Star Trek Maps

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Authors| Jeffrey Maynard, John Upton, et al.
Illustrators| Jeffrey Maynard, Michael McMaster, et al.
Language| English
Genre| Science fiction
Publisher| Bantam Books

Publication date

| August 1980
Publication place| United States
Media type| Print
Pages| 31 pp., 4 maps
ISBN| 0-553-01202-9

Star Trek Maps is a reference work demonstrating the stellar cartography and navigation system featured on the Star Trek television series, written from an in-universe perspective. It was published by Bantam Books in August 1980, and licensed by Paramount Pictures.

The box set included four maps using a four-color scheme intended to be displayed on a wall, and an instructional booklet from the "Technical Publications Section" of Starfleet Command.

## Production

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A number of artists contributed to the production of the booklet, and wall maps. Many of the contributors would work on later Star Trek productions.

* Jeffrey Maynard, Co-designer and coordinator.
* Michael McMaster, Concept artist.
* Geoffrey Mandel, Astronomical art design.
* Lee Cole, Technical graphics.
* Michael Nicastre and Rick Sternbach, Airbrush art.
* John Upton, instruction manual author.

A number of the artists who worked on Star Trek Maps were involved with other Star Trek productions. Michael McMaster self-published blueprint of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) as "Galactic Designs and Productions."[1] Geoffrey Mandel would later become a member of the art department for Star Trek Generations, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager. Lee Cole worked as a scenic artist and set designer for the un-produced Phase II television series, and he later joined the crews of Star Trek: The Motion Picture and The Wrath of Khan. Rick Sternbach was a production illustrator for The Motion Picture, and later for The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and Voyager. Larry Nemecek was an uncredited consultant.

## Contents

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Star Trek Maps box set contains four maps using a four-color scheme intended to be displayed on a wall, and a 31-page staple-bound booklet.[2]

* Introduction to Navigation (booklet): Labelled with an in-universe document number: TM:3001499-03, as published by the Technical Publications Section of Starfleet Command. The text includes historical background, explanations of warp travel, navigation within the Federation, a briefing on course calculations, which include vector calculus, a table of corrections for warp speed designations.
* Chart A - United Federation of Planets: The locations of the core Federation member worlds, and their relation to Earth. Sidebars include projections (called “Astrogation”) of the coordinate system for the galaxy explained in the booklet.
* Chart B - Named Planets and their Primaries, and Planetary Descriptions: Positions of named planets from the television series using a galactic side view. Sidebars include vector drawings of Federation vessels and buoys, and two maps of member worlds more distant from the Federation core.
* Chart C - Enterprise Zone of Patrol, Map Five: Depictions of several worlds featured in the television series. Included scaled maps of the Klingon Empire and an updated map of Earth Outpost Sector Z-6 featured in “Balance of Terror”. Sidebar featured planetary layouts of Sol, Triskelion, Talos, Deneb and Gamma Vertis systems.
* Chart D - Enterprise Zone of Patrol, Map Six: Detailed map of the Rigel system, and depictions of twelve other named words, including Memory Alpha, Sherman’s Planet, Babel and Vulcan.

## Reception

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William A. Barton of The Space Gamer noted "Star Trek fans of Earth owe a vote of thanks to designer Jeffrey Maynard and to Bantam for taking the time to release these… They should prove a worthwhile purchase to anyone interested in the Star Trek universe."[2]

According to Memory Alpha, maps from the set were featured as part of the 1992 Star Trek exhibition presented by the National Air & Space Museum.

Larry Nemecek created a similarly in-depth package of wall maps and encyclopedic booklet in Stellar Cartography: The Starfleet Reference Library (2013). The maps and text were updated by Nemecek to include information from other Star Trek spin-off series, and films released since 1980, combined with material he contributed to Star Trek: Star Charts (2002).

## References

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1. ^ Bernard-Guignard (2013-09-08). "Hard Copy Blueprint Listing - Treknographics101". www.tapatalk.com. Retrieved 2018-01-04.
2. ^ a b Barton, William A. (Dec 1980). Johnson, Forrest (ed.). "Capsule Reviews". Reviews. The Space Gamer. No. 34\. Austin, Texas: The Space Gamer. p. 34\. ISSN 0194-9977.

## External links

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* Star Trek Maps at Memory Beta
* Star Trek Maps at Memory Alpha

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Star Trek publications by Bantam Books

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* Vulcan! (1978)
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* World Without End (1979)
* The Fate of the Phoenix (1979)
* Devil World (1979)
* Perry's Planet (1980)
* The Galactic Whirlpool (1980)
* Death's Angel (1981)

Reference guides|

* Star Trek Lives! (1975)
* Star Trek Puzzle Manual (1976)
* Star Trek Maps (1980)

Anthologies|

* The New Voyages (1976)
* The New Voyages 2 (1978)

Editors|

* Frederik Pohl
* Sydny Weinberg

Authors|

* James Blish
* Theodore Cogswell
* Myrna Culbreath
* Gordon Eklund
* David Gerrold
* Stephen Goldin
* Jack C. Haldeman II
* Joe Haldeman
* J. A. Lawrence
* Jacqueline Lichtenberg
* Sondra Marshak
* Kathleen Sky
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