The Star Trek Encyclopedia - Review

[Procutus]

Funny, I only replaced my previous laptop with a DVD-ROM drive 9 months ago. But it was really old.

I just bought this new one two months ago, and only because the previous unit had become very sluggish after upgrading to Windows 11. Other than that, there was nothing really wrong with it, but it was over six years old.

This OmniBook 5 has a Snapdragon processor which is light-years better than the i5 that was in my previous unit.

 

[Steve Roby]

I think I bought the 2016 edition. I should go up and have a look. I remember actually reading the first edition cover to cover, just a few pages at a time every now and then. Might have taken a year or more. I wasn't even tempted to do it with the later editions.

External optical drives come in handy. I've got two for my laptops. I think one is CD/DVD and the other is CD/DVD/blu ray. They get used fairly often. I still buy music CDs occasionally, not just Bandcamp or itunes downloads, and rip them to mp3 or flac. I also used one to rip everything off a British blu ray that was the wrong region for the various other players in the house (the Xboxes and the standalone blu ray player). The external drive was the only thing that would read it, so the movie and all the many special features that made the UK edition worthwhile are on redundant external hard drives as mkv files.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I really wish I got that updated Encyclopedia when it was "only" £80.

I wonder if a modern version could live on as part of the Roddenberry Archive site? It'd be updated by pros unlike the free-for-all Memory Alpha (awesome as that is) and tie in with links to their virtual exhibits.

 

[Eagan]

Recent posts have got me considering getting a copy of the Omniverse CD. I still buy all my music on CD so I make sure that whenever I buy a new desktop, it always has an optical drive built in, even though I don't like these modern flimsy vertical drives. You can probably tell that I'm a pretty old-school kind of guy.

Anyway, it appears that because it was produced to work under Windows 3.1, there are hoops that need to be jumped through to get it to work on more recent versions of Windows; I haven't read of anyone who uses it under Windows 11. Do any of you guys have first-hand experience of using it on a modern PC, and if so, can you tell me if it's a feasible proposition?