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The Star Trek Encyclopedia - A Reference Guide to the Future is the "definitive" Star Trek reference book, compiled by the production staff and officially licensed and endorsed by Paramount Pictures. An A-Z encyclopedia covering subjects from Andorians to Zefram Cochrane to Atoz, the Star Trek Encyclopedia was compiled by Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager staffers Denise and Michael Okuda. It includes summaries of all episodes, descriptions of all characters, rundowns of all locations, data on all lifeforms, and details on all starships that appeared in the Star Trek universe up to the fifth season of Voyager, and the final season of DS9 in the third edition.

Summary

From the interior book jacket (3rd. edition): From 'audet IX [sic] to Zytchin III, this book covers it all. This is the ultimate reference book for all Star Trek fans !

Added to this edition are 128 new pages. This addendum highlights the latest episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine®, Star Trek: Voyager® and the newest feature film, Star Trek: Insurrection™.

The thousands of photos and hundreds of illustrations place the Star Trek universe at your fingertips, Planets and stars, weapons and ships, people and places are just part of the meticulous research and the countless cross-references that fill this book.

Excerpts of copyrighted sources are included for review purposes only, without any intention of infringement.

Background information

While the first edition was still executed in black and white, the two subsequent editions were full color editions, all of which featuring artwork by Doug Drexler. The first and third editions came in softcover and in hardcover in a dust jacket variants whereas the second edition was only executed as a hardcover book.
Not taken into account were officially licensed non-live action works – such as the various Star Trek novels, comics, and games, considered "non-official" or apocryphal – , nor was Star Trek: The Animated Series, considered non-canon at the time of writing, or any previously licensed in-universe reference work, hitherto considered "official". Co-author Debbie Mirek has commented regarding the Animated Series, "I am not really sure why it was discounted. I believe Roddenberry did not like the animated series, and Michael, who respected the man enormously, valued his opinion. Gene was largely out of the loop for TNG, in my opinion, so what happened with ST:2 WOK and onward, shouldn't be attributed to him. Mike worked on all those films, and they have to be recognized as part of the "universe"." [1]
Greg Jein's "The Case of Jonathan Doe Starship" article, written as a fan two decades earlier, is the only (non-official) outside secondary source acknowledged in the Encyclopedia (1st ed, p. 57; 3rd ed, pp. 85-86). The Constitution-class registries in the Encyclopedia are largely based on this article, starting their journey to elevation into canon.
Some articles (generally only a paragraph or two long) contain little-known facts from real world behind-the-scenes, annotated in italicized fonts to distinguish them from the overall in-universe writing of the work. Many also featured images created specifically for the Encyclopedia, including shots of barely visible starships like the Saber-class and Akira-class vessels, and a photograph of Cochrane's statue.
While the authors had incorporated some conjectural historical information in their earlier Star Trek Chronology, mostly pertaining to early non-canonically established Star Trek history, they refrained from including most of that information in the Encyclopedia, strictly adhering to what was established on screen. The Encyclopedia was essentially a byproduct from the research the authors had performed for the Chronology, the first edition of which published one year prior to the first edition release of the Encyclopedia. "We again worked by episode, but used the scripts as a reference tool (once they were matched to the aired version of the episode). We catalogued terms, not just chronological data. We did the chronology for the sake of the chronology...it was only afterwards that the idea for the encyclopedia came up.", Mirek clarified. [2]
Though for the most part adhering to what was canonically established, there was some conjecture included in the Encyclopedia, aside from some of the Constitution-class registries, as the authors made several references to material that was never explicitly noted in canon (i.e. made up exclusively for the Encyclopedia) or that came from unspecified materials that have yet to be identified on screen. The vast majority of these references were the registries, class designations, and some of the classes themselves assigned to Federation starships which were otherwise indicated on screen by name only, beit orally or visually. Classes noted as conjectural are listed below.
Two editions saw a Japanese-language release which, while largely faithful translations, were updated and expanded versions from their English-language counterparts. The only two other known international releases were the slightly abridged 1995 German-language first edition, published by Heel, and the slightly expanded 2001 Italian-language third edition, translated from English by Massimiliano Antonioli for Fanucci Editore as the Enciclopedia ufficiale di Star Trek. Ironically, this meant that the Italian and the Japanese third editions – being later, with fifty pages expanded editions – contained more information than their English-language source publication. These two editions were hardcover releases as opposed to the two earlier foreign language editions.
As stated in the 1999 third edition summary, the last published edition of the Encyclopedia featured a 128-page separate special section in the rear containing information from Insurrection, the final season of Deep Space Nine and the fifth season of Voyager. This was a cost-saving measure, as integrating this information alphabetically into the existing material of the second edition would have resulted in a greater publishing expense and thus a higher price.
It seems unlikely that a fourth edition of the Encyclopedia will ever be forthcoming. Editors from Pocket Books have indicated that they have little interest in continuing their line of Star Trek reference books, such as the technical manuals, the Encyclopedia, and the Chronology, due to the low sales such high-priced items are perceived to engender. The only "official" exhaustive reference work that is still updated is the Library of StarTrek.com, though this sometimes contains discrepancies.
A popular and influential work, the official Star Trek franchise treats it, together with the Star Trek Chronology, as the sole primary quasi-canon sources for all subsequent in-universe reference works print publications, and requires licensed works of this kind, published since then, to be in concordance with the information contained within these two works, such as the later GE Fabbri and Haynes Publishing Star Trek publications. As a consequence, the franchise has officially debunked previously licensed reference works written from an in-universe perspective (from which not a single piece of information was taken into account in either the Encyclopedia or the Chronology), most notably Franz Joseph's Star Fleet Technical Manual as well as Shane Johnson's Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise and Worlds of the Federation. Labeled "unofficial", these works were de facto demoted by the franchise to the apocryphal status of novels, comics, and games. (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 11, p. 71)

