Star Trek Shipyards: The Delta Quadrant Vol. 2 - Ledosian to Zahl

Star Trek Shipyards

by Ian Chaddock, Marcus Reily, Mark Wright

Featuring the Lokirrim Warship, the Species 8472 Bioship, and the Vidiian Warships, and many more. Including technical overviews and operational histories, the ships are illustrated with CG artwork, created using the original VFX models made for the STAR TREK: VOYAGER TV series.

With previously unseen artwork, the two official volumes form the most comprehensive account of ships from STAR TREK: VOYAGER ever produced.

Genres: Star Trek, Science Fiction

232 pages, Hardcover

First published August 10, 2021

Reviews

[Vicky Hunt · Rating 5 out of 5]

There is much to see and read in this large hardback edition. It is one volume of six that are available on the ships of Star Trek.

This high quality pictorial integrates facts and story plots from the Star Trek universe. The back has complete indexes of the episodes in which these ships and their races appear. The indexes include episode and alphabetical order.

This second volume on the Delta Quadrant even includes an extra index that combines the ships from both Delta volumes. An excellent resource for Star Trek Fans!

[Online Eccentric Librarian · Rating 4 out of 5]

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This second volume describing Delta Quadrant ships from L to Z continues in alphabetical order from the previous set. While originally I thought this would cover each individual ship in detail with blueprints and cross sections, what we get instead is a synopsis and events from Voyager as they pertain to each presented ship.

In hindsight this makes sense - there are so many ships in the series (brought on by the ability to do them in 3D, as mentioned in the foreword) and for most the ship designs were probably fairly quick: in-depth detail and knowledge just doesn't exist.

It's been quite a few years since I last watched Voyager and though I believe I've seen every episode at least twice, a lot of the events I had no memory of. This made browsing through the book quite pleasant as occasionally I would remember the episode, or at least parts of it - and at times made me question if I had really seen them all. While this only covers half of the ships (and thus, the series), it did bring to mind the (unfortunately few) excellent episodes and arcs and (unfortunately many) bad ones as well. Still, reminiscing is always fun.

In addition to the descriptions there are plenty of screenshots from the episodes and occasionally additional detail on the ships themselves as well. These are a bit forgettable though. The only ones I paid specific attention are the big ticket items, such as the Species 8472 bioship.

The thing I would have liked to see is some designer notes on the various ships. I'm not really interested to see where the photon torpedo launchers are in ship, but it would have been fascinating why each design was chosen - is it an extension of the species, the planet they are from, their culture or in some cases just a device for the episode itself. This is the second Star Trek book I've read where the POV is from in-universe, but I'd like to see more of a making-of approach brought in as well.

Recommended for fans of Voyager and to a smaller extent for all Trek fans though if you've never seen an episode of Voyager this might not offer a lot - or perhaps it would kindle a desire to see the series. I have to admit after finishing the book I did check if Netflix still has all the episodes available. Reviewed from an advance reader copy provided by the publisher.

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

Well I was able to pick up the latest in my Star Trek Shipyard collect and fuel my love of space ships (my inner 12 year old rejoiced) however I am not sure how far this collection will keep on going considering the collapse of Eaglemoss - I guess we shall see.

what caught my eye in this book was the open admission that may of the ship's designs were taken from computer renders from the show as much as from physical models something I picked up in the level of detail and design of some of the ships.

Also what I realised was that many of the ships references in this book were only fleetingly referred to which meant some of the details were made up for the benefit of the book rather than fitting in with what was seen in the episode.

However that all said and done you cannot fault the quality of the production - I have seen similar books from other franchises where clearly they were using stills from the show and as a result image quality and content really did vary sometimes painfully so - NOT here though whoever put this book together made sure there was a consistency that really did lift this book and in fact the whole series