Old News at The STArchive
This outlines the history of The STArchive from its inception to the
date of its re-release, 2 Sep 2004. Back references to the site's
old structure have been removed. The most recent entries appear first.
- 31 Aug 2004
- Spent many late evenings over the last few months wrangling Perl and
herding hypertext markup into some very evil arrangements to produce this
site's second incarnation. Let's hope I haven't forgotten anything...
- 22 Oct 2003
-
- Inspiration has struck (ow!) and I have begun the redesign of this
site in earnest. Note that my first mention of this task was back in
2001. Since I'm aiming for the tenth anniversary in September of next
year, I'm getting started now. After all, I *am* a professional
procrastinator.
- 1 Aug 2003
- Taking a vacation this month. Which days, you ask? All of 'em.
- 14 May 2003
- Yanked the Guests page. Links to it will be phased out when (if?) my
redesigned site is rolled-in.
- 16 Apr 2003
- There are problems at the original
PsiPhi site (currently, redirected) and
so David has set-up an
interim location for some of
his things.
- 9 Jan 2003
- Curiosity about the number of hits to the search script has made me
plug in a counter on that page. Let's see what turns up...
- 3 Jan 2003
- Oh. Right. Happy New Year. Hopefully, no one tried to sign the guest
list because it just got created today.
- 18 Dec 2002
- Expanded all film entries to use the format
Star Trek[ II| III| IV| V| VI]: $FILM_NAME
which may reduce collisions (Nemesis) and should be more Google friendly.
- 17 Dec 2002
- Star Trek Nemesis details added (to the best of my ability).
- 26 Sep 2002
- Thanks to Curt Danhauser for shipping me "Desert Crossing"; my lists
are once again up to date.
- 5 Sep 2002
- For years, the references to episode titles in my
Expanded ship and
Location lists linked back to
the episode listings at either
Caltech
(when it was there) for TNG
and PsiPhi
for Deep Space Nine, most of Voyager, and most recently, Enterprise.
There was never any references for the original series or for the
feature films.
Today, I have rewritten all of those links to point to the
Spoiler-free Opinion Summaries
where there is not only a brief summary and rating for every series
and film but links to the same episode listings I was using in the past
as well as links to other useful sites, such as
StarTrek.com.
I hope this new consistency is found to be useful.
- 4 Sep 2002
- I'm afraid I missed "Desert Crossing" once again. I'll do my best to
enlist some assistance to get the missing details.
- 5 Jul 2002
- Added entries to the
Expanded
ship list from various on-screen displays, courtesy of Brian Barjenbruch
and time spent with his DVD player.
- 14 Jun 2002
- The "Desert Crossing" episode was aired at a rather odd time and so it
was not caught for inclusion in my own lists; hopefully, I'll catch it in
reruns this summer.
- 20 Feb 2002
- Added colourized fore and profile images of NX Class Enterprise
(courtesy of Curt Danhauser) to the
Expanded ship list.
- 25 Jan 2002
- David Henderson is renewing his efforts to document episode information,
credits, and other tidbits again at
Psi Phi
with the new series, Enterprise. I have resumed linking episode titles to
these summaries.
- 2 Jan 2002
- Happy Palindromic New Year.
- 1 Dec 2001
- Installed new version of David Wells'
A History of Ships Named Enterprise.
- 9 Nov 2001
- Yanked the Awards page. Links to it will be phased out when (if?) my
redesigned site is rolled-in.
- 4 Oct 2001
- Added an Enterprise NX-01 to the rotating splash page graphics
for the Expanded ship list.
- 26 Sep 2001
- Enterprise premiered and I'm interested again. But there were
enough bad points to keep me wary.
- 5 Jun 2001
- Andrew Tong's site has reappeared on Caltech under a new hierarchy and
reformatted. The links to ST:TNG embedded throughout the
Expanded ship list and the
Location list
have been re-introduced.
- 28 May 2001
- Star Trek: Voyager ends with a rather dull and uninspired finale.
I'm not sure I'm looking forward to the next series at all...
- 13 Dec 2000
- Well, it appears "Nightingale" was left out of the broadcast loop,
locally. The lists are being posted without that information, I'm afraid.
Addendum: things are back to normal as "Nightingale" has since aired.
