Message #21805

[SI]

You'd have to first figure out how to fly there physically, check it out, then send nearly instant messages back to earth since if the planet were x number of light years away, it would take a long time for messages to reach us, so, a lot of things can change during that time. So even if we cannot travel the speed of light, or faster, communication would need to.

Also, we are assuming that we could just fly somewhere and claim it. It may be the Klingon High Council has already claimed some regions of space.