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— THE STAR TREX ENCYCLOPEDIA: A REFERENCE SUIE TO THE FOTURE i | | pe | The Star Trek saga now spans more than three decades, far longer than anyone imagined when Gene Roddenberry’s creation first hit the aifwaves in 1966. Star Trek has indeed become an icon of 20th-cen popular culture. Yet because of this extraordinary siccess, it has become increasingly difficult for thase involved with th show (ei as viewers or as writers and production staff) to rathember the enormaus body of details that has been forthe . This book has been created to help keep track of all that stuff. This updated and expanded (1999) edi incl material partway through the 1996-1997 productign seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: 2 special supplement at the end of this edition campletes the 1996-97 season, as well as the entirety of year, and covers part of the 1998-19989 season. [ In compiling this material, we have assumed eglitoria lly that both authors and readers are residents of the future, a number of years aftet the current Star Trek adventutes. This is our attempt to place everyt in a historical perspective. Dates indicated in this weorka f@- drawn from our own Star Trek onology: The History of 996 edition, published by Pocket Books i We have stayed fairly strictly with material only from finished, aired versions of episodes and released versions of films. We have not used any material from the Star. Trek novels or othe publications. This isn't because we don't like those works (we're quite fond of many of them, and we hope this information will be useful to our writer friends), but as with the Chronology, we wanted to create a-réference to the source material itseti—that is, the episodes and the movies. This way, anyone building on this Eney€lopedia can be reasonably sure that his or hec work is directly based on actual Star Trek source material. In a relatéd vein, this work adheres to Paramount studio poll at regards the animated Star Trek series as not being part ofthe “official” Star Trek universe, even though we count ourselves among that show's fans. Of course, the final decisionas to the “authenticity” of the animated episodes, as with all elements of the show, must clearly be the choice of eath individual reader. Episode numbei (In the main listing for each episode, we have indicated an episode number. These are not Paramount's internal production numbers (which are sometimes confusing), but are simply the of that episode within that series in order of Rac; In other words, “The Cage” (TOS), “Encounter at Farpointy, Part |" (TNG), “Emissary, Part I’/(DS9), and “ , Part I" (VGR) are all episode #1 of their respective series. The ix (TOS) indicates an epi of The Original Series, while (TNG) denotes an episode of The Next Generation, a title labeled (DS9) is from Deep Nine, and (VGR) is an episode of Star Trek: Voyager. (For those who simply must know: numbers assigned to e, of the Original Series are indeed the internal Desilu/Paramount numbers. Studio production numbers for Next Generation episodes can be determined by adding 100 to our episode number, so that “Encounter at Farpoint, Part "is ion number 101. The same numbering scheme was used for episodes of Voyager, as well. Add 400 to our episode ni to get production numbers for Deep Space Nine episodes, so that “Emissary, Part I" is production number 401. To further complicate matters, the two-hour pilot movie versions of the three new shows were also assigned the production rilumber 721. Don't ask us. It has something to do with studio accounting.) Please e that boldfaced items indicate cross references to other entries in the Encyclopedia. If a word is boldfaced, it means is an entry by that name containing related information.