Category:Delta Quadrant

Delta Quadrant
Powers
Major Powers	Borg Collective
Minor Powers	Kazon Order Hirogen Ts'usugi Empire Dalacari Republic
Points of Interest
Important Places	Iota system
Template:Quadrant

The Delta Quadrant is the common designation for one of the four quarters of the Milky Way galaxy. It lies in the "north-east" region of the galactic map, adjacent to the Beta Quadrant and the Gamma Quadrant.

Overview

Unlike the other three quadrants of the galaxy, which appear to have been dominated by one or more major political entities, the Delta Quadrant is largely decentralized in terms of political landscape. Although hundreds of interstellar powers have been documented, they are spread out across thousands of light-years. Most have had no communication with and little knowledge of each other except for their closest neighbors.

Some factions, such as the Vaadwaur or the Krenim Imperium, have been known to exert enormous influence in the past. However, none have persisted into the late 24th century. This may be caused in part by the presence of the memoryalpha:Borg Collective who, up until recently, maintained a fearsome control over large sections of the quadrant.

Since the return of the USS Voyager in 2378, Starfleet and others have taken a renewed interest in exploring the far-flung reaches of this remote region of space. Yet, it was not until the advent of the Delta Quadrant Exploratory Group that any concerted effort involving crewed vessels was undertaken to revisit the quadrant.