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Limited edition three volume set of best-selling Shipyards series, featuring starships from Starfleet and the Federation. Includes designed slipcase and fold-out starship size chart poster.
THREE VOLUME SET FEATURING THE SHIPS OF STARFLEET AND THE FEDERATION
· Star Trek Shipyards: 2151-2293 - More than 250 years' worth of Starfleet ships and their Earth-operated precursors.
· Star Trek Shipyards: 2294 to the Future - Starfleet vessels from the 24th century
· Star Trek Shipyards: Federation Members - New for 2019, featuring ships of the United Federation of Planets
Limited edition box set with designed slipcase. Each book is a hardcover with dustjacket.
Large fold-out starship size chart poster included (approx. 35"x25").
THREE VOLUME SET FEATURING THE SHIPS OF STARFLEET AND THE FEDERATION
· Star Trek Shipyards: 2151-2293 - More than 250 years' worth of Starfleet ships and their Earth-operated precursors.
· Star Trek Shipyards: 2294 to the Future - Starfleet vessels from the 24th century
· Star Trek Shipyards: Federation Members - New for 2019, featuring ships of the United Federation of Planets
Limited edition box set with designed slipcase. Each book is a hardcover with dustjacket.
Large fold-out starship size chart poster included (approx. 35"x25").
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author:
Ben Robinson is best known as the man behind Eaglemoss's Official Star Trek Starships collection, which in the last three years has become the largest and best-regarded collections of model Star Trek ships ever produced.
He has been involved with Star Trek for 20 years. Ben was the launch editor of the huge Star Trek Fact Files reference work, which sold over 50 million units. Then he went on to edit the US Star Trek: The Magazine, which ran between 1999 and 2003. He has co-written two Haynes Manuals, the first featuring all seven Enterprises, and the second focusing on the Klingon Bird-of-Prey. Ben is particularly passionate about the writing, design, and visual effects behind the series. In the last two decades he has conducted extensive interviews with many of the most significant figures in the history of Star Trek from Dorothy Fontana and Matt Jefferies to Michael Piller, Ira Steven Behr, Ron D. Moore, and Bryan Fuller.
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He has been involved with Star Trek for 20 years. Ben was the launch editor of the huge Star Trek Fact Files reference work, which sold over 50 million units. Then he went on to edit the US Star Trek: The Magazine, which ran between 1999 and 2003. He has co-written two Haynes Manuals, the first featuring all seven Enterprises, and the second focusing on the Klingon Bird-of-Prey. Ben is particularly passionate about the writing, design, and visual effects behind the series. In the last two decades he has conducted extensive interviews with many of the most significant figures in the history of Star Trek from Dorothy Fontana and Matt Jefferies to Michael Piller, Ira Steven Behr, Ron D. Moore, and Bryan Fuller.
Star Trek Shipyards Star Trek Starships: 2151-2293 The Encyclopedia of Starfleet Ships
Foreword
This is the first in a series of books that is designed to build into a detailed reference library. Our goal is to produce the most detailed and comprehensive guide to STAR TREK’s ships ever published. Each book will cover a different group of ships. This book and its sister volume cover Starfleet ships, which are divided by era. Other volumes will cover geographical areas, such as the Delta Quadrant, or political groups such as the Klingon Empire. The plan is that eventually we will cover every corner and every minute of the STAR TREK universe.
There are, of course, some rules. The ships are in this book are all canon ships that have appeared in one of the STAR TREK TV series or movies. Some of them are obscure, and were only seen as wreckage in the aftermath of the Battle of Wolf 359, but they were there. The ships in this book are all from the Prime timeline and don’t take account of the vessels that can be found in the movies that have been made since 2009. There will be a place for them, but this is not it. Likewise, you won’t find ships that have only appeared in books, games, calendars or the animated STAR TREK series from the 1970s. Nor will you find ships that have only been glimpsed in graphics or mentioned in passing.
What you will find, is detailed plan views of every ship, with carefully researched text that details their onscreen adventures. You will have the chance to pore over these to pick up details that might have flashed by onscreen. And, you will able to see how Starfleet ships have evolved over the years and how they compare to one another.
