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Star Trek Designing Starships Volume 1: The Enterprises and Beyond
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Product Description Explore the design process behind the creation of more than 30 of the most iconic ships in Star Trek's history! This is the story of how some of the most talented designers in Hollywood created STAR TREK's starships, from the first sketches to the finished models that appeared on screen. Covering the genesis of more than 30 ships including all seven Enterprises, this book is packed with original concept art, showing fascinating directions that were explored and abandoned, and revealing the thinking behind the finished designs. The design history of every variation of the USS Enterprise is covered within this volume, including three that were never seen on screen. Hundreds of physical and CGI model development photos including concept art, blueprints, sketches, and schematics, provided by the original designers and the vast archives of CBS and Paramount Studios. Delve deep into the design process that led to the iconic Star Trek ships featured on television and film. Includes concept art and interviews with the ship designers and screen model builders, this first-time ever explored subject will appeal to all Star Trek fans. Review From the Inside Flap This book covers the genesis of more than 30 ships including seven Enterprises, and is packed with original concept art, showing fascinating directions that were explored and abandoned, and revealing the thinking behind the finished designs. Discover the inspiration behind the designs of key ships from the first five TV series, plus the movies including STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE; STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN; STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK and STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT. 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. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Matt Jefferies’ design for the U.S.S. Enterprise set the standard for every starship that followed, but finding the design was not easy. It was a typical Gene Roddenberry request: he wanted something no-one had ever seen before, and typically for Roddenberry, he couldn’t tell you much more than that. Remarkably, Matt Jefferies, the first man to design an Enterprise, took that brief and created an iconic shape that would be used as a blueprint for almost every Starfleet vessel that followed. For a man who’d never even been a fan of science fiction, it was a huge challenge. “To be honest, I didn’t know quite where to start,” admitted Jefferies when we met at his home in 1999. “I knew the Enterprise was going to be on the cutting edge of the future and that essentially Roddenberry had given me the job of deciding what shape that future was going to take, but it was hard to work out what exactly that was going to be.” Although Roddenberry couldn’t give Jefferies an idea of what the ship would look like, he could provide some information to work with. He had a fairly detailed idea of how he believed the ship would function – that it would carry a 100–150 man crew, operate for the most part in outer space, and have the ability to travel at unhea
