June 20, 2005: Finally an update: added the Next Generation section to forgotten trek. Besides information on the development of the second Star Trek series and, of course, concept art images, it includes biographies on the main characters of the series. So far, those of Commander Riker, Lt. Commander Data, Dr. Crusher and Guinan are finished. Special thanks goes to user SmokeDetector47, who wrote the excellent Riker and Crusher articles for Memory Alpha, and now republished here.

May 4, 2005: Added a new editorial on America.

May 2, 2005: Added a new editorial on gun control to the editorials section and updated the linkage page.

April 27, 2005: Congratulations to the Federation Starship Datalink for being awarded with the Elegance award. Additionally, I added two articles to the editorials section: one on abortion and one on sex education in the United States.

April 26, 2005: Completed the brasília page in the historical archives' architecture section. Additionally, I made a number of navigational updates in the home section, specifically on the about and awards pages.

April 24, 2005: Thanks to JD for awarding Ottens Library with his Fleet Admiral Award. Added the editorials section to your right, which will include articles about my opinion on political, economical and sociological topics.

April 22, 2005: An architecture section has been added to the historical archives, containing information about architecture under the Soviet Union and Fascist Italy. Also, the germania page has been updated with additional images.

April 17, 2005: A lot of technical updates, most of which you will probably not even notice. To start with, the site's background image is now finally compatible with screenresolutions up to 1280 by 1024 pixels. Secondly, the background colour of the images was apparently different from the site's background colour, so that has now been corrected. Additionally, I seperated the phase two and motion picture pages in the forgotten trek section...

April 14, 2005: It has been exactly a month since I last updated, which really is quite a long time for me, so therefore this notice. Quite frankly, I don't know what to update. I have a minutiae section in Victorian Steampunk yet to be filled with more interesting... stuff, but I don't really have an idea what to include. Therefore, I'm starting up a new "policy": visitors to my site may email me if they think they can contribute to the website, meaning if you have written up an article which you think could well be included here, then please mail it to me and I will have a look at it. This is no guarantee your submitted article will be posted, since I do expect a high level of quality. Naturally, you will be properly credited for your work.

Also, for the steampunk-fans among you, I would like to point you to this website, which I created overnight for a new role play game I'm running together with some friends over at our forums at nov net...

March 14, 2005: After talking it over with Makaveli, I decided to have my website's forums housed at the nov-net forum. There is plenty of room for discussion on history, politics, science and general happenings there, plus nov-net houses a number of role play games, one of which I myself am involved in. Please head over there, sign up and join the club!

March 9, 2005: Added the occultism page to the third reich mysticism section.

February 23, 2005: Added the history section, detailing the fictional history of Earth throughout the 21st and 22nd century, to the forgotten trek section.

February 19, 2005: Heavily expanded the restoration and victorian pages in the historical archives restoration section. Also added the about page.

February 8, 2005: The architecture page in the victorian steampunk minutiae section is up.

February 7, 2005: The Phase II and The Next Generation pages in the forgotten trek section are completed. Also there is now a comic books page available in the new victorian steampunk minutiae section.

February 5, 2004: As you can see, some changes to the navigation have been made. You can find all Third Reich-relevant pages in the third reich history section (which includes Albert Speer architecture), and classic concept art and costume design of the old star trek series and movies in the new forgotten trek section.

February 4, 2005: Since I haven't been working on the New Traveller's Almanac pages of the victorian steampunk pages, I decided to put up something else there: classic science-fiction magazine covers, most of which are not steampunk, though, but still fun...

January 26, 2004: Updated the historical library eugenics page with a new theory regarding the admittance of the 52nd United States state, as suggested so by Sean Crago.

January 18, 2004: My, webmaster Palaeogothica of Steampunk: Victorian Adventures in a Past that Wasn't and webmaster Krzysztof of Retrostacja steampunk & pulp are currently in the process of starting up a forum dedicated to steampunk, mysteries and history. Please note that we're still working out the details, and that names and boards at the forums are all still under discussion...

January 16, 2005: We are not affiliated with the great steampunk website Retrostacja steampunk & pulp. Definately worth a visit.

January 15, 2005: Added the mittelwerk page about the German underground factories in the Harz Mountains to the mysteries and occult reich section.

January 10, 2004: What was formerly known as the Third Reich History section is now called mysteries and occult, there it now includes also other mysteries besides that of Nazi-Germany. On the reich section is also a new page concerning the flying disc in development. The new soviet section is also under construction, but so far includes information concerning the kept-secret Soviet space-weapon program.