This book starts at the beginning with the first vessels in the STAR TREK universe that headed out into space, from Khan’s sleeper ship, the Botany Bay to Kirk’s Enterprise. It also includes all the Starfleet ships from the first season of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, putting them in context between Archer and Kirk. It’s a book that we feel should have existed before, and we are incredibly proud and pleased to be able to bring it to you. It’s the beginning of an extraordinary journey that we hope will help to put one of the most exciting aspects of STAR TREK in your hands.
Star Trek Shipyards Star Trek Starships: 2294 to the Future The Encyclopedia of Starfleet Ships
Foreword
This is the second book in a new series that will build into a detailed reference work covering all the ships that have appeared in STAR TREK over the years. This book and its sister volume cover Starfleet ships: the first volume covers the ships from STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE, STAR TREK: DISCOVERY and the original series; this volume covers the STAR TREK: NEXT GENERATION era and the handful ships of that we know about from the early years of the 24th century. Other volumes will cover geographical areas, such as the Delta Quadrant, or races such as the Klingons. The plan is that eventually we will cover every part of the STAR TREK universe.
The ships that are in this book are all canon ships that have appeared in one of the STAR TREK TV series or movies, however briefly. All are from the Prime timeline and don’t take account of the vessels that can be found in the movies made since 2009, or in some of the parallel realities that we have seen on the show. This is not the place for ships that have only appeared in books, games, calendars, or the animated STAR TREK series. For now at least there won’t be any ships that have only been referred to in dialogue or seen as graphics on a computer display.
What this book does contain is detailed in-universe profiles of every ship along with plan views. The computer generated artwork will give you the chance to look at things in unprecedented detail, something that is particularly relevant for ships that only made the briefest of appearances on screen.
This book starts just after Kirk’s death aboard the Enterprise-B and ends in the distant future, when the Federation will be operating timeships rather than starships and the Enterprise-J will dwarf its predecessors. It includes all the Starfleet ships from STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE and STAR TREK: VOYAGER. We’ve said before that it’s something we think people have been waiting for, and we hope that it’s everything they want. It has been a great privilege to work with the talented artists who created the ships, and to bring all these ships together in one place.
Star Trek Shipyards: Federation Members
Foreward
The ships in this book were all operated by members of the United Federation of Planets, the vast organization that is at the heart of STAR TREK. The line between Starfleet and the Federation has always been a fuzzy one. Starfleet’s crews are drawn from the countless races that make up the Federation, but every now and again we have seen ships that clearly belong to the individual member races. Many of those vessels are described as freighters or science vessels, and are operated by organizations such as the Trill Science Academy and the Federation’s civilian citizens, including Harry Mudd and Ben Sisko’s wife, Kassidy Yates.
For those who like to quibble, we’d like to acknowledge that many of those ships made their debuts in STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE, which is set in the decades before the Federation was formed. That show introduced us to most of the Vulcan, Andorian and Tellarite ships you’ll find on the following pages. Technically, these aren’t Federation vessels, but, despite our concerns about the timeline and their place in history, we’ve included them because this is where they seem to belong. We made the decision to treat similar vessels from Earth’s history differently, and they can be found in the sister volume to this book, which covers the early years of Starfleet. We’ve also included ships that are operated by the Federation’s closest allies – the Bajorans, again because this seemed like the best place for them.
This book should be seen very much as part of a series, and ideally should be consulted alongside the other volumes, which cover Starfleet, the Klingons, and the other alien races that fill the STAR TREK Universe. Together the goal is to create a comprehensive reference to all the ships that have appeared in STAR TREK. We hope that this volume in particular provides a glimpse of the wider world of STAR TREK, which has often only hinted at the depth and richness of the cultures that make up the Federation.
Chapter 1
VULCAN COMMAND FLEET
VULCAN SURVEY VESSEL D’VAHL
The D’Vahl was a Vulcan survey ship that landed on the primitive planet Earth in the 20th century.
By the mid-20th century in the Earth calendar, Vulcan was a warp-capable civilization that had begun to expand and explore the Galaxy. Survey vessels of varying classes and capabilities began cataloguing the technological progress of many far-flung worlds, assessing for first contact potential. One such world was Earth, the attention of the Vulcans attracted by the launch of the planet’s first orbital satellite, Sputnik. This ultimately brought the Vulcan survey vessel D’Vahl to the Solar System in the year 1957, responding to a distress call from a sister survey ship that experienced a catastrophic system failure.
