StarFleet-Museum.org
Title
The Starfleet Museum - A Report by Masao Okazaki
Description
The Starfleet Museum is an extended piece of fan fiction, created by me, Masao Okazaki, describing a conjectural history of Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets predating the original Star Trek series. Although I have attempted to be consistent with persons, vessels, and events established by my primary sources -- televised episodes and films of the Star Trek franchise (including the Animated Series) through the end of Voyager in mid 2001 -- most of the content of the Starfleet Museum is of my own invention. While I may have incorporated a few concepts and events invented by secondary sources, such as licensed and fan-produced technical manuals, novels, and gaming systems, I have made no attempt to adhere to any timeline or history they contain. The main reason for these decisions is that I wanted the Starfleet Museum to be a work of my own that could be enjoyed by all fans regardless of their access to these secondary sources, which are both too numerous and too difficult to obtain. Because the televised episodes and movies can be personally viewed by all fans at little or no cost regardless of where they live, I thought they should be the basis of the Starfleet Museum. These decisions should not be taken as a statement of adherence to anyone's notions of what should and should not be considered "canon" or a judgement on the relative quality of secondary licensed or fan-produced works; I simply decided that the Starfleet Museum needed to be built upon the solid basis of universally available primary material. Since I don't have copies of all the episodes on tape or DVD, as a guide to the primary material I've relied greatly on The Star Trek Chronology and The Star Trek Encyclopedia by Michael and Denise Okuda and The Star Trek Concordance by Bjo Trimble. Although these works contain some conclusions and conjectures I disagree with (particularly the Okudas' ideas regarding the Earth-Romulan War and the development of antimatter drives), the Starfleet Museum would have been impossible without them.
Most ships in the Starfleet Museum are of my own design or based on the work of other fans. I don't intend to prepare extensive articles on canon ships, such as the Constitution class, or on well-known noncanon ships, such as those of Franz Joseph Schnaubelt (but you never know).
The artwork and commentaries for the Starfleet Museum were prepared with Macromedia Freehand 7 and Corel WordPerfect 3.5 on Macintosh computers.
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