Home :: Books :: Science Fiction & Fantasy  

Arts & Photography
Audio CDs
Audiocassettes
Biographies & Memoirs
Business & Investing
Children's Books
Christianity
Comics & Graphic Novels
Computers & Internet
Cooking, Food & Wine
Entertainment
Gay & Lesbian
Health, Mind & Body
History
Home & Garden
Horror
Literature & Fiction
Mystery & Thrillers
Nonfiction
Outdoors & Nature
Parenting & Families
Professional & Technical
Reference
Religion & Spirituality
Romance
Science
Science Fiction & Fantasy

Sports
Teens
Travel
Women's Fiction
Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise (Star Trek)

Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise (Star Trek)

List Price: $14.00
Your Price:
Product Info Reviews

<< 1 >>

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: This is a pretty cool book with lots of info.
Review: Mr Scott's Guide to the Enterprise is a good book with lots of information. However, some of the information is speculation. Cool picts, it is a really popular book and I like it.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: I Know This Ship Like The Back Of My Hand
Review: Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise by Shane Johnson was the first "tech" manual written about the Star Trek saga. Unlike those later efforts though, this book while fun, is somewhat lacking.

Spanning both the original seies Enterprise and the Enterprise A, the author assumes that the information in this book, comes directly from "Scotty"s logs. This gimmick works pretty well at first, but then glaring errors start to creep into the book and it kind of ruins the fun factor. Since Johnson wasn't assciated with the series or films, and had to rely on others, and guesswork to complete this book. At least the latter Trek tech guides were authored by those involved with the show. Fun is had to be expected but this book is supposed to be official too. Factual errors should be eliminated if they are obvious even to the casual fan.

The 127 page (including index) book has dozens of sketches and black and white photos. It's not a total loss but the book should have been researched a bit better.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: I Know This Ship Like The Back Of My Hand
Review: Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise by Shane Johnson was the first "tech" manual written about the Star Trek saga. Unlike those later efforts though, this book while fun, is somewhat lacking.

Spanning both the original seies Enterprise and the Enterprise A, the author assumes that the information in this book, comes directly from "Scotty"s logs. This gimmick works pretty well at first, but then glaring errors start to creep into the book and it kind of ruins the fun factor. Since Johnson wasn't assciated with the series or films, and had to rely on others, and guesswork to complete this book. At least the latter Trek tech guides were authored by those involved with the show. Fun is had to be expected but this book is supposed to be official too. Factual errors should be eliminated if they are obvious even to the casual fan.

The 127 page (including index) book has dozens of sketches and black and white photos. It's not a total loss but the book should have been researched a bit better.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Useful
Review: My parents bought this book for me several years ago for Christmas. My knowledge of Star Trek has grown over the years, and after reading it again recently, I've noticed a few inaccuracies. However, this book gives the reader AN EXCELLENT INCITE and information into the movie version of the starship ENTERPRISE.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: An Excellent Incite
Review: My parents bought this book for me several years ago for Christmas. My knowledge of Star Trek has grown over the years, and after reading it again recently, I've noticed a few inaccuracies. However, this book gives the reader AN EXCELLENT INCITE and information into the movie version of the starship ENTERPRISE.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Useful
Review: This book is quite useful and I have found data in it I was looking for for a long time, especially in the deck plans. Still, it has some quite big faults. Biggest of all is the dates, the first Enterprise served 2221-2285, not some time around the turn of the century and the NCC-1701-A did not possess a Transwarp Drive like described in the book. But overall this book is very useful for its vast amount of details not seen anywhere else

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent
Review: This book is the most in-depth resource available on the NCC-1701 and NCC-1701-A as they appeared in the first four Star Trek films. Its deck plans appear to match the actual sets very closely, and it refers to details of the starship model and mattes of sets such as the recreation deck in such a way that you can tell that Mr. Johnson has definitely done his homework. I recommend it to any fan of the film era or later. Many of the sets shown here would later be redressed to serve as rooms of the NCC-1701-D, the 1701-A in the fifth and sixth movies, and the USS Voyager from Star Trek: Voyager.

For years Trekkers have debated over which books are Trek "canon," and which aren't. Many fans do not consider this book to be canon. If you want to be anal about it, no Star Trek book is canon, not even the Sternbach/Okuda works, or the writer's guides or bibles themselves. Since the episodes and films contradict each other from time to time, one could argue that no single episode or film is canon when held up against the Star Trek universe as a whole.

Rick Sternbach and Michael Okuda have argued that each fan must decide what he or she believes to be canon. To me, this book is. Buy it.


<< 1 >>

© 2004, ReviewFocus or its affiliates