Star Trek Ship Plans

Elowan · #1 August 26th, 2002, 04:06 PM

On some web sites devoted to ST, I see reference to a book of schematics of ships. I have the only two ST books - including the 'tech' manual - that purport to offer that info and there are not that many schematics or ship plan views in them.

Is there a definitive book or web site (one that's not down) that has that info or ... ?

TIA.

oleg · #2 August 26th, 2002, 06:23 PM

Well, to make ships really "canon", one must use the edited screen shots of ST ships. Any attempt to make a model based on some book can legitimately provoke the cries of "not canon!"
In this sense, the most "canon" federation shipset is one on Kyat shipyards. All Atrocities' shipsets have a touch of his personality.

Elowan · #3 August 26th, 2002, 08:05 PM

What I need - though - are plans (top, side, front, rear, bottom) views so that I can construct some meshes.

[ August 26, 2002, 19:36: Message edited by: Elowan ]

tesco samoa · #4 August 26th, 2002, 09:36 PM

Ok.... What the h*** is this canon thing or is it cannon..

I have seen both variations....

Are canon and cannon two seperate things and what are they and why are they such a touchy subject.
....

Puke · #5 August 26th, 2002, 09:39 PM

i dunno, but someone should take a cannon to these canonists.

Elowan · #6 August 26th, 2002, 10:14 PM

All I'm looking for is schematics. Who said anything about canon? Sheesh!

Barnacle Bill · #7 August 26th, 2002, 10:25 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Elowan:
All I'm looking for is schematics. Who said anything about canon? Sheesh!

For TOS, a company called Franz Josef Designs produced several licensed products which had some of this info. They are long out of print, though, as they were produced in the 1960's while TOS was still a prime time series on NBC. These were heavily used by the designers of Star Fleet Battles.

The "Star Fleet Technical Manual" had views of several Federation ships - top, side & front, IIRC. This included the Constitution-class Heavy Cruiser of course, plus the Scout, Destroyer & Tug (with various cargo modules). There was a page for the Dreadnought as well, but IIRC it was presented with fewer drawings as something for the "future" - not yet deployed by Star Fleet. No non-Federation ships were included.

FJD also produced a set of plans for the Constition class. This showed details of every deck.

The original SFB Designers Notes made references to such deck plans for the Klingon Battlecruiser and Romulan Warbird (as sen on TOS), which the SFB designer says were used in determining what those ships carried. I never saw these myself (I owned the first two).

I don't know of any web site with this stuff posted - probably would be of questionable legality anyway. You might try through some service that finds out of print books.

Gryphin · #8 August 26th, 2002, 10:31 PM

I seem to remember those plans. They were very, very detailed but did not include a "head".

ManOfWar · #9 August 26th, 2002, 11:16 PM

I will get the url for you.

[ August 26, 2002, 22:17: Message edited by: ManOfWar ]

Phoenix-D · #10 August 26th, 2002, 11:36 PM

"Are canon and cannon two seperate things and what are they and why are they such a touchy subject."

canon is applying to "official" material; basiclly anything that has been confirmed as existing in that universe. (also sometimes applies to stuff that doesn't blatently break the rules of that universe)

canNon. Well. That's a weapon

Phoenix-D