Re: Why arent Sprial galaxies spiral shaped?
 

I thought that a Star Trek quadrant was a fourth of the galaxy. The Earth and the Federation are in the Alpha quadrant. The Borg are in Delta quadrant. The wormhole at DS9 goes to Gamma quadrant. I don't know what the fourth one is (Beta quadrant?)

Re: Why arent Sprial galaxies spiral shaped?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Since a quadrant just means a fourth of something, it could have different meanings in different contexts, and the context is often left out. The use you describe above sounds like a Next Generation and beyond thing, whereas in The Original Series, it apparently meant a very much smaller area, especially judging by the number of times Kirk's ship was the "only one in the quadrant". http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

PvK

Re: Why arent Sprial galaxies spiral shaped?
 

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Since a quadrant just means a fourth of something, it could have different meanings in different contexts, and the context is often left out. The use you describe above sounds like a Next Generation and beyond thing, whereas in The Original Series, it apparently meant a very much smaller area, especially judging by the number of times Kirk's ship was the "only one in the quadrant". http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

PvK</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">True. Around the time that Star Trek VI came out, the famaliar quadrant (alpha, beta, gamma, delta) system was set up and followed.

Re: Why arent Sprial galaxies spiral shaped?
 

Quadrant means different things in different parts of Star Trek. Like everything else, there is no internal consistency. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif