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From: dr37@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Joanna Bryson)
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Subject: Re: Re: Romulans/Klingons --Fresh evidence
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Date: Fri, 6-Dec-85 01:27:31 EST
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The problem I noticed when I first saw The Wrath (notice I didn't say TWOK :-)
was that the nuetral zone was pictured as spherical in the graphic display.
I've never been one for memorizing sectors, but my understanding of the 
configuration of Klingon and Romulan space made me think this was more 
Romulanesk.  I seem to recall that the Romulans all live in just one or two
star systems, the one circling Romulas and possibly Remus.  (As named by the
Roman astrologers, I've forgotten the constellations...)  So a neutral zone
around them could logically be spherical, and entirely contained within 
Federation space.  The Klingons, on the other hand, seem to have a pretty 
vast empire from which we keep hearing reports of atrocities during their 
conquests.  So I would assume that the Klingon neutral zone, even if it exists,
would be some kind of open figure, bordering on the top and bottom of the 
gallaxy, at an edge somewhere near our arm, and becoming hazily defined as
we leave known space, probably towards the center of the galaxy.  Since the 
Enterprise frequently explores "where no man has gone before"  this would
explain the frequent contacts with Klingons which don't seem in treaty 
violation...the bench marks aren't well enough defined that far out.
At any rate, it would seem extremely unlikely that the Klingon Empire
could be contained by anything like a sphere.

Joanna