| Title : |
"Star Trek" Encyclopedia: A Reference Guide to the Future |
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| Writers : |
Michael Okuda, Denise Okuda and Doug Drexler |
| Published : |
1999 |
| Publisher : |
Pocket Books |
| ISBN : |
0671536095 |
| Rating : |
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| Editions : |
The Encyclopedia comes in three editions. The first is paperback and has the images in black and white. The second edition is hardback, with colour images on glossier paper. The third edition is a paperback reprint of the second with an additional section in the rear which brings the book up to date through the end of Deep Space Nine and around the midpoint of Voyager. That makes it a little more awkward to use, as you have to check for whatever you are looking for in two different places. Apparently this was adopted as a cost-cutting exercise, saving the time and expense of re-editing the entire book into a seamless whole - it's said that without this measure there would never have been a third edition at all. With the demise of Enterprise the time is surely perfect for a fourth edition to appear... |
| Review : |
A comprehensive guide to just about everything you want to know about the Star Trek universe. The pages are mostly laid out in a two column format, with small pictures scattered throughout the text. There are a great many pictures - it's a rare page that doesn't have at least one or two. Some of the larger or more significant articles have larger images, which range up to a full page in size. At the rear of the Encyclopedia are a number of useful appendices covering a brief timeline of Trek events, episode listings, ship size comparison charts, etc. Overall it's hard to fault the encyclopedia; it covers pretty much everything you could possibly want to know about Star Trek, right down to the smallest minutiae. The majority of the information is directly from episodes and movies, but the writers have chosen to also include a fair amount of non-canonical material. It's usually flagged as such but it's not always completely crystal clear, which can be a little frustrating from time to time. But that's a minor quibble - overall this is an excellent book that makes fascinating reading. In terms of "bang per buck" it's certainly the best of the Trek reference books by far, and a definite must have for anybody with a serious interest in the show. |
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| Scitech : | TNG Scale |
| Ship Classes : | Constitution Refit, Galaxy Class, K'T'Inga Class, Olympic Class, Orbital Shuttle, The Phoenix, Travel Pod, Type 3 Shuttle, Type 8 Shuttle, Type 9 Shuttle |
| Ship Names : | Akira Class :
NCC 63549 USS Thunderchild
Ambassador Class :
NCC 26513 USS Exeter, NCC 26632 USS Gandhi, NCC 26849 USS Adelphi, NCC10532 USS Horatio
Andromeda Class :
NCC-70956 USS Drake
Apollo Class :
NCC 11574 Ajax, NCC 11638 Agamemnon, NCC 12537 Clement
Bradbury Class :
NX 72307 USS Bradbury
Challenger Class :
NCC 57537 USS Armstrong, NCC 57566 USS Kearsarge, NCC 57580 USS Buran
Cheyenne Class :
NCC 71620 USS Ahwahnee
Chimera Class :
NCC 57418 USS Portland
Constellation Class :
NCC 3069 USS Magellan, NCC 3890 USS Gettysburg, NCC 9754 USS Victory
Constitution Class :
NCC 1371 USS Republic, NCC 1647 USS Farragut, NCC 1657 USS Potemkin, NCC 1709 USS Lexington, NCC 1717 USS Yorktown, NCC 956 USS Eagle
