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May 7: Updated Planet of the Titans: The Star Trek Film That Wasn’t March 30: Updated Designing Starfleet Headquarters March 25: Updated Designing the Klingon Battle Cruiser March 21: Updated Designing the Enterprise-D’s Lounge Areas March 13: Updated Designing the Next Generation Bridge and Designing The Next Generation’s Engineering March 8: Updated From Kirk’s to Data’s Quarters March 4: Published Starfleet Is Too Powerful February 23: Updated Evolution of the Sickbay Set February 22: Updated Evolution of The Next Generation’s Shuttlecraft February 21: Published Writing The Next Generation February 9: Published Creating the Klingons February 1: Ten years after switching Forgotten Trek to Wordpress, I’ve converted back to HTML. Wordpress has become too clunky, especially for a website that doesn’t require frequent updates. I never got used to the “Gutenberg” bloc editor and it inserts a lot of superfluous code, which slows the website down. Clean and simple HTML gets rid of everything I don’t need and should load much faster even on slow connections. Writing about lost and forgotten Star Trek fansites has also made think about the survivability of my own. HTML is easier to capture for the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine . It doesn’t require regular software updates. A Worpress blog could become dangerously outdated if its owner disappeared. (Like Will Riker, I’m planning to live forever, but you never know.) The only downside is that you can no longer post comments directly on a story. You have to email me your comments and then I’ll add them to the story for you. If you notice any errors (I had to manually copy-paste all content and update all links and images, so it’s possible I made a few mistakes), please let me know !January 27: Filmmaker Lukas Kendall calls Forgotten Trek “a fantastic compendium of behind-the-scenes Star Trek documentation.”January 22: Updated In Thy Image January 20: Updated Creating the Romulan Bird of Prey and Designing the First Enterprise January 9: Published Izan Home Page , LCARS Computer Network and Star Trek: The Next Generation January 6: Published Designing the Romulan Warbird January 5: Published Designing Starfleet Headquarters January 4: Published Computer Core Dump , Copernicus Ship Yards , Spike’s Star Trek Site , Star Trek Nexus and Strange Fascination January 3: Published Scenes Cut from Star Trek: Insurrection
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2019
2018
December 31: Updated Making Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home December 30: Updated Designing The Motion Picture’s Recreation Deck and Casting The Wrath of Khan December 27: Published lost episodes of Phase II : To Attain the All , Lord Bobby’s Obsession , The Prisoner , The Billion Year Voyage and updated The Making of Star Trek: Phase II , Designing the Phase II Enterprise and Redesigning the Walk to V’Ger December 24: Updated Designing the Next Generation Enterprise December 22: Published Lost Characters of Star Trek II December 15: Published Visions of the Future December 13: Updated Designing the Next Generation Bridge December 9: Published Designing Khan’s Costume December 8: Updated Designing the Enterprise-D’s Lounge Areas , A Grittier Star Trek: Creating Deep Space Nine , Designing Deep Space Nine , Designing the Defiant and The Cardassian Shipyard That Wasn’t December 7-8: Updated Designing the Excelsior , Designing the “Porsche” of Starships: A Sovereign Enterprise and Designing the Enterprise-E’s Bridge December 6-10: Updated Designing the Starship Voyager December 6-8: Updated Designing Star Trek’s First Bridge , Designing the First Enterprise Within , Creating the Original Enterprise’s Shuttlebay , Designing the Klingon Battle Cruiser , Creating Star Trek’s First Alien: Spock , Designing the Twenty-Third Century Anew , Designing The Motion Picture Enterprise , Redesigning the Enterprise Bridge for the Silver Screen , Designing The Motion Picture’s Recreation Deck , Designing The Motion Picture’s Cargo- and Shuttlebay , Design and Reuse of the Orbital Office Complex , Designing the Living Machine , Producing the Memory Wall Sequence , Evolution of The Next Generation’s Shuttlecraft , Designing the Next Generation Bridge , Redesigning Starfleet’s Uniforms for The Next Generation and Inside Deep Space Nine November 30: Published Writing Star Trek: Insurrection November 28: Published Trek5 September 6: Published Designing the Enterprise-D’s Battle Bridge September 4: Published Pedro’s Shiporama May 24: Published Star Trek in Sound and Vision April 29: Published The Trekker and Where No One Has Gone Before April 16: Published Voyagers That Weren’t April 14: Published The STArchive , Trekmania , Sector 0-0-1 April 11: Published Titan Fleet Yards and The Guardian of Forever February 18: Moved the website to forgottentrek.com
