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Back in the days when VHS tapes were the only way to rewatch episodes of your favorite series, and when the closest thing to tablets and smartphones were the plastic padds used by Star Trek characters, fans had one massive repository of Trek knowledge available at their fingertips: the Star Trek Encyclopedia.

Three editions of the Star Trek Encyclopedia were released throughout the 1990s, with the final version out in 1999 — when the Dominion War was still raging, when the Voyager crew had barely begun to know Seven of Nine, when Commander Data was still alive… and before Jonathan Archer and the Enterprise NX-01 even existed in Rick Berman’s mind.

CBS and publisher becker&mayer! have today announced that a long-anticipated fourth edition of the Star Trek Encyclopedia is being planned for launch in 2016.

This new two-volume, hardcover printing is going to be over a thousand pages long, with over three hundred pages of new content covering Deep Space Nine Season 7, Voyager Seasons 5-7, all of Star Trek: Enterprise, the final TNG film Star Trek: Nemesis, and even the rebooted J.J. Abrams film universe launched in 2009.

becker&mayer! showcased two pages of redesigned, placeholder data from their new Encyclopedia page design, full of color and clean-looking text, but retaining the same entry style of the classic editions.

It’s a delight to see a new Star Trek reference publication in this day and age, and the resurrection of the Star Trek Encyclopedia is long overdue. While the rather high price-tag may restrict demand to niche collectors, fans of previous reference books (especially from the Okudas) will be queuing up to add this one to their collections.

The new edition of the Star Trek Encyclopedia is due out next fall, presumably scheduled to include information from STAR TREK BEYOND (due out in July 2016). Stay tuned to TrekCore for more information on the release over the next year.