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News archive 1999
| Dec
20th, 1999 |
Announcement of year 2000
special with countdown added |
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There won't be further updates in the
year 1999 any more, but currently, I'm prepraring a big update with many surprises for the
very special new year which will be announced on the frontpage
from now until January 1st - together with a javascript Year 2000 countdown. |
| Dec
12th, 1999 |
Star
Trek Cartography update |
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The Star
Trek Cartography has been enhanced by an updated and extended version of the
"Positions of the real stars", including an exclusive 3D view of all real stars
of Star Trek in VRML. A VRML plugin for the Internet Explorer 5.0 you can find amonmg the
MS IE 5 installation package in the file "Vrml2c.exe". |
| Nov
17th, 1999 |
New
project WEBdimension added / Update on Utopia Planitia |
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The WEBdimension,
your gateway to Star Trek in the internet, has been added to the Star Trek Dimension. The
WEBdimension isn't a simple link list, it is an highly ergonomic, easy-to-use and
selective directory of only the best Star Trek websites, avaiable in several categories.
For every site, a one-sentence description and evaluation is avaible and for some sites, a
complete review can be accessed along with pics and further information.
Furthermore, the Utopia Planitia project has been
extended by poster views (size 640x480 pixels) for all 3D scenes including the titel
picture, which can be viewed by clicking on the smaller pictures. Moreover, two lavish
traditional diagrams in side/top view has been created and are now avaiable on the page. |
| Nov
10th, 1999 |
Utopia
Planitia project added / Further Cartography update |
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A completely new project, the Utopia Planitia, has been added to the Dimension dealing
with the three ships I originally created for the ASDB, an international
fan project for the creation of starship designs. This project not only contains
incredibly realistic 3D designs and animated 3D diagrams of the ships, but also introduces
them very extensively with their conjectural background story, which also includes
political and economic aspects, and their exact specifications. Additionaly, an exclusive
3D rendering of the Utopia Plantiia starbases is included in the project. Furthermore, the
Cartography has been updated again: the list of Star Trek
distances has been extended by the new stars of the list of the positions of the real
stars and its precisition has been increased by the use of HIPPARCOS distances. |
| Oct
31st, 1999 |
Star
Trek Cartography update |
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The
exclusive list of the positions of the real stars just added to the Star Trek Cartography 2 days ago has now already been replaced
by a reworked, second version, which contains beside several additional stars numerous new
HIPPARCOS distances and is therefore much exacter. Furthermore, the list now supports 2
additional coordinate systems. The included maps have been correspondingly extended and
improved, too. |
| Oct
29th, 1999 |
Extensive
update on cartography |
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Two new
sections have been added to the Star Trek Cartography. At
first, an exclusive collection of the real stars mentioned on Star Trek, their parallaxes,
distances, galactic coordinates and the calculcated map distances and coordinates.
Together with the explanation of the table and the 6 sample maps, this section is the
ultimate reference for all trekker who want to create their own map of the Star Trek
galaxy. Furthermore, "The responses of the experts" section is new, which
provides questions and problems of the Cartography along with the answers of Rick
Sternbach. Moreover, the Cartography sources have been updated and 1 updated and 3 new
maps have been added to the maps archive. |
| Oct
25th, 1999 |
2
new LCARS files / minor updates |
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Along
with the German version, two new files have been added to the recently created English
version of the LCARS database. These files describe two
of the most important and interesting space institutions, the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards and the Borg Unikomplex, with a very extensive and
up-to-date text and exclusive photos. The history und der news
banner on the login page were changed accordingly. In the Cartography project, minor errors in the maps of explored space
have been fixed. Furthermore, some banners to great websites has been added to projects
page, along with a remark of the submission to the Trek Millenia award. |
| Oct
22th, 1999 |
Cartography
updated |
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The Star Trek Cartography has been updated again: a largely updated
list of Star Trek distances, with a improved table design and lots of new items, is now
avaiable. |
| Oct
20th, 1999 |
Further
LCARS files translated |
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After
starting the translation project only a few days ago, now ten more class specifications
are avaiable in the LCARS database. Expect more files
very soon. |
| Oct
18th, 1999 |
Translation
of the LCARS database! |
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Good news
to all trekkers who liked to visit the database but weren't able to understand all those
LCARS files because they are in German! Although it wasn't planned originally, with this
day, the step-by-step translation of the whole database into English begins with phase 1
(translation of all class specifications - 86 files or almost one third of the database).
