Star Trek: The U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656 Illustrated Handbook: Captain Janeway’s Ship from Star Trek: Voyager

Product Description

Captain Kathryn Janeway’s Starship Voyager! Lavishly illustrated with detailed technical information, this third volume in the Illustrated Handbook series features the U.S.S. Voyager from the hit Star Trek TV series.The perfect gift for the Star Trek fan in your life!

This Star Trek Illustrated Handbook is an in-depth, illustrated guide to the U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656, using detailed artworks of key locations, including the bridge, sickbay, and main engineering, plus its shuttlecraft, equipment, and the Delta Flyer. This book explores the technology and science behind Janeway’s ship, and how it was adapted to meet the demands of the Delta quadrant.

With illustrations and technical information from official sources, this book provides an extraordinary reference guide to this iconic ship.

Review

From the inside flapThis volume, featuring the U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656, is a detailed, illustrated account of Captain Kathryn Janeway’s starship. It includes special features on the cutting-edge technologies of the Intrepid-class ship, which is explored in detail using illustrations of its key locations, from astrometrics to the main bridge, breakdowns of its unique capabilities such as the landing procedure, and bio-neural computers, plus information on Voyager’s shuttlecraft and the Delta Flyer.

About the Author

Ben Robinson is best known as the man behind Eaglemoss’s Official Star Trek Starships collection, which in the last three years has become the largest and best-regarded collections of model Star Trek ships ever produced.

He has been involved with Star Trek for 20 years. Ben was the launch editor of the huge Star Trek Fact Files reference work, which sold over 50 million units. Then he went on to edit the US Star Trek: The Magazine, which ran between 1999 and 2003. He has co-written two Haynes Manuals, the first featuring all seven Enterprises, and the second focusing on the Klingon Bird-of-Prey. Ben is particularly passionate about the writing, design, and visual effects behind the series. In the last two decades he has conducted extensive interviews with many of the most significant figures in the history of Star Trek from Dorothy Fontana and Matt Jefferies to Michael Piller, Ira Steven Behr, Ron D. Moore, and Bryan Fuller.

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FOREWORD

The U.S.S. Voyager has never had a technical manual of its own so we’re delighted to be able to present the first in-depth guide to Captain Janeway’s ship. The show was conceived when STAR TREK had been back on air for almost seven seasons and after the launch of DEEP SPACE NINE. As such, it built on the work that was done on TNG, looking for ways to take it further. The writers described Voyager as looking like a bullet – it was a much smaller ship than the Enterprise-D and since it was stranded in the Delta Quadrant it would face very different challenges. The design team worked tirelessly to make the ship and the show look more advanced than its predecessors, with Rick Sternbach and Mike Okuda paying particular attention to how everything worked. As a result nothing you see on VOYAGER was an accident. In an age when electronic tablets and video conferencing have become commonplace, some of the ship’s technology, such as the bio-neural gel packs, still seems futuristic, and the upgraded warp drive and transporters are still belong to a dream of the future.

On the pages that follow you will find isometric drawings of all the key locations, with detailed artworks of the bridge stations, and illustrations showing uniforms, phasers, tricorders and Borg implants. You’ll see areas of a ship such as astrometrics that had never been a regular part of a STAR TREK TV show before, a detailed account of a warp core ejection and you’ll find CG renders of Voyager itself, and the Delta Flyer.

As with the other volumes in this series our hope is that the book will give you a senses of Voyager as a real place – somew