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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Reverend: [QB] Recently I've been developing a history (non-cannon of course) of the DY ship series and there is something that I'm not entirely clear on; How did the Botany Bay get so far into deep space in only a few centuries? This problem sort of ties in with a few similar instances of supposedly sub-light Earth craft appearing much further away from home than they should be. (Charybdis, Nomad, Voyager IV, Pioneer 10, S.S. Birdseye) My current thinking is that there is an unstable wormhole drifting around the Sol System, or at the very least one end of a wormhole. This is kind of supported by the line that says that Voyager IV disappeared down a black hole, now since there are no black holes in the neighbourhood is it possible that 20th Century astronomers who were supposedly monitoring the probe observed an anomaly and mistook it for a black hole when in fact it was the opening to a wormhole? Another clue to this lies with the S.S. Birdseye, a satellite with no apparent engines manages to find itself drifting light years away from Earth. If it were simply knocked out of orbit wouldn't such a satellite simply fall to Earth? I suppose if it was hit with enough force it could be thrown clear of Earth's gravity well but then how could the craft survive the impact or avoid being captured by another planet or moon's gravitational pull? It would seam to be a fluke of the highest order for an unpowered craft to be hit just enough to be thrown clear of Earth and into the series of slingshot orbits that could propel it out of the solar system and into interstellar space. Even if all that did occur then it still could never have made it to the RNZ by the 24th century without assistance. Again a wormhole swallowing the Birdseye and depositing it near the Romulan border seams to be the most plausible explanation. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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