On DS9's orbit. The tangental orbit idea is curious, but I can't see there being any evidence that this was the case. AFAIK, the writers have always worked with the concept that the Denorios Belt was in about the same position as the Asteroid Belt in our system, and that Bajor and Earth's locations are also reasonably analagous. IIRC, the travel time of 6 hours was once floated as being the DS9-to-Bajor travel time, presumably @ impulse.
Back to the topic of Cardassia. Cardassia IV (from The Circle Trilogy) was shown to be a separate M-class planet to Cardassia Prime, so we can eliminate one number. IIRC, the term Cardassia III was floated around at some point. Might that be Cardassia Prime?
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Doesn't "Prime" refer to the first planet in the system?
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That would make Mercury "Sol Prime." Sounds kinda stupid in that context, eh?
Methinks that the "prime" refers to the central planet, the homeworld. Thus, "Sol Prime" would be Earth because of its uniqueness in the system & being the origin of humanity. Bajor could also be called "Bajor Prime" given...well, yeah.
This theory works because we've never actually heard or seen a reference to the "Cardassian Union;" we only know that's the formal political name becasue of the Encyclopedia & DS9 manual. Any mention has just been of "Cardassia." Given that, the use of "Cardassia Prime" indicates the homeworld, the central power base.
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I've always understood it that way also. "Prime" denotes the main planet, not necessarily the first.
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Erm... No. There may have been a "Chin'toka Prime", or something. But Cardassia Prime is in the Cardassia system...
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Chintaka is in the Chintaka system, Cardassia Prime is in the Cardassian system. You might have got mixed up when Sisko said that were going into invade Cardassia which he meant Cardassian territory.
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Maybe there was a ref or 3...even if there was, it doesn't invalidate what I said. The whole entity is referred to as "Cardassia" 99.9998% of the time.
Funny that they do things like that....like there are no other races living within the confines of the Klingon, Romulan, or Cardassian empires....or the Ferengi Alliance (which just may BE a trade alliance).
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Well I reckon that Hypuria is within the alliance - i.e. where Meyharduu comes from along with Hypurian bettle snuff... even though most don't think or do you? But legends of the Ferengi mentions that the ferengi - do go to war sometimes - and that they conquered Hypuria once...
Also, the Breen sold them warp drive for their polar caps and a few icy moons.
Xendi Sabu (where the "battle" of Maxia occured) could have been on the outskirts of Ferengi Space... also that the Ferengi were unknown then, AND that Picard was in the Stargazer, which yeah could get around, but was also in the Cardassian wars...
Ferenginar is near the CU... for Quark and co. to be on Terok Nor a few years before First contact between the Federation and the Ferengi.
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