At this moment, 16 files of this sub-database or already avaiable in English, so please
feel free to visit the brand-new English version of the
LCARS Database! However, only the "Database" viewing feature is currently
avaiable, but be patient: very soon, additional functions and more translated LCARS files
will be avaible. |
| Oct
18th, 1999 |
Major
update of Star Trek Dimension |
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With a
extensive update, nearly all pages of the Star Trek Dimension have been improved or
extended. Especially those files that haven't been changed since the site has been
published back in july of this year, have now been adapted to the changed goals of the
Dimension. Thus, the Introduction has been reworked and now
refers to all projects of the Dimension in text and pictures; the FAQ
has been changed, too, and a page about the author has been added.
All frame pages and projects have been adapted to a slightly changed color scheme and have
been designed in a more ergonomic way, e.g. by a contents list which allows to jump to any
section of a page, or an additional link to the parent page below on every page. |
| Oct
17th, 1999 |
New
maps in Star Trek Cartography and more |
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After a
great, realistic view of the Milky Way from the book "The Guide to the Galaxy"
has been avaiable in the map archive of the Star Trek
Cartography from the right beginning, now exclusively 5 detailed maps of the Galaxy
with the real stars up to 25, 50 and 250 ly, in the whole Milky Way and in the galactic
core have now been added. Furthermore, the resource section has been extended by a list of
the known sectors. |
| Oct
12th, 1999 |
Map
of explored space added to Star Trek Cartography |
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A first
version of a scaled and realistic map of explored space in the Alpha and Beta Quadrant of
the Star Trek Galaxy, created by me based on what I learned from writing the chapters of
the Cartography and some maps of the real Milky Way, has been added to the new section
"Galactic cartography" of the Star Trek Cartography.
Consequently, a first goal of the project has been achieved, however, the map is far from
complete and doesn't include at lot of facts given in episodes and documentations, so that
it will be extended and optimized soon. |
| Oct
8th, 1999 |
Cartography
updated |
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Two
offical Star Trek maps from DS9 and Voyager have been added to the map archive of
the Star Trek Cartography. Moreover, the wonderful
3D-view of the Milky Way has been extended by some stars I took from the TNG episode
"Conspiracy", which showed that map. |
| Oct
5th, 1999 |
Login
page improved |
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The
design of the Star Trek Dimension main page, which appears after
entering the domain adress, has been fixed by invisible tables and optimized in that way
that it look similiar with both the Microsoft Internet Explorer and the Netscape
Navigator. The german version has been extended by an American flag link which will
hopefully guide more English visitiors to their version of the Dimension. Moreover, a new
"anthem", a intesting variation of the Voyager theme, has been added to this
page. |
| Oct
3rd, 1999 |
Extensive
update on Star Trek Cartography |
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The section "Size of the
Federation" of the Star Trek Cartography has been
largely extended by numerous new aspects of the most important and troublesome topic of
galactic cartography. The whole section has been divided into subsections, and also a
conclusion of the known facts on Federation size has been added. Furthermore, there is
another new exclusive Javascript program in the Tools-area, and, finally, the map archive
with many cartography resources has been added. |
| Sept
25th, 1999 |
Bug
fix / Cartography updated |
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Several
errors and dead links on the project page and the Sound Dimension have been fixed. 2 Javascript programs have been
added to the new section "Tools" of the Star Trek
Cartography, the List of Star Trek Distances have been largely extended. |
| Sept
23rd, 1999 |
Updates
of projects page & Cartography / Sound Dimension added |
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To
promote the other projects of the Star Trek Dimension, the project
page has been made to the "control center" of the Dimension, has been both
extended and graphically enhanced and can now be accessed by the padd on the main page.
The new Sound Dimension has been added, that is more than a
simple download page, but offers exclusive music and soundtracks as RealAudio files. The Star Trek
Cartography's Voyager section has furthermore been slightly updated; a completely new
map of the Delta quadrant has been added and some errors in the route table have
been corrected. |
| Sept
10th, 1999 |
Star
Trek Dimension decorated with Ex Astris Excellentia Award |
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One and a
half month after I've brought my site online I have now received the EAE Award from the Ex Astris Scientia website. Much
thanks to Bernd Schneider, the webmaster of this site. |
| Sept
7th, 1999 |
Star
Trek Cartography updated |
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After lots
of new stuff have been added to the German version of the Star
Trek Cartography 2 days ago, I now had the time to translate it. Therefore, lots of
new aspects to the size - and completely new - to the growth of the Federation are
now avaible, along with a whole subsection about the Mutara class nebula Voyager visited
in [VOY] One and a largely extended distance list. |
| Sept
4th, 1999 |
Star
Trek Cartography splitted up to several pages |
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After
some minor updates on the Star Trek Cartography within the
last few days, this one-page-project has been splitted up to several pages. Due to
these changes, the downloading times have been reduced for each document and extending the
Cartography with resource pages etc. will be more easy. Beside the LCARS Database, the
Cartography is therefore now the most important project of the Dimension and within the
next months, it will be largely extended to become the biggest source of information about
Star Trek distances and maps in the internet. So if you have FAQs, maps or other material
on this topic, please sent it to the author.
