I don't suppose there'll be another Chronology?
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With all respect to Defcon, the most up to date timeline for Star Trek canon and fiction (and comics, I believe) is in Jeff Ayers' Voyages of Imagination
And Pocket still do guidebooks, when they know there's a good chance of them selling very well. This month there's "Captain Kirk's Guide to Women", and upcoming is "Star Trek 101".
A new or improved "Chronology" is prohibitive due to the amount of research needed, the colour photographs, its potential size, etc.
A new or improved "Chronology" is prohibitive due to the amount of research needed, the colour photographs, its potential size, etc.
Especially as there is now the 22nd century era as well.
1) Ayers companion is mentioned in the post I quoted
2) If I have understand him correctly he specifically asked for an update of the Okudas chronolgy by the Okudas themselve, so I don't see your point.
Again both of those are mentioned in the post I quoted, so I don't see why you have to write that as if that is some kind of new info.
I stand corrected.
Sorry for my rude response.
I was a bit angry because of something else, and you and Therin ended up on the receiving end of it.
While VoI is mentioned in the part I quoted there's nothing about the timeline in it, so you were right to point that out, even if the OP really was only asking about a new updated Okuda chronolgy.
We have wikipedia and memory-alpha.org, so what do we need with a printed reference?
A chronology as bedtime reading? Isn't that more the sort of thing you'd keep on a reference shelf and pull out when you needed to check something?
With all due respect, unless you are a Trek author (such as yourself) or otherwise work for a Trek production, why else would you read a book like this other than for pleasure? I can't imagine someone saying, "I need to know the year the Pheonix launched and I need to know it right now!"
The same reason why someone would prefer a paper book over an eBook (like myself).
That said, I've long since made peace with the fact we'll never see another edition of the Chronology or Encyclopedia.
Simply because I noted you'd quoted him the relevant FAQ, but I didn't bother reading all the paragraph. I had forgotten that those two new books were actually mentioned in the latest update of the FAQs. I was actually surprised they'd been added in the last update.
The new bit is that "Kirk's Guide" was released last week; my airfreight copy arrived at Galaxy in Sydney last Thursday.
* Roleplaying
* Fanfic or fanfilms
* Responses to people's questions on bbs's
* Trivia contests
* Questions arising from watching episodes on DVD.
* Adding info to Memory Alpha wiki.
None of these would count as "recreational reading".
I wonder what the difference in sales between Star Wars and Star Trek reference books are? We still see the Star Wars "Essential Guides" being sold and updated despite the existence of Wookiee-pedia.
There are benefits to having a paper reference. Some people are not online all of the time.
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