The Galaxy has over 100 globular star clusters that surround it in all directions - most of them are not obscured by galactic dust clouds. You can see objects that are billions of light years away, unless you are looking through the dust clouds near the plane of the galactic disc. The Gamma Quadrant exit of the Bajoran wormhole has a very specific location.
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Of course, the simplest answer to all of this is that the Delta Quadrant was a perfect blank slate upon which to base the series as it was completely unknown-save for part of one episode-to the rest of Star Trek canon, and Voyager running into the Borg made for good TV after the success of Star Trek: First Contact. You say that heading close to the center of the galaxy would have lead to more potential conflict, but that's against the charter of Starfleet: to seek out new life and new civilizations and "to boldly go where no man has gone before." Janeway likely would've seen it as an opportunity, not a hazard.īased on this, Janeway's decision seems to have been the correct one and the safest bet. Assuming the Borg were on Janeway's radar as something to absolutely avoid during the consideration on whether to head directly home, there was a pretty good chance (all things being equal) that Voyager would never run into them. Similarly, even though the Federation knew the Borg existed somewhere in the Delta Quadrant, the quadrant hadn't been mapped at all.
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It's pretty safe to assume Voyager would have no idea how to find the Bajoran Wormhole save for "heading to the Gamma Quadrant". The vastness of the quadrants leads to two things:Įven if you granted all the knowledge gleaned from the Dominion War (which occurred after Voyager was thrown into the Delta Quadrant), the Gamma Quadrant was not explored in any great detail. Quadrants are enormous: tens of thousands of light years across. The most direct, unambiguous path to the Alpha Quadrant is a straight line. Immediately after the destruction of the Caretaker array, Janeway makes the command decision to head directly to the Alpha Quadrant. There is no canon explanation for why they didn't opt to head for the Gamma Quadrant and seek out the Bajoran wormhole, but there are a few reasons why that wouldn't have been a good idea: Why didn’t Voyager fly to the end of the Bajoran wormhole in the Gamma Quadrant? The only downside I can think of is that the Bajoran wormhole may no longer be there when they get there. (Voyager could not know in advance that they would be able to circumvent this region of space.) The direct route to the Alpha Quadrant would take Voyager closer to the centre of the galaxy, where stars are denser, therefore there would likely be more civilisations, therefore more potential for conflict. The Dominion in the Gamma Quadrant would surely be a much lesser evil.
Voyager should have known that flying directly towards Starfleet HQ would take them through Borg space.
The Federation knows about the approximate location of Borg space because Q took the Enterprise D there. This makes distance a non-factor, but I can think of two others: Indeed, maps of the galaxy that I’ve seen show that the distance is pretty much the same. When Voyager was stranded in the Delta Quadrant, it would seem they had two options: either fly straight towards Federation space in the Alpha Quadrant, or go to the far end of the Bajorn wormhole in the Gamma Quadrant.Ī common response to this question is that the end of the Bajoran wormhole would have been no closer.
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