Want a Picture of Discovery's Enterprise
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This article has what looks like four distinct shots of it, with some enlargements to call out various features:
https://trekmovie.com/2018/02/17/a-closer-look-at-the-uss-enterprise-in-star-trek-discovery/
https://trekmovie.com/2018/02/17/a-closer-look-at-the-uss-enterprise-in-star-trek-discovery/
Somebody already put it on YouTube:
That's just about the cleanest upload around right now. Maybe when we get the blu-rays there will be something better.
Needs moar lens flare.
Yes, in 10,000,080p that I can put on the side of my building without loss of quality.
Life-size quality. I want to see Pike and Spock through that window!
Err, we still don't have official orthos of the 2009 Enterprise
It has to be shouty Spock.
That's because They continue to say that Tech type books don't make any money.Err, we still don't have official orthos of the 2009 Enterprise
Even though it's possible that just about every Star Trek Fan probably has acquired one at some point.
And the assortment of previous ones continue to be sold on Amazon with several reprints already having been created for just about ALL OF THEM..
Not really. In general, the audience for tie-in books to a TV or film franchise is something like 1 to 2 percent of the total fanbase, because interest in TV or film does not, sadly, translate automatically to interest in reading. And the percentage of fans who are interested in the technical side of things specifically is going to be a fraction of that fraction, a niche market within a niche market. Not to mention that illustrated tech books are more expensive to make than prose fiction, so it's harder for them to turn a profit.
^ I was just thinking that too. Just because something will sell doesn't actually make it profitable. The demand for the tech books was at its height during the TNG era when the viewership was enormous, but since then the quantity and quality of tie-in materials has been tapering off year by year. I remember there being like 4 or 5 different "Star Trek Companion" books for TNG and DS9 each, plus the TNG and DS9 tech manuals, the making of Star Trek, the Art of Star Trek, etc. Now we get an art book every now and then, nothing technical, nothing in depth about the background or making of the book except for what gets published in interviews and DVD extras. The Art books probably sell better than the tech manuals by an order of magnitude and even those are smaller and rarer now.
It's Spock laughing at some leaves.
That's because They continue to say that Tech type books don't make any money.
Even though it's possible that just about every Star Trek Fan probably has acquired one at some point.
And the assortment of previous ones continue to be sold on Amazon with several reprints already having been created for just about ALL OF THEM..
What Christopher said. I know several Trekkies, and I'm the only one that collects and reads the paperbacks. I hardly ever get a tech book. I know from the TrekLit part of the forum that the tech books are bought less than the paperbacks. So yeah, They are totally right.
Counterpoint. There are people that buy tech books even if they aren’t interested in the literature or even the property it’s based on. I have my fathers TNG tech manual, and the only other Trek book he owned was the old ‘Making Of’ from the sixties. The only Trek merchandise he ever owned apart from that was a model enterprise, but he likes making models (mainly military stuff)
I have the Mass Effect artbook (design stuff technically) from its first release, despite only passing interest in the franchise (I didn’t own an Xbox, and the franchise was an exclusive back then.)
Tech manuals can also be really cheap to produce, as often they are just annotated production designs or adaptations thereof (like the leaked and unofficial Voyager tech manual, or star logs TNG tech journal.) sometimes a side project for production staff made from staff they were doing anyway for the show.
The only thing in the way of profit is possibly their size and whether they go full colour. In the land of ebooks, and with ‘art of’ books being released for damn near every genre film going, usually in coffee table format (if you put four toilet rolls under the Blade Runner 2049 one, it forms it’s own coffee table in fact.) it’s really not much of a stretch.
The reason there’s nothing do 2009 is because Bad Robot got its negligee in a knot over merchandising rights, and DSCs lack of well...anything...is probably a knock on.
They sell, and not only to Trek fans. Model makers, design students, general genre fans, gamers of various stripes, engineering students...all sorts.
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