Conjectural ship classes

The following classes appeared in the Star Trek Encyclopedia and are noted as conjectural, but not on what basis. Rigel-class was mentioned on a Starfleet Operations chart in "Brothers":

Conjectural ship classes
- Antares-class at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Andromeda-class at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Chimera-class at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Deneva-class at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Hokule'a-class at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Istanbul-class at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Mediterranean-class at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Rigel-class at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Sequoia-class at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Surak-class at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Wambundu-class at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Yorkshire-class at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
- Zodiac-class at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works

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 | Author            = [[Michael Okuda]] and [[Denise Okuda]], with [[Debbie Mirek]]
 | Artist            = [[Doug Drexler]]
-| Publisher         = [[Pocket Books]]<br/>[[Heel]] (Germany)<br/>[[Dai-X]] (Japan)
+| Publisher         = [[Pocket Books]]<br/>[[Heel]] (Germany)<br/>[[Fanucci Editore]] (Italy)<br/>[[Dai-X]] (Japan)
-| Published         = {{d|1|May|1994}}<br />{{m|January|1995}} (Germany)<br />{{m|August|1998}} (Japan)<br/>second edition<br/>{{d|1|December|1997}}<br />third edition<br />{{d|1|October|1999}}<br/>{{d|10|April|2003}} (Japan)<br/>{{m|May|2011}} ([[eBook]])
+| Published         = {{d|1|May|1994}}<br />{{m|January|1995}} (Germany)<br />{{m|August|1998}} (Japan)<br/>second edition<br/>{{d|1|December|1997}}<br />third edition<br />{{d|1|October|1999}}<br/>{{m|February|2001}} (Italy)<br />{{d|10|April|2003}} (Japan)<br/>{{m|May|2011}} ([[eBook]])
-| Pages             = 400 (1st ed., 364 Germany, 495 Japan)<br />640 (2nd ed.)<br />745 (3rd ed., 794 Japan)
+| Pages             = 400 (1st ed, 364 Germany, 495 Japan)<br />640 (2nd ed.)<br />745 (3rd ed, 794 Italy, Japan)
-| ISBN              = 0671869051 (1st ed., softcover)<br />ISBN 0671886843 (1st ed., hardcover)<br />ISBN  3893654496 (1st ed., Germany)<br />ISBN  4883214311 (1st ed., Japan)<br />ISBN 0671536079 (2nd ed.)<br />ISBN 0671536095 (3rd ed., softcover)<br />ISBN 0671034758 (3rd ed., hardcover)<br />ISBN 4812518725 (3rd ed., Japan)<br />ISBN 1451646887 (3rd ed., [[eBook]])
+| ISBN              = 0671869051 (1st ed, softcover)<br />ISBN 0671886843 (1st ed, hardcover)<br />ISBN  3893654496 (1st ed, Germany)<br />ISBN  4883214311 (1st ed, Japan)<br />ISBN 0671536079 (2nd ed.)<br />ISBN 0671536095 (3rd ed, softcover)<br />ISBN 0671034758 (3rd ed, hardcover)<br />ISBN 8834707494 (3rd ed, Italy)<br />ISBN 4812518725 (3rd ed, Japan)<br />ISBN 1451646887 (3rd ed, [[eBook]])
 }}
-The '''''Star Trek Encyclopedia''' - A Reference Guide to the Future'' is the "definitive" ''[[Star Trek]]'' [[reference book]], compiled by the [[production staff]] and officially licensed and endorsed by [[Paramount Pictures]]. An A-Z encyclopedia covering subjects from [[Andorian]]s to [[Zefram Cochrane]] to [[Atoz]], the ''Star Trek Encyclopedia'' was compiled by ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'', and ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]]'' staffers [[Denise Okuda|Denise]] and [[Michael Okuda]].  It includes summaries of all episodes, descriptions of all characters, rundowns of all locations, data on all [[lifeform]]s, and details on all [[starship]]s that appeared in the ''Star Trek'' universe up to the [[VOY Season 5|fifth season]] of ''Voyager'', and the final season of [[DS9]] in the third edition.
