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The ''Encyclopedia'' features very detailed information about characters, Planet s, Technologies , Ships , and "inside gags", as well as brief synopses of episodes and movies. It is replete with illustrations, many of them in color (in later editions), from examples of different writing systems to the evolution of uniforms and Shuttlecraft .

As a rule, the ''Encyclopedia'' covers only '', which makes detailed speculations about Star Trek Technology , written from a 24th-century perspective, and the '' Star Trek Chronology '', which makes many interpolations about specific dates in Star Trek history that, although reasonable, are not generally established within canon.

The print version was later complemented by a similar electronic version, the '' Star Trek Omnipedia ''.

The first edition, at least, was designed with software, especially those of the early and mid 1990s . The inconsistency lies mainly in the matter of whether the punctuation at the ends of bold-faced and/or italicized passages is in a matching face or not.

Given the recent decline of Star Trek, as highlighted by the performance of '''', Pocket Books has no plans to issue a new edition of the ''Encyclopedia''.