page_title: Star Trek: Excelsior
section_title: Summary
hierarchical_section_title: Star Trek: Excelsior / Summary
caption_attribution_description: English: Artist's conception of the spiral structure of the Milky Way with two major stellar arms and a central bar. "Using infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that the Milky Way's elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Previously, our galaxy was thought to possess four major arms."
context_page_description: Star Trek: Excelsior is an independently produced science fiction audio drama set in the Star Trek universe that has twice been nominated for the Parsec Awards for speculative fiction podcasting. The show was created by James Heaney in September 2007.
  The series concerns the 24th century adventures of the crew of the U.S.S. Excelsior in the Delta Quadrant.
  The pilot episode, ...There You Are, was released on September 28, 2007, and since then 22 regular and 13 special episodes have been released, most recently At Death's Door. By August 2009 all episodes available at the time had been downloaded more than 20,000 times in total.
context_section_description: While the audio drama is divided into seasons, each with its own story and tied off plot-threads, every season also contains plot points that drive forward the narrative of the next one. The producers intend the show to present stories that "are long, arc-based, character-driven, and very involved".
caption: The Delta Quadrant at the top right, the setting of Star Trek: Excelsior.
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