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Star Trek Star Charts: The Complete Atlas
Of Star Trek written and illustrated by Geoffrey Mandel Pub: Pocket Books/Simon and Schuster. 100 page large
format paperback. Price: £ 12.99 (UK), $17.95 (USA) and $28.50
(CAN). ISBN: 0-7434-3770-5. Check out websites: www.simonsays.co.uk/startrek
and www.startrek.com
Writer Mandel's specifics about planets not strictly given names is also thankfully Spartan to avoid some of the silly ways the 'Star Trek Files' encyclopaedia tried getting around the problem. Details of important star systems to the Federation are given in
some detail. This isn't really a reading book as such although some astronomical data is given along the way. The pages are set out as per, well, a latish designed astronomical guide. I can see Star Trek gamers no doubt using this book as a means to plot out Starfleet war games. Indeed, it's bound to be used as a guide for Star Trek writers
so you'll no doubt be buying this book and berating them for not
following the details laid out here. The main criticism is where the dashed lines of particular Starfleet
vessels are mapped. The colours are lost in the star charts. It
might make sense in future editions to have transparent over-lays
with brighter colours so you can really see where they were going.
In comparison to some of the earlier books around the 'Star Trek' series, there is something that spells that all books that follow will have to be done in similar lavishness if they are to look equally impressive on your bookshelves. Considering how so many of the early Star Trek book first editions are going up in value, I can't see how long it'll be before this goes to second edition. GF Willmetts
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OTHER REVIEWS - November 2002
Other Reviews: November 2002 Books Forests Of The Heart by Charles De Lint Maps: The Uncollected John Sladek edited by David Langford The Last Hero (A Discworld Fable) by Terry Pratchett and illustrated by Paul Kidby The Frank Collection: A Showcase Of The World's Finest Fantastic Art by Jane and Howard Frank Blood And Honour by Simon R. Green Prowlers by Christopher Golden Prowlers: Laws Of Nature by Christopher Golden Star Trek Star Charts: The Complete Atlas Of Star Trek written and illustrated by Geoffrey Mandel Angel: Endangered Species by Nancy Holder and Jeff Mariotte The Hobbit Companion by David Day and illustrated by Lidia Postma Bodies: His Photographic Art by Boris Vallejo Drinking Midnight Wine by Simon R. Green TV series
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Just
as its title says, this is a book marking out the known star systems
in the four quadrants of the Milky Way that makes up the reality
discovered so far in the 5 series that compromises the Paramount
TV 'Star Trek'. For many this is going to look like home-ground
as this is also broken up into the various empires from Klingon
to Romulon to Dominion. 
The
Federation is in there as well by the way. It should be pointed
out that there isn't that much known about the Changeling governed
Gamma Quadrant. 
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