Revised Star Trek Encyclopedia

[Trekker4747]

Anyone get this? It's redundant and unneeded in a world where we have Memory Alpha but there's something just neat, fascinating, and satisfying about having bound, hard, books. Particularly these which look, and smell, like actual reference books/encyclopedias.

The whole thing is a good 3" thick, each volume made up of about half the alphabet and a little over an inch thick, they come in a 1/4" thick box.

My only.... "complaint" is the JJ/Kelvin elements are integrated into the book which really confuses/muddy things and, I dunno, sort of runs the.... "perfection" of this book. The Kelvin Timeline elements are noted as such, but they're still there and then seeing the disproportionately sized Kelvin Enterprise with the lineage of the Enterprise and other Federation ships is just.... odd. That ship is bigger than the -D which is just ridiculous, sorry.

I think the Kelvin elements should have been in a separate, third, volume. It'd be a smaller book, sure, but it'd keep things much more separate.

But, still, a nifty set.

 

[Vorpal_Blade]

Personally, I think the JJ/Kelvin elements should have been left out completely. :-)

 

[BillJ]

They never kept alternate universe stuff separate before. Why would they start now?

 

[Trekker4747]

Personally, I think the JJ/Kelvin elements should have been left out completely. :-)

Well, yeah, but to be fair they're still "part of it" but shouldn't have been so mixed in with the Prime-U stuff so as to be easily confused for it.

They never kept alternate universe stuff separate before. Why would they start now?

Eh, there's a meaningful difference between the Alt-U stuff we've ran into before and what the Kelvin/JJ stuff has done. (Promoting a cadet to captain inside of a couple years and then a few years later he feels ready for Admiralship; the oversized ships, the radically different look in every aspect, etc.)

 

[BillJ]

Eh, there's a meaningful difference between the Alt-U stuff we've ran into before and what the Kelvin/JJ stuff has done. (Promoting a cadet to captain inside of a couple years and then a few years later he feels ready for Admiralship; the oversized ships, the radically different look in every aspect, etc.)

There's no meaningful difference, it is just another alternate universe derived from the main universe. And Starfleet is no more consistent with its actions in the Prime timeline vs. the Abramsverse. Spock stole the Enterprise and committed mutiny and was back at his post the next week like nothing happened ("The Menagerie"). Sisko committed biological warfare against the Maquis and didn't even get a slap on the wrist ("For the Uniform"). Cadet-to-Captain is nothing compared to those.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

@1001001 we already have a thread about the encyclopedia in the Lit forum. Maybe merge with that?

 

[Dukhat]

My only.... "complaint" is the JJ/Kelvin elements are integrated into the book which really confuses/muddy things and, I dunno, sort of runs the.... "perfection" of this book. The Kelvin Timeline elements are noted as such, but they're still there and then seeing the disproportionately sized Kelvin Enterprise with the lineage of the Enterprise and other Federation ships is just.... odd. That ship is bigger than the -D which is just ridiculous, sorry.

I'm glad to hear that that's your only complaint, because I have several.

I think the Kelvin elements should have been in a separate, third, volume. It'd be a smaller book, sure, but it'd keep things much more separate.

I don't see why. The Abramsverse is as much a part of Star Trek as everything else.

Also:

http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/the-...pdate-since-1999.275028/page-18#post-11803915

 

[The Old Mixer]

@1001001 we already have a thread about the encyclopedia in the Lit forum. Maybe merge with that?

So it seems....

http://www.trekbbs.com/threads/the-star-trek-encyclopedia-getting-first-update-since-1999.275028/

But since neither of us can merge into a thread in somebody else's forum, rather than sending them a redundant thread, the correct protocol would be to close this one.