- 4 Dec 2000
- The local station seems confused about what to air. I'm refraining from
updates to give them a chance to air a missed episode before my posting date.
If they don't, I'll post regardless.
- 27 Sep 2000
- Brigitte Jellinek's ancient site has
moved.
- 13 Jul 2000
- Andrew Tong's site has once again been removed form the Caltech web
server. I've removed all links from this site to it, and have included a
notice from my splash page's ST:TNG link.
- 9 May 2000
- Caught up with previous episodes. And the ankle is doing fine, thanks.
- 27 Apr 2000
- Installed new version of David Wells'
A History of Ships Named Enterprise.
- 24 Apr 2000
- Updated Ron Carman's site relocation on the 'Other Sites' page.
- 27 Mar 2000
- I've (possibly) broken my ankle. Updates, including the most recent
VOY "Good Shepherd", will be postponed for a few days. Ow.
- 14 Mar 2000
- With David Henderson's recent changes at
Psi Phi, newer episodes of Star Trek:
Voyager will not have backlinks to episode guide pages.
- 8 Nov 1999
- Included a clean Type 10 shuttle and Delta Flyer image (courtesy of Curt
Danhauser) to the Expanded ship
list.
- 5 Nov 1999
- Caught up on updates from episodes which aired during my vacation.
- 4 Oct 1999
- I will be on vacation until November.
- 13 Aug 1999
- Due to abuse, I've removed my Mail Box CGI form.
- 14 May 1999
- Luca Sambucci's domain seems to have vanished into the ether. Links
to his site have been removed.
- 31 Mar 1999
- I've yet to receive official word confirming this, but the Andrew Tong's
site seems to have been revived
at Caltech, only under a different path.
- 25 Feb 1999
- Andrew Tong's site has been removed from the Caltech web server by
the administrative staff. I've removed all links from this site to it, and
have included a notice from my splash page's
ST:TNG link.
- 10 Feb 1999
- Just for fun, I created a script to rotate through different splash
graphics on the Expanded ship list
once each day. Let's see how it's received.
- 4 Feb 1999
- Added more details gleaned from the display consoles in ST VI: TUC and
finally added images from the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual to
the Expanded ship list.
- 2 Feb 1999
- Installed new version of David Wells'
A History of Ships Named Enterprise.
- 13 Jan 1999
- Made a majority of the necessary revisions to the
Expanded ship list and the
Location list based on the recently
released Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual.
- 18 Dec 1998
- Modified the
Expanded ship list with some
clarifications graciously provided to me by Larry Nemecek.
- 16 Dec 1998
- Updated both the
basic and
Expanded ship lists, as well as
the Location list with information
from Star Trek: Insurrection.
- 25 Aug 1998
- Added information from Star Trek: Voyager: Mosaic and
Star Trek: Voyager: Pathways by Jeri Taylor. Thanks to David
Henderson for the references. Although presented in fictional stories,
this information will be considered as acceptable as the "fiction" that
is produced by other Paramount staffers such as Okuda or Sternbach.
- 3 Aug 1998
- Joe Reiss' Spoiler-free Opinion Summary, or
SOS,
has moved again. Good luck, Joe. :-)
- 14 Jul 1998
- Updated search CGI: using Perl now to build
results with relevent headers for each hit. Thanks to David Henderson for
the code.
- 1 Jul 1998
- Happy Canada Day!
- The STArchive is a proud founding member -- along with the SOS
and Psi Phi -- of
The Bermuda Trekangle.
- Updated search CGI: abend when passed
no keywords rather than process in order to keep the logs clean.
- 22 Jun 1998
- Updated search CGI: set both lists as default
and added Borg, Dominion, and Kazon subheadings to ships selection.
- 18 Jun 1998
- Device containing counter files full; fixed at 12:20 CDT; counters
are out 12 hours worth of hits.
- 16 Jun 1998
- Created a redirect from the "www.ee" server to the "www.cs" server
using .htaccess.
- 9 Jun 1998
- Well, a month after the move, the "www.ee" site has some 9700 hits,
while the "www.cs" site has 5700. That's almost a 50% loss! I've now put
in the META tag REFRESH on that old site to push visitors to the new site.
- 12 May 1998
- Installed crontab entries to roll over counter files each day.
