Navigation Definitions
The ship's helm department, which is in charge of handling all flight operations on and off the ship.
What is the conn?
This is what Helmsman and Navigator positions were combined into.
What is a Flight Control Officer?
The art, science, and technology of expressing graphically, by maps, charts, three-dimensional models and globes, the known physical features of the earth or any heavenly body, at any scale.
What is cartography?
If used effectively, this can add meaning to a map and help users understand what they are looking at.
What is text?
The flight control officer aboard the U.S.S. Voyager.
Who is Tom Paris?
Starfleet space stations in orbit of Earth.
What are orbital facilities?
The officer who plots the course.
What is a helmsman?
The way in which geographical data is classified and represented on a map.
What is symbolization?
The process a cartographer (or more recently, a computer algorithm) undertakes to alter the way in which features are represented in order to maintain legibility as the map scale decreases.
What is generalization?
The person that said “Well, I know this is all pretty dry stuff. Stellar cartography isn't everybody’s cup of tea.”
Who is Jean Luc Picard?
The central region of the Milky Way Galaxy.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What is the Galactic Center?
The officer who reads the map.
What is a navigator?
The scale of a map is often represented by one of these.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What is a ratio?
This allows us to identify a position on a planet’s surface and relate it to a position on a map, and vice versa.
What is a coordinate system?
The Flight Control Officer aboard the U.S.S. Discovery.
A subspace device designed to receive and re-transmit subspace communications signals to other relays in a larger subspace communications network.
The position of Flight Control Officer was split between a helmsman and a navigator until the middle of this century.
What is the 24th century?
A scale of 1:100 means that one unit on the map represents this many of the same units on the ground.
What is 100?
Small or narrow features are increased in size in order to maintain their legibility whilst retaining a defining feature.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
What is exaggeration?
This Chief of Engineering aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise was originally a Flight Control Officer.
A form of damage to space and time that can be attributed to time travel, quantum chromodynamics, and probability mechanics.
What are temporal distortion phenomena?
This is what Conn is short for. (Hint: It's three words and Conn is not in it)
What are Flight Control Operations.
These require a small sheet of paper to show an area with a smaller amount of detail.
What is a small scale map?
Those which keep areas correct are called ________ projections, those which preserve distance are known as ___________ projections, and those which preserve angles are known as ___________ projections. (Hint: your choices are equidistant, equal area, and conformal)
What is equal area, equidistant, and conformal?
These coordinates are located in NN23 with coordinates (1,5) in the 1 km square and (9,6) in the 100 m square
What is NN219356?