Before you get started, no, this isn't the same old thread asking when there will be an update. So keep reading...
A while ago (a pretty good while ago) I decided that the powers that be were probably not going to produce an updated version of the Star Trek Encyclopedia, covering the end of DS9, the last 3 years of Voyager, all of Enterprise, and Nemesis. So (also a pretty good while ago, something like 2005) I started to do so myself. First it was just going to be a supplement to the latest printed version, which meant watching all the episodes that hadn't been covered and cataloging it all.
But then the latest printed version already had a supplement to the version before that...so then I decided to integrate it all. I had to OCR all of the old text and integrate it... and along the way, I found bits and pieces that the Okudas (who wrote those last editions) had missed, so of course those needed to be integrated as well (not to frown on the Okudas--there's just so much information that they were bound to miss a few things). Throw some everyday life, new job, moving to a new state, moving again to a new apartment, moving my fiancee in, & getting all married on top of that... and it's definitely taken awhile.
Memory Alpha and TrekCore have been of enormous assistance; they're great references, so many thanks to them. Images come largely from http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Main_Page, http://trekcore.com/, and scans from my various Trek non-fiction books, but there are other images I had on my computer from somewhere else (wherever that may be...who knows as I've been compiling it all for years). I'll stick some acknowledgements and credits at the end. Once I get there.
Of course, now we're a year or so away from the new movie, so it's not out of date quite yet... but I still have all the source files, so updates should be a little less troublesome from now on.
Anyway.....I've finally started pulling everything together. I'm not anywhere near done yet either. But for the time being, you are welcome to request a copy of "A." Take a look through it and get a glimpse at what's to come.......eventually.
A while ago (a pretty good while ago) I decided that the powers that be were probably not going to produce an updated version of the Star Trek Encyclopedia, covering the end of DS9, the last 3 years of Voyager, all of Enterprise, and Nemesis. So (also a pretty good while ago, something like 2005) I started to do so myself. First it was just going to be a supplement to the latest printed version, which meant watching all the episodes that hadn't been covered and cataloging it all.
But then the latest printed version already had a supplement to the version before that...so then I decided to integrate it all. I had to OCR all of the old text and integrate it... and along the way, I found bits and pieces that the Okudas (who wrote those last editions) had missed, so of course those needed to be integrated as well (not to frown on the Okudas--there's just so much information that they were bound to miss a few things). Throw some everyday life, new job, moving to a new state, moving again to a new apartment, moving my fiancee in, & getting all married on top of that... and it's definitely taken awhile.
Memory Alpha and TrekCore have been of enormous assistance; they're great references, so many thanks to them. Images come largely from http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Main_Page, http://trekcore.com/, and scans from my various Trek non-fiction books, but there are other images I had on my computer from somewhere else (wherever that may be...who knows as I've been compiling it all for years). I'll stick some acknowledgements and credits at the end. Once I get there.
Of course, now we're a year or so away from the new movie, so it's not out of date quite yet... but I still have all the source files, so updates should be a little less troublesome from now on.
Anyway.....I've finally started pulling everything together. I'm not anywhere near done yet either. But for the time being, you are welcome to request a copy of "A." Take a look through it and get a glimpse at what's to come.......eventually.
