This thing evolved eventually from a very simple and dumb database for me to use for selecting random episodes from my TOS and TNG sets, which is also mostly why those two are the only ones presently represented with DVD/Blu-ray entries.
In short, itʼs a PostgreSQL database containing metadata for all the
episodes and movies in the Star Trek franchise. In this version Iʼm
pushing out publicly, I designed it a bit generically and loosely
modeled after the MusicBrainz database. I
initially had tables for all the series but it created a lot of
redundant schema details throughout, and was a pain when I wanted to
do ALTER TABLE to change them around. Itʼs a little bit unwieldy at
times, but everything has UUIDs now and a few layers of indirection
between it all. Overall though, this is exactly what views are for,
and Iʼve included some obvious ones already.
All seven official series and thirteen movies are included in the database, with one extra: Star Trek Continues, because Iʼm a fan of their work. Perhaps opening the floodgates a bit too much for people to add other fan series, but thatʼs perfectly fine by me.
As I made this with PostgreSQL, thatʼs what youʼll need to have installed and running in order to load this database. PostgreSQL is available on all the major OSes (including Linux, Windows, and Mac OS) and isnʼt difficult to set up. I wonʼt cover how to do that here. Any recent version should do (I did this on 9.4).
Once you have PostgreSQL installed and running, I recommend creating a
new database, probably with a name like startrek, to load the schema
and data into. A separate database isnʼt strictly required, but you
may run into collision issues by using another.
As the database superuser, run CREATE EXTENSION pgcrypto on the
startrek database, this extension is required in order to use the
gen_random_uuid() function. Following that, the following two
commands should load the schema and the data:
$ psql -f schema.sql startrek $ psql -f data.sql startrek