Furthermore, we are now affiliated with the website Steampunk: Victorian Adventures in a Past that Wasn't. Certainly a must-read for any fan of the steampunk genre.

January 1, 2004: Updated the federation page of the historical library with information on the politics of the major powers from Star Trek.

December 28, 2004: Updated the flying disks pages of the third reich mysteries section.

December 26, 2004: Updated the linkage page and created a new banner; I will be working on two other new banners in the future, those probably focussed on Third Reich history and architecture. Also some minor updates in the victorian steampunk section, but nothing major.

December 17, 2003: Work on the victorian steampunk section is progressing; the early victorian pages are now all completed, save for the introduction to that era that I will still have to write. Also, almost all of the late victorian section is up, and I'm currently working on the New Traveller's Almanac section.

December 13, 2004: Lots of changes: first of all, our forums have moved. Since delta.place is practically dead, we decided to move to Simon's boards, the Blackadder Society forums. Of course, there's place for discussion on everything you can think up, and there is a place for historical and steampunk discussion also. Talking about steampunk, I'm launching a new section, the victorian steampunk pages. Here, you can find the history of the steampunk British Empire, influenced greatly by the League of Extraordinary Gentleman comic book series. Unfortunately for all Trek-fans, I've decided to drop the star trek section. This is mostly due to disintrest on my site, but the star trek concept art is still online. You can always find it at http://www.robsacc.nl/images/concept_art/.

November 28, 2004: Updated the third reich mysteries section. It now includes pages on antarctica, the Nazi atomic device, German foo fighters and flying disks, and Ohrdruf mystery.

November 24, 2004: Again a new design. It still has a lot of elements from the previous layout, but now the site is divided into four main sections, to which you can navigate using the links above. A submenu will then appear to your right... Furthermore, there are also updates to the content: I've rewritten the imperialism and revolution pages, as well as some much-needed grammer checking to the ancient egypt, hellas, and rome, and the world wars pages. Currently, I'm working on the third reich philosophy, and the modern and ancient egypt architecture pages.

Please, if you find any errors or bad grammer, don't hesitate to contact me, also if you just feel you need to comment on the new design, or the features of this website. I sincerely hope you like and enjoy the new layout, and will be able to find everything you are looking for.

November 15, 2004: Some updated to the third reich appendix: added the mysticism page, which now includes information on the Unterberg legend, and will hopefully include more on Nazi occult later on. Other updates to the mysteries page, with new images, documents, and quotes confirming the existence of Nazi flying saucers, and also new images concerning Antarctica.

November 7, 2004: My apoligies for the lack of updates lately. Besides being bussy with school work, I'm working on a new website for my parents' company, and I'm trying to keep up with a number of role play games and projects. Furthermore, due to lack of interest on my behalf, I have decided to take down my blog for the time being - I simply don't have the time and interest to regulary update it, which is a requirement for any blog.

Anyhow, I will try to work on some updates, but I can't promise anything. For now, I have made some minor changes to my banners (which can be found on the linkage page), and I have added a link to our forums at delta.place to your right.

November 1, 2004: Ex Astris Scientia has been awarded with Ottens Library's Elegance award. Congratulations to webmaster Bernd Schneider.

October 20, 2004: As you'll notice, the design of the Ottens Library has been altered somewhat. I've made several changed to the colour scheme, added a background image, and made some revisions to the several sections - the ancients and antiquity section are now one; the federation politics page can be found under star trek politics; the alternate history page is gone, all what if scenarios relevant to the Third Reich can be found under third reich (which was previously called the nazism page); the star trek interior design section is gone; the star wars concept art section is gone. The removed of the two latter is due to space limitations on my behalf. I am simply unable to maintain such a great ammount of large images on my server...

October 16, 2004: Added the ancients section to the historical library. There you find pages about the ancient civilizations of Mu, Hyperborea, Agartha and Atlantis... Also added pictures to the nazism philosophy page.

October 14, 2004: Some small revisions to the home page. I've added a link button to our community hosted at delta.place to the left, and you'll also notice a button leading to "ottens blog". What used to be the editorials can now be found there, alongside with other stuff you can expect to find on a blog...

October 10, 2004: Added the nazism philosophy page.

