The Compleat Encyclopedia of Star Trek The Next Generation
| Zine | |
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| Title: | The Compleat Encyclopedia of Star Trek The Next Generation (on cover), The Complete Encyclopedia of Star Trek The Next Generation (title page) |
| Publisher: | Bill Hupe |
| Editor(s): | Steve Vander Ark |
| Type: | |
| Date(s): | 1990 |
| Medium: | |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: TNG |
| Language: | English |
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The Compleat Encyclopedia of Star Trek The Next Generation is a resource for Star Trek: TNG. It contains complete episode synopsis, actors, and a complete guide of terms and characters.
Published in 1990, it was the winner of a FanQ Award in 1991. It covers season one. It is spiral-bound and contains 200 pages.
It sold 40 copies. [1]
About
Vander Ark wrote in 2005:
In 1990 I wrote a book called The Complete Encyclopedia of Star Trek The Next Generation - Season One. It was published by a fan publisher and sold at conventions and through the mail. The publisher hired an artist, Dani Lane, to create the cover for the book. She did a beautiful job and I was thrilled to have someone so talented work on my book project. However, her cover included the lettering of the title, and for some reason she or someone working on the project changed the spelling of the word "complete" to "compleat." My Trekker friends and I thought it was kind of strange that they had used an old-fashioned form of the spelling for a book about Star Trek. I asked the publisher if we could change it, but he said no. So even though the title page inside the book uses the correct spelling, the cover shows this: [image]This book was really the first encyclopedia project that I'd done which was published in any form, so in a way it is the "original" Steve Vander Ark Lexicon. A few years ago, when I was creating the graphics for the [Harry Potter] Lexicon's big upgrade and redesign, I intentionally used the odd spelling for the title banner as an homage to that original encyclopedia. It was simply an inside joke and I just figured no one would even notice. However, enough people have brought it up that I figured I might as well share the story with all of you so you would understand...and not just figure that I couldn't spell the word 'complete.'
By the way, I only own one copy of this book. It was originally written on a Commodore 64 using geoWrite, so I don't even have access to the text files anymore. So no, I can't sell you a copy (and there are much better encyclopedias of Star Trek available now anyway).[2]
References
- ^ from Fan Feud
- ^ Steve Vander Ark at the Harry Potter Lexicon: The 'Error' in the Title Graphic. 06 June 2005, last updated 01 April 2006. (Accessed 29 January 2015.)