Beta Quadrant

The Beta Quadrant was the common designation for one-quarter of the Milky Way Galaxy. It was adjacent to the Alpha and Delta Quadrants. One-quarter of the galactic core was located in this quadrant. (, Season 7 production art; display graphics)
Part of the United Federation of Planets was located in the Beta Quadrant, along with the bulk of the Klingon and Romulan Empires, including their homeworlds of Qo'noS and Romulus. ( display graphic; display graphic; ; ).
The Yattho, a species known for their precognitive abilities, were native to the Beta Quadrant. ()
== History ==
In 2259, the R'ongovian Protectorate held a small but strategically-important region of space in between Klingon and Romulan territory; the Federation sought an alliance with them to secure a safe path to the other side of the Beta Quadrant. ()
In 2293, the starship , commanded by Captain Hikaru Sulu, completed a three-year exploratory voyage in the Beta Quadrant which included cataloging gaseous anomalies. ()
In 2363, Captain Lisa Cusak and the crew of the began an eight-year mission in the Beta Quadrant. Following this mission, the Olympia crashed on a planet in the Rutharian sector en route back to Federation space. While escorting a convoy to the Vegan system in 2374, the crew of the made contact with Cusak in 2371 via a temporal anomaly. ()
In an alternate timeline, the used a quantum slipstream drive to cross the Delta and Beta Quadrants, before crashing on a class L planet in the Takara sector, a few parsecs short of reaching the Alpha Quadrant. Also in this timeline, Starfleet Intelligence had salvaged a Borg temporal transmitter from the debris of a Borg cube in the Beta Quadrant. ()
A Borg scout ship, crewed by Axum and other liberated drones, was located in a remote sector of the Beta Quadrant patrolling the border of fluidic space. ()
When members of the Hierarchy captured Captain Janeway and forced The Doctor to obtain Voyagers warp core for them, he impersonated Janeway and told Commander Chakotay a cover story involving a fictitious R'Kaal Imperium which supposedly controlled "thousands of parsecs from here to the edge of the Beta Quadrant." ()
The Borg maintained at least one transwarp hub and thousands of exit apertures in the Beta Quadrant until 2378, when the entire transwarp network was destroyed by the . ()
In the 2380s, the Romulan supernova threatened the lives of billions of people in this quadrant within its burst radius. ()
In 2384, the Janeway wormhole was located on the Beta Quadrant border. ()
=== Captain Riker – holoprogram ===
In 2367, while exploring a cavern on Alpha Onias III, Commander William T. Riker was rendered unconscious by gases. While unconscious, neural scanners scanned Commander Riker's brain. The scanners used elements of Riker's reality and constructed a holoprogram with those elements interspersed throughout, so that it felt real to him. What Riker wanted, the scanners made possible.
In one of these simulations, the Axanar hosted a conference on Beta Quadrant exploration and Federation security that was held at the Deneva Special Congress on Interstellar Affairs. On Stardate 52384, Captain Riker, the commanding officer of the , was selected for recognition as the special Federation representative to this conference. In 2383, the quadrant was mentioned in Riker's service record that was on display in his quarters on the Enterprise-D. ( okudagram)
== Governments ==
* Acamarian Ruling Council 
* Gorn Hegemony 
* Iconian Empire
* Klingon Empire
* R'ongovian Protectorate
* Romulan Free State
* Romulan Star Empire (until 2387)
* United Federation of Planets
== Homeworlds ==
* Acamar III
* Alpha Carinae II
* Ardana
* Argelius II
* Iconia
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* Kolarus III
* Krios Prime
* Nausicaa
* Pahvo
* Qo'noS
* Ramatis III
* Remus
* Romulus
* Sigma Iotia II
* Tagus III
* Tiburon
* Valt Minor
* Vendor
== Colonies and outposts ==
* Ajilon Prime
* Amargosa observatory
* Archanis IV (Archanis IV Research Outpost)
* Beta Agni II
* Boreth
* Carraya IV
* Cestus III
* Chaltok IV
* Corvan II
* Delta Outpost
** Delta Outpost 9
** Delta Outpost 10
** Delta Outpost 11
* Doctari Alpha (Doctari Alpha Research Outpost)
* Epsilon Outpost
** Epsilon Outpost 1
** Epsilon Outpost 2
** Epsilon Outpost 3
** Epsilon Outpost 4
** Epsilon Outpost 5
** Epsilon Outpost 6
** Epsilon Outpost 7
** Epsilon Outpost 8
** Epsilon Outpost 9
** Epsilon Outpost 10
** Epsilon Outpost 11
** Epsilon Outpost 12
** Epsilon Outpost 15
* Gamma Hydra IV
* H'atoria
* Jouret IV (New Providence colony)
* Khitomer (Khitomer Outpost)
* Korvat colony
* Lya IV
* M-Zed-5
* Narendra III
* Nivalla
* Nuzzo Station
* Okrand Colony
* Outpost 1
* Outpost 2
* Outpost 3
* Outpost 4
* Outpost 5
* Outpost 6
* Outpost 7
* Outpost 8
* Outpost 23
* Qu'Vat (Qu'Vat Colony)
* Regula I
* Relay Station 47
* Rura Penthe
* Science Station 0812
* Science Station Delta-05
* Septra
* Tarod IX
* Terralysium
* Turkana IV
* Vashti
== Starbases ==
* Deep Space 2
* Deep Space 4
* Deep Space Station K-7
* Lya III starbase
* Starbase 18
* Starbase 23
* Starbase 24
* Starbase 36
* Starbase 39-Sierra
* Starbase 88
* Starbase 105
* Starbase 117
* Starbase 152
* Starbase 157
* Starbase 173
* Starbase 234
* Starbase 343
* Starbase 718
== Spatial landmarks ==
* 'etnap Nebula
* Azure Nebula
* Baber Nebula
* Barnes Nebula
* Chantico Nebula
* 'etnap Nebula
* Foster Nebula
* Frazee's Nova
* Friedlich Nebula
* Gullory Nebula
* Hodges Nebula
* Hromi Cluster
* Janeway wormhole (Alpha Quadrant border)
* Mutara Nebula
* Paulson Nebula
* Ryton Nebula
* Stevens Nebula
* Typhon Expanse
* Winter's Nova
* Wise Nebula
==Appendices==
===See also===
* Alpha Quadrant
* Gamma Quadrant
* Delta Quadrant
===Related links===
* Unnamed Alpha and Beta Quadrant planets
* Unnamed Alpha and Beta Quadrant starships
===Background information===
The Fen Domar, with whom Voyager was engaged in battle in an alternate timeline, may very likely be a Beta Quadrant civilization. This is based on the ship's close proximity to the quadrant's border in and Admiral Kathryn Janeway's comments that the ship would have encountered them just a few years after the events of that episode.
 
According to Star Trek: Star Charts, the Beta Quadrant was home to the Vulcans, Andorians, Orions, Bolians, Son'a, Risians, Organians, Coridanite, Axanar, Nausicaans, Suliban, Gorn, and many other alien races.
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