Star Trek FAQ 2.0 is the companion volume to Star Trek FAQ: Everything Left to Know about the First Voyages of Starship Enterprise, released in 2012. Star Trek FAQ recounted the creation of the original Star Trek, its untimely cancellation and its unprecedented, near-miraculous resurrection in the 1970s. Star Trek FAQ 2.0 picks up the story from there, beginning with the near-death experience that was Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) and continuing through the franchise's second amazing revival, fueled by a blockbuster trilogy of feature films and the wildly successful Star Trek: The Next Generation series.

Clark addresses Star Trek as a unified franchise, with a shared history and a single—albeit, at times fragmented—fan base. And, for more than twenty years, the movies and various television series interacted with one another in sometimes surprising ways, creating synergies that helped Star Trek soar to the pinnacle of its popularity and mainstream acceptance in the early 1990s, but later exacerbated the decline of the franchise when ratings and box office receipts slumped in the early 2000s. Looking at the franchise holistically Star Trek FAQ 2.0 reveals fresh insights into the backstage dynamics of both the movies and the television programs and provides new perspectives on why audiences embraced some products and rejected others. This approach also sets Star Trek FAQ 2.0 apart from most Star Trek histories, which typically treat the original program and original cast feature films, The Next Generation and its movies, and the various spin-off series, all as distinct entities. Illustrated throughout.