A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

© 2018 Eaglemoss Ltd. STAR TREK marks and logos are trademarks of CBS Studios On November 13, 2017, Eaglemoss Ltd's Hero Collector imprint published  Star Trek Shipyards: Starfleet Ships 2294-The Future, the second volume of a new and ongoing encyclopedia that focuses on the various space vessels seen in the Star Trek television and motion picture franchise. Edited by Ben Robinson, who also wrote the text along with Marcus Riley, this is a followup to Star Trek Shipyards: Starfleet Ships 2151-2293 and focuses on Federation vessels featured in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, as well as the four TNG  features released between 1994 and 2002. Star Trek Shipyards: Starfleet Ships 2294-The Future is divided into four chapters; each chapter is dedicated to specific ship types, starting with Small Transports and segueing into larger classes, such as Fighters and Multi-Mission Explorers such as the USS  Lantree, Stargazer, Enterprise-C

In the spring of 1994, Pocket Books published the first edition of  The Star Trek Encyclopedia: A Reference to the Future,  the third book in a trilogy of reference books co-authored by graphics artist and production consultant Michael Okuda. (The other two volumes are  The Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual  and  The Star Trek Chronology: A History of the Future. ) At the time, the Star Trek franchise was in a state of flux.  Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG)  was ending its seven-year run in syndication and production was under way for its first theatrical movie,  Star Trek: Generations.  Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (DS9)  was picking up steam in its second season in syndication, and Paramount was about to launch its United Paramount Network with  Star Trek: Voyager (VGR)  as its flagship TV series. This, of course, meant that the first edition of  The Star Trek Encyclopedia,  written and edited by Mike and Denise Okuda with Debbie Mirek, was at best an introduc