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u/unibuckeye · 7 pointsr/trekbooks

Star Trek Star Charts: The Complete Atlas of Star Trek https://www.amazon.com/dp/0743437705/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_eCI-Ab7CH95Q6

u/st-tempest · 7 pointsr/startrekadventures

Yeah, the Federation isn't 10,000 light years across. But ultimately there is no good definitive answer for size or shape of the Federation. The Star Charts book was the basis for the Star Trek Adventures map, the Star Trek Online game, and the map shown in Discovery, so it's the closest thing to "official" that exists. And the warp scale fleshed out for the TNG: Technical Manual (Warp Factor\^(10/3)) is still too slow to really make Trek style travel plausible, as illustrated in this tweet.

So for my campaign, I'm using the map from startrekmap.com, which takes the work from Star Charts and builds on it and I bumped up the warp scale from x^(10/3) to x^(10/2.5), which was just enough to be able to let my players fly around the map at speeds fast enough to be interesting but slow enough to be constrained. It doesn't much matter right now, because we're still in the beginning of the campaign and it's adventure of the week structure for the time being, but if I can actually follow through on my desire to maintain consistency, it might develop into a salient factor later on.

u/VonAether · 6 pointsr/startrek

Both the maps you and the OP posted are from Star Trek Star Charts. They're not super-canonical, but they've been used as reference for many official works.

> WTF, why do the Klingon and Romulan empires cut the Federation in two? How did the Federation colonize (annex) worlds on the other side?

The galaxy is 1000 LY thick. The UFP could be incorporating systems on the "upper" side while the Romulan Star Empire is on the "lower" side. No bisecting required.

> Finally, the map suggests that the Federation is 750 LY across, but it has been said several times on the show that the figure is between 8,000-10,000 LY.

Either the book itself or the website it was based on cover this. There was a bunch of conflicting information so they took it all and decided that the UFP has a "core" of a few hundred LY, with a few far-flung territories, making it about 8000 LY end to end, but with 90+% of the worlds within the core.

Many of the worlds visited in the series, for example, are within the UFP's vaguely-defined boundaries, but aren't UFP members.

u/PatternOfKnives · 5 pointsr/startrek

Not that I'm aware of. But I have the book Star Trek: Star Charts and it's very good - I'd recommend getting a copy of that.

u/nefthep · 5 pointsr/startrek

>I doubt Voyager's path was THAT much of a straight line.

It just looks straight because of how zoomed-out it is. There are more zoomed-in and detailed routes in the same book that show the ship's route in a more zigzag pattern.

>But that is a two dimensional representation of three dimensional space. Borg space could reach over and under the path that Voyager took

I think that same principle could be applied to Voyager going under/over Borg space as well.

My take away is that space is freaking BIG, and even though the Borg have spread out quite a bit, there's still plenty of room to dodge them and for other life to flourish.

u/frisby_dyke · 4 pointsr/startrek

That map is from a book of Star Trek maps . It's a good little collection if you can get it for around $15.

u/njfreddie · 3 pointsr/startrek

Have you looked into Star Trek: Star Charts?

u/mastertheshadow · 3 pointsr/DaystromInstitute

> In the same episode, it takes them two weeks to the Klingon homeworld, which would mean that the Klingon homeworld was the closest Star System to Earth, which is obvious nonsense.

Beta canon at best (so YMMV) Star Trek Star Charts attempted to rationalize this:

In Broken Bow, Tucker is complaining to Archer about the presence of T'Pol and we get this exchange:
>Tucker: Since when do we have Vulcan Science Officers?

>Archer: Since we needed their star charts to get to Kronos.