+The '''''Star Trek Encyclopedia''' - A Reference Guide to the Future'' is the "definitive" ''[[Star Trek]]'' [[reference book]], compiled by the [[production staff]] and officially licensed and endorsed by [[Paramount Pictures]]. An A-Z encyclopedia covering subjects from [[Andorian]]s to [[Zefram Cochrane]] to [[Atoz]], the ''Star Trek Encyclopedia'' was compiled by ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'', and ''[[Star Trek: Voyager|Voyager]]'' staffers [[Denise Okuda|Denise]] and [[Michael Okuda]]. It includes summaries of all episodes, descriptions of all characters, rundowns of all locations, data on all [[lifeform]]s, and details on all [[starship]]s that appeared in the ''Star Trek'' universe up to the [[VOY Season 5|fifth season]] of ''Voyager'', and the final season of [[DS9]] in the third edition.
-While the first edition was still executed in black and white, the two subsequent editions were full color editions, with new color updated artwork by [[Doug Drexler]]. The first and third editions came in softcover and in hardcover in a dust jacket variants, the second edition only executed as hardcover.
 ==Summary==
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 ==Background information==
+*While the first edition was still executed in black and white, the two subsequent editions were full color editions, all of which featuring artwork by [[Doug Drexler]]. The first and third editions came in softcover and in hardcover in a dust jacket variants whereas the second edition was only executed as a hardcover book.
-Not taken into account are officially licensed non-live action works &ndash; such as the various ''Star Trek'' [[novels]], [[comics]], and [[games]], which are considered apocryphal &ndash; as well as ''[[Star Trek: The Animated Series|The Animated Series]]'', which was not considered [[canon]] at the time of writing.
+*Not taken into account were officially licensed non-live action works &ndash; such as the various ''Star Trek'' [[novels]], [[comics]], and [[games]], considered "non-official" or apocryphal &ndash; , nor was ''[[Star Trek: The Animated Series]]'', considered non-[[canon]] at the time of writing, or any previously licensed in-universe reference work, hitherto considered "official". Co-author [[Debbie Mirek]] has commented regarding the ''Animated Series'', "''I am not really sure why it was discounted. I believe [[Gene Roddenberry|Roddenberry]] did not like the animated series, and Michael, who respected the man enormously, valued his opinion. Gene was largely out of the loop for TNG, in my opinion, so what happened with ST:2 WOK and onward, shouldn't be attributed to him. Mike worked on all those films, and they have to be recognized as part of the "universe".''" [http://www.trekplace.com/debbiemirek.html]
+*[[Greg Jein]]'s "[[The Case of Jonathan Doe Starship]]" article, written as a [[Trekkie|fan]] two decades earlier, is the '''''only''''' (non-official) outside secondary source acknowledged in the ''Encyclopedia'' (1st ed, p. 57; 3rd ed, pp. 85-86). The {{class|Constitution}} registries in the ''Encyclopedia'' are largely based on this article, starting their journey to elevation into canon.
+*Some articles (generally only a paragraph or two long) contain little-known facts from real world behind-the-scenes, annotated in italicized fonts to distinguish them from the overall in-universe writing of the work. Many also featured images created specifically for the ''Encyclopedia'', including shots of barely visible starships like the {{class|Saber}} and {{class|Akira}} vessels, and a photograph of Cochrane's statue.
+*While the authors had incorporated some conjectural historical information in their earlier ''[[Star Trek Chronology]]'', mostly pertaining to early non-canonically established ''Star Trek'' history, they refrained from including most of that information in the ''Encyclopedia'', strictly adhering to what was established on screen. The ''Encyclopedia'' was essentially a byproduct from the research the authors had performed for the ''Chronology'', the first edition of which published one year prior to the first edition release of the ''Encyclopedia''. "''We again worked by episode, but used the scripts as a reference tool (once they were matched to the aired version of the episode). We catalogued terms, not just chronological data. We did the chronology for the sake of the chronology...it was only afterwards that the idea for the encyclopedia came up.''", Mirek clarified. [http://www.trekplace.com/debbiemirek.html]
