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   From: liam@valentijn.nu   
      
   Mike Dicenso wrote:   
   > On Tue, 16 May 2006, Wouter Valentijn wrote:   
   >   
      
      
      
   >> And at that speed that 70,000 lightyears could be done in 7 years..   
   >   
   >   
   > Yes, and at least a few of the VOY writers caught onto this issue,   
   > which is why in "The Year of Hell Pt. I", along with two other   
   > episodes, it's made clear that one of the reasons Voyager can't get   
   > home is because of a lack of good navigational on the Delta quadrent.   
   > In TYoH, 5 years was shaved off thanks to the new method employ   
   > employed by Voyager's astrometrics lab. In "Hope and Fear", which   
   > comes well after TYoH, Starfleet sent all the information they could   
   > on the Delta quadrent to shave a "few years" off the journey. A like   
   > amount was shaved   
   > off thanks to more information provided by Q in "Q2". So depending on   
   > how you define "a few years", between 9 and 15 years was shaved off   
   > the trip home just by doing that. No miracle drives, wormholes, or   
   > other "cheats" used.   
      
   In part those could be explanations...   
   But in other shows what in Voyager terms would be years, would be days or   
   hours even.   
      
   --   
   Wouter Valentijn   
      
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   The peace that ignores thee, thou corrupt.   
   Chaos. I remain, as ever, thy faithful, degenerate son."   
      
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