The Star Trek Encyclopedia

[Dukhat]

Aren't the two linked?

No. You can have a cheaply priced product sell like hotcakes, but if you only made a certain amount of those products and completely underestimated the demand, then those few cheaply priced products all of a sudden end up on eBay for outrageous prices, of which you as the producer of that product make nothing but the original cheap price you sold it for. It’s just like what happened with the Nintendo Classic.

 

[Discofan]

No. You can have a cheaply priced product sell like hotcakes, but if you only made a certain amount of those products and completely underestimated the demand, then those few cheaply priced products all of a sudden end up on eBay for outrageous prices, of which you as the producer of that product make nothing but the original cheap price you sold it for. It’s just like what happened with the Nintendo Classic.

It's amazing how much people are willing to pay for articles that will end up in a drawer or a closet and be forgotten forever...

 

[uniderth]

The Motion Picture is still 2271, even when Voyager's "Q2" shifts it to 2273.

Not necessarily, 2270 could have been the end of his first five year mission. A second 5 years mission *cough* Phase II *cough* could have happened after that. Thus pushing TMP to its proper place in the late 2270s.

 

[Tomalak]

Not necessarily, 2270 could have been the end of his first five year mission. A second 5 years mission *cough* Phase II *cough* could have happened after that. Thus pushing TMP to its proper place in the late 2270s.

It's possible, but Kirk would probably say "ten years out there..." rather than five, unless someone else was captain.

 

[Tim Thomason]

It's amazing how much people are willing to pay for articles that will end up in a drawer or a closet and be forgotten forever...

I know, right. I have to rent out a storage locker for all the stuff I have no intention of looking at again.

 

[uniderth]

It's possible, but Kirk would probably say "ten years out there..." rather than five, unless someone else was captain.

Yeah, but that's no worse than the "twenty years old" Enterprise from Admiral Morrow. Kirk specifically says "five years out there dealing with unknowns like this," so perhaps he had frequent encounters with unknowns that shared specific attributes with the V'Ger cloud, during the Phase II missions. Or, becasue he also referenced his familiarity with the enterprise, maybe he was referring to the fact that he spend five years dealing with unknowns, on the Phase II Enterprise. In my head canon the secondary hull was destroyed at the end of his first five year mission. The Enterprise then got fitted with Phase II secondary hull and warp engines. It was this Phase II Enterprise that then got refitted into the TMP Enterprise.

 

[Vger23]

This.

The Star Trek Encyclopedia was great back in the '90s, but it doesn't make much sense in the 21st Century.

Samuel T. Cogley, Attorney at Law, disapproves of your attitude.

 

[Lord Garth]

Samuel T. Cogley, Attorney at Law, disapproves of your attitude.

Believe me, I know. He wouldn't let me hear the end of it after I made that post.

 

[thribs]

I would love another chronology book. The one I’ve got is out of date.
It was fun reading what happened between 1966 to now.

 

[uniderth]

I would love another chronology book. The one I’ve got is out of date.
It was fun reading what happened between 1966 to now.

You mean, what we need to make happen.

 

[Kor]

There's a company called VDM Publishing that does stuff like that. They openly sell books on Amazon that are literally just copies of Wikipedia articles (and even say so on the covers)! How exactly the hell they get away with this, is beyond me. As is, what kind of dumbass would buy books like that.

At least the ST Encyclopedia is, somewhat, new content. It's not just copies of Memory Alpha articles.

Wikipedia is open content, so it's okay for them to do that (Wikipedia itself has more to say about this: source).

It would not be okay to scan copyrighted commercial materials such as the Star Trek Encyclopedia and distribute them in electronic format, or photocopies, or whatever, without a license agreement with the copyright holder.

Kor

 

[JonnyQuest037]

You mean, what we need to make happen.

Well, we're already supposed to have made sleeper ships obsolete and we've got to start a nuclear war soon, so we're running behind.

 

[Discofan]

Well, we're already supposed to have made sleeper ships obsolete and we've got to start a nuclear war soon, so we're running behind.

Maybe we won't need a nuclear war to make us go extinct... Our pollution rate, which is terrible and will increase dramatically when China and India develop their economy, will cause more damage than all the nuclear arsenal in the world.

 

[Toby Meyer]

The Tribbles will survive.

 

[Discofan]

The Tribbles will survive.

So will the troubles...

 

[1moreRobot]

Books-a-Million seems to have "limited" stock of the 2-volume set left at $150.

I have the older 1-volume edition... which I picked up for free in a box of books someone set out to the curb.

The Trek book I get the most mileage out of is the DS9 Companion.

 

[Discofan]

Books-a-Million seems to have "limited" stock of the 2-volume set left at $150.

I have the older 1-volume edition... which I picked up for free in a box of books someone set out to the curb.

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I once found several original editions of Comics in very good condition, that way!!! I couldn't believe it! They were worth at least ten times the price of the same Comics in a recent edition! An uncle of mine found a painting by Soutine (a famous artist) in a dumpster! I bet the idiot who threw it away would have killed himself, had he later known its real value! Fortunately for him, he'll never know.

 

[originalbob2]

Been trying to get a copy of the last twin volume version with the slipcase here in the UK for some time.Never seemed to have shown up on Amazon or anywhere in a used condition.

 

[Daddy Todd]

I once found several original editions of Comics in very good condition, that way!!! I couldn't believe it! They were worth at least ten times the price of the same Comics in a recent edition! An uncle of mine found a painting by Soutine (a famous artist) in a dumpster! I bet the idiot who threw it away would have killed himself, had he later known its real value! Fortunately for him, he'll never know.

Well, I ordered a copy. Let’s see if BAMM delivers.