In Star Charts, the Beta Quadrant section opener (page 50-51) talks about the Klingon Empire (and the Romulans) as being the primary power(s) of the Beta Quadrant and the picture is of a Vulcan Star Chart. The caption of that image reads as follows:

>With the help of Vulcan star charts, meticulously prepared over centuries of space exploration, early Earth vessels were able to take advantage of subspace shortcuts through the Beta Quadrant, including this one that allowed the Enterprise NX-01 to make its historic journey from Earth to Qo'noS in only four days

Not great, but its something. Of course, that potentially adds other issues, such as why if the NX-01 had charts of "subspace shortcuts" why hadn't we heard of these shortcuts in other trek. . .and just what the heck a "subspace shortcut" is. Does the concept of a "subspace shortcut" even make any kind of sense given the understanding/explanation of subspace given in Trek? Then there's the whole side trip to Rigel X for the whole Suliban and Temporal Cold War plot that began in that episode - did they have shortcuts that got them to Rigel X also without delaying their trip to Qo'noS? So, yeah, perhaps that attempt to explain it away only adds more issues?

u/NateCadet · 2 pointsr/startrek

There is this book which I have...somewhere. If I can find it later, I'll try to see what's in there. I also want to say there was at least a small one in the Okuda encyclopedia that came out in the '90s.

Also, I discovered this awesome-looking thing while searching for the above. Comes out Dec. 3rd.

u/jswhitten · 2 pointsr/startrek

Epsilon Ceti B II, according to Star Charts.

u/keozen · 2 pointsr/startrek

Not likely, they're from a book by the same name so it's highly doubtful they would release them for free via pdf. For the record I actually have the book and it's quite awesome :) The big quadrants map is in a 4 part fold out.

u/[deleted] · 2 pointsr/startrek

Here is the link without the extra stuff on the end: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Star-Trek-Charts-Geoffrey-Mandel/dp/0743437705/


I'm kinda weary of amazon links on reddit with all the spammers. What is the "ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1319972518&sr=8-1" on the end of that link for?


Is that so you can get money when someone buys it?

u/BladedDingo · 1 pointr/DaystromInstitute

One of the Star Trek Online game artists recently commented on Star Trek Discovery's map which had similar sectors and names as the STO map.

he confirmed they used the same sources to design their maps.

https://www.reddit.com/r/sto/comments/8mx7p4/discovery_star_maps_pulling_from_sto/dzr4d7h/
> Nope, we just both pulled from the same sources.
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> Namely:
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> https://smile.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Charts-Complete-Atlas/dp/0743437705?sa-no-redirect=1
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> And
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> https://smile.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Cartography-Starfleet-Reference/dp/0760363811/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1527580161&sr=1-1&keywords=Stellar+Cartography&dpID=51dos%252BtBNOL&preST=_SX218_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch
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> (Which is also based on Star Charts)

so really, the discovery and star trek online maps are the closest to canon as we have I think.

u/meeowth · 1 pointr/startrek

This is a scan of the folded up map at the back of "Star Trek Star Charts: The Complete Atlas of Star Trek".

The map is 4 large folded sheets that have to be removed and put together if you wish to replicate the image here (which is obviously 4 scans with the seams poorly photoshopped out)

u/s810 · 1 pointr/startrek

Wow, something new under the sun!

Thank you for posting this, OP, this looks awesome. I look forward to comparing it to this and nerding out later.. I intend to let the guy know how close he is to Okuda's own charts.

u/Timerider3 · 1 pointr/StarTrekEnterprise

This is a beloved part of my personal library. It has maps of the NX-01's travels and areas of significance during that time period. I highly recommend that you purchase a copy:

https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Charts-Complete-Atlas/dp/0743437705/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1539889778&sr=8-1&keywords=star+trek+map

u/voltar · 1 pointr/startrek

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Charts-Complete-Atlas/dp/0743437705/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1300346394&sr=8-1

WTF? They're all used and at least $90. Makes me REALLY glad I bought a copy a couple of years ago at a Hastings.

u/placidppl · 1 pointr/geek

No but I got a Klingon Dictionary and the (completely awesome) ST Star Charts.

u/Luigi182 · 1 pointr/startrek

It's from the book, Star Trek Star Charts: The Complete Atlas of Star Trek. If you manage to find a decent copy of said book, there is a 2 section foldout poster of that exact image. Just carefully remove from book, paste to together, and frame. Makes for a wonderful conversation piece when hung on a wall in the rec-room, man-cave, personal Ten Forward lounge, etc.