I don't suppose there'll be another Chronology?

[Technobuilder]

Quimby said:
I can't imagine someone saying, "I need to know the year the Pheonix launched and I need to know it right now!"

We obviously don't know any of the same people.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Ronald Held said:
There are benefits to having a paper reference. Some people are not online all of the time.

The kind of people who would buy any kind of printed Trek work? They would be.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Ronald Held said:
There are benefits to having a paper reference. Some people are not online all of the time.

But they also complain bitterly every time a paper reference goes out of date.

 

[Broccoli]

Therin of Andor said:

Ronald Held said:
There are benefits to having a paper reference. Some people are not online all of the time.

But they also complain bitterly every time a paper reference goes out of date.

It is a Catch-22, I suppose.

 

[Ronald Held]

The same is true for nonupdated webpages and broken links.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Ronald Held said:
The same is true for nonupdated webpages and broken links.

Sure but webpages and broken links can be fixed. Out of date hardcopy chronologies and encyclopedias have to be thrown away and reprinted/rebought.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

Broccoli said:

Therin of Andor said:

Ronald Held said:
There are benefits to having a paper reference. Some people are not online all of the time.

But they also complain bitterly every time a paper reference goes out of date.

It is a Catch-22, I suppose.

That's assuming, of course, that everyone is painted by the same brush.

 

[Stevil2001]

Is now a good time to point out that I read ten pages of Ahistory: The Unauthorized History of the Doctor Who Universe (2nd edition) every night before I go to bed?

 

[Steve Roby]

What, the second Mad Norwegian edition? I've got the old Virgin A History of the Universe and the first Mad Norwegian Ahistory, and haven't read either yet -- and now the second Mad Norwegian edition is out. I'll buy that if they promise not to do another edition until I've actually read one....

 

[Ronald Held]

I agree that are advantages and disadvantages to both. With with no series on the air, and movies infrequent, now would be a good time to plan to have one out right after the movie opens.

 

[Stevil2001]

Steve Roby said:
What, the second Mad Norwegian edition? I've got the old Virgin A History of the Universe and the first Mad Norwegian Ahistory, and haven't read either yet -- and now the second Mad Norwegian edition is out. I'll buy that if they promise not to do another edition until I've actually read one....

Indeed. The previous Crazy Scandinavian edition was last year's bedtime read, and the Virgin one was before my time.

 

[Man of Steel]

Therin of Andor said:

A new or improved "Chronology" is prohibitive due to the amount of research needed, the colour photographs, its potential size, etc.

Who needs color? B and W would do just as well.

 

[sunbari1]

I agree, There is a lot of Trek not covered in the Encyclopedia. look at what's missing:

• Star Trek: Voyager -- Seasons 6 & 7
  
  Star Trek: Enterprise -- All 4 seasons
  
  Star Trek: Nemesis
  
  Star Trek IX
  
  TOS-R
  
  And possibly TAS if it ever becomes canon as has been discussed

An update is VERY long overdue!

 

[captcalhoun]

there's also 2 and a bit seasons of DS9...

 

[Therin of Andor]

captcalhoun said:
there's also 2 and a bit seasons of DS9...

If five years of VOY is complete, how do you figure 2.5 years of DS9 is missing? Or do you mean the "revised Chronology" only, and not the "revised Encyclopedia w/extra bits at the back"?

I can't reach my copies at the moment.

 

[Allyn Gibson]

The updated Chronology was published in 1996. So it covers through the end of Voyager's second season and DS9's fourth.

Black-and-white. Not as many photos. Non-glossy paper stock. That's what I'd do.

 

[FalTorPan]

Now that there are no new, weekly stories, it's the perfect time for the chronology to catch up. Apparently it's also a poor time to sell a caught-up chronology.

I wonder if it would be viable to sell it in two volumes:

* Big Bang - 2300
* 2301 - ?

 

[JD]

Yeah, but if they had trouble selling a one volume version, I doubt that they would start off with a two volume version.

 

[ATimson]

Allyn Gibson said:
Black-and-white. Not as many photos. Non-glossy paper stock. That's what I'd do.

Might be cheaper to go with the glossy textbook crap used for the recent Encyclopedias than with sturdier non-gloss stock.

 

[captcalhoun]

Therin of Andor said:

captcalhoun said:
there's also 2 and a bit seasons of DS9...

If five years of VOY is complete, how do you figure 2.5 years of DS9 is missing? Or do you mean the "revised Chronology" only, and not the "revised Encyclopedia w/extra bits at the back"?

I can't reach my copies at the moment.

i was referring to the 2nd edition encyclopaedia, not the 2.5 edition