- Created SSI dating of my list parts based on last modified dates.
- Merged some records broken across lines and padded with keywords
using the 'vim' editor which easily handles lines that are too long.
- Finally (!) updated
Location list, and the
basic and
Expanded ship lists.
- 11 May 1998
- I must apologize for being so late with my updates to the ships and
locations lists I maintain here. Besides this server move, Life(tm) in
general can get pretty hectic. I will endeavor to update everything before
I post to these lists to Usenet mid-month (only a few days away!).
- 8 May 1998
- Set up a link on "www.ee" to redirect to here for now. I will eventually
create a dynamic page there to catch all hits to files in my hierarchy and
notify visitors of the change before pushing them here.
- Updated my Thanks... page.
- Combined all monthly guest list files into yearly files.
- Made yearly file names and guest.cgi Y2K compliant.
- Reconfigured my cgi-bin programs and fixed pages accordingly. For
anyone who linked directly to my search program, the following path needs
to change:
- /cgi-bin/djc_search becomes /~djc/cgi-bin/search.cgi
(similar changes for other cgi-bin programs, but I doubt anyone has a direct
link to them :-)
- Removed full absolute path URLs in favour or absolute-from-user-dir
or relative paths.
- Reconfigured counter files (still need crontab entry by sysadmin to
zero out counters on a daily basis).
- Wrote a script to hunt down "www.ee" references and change them to
"www.cs". So far, it appears to have hit every page properly.
- 7 May 1998
- After some four years on a stable server (and of course, 4 years worth
of sites linking here and 4 years worth of indexes hitting this site), I'm
going to mess it all up and move to a new server. :-) Effective immediately,
the site at www.ee will be phasing out and the site at www.cs
is live.
- 21 Apr 1998
- The server here is experiencing difficulties on a daily basis lately.
For many months now, I have been planning a move to a new local server
under a new virtual domain name (making the entire site much more
portable). I am in the process of securing this new server space and,
eventually, all of pages here will be redirected to it. In the mean time,
please excuse any downtimes you encounter. And my apologies.
- 18 Apr 1998
- Included a colourized Prometheus Class profile (courtesy of Curt
Danhauser) to the Expanded ship
list.
- 4 Mar 1998
- Updated all internal references to Psi
Phi's new site.
- 3 Mar 1998
- Installed new version of David Wells'
A History of Ships Named Enterprise.
- 2 Mar 1998
- Relinked to Psi Phi's new site.
- 28 Jan 1998
- Plugged in black and white plan views of the Prometheus Class for my
Expanded ship list. I'd thank
whomever sent them to me, but they forged a fake return address and signed
the message with only "The Admiral".
- 15 Jan 1998
- Counter CGI reinstalled; splash page and search result page counters
replaced.
- 13 Jan 1998
- Installed David Wells' new look and new version of
A History of Ships Named Enterprise.
- 12 Jan 1998
- Installed a client-side image map to replace the server-side image
map, thanks to David Henderson and my own laziness. See? Wait long
enough and someone will do the work for you. :-)
- 2 Jan 1998
- Unveiled the STArchive's new look and logo. Have a Happy New
Year, everyone. Peace.
- 7 Dec 1997
- Joe Reiss' Spoiler-free Opinion Summary, or
SOS,
has moved so I've updated the links here accordingly. Good luck, Joe. :-)
- 18 Nov 1997
- Made a majority of the necessary revisions to the
Expanded ship list based on the
recently released Star Trek Encyclopedia Updated and Expanded Edition.
- 14 Nov 1997
- Counters are no longer working. Sysadmin relocating directories involved
so they may return when this work is complete (and I remember to plug them
back in).
- 12 Nov 1997
- While updating my basic and
Expanded ship lists after this
most recent story arc, I came to a conclusion: I really hate all
those fleet shots in Deep Space Nine lately. I do. Sometimes I think
the visual effects people are doing this just to drive me insane... :-)
- 13 Oct 1997
- Updated awards page after receiving one from
Whiskey, a most perceptive dog.
- 10 Oct 1997
- Put a counter on the search engine's results
page and added another crontab entry to reset this value every midnight.
