Starfleet Technical Manual... finished?

[Neopeius]

Most of us grew up with the Technical Manual. It's a great book which formed the foundation of so much which came later, particularly if you played Star Fleet Battles.

In the indexes of the book, it makes reference to pages which aren't actually there. Maps, codes, races, all indexed but not actually included.

Has anyone ever made fan additions to the Technical Manual?

 

[WendellM]

Agreed. Though it has some errors (now known due to info not readily available then, like easy DVD screencaps), the Tech Manual was a great reference back in the day, and I've spent many enjoyable hours with it.

As it happens, I came across this a little while back:

Full-res version is here (linked from Star Trek LCARS Blueprints Database Updates Page).

Upon seeing it, I did check the TM's Support Services index to see if it were listed there (with "*"). It wasn't; however, it is designated in the correct "TO:03:16:3x" section, and it is in FJ's style. The link seems to suggest that it's his work rather than fan art (though I was surprised to see the scale at the top rather than the bottom, and the 7602 stardate places it after the TM's publication).

I'd love to see more fill-ins of missing pages, fan-made or not.

 

[Neopeius]

Different editions, perhaps? The Technical Manual I grew up with didn't have the 3-D chess page though perhaps it fell out of the book before I ever read it

(Perhaps it was me that ripped it out as a child )

 

[JNG]

I sure wish the alien sections actually existed as completed works, with info on the Romulan Bird of Prey and so forth.

If they do and I just somehow never heard about it, then boy, I will be super happy to be wrong.

 

[WendellM]

Different editions, perhaps?

Perhaps. As far as I know (though that's not very far, and I hope to be corrected by those more knowledgeable if incorrect), there was only the one edition of the TM, though it was reprinted several times. LCARS's comment on the transporter page is:

Next up is the lost page from the Star Fleet Technical Manual. This page, which never appeared in print (to the best of my knowledge) details the transporter console.
​

To me, that seems to suggest that it's a Franz Joseph Schnaubelt drawing that never saw publication, rather than a fan drawing, though it's not definitive.

Regardless, it was fun to see a "new" TM page after these many years.

I sure wish the alien sections actually existed as completed works, with info on the Romulan Bird of Prey and so forth.

I know what you mean. When I was a kid in the late 70s/early 80s, it was amazing that books and blueprints on Trek tech and ships were being printed - it made it all seem so solid. After the TM and Enterprise blueprints, a friend and I eagerly ordered the Klingon D7 blueprints from Lincoln Enterprises and then bought the McMaster Romulan blueprints. The source didn't much matter: anything produced made rewatching the episodes (whenever they happened to air) and Trek in general more real, and everything fit together into a "super-continuity."

(And then there was much playing of Star Fleet Battles in high school, but that's something else...)

 

[RedSpar]

Ahh Star Fleet Battles.. Long gone are the days where hours upon hours of impulse movement charts, stacking drone counters, arguing errata with your friends, then having you cat jump up on the table and knock everything off..

That game did more for fleshing out Trek in my mind than anything else.

That's it! we need a SFB movie!

 

[WendellM]

That's it! we need a SFB movie!

 

[RedSpar]

 

[MANT!]

Here's some early shots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mPwbplNFU8

 

[FalTorPan]

Agreed. Though it has some errors (now known due to info not readily available then, like easy DVD screencaps), the Tech Manual was a great reference back in the day, and I've spent many enjoyable hours with it.

As it happens, I came across this a little while back:

Full-res version is here (linked from Star Trek LCARS Blueprints Database Updates Page).

Upon seeing it, I did check the TM's Support Services index to see if it were listed there (with "*"). It wasn't; however, it is designated in the correct "TO:03:16:3x" section, and it is in FJ's style. The link seems to suggest that it's his work rather than fan art (though I was surprised to see the scale at the top rather than the bottom, and the 7602 stardate places it after the TM's publication).

I'd love to see more fill-ins of missing pages, fan-made or not.

I don't believe this page is authentic, although it looks very much like FJ's style.

 

[Neopeius]

That's it! we need a SFB movie!

That's one dead Klingon. 5 Phas-IIs and 4 disruptors vs. 6 Phas-Is and 4 Photons? What the hell was he thinking?