Product Description

See how far Earth is from Vulcan or plot a course to the Klingon homeworld with these fabulous full colour maps of the Star Trek universe. Reproduced in stunning colour, this is the definitive guide to the Star Trek universe. From Qo'noS to Bajor, from Vulcan to the farthest reaches of the Delta Quadrant, these charts reveal the location of every major Star Trek world and star system. In addition to maps of the stars themselves there are mission charts for each of the main starships featured in the various Star Trek series, from the Enterprise commanded by Captain Kirk in the original classic series to the USS Voyager on her epic journey of exploration, and now back to the very first Enterprise of all as seen in the brand new Star Trek series, ENTERPRISE. PLUS as a special bonus there are charts from the upcoming tenth Star Trek feature film, Nemesis, currently scheduled for release in December 2001.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #122129 in Books
• Published on: 2002-11-04
• Format: Illustrated
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

About the Author
Geoffrey Mandel has worked on Star Trek for four years after previous stints on JAG and The X-Files. His work can be seen on screen every week on the new series ENTERPRISE and in the forthcoming Star Trek feature film, NEMESIS.

Customer Reviews

Buy it!
What a great book it looks at everything from every class of stars and planets to the route of the Enterprise NX-01 and the USS Voyager. Even though it may not be for everyone it is defiantly for people who like star trek and even people who like space and it looks at Planets and Stars.

The only bad point, not really a bad point, more a idea is that like they did with Nx-01 and Voyager they should have done for at least Enterprise-D and Enterprise-E, with routs of the ship.

(Everything is in colour in this book)

Thanx

Jay:)

Plot a course....
This book has got to be in the same league as Star Trek Encyclopedia. It is not the sort of book where you could read it for hours, it more a reference book you use when you are curious about a planet heard in the Star Trek Series's. Its remarkably ilustrated with a diagram showing the route of the Bajoran wormhole, the extent of Borg Space, and the area of space held not only by the major Alpha Quadrant Powers but also those encoutered by Voyager in the Delta Quadrant. Only thing that got me was that a lot of the areas of space mentioned in the Star Trek books was not included. I think that this could have been done, particularly like those area covered by New Frontier in Thallonian Space, and mayby a few areas of planets beyond the Great Barrier as covered by Star Trek Valiant.

Overally it is a great book. Wonderfull illustrated, showing ship courses and also details on major planets and species.

Suddenly the rest of the galaxy dosent seem so distant.

No Index
This is more of a guide to have at hand, when you are watching TNG or the other variations of Trek; it is mainly focussed on TNG, DS9, and ENT, but there is a detailed itinerary for the Voyager's route, which marks the most significant planets along the way.

WHAT'S GOOD

The star charts give you a perspective of where things are in the galaxy. It's all very well hearing characters in the Trek show mentioned the names of systems or arrays, but you don't get a perspective of where everything is; so that's where this book comes in handy. For example, when I heard Picard talking about the Argus array, I thought nothing of it, until I saw that it was on the edge of Cardassian territory bordering Federation Far Space; obviously I had images of S 31 using it to spy on the Cardassians, which was fun.

WHAT'S BAD

It can be difficult to find something on the maps when you need to. For example, it took me about half an hour to find the Barradas system on the map, after hearing it mentioned in the TNG episode Gambit. (This is probably my own fault, though). It would have been nice to have an index system, which at least hinted at which sector certain systems fall in. The fold out maps do not seperate from the book easily, and require you to cut them out with a pair of scissors (this means I have to thrown away the first copy and then buy another copy). But, then, I guess not many people would want to put the map sections into a whole map on their bedroom wall.