- 9 Oct 1997
- I have changed <Unnamed> entries in the
Expanded ships list to include
the class name, if known (ie, <Unnamed Nebula Class>). This
should give some context to the results returned from the
search engine, which strips off class identifying
headers.
- 8 Oct 1997
- Wrote a script and linked all Deep Space Nine and Voyager title
references in my
Expanded ships list and
Locations list to the episode
information archived at
Psi Phi.
- 26 Sep 1997
- Included Psi Phi
in the search engine notification of a one week
delay of new information, as David Henderson is now using it through his
site's episode listings.
- 22 Sep 1997
- Removed the mirror links button: after almost two years, the mirror
ftp site is no longer participating with this site's archives.
- 16 Sep 1997
- Modified the search engine to dynamically
inform SOS users
in particular of the (at least) one week delay of new information if their
request produces no results.
- 15 Sep 1997
- Finally updated both the
basic and
Expanded ship lists with
information from Star Trek: First Contact.
- 7 Sep 1997
- Included a Sovereign Class USS Enterprise profile (courtesy of
Curt Danhauser) to the Expanded ship
list.
- 1 Aug 1997
- Added Joshua's old notations on Starfleet registry codes and ship types
to the Expanded ship list.
- 30 Jul 1997
- Linked to Joshua Bell's new home for his
Mini-FAQs and
updated his e-mail address in the
Expanded ship list.
- 15 Jul 1997
- From the direction the two series' are going, I've split out the Borg
and Dominion entries as individual files/sections in the
Expanded ship list.
- I've carried over the black background motif into all other windows.
- 14 Jul 1997
- Updated the ftp server's plain-text archive of Mark Holtz' List of
Lists and added a pointer to his existing web site in the image map.
- 3 Jul 1997
- Included a USS Defiant profile (courtesy of Curt Danhauser)
to the Expanded ship list.
- 20 Jun 1997
- Updated image map links to Joshua Bell's site to
inform visitors about his current off-line situation.
- 22 May 1997
- The splash page's ST:TOS link has been updated to point to a live site.
The quick reference guide still exists locally.
- 25 Apr 1997
- Updated awards page after receiving one from
Angel Swan.
- 23 Apr 1997
- Updated awards page to reflect Kasey Chang's
site relocation for the Star Trek Nexus.
- 17 Apr 1997
- Added to the awards page a "belated" Top Award
from Christoph Reuter.
- 16 Apr 1997
- After missing a month, finally updated the
Location list, and the
basic and
Expanded ship lists. Apologies, but
Real Life(TM) can tend to get in the way of these things...
- Updated awards page for the Best Trek of the
Week site (formerly known as the Star Trek Site of the Night).
- 26 Mar 1997
- Award from Luca Sambucci's Best of Trek site.
- 15 Feb 1997
- Updated HTML version of Andrew Main's
Stardates in Star Trek FAQ, as well as the related
program files.
- Reverse ordered the awards page, putting most
recent items first.
- 29 Jan 1997
- A Five-Star award from the Editors of Luckman
Interactive in their newest book and interactive CD-ROM.
- 14 Jan 1997
- Updated
Location list, and the
basic and
Expanded ship lists.
- 10 Jan 1997
- New version of A History of Ships Named Enterprise
FAQ put up for David Wells, which includes information from Rick Sternbach
about the Enterprise-E.
- 20 Dec 1996
- The Christmas break at this University occurs from Dec 21 1996 through
Jan 5 1997, inclusive. During that time, the server hosting these pages
will be running unattended.
- 12 Dec 1996
- Updated
Location list, and the
basic and
Expanded ship lists.
- 3 Dec 1996
- New version of A History of Ships Named Enterprise
FAQ put up for David Wells.
- 26 Nov 1996
- I obtained a very nice image of the USS
Enterprise NCC-1701-E by scanning a Rice Crispies(tm) cereal box cover,
cleaning up the fake phaser fire, and removing any exploded Crispies that
were visible. :-)
- 13 Nov 1996
- Updated
Location list, and the
basic and
Expanded ship lists.
- 8 Nov 1996
- Added many new Federation ship image profiles (courtesy of Curt Danhauser)
to the Expanded ship list.
- 1 Nov 1996
- Updated Jason Hinson's plain text archive of
Relativity and FTL
Travel
and Subspace
Physics.
