Since the encyclopedia will come out with a new edition this year, will we be seeing an updated version of the chronology too? (last one came out in 1996) Or has the 2016 edition of the ST encyclopedia effectively replaced this as well?
Star Trek Chronology
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I certaintly hope we will see that someday. But for now one of the most exciting parts of the Encyclopedia for me will be the little timeline.
My local library system still has the 1993 edition.
Little timeline?
I asked Denise Okuda about that, but she did not respond in a way that hinted it was in the works.
Well, if enough people ask, maybe we shall receive?
I don't know, I can't imagine they aren't already aware that people would be interested in one.
Well I'm just going of memory, and its probably been 15 years since I pulled my old Encycopedia out of the attic, but wasn't there some very basic, half dozen page or so, timeline in there some where.
I'd like to see a Chronology that was more flowchart based that could take into account the various alternate timelines all on one page. It would be neat to see how the "Visitor" timeline unfolded alongside the Prime timeline, for example, and obviously the Kelvin universe too. It would be great to have a better look at how the simultaneous TNG/DS9/Voyager episodes ran based on internal time references instead of the broadcast date/averaging time per episode approach of the original Chronology.
But at this point I'd rather wait until they can include at least the first season of Discovery and work out a way to fully integrate information from the Kelvin films and the animated series.
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But at this point I'd rather wait until they can include at least the first season of Discovery and work out a way to fully integrate information from the Kelvin films and the animated series.
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Maybe the new encyclopedia has an updated timeline section?
I'm thinking it would be nice to have the Chronology as a running timeline at the bottom of each page of the Encyclopedia. So as you page turned from A to B, to C, etc, then the bottom of the page would take you from 'The universe was formed (which made a lot of people very angry)'. Episodes would just say 'Events of 'The Man Trap' (see page 247)'.
I just thought when they were revisiting the encyclopedia, they might recall that book, too, which is also in need of an update?
But yeah, it's not like they're trolling this board for project ideas.
I think you mean trawling the board, as in fishing. Trolling the board would get them banned.
I was vacillating between "trolling" and "lurking on the board". There's another word but I can't think of it.
Both work in that sense, interestingly enough; trolling is trawling with a baited line instead of a net. (That's actually one of the potential origins for the getting-people-mad-on-the-internet sense, in fact.
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There is indeed. In the appendices of all three editions, there's a "Historical events of the Star Trek universe". In the third edition, it covers 1957 to 2375.
Both work in that sense, interestingly enough; trolling is trawling with a baited line instead of a net. (That's actually one of the potential origins for the getting-people-mad-on-the-internet sense, in fact.
Oh, that's interesting. I thought it was a reference to trolls under a bridge or something.
That's the other theory, yeah. It's unclear which one the term actually came from, but those are the two leading theories.
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