What our customer's say!"The Final Frontier?", The latest version of The STAR TREK Encyclopedia leads fans on a wonderful trip of all things TREK...although I question it's ability to be considered an up to date version of the compendium...it is entertaining enough to use as a resource material, especially involving certain episode specific adventures. The video streams are also extremely entertaining!
"Time to Updat again", I used to enjoy idly looking through the database augmenting my knowledge. Unfortunately I updated to Windows XP and now I can't look at it at all. Come on MacMillan, not only do you need to update the Encylopeadia to include the latest DS9 and Voyager, but you need to make it compatible with Windows XP!
"Great reference", For those who enjoyed the encyclopedia, will definatly enjoy this software, an updated version of the Omnipedia. With clips from the shows and movies and pictures from all, this is an absolut must for all trekkies.
"Pretty good", This thing was amazing when it was first published as the Omnipedia...it had guided tours through certain subjects narrated by Mark Lenard, voice activated response a la the TV show for computers with the capability, high quality, for the time, videos. This version, though, is outdated, and getting more so, the videos and pics are still low-res by newer standards, and everything in it's "episode by episode" guide is available on the ST web site. In fact, the episode synopses are word for word from there, and the previews are available there too.
The entries, as I said, are getting outdated, and there's no more nifty tours or voice activation or even simple "search for entries with video" function anymore. When all the Trek series are over and they have a chance to completely update this thing, then good. Until then, I'd recommend leaving it alone and maybe buying the book.
"Redressed Omnipedia", While purporting to contain information on the Star Trek universe complete through the 98-99 season, many encyclopedia entries were simply carbon copies of Omnipedia or Enclopedia entries that are no less than a year and a half old. If there is information from the later seasons, it is simply stapled on to the end of an entry. Additionally, in the episode browser area, there is no mention of the most recent seasons of DS9 and Voyager, much to the chagrin of anyone attempting to read, for instance, a summarized version of the entire Dominion War, the conclusion of which coincided with the end of DS9.
Of course, all of the griping aside, the interface is quite friendly, if not immediately intuitive. Most features work as advertised - the multimedia presentations are a treat, even if most of them do not contain up-to-date information. For instance, there is no mention in the Feature of Captain Picard about the Enterprise-E, neglecting to include any information from the last two feature films.
In all, this would appear to be little more than a rushed polishing job on a previously released product, rather than something deserving of a new version number.