- 1 Oct 1996
- New version of A History of Ships Named Enterprise
FAQ put up for David Wells.
- 19 Sep 1996
- Updated the image map and alt-index to add:
- a local FTP copy of a ST:TOS Quick Reference Guide
- Star Trek: The Original Series
- 15 Sep 1996
- Award from the Best Trek of the Week site
(formerly known as the Star Trek Site of the Night).
- 7 Sep 1996
- Award from the United Space Federation.
- 19 Aug 1996
- Award from the Star Trek Nexus.
- 12 Aug 1996
- New version of A History of Ships Named Enterprise
FAQ put up for David Wells.
- Updated to the new URL for Jason Hinson's
Relativity and FTL Travel FAQ, and new text versions put up on the
ftp server.
- 11 Aug 1996
- Award from the Shakaar Society for the
month of August.
- 2 Aug 1996
- Added an awards page to accomodate the number
of awards and acknowledgements this site is accumulating.
- Updated splash-graphic and map file accordingly.
- Award from Yoyodyne.
- 20 Jul 1996
- Award from Trekker Net.
- 18 Jul 1996
- Testing wwwcount2.2 at the bottom of the splash page, along with a
crontab entry to reset this count value every midnight. It seems to load
quickly enough so far...
- 2 Jul 1996
- The poll results are in: 298 for;
21 against.
- 31 May 1996
- Installed a one question poll to help me
decide if the creation of another list would be worth my while.
- 13 May 1996
- To offer some better sources to this material, the image map now links to
David Henderson's
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Archive
and
Star Trek: Voyager Archive at Psi Phi, as well as to Andrew Tong's
Star Trek: The Next Generation site.
- 9 May 1996
- Mark Holtz returns once more with updates to three of his
List of Lists, as well as the introduction of
a fourth to the series on Star Trek: Voyager.
- 17 Apr 1996
- The server seems to have been fixed up and cgi-bin processing is now
continuing as before. However, I'll retain the link to the alternate index
in case of any future "emergencies".
- 4 Apr 1996
- Added an HTML version of Andrew Main's
Stardates in Star Trek FAQ, as well as the related
program
files and man pages (compressed, tar'ed, uuencoded).
- Updated the image map accordingly.
- 25 Mar 1996
- There have been intermittent problems with the server's swap space:
httpd requires a small portion when doing certain cgi-bin
processing (ie: image maps), and so some calls fail. Although not a complete
solution, an alternate index is provided until
things are fixed up at this end. Apologies...
- 21 Mar 1996
- Very poor performance by the wwwcount2.2 program. I found myself waiting
longer for it to load than the initial image map graphic, sometimes by several
orders of magnitude! The counter has since been removed.
- 18 Mar 1996
- I don't know why I do this, but I've gotten around to having wwwcount2.2
installed. A test counter will be up for a few days so I can evaluate its
preformance. Comments/complaints welcomed.
- 13 Feb 1996
- Modified the search engine to accomodate Joe
Reiss and his SOS
pages by installing default parameters ( search both lists, case insensitive,
boolean and ). Only an episode name needs to be passed now.
- 9 Feb 1996
- Replaced simple blue line rules to more Okudagram-style look for the
intro page and my own FAQs.
- Revamped the layout and access links to images on file in the
Expanded ship list. Full colour
profiles are now available for most ship classes.
- 1 Feb 1996
- Updated links to Joshua
Bell's FAQ material (
Mini-FAQs
and ASCII
Art ) now residing at DimensionX out of San Francisco, California,
USA. Congratulations on the new job, Josh!
- 12 Jan 1996
- Added a Mirror Sites button to the image map. Its purpose should
be self-explanitory. :-)
- 3 Jan 1996
- Award from Eye Magazine.
- 20 Dec 1995
- Added a "Preview" option to the guest list to minimize multiple
entries and/or entry mistakes.
- 14 Dec 1995
- Installed a slick new image map handling source: users of text-only
browsers or those who disable image loading can now select the image map
anchor link. Instead of facing an error, they will be presented with a
break-down of all the links built into the image map.
- Removed the (now) extraneous text-based links within the title page.
- 13 Dec 1995
- The Solaris upgrade on the server changed the way many of the formatted
links in the search engine's results were generated.
