Wikipedia:WikiProject Star Trek/Sources
This is intended to be a list of suggested online sources which meet the reliable source guidelines listed in Wikipedia:Identifying reliable sources. While it may be easier to identify offline sources due to their published nature, online sources can be problematic by virtue of the number of Star Trek fansites available.
General sites
[edit]- The official Star Trek website. Whilst it concentrates primarily on up to date information (such as recent merchandise/DVD releases) it does on occasion include randomly appearing interviews with cast and crew members.
- Trekweb is a fansite created in 1996 and is one of the major four fansites listed by the official Star Trek website. It is a good source for historical information dating back to 1996 and can be used to find urls to place into archive.org in order to directly source production reports etc from the official site and ratings.
- TrekToday is the news portion of the website TrekNation, which is also one of the four fansites listed by the official Star Trek website. It has been running for more than a decade and its forums have been frequented by cast and crew from the series. The site also includes reviews by Michelle Erica Green.
- One of the major four fansites listed by the official site. A good source for up to date news on the franchise and a good jumping off point to other online sources.
- While not suitable as a source in its own right, Memory Alpha is another good jumping off point to find potential sources both online and offline.
- Not a reliable source in its own right, but provides numerous scans of articles about Star Trek over the past 40 years. Basically, you'll never know what you'll find till you look.
Reviews
[edit]- The Next Generation cast member Wil Wheaton has created several reviews and provided some background information for a handful of episodes from the early seasons of the show.
- Keith DeCandido has written a number of reviews of Star Trek episodes. There is a complete set of reviews for The Next Generation and at time of writing, he is working his way through Deep Space Nine. His reviews also include some production information. The website has other Star Trek related articles, including a handful on Star Trek novels. There are also reviews of The Original Series by another author.
- Jammer's Reviews is a self published fansite which was formerly under the UGO Networks as part of TrekNation. However, during the run of Voyager, the producers thought sufficiently of Jamahl's opinions that he was invited to pitch story ideas for episodes. It is based on his opinions being taken this seriously by the production staff of Voyager that his reviews are considered reliable.
- Reviews have been included for The Next Generation and most of Deep Space Nine.
- Reviews are currently being conducted for The Next Generation.
Images
[edit]- A good resource for images to be used for fair use purposes. It contains a great deal of screencaps of every episode, including the new Blu-Ray releases.