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.

 

[mb22]

Maybe an updated edition of the Chronology would be more affordable as it could be restricted to just descriptions of events, without all the additional background information contained in the Encyclopedia; but it would still have to be a substantial expansion of the last edition.

Would the temporal shifting depicted in recent years complicate anything?

 

[Bynar0110]

I have the 1999 Edition.