Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion

by Pearson Software

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00002JV6I
• Media: CD-ROM
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Exhaustively researched CD-ROM encyclopedia companion to the Star Trek spin-off series.

Manufacturer Description

With an ultra-user-friendly interface, context-sensitive searches, and hot-linked results, you, the user, can access:
* Updated entries, now with the complete sixth and seventh seasons
* A complete full-text library of the original shooting scripts for every episode, all fully searchable
* Video trailers for all the episodes--each week's "coming attractions" as they originally aired
* Episode summaries with complete listings of actors, writers, directors, and other creative credits

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A useful reference guide, November 30, 1999

By 

David Henderson (Lakewood, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion (CD-ROM)

I found this guide to be very helpful by providing a fully-searchable set of the episode scripts. It sounds like wcaver was using the feature search (which is somewhat less than useful), rather than the full text search (which finds every instance of a word in all of the scripts).

However, it isn't perfect. For one thing, if you click on any word in the script or synopsis, it does a text search for that word. For someone who is used to clicking in a window to bring the focus there, this is very distracting. For another thing, the guest star information is incomplete; only the "primary" guest stars are listed, and the actors who played minor roles are not listed.

Still, for the price this is a very handy product.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT!, November 14, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion (CD-ROM)

If You've ever wondered about a script for DS9, This is the thing to get, it has scripts, Promo Videos and pictures, and even has some cut scenes in the scripts (not videos however :( )

18 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Very disappointing - and the search engine is worthless!, November 29, 1999

By 

[e-mail] (Broomfield, Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion (CD-ROM)

I'm a serious fan of DS9, and I also write fiction about the show, so I had high hopes for a database containing all the scripts combined with a way to fully search the files for references to specific words (such as all the times the Orbs were mentioned). Instead, I was extremely annoyed to find the word-search function only shows the FIRST use of a word in a script, and it even sometimes IGNORES uses of a word. For example, the word-search function could not find the word "Maquis" anywhere in the episode "The Maquis, Part I" ! Having all the scripts to read is nice -- and is the only reason I gave it two stars. But the scripts are bulky to access, and it's all you really get. There are no encyclopedia entries, so I'm baffled by the earlier review's comparison to other Star Trek encyclopedae. The only videos that come with the companion are the "coming attractions" previews for each episode, which are useless for reference purposes. What really ticked me off is Simon and Schuster advertises the DS9 companion as "fully searchable." When I complained, a Simon and Schuster tech-support rep told me I was using the program correctly, but apparently the advertising department's definition of "fully searchable" was different than mine! So buy this if you really want to read all the scripts on your computer. Otherwise, don't waste your time.