h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

"Commander Spock was the emotionless Vulcan..." - half-Vulcan, please...

"Doctor Bones Leonard McCoy" - shouldn't that read "Doctor Leonard 'Bones' McCoy"?

"...leaving an infinite trail of dead ensigns..." - infinite? Surely not? A "long" trail, perhaps...

"...gateway between to Quandrants..." - *two* quadrants, perhaps?

And you imply that Ezri and Jadzia Dax are serving aboard DS9 at the same time... Not true... Also, Kira Nerys is a Major in the Bajoran military - it's a bit insulting to call them the "alien military", and she doesn't get promoted to Colonel till the series is almost over.

"new concepts in this serie." - *series*...

"in an unstabil area" - *unstable*...

"lates serie"? Wha doe tha mea?

"This serie is taking place" - *series*...

"Some of these will be starring in Genesis (Star trek X)." - Don't you mean "Nemesis"?

And the most recent series is called "Enterprise" - it's one of its distinguishing features that it's the first spin-off from the franchise that *doesn't* have the words "Star Trek" in the name...

"This far every series has had an emotionless character, except DS9." - For the first couple of series of DS9, Odo was played as the emotionless character...

Footnote 3, "Played by Deforest Kelley" - that's "DeForest" (note the capital "F").

Finally, your Capitalisation Is a Little erratic... - "Star Trek", "Star trek" and "star trek" seem to be used interchangeably.

Don't take it personally; I'm just picky... A Trek entry is a worthy cause, and I wish you luck with it... Q'Plah!

The reason the capitalisation, among other things, is somewhat erratic is because this recommended entry is currently being Subbed. So to you too Peet.

Fair enough; someone pointed the entry out to me, and I didn't spot that it was only "Recommended"... Sorry if my comments seemed harsh in context.

I hope the factual errors have been taken on board, though. Referring to Kira by the rank she gained in the latter part of the seventh series, for example, is akin to referring only to "Ambassador Spock", since that was his rank the last time we saw him. Or even "Captain Spock" as he was in the earlier movies. For something with this timespan, you can't just quote a rank out of context.

Peet
(Sad Trekkie)

There's a visible that's cropped in somehow...

*Just* spotted that myself, Frankie, and zapped it straight away. Cheers for the backup.

One to beam back, Ashley!

It should be "lacklustre" rather than "lackluster".

Sorry, more pedantry.

Re: The DS9 entry:

"The station had been taken back from an alien race known as the Bajorans, after a terrible war with the Cardassians, another alien race."

Shouldn't that read:

"The station had been taken from an alien race known as the Cardassians by the Bajorans, after a terrible war."

I still like the entry though

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Rebus

I believe you're right Rebus - DS9 was originally Cardassian and was called Terak Nor (sp?)

A damn fine entry considering how wide-ranging and rambling a Star Trek entry could have been. This one pins it down pretty good

Just being picky again, but for TNG the Ensigns only merit surnames, while for Enterprise you give them their full name...

In TNG it's Ensign Ro Laren (Bajoran "surnames" actually come first!) and Ensign Wesley Crusher...

And I still think that Kira Nerys should be down as a Major in the Bajoran military, rather than a Colonel in the "alien military"...

Oh, and I just noticed, Wesley Crusher was played by Wil Wheaton... (not "Will")

http://wilwheaton.net/

* hops along *

That's all about right, methinks... pending inclusion of some of the things in this thread which haven't been corrected yet. It really does currently give a misleading impression of DS9 - it was a Cardassian space station built for mining purposes during the Cardassian occupation of Bajor - which wasn't really a war. It was just horrible.

I've made the corrections recommended, and added a brief explanation of the relationship between Dax and his hosts. Hope this helps.

Jims

Much better - thanks, Jimster!

One last suggestion you can feel free to ignore...

'Majel Barrett Roddenberry (who appeared in the original series as Nurse Chappel and the voice of the ship's computer)' might more correctly read 'Majel Barrett Roddenberry (who appeared in the pilot episode as "Number One", the original series as Nurse Chappel, the Next Generation as Lwaxana Troi and as the voice of the ship's computer in various series)'

I still say it should be 'lacklustre'. h2g2 is meant to use British spelling, after all.

Indeed it should.

Oh, and the Dominion aren't an alien race, they're more like the Federation in that they're made up of many races, although ruled entirely by the Changelings. And of course the Jem'Hadar and Vorta don't really count because the Changelings/Founders genetically engineered them specifically for their roles within the Dominion. And they're a lot nastier than the Federation as well, hence the name.

Ooops, missed 'lackluster/lacklustre' - fixed now. I added the bit about Majel Barrett when I did the final edit prior to appearing on Front Page (partly because she wasn't really mentioned in the original but also mainly just to provide the Entry with a neat conclusion). Obviously, I was aware of the many contributions Majel made to the show, but didn't want to just list them all. I've amended the Entry slightly to show that the cited roles were just two of the ones she played, which I hope covers it.

Jimster

Any chance of some "errata and pedantry"-type comments (or any others for that matter) on this entry? A739145 - on the Klingon Language. It's in Peer Review right now, and the thread is here.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/F48874?thread=180530&post=1967483#p1967483 H.