+*Though for the most part adhering to what was canonically established, there was some conjecture included in the ''Encyclopedia'', aside from some of the ''Constitution''-class registries, as the authors made several references to material that was never explicitly noted in canon (i.e. made up exclusively for the ''Encyclopedia'') or that came from unspecified materials that have yet to be identified on screen. The vast majority of these references were the registries, class designations, and some of the classes themselves assigned to [[Federation starships]] which were otherwise indicated on screen by name only, beit orally or visually. Classes noted as conjectural are listed below.
+*Two editions saw a Japanese-language release which, while largely faithful translations, were updated and expanded versions from their English-language counterparts. The only two other known international releases were the slightly abridged 1995 German-language first edition, published by [[Heel]], and the slightly expanded 2001 Italian-language third edition, translated from English by Massimiliano Antonioli for [[Fanucci Editore]] as the '''''Enciclopedia ufficiale di Star Trek'''''. Ironically, this meant that the Italian and the Japanese third editions &ndash; being later, with fifty pages expanded editions &ndash; contained more information than their English-language source publication. These two editions were hardcover releases as opposed to the two earlier foreign language editions.
+*As stated in the {{y|1999}} third edition summary, the last published edition of the ''Encyclopedia'' featured a 128-page separate special section in the rear containing information from ''Insurrection'', the final season of ''Deep Space Nine'' and the fifth season of ''Voyager''. This was a cost-saving measure, as integrating this information alphabetically into the existing material of the second edition would have resulted in a greater publishing expense and thus a higher price.
+*It seems unlikely that a fourth edition of the ''Encyclopedia'' will ever be forthcoming. Editors from [[Pocket Books]] have indicated that they have little interest in continuing their line of ''Star Trek'' reference books, such as the technical manuals, the ''Encyclopedia'', and the ''Chronology'', due to the low sales such high-priced items are perceived to engender. The only "official" exhaustive reference work that is still updated is the Library of [[StarTrek.com]], though this sometimes contains discrepancies.
+*A popular and influential work, the official ''Star Trek'' franchise treats it, together with the ''Star Trek Chronology'', as the sole primary quasi-[[canon]] sources for all subsequent in-universe [[reference works]] print publications, and requires licensed works of this kind, published since then, to be in concordance with the information contained within these two works, such as the later [[GE Fabbri]] and [[Haynes Publishing]] ''Star Trek'' publications. As a consequence, the franchise has officially debunked previously licensed reference works written from an in-universe perspective (from which not a single piece of information was taken into account in either the ''Encyclopedia'' or the ''Chronology''), most notably [[Franz Joseph]]'s ''[[Star Fleet Technical Manual]]'' as well as [[Shane Johnson]]'s ''[[Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise]]'' and ''[[Worlds of the Federation]]''. Labeled "unofficial", these works were ''de facto'' demoted by the franchise to the apocryphal status of novels, comics, and games. ({{STTM|2|11|71}})
+===Conjectural ship classes===
-Some articles (generally only a paragraph or two long) contain little-known facts from real world behind-the-scenes, annotated in italicized fonts to distinguish them from the overall in-universe writing of the work. Many also featured images created specifically for the ''Encyclopedia'', including shots of barely visible starships like the {{class|Saber}} and {{class|Akira}} vessels, and a photograph of Cochrane's statue.