Of course you will get credits. |
| Sept
1st, 1999 |
More
projects translated |
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Whew!
After two days of hard work, two more projects are now avaiable in English, as I promised.
That is first Gag Trek, a variation of jokes, stories, funny
pictures and more. Furthermore, also one of the main projects of the Dimension, the
international version of the extensive (too extensive, I realized during the hours of
translating) Star Trek Cartography is now avaiable. Sorry,
but in the next weeks there won't be new translations, only updates of already translated
pages. |
| Aug
30th, 1999 |
International
version of the Dimension online - www.stdimension.de/int/ |
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Greetings,
Q'apla and Jolan true! I welcome all trekkers of this world who visit my today added
English version of the Star Trek Dimension. I started translating and adapting a few days
ago, and now, major parts of the pages about the website (Introduction, Sources,
Requirements, FAQ, Projects) and also some projects (Quiz, Inconsistencies, Quotes,
Birthdays) are already avaiable. Please be patient - the missing pages and projects that
are currently only avaiable in German will be online within a few days. However, I hope
you nevertheless enjoy my homepage, if you have questions, suggestions or problems, please
feel free to contact me. Because of the
translation project, there will be no content updates in the next few days! |
| Aug
29th, 1999 |
New
LCARS database kernel installed / Further update on ST Cartography |
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Because
of too long waiting periods and browser incompatibilities in the LCARS database I have changed the whole database
system and reduced the Javascript code whenever it was possible. You have now the same
possibilities (although the automatic linking is still not avaiable for most of the files)
and the same interface, but working with the database will be much faster. There has been
again an update on the Star Trek Cartography, but it will
be the last for a few weeks, because I have some new ideas (more to this tomorrow).
However, 2 new subsections has been added to the Federation section, and a sources section
has been newly added. |
| Aug
28th, 1999 |
Major
update on Star Trek Cartography |
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Over 20 KB
of new text and many new pictures has been added to the Star
Trek Cartography. The section about the Federation has been completely redesigned and
largely extended with text and pictures. The Voyager appendix has been adapted and
extended to the first project within the project: Creating a detail map of the journey of
the USS Voyager. |
| Aug
26th, 1999 |
Update
on Star Trek Cartography |
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A
completely new section about the subdivision of the galaxy has been added to the Star Trek Cartography project, the contents and Voyager
sections have been extended and improved. Expect further updates in the next days. |
| Aug
24th, 1999 |
Exclusively
in the Star Trek Dimension: What You Leave Behind project complete |
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3 months
after the airing of the exciting DS9 series finale "What You Leave Behind", my
unique, very extensive plot description to that episode with 66
photos has been completed after several days of hard work. |
| Aug
22nd, 1999 |
First
part of project about What You Leave Behind now avaiable |
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After I
started this unique, exciting, but also very lavish project a few days ago, the first
results are now online. A third of the expisode plot which extensively describes every
scene is complete, and 20 pictures were also already added. The complete project will be
avaiable in a few days, but nevertheless you can try it now. |
| Aug
21st, 1999 |
Extensive
project update / Netscape 3 support |
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Because
of the online start of the Dimension some parts of the project have been redesigned,
improved or extended . A independent project page has been
added, that can be accessed from the main page by clicking on the link
"Projects". Beside updates of the LCARS database, which is now equal to the
other projects, many new projects are planned, e.g. a really unique photostory of What You
Leave Behind. The news page has been extended with some new
sections, as well as the history page. The main page itself has been redesigned and a banner with Dimension news
has been added. The netscape version of the Dimension has been improved and is now fully
functional. |
| Aug
6th, 1999 |
Unique
Star Trek Cartography Project started |
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The
second treknology project beside the Subspace Manual has now
been started: the Star Trek Cartography project, a unique
investigation on distances and maps on Star Trek that I started as kind of self help,
because cartography is a pretty conjectural aspect of Star Trek and their is nearly no
information about this interesting topic in the web. However, the project is still not
very extensive, but except some bigger updates in a few weeks. |
| Aug
2nd, 1999 |
Star
Trek Dimension finally online - with own domain www.stdimension.de! |
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Hello
there! Welcome on my website, that is now online, after 2 years of "offline
existence". 2 years ago, this project started as a few pages to Star Trek and the
goal to build up the ultimate LCARS database,
and now, in contrast to many other just started sites, a whole dimension of 281 LCARS
pages with hundreds of photos, diagrams and sounds is already avaiable to you. Although
the site is mainly devoted to the database, you can visit several other projects on the News & Projects page, e.g. episode guides, treknology projects and
a page about Star Trek jokes. Many new things will be uploaded soon, so you should visit
this site regularly. If you have questions, suggestions, problems etc., please contact me. |
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