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USS ENTERPRISE HAYNES OWNERS MANUAL (Part 3)

It really doesn't surprise me though that the book got such a raving review in the "Star Trek" Magazine. I can't stand the magazine. Have tried to buy a couple of issues but I just don't like the lay out and material in the magazine. It's not worth it to me to buy it. It provides nothing of interest to me. My friend still buys it monthly though lol. I really miss the Star Trek Communicator :(
 
Yeah, the Communicator was great. Even Star Trek: The Magazine was great, before it became no more than a propaganda rag for ENT. IMO, the most enjoyable Trek mags I ever read and bought, were the Starlog ST: TNG magazines... oh, how I miss those.
 
Still have all my ST:the Mags. I pluck one out and look at the pretty diagrams (I'm a diagram fanatic) every now and then. I never liked the writing in them, though. It always seemed ... I dunno, sophomoric. And the diagrams seemed to have been labeled by the artist after he lost his technical notes, but not his color notes - "A red door is on this side of the room." "A technician sat in this blue chair here." "The corridors featured a bold red stripe." :lol:
 
My one REAL BIG complaint about Star Trek: The Magazine was that during it's ENTIRE run... it never had one single solitary interview with Gates McFadden... not even a blurb. It was content to devote an interview to some no-name redshirt that had been phasered to death or turned into a cube and crushed, but Dr. Beverly Crusher, a MAIN character in TNG... no, we can't have that.
 
Great book; wished there were more of the great B/W cutaway drawings and more backround on Enterprise NX-01 in the Romulan War, and the war in general.

I asked Mr Okuda if there would be a 4th ed. of the Encyclopedia, but he thought it unlikely.
 
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Yeah... after how they botched and half-assed this book... I think it's safe to say that a new Encyclopedia will be a no-go.

Regarding Star Trek: The Magazine... I do own every issue ever of the publication, despite the Gates thing... it was more out of wanting a complete collection than anything else.

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^^ What's that book, Star Trek - The Next Generation Blueprints on your shelf? I'm not familiar with that one.
 
I'm pretty sure I have every issue, along with a pretty substantial run of Star Trek Communicator. I was keeping up with the current Star Trek magazine, but current circumstances have forced me to skip the last couple of issues. Hopefully, the job situation will change soon for the better and I can start playing some catch-up.
 
I had the majority of the magazine but stopped as it went off the boil. I look at the new one every now and then but they don't have anything new to print, just a rehash of old stories.

As for the book in question, I quite like it. Not perfect, but still good none the less.
 
I had the majority of Star Trek: The Magazine as well but gave them to a friend when I moved and had no room for them. That's a nice shelf BolianAdmiral. Margaret Clark if I recall was adamant that we would not see any more reference books like the Star Trek Encyclopedia due to low sales. I've still not seen any sales figures for the Haynes Manual. I know that most of the Chapters in Vancouver still have a fair number of them left on the shelves. I'd really be interested in an updated Star Trek Chronology but am satisfied with the Memory Alpha timeline. I love timelines as much as I love schematics.
 
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