Overview
The third volume in this acclaimed series focuses on the J. J. Abram's Star Trek films featuring nearly 20 ships, including the new Enterprise! Explore the process behind the creation of the ships features in the Star Trek, Star Trek: Into Darkness and Star Trek: Beyond films. 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. This book covers nearly 20 new ships from the modern Star Trek movies, from the new Enterprise to a fleet of Federation ships that was barely seen. Along the way it covers the thinking behind Klingon and Romulan ships and the heavily-armed U.S.S. Vengeance. This third volume in the Designing the Starships series collects the profiles and design history from the rebooted Star Trek 'Kelvin Timeline' film universe. The 'Kelvin Timeline' is an alternate reality timeline in which the current Star Trek film universe operates. It is named after the ship captained by Captain Kirks father in the first of J. J. Abrams' Star Trek films, the U.S.S. Kelvin. Ships included: U.S.S. Enterprise, U.S.S. Enterprise-A, Narada, U.S.S. Kelvin, Spock's Jellyfish, U.S.S. Yorktown Space Station, and many more. Includes 6 ships that were designed for the final sequence of Star Trek: Beyond which were not used and have never been seen before.
Full Product Details
Author: Ben Robinson
Publisher: Titan Books Ltd
Imprint: Titan Books Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 22.70cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 29.20cm
Weight: 1.060kg
ISBN: 9781835412060
ISBN 10: 1835412068
Pages: 184
Publication Date: 28 May 2024
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Author Information
Ben Robinson is best known as the man behind the Official Star Trek Starships collection, 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.
