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The Official Trekwriter Research Resource Spot

Postby enterprikayak » Fri Jun 08, 2007 9:59 pm

Unless I missed it, there's no central thread for links to research goodies for Star Trek stories. And if there is one, well here's another one durn it!

Anyhow. My first contribution. Memory Alpha Wiki pages. Seem pretty good and good with dates and things, which I like. Easy to read. (Too easy....I get wikied in and clicking links and it's like "surfing the net" all over again from 1995. Information gluttony.)

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Postby Rigil Kent » Fri Jun 08, 2007 11:07 pm

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Postby Elessar » Sat Jun 09, 2007 12:02 am

enterprikayak wrote:Unless I missed it, there's no central thread for links to research goodies for Star Trek stories. And if there is one, well here's another one durn it!

Anyhow. My first contribution. Memory Alpha Wiki pages. Seem pretty good and good with dates and things, which I like. Easy to read. (Too easy....I get wikied in and clicking links and it's like "surfing the net" all over again from 1995. Information gluttony.)

Trip Wiki
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Re: The Official Trekwriter Research Resource Spot

Postby ginamr » Sat Jun 09, 2007 12:56 am

Here's a Gregorian calendar calculator for anyone interested. The Gregorian calendar is what's used for later Trek stardates:

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Re: The Official Trekwriter Research Resource Spot

Postby evcake » Sat Jun 09, 2007 2:09 am

When I was doing my latest pathetic filk, I spent some time at Memory Alpha. Man, it sure would have been easier if any of those future weapons had names of one syllable. Or even two.
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Re: The Official Trekwriter Research Resource Spot

Postby CoffeeCat » Sat Jun 09, 2007 2:13 am

My absolute favorite writer's referance;

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Re: The Official Trekwriter Research Resource Spot

Postby Rigil Kent » Sat Jun 09, 2007 5:55 am

Equally important...

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Re: The Official Trekwriter Research Resource Spot

Postby TPoptarts » Sat Jun 09, 2007 5:59 am

Uh dude it's like the same site Confused
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Re: The Official Trekwriter Research Resource Spot

Postby Rigil Kent » Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:01 am

Heh. But it's the thesaurus side which, IMO, is as important as the dictionary.

Plus, I'm really tired and not thinking straight. So there. Raspberry
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Re: The Official Trekwriter Research Resource Spot

Postby Distracted » Sat Jun 09, 2007 4:42 pm

Here's one for poetry.

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Re: The Official Trekwriter Research Resource Spot

Postby CoffeeCat » Sat Jun 09, 2007 8:06 pm

Rigil Kent wrote:Heh. But it's the thesaurus side which, IMO, is as important as the dictionary.

Plus, I'm really tired and not thinking straight. So there. Raspberry


Actually, you're right. It's so important, I put the search bookmarklets in my browser. The Thesaurus is actually a very valuable tool for when you find you keep repeating the same adjectives and verbs over and over again.

Do any of you writers ever look out for stuff like that?

IMHO, you should go through all your scenes and look for repetitive words and see if you can replace them by making use of the thesaurus. It gives your reader a little variety, it makes your prose more poetic, and it also helps expand your vocabulary.
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Re: The Official Trekwriter Research Resource Spot

Postby Distracted » Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:12 pm

Yep. I do my best not to use the same words repetitively. Makes things more interesting.
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Re: The Official Trekwriter Research Resource Spot

Postby JadziaKathryn » Sun Jun 10, 2007 2:42 am

Distracted wrote:Yep. I do my best not to use the same words repetitively. Makes things more interesting.

The only time I don't like that is when someone uses riduculously long and obscure words and you can just tell they used the thesaurus. That hasn't happened here, but it does in our local newspaper (which managed to spell 'penguin' p-e-n-q-u-i-n in a headline).

I like this Latin Dictionary for finding titles and other random inspiration.
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Re: The Official Trekwriter Research Resource Spot

Postby blacknblue » Sun Jun 10, 2007 2:59 am

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Distracted wrote:Yep. I do my best not to use the same words repetitively. Makes things more interesting.

The only time I don't like that is when someone uses riduculously long and obscure words and you can just tell they used the thesaurus. That hasn't happened here, but it does in our local newspaper (which managed to spell 'penguin' p-e-n-q-u-i-n in a headline).

I like this Latin Dictionary for finding titles and other random inspiration.


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