Travel Guide to Vulcan by Dayton Ward

[F. King Daniel]

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1608875202/?tag=trekcore-20


Plan your next trip to the planet Vulcan with Hidden Universe: Star Trek: A Travel Guide to Vulcan! Find restaurants that serve the best fried sandworms and Vulcan port. Take a trip to the Fire Plains or experience spring break at the Voroth Sea. Learn all about the native Vulcan people and their unusual customs. Discover how to correctly perform the traditional Vulcan salutation (you really don’t want to get this wrong). Learn key Vulcan phrases such as Nam-tor puyan-tvi-shal wilat: “Where is your restroom?” Find out what to do if you suddenly find yourself host to a katra—a Vulcan’s living spirit—at an inconvenient moment. All this and more can be found within the pages of this essential travel guide to one of the most popular—and logical—destinations in the known universe.

Hidden Universe: Star Trek: A Travel Guide to Vulcan draws on 50 years of Star Trek TV shows, films, and novels to present a comprehensive guide to Spock’s iconic home world. Modeled after real-world travel guides, the book will explore every significant region on Vulcan with fascinating historical, geographical, and cultural insights that bring the planet to life like never before. Also featuring a dynamic mixture of classic Star Trek imagery and original illustrations created exclusively for the book, Hidden Universe: Star Trek: A Travel Guide to Vulcan is the perfect way to celebrate 50 years of Star Trek and will thrill pop culture fans and hardcore Star Trek fans alike.


Looks like fun. I love that it draws on the novels, too!

 

[Mysterion]

So is this a "straight" in-universe sort of reference thing, or is it being done "funny"? If the former I definitely want a copy, if the latter I'll skip it.

 

[DS9forever]

I like the 90s Federation Passport and Federation Travel Guide so I might get this, although I'd rather have a DS9 version with guides to Bajor, Cardassia, Ferenginar & Trill.

 

[Defcon]

Here's what Dayton has posted on his Facebook:

The release date has been shifted to July, which is fine with me because that means it'll be minty fresh for Trek's 50th anniversary!


I haven't been able to offer much in the way of detail about the book, but the idea is that it's presented in a format similar to a Lonely Planet or Frommer's guidebook such as you'd carry with you on vacation, but for...you know...a place that doesn't actually exist. The tone is meant to be very casual, sometimes lighthearted, and even (hopefully) funny here and there. It'll contain art and "photos" of Vulcan and its various places of interest, street maps to help you with your walking tours of ShiKahr, Vulcan's Forge, and other places, and so on.

https://www.facebook.com/dayton.ward/posts/10207888048700167

 

[CaptJack]

I'm definitely going to buy it when it comes out. I'd love to see this for other worlds as well, especially those from TrekLit.

 

[Plaristes]

Interesting. It says it will draw on the novels, so will this be part of the novelverse continuity?

 

[Therin of Andor]

Way back in the old Bantam Books "Star Trek" tie-in days, Marshak & Culbreath announced they had sold "Mr Spock's Guide to the Planet Vulcan", and it never happened. When the license switched to Pocket, the book was again announced as "coming soon". Nope.

A few years later, a mail order firm was offering an unofficial set of rather cool A4 folded travel brochures (for destinations such as planet Beta III for "Red Hour", the hortas of Janus VI, and the Guardian of Forever on the Time Planet, etc.), but the Vulcan brochure was always "sold out"! So I'm thrilled to see this! Thanks Dayton Ward! Very exciting.

In Australia, we had a TV comedy team releasing some hilarious fake travel guide books (Molvania: A Land Untouched by Modern Dentistry, Phaic Tan: Sunstroke on a Shoestring, and San Sombrero: A Land of Carnivals, Cocktails and Coup) over a few years, but I'm looking forward to an official guide to Vulcan.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Interesting. It says it will draw on the novels, so will this be part of the novelverse continuity?

I suspect it'll be more of a mishmash of sources - the cover pic is Shi'Kahr as it appeared in the 2009 movie as opposed to TAS, ENT or TOS-R.

 

[Ronald Held]

Is this a book a "Vulcanophile" will want to read?

 

[Therin of Andor]

Is this a book a "Vulcanophile" will want to read?

Well, I guess some Vulcanophiles will say there is nothing in the book they didn't already know, but can they bear not owning that one more Vulcan-themed book in their collection?

I would expect it may also be the obvious collectible gifted to those Vulcanophiles "who have everything" by well-intentioned relatives and friends.

 

[Ronald Held]

Is this a book a "Vulcanophile" will want to read?

Well, I guess some Vulcanophiles will say there is nothing in the book they didn't already know, but can they bear not owning that one more Vulcan-themed book in their collection?

I would expect it may also be the obvious collectible gifted to those Vulcanophiles "who have everything" by well-intentioned relatives and friends.

One of my concerns would be there are some objectional parts. Did not think of the collectabilty aspect.

 

[Stevil2001]

Is this a book a "Vulcanophile" will want to read?

Well, I guess some Vulcanophiles will say there is nothing in the book they didn't already know, but can they bear not owning that one more Vulcan-themed book in their collection?

I would expect it may also be the obvious collectible gifted to those Vulcanophiles "who have everything" by well-intentioned relatives and friends.

One of my concerns would be there are some objectional parts. Did not think of the collectabilty aspect.

..."objectional parts"?

 

[JD]

This sounds like it could be a lot of fun.

 

[Therin of Andor]

..."objectional parts"?

Extracts of "Vulcan Love Slave", natch!

 

[Therin of Andor]

Interesting. It says it will draw on the novels, so will this be part of the novelverse continuity?

I suspect it'll be more of a mishmash of sources - the cover pic is Shi'Kahr as it appeared in the 2009 movie as opposed to TAS, ENT or TOS-R.

Dayton just advised: "To answer one question, the book will draw from on screen references, references and nods to some things from novels as well as RPG supplement and other books, and then there's just me making stuff up. It's not meant to be a canonical reference or a means of synching up everything. It's more casual than that."

 

[DimesDan]

Interesting. It says it will draw on the novels, so will this be part of the novelverse continuity?

I suspect it'll be more of a mishmash of sources - the cover pic is Shi'Kahr as it appeared in the 2009 movie as opposed to TAS, ENT or TOS-R.

Dayton just advised: "To answer one question, the book will draw from on screen references, references and nods to some things from novels as well as RPG supplement and other books, and then there's just me making stuff up. It's not meant to be a canonical reference or a means of synching up everything. It's more casual than that."

Interesting, where did he say that? his blog I assume?

 

[Reanok]

Dayton posts post and the Blog update links on his Twitter page. He gives monthly updates on the books he's been working on.He's recently talked about his progress of writing the upcoming Star trek books coming out next year.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Interesting, where did he say that? his blog I assume?

I sent him the link to this thread, in case he hadn't seen it, and he sent me that piece to share here. But yes, he has also teased about the book's contents several times on his blog in recent days.

 

[Markonian]

It sounds very interesting and will be a great resource. Plus, if it's successful, we might get more of these books.

(KRAD doing a Qo'noS travel guide )

 

[Defcon]

StarTrek.com has posted one of their "First Look" articles on the book:

http://www.startrek.com/article/first-look-hidden-universe-star-trek-a-travel-guide-to-vulcan

As a result Dayton has also posted a new blog post:

https://daytonward.wordpress.com/2016/01/23/startrek-coms-first-look-at-my-vulcan-travel-guide/