INTER-PLANETARY SURVEY SHIP
The D’Vahl was under the command of Captain Tellus in this period of history, his ship undertaking a wide variety of survey missions around the galaxy during this time. The D’Vahl displayed the typically sleek aesthetics common to Vulcan starship design, leaning towards an aerodynamically efficient dart-like construction. The D’Vahl was not a large ship, with only a limited number of decks, crewed by a handful of survey officers under Tellus’ command. It was warp capable, the necessary warp field generated by three engine pods – one mounted on the aft dorsal section with two further pods ranged to the lower port and starboard aft sections.
Although warp capable, the D’Vahl was able to enter a planet’s atmosphere when needed. Its flight at impulse speeds and in planetary atmospheres was stabilised by forward-ranged wings to port and starboard, held in a swept back configuration. Unlikely to possess transporter capability in this early period, the D’Vahl regularly made planetfall on survey worlds, its landings made secure on varied terrain by three retractable landing gears in a three-point formation. When locked in the open position, the forward landing gear uncovered a powerful landing/searchlight.
In the Earth year 1957, an unnamed Vulcan survey ship of a different class to the D’Vahl came under flight difficulties while in orbit of the planet to engage in a survey of the Sputnik satellite. The ship’s warp manifold failed during the third week of the mission, forcing the four-person crew to effect an emergency landing on the continent known as North America. During the landing, the captain was killed and the ship damaged beyond repair. Surviving crewmembers T’Mir, Stron and Mestral were stranded on this primitive world, not knowing whether their distress call had reached Vulcan High Command. With no other option available to them, the three Vulcans attempted to integrate covertly with the local human mining settlement of Carbon Creek. They awaited a rescue that may never arrive.
RESCUE MISSION
It transpired the Vulcan distress call was successfully sent and intercepted by a Tellarite freighter. Ignoring the extreme urgency of the situation, it took the Tellarites some time to forward the distress call on to the Vulcan High Command. As soon as it was received on Vulcan, Captain Tellus and his survey crew were assigned the rescue mission, setting course for the voyage to Earth aboard the D’Vahl.
With the survey team out of communications range, it was unclear if there were any survivorsto rescue. Three days out from Earth, the D’Vahl finally made contact with the survivors. Tellus advised T’Mir and her comrades to rendezvous with the D’Vahl at the crash site.
The D’Vahl made planetfall on Earth at the appointed time without alerting the nearby mining settlement. On rendezvousing with the survey team survivors, Tellus found only two of the four awaiting rescue. T’Mir informed Tellus that their captain and Mestral had perished in the crash, their remains cremated.
T’Mir and Stron joined Captain Tellus aboard his ship. Its rescue mission accomplished, the D’Vahl left Earth, ready to return the survivors to Vulcan.
FIRST CONTACT?
The arrival of the crashed survey ship and, later, the D’Vahl, on Earth predates Zefram Cochrane’s breaking of the warp barrier by just over acentury, and in real terms marked the first contact between Vulcans and humans. According to the earth starship Enterprise’s Vulcan science officer T’Pol, details of the incident were readily available in the Vulcan Science Directorate and Space Council. However, for the sake of history, little attention has been drawn to this relatively minor incident.
Foreword
This is the first in a series of books that is designed to build into a detailed reference library. Our goal is to produce the most detailed and comprehensive guide to STAR TREK’s ships ever published. Each book will cover a different group of ships. This book and its sister volume cover Starfleet ships, which are divided by era. Other volumes will cover geographical areas, such as the Delta Quadrant, or political groups such as the Klingon Empire. The plan is that eventually we will cover every corner and every minute of the STAR TREK universe.
There are, of course, some rules. The ships are in this book are all canon ships that have appeared in one of the STAR TREK TV series or movies. Some of them are obscure, and were only seen as wreckage in the aftermath of the Battle of Wolf 359, but they were there. The ships in this book are all from the Prime timeline and don’t take account of the vessels that can be found in the movies that have been made since 2009. There will be a place for them, but this is not it. Likewise, you won’t find ships that have only appeared in books, games, calendars or the animated STAR TREK series from the 1970s. Nor will you find ships that have only been glimpsed in graphics or mentioned in passing.