October 2, 2004: Ottens Library and Aegyptica Antica welcome To Bodly Go... The History of the Enterprise to our forums at delta.place! Any comment regarding either three websites can be placed in the "member sites" board at delta.place. Besides, there is of course room for discussion on a wide variety of subjects, and delta.place also houses the forums to several RPGs.

September 29, 2004: Added the ancient rome and ancient egypt pages to the architecture section. The ancient rome page is completed, while I'm still working on the egypt page.

September 21, 2004: Five new concept art images from Star Wars episode III: Revenge of the Sith in the star wars concept art section.

September 18, 2004: Please note that I have a new email adress. All mail is now to be sent to n.ottens@gmail.com.

September 14, 2004: Added lots of new image to the albert speer berlin images page of the New German Reichschancellery.

September 8, 2004: Added the webdesign page to the linkage section, where there are some previous layouts of this website exhibited. Also added the nazism section to the historical appendix, which so far includes information about nazi conspiracies and the Nazi Germany government.

September 4, 2004: Added the society page to the star trek philosophy section.

August 29, 2004: Updated the interior design page of the Galaxy class. New information on crew support facilities, and several new screencapture images.

August 25, 2004: Major albert speer updated. Now reachable through most of the pages is an image gallery. Many new images of the Germania models, the New Reichs Chancellery and the Nuremberg rally grounds. Also new is an essay by Albert Speer on The Führer's Buildings.

August 22, 2004: Updated the star trek concept art section. A few new images in the deep space nine section, and newly-scanned concept art images to the new the movies section.

Thanks to U.S.S. Admiral Federation Awards Team for awarding the Ottens Library with their Golden Excellence Award.

August 19, 2004: Some minor updating to the next generation concept art section; added four new images scanned from the The Next Generation The Movies Sketchbook. Also added several more pictures to the albert speer section (of the Germania models and of the Zepplin field).

August 17, 2004: Made a start to the deep space nine pages in the star trek interior design section. Also updated the eugenics wars and united earth pages, as well as the linkage section.

August 13, 2004: Cleaned up the editorials section. Changed the navigation to make it fit in with the rest of the site, and - for all American still considering voting Republican Party in the upcoming elections - I added a george bush article to the editorials.

August 11, 2004: Some nitpicking throughout the website. Thanks for Delta for pointing out some errors.

August 9, 2004: Uploaded a new design. The most notable change is to the navigation, which I think makes navigation through the website much more simple, and quicker. Some of the not-so-necessary articles have been removed, though most has survived the revision.

August 3, 3004: Due to space limitations, several images from the star trek galleries have been removed. Most, however, can still be found there. The star wars art section has been updated with a lot of episode one and classic trilogy concepts. Other minor updating to the albert speer, star trek concept art and star trek enterprise sections.

July 27, 2004: Added the star wars art section to the site, which contains a large collection of Star Wars concept art.

July 25, 2004: No one is seriously reading all this updates, right?

July 21, 2004: Added two new alternate history scenarios to the what if...? page; one about the Schlieffen Plan, and a second about the possible Soviet invasion of western Europe.

July 19, 2004: Updated the historical appendix. Cleared up the entire section; moved the philosophy, politics, schauberger and tesla pages to the "historical" page, and added the what if..? section, which discusses several alternate history scenarios.

July 12, 2004: Star Trek galleries update. Added several new images from Enterprise, and some images of actors and characters.

July 2, 2004: My apoligies for the lack of updates lately. I've been bussy adding and editting articles over at memory alpha. For those who are not familiar with it yes, it's basically a Star Trek wikipedia. Everyone is able to add of edit articles, and so create the most definitive, accurate, and accessible encyclopedia and reference for everything related to Star Trek. Check it out, if you haven't yet...

June 25, 2004: Updated the star trek enterprise section with a page about the Galaxy class Enterprise-D. Also added images to the original Enterprise page.

June 24, 2004: Added the enterprise section to the star trek appendix. Though it currently contains information on the original Enterprise only, I plan to add more about the Enterprise-D in the future. The romulus page has been moved to the 2150-2200 pages.

June 22, 2004: Made some updates throughout the website. Most notably I added an the Legend of Untersberg page to the knights templar page in the middle ages section.

June 20, 2004: I added several scanned concept art images from the Art of Star Trek book. The entire concept art section has been updated, mostly with new material from the book, and some background info.

June 19, 2004: Today, I bought a copy of The Art of Star Trek. It is really a great book, and I recommend every fan of concept art to buy it. I'm planning to scan some of the images I haven't yet at my website, so I may be updating the concept art section soon.

