Star Trek: The USS Voyager NCC-74656 Illustrated Handbook

Star Trek: The USS Voyager NCC-74656 Illustrated Handbook is an officially licensed hardcover in dustjacket reference book, that was authored by Ben Robinson.

The third volume in the Illustrated Handbook mass-market book series, it was published by Eaglemoss Collections through Penguin Random House's Publisher Services division on 14 July 2020, under the former company's Hero Collector imprint.

Through illustrations and text, this volume comprehensively explores the USS Voyager and its auxiliary craft as they appeared in Star Trek: Voyager.

A model of the ship from Standard Edition issue 6 of the Star Trek: The Official Starships Collection was slated to be included with the book as part of a Special Edition but this printing was canceled ("postponed indefinitely") before publication. [1]

Summary[]

Solicitation blurb

Captain Kathryn Janeway's Starship Voyager! Lavishly illustrated with detailed technical information, this third volume in the Illustrated Handbook series features the USS Voyager from the hit Star Trek TV series.

This book is an in-depth, illustrated account of the Intrepid-class USS Voyager NCC-74656. Showing Captain Janeway's 24th century ship in detail, it opens with the ship's operational history and features illustrations of all the key locations from the bridge to the shuttlebay; the deflector relay control room to the stasis chamber.

With illustrations and technical information from official sources, this book provides an extraordinary reference guide to this iconic ship.

Excerpts of copyrighted sources are included for review purposes only, without any intention of infringement.

Contents[]

• Acknowledgements, p. 6
• Foreword, p. 7
• Operational History, p. 10
• Annotated Exterior Views, p. 14
• Ancillary Systems, p. 22
• Computer Systems, p. 24
• Sensor Systems, p. 26
• Weapons and Defences, p. 28
• Battle Stations, p. 30
• Self-destruct Systems, p. 32
• Escape Pods, p. 34
• Tractor Beams, p. 36
• Landing Procedures, p. 38
• Main Engineering, p. 40
• Warp and Impulse Engines, p. 42
• Warp Core Ejection, p. 44
• Main Bridge, p. 46
• Command Seating, p. 48
• Conn Station, p. 50
• Operations Station, p. 52
• Tactical Station, p. 54
• Science Station, p. 56
• Engineering Station, p. 58
• Captain's Ready Room, p. 60
• Briefing Room, p. 62
• Turbolift Network, p. 64
• The Sickbay, p. 66
• Main Sickbay, p. 68
• The Biobeds, p. 70
• Medical Hypospray, p. 72
• Emergency Medical Holograms, p. 74
• Mobile Holoemitter, p. 76
• Holographic Medical Aids, p. 78
• Holographic Imaging, p. 80
• Synaptic Transceiver, p. 82
• Stasis Chamber, p. 84
• Bio-temporal Chamber, p. 86
• Seven of Nine's Implants, p. 88
• The Morgue, p. 90
• The Laboratory, p. 92
• Astrometrics Lab, p. 94
• Chakotay's Office, p. 96
• The Lower Decks, p. 98
• Transporter Room, p. 100
• The Shuttlebay, p. 102
• The Shuttlecraft, p. 104
• Type-6 Shuttlecraft, p. 106
• Type-8 Shuttlecraft, p. 108
• Type-9 (Class-2) Shuttlecraft, p. 110
• Delta Flyer, p. 114
• Annotated Exterior Views, p. 116
• Delta Flyer Design, p. 120
• Delta Flyer Cockpit, p. 122
• Delta Flyer Tactical Room, p. 124
• Delta Flyer Escape Pod, p. 126
• Delta Flyer II, p. 128
• Aeroshuttle Deployment, p. 130
• Crew Quarters, p. 132
• Captain's Quarters, p. 134
• Tuvok's Quarters, p. 136
• The Mess Hall, p. 138
• Neelix's Galley, p. 140
• Holodeck Programs, p. 142
• Standard Equipment, p. 144
• Phaser Rifles: 2370s, p. 146
• Locator Beacon, p. 150
• Cargo Bay 2, p. 152
• Micro-probes and Test Cylinders, p. 156
• Starfleet Rank Insignia, p. 158
• Racing Uniforms, p. 162
• Starfleet Spacesuits, p. 164
• Nygean Prison Quarters, p. 166
• Borg Enhancements, p. 168
• The Bio-dampener, p. 170
• Future Technology, p. 172
• The Admiral's Shuttle, p. 174
• Ablative Armor - 2404 Timeline, p. 176
• Index, p. 180

Background information[]

• While not specifically mentioned in/on the book, it was released in the year of Voyager's 25th anniversary.
• The vast majority of the content was previously published in the Star Trek Fact Files and has been updated and incorporated into the book, alongside some entirely new material. Robinson has acknowledged the original Fact Files editorial staff, for which Robinson had served as one of its editors-in-chief, in the foreword/acknowledgements section of each book.
• Newer additional material originated from later GE Fabbri-affiliated publications such as Star Trek: The Magazine and The Official Star Trek The Next Generation: Build the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D, for which Robert Bonchune had contributed much CG imagery.
• Robinson brought this series to fruition, feeling that there was an eagerness within the fanbase to access this material more easily, and offered, "The thing about the Fact Files, as you say, they’re massive and unwieldy and 18 binders long. I always wanted to take the best material from the Fact Files of those incredible illustrations and put it out in book form. Those illustrated handbooks are really the most thorough attempt to document the ships as they appeared upon screen with illustrations of pretty much every room that you saw on the screen." [2]
• The release of this book has made the likely publication of a similar Star Trek: Voyager Technical Manual appear even more remote, despite the two-decades old desire to publish one, held by Voyager designer Rick Sternbach. [3] Though Sternbach had occasionally volunteered knowledge and his services to Robinson's Starships Collection – which included the issues dealing with the USS Voyager – , he was neither asked for his input nor asked to contribute new material for the book. Essentially, Robinson had stolen Sternbach's thunder.

External link[]

• PDF version at Wixiban.com

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