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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Guardian 2000: [QB] Something's been bugging me. It's probably just part of the larger problem of the writers not knowing where the hell anything really is, but still . . . Wolf 359's present location (which won't change significantly in the next 300 years, relative to Earth) puts it away from the line one would expect a Borg ship to take. http://www.anzwers.org/free/universe/12lys.html As that shows, the Borg must've come in from far above the galactic plane. And, because our solar system is only tilted off of the galactic plane by 5.5 degrees and slightly above the galactic plane, they must've done some odd maneuvering to come in along a Saturn-Earth trajectory. (It's also possible to use a planetary plotting program like Celestia to figure out which way Saturn was from Earth at that point, but though I've done so before I don't have the results handy at the moment.) In any case, it always struck me as a weird, weird mystery. The only coincidental thing I've found is that Wolf 359 lies in the opposite direction from the sun's direction of travel relative to what's nearby (as can be seen somewhat on [URL=http://interstellar.jpl.nasa.gov/interstellar/probe/introduction/neighborhood.html]this page[/URL]), meaning (in theory) that the density of the local medium would've been at its smallest due to the sun's passage. But surely that's just coincidental . . . there are, after all, so many other stars around us, or even between here and the Delta Quadrant, that it seems impossible for there to have been so much effort expended on what couldn't have been much gain. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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