XPost: alt.startrek, rec.arts.startrek.current   
   From: Noadmurray@SPAMiinet.net.au   
      
   "Nog"  wrote in message   
   news:pKmdnUrhttZJhoreRVn-rA@adelphia.com...   
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   > "Neil O'Rourke"  wrote in message   
   > news:43163c46$1@news.alphalink.com.au...   
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   >> "Nog"  wrote in message   
   >> news:MIGdnUPM7NUSgoveRVn-sA@adelphia.com...   
   >>> Some people don't realize that the 4 quadrants are of the Milky Way   
   >>> Galaxy only. Star Trek never left the galaxy that I know of. There was a   
   >>> show in TOS where a couple that looked like the Adams Family with a cane   
   >>> that had a crystal on the end of it. They created this castle on a dead   
   >>> planet. When Kirk broke the crystal everything disappeared leaving to   
   >>> little bird looking skinny freaky animals that died. They may have been   
   >>> from another galaxy.   
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   >> "Where No One Has Gone Before" - TNG, Series 1.  An "upgrade" to the warp   
   >> core propells the Enterprise 300 light years out of the Milky Way.   
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   > Did they go perpendicular or parallel to the spiral plane?   
   >   
   > Well since the galaxy is 200,000 light years across, 300 light years is   
   > not very far from it and nowhere near the next galaxy which is M31 or the   
   > Andromeda galaxy at 2 million light years away or 613179.4201 parsecs or   
   > .6 megaparsecs.   
   >300 light years would be what, a month's travel at warp 6?   
      
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