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Star Trek News and Reference



THE OFFICIAL SITE
StarTrek.Com
This is an excellent, official news source for Star Trek information with an incrfedible amount of information, visuals and other goodies on past episodes, the actors, crew and more. Highly recommended.

UNOFFICIAL NEWS SOURCES

• TrekMovie
Link: trekmovie.com
Currently (as of March 2007) the rising star in terms of Trek movie news and more

TrekToday
Updated daily this is a well laid designed news site compiling information from all over the globe together with sources for that information -- i.e. with links to the original newspapers publishing the news, or other Trek web sites.

TrekWeb
For some rerason this site always takes ages to load on my Mac but it's worth the trip once you get there, although the design is a bit cluttered.

And there's always... Planet Riker
Absolutely serious news about Star Trek. Honestly.


MERCHANDISE
Star Trek Collectables

UK site.

STAR TREK REFERENCE SITES

• The Memory Alpha Wiki
Link: memory-alpha.org

Fully editable website with nearly 20,000 separate articles covering all things Star Trek. The wiki is a collaborative project to create the most definitive, accurate, and accessible information pertaining to the show.

The Science of Star Trek
Concentrates on the main items of treknology -- teleoportation, phasers etc.

The Material Demands of the Star Trek Universe
A 1996 article by Andre Bormanis -- now Story Editor on Enterprise -- on the requirements needed to actually build a 24th Century starship.

Trek Science
Is Star Trek really a science show, or just a lot of "gee, whiz" nonsensical Sci-Fi? David Allen Batchelor from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center investigates.

The Physics of Star Trek
A Guide to the Physics governing the Star Trek Series.



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