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Some information on this page has been adapted/expanded from the Guide's blurb and Introduction.
| CREDITS / |
Some information on this page has been adapted/expanded from the Guide's blurb and Introduction.
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1. WHAT IS THE GUIDE?The Guide is a supplement to the standard-issue STARFLEET BASIC SURVIVAL MANUAL (publication to make it available to non-Starfleet personnel is awaited; it is not known if the Manual will in fact ever be so published) that is received by all Starfleet personnel during basic training at Starfleet Academy, and made freely available to all active Starfleet personnel by the Starfleet Bureau of Information. The specialised Guide addresses unique, unusual or extremely rare situations that have been encountered by Starfleet personnel, and other explorers of deep space, in recent centuries. The Guide has been prepared by David Mack (co-writer with John J. Ordover on several [Star Trek: Deep Space 9] episodes), with illustrations by Timothy M.M. Earls (who worked for three years in the [Star Trek: Voyager] art department), and published by Pocket Books as a canon source under licence from Paramount Pictures. Non-Starfleet personnel may purchase a copy of the Guide, ISBN 0-7434-1842-5. It is published in book format to take into account lifeforms without PADDs. The Guide, Document number 101321610518-0313, is reprinted with the permission of the Starfleet Information and Instruction Agency, and this Edition has been modified for security purposes. It is for distribution only within the United Federation of Planets. |
PERSONAL RECOMMENDATION FOR PURCHASE OF THE GUIDE.
I am very pleased to see the Guide's publication, partly because I keep failing the Starfleet survival course (I am actually writing this note while dead), and partly because I once had the idea of composing something similar though not as extensive (for [Voyager] only, for a start). I kept getting the idea, though little substance to it, as I keep seeing "The S.A.S. Survival Guide" on my bookshelf. But I could only think of the feeble wordplayish title "The U.S.S. Survival Guide" and....well, I had more interesting things I wanted to do [Voyager]-wise. I recommend the Guide (publication details above). It is also one of those books that, the more you know and love about Star Trek, the more fun it is to read as you glean more of the references and add to existing knowledge. Only a small portion of the Guide is reproduced here - this and the rest are both definitely worth reading/buying.
Sections reproduced here relate to USS Voyager, both specific incidents and pertinent contextual or background information e.g. the Guide subsections on non-standard uses of a tricorder complement SHIP USS VOYAGER: Equipment: Tricorder Index. Even standing alone, the diagrams are also very informative.
As the text is from the Guide, there are references to other parts of the Guide: all such references are reproduced (as the Guide is reproduced verbatim) whether the section referred to is reproduced on this site or not; however, only cited sections reproduced on this site show a link (which can thus be clicked on).
Any tv screenshots or scans from other canon sources were done by me. The LCARS interface was designed and executed by me based on interfaces shown in the canon source CC. Animations were done by me; for visual variety, some run only a certain number of times while some still/animated images load randomly.
The animation of the Starfleet Command logo was done by me on a scan I did from The Star Trek Sticker Book canon source, in order to replace the poor quality one obtained from the (now closed) staga site (author of the original animation unknown; the animation concept is not Janet's, therefore) - it was poor quality only because it was too small which meant the writing could not be read.
I present notes, denoted as "NOTE", to accompany a subsection as regards [Voyager]-relevant information or pertinent background Star Trek data. Some are still under construction. Notes that appear in the Guide as notes separate from the main text are denoted as "GUIDE NOTE"; thus to access one click "SHOW GUIDE NOTE" and to hide it click "HIDE GUIDE NOTE".
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Links to relevant sections elsewhere on site are given. The most common links also appear on the LCARS display on the Index page e.g. Communications Index.
One or two subsections refer to events (in, say, Season 4 to 7 of [DS9]) which USS Voyager's crew cannot have known about while they were happening (except for some updates via datastreams about, say, the Dominion War, from late 2376 onwards), and therefore the textus receptus (received text) of the Guide cannot be the version on USS Voyager's computer database. However, the Guide states that it has been modified "for security purposes" and it is a publication made available to non-Starfleet personnel. Thus it is to be expected that it would differ from any version used by USS Voyager's crew (except of course the subsection on using holographic lungs described above).
The latest version date is probably 2378 because the Guide was published for non-Starfleet personnel shortly after the release of the film [Star Trek: Nemesis] which, according to ST:M, takes place in 2378. If the version date is actually much later than 2378, probably the Guide would refer to at least one of the 'extreme scenario' events in that film e.g. the starship ramming maneuver.