The Star Trek Concordance
Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: The Authoritative Works of Trek: Star Trek: The Original Series: The Star Trek Concordance
This is a very detailed handbook about TOS. It contains fan sketches, an episode guide which includes guest stars of every episode, and a lexicon (mini-encyclopedia) of everything in the Original Series. It also is the only guide to the Animated Series that I've ever seen. The lexicon also includes details from TAS. This book has the episodes and stardates listed in a spinning wheel on the cover, illustrated to look like a spinning version of the NCC-1701 saucer section.
Note: This was written by Bjo Trimble (pronounced Bee-zhow), the woman who headed the letter-writing campaign to Paramount when TOS was being canceled after Season Two. As you know, she succeeded.
By wiseguy on Saturday, September 04, 1999 - 7:05 pm:

There are three versions of this book. The first came out shortly after the series: a fan-published edition (with the light-blue non-glossy covers) detailing the first two seasons in 1969 (written by Dorothy Jones and edited by Bjo Trimble) and a 3rd-season supplement in 1973; a professionally-published version (Ballantine Books) in 1976 (described above) which included the animated series; and a new version in 1995 (Citadel Press) which included all movies and other Trek series episodes which included characters from TOS.

By Will S. on Tuesday, November 30, 1999 - 10:33 am:

One of the very best Trek reference books out there, especially considering that Trimble wrote it before the invention of home video and freeze frame VCR functions. I also really like the inclusion of the Animated Series facts, and the numerical listing of the stardates. For me it blows away the Trek Encyclopedia, as it is more Star Trek than Star Trek Universe with TNG, DS9, and Voyager references, which at times contradict what was established in the Original Series.

By Adam Bomb on Wednesday, August 02, 2006 - 11:55 am:

The spinning wheel had a nasty habit of falling off after a few spins. I have the 1976 version somewhere, but I've never seen the 1995 version.

By Influx on Thursday, August 03, 2006 - 6:48 am:

Funny, I just had to refer to this the other night, when I couldn't for the life of me remember the name of a certain episode I was transferring to DVD. Appropriately, the episode was "The Deadly Years." Guess the virus got to me, too!

By steve McKinnon (Steve) on Saturday, June 25, 2022 - 12:43 pm:

I also have the 1976 version, and although my wheel is still intact, the spine and cover aren't in the best shape.
Worse, I was writing my own (cringe-worthy) Star Trek fiction after the time that I bought it, and wrote all the titles and stardates in the book! It's probably worthless to a collector because of it, but I'm keeping it until I kick the bucket, since it's one of my prized possessions.
I used it for reference and just plain entertainment hundreds of times, but I've never actually read it from start to finish, so if I started that today it would probably seem like a new book to me, as there's so many subjects I've never looked at.
I got to meet Bjo Trimble at a convention in 1984 in Ottawa, such a nice lady, but instead of asking her about this book, I asked more questions regarding Star Trek III, which she had nothing to do with!

By Tim McCree (Tim_m) on Sunday, June 26, 2022 - 5:07 am:

I had the 1976 original myself, back then.

Alas, it's long gone. If only I could go back and retrieve what my younger self either lost or threw out.

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