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Star Trek Chronology: The History of the Future

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This book is a must have for any serious Star Trek fan. It details the time-line of the often confusing Star Trek universe in careful academic detail, yet the narrative is entertaining enough to make it readable from cover to cover. The pictures are rife throughout the book and intelligently placed (a big gripe of mine is when people show you pictures of things you don't care to see, or put pictures far away from the text referring to them), and there are plenty of discussions about character designs, star ships, and other subtle nuances and contradictions that a book of this depth inevitably stumbles across. Buy it...it will make the Star Trek universe a bit more comprehensible...and a lot more enjoyable.

As it says in the introduction, there are many contradictions and empty spaces in this history, but if there's a need to understand the way Star Trek works, it's an indispensable reference book. Also for writers who want to create between the time lines listed in the book, it is a very well organized tool, and when possible, it reveals the contradictions or problems found by the authors in conjunction with the original writers, so you can fill in the blanks of the history or propose new theories. Well, it's a must have for those REAL Star Trek fans!!!

P.D.: if you want a perfect book, please read the I-Ching...

A great reference that starts several billion years B.C. to about one thousand A.D. This book has up to Star Trek: Next Generation First Contact, Deep Space Nine Season Four, and Voyager Season Two. One favorite section of mine is the alternate universes section with ALL of the alternate universes up to date. Now I'm waiting for an revised edition...

Everything I need to know about Star Trek is in this amazing book. The only problem I have with it is that I bought it when Star Trek Deep Space Nine was ending it's fourth season, and in the book, it goes up to the end of it's fourth season. I had no idea what was happening for two years! Oh well, now I know. Anyway, this book really helped me to understand the world of Star Trek, and the amazing thing is, that everything in this book has followed history so far! Anyway, I reccommend this book to any true Star Trek fans!

Reading this book allowed me, a Star Trek fan, not only to answer questions about various topics related to Star Trek history, but to review current events that have made alot of episodes possible

The authors of this book certainly had a daunting task, namely to put all of the events in Star Trek: The Original Series, the first six Star Trek feature films and the first five years of Star Trek: The Next Generation in chronological order. Some of the events are mentioned only on passing in episodes, yet they have managed to tie all of it together into a surprisingly coherent whole.
There are of course places where a consistent chronology is just not possible, and those situations are identified as such. Nevertheless, if you are a fan of Star Trek and are interested in what happened when, then this is the book for you.

This revised 342 page book has over 1000 pitures! There are some story elements from FUTURE'S END (VOYAGER), FIRST CONTACT, FLASHBACK (VOYAGER), & TRIALS AND TRIBBLE-ATIONS (DS9). This book has appendixes for all of the main characters (from all of the shows). There are extensive notes on Starfleet and the Starships Enterprise, science and technology, planets and societies, alternate timelines, and stardates. Here's what's wrong with the book. Unfortunately, other than YESTERYEAR, there's no information about the cartoons. I've found several typeos, mainly with the captions. The biggest printing error in this book is in the header for DS9 (year 4), and VOYAGER (year 2). The printed year is 2371, but it's supposed to be 2372. Due to the deadline for this book, the year Captain Braxton (VOYAGER'S FUTURE'S END) crashed on earth (1967) hadn't yet been established. Similarly, Kang's 23rd century picture (FLASHBACK) isn't in the book. Finally, the recent tribble (DS9) story hadn't yet been titled. Otherwise, it's a great book. Would someone please e-mail these suggestions about the revisions to pocket books, so that they may revise the book for another printing?

Oh, my God! This hasn't been updated yet? I thought that after waiting almost 12 years for a revised edition it would have happened by now!!!

Michael and Denise, please, for the love of Spock!!!!!......update this tired old beloved history of the future!!! I'm beggin' ya! I'm sitting here with credit card in hand ready and anxiously waiting!!!!

I wouldn't use this to prepare for a history exam (although it does cover some actual history pretty well), but this book will tell you anything and everything you ever wanted to know about what happened when and where in the Star Trek Universe... at least, up until 1996 franchise time.

Movies and episodes of DS9, Voyager and Enterprise past that year are left out, for obvious reasons. Hopefully, given the lack of tv series/movie activity, they'll take the time to come up with an upgraded version of this book. An interactive CD-ROM would be nice, too.

Worth getting in the meantime, though.

I really love this book and it was extremely useful when I got the book. Unfortunately, it's now over ten years later and there is no revised edition to cover the last three years of DS9, the last five years of Voyager, the movies 'Insurrection' and 'Nemesis', or any of Enterprise. I would really love it if they would revise this book to cover the most recent offerings from the Trek Universe. Of course, if they want to wait until after the new movie (due out in 2009), I can understand that. I'd just really like an official timeline for the Dominion war. If your looking for events earlier than that, this is absolutely the book for you.