quote: Any idea where that disputed world would be exactly?
On the second fold-out page at the end...
Since both the Sheliak and Federation colonists seem to have come a long way, it does make sense for Tau Cygni to be out in the sticks. And the Sheliak can well be a mighty empire three times the size of the UFP, as long as they are sufficiently distant.
I've never thought of the Tzenkethi as Kzinti, really. The Patriarchy of the Charts is where the felinoids live, plain and simple - although no doubt they have aggressively colonized the neighborhood. The Caitians are quite distant relatives, and live in completely different direction...
As for the Kzinti having a "patriarchy" in the first place, blame Niven. That's pretty much the "official" name for their excuse for a society.
Timo Saloniemi
Hmmmm... that explains a lot. Did the "Patriarchy" ever get a mention anywhere besides TAS?
Hopefully, the upcoming book will make the Tzenkethi unique (though hopefully also not typical humanoids with nose/forehead deformaties).
I've got a (Excelsor sized) Shelliak cruiser in the works just now, (as I've been challenging my fellow modelers to come up with alien Trek ship designs instead of endless Federation variants) so mabye I will give them a bit of space out in the unknown region the Breen hail from.
Herb: it's just a very odd name for an alien species. I know all about universal translators and all that jive, but some terms sound too earth-centric in their origins.
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quote:Originally posted by Sol System: Ziggityboo! No one is going to take their warcries seriously.
Because giant cat-men in bright pink spacesuits would be taken seriously otherwise, right?
It just seems that they went out of their way to avoid using the same descriptive term for any two empires where possible (aside from the Klingons and Romulans, of course- their "Empire" designations are TOS canon).
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Here are the almost final versions of my 100-lightyear-diameter flat and perspective maps centered on Sol. As before I haven't put in any Trek names other than Vulcan, Andor, and Tellar in their old fandom locations. The other stars have their real names, and all stars are in their true locations. I hope to assign Trek names to the systems were now believe to be habitable (indicated by white borders, large white names, and thick connecting lines) but I'm too tired for that now.
These maps are a bit jaggy and suffer from some line drop outs, but I output them as 72-dpi gifs, which is the only resolution and format I could use and still be within Photobucket file limits. Perspective (588 kb) Flat map (772 kb)
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You, sir, are either insane or insanely talented/motivated. Presently I'm leaning towards the latter. They are beautiful. Well done.
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You, sir, have just provided the ultimate proof to me and my co-workers (writing this from work on my break) that I am not the geekiest Star Trek fan alive. My sincere thanks.
Still, that's awesome work. And I can provide some suggestions on labeling the planets if you want...
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Well - (ok I know your comment was meant in jest) lets look at it with a critical eye.
-Wolf 359 sounds cool.
-We don't know if the vessel they encountered at system J25 was the same vessel that was heading for Earth in BOBW. It may have been on the otherside of the Federation from the Galactic core.
-The Transwarp conduit the borg vessel maybe used only had a terminus out past Jouret IV (I think that's the planet Picard mentioned in BOBW).
-Maybe massing a large chunk of Starfleet and Federation tech at an ?uninhabited? system was an attempt to slow the cube down.
-I know it's voyager but I think in Infinite Regress one of Seven's "personalities" said that a mother was rendezvousing with her son at Wolf359 - why there? There may have been a key station at Wolf359 that we never saw and the Borg slowed down to assimilate it. That's when the Federation/Starfleet pounced?
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I don't know if I am insane (maybe). This project started off small, but I seriously underestimated the amount of work involved. Since I had already started, I just decided to keep going. However, I've abandoned plans to expand the map to a radius of 100 ly. Now I can get on with my life.
As far as labeling planets, you guys can have at it. Trying to reconcile onscreen references to real stars is not something I look forward to. I'm not that much of a geek!
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