This should be fixed now.
- 13 Nov 1995
- The access counter was removed due to ongoing inconsistencies between its
calculated value and the hits recorded in the server logs. Besides which,
it's not fun anymore. :-)
- Revamped the image map page to be a bit cleaner and more concise.
- 31 Oct 1995
- Mark Holtz returns with an updated Star Trek: The Next Generation
section to his List of Lists
- 14 Sep 1995
- Found and corrected a bug in the search engine
which generated incorrect URL backlinks.
- 11 Sep 1995
- Jason's HTML version of
Subspace Physics
has been returned to him. The
ftp archive
still remains at this site.
- 30 Aug 1995
- Updated the search engine to catch a loophole
in the search string parsing.
- 13 Jul 1995
- I got tired of running my bi-weekly count of accesses: installed an
"odometer-style" counter instead. Apologies to those without graphical
browsers.
- The ASCII graphic was removed to conform with HTML 3.0 (Beta)
specifications - it won't legally parse as an ALT to the image map. I'm now
using it in the README file on the
ftp server.
- 27 Jun 1995
- Reformatted both the Locations list
and the Expanded ship list in order
to create nicer, script generated plain text files for posting to Usenet and
to allow for better searching with the search engine
under development.
- 1 Jun 1995
- Added Mini-FAQ:
Stardates and updated the image map accordingly. Andrew Main will be
working on an HTML version to be put on the web side.
- 7 Apr 1995
- Expanded the image map's overall space and added two new FAQs:
- ST:VOY Quick
Reference Guide
- A History of Ships Named Enterprise
- 27 Mar 1995
- Created a less image-intensive
Expanded ship list by removing
inline ship images and making these alternative pages available.
- 1 Mar 1995
- The access count displays a more accurate number of hits to this site's
entry point than an automated page counter would. It's taken from local logs
and excludes hits from the machines I use when testing or installing. Updated
counts will be put up fairly regularly.
- 15 Feb 1995
- Interlaced the image map for Netscape browsers. The image suffers from
a slight dithering effect ( or colour loss ) in Netscape which is not too
serious. Mosaic browsers suffer no loss in image quality. Notified MCOM, in
case they cared. :-)
- 13 Feb 1995
- Installed clickable image map for "spiffy" new look.
- 13 Jan 1995
- Added a link to Paramount's official
Star Trek Home Page.
- 10 Jan 1995
- The Thanks... link was created.
- The What's New? link was created, primarily from memory and access
logs.
- 8 Nov 1994
- Did a bit of searching and found a nice ASCII-art font for the title
graphic's ALT reference. Tweaked and installed. Lynx users need something
pretty too, don't they?
- 5 Oct 1994
- Added a link to my Mail Box CGI form.
- 1 Oct 1994
- Finally got around to linking in Josh's ASCII ships to each class
reference in the Expanded ships list.
- 21 Sep 1994
- Added a link to my
Guest List.
- The homepage was moved to index.html and welcome.html became a pointer
(which was eventually removed altogether).
- 2 Sep 1994
- The Star Trek Archive is born.
- Added Jason Hinson's two FAQs to the ftp server:
-
Subspace
Physics
- Relativity
and FTL Travel
- Added banners for each group in the
Expanded ships list, tweaked and
coloured from various scanned images.
- 29 Aug 1994
- Added links to all files on the
ftp side of the archive.
- 25 Aug 1994
- Andrew offered his HTML-ization of my
Locations list back to me, which was
summarily installed.
- 29 Jul 1994
- With Andrew Tong's Perl script donation, I linked all ST:TNG references
in my Expanded ships list and my
Locations to his
HTML-ization of the Tim Lynch episode reviews/synopses.
- Sometime in early 1994 ...
- Joshua Bell and I collaborated in order to upgrade my existing
Ships
listing and in doing so, created the
Expanded ship listing.
- I offered Josh ftp space to archive both his
ASCII Art
Archive and his
Mini-FAQs.
He accepted.
- Back in late 1989 / early 1990 ...
- The
Locations
and Ships lists
were created. They had resided solely on the ftp side of the archive, since
the web didn't really exist then. Oh sure, we had the coolness of ftp and
"gopher space" and there was solid content out there, but kids these days
never believe you...
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