Discussion SciFiWritersHave / NoSenseOfDistance

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• One aspect that Star Trek gets properly right, however, is that civilizations are specifically and consistently not galactic. Most of the franchise runtime takes place in one portion of one-quarter of the galaxy, specifically the chunk of the Alpha Quadrant that the Federation occupies, and the main characters constantly run into undiscovered planets and civilizations within that quadrant. A decent amount of action is set in another, as Earth is on the border of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants and several of the major powers are based in the Beta Quadrant. DS9 has a shortcut to another quadrant of the galaxy, and Voyager gets kicked to a fourth, and the premise of that series is that it would take decades to get back at the speeds that the Voyager is capable of. Cross-galactic and intergalactic travel both come up very rarely (mostly in TOS), and it's usually proposed by aliens far more advanced than the Federation. Even then, it's talked about as a multi-century trip requiring suspended animation or generation ships. Essentially, intergalactic travel in the Star Trek universe is about as practical as interstellar travel today.

If "northern" means "galactic north", then the "northern spiral arm" of a galaxy is sort of like the northernmost point on the equator. The only way that made sense was if he was referring either to the north(-eastern) part of Andromeda as seen from Earth,"

On the other hand, there is an "East Antarctica" and a "West Antarctica". The South Pole is in East Antarctica.

Is is worth making a specific subpage for No Sense of Scale specifically for instances when writers say "Galaxy" when they clearly mean "Solar System"?