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OTTENS (or Ottens Library)
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not necessarily reflect the official views of Paramount Pictures, Inc. about
Star Trek, nor the official view of Alan Moore and Kevin
O'Neill about The League of Extraordinary Gentleman. Regarding the validity of the information about Star Trek,
this website does not follow the official canon policy of
Paramount Pictures, meaning that also off-screen information may be accepted
as authentic, thereby always annotated. Any such 'canon' information
is correct to the webmaster's best knowledge, but may remain debatable or
subject to be updated in single cases.
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Ray Cole's Star Trek museum,
Trek Brasilis,
Probert Designs,
Rick Sternbach Studio,
iAmericanSpirit Political Dictionary,
New Geneva,
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
and
WebDesignHelper, The
Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual, The Art of Star Trek,
Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise.
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Acknowledgements: The
webmaster would like to thank the following people, for without them, this
site would probably not be what it is today:
- Tim Biesbrouck,
who hosted this website in its very early stages and who has helped and
supported me with it ever since;
- Bernd Schneider and Hielke de Haan, who both agreed to link to my website
when it was still very young and who have both helped me greatly in turning
it into what it is today;
- Tai-Chow Andrea, Mike van Veen and my brother Rob, who all three have
helped me with technical matters on the website's design and layout;
- J.M. Charbin, for allowing me to use his fantastic Germania artwork on my
site;
- Simon J. Goldin, for helping me out on Egyptian history and mythology and
for having housed this site's forums for a while, and;
- Geoffrey M. Brooks, Makaveli and Delta -- for without them, this would
probably still be some dull Star Trek website with only two visitors a day...
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