The Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual (ISBN 0345340744, Ballantine Books 1975, reprinted in 1986, 1996, and 2006) is a "fiction reference" book by Franz Joseph about the workings of Starfleet, a military, exploratory, and diplomatic organization featured in the television series Star Trek. Franz Joseph (born Franz Joseph Schnaubelt) (1914–1994) was an artist and author loosely associated with the 1960’s American television show Star Trek. ... For other uses, see Country (disambiguation). ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... The starship Enterprise as it appeared on Star Trek Star Trek is a culturally significant science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry in the 1960s. ... A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing. ... Ballantine Books, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine, is a major book publisher and is currently owned by Random House. ... “ISBN” redirects here. ... Ballantine Books, founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine, is a major book publisher and is currently owned by Random House. ... Year 1975 (MCMLXXV) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link displays 1986 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday (link will display full 1996 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For other uses, see Fiction (disambiguation). ... For referencing in Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Citing sources. ... For other uses, see Book (disambiguation). ... Franz Joseph (born Franz Joseph Schnaubelt) (1914–1994) was an artist and author loosely associated with the 1960’s American television show Star Trek. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... Exploration is the act of searching or traveling for the purpose of discovery, e. ... This article is about negotiations. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... The starship Enterprise as it appeared on Star Trek Star Trek is a culturally significant science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry in the 1960s. ...

Although a work of fiction, the book is presented as a collection of factual documents from the future sent back in time to the 20th century describing Starfleet in the 23rd century. A false document is a form of verisimilitude that attempts to create in the reader (viewer, audience, etc. ... For other uses, see Future (disambiguation). ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999...

Contents

The Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual features detailed technical information, though non-canon, about Starfleet's organization, ships, and members, and was used as the basis for many elements of the strategy game Star Fleet Battles. At the time this book was first published, it was considered so canonical as to be beyond question^{[citation needed]}, despite its clear depiction of several elements that openly contradicted the television series (such as the presence of a second exit to the bridge; the placement and internal arrangement of the conference room; several 6-pad transporter rooms throughout the Enterprise, as opposed to the single one depicted in the series; the existence of a 22-pad emergency transporter (for large scale evacuation), as well as a large capacity cargo transporter; and an actual park with green grass, trees, plants, and not a holodeck recreation). Canon, in the context of a fictional universe, comprises those novels, stories, films, etc. ... One of the fictional ships called the Starship Enterprise from Star Trek, one of the most famous fictional starships. ... Chess is one of the most well-known and played strategy games of all time. ... Star Fleet Battles is a tactical strategy board game set in the Star Fleet Universe originally created in 1979 by Stephen V. Cole; it has since been updated many times. ...

The manual presents a number of different starship designs beyond the standard Constitution-class design exhibited by the USS Enterprise. The book gives has diagrams of the following classes:

• Ptolemy-class tug
• Hermes-class scout
• Saladin-class destroyer
• Constitution-class heavy cruiser
  • Bonhomme Richard subtype
  • Achernar subtype
• Federation-class dreadnought

All the blueprints were presented to series creator Gene Roddenberry who signed off on all of them, and claimed them to be 'completely accurate'. Around a decade later, he allegedly retracted these statements, however, claiming the book to have 'always' violated his rules for the Star Trek Universe, despite using it in the first three motion pictures, under his close supervision.^{[citation needed]} Eugene Wesley Roddenberry (August 19, 1921 – October 24, 1991) was an American scriptwriter and producer. ...

It provides some detail on the workings of the technology used in the original series, including ships, weapons, personal communicators, tricorders, universal translators, and medical equipment. There is even a blue-print and electronics diagram of a working communicator built using 20th century electronics.

The book also contains plans for 3 dimensional chess and lays out some basic rules for the game.

History

In 1973, Franz Joseph and his daughter joined a San Diego Trek appreciation society called STAR, members of which spent time making their own Trek props and costumes. Using his aerospace design talents, he began making technical drawings of phasers and tricorders. He quickly amassed a large collection and sent copies to Gene Roddenberry, who was wowed. Since wife Majel Barrett's company Lincoln Enterprises was producing Trek memorabilia at that time, he encouraged Franz Joseph (who wanted to create a manual) to ask her for help. Gene considered the franchise dead, but gave his blessing anyway, and granted privileged access to original props and carpenter blueprints.

The book, published by Ballantine, took the number-one spot on the New York Times trade paperback list, breaking the existing record for profitability. Its success hinted at the brand's great potential, and within a year of its publication Paramount and Roddenberry contracted to begin work on a Star Trek movie.

Use as reference material

The book was culled for background imagery in the first three Trek films. Elements from the manual that appear on screen include

• its listings of starship names, adapted for opening-scene backgrounds at the communications outpost in Star Trek: The Motion Picture;
• its starship-class schematics, seen in background bridge-simulator displays in the Kobayashi Maru test in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; and
• its Enterprise plans, used in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock in a monitor display when the seal on Spock's living quarters is broken.

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The Federation Seal

The seal seen in the first movie echoed Franz Joseph's design but framed its starfield in laurels, rather than the faces in silhouette he used in the original. (His UFP presumed Earth was only one part of a large alliance of many sentient races, but Paramount's use of laurels to symbolize peace would not have held meaning away from Earth. This may have reflected Paramount's, and Roddenberry's, more terracentric take on the Federation. For instance, they placed both the Federation HQ and Starfleet Academy in San Francisco, but Franz Joseph located them in neutral space, at the station Starbase One.)

Legacy

As an unexpected legacy, the book spawned a subgenre -- blueprints and schematics of fictional vehicles and locales, which later science-fiction projects would move to exploit. These have included

• List of Star Trek Technical Manuals;
• The Moonbase Alpha Technical Manual from Space 1999;
• Battlestar Galactica blueprints;
• The Star Wars Sketchbook;
• Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual;
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual;
• Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise;

and any number of fan fiction publications. Star Trek Technical Manuals are a number of officially published and self-published, fan-produced technical manuals detailing the fictional technology of the Star Trek universe. ... The Moonbase Alpha Technical Manual was published in October, 1977. ... Left to right: Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell and Martin Landau from Space:1999s second season. ... The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual is a description of the space station Deep Space Nine, the main setting of the television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, in the Star Trek fictional universe. ... Mr. ... Fan fiction (also spelled fanfiction and commonly abbreviated to fanfic) is fiction written by people who enjoy a film, novel, television show or other media work, using the characters and situations developed in it and developing new plots in which to use these characters. ...

The Star Fleet Technical Manual was a major source for Amarillo Design Bureau's line of Star Fleet Universe gaming products. Amarillo Design Bureau, Inc. ... The Star Fleet Universe is the variant of the Star Trek fictional universe as detailed in the series of tactical and strategic interstellar wargames from Amarillo Design Bureau Inc. ...