+The following classes appeared in the ''Star Trek Encyclopedia'' and are noted as conjectural, but not on what basis. ''Rigel''-class was mentioned on a [[Starfleet Operations]] chart in {{e|Brothers}}:
-The authors of the ''Star Trek Encyclopedia'' made several references to material that was never explicitly noted in canon (i.e. made up exclusively for the ''Encyclopedia'') or that came from unspecified materials that have yet to be identified on screen. A majority of these references are related to [[Federation starships]], notably their registries, class designations, and some of the classes themselves. The following classes appeared in the ''Star Trek Encyclopedia'' and are noted as conjectural, but not on what basis. ''Rigel''-class was mentioned on a [[Starfleet Operations]] chart in {{e|Brothers}}:
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 * Conjectural ship classes
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 ** {{mbeta|Zodiac class|''Zodiac''-class}}
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-The second edition has seen some other editing as well besides the updates for newer available information. Some entries from the first edition were dropped, mostly conjectural information on early non-canonically established ''Star Trek'' history which Okuda had incorporated in his earlier ''[[Star Trek Chronology]]'', also including entries which Okuda had derived from secondary sources, among others the entry for the 23rd century {{Class|Constitution}}, {{USS|Endeavour|NCC-1895}}.
-Two editions saw a Japanese-language release which, while largely faithful translations, were updated and expanded versions from their English-language counterparts. The only other known international release is the slightly abridged 1995 German-language first edition, published by [[Heel]].
-As stated in the {{y|1999}} third edition summary, the last published edition of the ''Encyclopedia'' featured a 128-page separate special section in the rear containing information from ''Insurrection'', the final season of ''Deep Space Nine'' and the fifth season of ''Voyager''. This was a cost-saving measure, as integrating this information alphabetically into the existing material of the second edition would have resulted in a greater publishing expense and thus a higher price.
-It seems unlikely that a fourth edition of the ''Encyclopedia'' will ever be forthcoming. Editors from [[Pocket Books]] have indicated that they have little interest in continuing their line of ''Star Trek'' reference books, such as the technical manuals, the ''Encyclopedia'', and the ''Chronology'', due to the low sales such high-priced items are perceived to engender. The only "official" exhaustive reference work that is still updated is the Library of [[StarTrek.com]], though this sometimes contains discrepancies.
-A popular and influential work, the official ''Star Trek'' franchise treats it, like the ''Star Trek Chronology'', as the primary quasi-[[canon]] source for all subsequent in-universe [[reference works]] print publications, and requires licensed works of this kind, published since then, to be in concordance with the information contained within the ''Encyclopedia'' and the ''Chronology'', such as the later [[GE Fabbri]] and [[Haynes Publishing]] ''Star Trek'' publications. As a consequence, the franchise has officially debunked previously licensed reference works written from an in-universe perspective, most notably [[Franz Joseph]]'s ''[[Star Fleet Technical Manual]]'' as well as [[Shane Johnson]]'s ''[[Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise]]'' and ''[[Worlds of the Federation]]''. Labeled "unofficial", these works were ''de facto'' demoted by the franchise to the apocryphal status of novels, comics, and games. ({{STTM|2|11|71}})
 ===Cover gallery===
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 File:Encyclopedia second edition.jpg|Second edition cover
+File:Cover of the Italian third edition of the Star Trek Encyclopedia.jpg|Third edition hardcover (Italy)
 File:Cover of the Japanese third edition of the Star Trek Encyclopedia.jpg|Third edition hardcover (Japan)
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