Encyklopedia statków Star Trek. Statki Gwiezdnej Floty 2151-2293

Star Trek Shipyards

by Ben Robinson, Klaudyna Cwynar (Translator)

Encyklopedia statkow Star Trek. Statki Gwiezdnej Floty 2151-2293

Genres: Star Trek, Nonfiction, Reference

192 pages, Hardcover

First published September 25, 2018

Reviews

[Scott Frank · Rating 3 out of 5]

So...it's good, but not great. I liked it, but was a bit disappointed. In other words, the essence of a three-star rating.

First of all, the basic concept is great, a nice survey of ships with some cool information about each. And they get the survey part right; it's a good selection of ships, I like the way it's organized, etc.

The overall downside is that the quality and presentation of the ships is all over the map. Some are great, some are poor, and in general it seems like the whole thing was very loosely edited. For example:

1) The amount of information on each ship varies widely; I get that to some degree, the ships that have loomed larger in the shows' history obviously I would expect to get more pages. But the differences seem very wide. Maybe don't pick a ship if you don't have much to say about it.
2) The large, splash page images of the ships also vary widely. The ones from the Discovery-era are pretty poor; they look like bottom-level computer generated versions; or ships from a video game.
3) Similarly, the "mugshot" labeling is all over the place. Some ships have tiny features like venting labelled, but some have no labels of systems or features at all.

So am I happy I read the book? Yup, I'm a big ol nerd and I like Star Trek. But I'm actually just as happy that I got it from the library rather than spending money on it, and having it take up some valuable shelf space.

[Joan · Rating 3 out of 5]

The five volumes in the STAR TREK Shipyards series offer readers profiles of the ships of the STAR TREK universe. STAR TREK Starships: 2151-2293 is the first of these volumes, profiling ships that existed prior to the development of Warp 5 starships as well as approximately eighteen warp-driven ships of the fleet.

Full-color computer-generated artwork, using visual effects models created for each television series and for the films, accompanies the narrative for each vessel. Sprinkled throughout are clips from the various shows and films that provide tantalizing glimpses of the ships’ interiors. Readers may be disappointed to discover that the exterior is the emphasis for every ship profiled here; even a single interior illustration for each ship would greatly enhance the profiles.

Nevertheless, STAR TREK fans will find much to appreciate. And the details provided, although scarce for some of the ships, are interesting. To bring things together, following the individual ship pages are a size chart comparison for the ships, a listing of significant events of the time, and a listing of Starfleet ships by class.

Some editions of this book come with a model of the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701, which is certain to please both collectors and fans of the original STAR TREK series.

Recommended.

[Vheissu · Rating 3 out of 5]

Essentially a compilation of the brochures published by Eagelmoss with each of its diecast Star Trek models. Trekkers will love it. Everybody else, not so much.

[Jim · Rating 3 out of 5]

A quick overview of some of the vessels featured from one of my all-time favorite shows. The drawings are pretty nice, and the text is okay, but would have liked seeing more of the ship interiors. My biggest gripe, and one that many of these types of books are guilty of, is repeating (almost verbatim) material from the text in the picture captions and even the sidebars. News blogs do this often as well. It really irritates me.

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

And so we move on to the actual Starfleet ships from the various Star Trek eras. Now the reason why I have given the book a higher rating is that a lot of he ships you see in this book are very familiar - from both film and TV series (though not the JJ Abrams films).

However the reason for the rather fan boy response is that they have again decided to re-render them and as a result regardless of age or format they are all presented in the same high quality and with the same attention to detail - the result for me is a far more consistent experience (I still remember the ship entries in the huge Star Trek magazine encyclopedia - which used original images and material)

However do not think that the creators of this book disregarded the original material - there are still plenty of stock images and references back to where the ships where introduced (and yes I have spent a few hours looking online at clips they refer to).

I guess for anyone who enjoys looking and reading up about spaceships from the Star Trek series this whole series is great fun - and for me it just goes to show what true fans can achieve rather than some of the seamless cash-ins i have seen in the past.

[jeffrey · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fascinating book-- a future history of starships that is almost entirely believable. There were a very few references made to TV shows or movies that spoiled the suspension of belief factor. Also, the otherwise beautifully rendered images of the various ships are marred by extremely rudimentary identifying arrows, rather insultingly so. After the first few ships are depicted, I'm sure the readers could easily identify those features without the arrows. An analogy would be an illustrated book on the history of airplanes that only has arrows pointing to and identifying engines or wings.

[Danny · Rating 3 out of 5]

Basically if you haven't bought any of the eaglemoss ships it collects the ship-relevant portion of the magazines that come with it so it's worth it for that? otherwise there's very little there.

['Nathan Burgoine · Rating 2 out of 5]

I ended up going with "It was okay" for this one because that's about as kindly as I can think of it, and honestly, it comes down to repetition.

On the SS Emmette page, it'll tell you it was a similar design to the later Warp Delta ship, only it didn't have impulse engines. On the Warp Delta page, it'll tell you the Emmette was a similar design, only the Emmette didn't have impulse engines. Page after page of Discovery ships basically just repeat "it took part in the Battle of the Binary Stars and was memorialized in the Discovery Mess Hall thereafter." It's... boring.

I understand the book was hampered by little-to-no information to work with from canon, but deciding to print it anyway was maybe a mistake, when it ended up reading a lot like filler. Perhaps this volume should have waited until Strange New Worlds gave it more to work with?

[Ian Banks · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love this sort of glossy coffee-table reference/source book for made-up places and things so my opinion is quite biased before I even start reading them. Fortunately, this looks beautiful and contains quite a few tidbits of information that could only come from a writer’s notebook or be very carefully gleaned from a script or from repeated viewings. The photos and diagrams are of a high quality as well. What lets it down is the page count, which forces it to not have as much detail on ships you’d like to know more about and possibly give more information about ships that don’t matter as much, viz the Enterprise-B (it was in 10 minutes of one movie. Bite me.).

[Vicky Hunt · Rating 5 out of 5]

A beautiful pictorial collection of the ships from the Star Trek Franchise. It is very narrowly focused on Starfleet ships, since it is one in a series. I discovered this volume at Barnes & Noble last week, but I've located 2 more volumes on Amazon, and am eager to see them: Federation Member Ships and Klingon Ships. They really are exceptionally well done.

[Scott Williams · Rating 4 out of 5]

For a book that revels in nerdy details there are a surprising number of errors here. It’s mostly with the spellings of proper names. There are even different spellings of the same name in single paragraphs. There are several typos, and a few factual errors. Nevertheless, it is handy to have a reference for most early Starfleet vessels all in a single volume.

[Steve Platt · Rating 5 out of 5]

really interesting full of facts, Great for Star Trek lovers

[Richard Archambault · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nice renders, but the text was repetitive.

[Katra · Rating 2 out of 5]

p-s, s-n, v-n,

[Eric · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's not great literature, but what Star Trek fiction is?

I was pleasantly surprised at the number of Discovery-era ships this book included, but there were also a few minor puzzlements.

One ship looked like they included the same image for the top and bottom views, for example. The entry for the Excelsior included one image of the Enterprise-B, even though the Enterprise-B had its own entry later. There were also a few typos and word errors here and there.

All in all, a fun read, if not as informative as I would have liked.