- The Star Trek Encyclopedia
"The Star Trek Encyclopedia: A Reference Guide to the Future" is an
encyclopedia of all thein-universe information from the "Star Trek " live-action television series and films. The "Encyclopedia" was written byMichael Okuda andDenise Okuda , with Debbie Mirek, and illustrated byDoug Drexler . Three print editions have been published, in bothhardcover andpaperback : the first edition (ISBN 0-671-88684-3) was published in 1994; the second (ISBN 0-671-53607-9) in 1997. The most recent edition (ISBN 0-671-53609-5), published in 1999, includes material through the end of ', the fifth season of ', and the movie "". All editions were published byPocket Books ;Paramount Pictures is the owner of the copyrights.The "Encyclopedia" features very detailed information about characters,
planet s, technologies, ships, and behind-the-scenes information, as well as brief synopses of series program installments and motion pictures. It is replete with illustrations, many of which are in color in later editions, from examples of different writing systems to the evolution of uniforms andshuttlecraft .As a rule, the "Encyclopedia" covers only the material from the live-action television series programs and the motion pictures, which, at the insistence of
Gene Roddenberry , are the extent of theStar Trek canon officially recognized by Paramount. It includes some material from the animated series program (such as "Yesteryear "), and sometimes provides new information. Unlike the "", however, it makes no detailed speculations about Star Trek technology.The print version was later complemented by a similar electronic version, the "Star Trek Omnipedia". The
CD-ROM medium allowed theSimon & Schuster publishers to include video clips.The first edition, at least, was designed with
desktop publishing software for theApple Inc. Macintosh computer, as was the ""; that edition's inconsistencies in typography are common among products of word-processing software, especially those used in the early and middle 1990s. The inconsistency lies mainly in the matter of whether the punctuation at the ends of bold-faced and/or italicized passages is in a matching face or not.References
* Okuda, Denise; Okuda, Michael; & Mirek, Debbie (1999). "The Star Trek Encyclopedia." Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-53609-5.
See also
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Memory Alpha , awiki with the aim of producing "the most definitive, accurate and accessible encyclopedic reference for topics related to the canon Star Trek fictional universe."
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