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| | Alpha Quadrant - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki |
 | | Interstellar politics in the Alpha Quadrant in the 24th century were generally dominated by the United Federation of Planets, along with other regional powers including the Klingon Empire, Romulan Star Empire, Cardassian Union, the Tzenkethi, the Talarian Republic, and the Ferengi Alliance, all of which interacted on generally peaceful terms. |
 | | The Star Trek Encyclopedia states that the Federation was spread across the Alpha and Beta Quadrants in order to explain why the Enterprise was often the "only ship in the quadrant" (i.e., the Beta Quadrant). |
 | | However, this could also be explained by assuming that the "quadrant" in question is a different, smaller unit of measure, as in the Morgana Quadrant or Quadrant 448. |
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