Non-Fiction previews: TOS: A Celebration, latest Designing Starships and Shipyards book, and The Star Trek Book

A gaggle of new preview for forthcoming Star Trek non-fiction books have recently been released, including pages from Eaglemoss' latest volumes in the A Celebration, Designing Starships, and Shipyards series, a DK's revised edition of The Star Trek Book. Continue below to check them all out.

First up from Eaglemoss: Hero Collector and their published Penguin Random House, we have Star Trek: A Celebration(ad), a retrospective look behind the scenes on The Original Series in the same format as last year's Voyager: A Celebration(ad). Put together by Ben Robinson and Ian Spelling, and due out in September. Here's how they're pitching it:

Celebrate the 55th anniversary of Star Trek: The Original Series with this epic coffee-table book! New interviews, archival conversations, never-before-seen art and sketches, and more!

 

Gene Roddenberry’s “Wagon Train to the Stars” continues to live long and prosper, with Discovery, Lower Decks, and Picard currently on the air, and Strange New Worlds on the way. But it all began 55 years ago with Star Trek: The Original Series. The second installment in Hero Collector’s Celebration line (following Star Trek: Voyager – A Celebration), Star Trek: The Original Series – A Celebration includes more than a dozen new interviews with cast and creatives, scores of never-before-seen photographs and sketches, as well as chapters taking fresh looks at the show’s creation, directing, visual effects, props, and most-pivotal episodes.

And here's a nice assortment of preview pages showing a good range of the content covered:

First look at On Board the USS Enterprise's virtual tour

TrekCore have posted stills from the new CD-ROM virtual tour coming with the new On Board the Enterprise book, which is due out next month, but has now started shipping. TrekCore report the tour works using browser based software (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, etc). Here are some views of Tobias Richter's new CGI interiors of the USS Enterprise-D:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can see several sample pages from the accompanying book in my previous report.

In other non-fiction news, StarTrek.com have launched a competition to win copies of Star Trek: The Visual Dictionary, and in doing so have relased one more preview page from that book:

Finally, Amazon have added a listing for a paperback version of Federation: The First 150 Years. Coming without the giant plastic pedestal of the hardcover edition, it will be a bit cheaper (and easier to store...), and is due out in October.

MORE Trek reference books!

I think it's safe to say that the time when it could be said Star Trek non-fiction doesn't sell enough to justify new books must be well and truly over. In the next year we have Star Trek: The Next Generation 365, Federation: The First 150 Years, the Klingon Bird of Prey Haynes Manual, Star Trek: The Next Generation Classic Quotes, and Stuck on Star Trek (whatever that is). And now Amazon have added listings for two more books in the near future!

Hope for content from Build the Enterprise?

Coming in October this year is Star Trek On Board the USS Enterprise, by Michael Okuda. It will be a hardcover book, and at the moment that's the only detail I can find. One might assume form the name it's a new technical manual, even though the Haynes USS Enterprise Manual hasn't been out that long. However the name is pretty open, it could a guide to ships, crews, or even something behind the scenes. The most exciting potential for me comes form the release date, which is pretty much right on top of TNG's 25th anniversary; would it be too much to dream this is the book form of the cancelled Build the USS Enterprise-D part work magazine?

The other book is much more obvious, and rather exciting: Star Trek the Visual Dictionary, coming in February next year will be the first Star Trek book in Dorling Kindersley's always richly illustrated and well presented Visual Dictionary series. Also in hardcover, the question here is what exactly will the book cover? New timeline or prime, and if the latter, could it include stuff from the new movie; it might seem a slightly to early release ahead of the film for that though. Whatever it covers I'm sure it will be a pleasing addition to our Star Trek libraries.