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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mojo: [QB] Hi everyone! It's been a while since I posted, mainly because I've been busy but also because I lost my password and I never heard back from anyone when I requested it to be sent to me... anyway, I finally dug it up, so I thought I'd drop in and talk about Starship Spotter. First of all, here's some background on how the book was put together. Rob Bonchune and I picked the ships, handled the rendering (the wireframes and color images) and worked up the basic layout of the book. Pocket Books hired their own folks to write the specs, but as we got close to the deadline it was determined that new, more Trek-capable writers were needed. Both Jon Lane and Alex Rosenzweig have been friends of mine for many, many years, and I knew they would do an excellent job, so Pocket agreed to take them on. They did not disappoint, and I am very, very pleased to hear that (so far) most of you here in the Forum agree that they have 'got it right.' While much of the specs did indeed come from previous sources (after all we couldn't ignore what had previously been established), for the first time ALL the correct specs are in one place, and the contradictions and innacuracies have been laid to rest. I know that many of the more hardcore tech-heads will already be familiar with much of the material, but most casual fans will be happy to have a simplified guidebook to these ships. I've read in your posts that many of you would have liked to see more images of the ships. Keep in mind that this is meant to be a basic reference book (I thought of it as baseball cards for the ships) so I felt simplicity was the order of the day. Besides, more pages for each ship would have meant fewer ships! The page count was set in stone early on. For those of you on the fence about parting with your hard-earned 13 bucks, keep in mind that good sales for this book will insure a follow-up! And for the people talking about scanning and uploading the pictures so as to avoid purchase, I wish you luck dealing with the fold down the middle :-P Right now I am finishing up the 2003 Ships of the Line calendar (which I am sure will please people who prefered the 2001 edition over the current one) and then I am hard at work - finally - on Star Trek: The Unseen Frontier. It's going to be epic. And your suggestions will be heard! Mojo [/QB][/QUOTE]
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