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The '''Delta Quadrant''' is the farthest quadrant of the Milky Way from the [[Alpha Quadrant]]. It would be located between 12 and 3 o'clock positions if the plane of the galaxy were seen as a clock face with the 6 o'clock position bisecting the Sol system. | The '''Delta Quadrant''' is the farthest quadrant of the Milky Way from the [[Alpha Quadrant]]. It would be located between 12 and 3 o'clock positions if the plane of the galaxy were seen as a clock face with the 6 o'clock position bisecting the Sol system. | ||
[[File:Delta.jpg|thumb|300px|center|The Delta Quadrant]] | |||
Due to the immense distance between the Alpha and Delta Quadrants (an [[Intrepid class]] starship from Earth would take 30 years to reach the edges of the quadrant at its maximum warp velocity), very little was known about this region of space until 2371, when the starship USS ''Voyager'' was pulled into the quadrant by an alien force called the Caretaker. When contact was reestablished with the starship in 2374, hundreds of kiloquads of data on the region was received, increasing the Federation's knowledge of the quadrant immensely. | Due to the immense distance between the Alpha and Delta Quadrants (an [[Intrepid class]] starship from Earth would take 30 years to reach the edges of the quadrant at its maximum warp velocity), very little was known about this region of space until 2371, when the starship USS ''Voyager'' was pulled into the quadrant by an alien force called the Caretaker. When contact was reestablished with the starship in 2374, hundreds of kiloquads of data on the region was received, increasing the Federation's knowledge of the quadrant immensely. | ||