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The new Concordance (again) and ST: Of Gods and Men

Minor hiccup. MSWord took a dump and took the lexicon with it.

No matter, I've managed to dig up the text from the old floppies and reassemble the rough cut again. Just need to snip out the odd artifacts and get back to reinserting the artwork, again, and hopefully the new version will be less than the 73MB it was before.
 
It would be nice if the new Star Trek Concordance contained new artwork drawn by fans instead of scanning the old stuff for the new edition.
 
Herbert said:
It would be nice if the new Star Trek Concordance contained new artwork drawn by fans instead of scanning the old stuff for the new edition.
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Too bad Hal Schuster isn't around to give this project the kind of imprimatur it deserves...
 
^Just some friendy advice, you may want to purchase a second hard disk drive or another storage device and make backups of the manuscript on different media so you don't lose all your changes.
 
The original artwork scanned in from the original editions of the Concordance scanned in BEAUTIFULLY!

Uhura03.jpg

Vina02.jpg

Vulcans.jpg


I can only imagine how much better the actual artwork will scan in. For my purposes, though, what I have scanned in serves quite well as placeholders (I'm also grabbing a bunch of pictures from Trekcore.com for more relevant placeholders than that dumb pic of Spock, as well as as much public domain stuff like William Shakespeare, Caesar, woodcuts from Alice in Wonderland, etc.) I'm also using smaller (memory-wise) pics, so another dump is less likely, plus I'm doing a lot of saving as I go along.

As for new stuff, that will come. Plus, there's a ton of artwork that was initially intended for the '95 edition that never saw print, thanks to the morons at the publishing house. The one pic of mine that made it in is probably my least favorite of the stack I sent in, and it was shrunk down to postage stamp size.

There'll be some of the original artwork in there, because there's a bunch of it that's still damn good, but there'll also be a lot of new stuff, too.
 
Herbert said:
^Just some friendy advice, you may want to purchase a second hard disk drive or another storage device and make backups of the manuscript on different media so you don't lose all your changes.
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I have been looking in that direction. For now, I have some CD-RW's on hand that should suffice.
 
Captain Robert April said:
The original artwork scanned in from the original editions of the Concordance scanned in BEAUTIFULLY!

Uhura03.jpg

Vina02.jpg

Vulcans.jpg
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The first two pieces look great, but you're getting some bad moire patterns from the zip-a-tone in the third piece. It's a common problem when scanning zip patterns, especially from printed copies. You'd probably have to scan it from the original art to get anything decent.
 
Like I said, anything I have at the moment is being considered placeholders, even the stuff from the original versions, for precisely those reasons.

In other news, I have confirmed that Scotty does, in fact, know a Claymore when he sees one, so we can dispense with one discrepancy right off the bat.

Y'see, "claymore" is derived from the Gaelic term for "really big sword" and is actually fairly generic. Yes, it refers to that two-handed cow cleaver William Wallace ran around with, but it also refers to a basket hilted broadsword, introduced in the 18th Century and still a part of the dress uniform of the Highland regiments of the Royal Army.

Which is what Scotty spots in the armory. So, vindication for the chief engineer.

It's little victories like this that make me glad I'm doing this project, and makes up for all the flames from the naysayers. :D
 
LADIEEEEEEEEEEES AND GENTLEMEN! WE HAVE A RULING!

SUBJECT: The New Movie and the Concordance

CRA: How do you want to tackle this thing? Putting aside the open warfare that seems to break out whenever the thing gets brought up, I'm thinking just about the logistics of fitting in all those new entries. To put it simply, nothing matches up, not even the location of Delta Vega, which means separate entries, ala the Mirror Universe stuff, multiplied by the sheer number of items that crop up in the film that'll have to be cited if only to distinguish them from the primary timeline versions.

I'm thinking a separate section, with a short lexicon and breakdown of the key differences between the two timelines.

Or, we could just punt and ignore the whole thing. I know more than a few folks that'd love that option.

I await your ruling.

BJO: I never even thought of adding in the new movie. I think it's a great idea for the Trek researchers, but far too unwieldy to complete within my lifetime. Let's let someone else do it.

I think the answer might be a new introduction or something like that, which acknowledges the movie, but points out the difficulties of adding a time-shift situation like this. How about that?

CRA: Works for me. We've got enough new entries as it is.
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So, there ya go. No need to worry about my take on the new movie poisoning the process, because there really won't BE much of a take on the new movie, other than the intro that Bjo writes that acknowledges it.

Feel free to unclench, kids.
 
To clarify and re-iterate:

Super Fail.

I fail to see how adding this movie is any different, or more difficult, then adding a two-part alternate universe episode. I'm sure there would be people (people not you, CRA) willing to go the extra mile and do the work required.
Any interest I had in this thing just died. I'm sure I'm not the only one - who wants a freaking TOS reference book that misses out the biggest thing to happen to TOS, and Star Trek, since TMP?

And as far as Delta Vega goes: You do know that towns and cities all around the world have the same names, right? How would having two Delta Vegas be difficult? At all?
 
^In Seek a Newer World, I was able to explain the two Delta Vegas in a single sentence. Heck, in part of a single sentence. Hopefully it'll see print eventually.
 
Okay. I included a line saying that Scotty and Keenser "had served together for several months on one of the Delta Vega Consortium’s mostly automated mining planets." I'm thinking there are several different planets, moons, etc. called Delta Vega followed by some catalog number, but they're usually just called "Delta Vega" as a shorthand. And I figure that the Delta Vega Consortium is maybe a partnership of organizations on Delta IV and the Vega Colonies, but that was too much information to bother putting in the book.
 
That sounds reasonable - but I can't see an escape pod computer being any less then 100% exact in giving the name of a place.

I'm really tempted to try and eek the whole story out of you one sentence at a time, so I'll shut up now.
 
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