ST Chronology Updated Version???
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read the FAQ.
Even more of a nightmare to do now... with a divergent 23rd Century. Each Original Series page is going to need a separate column to contrast and compare.
Indeed, that's what they are for, to answer a question like this.
Not really, just the things that focus on the new film which exsists before the Original series and the rest is just speculative.
I'm sure you're just trying to make people laugh in a good way right?
Before the Internet their were these things called books, now not all of them, but some of them including reference guides had at the back of the book something called an index, like a search engine, you could thing of a phrase or what ever you were thinking of looking up, find the relevant page(s) and then find the information - saying that though, I've got no idea if the Chronology has an index and the first version of the Encyclopaedia doesn't. Plus I personally like to flick through a book for what I am looking for as sometimes you find something unexpected and learn something new.
Oh and isn't Memory Alpha and Beta like all Wiki's user created and any Tom, Dick or Harry can upload information and thus cause problems with the authenticity of the information.
Anyhow, my personal approach is to either look on a Wiki first and then, either a hard copy or another website to see if all sources match or vis versa.
The Chrono has a detailed index. An index in an Encyclopedia would be redundant, since its contents are already arranged alphabetically.
Yeah I know it's all in alphabetical order, I just had a mental fart and thought it might contain one!
If there is money for a new tech manual for the new Enterprise, there could be money for an updated Chronology.
WORD!
I used to use my Chronology and Encyclopedia constantly, but really haven't taken them off the shelf since moving to my new place in 2000. About that time, sites like Memory Alpha and Memory Beta were starting to come into their own.
Unlike a printed index, online search engines can anticipate incorrect attempts at spelling, half-remembered facts, and whether characters had surnames or just first names.
I'd definitely buy an updated print Chronology, but would I use it beyond the first few weeks of newness? Probably not.
Unlike a printed index, online search engines can anticipate incorrect attempts at spelling, half-remembered facts, and whether characters had surnames or just first names.
I'd definitely buy an updated print Chronology, but would I use it beyond the first few weeks of newness? Probably not.
If that's not a marketing hook for "real" books, I don't know what is. Come on, just imagine a little sticker that reads "SPECIAL READ-IT-ON-THE-CRAPPER EDITION!" for something like The Klingon Gambit, Killing Time, The Flaming Arrow, or even Summon the Thunder and Reap the Whirlwind.
The jokes practically write themselves.
Well, make sure that you and all your friends buy copies of the new tech manual when it comes out and maybe this will convince Pocket that there is a market for a new Chrono and/or Encyclopedia.
Since it's highly unlikely that we'll see any more television or feature-film productions set in the "1.0" Trek universe, now would be a good time to chronicle all of its events, as it's unlikely that the 1.0 content would ever be rendered moot in a significant way.
I'm reminded of Jean-Marc Lofficier's Doctor Who: The Universal Databank, published in 1992, three years after the end of the original series, three years before Paul McGann became the eighth Doctor, and many more years before Eccleston, Tennant and Smith's tenures in the role. The Databank was an all-text guidebook to Doctor Who, and was most similar to the Star Trek Encyclopedia. Lofficier concluded the book's foreword as follows:
I'm reminded of Jean-Marc Lofficier's Doctor Who: The Universal Databank, published in 1992, three years after the end of the original series, three years before Paul McGann became the eighth Doctor, and many more years before Eccleston, Tennant and Smith's tenures in the role. The Databank was an all-text guidebook to Doctor Who, and was most similar to the Star Trek Encyclopedia. Lofficier concluded the book's foreword as follows:
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Hey, don't laugh; that's where I do most of my reading. Sometimes when the book's really engrossing (no pun intended), the hours just fly by.
I read all of Destiny book 3 on the dumper in one sitting. When I tried to stand up, I discovered my legs had fallen asleep and I fell over ass-backwards, quite literally. Small contusion on the back of my head where it hit the porcelain bowl (I'm OK, thanks for asking. Wife was rollin' with laughter, though.
). David Mack should've put a warning label on the book. He will be hearing from my attorney, Mr. Cohen.
^ This needs to be used as a blurb on Dave's next book.
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