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There is the book Star Trek Star Charts which I recall having the Gamma and Delta quadrant maps too. I loved that book. Should still have it somewhere :)
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.
EDIT 2: /u/Davistasar has delivered! Go and upvote this immediately: http://www.reddit.com/r/startrek/comments/196ylw/so_i_started_to_make_a_map/
Edit: it appears this map was originally scanned from this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Charts-Complete-Atlas/dp/0743437705
Really nice vector based PDFs of this and other maps are available on www.startrekmap.com but it's not a great map interface and it's not community edit-able so we can start tying in Memory Alpha pages to locations.
/u/DavisTasar has nobly offered to spend his wife and child free weekend working those high quality vector based PDFs into the Google Maps API so we can have a proper map interface, and then start community editing in links to Memory Alpha from there! GO /r/startrek MAP PROJECT!
1,000,000 upvotes to this post, please.
This is so amazing. I have always wanted to understand the spacial relationships of all these places. It's crazy how close Bajor is to Cardassia, it seems like that occupation would have started a looooong time before it did, kind of makes a lot of the stuff in DS9 a little weird imo.
What's the source on this? Was it produced for a Star Trek game or something? Fan-made? Official production material? I've never seen it and I'm surprised by that fact. How 'canon' is this?
Also, how has no enterprising Trekker engineer taken this and made an interactive, searchable, zoomable web-based version of this yet? Can someone please get on that? Like immediately??
Imagine if Memory Alpha built a Google Maps style page with a much higher rez version of this map, highly zoomable, and fully anotated so you could click on any star and see a list of episodes/movies that reference it, shots of the planets surface if available, etc etc.
Please upvote, we really need to get this made. It would be an incredible resource for Trek, and it would probably end up getting used a lot by writers of any future Trek works! Even just the book authors, imagine how much easier their jobs would be (and how much more cohesive a picture they could paint) if they had a real workable map of the known Star Trek galaxy to work with. "On our way from X to Y we were passing Z and...." etc. No more having to make that stuff up or research disparate sources exhaustively to avoid contradiction!
Nope, we just both pulled from the same sources.
Namely:
https://smile.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Charts-Complete-Atlas/dp/0743437705?sa-no-redirect=1
And
(Which is also based on Star Charts)
There are lots of official maps. This one is from This book from 2002. They've also released a high quality stellar cartography book as recently as 2018.
From the size of the Federation presented in Star Charts, (portions of which have been canonized by forming the basis of on-screen maps), very likely. That source presents known space as 1,500 light years in diameter (vs. the galaxy's diameter of over 100,000 light years, making it only a tiny portion of either quadrant.
They're not Modiphius books, but rather just general Star Trek reference books. I have both and they're excellent. Starcharts is out of print though (I think), so might be pretty expensive.
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It does, although for a long time I don't think the map of the galaxy was defined very clearly in Star Trek canon. We heard hints, like at the beginning of Star Trek 6 where Sulu mentioned Excelsior had been cataloguing gaseous anomalies in Beta quadrant...presumably in Federation space.
We've gotten a bit more clarity recently. This map showed up in the background of Admiral Clancy's office in ST:Picard and this one showed up in Discovery. The galaxy maps in the new series seem to track pretty closely to the maps in the Star Charts book, like this one.
Well, you can get them from the source itself. But there are lots of copies online of varying resolution, like this.
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:
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. > > Namely: > > https://smile.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Charts-Complete-Atlas/dp/0743437705?sa-no-redirect=1 > > And > > 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_&dpSr... > > (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.
It's from Star Trek Star Charts. The dimensions are apparently around 22x8.6 inches, so not all that big.
There is also Stellar Cartography by Larry Nemecek, which contains ten 24x36 inch maps specifically designed to be hung on walls.
Downvote for piracy, this book is still available for purchase:
http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Charts-Complete-Atlas/dp/0743437705
but after looking at the Amazon preview, it's clear the book is the original source of these maps, so thanks for that at least :P
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