New edition of the Encyclopedia coming!

[B.J.]

The Okudas posted a link to this on their Facebook page:
http://www.visionarytrek.com/the-st...nded-edition-a-reference-guide-to-the-future/

To celebrate Star Trek’s 50th anniversary Harper Collins Publishers are releasing The Star Trek Encyclopedia – Revised and Expanded Edition: A Reference Guide to the Future in October. This is latest and most up to date edition of the encyclopedia series, which was first was released in 1994.

I definitely need this for my bookshelf! Already have the other two editions, so why not this one?

 

[uniderth]

"This updated and expanded edition includes [...] Star Trek: Enterprise seasons 1-4, and Star Trek Nemesis. It also features material detailing the recent big-screen films Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek: Into Darkness."

No, thanks.

Now don't think I don't appreciate their effort. I understand they have to do what they have to do. But I don't consider Enterprise nor the JJ movies to be Star Trek; so I don't want my Encyclopedia cluttered up with non relevant information. I'll stick with my well used old version.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I wouldn't buy it either, if only for the fact that (judging from its entry on Amazon.com), the Kindle version is the OLD encyclopedia. The new edition that's coming out now, does not appear to be available as an e-book. Which leaves me out.

 

[DimesDan]

The new edition that's coming out now, does not appear to be available as an e-book.

Yet.

I already have it on pre-order.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

And now it seems even the old Kindle version has been removed (there's no entry on Amazon for any Encyclopedia e-book, new or old).

 

[JayTheTrekkie]

I plan on getting the new encyclopedia book. B.J., there were 3 previous editions....this is the 4th one.

I had the first 3 and given them away in a yard say many years ago....this time I won't do that again once I get the 4th edition.

 

[T'Girl]

How much is "new," a few dozen entries. Or is it hundreds?

Anyone know? I already have the old one.

 

[Kor]

While I like the idea of having a nice set of hardbound books to display on my shelf, they will be obsolete as soon as new Trek movies and TV shows are released. So I think I will just continue to use Memory Alpha as a Trek reference.

Kor

 

[Tomalak]

How much is "new," a few dozen entries. Or is it hundreds?

Anyone know? I already have the old one.

About three hundred pages of new. The last one didn't even complete Deep Space Nine or season five of Voyager, so there's the rest of those two, plus Enterprise, plus Nemesis, plus the new films. And all of TAS, presumably, since it's apparently now canon too.

The last version just had the additional pages in a new section stuffed in the back, so it was pretty disappointing. This one will be a comprehensive account of "old" Star Trek, from 1964 to 2005, plus the Abrams films. Presumably there's quite a bit of work gone into it.

 

[BillJ]

And all of TAS, presumably, since it's apparently now canon too.

I think they said TAS wasn't in the new books. Which is disappointing.

 

[uniderth]

I have a hard time with TAS being cannnnon. Our heroes and the Star Trek universe were converted by some unknown phenomenon into animated form? Instead I like to think of TAS as stylized versions of the actual adventures. So yes, they probably happened somewhat close to what is depicted. But the depictions shouldn't be taken as completely accurate. I'm not any more upset about TAS being excluded than the novels being excluded.

 

[Tomalak]

I think they said TAS wasn't in the new books. Which is disappointing.

That is a shame. I know some of it is difficult to reconcile, but so is a fair bit of TOS et al.

 

[Kor]

TAS reconciles with TOS just fine. I would like to have a nice encyclopedic volume that only covers TOS, TAS and maybe the TOS movies... except "Generations."

Kor

 

[JRoss]

Kor something like that does exist. It's a book from the seventies that has the same wheel on the front that you can spend which shows stardates for individual episodes of the show. I can't remember what it was called but a co-worker of mine at my last job let me borrow it for a while and it was really fun.

 

[JRoss]

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Trek_Concordance

Here, the 1977 edition of the Star Trek Concordance.

 

[Albertese]

The later edition of the Concordance features the TOS movies and all the appearances of TOS characters in TNG.

--Alex

 

[Avro Arrow]

^ Whatever happened to the new version that was apparently being worked on? Is that project dead, or just proceeding really slowly?

 

[RAMA]

The new addition will have 300 pages of new data, and 2 volumes. I think that answers the question if it's worth buying the new edition.

A reminder, it comes out before Christmas and before the new TV show, so the price will likely go down for the holidays. Also the e-book version will likely cost less.

RAMA

 

[BillJ]

The new addition will have 300 pages of new data, and 2 volumes. I think that answers the question if it's worth buying the new edition.

Without TAS, it really isn't worthwhile.

 

[ancient]

I'm interested, the last edition came out around the time of First Contact, so it is really out of date.