Sectors

[Space_Cadet]

What's the dimensions of a "sector" in the star trek universe?

[redwood973]

They are twenty cubic light years.

[Erik Filean]

Twenty cubic light years is a bit off. A Star Trek sector is a cube twenty light years on a side, for a total of eight thousand cubic light years.

[buck rogers]

Sectors can also get smaller as you move closer to the center of the galaxy and become bigger as you move toward the rim of the galaxy. As a general rule of thumb they are 20 light years across, which would make them 8000 cubic light-years. A Galaxy-class starship can presumably scan one sector a day. According to the episode "The Wounded" [TNG].

[redwood973]

I ment to say 20 light-years cubed.

[Cochrane]

And according to Star Charts, the federation only encompasses one sector. I guess it's more tendrilly than it looks...

[SIR SIG]

Originally posted by Cochrane
And according to Star Charts, the federation only encompasses one sector. I guess it's more tendrilly than it looks...

ROTFLMAO

Most people take the 8000ly quote as a direct distance from the two furtherest stars apart.

[Cochrane]

And that's what I would use, yet Mandel's book says cubic light years on UFPIV. But of course that can be overlooked in favor of the maps themselves.

[SIR SIG]

To true. I'd never looked close at that map about the Fed size.

Guess Geoff never Squared a 20x20 Sector before