Furthermore, the Ottens Lexicon is proud to have won its first award (the first with this new design, actually). Unimatrix 0-1 has awarded the site with their Unimatrix 0-1 award. Thanks to webmaster Matosic!

June 18, 2004: Did some minor cleaning-up in the linkage section. Most notably, I moved my own banners to the main linkage section. Also, I set up a blog for myself. Check it out at ottens.blogdrive.com.

June 15, 2004: Updated the romulus page with information on Romulan history and society, and added a few new images to that page.

June 13, 2004: Added the romulus page to the star trek appendix. I will probably expand it later, with more historical information. Besides, our forums are now up at deltanet.uni.cc/forums.

June 12, 2004: Removed the temporal cold war page for now; it may return in the future. Note that our forums at delta.place are in the process of moving to a new server.

Furthermore, I updated the 2200-2400 section, with minor updates in the government section, and the addition of a dominion war page to the history section.

June 8, 2004: Made several updates in the albert speer section: added new images of several of the pages, and made some minor content changes. Also added the temporal cold war page to the star trek appendix, and updated the historical appendix section.

June 6, 2004: Massive galleries update: added The Worlds of Star Trek page with images of planets (including Earth) in the Trek universe.

June 4, 2004: Updated the federation government page with three new images. Also updated the linkage page with two new partner sites.

June 3, 2004: Added an article about Why abortion should be legal to the editorials section (under linkage).

June 2, 2004: Added two more concepts to The Next Generation concept art section.

May 30, 2004: Updated the architecture section with a new page on Palladian architecture and added the totalitarian architecture page to the worlds wars section.

May 28, 2004: Added a few more images of Star Trek: Phase II to the concept art section. Also added images to some of the library pages, and added an image to the albert speer galleries.

May 26, 2004: Added the knights templar page to the middle ages section. Also updated The Original Series & Phase II page in the concept art section with new material.

May 25, 2004: You are? Do you not have something better to do..?

May 24, 2004: Updated the concept art section with several new images in The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine & Voyager sections. Also added some new images to the star trek galleries.

May 23, 2004: Updated the concept art section again. New is a page about The Original Series and Star Trek: Phase II. Also, there are new images on The Motion Picture and Deep Space Nine pages, plus the entire section has been re-organized.

May 22, 2004: Updated the star trek concept art section. Added information about designing Deep Space Nine and the Enterprise-E. Also updated the Designing the Motion Picture page, with many new images, artworks, and designing the new Enterprise cargo bay and the walk to V'Ger.

May 21, 2004: Updated the star trek philosophy and galleries, and added many new images of The Motion Picture, Deep Space Nine, and Nemesis to the concept art section!

May 20, 2004: The entire website is up. I completed the historical and star trek (including the addition of new concept art) appendixes, and updated the renaissance and federation sections. Also added the nazi germany and totalitarian pages to the world wars section.

May 19, 2004: I finished the cold war, eugenics wars, romulan war, and federation section, and thereby the entire Library is up and running. Therefore, I decided to upload the new design to the site's main server.

May 18, 2004: All pages from the antiquity to the world wars (9000bc - 1950) are now up.

May 17, 2004: Completed the albert speer section, wrote the new pages, and added a galleries of Speer architecture. The disclaimer pages are also up.

May 14, 2004: My apoligies for the lack of updating lately, but I'm currently in the process of redesigning the entire website. For a preview, click the link here. I'm also planning to re-write most of the website's content, especially the library sections.

May 8, 2004: Titan Fleet Yards has won the Elegance award. Congratulations! New to the site is the architecture section, found in the historical appendix, which features information on several architectural styles. Also the 20th century art and architecture page has been updated.

May 7, 2004: Updated the Albert Speer section with an article "The Führer's Buildings", written by Speer, and added colour pictures of the new Reichs Chancellery to the Berlin page. Also added the review of Up the Long Ladder to the second season page of The Next Generation.

May 5, 2004: Made several minor updates throughout the website. Updated the reviews of The Next Generation's second season. The reviews of Enterprise's third season will have to wait, as they won't be broadcasted on dutch television yet.

Mpril 31, 2004: Completely updated the Albert Speer section. Added a navigation banner at the top of each Speer page, and added new information about the German world exposition pavilion. Also updated the entire historical appendix politics pages, and added a new article about why rich people should pay more tax to that section.

