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Star Trek: The Visual Dictionary is an officially licensed hardcover reference book, produced by Dorling Kindersley. The book features information from Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise and the first ten Star Trek films, from Star Trek: The Motion Picture to Star Trek Nemesis. The foreword is written by John de Lancie.
StarTrek.com provided an update on The Visual Dictionary on 3 January 2013, that it would make use of "rarely seen material from the CBS archives."[1] StarTrek.com released an exclusive look at two additional pages on 15 February 2013. [2]
Summary[]
- Publisher's description
- Boldly go where no Trekkie has gone before. "Star Trek the Visual Dictionary" is the final frontier. Charting each and every one of the the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its mission: to explore everything Star Trek, strange new worlds (and old ones), to seek out every character, ship and series, to boldly go where no book has gone before.
- Covering all of the six television series, with full coverage of favorite characters such as Spock, Bones, Scotty and Uhura, and full-color pictures of ships that would make James T. Kirk proud, this is the ultimate guide to "Star Trek" for any Trekkie. Don't be a Vulcan – live long and prosper with "Star Trek the Visual Dictionary".
- Excerpts of copyrighted sources are included for review purposes only, without any intention of infringement.
Contents[]
- Introduction
- Humans
- The Vulcans
- Vulcan - Human Interaction
- The Andorians
- The Tellarites
- Enterprise NX-01
- Captain Archer
- Captain Archer's Crew
- U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
- Captain Kirk
- Captain Kirk's Crew
- U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D
- Captain Picard
- Captain Picard's Crew
- The Betazoids & Denobulans
- The Trill & El-Aurians
- Artificial Intelligence
- Allied Species & Non-Humanoids
- The Ferengi Alliance
- The Xindi & Suliban
- The Talosians & Orions
- The Tholians & Gorn
- Alien Threats
- The Breen & Q
- The Klingon Empire
- Klingon Culture
- The Romulan Star Empire
- Romulan Intrigue
- Deep Space 9
- Captain Sisko
- Captain Sisko's Crew
- The Bajorans
- The Cardassian Union
- Cardassian Treachery
- The Dominion
- The Jem'Hadar
- U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656
- Captain Janeway
- Captain Janeway's Crew
- The Borg Collective
- Borg Rebels & Renegades
- The Ocampa & Talaxians
- The Kazon & Vidiians
- The Hirogen & Species 8472
- Acknowledgements
Background information[]
- Though first published more than three years after the release of Star Trek, the book does not acknowledge any events or use any photos from the Kelvin timeline, though a few facts presumed to be true in both universes are included. (i.e. The Vulcan and Romulan languages being nearly indistinguishable, and Romulan's three spoken dialects, pg. 61.)
- A photo of Lansor and P'Chan from VOY: "Survival Instinct" on pg. 88 is mistakenly identified as drones being sent into Unimatrix Zero.
- Apart from the 2016 Australian version, the book has also seen at least three translated international editions to wit, the German version Star Trek - Die visuelle Enzyklopädie: Die ganze Welt von Raumschiff Enterprise, the by Simón Saitó in Spanish translated version Star Trek: Diccionario visual - GuÃa definitiva de los personajes, las razas y la tecnologÃa, and the French version Star Trek: L'encyclopédie illustrée, released in April, October, and November 2013 respectively. The Spanish and French editions were licensed to local publishers.
- All versions were issued as hardcovers (without dustjacket), measuring 26.0×1.4×30.9 cm.
Cover gallery[]
German edition cover
Spanish edition cover
French edition cover
French edition back cover
Australian edition cover
References[]
Cardassian phase-disruptor pistol
External link[]
- The Visual Dictionary at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works