What you will find, is detailed plan views of every ship, with carefully researched text that details their onscreen adventures. You will have the chance to pore over these to pick up details that might have flashed by onscreen. And, you will able to see how Starfleet ships have evolved over the years and how they compare to one another.
This book starts at the beginning with the first vessels in the STAR TREK universe that headed out into space, from Khan’s sleeper ship, the Botany Bay to Kirk’s Enterprise. It also includes all the Starfleet ships from the first season of STAR TREK: DISCOVERY, putting them in context between Archer and Kirk. It’s a book that we feel should have existed before, and we are incredibly proud and pleased to be able to bring it to you. It’s the beginning of an extraordinary journey that we hope will help to put one of the most exciting aspects of STAR TREK in your hands.
Star Trek Shipyards Star Trek Starships: 2294 to the Future The Encyclopedia of Starfleet Ships
Foreword
This is the second book in a new series that will build into a detailed reference work covering all the ships that have appeared in STAR TREK over the years. This book and its sister volume cover Starfleet ships: the first volume covers the ships from STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE, STAR TREK: DISCOVERY and the original series; this volume covers the STAR TREK: NEXT GENERATION era and the handful ships of that we know about from the early years of the 24th century. Other volumes will cover geographical areas, such as the Delta Quadrant, or races such as the Klingons. The plan is that eventually we will cover every part of the STAR TREK universe.
The ships that are in this book are all canon ships that have appeared in one of the STAR TREK TV series or movies, however briefly. All are from the Prime timeline and don’t take account of the vessels that can be found in the movies made since 2009, or in some of the parallel realities that we have seen on the show. This is not the place for ships that have only appeared in books, games, calendars, or the animated STAR TREK series. For now at least there won’t be any ships that have only been referred to in dialogue or seen as graphics on a computer display.
What this book does contain is detailed in-universe profiles of every ship along with plan views. The computer generated artwork will give you the chance to look at things in unprecedented detail, something that is particularly relevant for ships that only made the briefest of appearances on screen.
This book starts just after Kirk’s death aboard the Enterprise-B and ends in the distant future, when the Federation will be operating timeships rather than starships and the Enterprise-J will dwarf its predecessors. It includes all the Starfleet ships from STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION, STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE and STAR TREK: VOYAGER. We’ve said before that it’s something we think people have been waiting for, and we hope that it’s everything they want. It has been a great privilege to work with the talented artists who created the ships, and to bring all these ships together in one place.
Star Trek Shipyards: Federation Members
Foreward
The ships in this book were all operated by members of the United Federation of Planets, the vast organization that is at the heart of STAR TREK. The line between Starfleet and the Federation has always been a fuzzy one. Starfleet’s crews are drawn from the countless races that make up the Federation, but every now and again we have seen ships that clearly belong to the individual member races. Many of those vessels are described as freighters or science vessels, and are operated by organizations such as the Trill Science Academy and the Federation’s civilian citizens, including Harry Mudd and Ben Sisko’s wife, Kassidy Yates.
For those who like to quibble, we’d like to acknowledge that many of those ships made their debuts in STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE, which is set in the decades before the Federation was formed. That show introduced us to most of the Vulcan, Andorian and Tellarite ships you’ll find on the following pages. Technically, these aren’t Federation vessels, but, despite our concerns about the timeline and their place in history, we’ve included them because this is where they seem to belong. We made the decision to treat similar vessels from Earth’s history differently, and they can be found in the sister volume to this book, which covers the early years of Starfleet. We’ve also included ships that are operated by the Federation’s closest allies – the Bajorans, again because this seemed like the best place for them.
This book should be seen very much as part of a series, and ideally should be consulted alongside the other volumes, which cover Starfleet, the Klingons, and the other alien races that fill the STAR TREK Universe. Together the goal is to create a comprehensive reference to all the ships that have appeared in STAR TREK. We hope that this volume in particular provides a glimpse of the wider world of STAR TREK, which has often only hinted at the depth and richness of the cultures that make up the Federation.
