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Well, I guess it's official. The folks as SimonSays are developing a Starship book in conjunction with people from Foundation Imaging.
Yes, that's right. Foundation Imaging. It seems to me there will be little or no collaboration with anyone from the Trek art dept, or anyone else even remotely 'official' for that matter. (That is, if this 'Mojo' and 'Rob' work for FI, as I believe they do.)
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Er...are you sure? Reading the column, I see that there are two distinct projects there. One, a starship calender with images provided by Foundation Imaging. The second, the starship book, sounds a bit unlike what Sternbach has been talking about anyway. Maybe I'm all confuseled, but Sternbach's been talking a reference manual, while the column mentions a "coffee table" book. Going from the previous such books from Pocket Books, I'm imaging something that's mostly artwork. The column doesn't say that this coffee table book is the same sort of book that Sternbach has been proposing. Nor does it mention anything about such a proposal. We've got a book of starship "money shots" coming up, apparently, and I think that's super cool neato. But nowhere does it say that this precludes publishing the thick technical stuff we're all interested in.
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OK I haven't been to her QandA section - but Margret and I had a little tiff over new artwork over at the headlines section of Trekweb... especially reguarding the cover of the DS9 companion, which I HAD to point out used the same old tired Season 1 DS9 promo picture again - this time treated with some blue wormholey effects... and just the one head shot of Sisko, where as the TOS and TNG companions had cast shots... (she said who could she snub Terry or Nicole - well considering Terry had been there 6 seasons... what is it with these people and their short memories...) Anyway - I mentioned - why not some nice new 'beauty' shots of starships and stations etc. Stuff that is not the same old rehash. i.e. TNG season 1 - infront of beige planet, DS9 season DS9 from side with large white stars... Voyager season 1 - blueish from below or the side... you've all seen these picks. She was returning with 'its hard to do new shots' - I said the last new DS9 shot that we ever saw that was promo quality was the station/runabout shot from season 2... she said its hard to DS9 from other angles... That was the biggest bullshite cause - DS9 looks BEAUTIFUL from lots of angles - how many have we seen over the years. Think of the episodes when you see DS9 from the top. Oh well... So is this new book going to be new 'beauty shots??' - seeing as Foundation are being specially commissioned to do this book - maybe we could finally get their asses into digitising the Ambassador, New Orleans and the D'Kora Ferengi Marauder... After all - we're the Trek Nerd's who are going to forking out the money.
Andrew
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As I understand it, there are THREE starship projects in the works right now:
1. The Ships of the Line Calendar -- out this summer -- should be cute, but not Earth-shattering.
2. The Starship Enterprise book -- the Okuda's baby. Should cover all starships named Enterprise in some detail (we can only hope)
3. The Starship "coffee table" book (as I see it, 'coffee table' means BIG. oversized, probably. There's little or no info out on this yet, but I've been supporting this cause here and there for some time now, and I've let everybody I can think of know that the IDEAL thing would be a "Jane's Fighting Ships" style book (a 'coffee table' book, if I've ever seen one, Jane's is HUGE!).
All I know about the DS9 Companion is that it's going to be an enormous 800+ page book, and that more than makes up for old artwork. Puh-LEEZE!
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Holy hell AndrewR, what exactly was that rant about?
And I'm wishing for a 'Jane's-esqe' book myself, but considering this book if from guys named 'Mojo' and 'Rob', and that they're from Foundation, I guess we'll have to wait a few years for the booke we want tot be out.
I have little doubt that this new starship book (By FI)will be little more than an extended starhip calendar. (Anybody up for a wager?)
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At least the ships may look good, if not the technical specifications. We may end up with a book with a detailed look at the Akiras and have it say it's 26 decks thick and have tri-cobalt torpedoes...
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