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A thing that's always bothered me about Star Trek:

They always talk about the Alpha quadrant, Delta quadrant, etc. Space is three-dimensional. Shouldn't they be octants?

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Darcy Casselman
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Space is three dimensional, but the galactic disc is relatively flat. So quadrants are good enough generally.
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Jonathan Lamothe
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@Darcy Casselman Fair enough. There's still the question of where the axes lie, but I mean... we have the same issue with longitude.
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The North-South axis goes between galactic centre and Earth (for the same reason Greenwich is the prime meridian, one assumes).
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(We don't hear about the Beta Quardrant as much, mostly because the Klingon Empire and Romulan Star Empire take up a big chunk of it and are surprisingly close to Earth).
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Jonathan Lamothe
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@Darcy Casselman I always assumed that meant that Earth was near the border between the two.

Edit: Ah, I guess that's more the case than I realized:

Darcy Casselman

2025-05-30 16:38:08

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The North-South axis goes between galactic centre and Earth (for the same reason Greenwich is the prime meridian, one assumes).

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Jonathan Lamothe
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@Darcy Casselman I'm surprised Earth had that much power considering how much later they were to warp technology than more or less every other member of the Federation (though that probably wasn't established until after the boundaries were drawn).
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I like to imagine Vulcans rolling their eyes every time humans start talking about quadrants.
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((( David "Kahomono" Frier )))
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They are only talking about our galaxy, the Milky Way. It's more like a disc than a sphere. So I find the quadrant nomenclature satisfactory.

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