Star Trek: The Visual Dictionary

Star Trek: The Visual Dictionary is an officially licensed hardcover reference book, produced by Dorling Kindersley. The book features information from Star Trek, , , , and the first ten , from to . The foreword is written by John de Lancie.
StarTrek.com provided an update on The Visual Dictionary on , that it would make use of "rarely seen material from the CBS archives." StarTrek.com released an exclusive look at two additional pages on . 
==Summary==
;Publisher's description
:Boldly go where no Trekkie has gone before. "Star Trek the Visual Dictionary" is the final frontier. Charting each and every one of the the voyages of the starship . Its mission: to explore everything Star Trek, strange new worlds (and old ones), to seek out every character, ship and series, to boldly go where no book has gone before.
:Covering all of the six television series, with full coverage of favorite characters such as Spock, Bones, Scotty and Uhura, and full-color pictures of ships that would make James T. Kirk proud, this is the ultimate guide to "Star Trek" for any Trekkie. Don't be a Vulcan – live long and prosper with "Star Trek the Visual Dictionary".
==Contents==
;Introduction
;Humans
;The Vulcans
;Vulcan - Human Interaction
;The Andorians
;The Tellarites
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;Captain Archer
;Captain Archer's Crew
;U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
;Captain Kirk
;Captain Kirk's Crew
;U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D
;Captain Picard
;Captain Picard's Crew
;The Betazoids & Denobulans
;The Trill & El-Aurians
;Artificial Intelligence
;Allied Species & Non-Humanoids
;The Ferengi Alliance
;The Xindi & Suliban
;The Talosians & Orions
;The Tholians & Gorn
;Alien Threats
;The Breen & 
;The Klingon Empire
;Klingon Culture
;The Romulan Star Empire
;Romulan Intrigue
;Deep Space 9
;Captain Sisko
;Captain Sisko's Crew
;The Bajorans
;The Cardassian Union
;Cardassian Treachery
;The Dominion
;The Jem'Hadar
;U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656
;Captain Janeway
;Captain Janeway's Crew
;The Borg Collective
;Borg Rebels & Renegades
;The Ocampa & Talaxians
;The Kazon & Vidiians
;The Hirogen & Species 8472
;Acknowledgements
==Background information==
* Though first published more than three years after the release of , the book does not acknowledge any events or use any photos from the Kelvin timeline, though a few facts presumed to be true in both universes are included. (i.e. The Vulcan and Romulan languages being nearly indistinguishable, and Romulan's three spoken dialects, pg. 61.)
* A photo of Lansor and P'Chan from on pg. 88 is mistakenly identified as drones being sent into Unimatrix Zero.
* Apart from the 2016 Australian version, the book has also seen at least three translated international editions to wit, the German version Star Trek - Die visuelle Enzyklopädie: Die ganze Welt von Raumschiff Enterprise, the by Simón Saitó in Spanish translated version Star Trek: Diccionario visual - Guía definitiva de los personajes, las razas y la tecnología, and the French version Star Trek: L'encyclopédie illustrée, released in April, October, and November 2013 respectively. The Spanish and French editions were licensed to local publishers.
* All versions were issued as hardcovers (without dustjacket), measuring 26.0×1.4×30.9 cm.
===Cover gallery===
File:Star Trek The Visual Dictionary DE cover.jpg|German edition cover
File:Star Trek The Visual Dictionary ES cover.jpg|Spanish edition cover
File:Star Trek The Visual Dictionary FR cover.jpg|French edition cover
File:Star Trek The Visual Dictionary FR back cover.jpg|French edition back cover
File:Star Trek The Visual Dictionary AU cover.jpg|Australian edition cover
===References===
Cardassian phase-disruptor pistol
==External link==
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