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Picking up a hardback copy of the Star Trek Encyclopedia yesterday got me hankering to fire up our CDROM version - Encylopedia '99. Simon & Schuster put out heaps of these kind of things in the mid-late 90s. You couldn't walk into any software store then without seeing them lining the shelves.

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Lainwithtea's avatar Lainwithtea @lainwithtea.bsky.social
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It's crazy how popular these were in the pre .com boom considering we didn't have lengthy archives of lore/world building for years and basically had to glean info from the odd episode of a series we managed to catch

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Matthew Green's avatar Matthew Green @pressthebuttons.bsky.social
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I loved these discs! I had the 1701-D tech manual narrated by Riker too.

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Spyro 🌊Seafoam 🌊's avatar Spyro 🌊Seafoam 🌊 @spyro-art.bsky.social
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I need to get my hands on this so severely

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Sasha's RetroBytes's avatar Sasha's RetroBytes @sharkabytes.bsky.social
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"Bell... Gabriel Bell..."

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JNoodles's avatar JNoodles @jnoodles24.bsky.social
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I had a hard copy of the Star Trek Chronology, unfortunately it was the second edition which erased the original version of Cochrane's ship from the timeline.

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TC Coyote / Not What I Was webcomic's avatar TC Coyote / Not What I Was webcomic @tccoyote.bsky.social
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I miss when you could walk into a computer/electronics store and see software of any kind...

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Kagami's Mirror 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇪🇺's avatar Kagami's Mirror 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇪🇺 @redkagami.bsky.social
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I love these, they were like browsing weird websites before we had any internet

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