If you enjoy getting your hands dirty, or just curious about what makes it go - Haynes offers the best repair manuals for us shade tree mechanics.
This September, the Enterprise edition will be available too :)
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_Owners'_Workshop_Manual (http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_Owners'_Workshop_Manual)
Will it tell me how to get access to change the bulb in the flashing Navigation light on the saucer section?
Yeah - I think I mentioned this on a recent podcast. Looks like a great guide book.
I knew I'd heard of it somewhere - I'd guess it was on the podcast.
I'll be waiting to hear when one of you builds it in your backyard. Also, if you see a young guy on a cycle trying to get a sneak peak - shoot on sight!! :D
I had pre-ordered the Enterprise Haynes Manual this month and got an update from Amazon: Yay!
Ben Robinson, Marcus Riley "Star Trek: U.S.S. Enterprise: Haynes Manual"
Previous estimated arrival date: November 19 2010 - November 23 2010
New estimated arrival date: November 05 2010 - November 09 2010
http://www.startrek.com/article/haynes-enterprise-manual-co-author-ben-robinson-interview (http://www.startrek.com/article/haynes-enterprise-manual-co-author-ben-robinson-interview)
Excerpt from the Haynes Enterprise Manual Co-author Ben Robinson Interview.
"I have to say that the single most satisfying chapter was the NX-01, and a lot of the credit for that should go to Doug Drexler, who designed it. Doug was amazingly generous with his time and pulled out sketches and diagrams from his files that revealed all sorts of things he'd put into the ship that never made it on to screen. That ship's incredibly well thought-out and there's masses of fantastic detail that we were able to include in the book."
Don't let yours get away.
Enterprise Manual I alway thought it was an automatic( I'm very sorry )
No no, the NX-01 was a 5-speed.
That's interesting because Amazon sent me an email a few weeks agomsaying they could not obtain the manual and were canceling my pre order!
It must be a clerical error?
I hope they get their act together and you get yours soon too.
Strange indeed. I just went back onto Amazon and preordered the book again. Hopefully, this time it will work.
Hmm mine is on its way, should be with my by Saturday.
Does anyone know if this will have deck plans, etc. for the New JJ Enterprise? Because that would be freakin' COOL. :)
Mine arrived yesterday and it's awesome. Eric it only has the Enterprises from NX-01 to NCC-1701-E and it's the tv series NCC-1701 :)
That does look very cool. Are there any other good pics of the content online, Meds? Please tell me they correctly position the TOS bridge crooked!
Crooked Bry?
Quote from: HawkeyeMeds on November 03, 2010, 08:51:01 AM
Crooked Bry?
When Matt Jeffries designed the original Enterprise, behind the dome of the bridge you can see the turbo shaft. This was incorporated into the studio model. When they went to build the set, they didn't want to have the elavator doors directly behind the captains chair as it would be too distracting and made for difficult shots, so they moved it over to the side. Problem is, if you look at the Enterprise model, that means the bridge is off set to the left as per where the veiw screen is. So the view screen isn't facing forward relative to the direction of the ship and the bow, it's facing off to the left. Does that make sense?
Ah! Thanks to Rico's thread about the online blueprints, here is what I am talking about.
http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/federation-starship-uss-enterprise-sheet-12.jpg (http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/federation-starship-uss-enterprise-sheet-12.jpg)
That never really bothered me. Unlike JJ's movie, the viewscreen on TOS never seemed like a big window to me looking out. So it doesn't matter a lot that the screen isn't the dead front of the ship - at least to me.
Yeah, bugged the crap out of me! Ships designs and layout was always a big thing for me as a kid, I loved it. Ity made me crazy that the bridge on the E didn't face forward liek it should in my mind! This is also why I have such a problem with the new JJ'prise scale and that damn engineering room
Quote from: Bryancd on November 03, 2010, 12:18:09 PM
This is also why I have such a problem with the new JJ'prise scale and that damn engineering room
You mean Scotty's brewery? ;)
LOL ah i see what you mean. The bridge layout is the TV set layout. If you look at the enterprise outer model there is a turbo shaft at the back which would make the bridge off centre, but the view screen in TOS (as Rico said) is not a open window, its a projection view screen so it would work being off centre.
When you think about it, its a silly place to have the bridge in the first place lol.
Bry i reckon you would love this book, it even takes the captains chair apart :D
some pics
Indeed it's an awful place to have a bridge. It should be buried deep in the bowels of the ship, not perched on top to be destroyed by a lucky shot.
May as well paint a target on the top LOL
I always joked that whenever anyone on TNG said "Fire at will!" Riker should duck. Or if Picard said it I'd always say "But he's standing right next to you!"
From the blueprints it appears that a toilet is situated at the leading edge of the bridge dome. One lucky shot and you'll be blown from the throne! I never saw THAT in TOS.
(Personally I'd go below to use the facilities.)
LOL ha ha ha, talk about evacuating the turbo room.