Trek-Tech Books I'd Like to See

[Mysterion]

First off, I know why we haven't been seeing a lot of tech-oriented Trek books the last few years.

However, I was recently gifted with copies of the Star Wars Complete Cross-Sections and Complete Locations books. I would love to see the same sort of thing done for Star Trek! The artwork in these two books is very well done and seems to be pretty-well thought out as well. I think similar books of Trek starships and/or locations could be a really great thing to have.

So, if there's anyone from Pocket (or whomever) lurking about, think about it, okay?

 

[JD]

If they incorporated things from the books, I would go for it too.

 

[Mysterion]

^^^
Good point, and I agree. Let's see Aventine and Titan, etc. Trying to think of enough locations for a whole book, too: Starfleet Academy, Mount Selaya Temple, etc.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I'd like to see the various ship sizes changed to actually fit the sets and reflect the details on the various models. Unless the Excelsior has ~6' decks, it's somewhat bigger than 467m, even if that was the size it was conceived at (Rick Sternbach recently mentioned DS9 being given some last-minute windows indicating a bigger size than he intended over in the Tech forum. I suspect similar happened with Excelsior and Grissom)

 

[SchwEnt]

A new version in the format of the original Spaceflight Chronology.

If you're not familiar, I'll needlessly elaborate:

It was a swell mix of tech manual/starship art porn/schematics/narrative.

It included a graphic timeline, detailing year-by-year all the events in ST history (in this case, from 1957 until TMP). Also presented plan/elevation views of vessels by their corresponding year. Nice.

In each 25 year era, the significant vessels of that period were highlighted. Full page technical details and specifications, full page color artwork, and notable achievements. Even better.

So as not to be a strictly dry tech presentation (although that can be great), the ship logs of each era were included.
Rather than a straight run-down of chronological events, you can read about them "as they happened", via logs recorded on the spot. So that's a unique touch adding a dimension I haven't really seen in ST. You can read the history of ST via log entries, rather than bullet points as in other books.

Yeah, the SFC has got it all.
Pretty pictures, detailed specs, tech, histories, charts.
Something to delight everyone.

Now to see that same format extended into TNG era, that'd be swell.

A year-by-year account from the 23rd century into the 24th, all the historic highlights, the major events, first contacts, significant ships, the specs, aaahhhh...

Lovin the SFC

 

[ProwlAlpha]

No, no, thats not what will happen, what we will get is a bunch of glossy pics of the Enterprise and a recap of the episodes. Like what the Haynes Manual was.