Star Trek: The Visual Dictionary
Star Trek: The Visual Dictionary is an officially licensed hardcover reference book, produced by Dorling Kindersley. The book features information from Star Trek, , , ,  and the first ten , from  to . The foreword is written by John de Lancie.

StarTrek.com provided an update on The Visual Dictionary on , that it would make use of "rarely seen material from the CBS archives." StarTrek.com released an exclusive look at two additional pages on .

Summary
Publisher's description
Boldly go where no Trekkie has gone before. "Star Trek the Visual Dictionary" is the final frontier. Charting each and every one of the the voyages of the starship . Its mission: to explore everything Star Trek, strange new worlds (and old ones), to seek out every character, ship and series, to boldly go where no book has gone before.

Covering all of the six television series, with full coverage of favorite characters such as Spock, Bones, Scotty and Uhura, and full-color pictures of ships that would make James T. Kirk proud, this is the ultimate guide to "Star Trek" for any Trekkie. Don't be a Vulcan – live long and prosper with "Star Trek the Visual Dictionary".

Contents
Introduction
Humans
The Vulcans
Vulcan–Human Interaction
The Andorians
The Tellarites

Captain Archer
Captain Archer's Crew
U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
Captain Kirk
Captain Kirk's Crew
U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D
Captain Picard
Captain Picard's Crew
The Betazoids & Denobulans
The Trill & El-Aurians
Artificial Intelligence
Allied Species & Non-Humanoids
The Ferengi Alliance
The Xindi & Suliban
The Talosians & Orions
The Tholians & Gorn
Alien Threats
The Breen & 
The Klingon Empire
Klingon Culture
The Romulan Star Empire
Romulan Intrigue
Deep Space 9
Captain Sisko
Captain Sisko's Crew
The Bajorans
The Cardassian Union
Cardassian Treachery
The Dominion
The Jem'Hadar
U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656
Captain Janeway
Captain Janeway's Crew
The Borg Collective
Borg Rebels & Renegades
The Ocampa & Talaxians
The Kazon & Vidiians
The Hirogen & Species 8472
Acknowledgements

Background information
Though first published more than three years after the release of , the book does not acknowledge any events or use any photos from the Kelvin timeline, though a few facts presumed to be true in both universes are included. (i.e. The Vulcan and Romulan languages being nearly indistinguishable, and Romulan's three spoken dialects, pg. 61.)
A photo of Lansor and P'Chan from  on pg. 88 is mistakenly identified as drones being sent into Unimatrix Zero.
Apart from the 2016 Australian version, the book has also seen at least three translated international editions to wit, the German version Star Trek - Die visuelle Enzyklopädie: Die ganze Welt von Raumschiff Enterprise, the by Simón Saitó in Spanish translated version Star Trek: Diccionario visual - Guía definitiva de los personajes, las razas y la tecnología, and the French version Star Trek: L'encyclopédie illustrée, released in April, October, and November 2013 respectively. The Spanish and French editions were licensed to local publishers.
All versions were issued as hardcovers (without dustjacket), measuring 26.0×1.4×30.9 cm.

Cover gallery

References
Cardassian phase-disruptor pistol

External link

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