Given these numbers, the caravan of ships would have to have been traveling at least 2,881 times the speed of light ( c). Based on his charts, Talax is estimated to be around 46,100 lightyears from the colony.
There is no canon source for that, but Geoffrey Mandel's Star Trek Star Charts estimates them based on the information the episodes provide, so it's as good an estimate as any. Dexa mentions the occupation, but doesn't mention anything else, so it could be they left the planet shortly after the occupation (let's say 2357). The Haakonian occupation of Talax ran well into the 2370s, but Talax was only occupied as the war ended in 2356. This means they started building the colony around 2373. The episode takes place on First Contact Day in 2378.
We disassembled all but one of them and modified their components. Neelix: Where did the technology come from?ĭexa: We arrived here with a caravan of six ships. Neelix: It must've taken years to do all of this!ĭexa: Almost five. In the episode, Neelix talks to Dexa, who provides the background to the colony: There aren't enough numbers provided in canon to be able to explain this definitively, but we might be able to make an educated guess.
