LoglineStarfleet commandeers the Enterprise for an alien pursuit that grows far beyond its original orders.

Written by: Alan B. McElroy

Directed by: Sharon Lewis

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[–] 3 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Boy, I just discovered that people are picking apart the star map in this episode. There's a hair trigger to just get angry about anything at this point 😂

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    ...Do I even want to ask?

    I'd have to double-check, but it IIRC it was the same map we typically see. But maybe that's the "problem" 🙄.

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  • [–] 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

    It's basically that for literally one second of screen-time (if you pause so you can read it), Cardassia is marked on the map with a "Wormhole" marked near it.

    So if you're in a frame to be mad, you're mad because the DS9 wormhole seems to be on the map a century before it's known. Or more esoterically, there's a wormhole stable enough to mark on a map when TNG told us there were historically no known stable wormholes.

    I basically would headcanon it as "they thought it was stable and marked it, but later it turned it was not". Or I would just not be freeze-framing and nitpicking this stuff in the first place.

    Really though, I think making detailed maps on the show marking all sorts of places just opens a door for problems. Geography is second to travel times from A to B among "things work in whatever way makes sense in this story and otherwise forget it" in Star Trek. (Edit: I guess geography and travel time is all of a piece, but you know what I mean.)

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