Stellar cartography notes to accompany the star charts. Emphasis on [Voyager].

	THE BADLANDS

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the Maquis ship struggles to navigate the Badlands while also trying to deal with a Cardassian warship [#1 and #2 Caretaker]

The region of space known as the Badlands, located near Deep Space 9 and Cardassia, is the area from which Chakotay's Maquis ship and crew, then USS Voyager, were hurtled from the Alpha Quadrant into the Delta Quadrant in early 2371, as depicted (and summarised by television footage in [#26 Cold Fire]) in [#1 and #2 Caretaker]. See also Slideshow: 14 screenshots from the Badlands sequence.

USS Voyager leaves Deep Space 9 for the Badlands [#1 and #2 Caretaker]

USS Voyager approaches the Badlands [#1 and #2 Caretaker]

Star Chart: Alpha Quadrant - the Badlands, USS Equinox and the route of Dreadnought

this link goes to André Bormanis' section: The Badlands In [#1 Caretaker, Part One]

Alpha 441

Alpha 441 is a planetoid located in the Badlands. On stardate 46437, a Cardassian guided tactical missile, later dubbed Dreadnought, was launched on a mission to destroy a Maquis munitions base on planetoid Alpha 441. Torres, on behalf of the Maquis, had reprogrammed Dreadnought to destroy a Cardassian fuel depot on planet Aschelan V. The reprogramming was accomplished by Maquis member B'Elanna Torres. One day after the Dreadnought was launched toward Aschelan V, it was captured by the Caretaker's displacement wave and brought into the Delta Quadrant. In this unfamiliar environment, the Dreadnought's control computer locked onto planet Rakosa V, threatening Rakosa's two million inhabitants. [#33 Dreadnought]