One ‘mistake’ I’ve found:
The book suggests that Lurians (Morn’s species) are from the Gamma Quadrant, but Morn arrived on DS9 years before the wormhole was discovered.
Still waiting for my FLGS to get the book in stock. It sounds like this one is full of different types of material.
Garrett
“There are three sides to the truth”?
I’m still over the moon about the half-page of info on the Kzin - I didn’t think that would have made it past the license limitations!
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Which page?
P38, under Dominion Allies.
Now I know which page I have to edit… 
Is it an issue?
I don’t think that the Kzin belong in this book, because the Kzin are part of a different franchise (Larry Niven’s Known Space). And the only Trek episode (TAS “Slaver Weapon”) in which they appear is an adaption of a Known Space short story (adapted for TAS by Niven himself). This is one of the few episodes which I do not consider canon.
I’ll admit it’s always been a bit hazy, along with most of the animated series. But it is officially considered canon as it was onscreen… Which has caused the franchise a few issues over the decades, since the licensing got complicated (both the Tzenkethi and the Xindi are said to be attempts to paper over the cracks).
Of course, as a friend of mine points out - game canon is whatever you want it to be. I tend to add rather than subtract (although I’m tempted to go with “Voyager never came home”), but that’s personal preference
Not worth hacking your copy of the book though, surely? There are no stats, so your players can’t claim to play one…
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Read the Wiki-article! Kzin is the singular form while Kzinti is the plural form.
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RPG isn’t canon. CBS approved the manuscript’s contents, but that doesn’t make it canon. Use it or not as you see fit. The Kzinti aren’t the first piece of TAS we managed to get into the game.
And that’s not the Problem, because TAS is canon.
(There are atleast four episodes and a movie which I do not consider canon: “Spock’s Brain” (TOS), “Slaver Weapon” (TAS, mostly because of the background of the said weapon), “Force of Nature” (TNG), “Threshold” (VOY) and Star Trek V.)
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Threshold was the worst!
But yeah, I get head canon, we all have it some degree or another. Even the major sticklers that think everything said and done on any show is immutable canon have a head canon for how all of the often contradictory material meshes together.
I personally love that the Kzinti were included. They were even slated to be in the next season of Enterprise, but its cancellation axed that.
I’m running a TOS game and I don’t find Spock’s Brain to be too bad, but I am booting Way To Eden.
Also, various episodes will get a serious script revision to bring things more up to date. For instance, in Turnabout Intruder, Janice Lester was clinically insane and only believed she had been turned down because she was a woman when no such prohibition actually existed.
Some of the Dominion vessels have photon torpedo arrays (with Area or Spread as with phaser arrays). Is this correct?
For better or worse, the animated has been treated as canon by CBS, since if they didn’t consider it such, it wouldn’t have been approved.
Further, Niven has said that he willingly added the Kzin and gave permission for their continued use, a permission largely unused.
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Is there already an errata out for corrections?
Not yet. Errata is on the to-do list.
I would be thrilled, to get a dedicated sourcebook for ships!