You can tell it’s a dead mall because it’s tilted. Functioning ships and stations are always coplanar with the galactic plane.
I always laugh at the Dutch angle trick to show that it’s derelict and/or evil.
Do you think Starfleet pilots ever get into debates about which side of the milky way is the top, and which side is the bottom?
Are there rebels that disagree with the consensus and fly around “upside-down”?
Up is where, if you look down, the galaxy spins clockwise. There, you’re welcome
Only you have to wait a really long time to see which direction is which.
I’m sure sensors can pick that up within seconds, ST sensors even faster. Especially since you don’t need the rotation, but just the alignment of known points around the galaxy
You’re assuming every species in the federation has the same cultural concept of “clockwise”.
The aquatic ones might not even have the same concept of “up”.
There’s probably an arbitrary standard just like with the globe. There’s is a galactic north, after all.
It’s tilted because they wanted to take the picture and get their shuttle out of there as soon as possible.
No time to align!
We’ve got enough dilithium, let’s warp a little farther and go to the good space station.
Their gas is watery.
I never bother going out to Empok Nor anymore, not since the Sears closed.
Not to mention the traces of biogenic psychotropic drugs, but not the fun kind.
After the dust settled from the Dominion War:
Boeing mockery crossed over with DS9 memes!!? It’s not my birthday yet!
