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I was looking around the web for Star Trek maps and the only ones I could find are the ones from the Star Charts book that was published a number of years ago, or ones that seem to be based on this. But these all seem to be based on the TNG era and I was wondering if anyone knows of any Star Trek galaxy maps based on the original series.

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To my knowledge, there were no detailed charts from TOS. Based on the series general lack of continuity in regards to such details, I am not sure you'll find much outaide the Star Charts book and whatever later era graphics that were shown on screen.
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There were maps in the original Tech Manual by Franz Joseph.

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Oh wow, I wholly forgot about those.
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I've always found it kinda funny that the UFP exploration zone is this rather large swath of the Mily Way... and the Federation itself is this teeny-tiny thing there at the center of it. :D
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That hit me as weird too. For one, it makes the UFP look vastly smaller than the Romulan or Klingon Empires.

I think the genesis of it was the fact that in the show, the Enterprise would be visiting a Federation Starbase one week, a Federation colony world the next, then exploring uncharted space the next. Logically that means many Starbases and even planets must be outside the Federation itself.

So it seems like the treaty zone is an area the Klingons and Romulans have agreed to stay out of, but not actually Federation space as such.

Notice also that being able to transit this zone in any reasonable time would mean galaxy-wide travel would certainly be feasible.

Which, oddly, would directly contradict the Speed = WF^3 formula that was highlighted in this book. Warp 6 is 216xc according to Joseph... so crossing a treaty zone 4,750 parsecs in radius should take around 140 years. But the Enterprise did it routinely. Odd that a guy as technically minded as Joseph would mess this up.
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