Franz Joseph's Star Trek

That's it! I love you guys.

 

It would be neat to crowdsource the creation of the other missing pages. Obsessive...but neat.

 

Awesome!

 

There were several old fan manuals and booklets released in the style of FJ's work. From the Files of Star Fleet Command (was that the name?) was basically a TMP-era update booklet.

 

The Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual (1977) by Eileen Palestine, Geoffrey Mandel, Doug Drexler, et al is an official publication that is clearly inspired by the Technical Manual with some drawings that would fit right in as supplementary.

In the area of high-quality fan work inspired by the Tech Manual, there's:

- The U.S.S. Enterprise Officer's Manual (1980) by Geoffrey Mandel and Doug Drexler.

- The Federation Reference Series (1985) by Aridas Sofia et al would also fit in as supplementary to the FJTM. @aridas sofia is a member of TrekBBS who's done a lot of beautiful drawings in the style of the Tech Manual.

 

The Star Fleet Handbook! There were several volumes. That's the one I was thinking of. Some of it was reprinted in the USS Enterprise Officer's Manual.

 

Considering myself fortunate to have acquired three or four issues of this 'zine awhile back. There's some really cool stuff there. And you are correct, some of ended up in Mandel's USS Enterprise Officer's Manual.

 

I love the old tech manuals.

 

It seems like a more innocent time in fandom.

I recall as a kid spending hours pouring over the tech manual and the blueprints.

 

As noted earlier in the thread, the legacy of the Star Fleet Technical Manual also lives on through the games and fiction of the Star Fleet Universe, in which the "Franz Joseph" designs play a prominent role in what the SFU refers to as the "Middle Years". Indeed, a new set of 3D models for "the ships of Franz Joseph" have recently been uploaded to ADB's Shapeways storefront.

(In the SFU timeline, First Contact takes place in Y1; the "five-year mission" dramatized for tri-video takes place between Y154 and Y159; while the prior incident at Talos IV happened in Y142. The "Middle Years" runs from approximately Y120 through to the early-to-mid-Y160s.)

The galaxy map in the SFU is derived from that in the Technical Manual, yet differs in certain respects. The Federation is still a big circle, with the Klingons on one flank and the Romulans on the other. In order to get around it, a "modern" (GURPS Prime Directive Tech Level 12) ship, such as a Consitution-class heavy cruiser, has three tiers of warp movement: "tactical" warp, at which the ship may fight at speeds up to warp 3.14 (or a speed of 31 in Star Fleet Battles terms); "operational" warp, which allows the same ship to move around five hundred parsecs a month (or six hexes' worth of operational movement on the hex map used in the strategic-level game Federation and Empire); and "dash" or "strategic" warp, which allows the ship to rush along pre-prepared routes to and from key strategic movement nodes (such as the bases and planets prominent enough to be marked on the F&E map).

Also, there are deck plans for the Federation Burke-class frigate, one of ADB's "home-grown" ship designs, in the Federation sourcebook for Prime Directive; it's worth noting that this ship, like its sister ships, has no central "warp core", as there would be in post-1979 Franchise Trek - most of the equipment needed to make the warp engines work is in the nacelles themselves.