Star Trek is propaganda

Because Gene Roddenberry says so!

There’s something wrong with this map

and this map

and these maps

Fans have made many maps charting, with nerd level accuracy, the known universe of Star Trek

Tru-nerds will point out that space has three dimensions. But given that our galaxy is 100x wider than deep, it’s not unreasonable to map its empires on the galactic plane.

Because these are political maps of the territories and borders between the Klingons. Romulans. Cardassians. Galactic empires.

Or worse

The exception is the United Federation of Planets, which as the name suggests is not an empire, but a federation.