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We appreciate your concern. It is noted and stupid.
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Ooh, another book to tear apart.
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Yes, we'll finally find out for sure that Qo'noS is only 1.2 light-years away from Earth, and that the Enterprise can make it 100 light-years away in only six months!
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I WAS IN THE FUTURE, IT WAS TOO LATE TO RSVP
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See Minutiae Man's post.. there's no way this could ever make sense.. its just going to be a rather prodigious misuse of glossy paper
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Well, of course it won't make sense. But neither do starship registries, and we dry-hump them all the same.
Besides, since when has a Trek reference book had to be utterly free from any inherent errors in the Trek universe in order to be good? Yes, it'll never be a rock-solid map of the galaxy that the writers will religiously adhere-to, and most likely it'll never explain away all the inconsistencies Trek's accrued in its geography over 35 years. So fucking what. That's certainly not the author's fault and shouldn't be a slight against the book. I'm expecting a very pretty-looking, very interesting little read, that as much as any map ever could gain semicanon status, will. And if anyone's qualified to write this thing, it's Mandel.
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I agree with the_Tom. It'll be a good read. Give us something else to argue about at the very least
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I agree that Mandel, having authored the original Star Trek Maps, is definitely a good person to author this one. He came up with chi factors back around 1980, perhaps he'll write an explanation for the quick trip to the Klingons...
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Amasov Prime
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What the fuck is this? The charts in october, Unseen Frontier in November and Nemesis in December? What the hell am I supposed to do this summer?
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Dang it Snayer, that was the ecact thought to tell him when I read the post......
or you could visit the 'real world' V2.0.....
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