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echo: startrek
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from: PAUL ANDINACH
date: 1997-09-02 21:14:00
subject: Re: Trivia:

 -=> Quoting Jason Simpson to Ruggs <=-
 RR> RE: Trivia:
 RR> BY: Rogier Van eeten to Ruggs on Wed Aug 27 1997 01:16 pm
 
 > Goeimorgen Ruggs,
 >
 > je schreef aan All:
 >
 >  R>    In what quadrant is the planet Gothos? ("The Squire of
 RR> Gothos")
 >  R>1: Quadrant 451
 >  R>2: Quadrant 356
 >  R>3: Quadrant 904
 >  R>4: Quadrant 690
 >  Quadrant? Not sector?
 >
 >
 >
 RR> That is how it is in the book....Took the whole thing word for
 RR> word out of
 RR> it...
 RR> Ruggs
Here we go again... "quadrant" has only been used to mean "a quarter of the 
galaxy" since the TNG ep "The Price". Before that, in TOS, it apparently 
meant "an area of space with four sides".
See any of those old Trek games if you don't believe me.
Paul
... "Have any arms fallen into Xeron hands?"
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