April 30, 2004: I've done some script updating, most of which you may not notice, but it makes it easier for me to manage all of the site's files...

April 29, 2004: Updated the star trek galleries with new VFX images from Enterprise. Also updated the concept art section with new material, added a few new reviews of the second season of The Next Generation, and did some minor updating in the 1900-2000 nazi-Germany section.

April 28, 2004: Updated the star trek concept art section. Note that all concept art from the new Enterprise series can be found under "the original series". Also updated the nazi-Germany pages, and the Albert Speer section in particular.

April 27, 2004: Updated the star trek concept art and galleries pages, added several new reviews to season two of The Next Generation, and added the Enterprise reviews of Bounty and The Expanse.

April 22, 2004: Added a page for the reviews of The Next Generation's second season. Currently, the reviews of the first five episodes are up. Also updated the star trek concept art section.

April 20, 2004: Added the Enterprise reviews of Regeneration and First Flight.

April 19, 2004: My partner Simon created a new website about ancient Egypt: Aegyptica Antica. Check out the linkage section. Also added an editorial about Enterprise and the History of Star Trek, and updated the home page with a random image javascript...

April 18, 2004: Updated the star trek concept art section.

April 17, 2004: Updated the star trek concept art section, and the star trek galleries. Also updated the disclaimer page.

April 16, 2004: Updated the editorial about the new site design and added the concept art section to the star trek appendix.

April 15, 2004: Updated the 2200-2400 member worlds page with information about the major federation member races. Also updated the home page with links to the site's main features, updated the star trek galleries, and adjusted the scrollbar colours for non-Mozilla users...

April 14, 2004: Updated yet another new design. See the new editorials section to read more about it. Also added the review of Cogenitor to the Enterprise reviews of season two.

April 12, 2004: Updated the 1925-1949 page in the 20th century section.

April 11, 2004: Created a separate page for the 1937 Paris World Exposition. Updated the 1930s architecture and the totalitarian architecture pages.

April 9, 2004: Made some minor adjustments to several pages, and updated the index site with links to main sections and articles of the site. Also added a page about submarines to the 20th century science and physics section.

April 6, 2004: Added the Enterprise reviews of Horizon and The Breach to the reviews page. Also added an article about cannibalism to the 500-1600 section.

April 4, 2004: I'm pleased to announce the Ottens Lexicon has now a place for its own forums at delta.place. Besides history discussion, it's also the home of the Myntar RPGs, and of course there's room for discussion on practically all other topics...

April 3, 2004: Updated the 20th century art and science pages as they are now named art and architecture and science and physics. Updated the pages about totalitarian architecture, 20th century science and Nikola Tesla.

April 2, 2004: Updated the 20th century art and science, the 20th century Nazi-Germany and the 2200-2400 pages. Also updated the star trek philosophy page with a new article, make sure to read it.

March 30, 2004: Added the review of Judgement.

March 25, 2004: I'm pleased to announce that the Ottens Lexicon has a new partner website: Simon's Pro Deo et Rege. Make sure to visit the linkage section.

March 24, 2004: Updated the 3000BC - 500BC page, with special thanks to Simon for his help regarding Egyptian mythology. Also added the review of The Crossing.

March 22, 2004: Updated several pages, most notably the 9000B - 3000BC page in the ancient and antique civilizations pages. Added information about the Sumerian civilization, and their gods from the planet Nibiru.

March 20, 2004: Uploaded the new, revised version of the website. Several sections and pages are still under construction.

March 18, 2004: Made some minor adjustments, mainly programming and coding; fixed some dead links and bugs. Also added the Enterprise review of Canamar.

March 12, 2004: Added two articles about The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind to the science-fiction pages: the Elder Scrolls history and religion in Morrowind.

March 8, 2004: Added the review of Future Tense.

March 5, 2004: Added a possible theory about the Eugenics Wars and the third world war to the 2000-2200 page, with thanks to Patrick Carroll. All reviews of The Next Generation's first season are completed now.

March 3, 2004: Updated the reviews of The Next Generation.

March 2, 2004: Updated the Star Trek Reviews pages and added the reviews of The Catwalk, Dawn, Stigma and Cease Fire, and the first part of the first The Next Generation season.

February 17, 2004: Added the what's new page to the Prologue section. Also added the reviews of Vanishing Point and Precious Cargo.

February 12, 2004: Added the reviews of Marauders, The Seventh, The Communicator and Singularity. Also updated the Star Wars Background page.