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Book Review: 'Star Trek Shipyards: Starfleet Starships 2151-2293'

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©2018 Eaglemoss Ltd. Star Trek marks and logos are trademarks of CBS Studios Inc.  On September 25, 2018, nearly 50 years after the start of  Star Trek: The Original Series ' third and final season on the NBC television network, Hero Collector published Star Trek Shipyards: Starfleet Starships 2151-2293, the first book of a multi-volume encyclopedia dedicated to the various Federation, Klingon, Romulan, and other starships featured in the ever-expanding Star Trek television and movie franchise. Edited by Ben Robinson and written by Robinson, Marcus Reily, and Matt McAllister,  Star Trek Shipyards: Starfleet Starships 2151-2293 is a lavishly illustrated 192-page hardcover dedicated to the various Starfleet vessels that have been seen in the various television series and feature films from The Original Series all the way to CBS All Access' Star Trek: Discovery.  Written as an in-universe reference work,  Star Trek Shipyards: Starfleet Starships 2151-2293 is a pictorial hi

Movie Review: 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture - The Director's Edition'

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  Star Trek: The Motion Picture – The Director’s Edition (2001) Directed by Robert Wise Written by Harold Livingston, based on a story by Alan Dean Foster Starring: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, Stephen Collins, Persis Khambatta In December of 1979, more than a decade after NBC canceled Gene Roddenberry’s now-classic Star Trek television series, the crew of the Starship  Enterprise  set forth on its first big screen adventure, Star Trek: The Motion Picture. When a powerful living machine destroys three Klingon battle cruisers on the edge of the Neutral Zone and takes a direct course for Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk (William Shatner) returns to the recently refit USS  Enterprise.  Along with his reluctant first officer, Commander Will Decker (Stephen Collins) and the veteran officers who served with him during the  Enterprise’s  legendary five-year mission (Leonard Nimoy, DeForest