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Amazingly Well-Researched Star Trek Trivia
by Chris Higgins - April 14, 2008 - 3:40 PM

Ex Astris Scientia is a fairly amazing Star Trek website run by Bernd Schneider, an engineer in Düsseldorf. The site is full of ultra-geeky Trek stuff, including fleet charts showing various spacecraft designs, the Starfleet Museum which “[preserves] historically important Starfleet ships for future generations,” and the Treknology Encyclopedia.

Now, I’m as much of a Trek fan as the next guy (TNG rules, thank you very much), but this site represents some seriously impressive fan research. My favorite section of Schneider’s site is the Galleries, which contains amazingly thorough representations of all things Trek, from screen captures of various items on the ships to schematic drawings of different areas of the ships. Here are a few samples from the Computer Displays and Interfaces gallery:

Uhura’s station:

Uhuru's station

Enterprise-E deflector control:

Enterprise-E deflector control

Phoenix computer console:

Phoenix computer console

There’s lots more where that came from. Trek fans, I salute you.

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  1. While TNG is good…VOYAGER rules! :)

    ~Bethy

    (OMG, between WoW and Trek…I’m such a middle aged nerd…..)

    posted by Bethy on 4-14-2008 at 4:28 pm

  2. I hardly watched Voyager…maybe I owe it a second chance on DVD.

    Also re Wow: Muradin night elf priests FTW. (I shall now slowly back away from the keyboard.)

    posted by Higgins on 4-14-2008 at 5:38 pm

  3. Holy warp speed, I just wasted 3 hours nicely! You titled this perfectly, Higgins, it is well-researched. Being a TOS junkie myself, I was thrilled that the author pretty much loved/hated the same episodes I did.

    And the counter! Awesome. Number of times Kirk gets in a fistfight and/or has his shirt ripped: 25.

    posted by Johnny Cat on 4-14-2008 at 8:45 pm

  4. Higgins, DO give Voyager a chance (I know, I know Janeway has the whiniest voice ever….) The ensemble is SO fun as time goes on. And watching the holographic Doctor ‘grow’ is LOTS of fun. He got more action on that series than Kirk did on TOS!! (Okay, an exaggeration..but he was quite the Don Juan!)

    Just skip the episode called “Threshhold”…

    ~Bethy
    (PS - Lvl 70 holy paladin. ALLIANCE FTW! )

    posted by Bethy on 4-15-2008 at 7:11 am

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  6. My wife and I just finished collecting the entire franchise, TOS to Enterprise, on DVD, and we’re going to be having a mega-marathon soon. This site will be an EXCELLENT resource during our project!

    posted by Beavinator on 5-2-2008 at 12:55 pm

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