![]() ![]() On May 16, 2018, Star Trek Online introduced an option where a player could 3D print ships from the game through a 3rd party service. Star Trek Star Trek starships Star Trek Shipyards The only way to do those things would be to print new editions of the book, which when compared to digital copies that can be quickly corrected/updated, is a highly inefficient process (as the Borg would say). They can’t be updated either if the information becomes outdated. Printed books can’t be easily corrected if an error or omission is discovered after printing. It’s another glaring error, but…at least they didn’t leave out the Prometheus completely!Īs a general lesson, the misprinted Shipyards book demonstrates the problem with hard copy reference books in this day and age. My guess is that the 126m figure used by the Shipyards book is actually the length of just one of the Prometheus vectors (probably the saucer vector) that somehow got confused for the length of the entire ship. I mean, come on! A Prometheus with 10+ decks can’t be smaller than the Defiant which only has 4 decks!Įx Astris Scientia and Star Trek Online seem to have the size of the Prometheus right at around 400m or slightly shorter than the length of an Akira. The MSD in “Message in a Bottle” clearly shows that the ship has over 10 decks. No definitive figure exists for the length of the Prometheus, but based on evidence seen in the episode that featured it, the ship has to be longer than that. They can’t admit the mistake because it could make people not want to buy the book, hence the radio silence from them.Īnother less egregious but still laughable error is that the book has the U.S.S. The publisher probably realized it would cost too much to recall the misprinted copies and reprint them correctly so they’re trying to sell as many of them as possible and are just hoping people won’t notice or won’t care that the Akira-class wasn’t included. I surmise that the omission somehow was not noticed until publication already started or finished. I’ve reached out to the publisher for an explanation but have received no response. I would even go so far as to say that such an omission essentially ruins the book that claims to be a “chronological history of all of the Starfleet ships featured in the Star Trek television programs and films.” But even from an objective standpoint, omitting the Akira is a pretty serious mistake. Now, I’m definitely partial to the Akira given that it’s the basis of my STO ship and one of my favorite starship classes. The most obvious indication of this error is the fact that they actually put an Akira-class ship on the cover but left it out of the actual book! Akira-class ships have appeared in over 10 episodes in addition to being in First Contact, so its omission has to be a mistake and could not have been intentional. Also, obscure ships like the wrecks from the Battle of Wolf 359 and even the Federation tug were included. Where’s the Akira-class starship? Every other starship that was introduced alongside the Akira in Star Trek: First Contact is here. However, once I received through mail order the Volume 2 of series that covers starships from “2294 to the Future,” I immediately noticed a glaring omission! ![]() Even though I hadn’t bought a book in hardcopy in years (I have a Kindle), I liked the idea of having an encyclopedic resource of starships as a coffee table book. The Star Trek Shipyards series of reference books published by Eaglemoss (a.k.a Hero Collector) were supposed to be a nice comprehensive catalog of the Starfleet ships seen on Star Trek.
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