The Star Trek Encyclopedia - Review

[Christopher]

If they wanted to go for an official encyclopedia, I think our best bet would be if they added a database to the official site like they have on the Star Wars site.

StarTrek.com did have a database for quite a few years, though it was never as detailed as Memory Alpha. It seems to be completely gone now. I guess they figure Alpha makes it redundant.

 

[Therin of Andor]

I would guess my copy of the Omnipedia was long discarded by my parents. I see from Memory Alpha that some copies came with the 4-CD "Epics on Audio" compilation of readings of early "giant novels"; I had that as a kid, too, so I guess that must be where that originated. I wonder what happened to that.

"25th Anniversary Audio Collection", newly introduced by William Shatner, 1991, 274 min. (Boxed set includes reissues of "giant" audio novels "Enterprise: The First Adventure", "Final Frontier" and "Strangers from the Sky". Set later reissued as "Epics on Audio" without mention of the anniversary. On CD only.)

Even though I already had the three audios on cassette, I did seek out the "Epics on Audio" set to get the new Shatner introduction.

 

[Cap'n Calhoun]

StarTrek.com did have a database for quite a few years, though it was never as detailed as Memory Alpha. It seems to be completely gone now. I guess they figure Alpha makes it redundant.

The funny thing is they occasionally had their own "additions" (as the Encyclopedia did), and Memory Alpha occasionally will reference these and I think even sometimes use it for names for otherwise unnamed people/species, though I can't think of an example offhand.