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Amended to: About this document : The orginal Star Trek : " The Next Generation Writer's Technical manuel I possess was developed to provide a handy reference for the detailed technical background that our writers sometimes needed, and was offered as a supplement to the Writers/Directors Guide. It was not required reading - relatively few of our scripts used more then a tiny amount of this material , Still, some story points did hinge on this stuff , and Star Trek has always prided itself on scientific accuracy and internal consistency . StarTrek Voyager yielded similar document : prototype : proceeding with the series more artwork and information compiled and distributed from this first of several technical manuals . We offer the writers a friendly reminder, just because this stuff exists, it doesn't mean you have to use it in your script.To quote Gene Roddenberry . " Believability is the test, What do real people do and say? When a policemen pick's u[p his 38 does he explain how it works? Do you know how the trigger levers work the firing pin and so on? All you need or really care to know is that when he uses it , you see it work , and except it. " So why should the Captain explain a phaser when she picks it up? Star Trek is about people not technology . To be continued