Daedalus Class :
NCC 160 USS Carolina, NCC 176 USS Horizon
Danube Class :
NCC 72453 USS Yangtzee Kiang, NCC 72454 USS Ganges, NCC 72617 USS Mekong, NCC 72905 USS Orinoco, NCC 72936 USS Rubicon, NCC 73196 USS Volga, NCC 74602 USS Yukon
Deneva Class :
NCC 6203 USS La Salle, NCC 6237 USS Arcos
Excelsior Class :
NCC 13958 USS Okinawa, NCC 14232 USS Berlin, NCC 14598 USS Fearless, NCC 14934 USS Tecumseh, NCC 18253 USS Potemkin, NCC 2544 USS Repulse, NCC 2573 USS Roosevelt, NCC 34099 USS Livingston, NCC 38907 USS Intrepid, NCC 38955 USS Crockett, NCC 38997 USS Malinche, NCC 40521 USS Gorkon, NCC 42111 USS Fredrickson, NCC 42136 USS Cairo, NCC 42285 USS Charleston, NCC 42857 USS Grissom, NCC 42995 USS Al-Batani, NCC 43305 USS Valley Forge, NCC 50446 USS Crazy Horse, NCC 42768 USS Lakota
Freedom Class :
NCC 68711 USS Concorde, NCC 68723 USS Firebrand
Galaxy Class :
NCC 71099 USS Challenger, NCC 71807 USS Yamato, NCC 71832 USS Odyssey, NCC 71854 USS Venture, NCC 71867 USS Trinculo
Hokul'a Class :
NCC 19386 USS Tripoli
Istanbul Class :
NCC 34852 USS Constantinople, NCC 38529 USS Havanah, NCC 38529 USS Sarajevo
Korolev Class :
NCC 2014 USS Korolev, NCC 59621 USS Goddard
Mediterranean Class :
NCC 43730 USS Wyoming, NCC 43837 USS Lalo
Merced Class :
NCC 37124 USS Trieste
Miranda Refit :
NCC 1837 USS Lantree, NCC 1864 USS Reliant, NCC 1867 USS Saratoga, NCC 21166 USS Brittain, NCC 21382 USS Tian An Men, NCC 31860 USS Majestic, NCC 31905 USS ShirKahr, NCC 31910 USS Nautilus, NCC 31911 USS Saratoga, USS Sitak
Nebula Class :
NCC 60205 USS Honshu, NCC 61826 USS Monitor, NCC 61827 USS Merrimac, NCC 61832 USS Lexington, NCC 61952 USS Proxima, NCC 62006 USS Hera, NCC 62048 USS Bellerephon, NCC 66808 USS Ulysses, NCC 71805 USS Endeavour, NCC 72015 USS Sutherland, NCC 65420 USS Phoenix
New Orleans Class :
NCC 57295 USS Rutledge, NCC 63102 USS Renegade, NCC 65491 USS Kyushu, NCC 65530 USS Thomas Paine
Niagara Class :
NCC 28473 USS Wellington, NCC 59804 USS Princeton
Norway Class :
NCC 64923 USS Budapest
Oberth Class :
NAR 18834 SS Vico, NCC 19002 USS Yosemite, NCC 31600 USS Bonestell, NCC 50331 USS Biko, NCC 53911 USS Tsiolkovsky, NCC 59318 USS Cochrane, NCC 59983 USS Raman, NCC 623 USS Copernicus
Olympic Class :
NCC 55012 USS Nobel, NCC 58928 USS Pasteur
Renaissance Class :
NCC 45109 USS Maryland, NCC 45167 USS Aries, NCC 45231 USS Hornet
Rigel Class :
NCC 62095 USS Tolstoy, NCC 62158 USS Akagi
Saber Class :
NCC 61947 USS Yeager
Sequoia Class :
NCC 70073 USS Yellowstone
Springfield Class :
NCC 57302 USS Chekov
Steamrunner Class :
NCC 52136 USS Appalachia, USS Hiroshima
Surak Class :
NCC 33184 USS Zapata
Sydney Class :
NCC 2010 USS Jenolin
Type 6 Shuttle :
NCC 1701-D/03 Justman, NCC 1701-D/06 Curie, NCC 1701-D/15 Galileo, NCC 1701-D/15 Goddard, NCC 1701-D/15 Magellan, NCC 1701-D/16 Fermi, NCC 74656/05 Sacajawea, Piller, RS-47 Verne
Type 7 Shuttle :
Feynman, Hawking, NCC 1701-D/01 Sakharov, NCC 1701-D/10 D'Alison, NCC 67016/07 Kotoi
Type 8 Shuttle :
Drake, NCC 74656/01 Tereshkova
Type 9 Shuttle :
Cochrane, Dawkins
Type 15 Shuttle :
Campbell, NCC 1701-D/03 Voltaire, NCC 1701-D/05 El-Baz, NCC 1701-D/07 Onizuka, NCC 1701-D/09 Ley, NCC 1701-D/12 Pike
Wambundu Class :
NCC 20316 USS Fleming, NCC 20381 USS Drake
Yorkshire Class :
NCC 54927 USS Denver |
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