What is The Star Trek Encyclopedia (1998 edition)?

This four-CD package includes not only an exhaustively cross-referenced alphabetical lexicon, but also illustrated features, video clips, a comprehensive timeline, and episode guides for The Next Generation and the first five seasons of Deep Space Nine.

The CD-ROMs incorporate all the information of the printed encyclopedia in an accessible format. The text is tarted up with the now-familiar Generation interface, and you get ubiquitous hyper-links, full-text searches, and the odd photo or QuickTime snippet. Even better is the Resources section, with in-depth features on subjects including Starfleet uniforms and insignia, exhaustive lists of Starbases and Trekkian food and beverages, and animated diagrams such as a blow-by-blow of the relativistic “Picard maneuver.” The episode guides, which make up two of the package’s four discs, are less remarkable — though you do get gossipy production notes and a QuickTime version of each episode trailer.

In a nod to the fannish origins of the Trek canon, the encyclopedia encourages you to append your own notes and essays. The authoring process is a bit crude, but it lets you create articles, complete with links to the encyclopedia and episode guides, that you can trade with your fellow Trekkies. This multimedia compendium goes all out to meet the demands — the needs — of even the most hard-core fans.

Simmons, Mark. (April 1998). The Star Trek Encyclopedia: A Reference Guide to the Future. MacAddict. (pg. 62).

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Architecture

IBM PowerPC

System Requirements

From Mac OS 7.5

Compatibility notes

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