Star Trek Chronology Notes

Notes on the Searchable Version


James Dixon Star Trek Chronology is a great work that I fell is under appreciated for various reasons. For some time I wanted to create a searchable version of timeline so that it can be better appreciated. I converted the timeline to a database format sometime in late 1996 using a series of perl scripts and a lot of hand tunning. However, I had no easy way of putting a searchable version of this database on the web. And it held up the project for sometime.

That was until the webmaster of metalab installed mysql. Mysql is a powerful regional database that is free unless you sell a product containing it or want professional support. With the powers of a regional database at my disposal creating a searchable version of this document was an almost trivial task.

With this searchable version you can control exactly what sources are included and exclude sources you thought where questionable, look at a specific time period, and search the data base for occurrences of a particular string like say "world war".

This searchable chronology is based on the latest version of the timeline that I could find which is version 9. I tried to contact James Dixon several times however I never got a reply to any of my emails I sent to him both over intenet and old bbs networks. I once talked to him several years ago over a bbs network at a time when the web was just being created.

What you see here is only the start of what I hope the final product will look like. I plan on adding more features as time goes on.

If you know about the where about of James Dixon or if you have a latter version of this chronology please contact me at kevinatk@home.com.

Oh one last thing, some feedback on what you think of this version of the timeline would be greatly appreciated.

The rest of these note are James Dixon words with modest formatting done by me, Kevin Atkinson.


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