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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Timo: [QB] The placement of DS9 to Southwest of Earth (and thus more or less to the same "latitude" with the Klingon heartland) is not as rigorously based in onscreen maps as the relative positions of Romulan and Klingon homeworlds are. There are references to the Cardassians being West of Earth in Art Department thinking, but (apart from the "adjusted" Probert map which was seen in some form in early DS9 episodes) there is no map that would show Cardassia/Bajor and Earth in the same picture. However, the extensive war zone maps of late DS9 show a broad U shape for the Dominion-controlled area, with the Cardassians in the Southwestern branch, and with the Romulan symbol in the Northeastern corner. Combined with the dialogue of the strategic situation at that point, this supports an interpretation where Earth sits in the middle of that U, and is being flanked by a devious Eastern attack that makes use of the RNZ. This would also match the known scaling of that war zone map (based on Bajor-Cardassia 5 ly distance as per the DS9 Tech Manual) and the DS9 TM references to "UFP core regions" lying 50 ly from Bajor. As for Klingons accessing Cardassia, it was explicitly stated that they "had come a long way" ("Way of the Warrior"), and shown that they relied on Federation support before embarking on the final leg of their voyage of conquest. It was also shown that they had traveled under cloak. With Romulans, there are references to "a long way" as well ("Visionary"), as well as repeated instances of cloaked penetration of UFP space. There is always the "Birthright" controversy of Romulan space being a shuttle-hop away from DS9, though. But perhaps that Yridian just had a very good shuttle? Timo Saloniemi [/QB][/QUOTE]
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