Chapter 1
VULCAN COMMAND FLEET
VULCAN SURVEY VESSEL D’VAHL
The D’Vahl was a Vulcan survey ship that landed on the primitive planet Earth in the 20th century.
By the mid-20th century in the Earth calendar, Vulcan was a warp-capable civilization that had begun to expand and explore the Galaxy. Survey vessels of varying classes and capabilities began cataloguing the technological progress of many far-flung worlds, assessing for first contact potential. One such world was Earth, the attention of the Vulcans attracted by the launch of the planet’s first orbital satellite, Sputnik. This ultimately brought the Vulcan survey vessel D’Vahl to the Solar System in the year 1957, responding to a distress call from a sister survey ship that experienced a catastrophic system failure.
INTER-PLANETARY SURVEY SHIP
The D’Vahl was under the command of Captain Tellus in this period of history, his ship undertaking a wide variety of survey missions around the galaxy during this time. The D’Vahl displayed the typically sleek aesthetics common to Vulcan starship design, leaning towards an aerodynamically efficient dart-like construction. The D’Vahl was not a large ship, with only a limited number of decks, crewed by a handful of survey officers under Tellus’ command. It was warp capable, the necessary warp field generated by three engine pods – one mounted on the aft dorsal section with two further pods ranged to the lower port and starboard aft sections.
Although warp capable, the D’Vahl was able to enter a planet’s atmosphere when needed. Its flight at impulse speeds and in planetary atmospheres was stabilised by forward-ranged wings to port and starboard, held in a swept back configuration. Unlikely to possess transporter capability in this early period, the D’Vahl regularly made planetfall on survey worlds, its landings made secure on varied terrain by three retractable landing gears in a three-point formation. When locked in the open position, the forward landing gear uncovered a powerful landing/searchlight.
In the Earth year 1957, an unnamed Vulcan survey ship of a different class to the D’Vahl came under flight difficulties while in orbit of the planet to engage in a survey of the Sputnik satellite. The ship’s warp manifold failed during the third week of the mission, forcing the four-person crew to effect an emergency landing on the continent known as North America. During the landing, the captain was killed and the ship damaged beyond repair. Surviving crewmembers T’Mir, Stron and Mestral were stranded on this primitive world, not knowing whether their distress call had reached Vulcan High Command. With no other option available to them, the three Vulcans attempted to integrate covertly with the local human mining settlement of Carbon Creek. They awaited a rescue that may never arrive.
RESCUE MISSION
It transpired the Vulcan distress call was successfully sent and intercepted by a Tellarite freighter. Ignoring the extreme urgency of the situation, it took the Tellarites some time to forward the distress call on to the Vulcan High Command. As soon as it was received on Vulcan, Captain Tellus and his survey crew were assigned the rescue mission, setting course for the voyage to Earth aboard the D’Vahl.
With the survey team out of communications range, it was unclear if there were any survivorsto rescue. Three days out from Earth, the D’Vahl finally made contact with the survivors. Tellus advised T’Mir and her comrades to rendezvous with the D’Vahl at the crash site.
The D’Vahl made planetfall on Earth at the appointed time without alerting the nearby mining settlement. On rendezvousing with the survey team survivors, Tellus found only two of the four awaiting rescue. T’Mir informed Tellus that their captain and Mestral had perished in the crash, their remains cremated.
T’Mir and Stron joined Captain Tellus aboard his ship. Its rescue mission accomplished, the D’Vahl left Earth, ready to return the survivors to Vulcan.
FIRST CONTACT?
The arrival of the crashed survey ship and, later, the D’Vahl, on Earth predates Zefram Cochrane’s breaking of the warp barrier by just over acentury, and in real terms marked the first contact between Vulcans and humans. According to the earth starship Enterprise’s Vulcan science officer T’Pol, details of the incident were readily available in the Vulcan Science Directorate and Space Council. However, for the sake of history, little attention has been drawn to this relatively minor incident.
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- PublisherHero Collector
- Publication date2019
- ISBN 10 1858756065
- ISBN 13 9781858756066
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages600
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