Minor nit: it lists the USS Carolina from TOS "Friday's Child" as Daelius-class. But, they were retired in 2196. About 67 years prior to the episode. It should have been a diffrent class.

Also, in B'Elanna's bio, it says that "Roxanne Biggs-Dawson changed her name to Roxanne Biggs after the third season..." where she actually changed it to Roxanne Dawson.

Take a look at the labels for the hypospray diagrams. It lists both the TOS version and the TNG version as TOS versions.

Whoever runs the TNG Sink, please erase my topic "Star Trek Encylopedia..." under the
Fact File board; I didn't know this was here. Here's a not-really nit: In the last
paragraph of the Acknowledgements, they thank "Leia Organa". LOL!

The movie-era lieutenant insignia is labelled "captain"!

Also, the Carolina is given the registry NCC-160 in the starship chart, but NCC-235 in its entry. And the Zhukov has the registry NCC-26136 in the starship chart but NCC-62136 in its entry. And the picture of the Archon is labelled "USS Horizon NCC-173" (NCC-173 is the wrong registry for both ships). Not to mention that all the pictures of Olympic-class starships have "USS Pastuer" on them....

There's an irritating problem with the alphabetisation (is that a word?) of the entries in this book - for example, the entry for 'Vulcan.' comes *after* the one for 'Vulcan Science Academy.'. This is because each headword ends with a full stop (a period, for those in the US!). Thus when the entries were sorted by computer, it matched the two as far as the letter 'n' then sorted the full stop after the space.

Is it true there will be another edition of the encyclopedia?

Look at the entry for "Satie, Rear Admiral Norah." It says, "...when Rom-ulan....". Yes, it has a hyphen in the middle of Romulan!

I heard about a paperback edition with a supplemental section of new material...

ANP

Does everyone remember poor ensign Lynch (poss. reference to director David Lynch) the ARSENIO HALL in ST:FC that Picard kills? There's no entry for him in the encyclopedia!

picard killes a crewman named hawk not lynch watch the movie again

Picard toasted several crewmen in FC, watch the movie again and again and again and again until the tape breaks....

ANP

Lynch was one of the two borgs that follow Picard into the Holodeck. Picard pulls a piece of circutry out of him.

More likely a reference to Tim Lynch, if to anyone.

Lily: "Jean-Luc, look -- It's one of *your* uniforms!"
Picard: "Yes, this was Ensign Lynch..."

There`s also I hyphen in the middle of imagined (ima-gined) in the Chekov entry.

Yes; Lynch was the assimilated ensign that Picard killed. Hawk was the ship's helmsman, and he was assimilated during the deflector scene outside the ship (with the spacesuits and magnetic boots). He tried to kill Picard, but thankfully Worf was able to save him.

According to Brannon Braga, at least, Ensign Lynch wasn't named for Tim Lynch (I think Braga said he was named for a relative of his or something), but Tim Lynch did mention the guy in his reviews of FC *and* Insurrection... :-)

I would guess all the hyphens are text formatting errors. Someone put a hyphen in a word so that it wrapped better, then changed the paragraph anyway and forgot to take the hyphen out. I've done it before.

Look up "matter/antimatter integrator.", and here is what you'll see under the definition....

An apocryphal tale has it that shortly after Losira fused the matter/antimatter integrator, Kirk called Scotty in engineering and asked, "What's the matter?" "Matter? Antimatter," replied the engineer. "Does it matter?" asked Kirk. "Does it matter? Of course it matters. Matter of fact, just ask your Aunti Matta about antimatter and she'll tell you how much antimatter matters." "Anty matter?" asked Spock. "I fail to see what the detritus of the insect genus 'Formica' of the order 'Hymenoptera' really matters when the matter/antimatter integrator has a matter/antimatter problem." Suddenly a close harmony was heard: "It doesn't really matter," sang out the rock group Queen as thousands of fans cheered... uhh...Guys, let's go on to other matters, okay?

Must be apocryphal, as Kirk was away down on the planet! (Wink, wink)

Ok,this is actually for the latest edition,but
here goes any way:if you look up the birthdate
for Annika Hansen under Seven's listing you
will find that Seven is actually only one year
older than Wesley Crusher.:)

THe entry in the new section for Captain Boday lists him as a Starfleet officer, but in the original section it says he is a commander if a Gallamite vessel. Which is it?

The new section also lists the Kalandra sector as the place where the Federation lauched an offensive to retake Betazed, but it also lists the Calandra sector as the same thing.

