Poll Is the Earth on the border of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants? (Yes/No)

[Finn]

Voyager on-screen map. Earth is in the middle of the Alpha Quadrant. The only place where it makes logical sense for it to be.

How is it logical?

 

[BK613]

Voyager on-screen map. Earth is in the middle of the Alpha Quadrant. The only place where it makes logical sense for it to be.

Nope.

Spoiler: Voyager's return flight map

 

[Timofnine]

For quite awhile now, I've looked at the term "the only ship in the quadrant" as being a colloquialism or straight out exaggeration to describe a ship that was the only one in timely range of a particular destination.

A case could possibly be made, though, that the Galaxy was considered so big back in TOS that even sectors and even smaller still divisions of space were also divided into quadrants. In such a scenario, "Quadrant" (with an uppercase Q) referred to any of the four galactic quadrants, but maybe "quadrant" (with a lowercase q) referred to many non-galactic quadrants.

It *is* possible that Enterprise was the only ship in the Quadrant because the rest of the fleet were on a parade for a Frontier Day celebration in the ‘other’ Quadrant? The Borg, for example, observed this pattern of celebratory fleet maneuvers and took advantage of the vulnerability in the early 25th century, as depicted in Picard season 3.

 

[Tuskin38]

Interesting to note... a map shown in Discovery moves the line between the Alpha/Beta Quadrants where it does NOT go directly through Sol.

Only in Season 1, later DSC seasons and shows move it back.
Picard Season 1 for example

Voyager on-screen map. Earth is in the middle of the Alpha Quadrant. The only place where it makes logical sense for it to be.

That word on the bottom right is quite obviously longer than 4 letters.
Plus as posted by BK613 above, a clearer version of the graphic has been shown elsewhere.

There's also this map from insurrection that puts the UFP on the border (I believe the map was sourced from one of the tech manuals)

 

[Shawnster]

Voyager on-screen map. Earth is in the middle of the Alpha Quadrant. The only place where it makes logical sense for it to be.

The white text was added later and is not correct. I the above (supposed on-screen) map Earth is at the top middle while Voyager in the Delta quadrant is bottom left

 

[David cgc]

Nope.

Spoiler: Voyager's return flight map

You know, I thought it was odd that that map would put Voyager's starting point in the Gamma Quadrant. We were just holding the silly thing upside down.

 

[BK613]

^^ There is no up or down in space...