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Has anyone seen this book? It says that the book contains more than 40 starships with illustrations and technical data, both federation and alien. Is this worth buying? I�m only after the pics, to scan and post on my page, so are they any good?
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I have it - it is ok but there are errors shows Jemhaddar Battleship for the cruiser- as it is the only game in town we are stuck with it.
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Hmm, the images themselves? Any new angles or pics, or just the same old ones we�ve seen way to many times?
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I take it that this is for some Star Trek RPG? Anyone got any additional information? Amazon.com seems to indicate it's for an RPG, but I have to admit I've not heard of a current Trek game that's out there other than the cardgame. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
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What kind of technical info is there? Weapons and crew compliments? Are the dimensions correct or just a re-hash of the DS9TM errors?
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A review said that it's basicaly Starship Spotter with drawings instead of CGI-shots. And that these drawings aren't as accurate as they could be. I guess they didn't have access to actual photos; and even if they had them they are probably not allowed to publish them. AFAIK, these books (and RPGs in general) are not official (or at least not supposed to be). Right?
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There is a color side and top view and a photo of each . Hull data/Tactical data/Propulsion data/Operational data/Miscellaneous data as it is part of their role gaming stuff. Mission/Features/Background and ships in service. With some of these made up.
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I can't imagine it has much that would be of interest to anyone who wasn't into the role-playing game. That is, unless it featured nice big CGI shots of ships without "dramatic" lighting effects. What good does a schematic type picture of a ship do me if half the thing is in shadow? I'm looking squarely at you, USS Prometheus pictures. Bah!
But, uh, that is a personal peeve of mine. Anyway, some links.
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Saw it on a bookstore last week. The pics are low-res drawings, apparently "computer freehand" instead of reworkings of existing blueprints or other schematics, and only bear a superficial resemblance to the ships they depict. For example the Negh'Var is barely recognizable. There are really weird choices there, too - the ship used in DS9 "Babel" and later modified into Neelix' Baxial is called the "Federation Antares class transport", IIRC, and the ST3 Merchantman is a "Class III Tanker".
I didn't pay attention to the specs given, but I trust them to be as poorly researched as the drawings. IIRC, there were a few new designs there, but none of them very inspiring.
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So it's another sucky RPG suppliment and not the grail we all yearn for....
Unseen Frontier! Where are you?!?
Timo! I dub you Sir Timo Percival: go forth and find a book of accurate starship schematics with text descriptions that actually make sense!
...come to think of it: the Flarites could easily make a "starship encyclopedia" with our immense skills....we just need the schematic kings to do the legwork and we can all have a say in the design of the more obscure ships... We could make the finaproduct a easily printed PDF file available to all of fandom.
Am I tilting at windmills here or is this a possibility?
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Take a look at the bottom section of the main page of Flare...
Alternately, I could mail you about 300 pages of shipfic sans pictures, featuring all the canon, Spaceflight Chronology, Ships of the Star Fleet, select FASA/SFB and Trek novel pieces, etc. done not in Jane's format, but in the style of all those Bill Gunston books where a short history is attached to each description of a ship, sub, aircraft or other militaria piece (desk drawer writing becomes expensive after the sixth desk fills up and you have to buy a new room... ). But that wouldn't take you one step closer to the Grail.
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). But that wouldn't take you one step closer to the Grail.
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