Avon, Blake and others in “Unfinished Business”

I have been doing some calculations. If this is Star One -

If it is?

First, catch your computer, but all right, it probably is, and that being the case, the choice of location is fascinating.

I'm glad you're enjoying it.

The nearest large galaxy to our own is Andromeda.

So?

So, this is the nearest point to Andromeda. If anyone could cross intergalactic space in less than a lifetime we are now precisely upon the route that they would take.

What are you trying to say, Avon?

I directed the detectors toward the Andromeda galaxy. There are thousands of satellite generators out there... beyond Star One.

What?

Even with the Federation's resources it must have taken them years.

[examining a readout] That must be the biggest antimatter minefield ever put together!

Vila

Minefield, what minefield?

Perhaps the intergalactic drive has been developed. The question is, by whom?

A defence zone to keep mankind in, or something else out.