On Board the USS Enterprise Book...Next Year?

[Admiral_Young]

I stumbled upon this article while checking out something else on the blog...I'm suddenly very excited about this book. The Haynes Enterprise Manual was very disappointing. I have high hopes for this though...from the publishing date on Amazon US it looks like it will be out March of 2013.

http://8of5.blogspot.ca/2012/08/first-details-for-on-board-uss.html

 

[Christopher]

It would be nice if this corrected the mistakes in the old TNG Blueprints, like the lack of an arboretum on the inside to match the windows on the outside, or the lack of various Jefferies tubes like the one above Ten Forward in "Power Play."

Still, I'd be more interested if it were about the TOS Enterprise.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Next Gen? Bah. I want diagrams, cutaways, floor plans, specs etc. of the new movie Enterprise.

 

[DEWLine]

Okay...if this project's for real, it's got my interest.

As for the Abramsverse Enterprise...I'll be interested in that too.

 

[BillJ]

I'd be interested. But the $18.31 price seems insanely low.

 

[bullethead]

I'd be interested. But the $18.31 price seems insanely low.

I think it makes perfect sense. It's low enough to be a spur of the moment purchase, plus there's a lot of interest in TNG again thanks to the remastered Blu-Ray releases, so there's a larger market than there would be for something like a Voyager manual, which makes a lower price less of a risk. It also fits into the build up for STXII, because March 2013 is when the new Trek game is going to be released IIRC.

 

[Use of Time]

I can't wait. I love stuff like this. I think I'll wait forever to see something like this for the Defiant. I want to see just how cramped that ship really is.

 

[Christopher]

^There were Defiant deck-plan foldouts in the Deep Space Nine Technical Manual published in 1998.

 

[bullethead]

^There were Defiant deck-plan foldouts in the Deep Space Nine Technical Manual published in 1998.

Yeah, but they were those weird CG ones (IIRC, it's been years since I've seen it) that didn't look as classy as the ones in the TNG TM.

Also, they weren't consistent with the 170m length for the Defiant established by the manual, although that's not really Doug Drexler's fault. No one had any idea what size the ship was and he picked one that sounded good when he did the MSD.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I'm guessing the book was meant to originally come out in October as the article states because it was possibly acknowledging the 25th Anny of TNG. It also explains why it is focusing on the Enterprise-D as well.

 

[ALF]

I'd be interested. But the $18.31 price seems insanely low.

Part of a series maybe?

Wishful thinking, but the blog in that link reposts some of the canceled Japanese product "build the Enterprise" and that stuff blows my mind. Sooo quality. I can we can't have it.

The sample of the Deck 7 floorplans at the same link fixed the arboretum location.

I wonder if the 'tour' mentioned in the blurb of the CD-ROM is a revamped version of the Simon and Schuster interactive tour that came out in the mid 90s. Which Windows 7 won't run properly.

 

[Patrick O'Brien]

It would be nice if this corrected the mistakes in the old TNG Blueprints, like the lack of an arboretum on the inside to match the windows on the outside, or the lack of various Jefferies tubes like the one above Ten Forward in "Power Play."

Still, I'd be more interested if it were about the TOS Enterprise.

Do you reference any of these types of technical manuals when writing a stroy Chris?

 

[Warp Coil]

I wonder if the 'tour' mentioned in the blurb of the CD-ROM is a revamped version of the Simon and Schuster interactive tour that came out in the mid 90s.

That was the first thing that popped up in my mind. I really hope that this is far better than that. I was quite disappointed with that product. It was supposed to be an interactive tech manual, wasn't it? (It's been so long I can't remember)

 

[Christopher]

Do you reference any of these types of technical manuals when writing a stroy Chris?

Certainly, if it's useful to what I'm writing. My acknowledgments and online annotations list the reference sources I draw on.

But as it happens, the only thing I've ever written that was set aboard the Enterprise-D (aside from a rejected TNG spec script) was the last 5 pages of The Buried Age, and all but one paragraph of that was in shuttlebay 2, the bridge, and the ready room, so I don't think I've ever needed to consult my TNG Blueprints set for my writing.

 

[CaptainDonovin]

I love technical manuals & blueprints so I'm in.

 

[Patrick O'Brien]

Do you reference any of these types of technical manuals when writing a stroy Chris?

Certainly, if it's useful to what I'm writing. My acknowledgments and online annotations list the reference sources I draw on.

But as it happens, the only thing I've ever written that was set aboard the Enterprise-D (aside from a rejected TNG spec script) was the last 5 pages of The Buried Age, and all but one paragraph of that was in shuttlebay 2, the bridge, and the ready room, so I don't think I've ever needed to consult my TNG Blueprints set for my writing.

I would guess you are rather familiar with those locations from the show/general knowledge

 

[F. King Daniel]

I remember thinking, as Barbera Hamberly described in detail the route between parts of the Enterprise in either Crossroad or Ghost Walker, that she must have been writing with a copy of Franz Joseph's Star Trek Blueprints nearby.

 

[Christopher]

I bet it was Crossroad (or maybe both), since that one actually has a scene set in the ship's bowling alley.