The Star Trek Encyclopedia Version 3 (PC/Mac)

by Simon & Schuster Interactive

Product Features

• 2 CD Pack
• Revised and Updated For more than 30 years, the phenomenon as Star Trek has captivated the public's imagination. Now Star Trek fans and followers can navigate the wealth of information from this expanding universe with THE STAR TREK ENCYCLOPEDIA VERSION 3.0. The ultimate guide to Gene Roddenbarry's masterpiece.
• The STAR TREK ENCYCLOPEDIA 3.0 brings you more then 2500 still photos and drawings and over 250 video clips from:STAR TREK: The Origional Series STAR TREK: The Next GenerationSTAR TREK: Deep Space NineSTAR TREK: VoyagerThe Feature Films

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 9 ounces
• ASIN: B00004UAD0
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 8, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,150 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

51 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Redressed Omnipedia, December 21, 1999

By A Customer

While purporting to contain information on the Star Trek universe complete through the 98-99 season, many encyclopedia entries were simply carbon copies of Omnipedia or Enclopedia entries that are no less than a year and a half old. If there is information from the later seasons, it is simply stapled on to the end of an entry. Additionally, in the episode browser area, there is no mention of the most recent seasons of DS9 and Voyager, much to the chagrin of anyone attempting to read, for instance, a summarized version of the entire Dominion War, the conclusion of which coincided with the end of DS9.

Of course, all of the griping aside, the interface is quite friendly, if not immediately intuitive. Most features work as advertised - the multimedia presentations are a treat, even if most of them do not contain up-to-date information. For instance, there is no mention in the Feature of Captain Picard about the Enterprise-E, neglecting to include any information from the last two feature films.

In all, this would appear to be little more than a rushed polishing job on a previously released product, rather than something deserving of a new version number.

23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Time to Updat again, February 28, 2002

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richarde "richardewart" (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews

I used to enjoy idly looking through the database augmenting my knowledge. Unfortunately I updated to Windows XP and now I can't look at it at all. Come on MacMillan, not only do you need to update the Encylopeadia to include the latest DS9 and Voyager, but you need to make it compatible with Windows XP!

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Pretty good, April 18, 2000

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Nathan (Wilmington, DE United States) - See all my reviews

This thing was amazing when it was first published as the Omnipedia...it had guided tours through certain subjects narrated by Mark Lenard, voice activated response a la the TV show for computers with the capability, high quality, for the time, videos. This version, though, is outdated, and getting more so, the videos and pics are still low-res by newer standards, and everything in it's "episode by episode" guide is available on the ST web site. In fact, the episode synopses are word for word from there, and the previews are available there too.

The entries, as I said, are getting outdated, and there's no more nifty tours or voice activation or even simple "search for entries with video" function anymore. When all the Trek series are over and they have a chance to completely update this thing, then good. Until then, I'd recommend leaving it alone and maybe buying the book.