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Maybe they're close to the border between the Delta and Beta Quadrants? And by early next season they'll mention that they are in the Beta Quadrant.
Of course the whole plot of the show is Voyager getting home. The writters like to give Voyager a boost, but apparently not kept up with it's position in space. If Voyager is in the Beta Quadrant and could get home by the end of the season what do they do for the seventh season? Which btw, Mulgrew signed to do.
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I've seen an interview with one of the writers that says they know that Voyager should be in the Beta Q, but Branden Braga didn't want them there yet. I think it was in the Great Link, but I may have seen it somewhere else. I got on a chat at Star Trek.com and no one wanted to discuss it.
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[This message was edited by The Excalibur on June 07, 1999.]
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I'd have to agree with the statement that they may not have had all those jumps in a straight line. Also, Janeway mentioned that they'd added two years to their journey by avoiding Borg ships. They could be avoiding the zone of intense radiation at the center of the galaxy.
[This message was edited by Omega on June 05, 1999.]
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I got a letter from Mike Okuda regarding Voyager's position, and here's what he had to say...
"We realize this, although we're not yet exactly sure what, if anything, our writers will do with this datapoint. We believe that Voyager "should" have crossed into the Beta Quadrant at the end of the fifth season, although there is a sufficient margin of error that it might have happened several weeks (or even months) earlier or later." -Michael Okuda
Actually I wrote to him about any off hand info on the Equinox, and I mementioned about the problem with Voyager's position and where it is.
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Actually, it's JUST about plausible they're still in Delta, but by early year 6 they should definitely be in Beta. This leeway is only allowed by the array being right on the galactic rim, further than in the map at the above link, and if they have had to avoid a direct "straight" route to keep distance from the galactic core, or some other astrometric obstacle not excplicitly referred to.
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