Star Trek Shipyards: Alpha Quadrant and Major Species Volume 1 - by Ben Robinson (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

Boldly go and explore the ally and enemy ships encountered by the Federation in the Alpha and Beta Quadrants in the newest Star Trek Shipyards book.

The popular Star Trek Shipyards series continues with detailed looks at ships from the Alpha and Beta Quadrants as seen in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: The Original Series, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. First up? Ships of the Breen, Cardassians, and those pesky Ferengi. Each featured ship is profiled with technical details, in-universe operational history, and illustrated with plan-view CG renders, wherever possible utilizing the original VFX models created for the Star Trek shows and features from across the franchise's remarkable 55 years.

This volume includes more than 40 ships, including the Anaxar cargo vessel, the Breen Warship, the Cardassian Bok'Nor, Cardassian military freighter, the Ferengi shuttle, the Gorn warship, the Husnok warship and the Jem'Hadar battlecruiser.

About the Author

Ben Robinson has been involved with Star Trek for 20 years. Ben was the launch editor of the huge Star Trek Fact Files, went on to edit the US Star Trek: The Magazine, which ran between 1999 and 2003. He has co-written two Haynes Manuals, the first featuring all seven Enterprises, and the second focusing on the Klingon bird-of-prey. Created the Starfleet shipyards line of books and co-authored Star Trek Voyager: A Celebration.