This is a beautiful, imagination-stimulating, sometimes breathtaking book. But potential buyers should know three things: 1. This book is about half the size of the average coffee table book (FYI, in case you don't read the fine print or easily "get" measurements in the Product Description), so they are not big pictures. 2. This is an *art* book; these are "illustrations," not photographic reproductions from the Star Trek T.V. series(s) or movies. I wasn't familiar with the "Ships of the Line" calendars, so was expecting "real" photos of the Star Trek ships, not paintings. However, some of the pictures are computer-design artwork that very effectively look like photographs. I know it's a matter of taste, by I find these more enjoyable, more evocative.
3. While ships from all five of the T.V. shows are included (not the animated ST), there is of course a favored emphasis on the Enterprise in its various/successive generations. There are only 37 illustrations, so that doesn't leave room for a whole lot else. (Opposing/even-numbered pages are blank, except for a short paragraph of text by official Star Trek history guru Michael Ocuda, which offers interesting commentary, though more impressionistic thatn encyclopedic.) Also, the book's cover illustration is not repeated in the book, so if you get a torn or badly smudged copy, you're out of luck. I was also disappointed that a book called "Ships of the Line" didn't have a single schematic drawing or even a comparative illustration to scale of the various ships (like is sort of done on the cover picture).
Even given all these qualifications, there are at least 10 pictures in this book that really inspire me and excite my imagination; and any two of them, for me, are worth the price of the book.
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Reviewed in France on May 7, 2016
Le livre est axé sur les vaisseaux des séries TV et des 10 premiers films.
Donc peu de hauteur pour ce livre et pour cause... Page de gauche toute blanche avec quelques une ligne dans un rectangle de 10cmx3cm environ et une grande photo sur la page de droite, c'est comme ça sur toute les pages. Inutile de vous dire qu'en terme d'informations, c'est assez succins! On comprend mieux pourquoi il ont choisis un petit format en hauteur!
Pour résumer, un livre dont l'idée de base est bonne qui contient de belles images mais bien trop avare en informations... Si vous aimez le concept, il semble qu'une nouvelle version de 352 pages soit sortie en 2014 mais qui reprend le même concept et la même taille [[ASIN:147678258X Star Trek: Ships of the Line]]
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