Old Chronology
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It's just a pic I got off google. My 10th printing TNG-S5 (1993) has the same cover, so I'm not sure how often they changed the cover.
This is the only different one I found
3 editions for the Encyclopedia. Apparently I have the 10th printing of the 2nd edition.
As much as I love having the physical copies, these are the types of books that are much better off in the digital age.
As much as I love having the physical copies, these are the types of books that are much better off in the digital age.
It's actually four editions now! After many years the Okudas were asked to write an up to date edition for the fiftieth anniversary - which itself was immediately out of date as it didn't feature anything from Beyond! And obviously now Discovery has come along too.
I agree, it's lovely to have, but I've not quite been able to justify spending the £100 when Memory Alpha has the very latest information and is always evolving.
I agree, it's lovely to have, but I've not quite been able to justify spending the £100 when Memory Alpha has the very latest information and is always evolving.
I still have both of these - I practically devoured books like this as a kid. The second edition had nice glossy pages and colour photos, the first was just in black and white. Of course, both are horrendously out-of-date these days...
Yeah I remember seeing there was a new edition out, then balking when I saw the price.
They were out of date about 5 minutes after they were printed, just not horrendously so
Yeah, I've had both mine since they were new, and later I got the Phase II book, original FJ TOS Enterprise blueprints and the Pocket Books Ent-D blueprints. I remember the Star Trek Concordance being pretty cool too. I should get a copy of that one.
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I remember getting the Star Trek Concordance version published in the 70s by Ballantine. Ordered it using a form copied from a Star Trek paperback. It included all of the original series and the animated series, too. The cover was very cool -- the saucer section of the Enterprise was also a wheel you could turn to look up episode names, the page where it was summarized, plus the Stardate of the episode. It was a fun way to present the info. (There was also a normal Table of Contents inside.) Bjo later published an updated edition (included the original series movies, I think?), but it had a lot less art, as I recall. The original Ballantine edition had a lot more fun, fannish energy to it, in my opinion. I think there was an even earlier version, printed as 3 season guides, that I've never seen but heard about...
IIRC, the last "official" Star Trek chronology published was the one in Voyages of Imagination, which went up to Nemesis and included all the Trek novels (and the animated series via their novel adaptations) around and between the episodes.
