On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

Nerd pseudo-seismology question re: Endgame - how far away would the impact of alt-Thanos-2014's opening attack on the Avengers Compound have been felt?

I went and decided to isolate the vertical "stack" of sectors including Vulcan and Andoria using the Stellar Cartography 2nd Edition Federation History map. Check the blue "rectangle" there.



I went digging via whitten.org for possible candidates for "Eridani" and "Azati Prime", and I suspect that I am not searching properly.

As for the neighbourhood of the bulk of the episode's action: if we go by the Starbase 36 reference...and adding 150 lightyears along the Z-axis "above" and "below" Arbitrary Galactic Equatorial...

http://whitten.org/index.php?x_c=-90&y_c=-130&z_c=0&xy_zoom=20&z_zoom=150&m_limit=&select_star=&image_type=normal&image_size=2000&max_line=0&trek_names=1

Been re-reading Star Trek: The Empty Chair this morning. RV Trianguli comes up as a battle site in its prequels Swordhunt and Honor Blade...and here's where our best evidence puts that star at the moment. That's a bit of a ways off, huh?

In case you were wondering, based on my last posting on the subject...I'm okay with the new edition as a whole.

The Klingon map, I'm told, has had its name translations into thlingan Hol spruced up with help from Discovery Klingon translator Lieven Litaer, and has also been updated to note some of the systems whose existence was revealed in the first season of DSC, right along with the UFP quadrant-level and history maps. Most of the new DSC-related data points' placement makes sense overall. The rectifications of omissions from TOS, we can probably debate.

But that "Binary Stars"/Gamma Hydrae question still nags at me. I actually started fiddling with Gaia Sky to try to find a system close enough - "six lightyears" or two parsecs from γ Hyd - to fit the dialogue as written and performed on-air. Nothing so far, but a lot of stars in that GAIA DR2 database, even a truncated download.

(If you want to keep an eye on updates as they're announced, check this Twitter account: https://twitter.com/GaiaSky_Dev )

Jed Whitten's Starmap site put's Cardassian's home star here:

http://whitten.org/index.php?trek_names=1&select_center=1&select_star=46520

The SIMBAD databases remind us that HD 113337 (which has at least 35 other catalogue numbers as well) has at least one confirmed planetary companion. It was found in 2013, it's a super-Jovian discovered by radial velocity, semi-major axis is 0.92 AU, and exoplanet.eu doesn't have much info on it past July 2014.

http://exoplanet.eu/catalog/hd_113337_b/

One more divergence from real-universe history right there. Just like the Eugenics Wars, Nomad and so on.

Noting that Netflix isn't doing business inside mainland China, but they are offering their services in Traditional and Simplified Chinese langages anyway in assorted other markets.

Also noting that Star Trek: Discovery is being carried outside of the US and Canada by Netflix.

One of the supporting cast ships in the new series is USS Shenzhou NCC-1227.

Wondering if the dedication plaque will credit the Dalian Yards in mainland China for that starship. Dalian is where mainland China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaonang, was refitted to their navy's requirements.

The books we read all use a calendar system that puts events in the timeline on either side of the Battle of Yavin from A New Hope. I am becoming increasing convinced that the characters themselves are not using any such calendar-dating convention within the events of their lives.

What are some workable alternatives?

This may ramble a bit.

( Spoilers as appropriate )

Been keeping up with the new TV version of The Flash, and so far it's been an entertaining run. One little annoyance, though.

Check this pic from "Mashimero" on Flickr out.


Look at the license plate on the police cruiser. Notice anything about it?

Anything that isn't there and ought to be?