2017
November 24: Published More Science Fact Than Science Fiction: The First Movie Uniforms September 25: Published Designing the “Porsche” of Starships: A Sovereign Enterprise June 20: Updated Creating The Wrath of Khan’s Visual Effects June 19: Updated Designing The Wrath of Khan’s Sets and Creating the Borg April 2: Updated Designing the Enterprise-E’s Bridge March 28: Published Designing the Enterprise-D’s Saucer Separation March 14: Updated Designing Voyager’s Main Engineering March 9: Updated Designing Voyager’s Crew Quarters March 6: Updated Designing the Living Machine , Redesigning the Walk to V’Ger March 5: Published Squeezing the Enterprise-D into Spacedock and updated Planet of the Titans: The Star Trek Film That Wasn’t , Passing the Torch on Star Trek Generations , Designing Earth Spacedock , Designing the Next Generation Bridge , Awful Version of Ourselves: Creating the Ferengi and A Grittier Star Trek: Creating Deep Space Nine March 4: Updated Scenes Cut from Star Trek: The Motion Picture , Evolution of The Next Generation’s Shuttlecraft , Designing the First Cardassian Warship and Designing the Defiant March 3: Published Inside Deep Space Nine , Creating Star Trek’s First Bridge and Redesigning the Enterprise Bridge for the Silver Screen and updated Creating Star Trek’s First Bridge , Designing the First Enterprise Within , Designing the Twenty-Third Century Anew , Redesigning the Enterprise Bridge for the Silver Screen , Designing The Motion Picture’s Officers’ Lounge , Designing the Next Generation Bridge , Designing the Enterprise-D’s Lounge Areas and Inside Deep Space Nine February 28: Published Designing Voyager’s Bridge February 27: Updated Designing the First Enterprise , Creating the Original Enterprise’s Shuttlebay , The Ringship Enterprise Mystery Solved and Designing the Enterprise-C February 26: Published Designing the Starship Voyager January 22: StarTrek.com republishes Designing the First Cardassian Warship
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2012
December 28: Updated Creating Star Trek’s First Alien: Spock December 25: Published Designing the First Cardassian Warship December 14: Updated Designing the First Enterprise Within and Designing The Motion Picture’s Engineering December 11: Published Evolution of The Next Generation’s Shuttlecraft December 10: Updated Designing the Klingon Battle Cruiser December 8-14: Updated Redesigning the Enterprise Bridge for the Silver Screen December 5: Updated Creating the Original Enterprise’s Shuttlebay December 3: Published The Galaxy Class Medical Deck That Could Have Been November 20: Published Medical Log: Supplemental November 1: Updated Design and Reuse of the Orbital Office Complex August 9: Published Scenes Cut from Star Trek: The Motion Picture February 27: Published John Eaves’ Enterprise-E Main Shuttlebay and updated Designing The Motion Picture Drydock February 26: Published The Design and Reuse of the Orbital Office Complex and updated Designing The Motion Picture’s Cargo- and Shuttlebay February 22: Updated Designing the Enterprise-D’s Lounge Areas and Redesigning Starfleet’s Uniforms for The Next Generation February 21: Published Making First Contact: A Visual Effects Extravaganza and updated Redesigning the Enterprise Bridge for the Silver Screen , Designing The Motion Picture’s Officers’ Lounge , Designing The Motion Picture’s Recreation Deck , Designing The Motion Picture’s Engineering , Designing The Motion Picture’s Cargo- and Shuttlebay , Producing the Memory Wall Sequence , Illustrated Memory Wall Script , Creating Spock’s Spacewalk , Writing The Wrath of Khan , Casting The Wrath of Khan , Creating The Wrath of Khan’s Visual Effects and Designing The Wrath of Khan’s Sets February 20: Updated Designing the Klingon Battle Cruiser , Designing The Motion Picture Enterprise , Designing the Living Machine and Redesigning the Walk to V’Ger February 19: Updated Designing the First Enterprise Within , The Making of Star Trek: Phase II , Designing the Phase II Enterprise , Designing the Twenty-Third Century Anew , Planet of the Titans: The Star Trek Film That Wasn’t and The Ringship Enterprise Mystery Solved February 18: Converted to WordPress. Categorized and tagged all stories. Added ability to comment.
2010
2009
December 30: Sonia Zjawinski of io9 calls Forgotten Trek “a hidden Star Trek treasure chest.”October 10: Kieran Kelly of Sci-Fi-O-Rama calls Forgotten Trek “worth its weight in gold-pressed latinum.”September 1: Updated Designing the Twenty-Third Century Anew
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2004
November 24: Called the Star Trek concept art section Forgotten Trek August 9: Renamed the website Ottens Library May 23: Added Phase II concept artApril 16: Added Star Trek concept art to my personal website, Ottens Lexicon
