Star Trek Maps
 Box art | |
| Authors | Jeffrey Maynard, John Upton, et al. |
|---|---|
| Illustrators | Jeffrey Maynard, Michael McMaster, et al. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Publisher | Bantam Books |
Publication date | August 1980 |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 31 pp., 4 maps |
| ISBN | 0-553-01202-9 |
Star Trek Maps is a reference work demonstrating the stellar cartography and navigation system featured on the Star Trek television series, written from an in-universe perspective. It was published by Bantam Books in August 1980, and licensed by Paramount Pictures.
The box set included four four-color wall maps, and an instructional booklet from the "Technical Publications Section" of Starfleet Command.
Production[edit]
A number of artists contributed to the production of the booklet, and wall maps. Many of the contributors would work on later Star Trek productions.
- Jeffrey Maynard, Co-designer and coordinator.
- Michael McMaster, Concept artist.
- Geoffrey Mandel, Astronomical art design.
- Lee Cole, Technical graphics.
- Michael Nicastre and Rick Sternbach, Airbrush art.
- John Upton, instruction manual author.
A number of the artists who worked on Star Trek Maps were involved with other Star Trek productions. Michael McMaster self-published blueprint of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) as "Galactic Designs and Productions."[1] Geoffrey Mandel would later become a member of the art department for Star Trek Generations, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager. Lee Cole worked as a scenic artist and set designer for the un-produced Phase II television series, and he later joined the crews of Star Trek: The Motion Picture and The Wrath of Khan. Rick Sternbach was a production illustrator for The Motion Picture, and later for The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager. Larry Nemecek was an uncredited consultant.
Contents[edit]
Star Trek Maps box set contains four four-color wall maps, and a 31-page staple-bound booklet.[2]
- Introduction to Navigation (booklet): Labelled with an in-universe document number: TM:3001499-03, as published by the Technical Publications Section of Starfleet Command. The text includes historical background, explanations of warp travel, navigation within the Federation, a briefing on course calculations, which include vector calculus, a table of corrections for warp speed designations.
- Chart A – United Federation of Planets: The locations of the core Federation member worlds, and their relation to Earth. Sidebars include projections (called “Astrogation”) of the coordinate system for the galaxy explained in the booklet.
- Chart B – Named Planets and their Primaries, and Planetary Descriptions: Positions of named planets from the television series using a galactic side view. Sidebars include vector drawings of Federation vessels and buoys, and two maps of member worlds more distant from the Federation core.
- Chart C – Enterprise Zone of Patrol, Map Five: Depictions of several worlds featured in the television series. Included scaled maps of the Klingon Empire and an updated map of Earth Outpost Sector Z-6 featured in “Balance of Terror”. Sidebar featured planetary layouts of Sol, Triskelion, Talos, Deneb and Gamma Vertis systems.
- Chart D – Enterprise Zone of Patrol, Map Six: Detailed map of the Rigel system, and depictions of twelve other named words, including Memory Alpha, Sherman’s Planet, Babel and Vulcan.
Reception[edit]
William A. Barton of The Space Gamer noted "Star Trek fans of Earth owe a vote of thanks to designer Jeffrey Maynard and to Bantam for taking the time to release these… They should prove a worthwhile purchase to anyone interested in the Star Trek universe."[2]
According to Memory Alpha, maps from the set were featured as part of the 1992 Star Trek exhibition presented by the National Air & Space Museum.
Larry Nemecek created a similarly in-depth package of wall maps and encyclopedic booklet in Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library (2013). The maps and text were updated by Nemecek to include information from other Star Trek spin-off series, and films released since 1980, combined with material he contributed to Star Trek: Star Charts (2002).
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Star Trek Maps at Memory Beta
- Star Trek Maps at Memory Alpha