000 ly away from the Federation, and the nearest point of Delta (namely, the galactic center) is 24,000 ly away from Earth. Are we really to believe that the Federation extends as much as 14,000 ly from Earth towards the Delta quadrant? Even the Encyclopedia doesn't make such an outrageous claim. J-25 can easily be in Beta, though. * * * * If the Cube met by the E-D at J-25 really was the same that hit Earth in "BoBW", then there's an oddity. Starfleet was surprised by how the attack came earlier than thought (they were obviously thinking that the Cube in "Q Who?" was the nearest to Earth), yet it was obvious that the Cube that performed the attack was not faster than the E-D at all. To the contrary, Riker caught up with it rather easily. If the Cube had a better drive for long-distance travel, why didn't it use that drive on the final leg of its journey? Earlier, we could speculate that the long-distance drive wouldn't work at short distances. But now we know that transwarp conduits can be erected anywhere, and there is no need to e.g. establish them at both ends before use. So now there are two choices. Either the Borg at that time did not have transwarp (at least not aboard that specific Cube), or they for some reason [i]volunteered[/i] not to use it. The latter seems like the less implausible explanation of the two - but why, oh why would the Borg volunteer that way? Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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