To the point: I was watching a "Year of Hell" tape I have out of sheer
boredom. Quite a good episode, especially by VGR standards.
Kurtwood Smith's performance was excellent. Of course I still think
of him as Clarence Boddicker
Anyway, I overheard a few tidbits that I looked up at a VGR episode
review website called "Delta Blues." This is what I found.
Annorax' second-in-command, a guy named Obrist, says this after
the Krenim use their time weapon on a world:
"The Krenim Imperium has been restored to power. Our territory now includes 849 inhabited worlds spanning 5,000 parsecs." "Counter indications?" "Negligible. No superior enemy forces. No unexpected diseases. Calculations indicate a 98% restoration. Our race is thriving once again."
So, in other words, very close to 100% of the Krenim's space didn't
even amount to 850 worlds.
Also, one parsec is about 3.3 ly. So Krenim space "spanned" 16,500
ly, whatever that means. I *don't* think it entails anything even close
to diameter; it could be a measurement based on their homeworld
as the center, with territorial holdings reaching out in all directions.
Then, Seven and Janewad discuss an astrometrics scan...though I'd
*love* to know HOW they managed to scan so much space!:
"The Krenim Imperium," Janeway notes. "Over 200 star systems; 900 planets; thousands of warp-capable vessels. And now...After the shock wave everything seems to have changed. Run a new scan." Seven punches in a few commands, and the angry green Krenim space shrinks dramatically; three other species that had been at the small fringes of the sector are now dominant, and completely surround the Krenim. "Same space, different configuration. Exactly as Chakotay said. The Imperium appears to have been reduced to a few planets, and a smattering of vessels. It appears that someone--or something--has altered history. But why weren't we affected?"
Temporal shielding, that's why dummy.
Anyway, more of the same stuff: 200 systems and 900 planets, with
"thousands" of ships.
This is surprisingly close to what we've heard about the Federation's
size in "First Contact," and not terribly far from the size of heavily-populated Borg space (about 10,000 ly wide).
You're thinking, so what?
As I said, I simply found it interesting.I've heard wild claims about the size of Krenim space before, but
there's the truth.
Sean
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