It doesn't contain an entry for slipstream drive, to my knowledge.

Under the Deep Space Nine entry it says that Commander Sisko ordered the station moved to the mouth of the wormhole. I may have to watch the episode again, but wasn't it Kira who gave that order?

Another joke in it is in the section on Earth, it says in italics "Mostly Harmless", a reference to the same entry in the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".

Take a look at the big Jem'Hadar ship in the ships appendix. Then take a look at the same ship in the DS9 Tech Manual. Notice the difference? The one in the encyclopedia is UPSIDE DOWN! No wonder Starfleet had so much trouble figuring out how to fly the thing!
I found it rather irritating that the updated second edition had data points from the end of DS9 but none of the good stuff in between. Why couldn't they have just waited until the end of season seven?

Just a wild guess: So that they could get you to buy the 3rd Edition? ;^)

By the way- Amazon.com lists a Dec'97 hardcover version (640 pp) and an Oct'99 softcover version (745 pp). Is the softcover Oct'99 vesion now being called the 3rd version? or what? Does anyone know hte differences between these 2?

DW: Which version were you complaining about?

The Oct '99 edition has about 100 extra pages. The suppliment runs through the middle of DS9 season 7 and Voyager season 5. I call nhe new edition Edition 2A, since it isn't a full update.

I was talking about version 2a, which still has the Jem'Hadar ship upside down. Most of the end of season seven of DS9 is revealed but there's hardly anything about the middle episodes, which are IMHO some of the best! A lot of detail about several characters is missing and there are some references to things that aren't referenced anywhere else. Example: Under the entry for Nog, we find out that he lost his leg at AR-588. The episodes "Siege at AR-588" and "It's Only a Paper Moon," are referred to. But if you look for either of those episodes you won't find them because they're not in there! A lot of good stuff happened in that particular year and they skipped out on most of it. So my hope is that the next overpriced encyclopedia comes out AFTER Voyager ends and preferably about a full year into series 5.
BTW, please weep on my behalf (or snicker at what a sucker I am): I bought the hardcover edition ($80!!) and only couple of years later found the UPDATED edition being flogged away at a book sale for only $10! I was a little miffed.

Sob, sniff, HONNNNKKK! :>! Don't feel too bad, D.W. -- i bought the first edition of the 'Chronology' -- at full price -- literally DAYS before the second edition came out. To paraphrase Riker in 'Data's Day': Some days you get the corporate culture, some days the corporate culture gets you.

If it's any consolation, I have all three versions of the encyclopedia (and I paid full price for the first two) and both chronologies thus far, both of which were also full price, in worthless Canadian dollars. And in the case of both of the second editions, it makes that first forty bucks seem really unwisely spent, doesn't it? Especially the Encyclopedia... I was blown away by all the drawings and pictures in it.
I would think that the next big reference book coming out will be another version of the chronology, because that seems to be the pattern so far... encylopedia, chronology, encylopedia... and I can't resist buying the •••• things!

Another joke in it is in the section on Earth, it says in italics "Mostly Harmless", a reference to the same entry in the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".

Yes, but unlike said Guide to the Galaxy, at least the authors of the Star Trek Encyclopaedia [see, we spell it differently!] bothered to make their own entry under "Earth" SUBSTANTIALLY bigger in the second edition than in the first!

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I bought the first edition a short while after it came out. The second edition I bought (with my student loan!) while at first year at Uni, literally days after it came out. I then saw the updated 2nd ed. in a store a few years later and felt really miffed. Fortunately, a few years later I got a hardback version of this latest edition as a birthday gift from my sister! (How ever did she know?)

No matter how anyone got theirs, you have to admit it is an awesome tome. No doubt the actual third edition will be bigger and better, and must resolve the one major gripe I have with it: the formatting of the text. Entries are written as bold type, as are cross-references, and it is sometimes easy to confuse the start of an encyclopaedia entry with a cross reference, especially one starting at the top of a new page. If you see what I mean.

But yes, I also reckon the next big edition will be another Chronology, hopefully incorporating the Enterprise timeline.

For those of you who are curious as to whether or not there will indeed be a third edition of this awesome tome, the answer seems to be no. This is according to posts at the TrekBBS by Margaret Clark, who is editor at Pocket Books responsible for bringing us good reference books. Apparently, these books take too long to make, involve months of endless work and return little to no profit. A shame, because they really are enjoyable books.