I was curious to see a map of the Star Trek universe galaxy. I found quite a few good images. Naturally, many did not look similar to each other, and some were even confusing because they showed Federation space divided by a large portion of Romulan and Klingon Space.
Federation Space is blue in all the images below.
My question is why is Federation Space divided like this? How did this happen? How do they overcome the difficulties of this situation (getting to and from the two parts)? A follow up question is why do some maps not show this? My assumption is that it is an earlier map before the two parts were divided.
Answer
The reason why your map makes it look like the Federation is split in two is because you're viewing a single slice of a three dimensional object.
Although the charts seen in the Star Trek EU are notoriously inconsistent, the large map below (from "Star Trek Maps") should give you an indication of what the region looks like on the same scale, but seen from a different angle. As you can see, the section you thought was "split" is in fact contigiously connected both 'above' and 'below' the Klingon Empire.
I've colour-coded it for ease of viewing (blue for the United Federation of Planets, red for the Klingon Empire, yellow for the Romulan Star Empire).
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