Will there be a Technical Manual or Essential Guide for Star Trek XI

[SpaceLama]

I'm hoping so...

I will probably be getting Star Trek: The Art of the Film - but hopefully, there will be an in-universe guide too - something like the 'TNG/DS9: Technical Manual', or 'Star Wars: Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels'.

(Image from Ex Astris Scientia).

I would love to see deck plans, etc, for all the classes of ship shown in the movie, including the Constitution class, the USS Kelvin's class, and the fleet that left Earth orbit and engaged the Narada at Vulcan.

(Not sure whether this thread goes here, or in the Star Trek XI forum ).

 

[Deranged Nasat]

Re: Will there be a Technical Manual or Essential Guide for Star Trek

Forget the new film, I want a Star Trek version of those Star Wars essential guides for all the Primeverse material. It won't happen, I'm sure, but I can dream. Star Wars tie-ins are so much better, which annoys me as I don't like Star Wars.

 

[SpaceLama]

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Yeah, its a lot less likely to happen for the original setting - especially without a new show - I was waiting years, for a new Encyclopedia, but at least we have Memory Alpha and Memory Beta instead now.

Until then, we don't even know class names for these vessels:

...let alone crew sizes, weapons systems, etc.

 

[CaptainDonovin]

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Maybe if we keep at it we will. I'm surprised we got the Art book, but I would LOVE a tech manual.

 

[Bender23]

Re: Will there be a Technical Manual or Essential Guide for Star Trek

Not sure if this counts as a tech manual but there is something in the works:

http://www.vfxworld.com/?sa=adv&code=3631a5a1&atype=news&id=27664

 

[SpaceLama]

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Not sure if this counts as a tech manual but there is something in the works:

http://www.vfxworld.com/?sa=adv&code=3631a5a1&atype=news&id=27664

Whoa, thanks for finding and posting that!

"CPLG has also brokered a deal for the "Haynes Enterprise Manual," a unique collaboration between long-standing master publishing partner Simon & Schuster and Haynes Publishing, which will be brought to market in 2010. Recognising Haynes' unique approach to global phenomena such as STAR TREK, Simon & Schuster gave their blessing to the collaboration in an unprecedented move.

In turn, Haynes has created the ultimate guide to the ENTERPRISE, applying its famous 'step-by-step' approach of stripping the mothership down to its essentials and reassembling it with detailed illustrations under the expert guidance of editors, consultants and artists. The Manual is set to be a must buy for existing fans as well as those coming to the franchise through the new movie."

Here is the link on Memory Alpha:

Haynes Enteprise Manual

Hopefully, this means they will get the relevent experts in, to talk about sensors, computer systems, weapons systems, etc - and hopefully it will set the size of the Enterprise for future movies. I'm hoping for a deck plan and cutaways. Wish there was info on other classes of ship in the book too.

http://www.iposters.co.uk/images/P/Dalek-Haynes-Poster-560.jpg

Although they mainly do car manuals (my dad owns some of them), looks like they have done some Dr Who stuff.

 

[F. King Daniel]

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You probably already know this, but there’s a neat (if printer-destroying) interactive Enterprise tour at www.experience-the-enterprise.com/ww/ Here are the specs:

Overview:
USS Enterprise NCC-1701
Constitution-class Heavy Cruiser
Designer: W. Matt Jefferies
Construction location: Starfleet Division, San Francisco Fleet Yards
Mass: 495,000 metric tonnes
Length: 2500 feet
Saucer Diameter: 1100 feet
Height: 625 feet
Crew: 1100

Primary Hull:
Main Bridge – A deck
Officer and Crew Quarters – D + E decks for crew of 1100
Personnel Transporter Room – F deck
Sickbay – G deck
Multiple Phaser Batteries

Secondary Hull:
Primary Engineering Control – Decks N-O
Cargo and Hanger Bay – Deck R
Compliment of 16 short-range shuttlecraft in Hanger bay.
2 Forward-firing Photon Torpedo launchers.
Photon Torpedo payload equivalent to 65 mega-tonnes.
Leeding (FASA’s Leeding Engines Ltd, based in Sydney) FWG-1 warp nacelles, top speed 600x light speed (around Warp 8.5)

Most of the info is pilfered from the old Star Trek Technical Manual and Mr Scott's Guide to the Enterprise, with a few tweaks owing to the bigger size of the ship. Also, anyone who saw the film will know the ship was built in the Iowa shipyards, not San Fran.

 

[SpaceLama]

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I didn't know those stats existed - thanks

But like you say, it might get tweeked.

 

[Christopher]

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I'm not sure it's accurate to say those stats do exist, in the sense of being anything authoritative. Aside from the ship size and crew size estimates, they're just cribbed from other sources, little more than placeholder text for an interactive game site, and some of them are clearly wrong. KingDaniel mentioned the error about the shipyards; I'd also question whether the bridge is on "A Deck," since the bridge module in this version is clearly several decks high and the bridge is on the bottom. And if anything, Chekov's run through the corridors suggests that the main transporter room is on the same deck as the bridge, certainly not five stories down. And sure, the saucer has phaser batteries, but where's the mention of the point defense cannons it had in the film? Also, if the ship is twice as big, decks N (14) through R (18) would be in the lower saucer or dorsal, not the engineering hull.

 

[DEWLine]

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Looks to me after a couple of repeat viewings as if the bridge deck - whichever it is - was somewhat cribbed from the Prime 'Verse's Intrepid-class setup, now that you remind me to think it over.

 

[SpaceLama]

Re: Will there be a Technical Manual or Essential Guide for Star Trek

I'm not sure it's accurate to say those stats do exist, in the sense of being anything authoritative. Aside from the ship size and crew size estimates, they're just cribbed from other sources, little more than placeholder text for an interactive game site, and some of them are clearly wrong. KingDaniel mentioned the error about the shipyards; I'd also question whether the bridge is on "A Deck," since the bridge module in this version is clearly several decks high and the bridge is on the bottom. And if anything, Chekov's run through the corridors suggests that the main transporter room is on the same deck as the bridge, certainly not five stories down. And sure, the saucer has phaser batteries, but where's the mention of the point defense cannons it had in the film? Also, if the ship is twice as big, decks N (14) through R (18) would be in the lower saucer or dorsal, not the engineering hull.

Yeah I was thinking the decks were wildly inaccurate.