Denise Okuda

It helpful when watching the show to have a non web based reference to settle drunken star trek arguments. Often my girlfriend and I will be drinking wine and start fighting about the transporter or some such a thing and so we can go back to making out we crack open this book. I've read it so many times that I finally just started reading it like a normal book. Quite the read, but better than getting lost on wikipedia all day. Plenty of stuff never made it on the shows too. Every home should have one.… (plus d'informations)

My copy is a "updated and expanded edition" published in 1999 and covers up "through the 1996-1997 production season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager. It does include the films up to Star Trek: Insurrection. It doesn't include the animated series. So by no means complete, it's nevertheless authoritative and exhaustive within those limits--far more informative than online references, and thus worthy of shelf space--at least for the die-hard fan, or writer of fan fiction or Star Trek professional fiction. My biggest complaint is that the physical book, a trade paperback, is literally falling apart.… (plus d'informations)

This was published in 1996 and as such has limited utility. It would were it completely up to date to be honest. Who really needs this other than that rarefied group who write Star Trek fan or professional fiction? And because it only covers until First Contact... Well, that means it covers only all of the Original Series and Next Generation episodes and the first 8 films, with only the first few years of Deep Space Nine, Voyager, nothing of Enterprise or the later feature films such as the Reboot. Still, I found it useful to have the "future history" (alternate history with the inconsistencies that piled up since the late sixties) of Trek laid out year by year, with the sources from the episodes and films, and with more detail than you can conveniently find online.… (plus d'informations)