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Posted by Alpha Centauri (Member # 338) on :

Where is it? Each annual update is released in the beginning of July, but JD's site still has the old V12 to offer. Anyone has answers?
(Normally, I would drop an e-mail, but unfortunately, his site does not mention an e-mail adress.)

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

Aargh! I thought you were posting it!

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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

Erm, what are you talking about? Is this actually Star Trek Related, cuz I've never heard about this book.

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

It's a giant online document thingie.

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Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :

...Which is viewed by canon-philes like me as utter gobshite, but worshipped by others (don't ask me why)

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Posted by Masao (Member # 232) on :

Dixon's Database is a massive thing that includes a chronology (about 1 MB, zipped) and as well as lists of planets and ships and other things. The trouble for us canon-nazis is that he's included anything Star Trek, including movies and TV episodes (TAS too, I think), Tech Manuals, novels, gaming systems, some fan-produced works, and maybe even comics for all I know. If you're not completely familiar with the sources, you're left wondering what comes from where. It's interesting to look at for the obsessive completeness of it. Because this was started back in the 1970s, I'm sure Dixon doesn't subscribe to the recent TNG-derived timeline and is probably pissed at Okuda for screwing things up.

The URL I have for it is http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Crater/2077/scifi.htm

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Posted by The_Tom (Member # 38) on :

He (and his throngs) militantly hate Okuda, actually. I remember reading a multi-page discourse about how he should rot in hell for not integrating FASA into canon.

Posted by Alpha Centauri (Member # 338) on :

I'm a canon-nazi too... but I love JD's Chronology. It is for me the perfect guide to fandom publications. The fanfic universe isn't so bad... at least not utter sh*t, as some of you might believe.
BTW, all entries have source listings, so it's not very hard to determine what comes from where. But there's no planet list or ship list.

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Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :

I don't understand you guys. You can't see the trees because of the woods. Dixon also documents every canon event in Trek-history, making the document an accurate summary of all important things that has taken place in the Trek-universe.
Such a text is very appreciated, especially to a newly initiated Trekker, (like myself eight years ago). It puts matters in perspective. You should check it out, Tahna.

I don't think he can incorporate info from ALL the Trek-games.
I would strongly object to the personal transporter-buffer carried by "Elite Force"-squad members, where they can store gear like helmets and stuff in a transporter-matrix in the belt.
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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

I'm not sure why they referred to that as a transporter. A transporter that takes a preset pattern to reassemble matter into something useful already has a name. It's called a "replicator"...

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Posted by Masao (Member # 232) on :

I think Dixon's chronology is a valuable resource: I used to have it on one of my hard disks, but got rid of it to make space for more nude pictures of Alyssa Milano.

I admit its fun to read, just to see how much stuff is actually out there. But for my own works, I try to stick to televised (and movie) canon, because it's something we all have easy access to.

I've never actually read any Trek novels or played FASA, but I respect the right of anyone to incorporate anything they want into their personal canon. It's kind of like religion, I guess. You can be fundamentalist or liberal. As with religion, some people can get pretty upset if you don't subscribe to their particular view of the universe.

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Posted by Alpha Centauri (Member # 338) on :

The sh*t with the JD Chronology is that about everything is considered valid for the purpose of the Chronology. If I write a novel in which the Pokemon form an alliance with the Borg and together conquer the Federation, and the USS Kickass under command of Cpt. Skywalker comes to the rescue to kill Pikachu and all of his friends, then it definitely will show up in the JD Chronology. I remember seeing a Star Trek/X-Men crossover novel documented in it, anyway. This kind of bizarre in-jokes really screw things up. Luckily, such novels are rare, and most novels are just good, solid Trek stories.

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Posted by Matrix (Member # 376) on :

Where's his website?

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Posted by Alpha Centauri (Member # 338) on :

JD's URL? See Masao's post above.

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Posted by Fabrux (Member # 71) on :

Hahahahaha.... All you canon-philes... You make me laugh. And this sorta is like religion. Mind you, my view on religion just got blasted by watching Stigmata recently... But that's another post for another board

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

"Luckily, such novels are rare, and most novels are just good, solid Trek stories."

Really? I thought most of them were complete pants.

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Posted by Spike (Member # 322) on :

The only thing that bothers me about it, is the date of Kirk's first five-year mission.

Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

A Trek book about pants. Interesting...

:-)

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

It's be more interesting than most of them.

Enterprise-D arrives as planet to observe some monkey. They beam down. beverly gets hit by a rock and kidnapped. Picard beams down. They look for her. They find that the primitive civilisation who wear tights are going to:

a/ Kill Beverly
b/ Destroy the Enterprise using ancient tecnology
c/ Casually mention the Romulans, then shut up before things get interesting.
d/ all of the above.

And then the writer will make some sort of forshadowing comment about the Borg in First Contact or something, thereby making the reader feel really smart and smug with himself. Blah.

Pants.

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

I hope "pants" means something awful in England, because I can't imagine reading a novel and saying to my self, "Damn, this book is a pair of Levi's Silver Tab, Button Fly, Metro Fit Jean. Ugh."

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

No anglophile I, but I do believe that British pants=underpants. Why they like to go about clad in nothing but underpants is, of course, a mystery, but I blame the Normans.

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

Yes! You should blame everything on the Normans. And that's "you" as in everyone here, not just Sol.

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