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Doctor converses with Starfleet

The Doctor then informs Starfleet of Voyager's condition, position, and of everything that has happened to the crew since they arrived in the Delta Quadrant. He discovers that Voyager was officially declared lost 14 months ago, but after The Doctor sets the record straight directly to Starfleet Headquarters, they send the Doctor back to Voyager through the subspace relay network with a message for the captain: Voyager is no longer alone.

Should it be mentioned that virtually all of this -- the emotional payoff of the episode, BTW -- takes place offscreen?

Reviewer comment

One reviewer (I can't remember who), praising the interplay between Picardo and Dick, called them "the Niles and Frasier of Starfleet." After I read that, I was able to see a similarity to the relationship of the Crane brothers in Frasier.

Regarding Alfa/Beta Quadrants

"According to the display in Astrometrics on Voyager, showing the position of the USS Prometheus, the ship was actually in the Beta Quadrant, although the relay station network did reach into the deep space regions of the Alpha Quadrant."

Not only is the Prometheus in the Beta Quadrant, according to the episode the network doesn't even come close to the Alfa Quadrant. Shouldn't this be an honest-to-goodness error?

Actually, Seven says that the ship is "near the outer edges of the Alpha Quadrant." That could mean that the Prometheus is either just inside or just outside the Alpha Quadrant.

Also, when the Doctor first arrives on the Prometheus he specifically asks the computer if the ship is in the Alpha Quadrant. The computer clearly affirms that they are, in fact, in that Quadrant.

In addition to that - the map from Astrometrics does not have the four Quadrants labeled in any fashion. We cannot be certain that the four divisions that are shown are intended to be the quadrant borders. Therefore, given all this, it seems that saying the ship is "actually in the Beta Quadrant" jumps the gun.

True, when in a canon production do they say "the Beta Quadrant begins here and ends there? Many people belive non-canon books and posters that state the Earth is the line of demarcation, but I don't recall it being labeled as such on the map. The dialogue is principal to what we are trying to record here. -- Captain MKB 05:30, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

The 30th Anniversary [Canadian] TV Guide Star Trek edition had a large poster map in it (which I have lost, very regretfully), which had it like this:

Gamma Quadrant | Delta Quadrant

               |

               |

---------------•---------------

               |

               ·

Alpha Quadrant | Beta Quadrant

— And Earth/Sol system (I coloured it light blue) was very much in the centre, but still in the Alpha Quadrant. -Mardus 17:31, 9 August 2007 (UTC)