Star Trek: The Next Generation Sketchbook: The Movies

   

Sketchbook: The Movies

Publisher's description[]

From the back cover

Pass the torch. Bring together the best of what has come before and the grandeur of the present to create an undreamed-of future, a radically different look. Create a new ship. Give life to mankind's greatest nightmare, made flesh and metal.

When the decision was made to take the hugely successful television seriesStar Trek: The Next Generation into the realm of motion pictures, the crew, special-effects artists, and costume and makeup designers knew that they had a wondrous opportunity and several unique challenges ahead. Could they translate this new crew to the big screen, while retaining the magic that made the series one of the most successful syndicated shows ever? Could they create even more "strange new worlds" and vistas for them to explore, on a scale that would inspire awe in its legion of fans? And, most crucially, in its maiden voyage could they meld the two "generations" ofStar Trek? Could they find a way, visually, to pass the baton fromThe Original Series to the crew of The Next Generation?

"Star Trek: The Next Generation Sketchbook-- The Movies" explores the hectic, frantic and creative works of the movie artists... first, as they valiantly endeavor to meet and overcome the challenges presented byStar Trek Generations, and then as they embark on the massive undertaking of The Next Generation crew's first solo flight,Star Trek: First Contact. The inception of thenexus, the destruction of astarship, the horrific face of theBorg, and the design of theU.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-E all began with a single creative spark.

John Eaves, just one of the hundreds of craftspeople who worked their movie magic on Generations and First Contact, joins writerJ.M. Dillard to take us on an odyssey into the mind's eye of some of the most visionaryartists in the world of motion pictures. Through hundreds of never-before-seen sketches, model photographs and fashion designs, you'll see where it all began, and learn firsthand what it takes to transform the unenvisioned word into glorious reality.

Summary[]

A word from the writer

A word from the artist

Part One, Star Trek Generations[]

• TheUSSEnterprise - Designing theExcelsior-classstarship. Includes amaster systems display image and photos of theUSSLakota model.
• Spacedock
• Orbital skydiving props - sketches.
• TheLakul
• FX storyboards - TheNexus and the crash of theEnterprise-D (including a photo of theUSSFarragut model).
• Communicator Pin
• The USS Enterprise NCC-1701-DBridge
• Stellar cartography
• TheAmargosa Observatory
• Enterprise-B sets - Includes storyboards of the christening of the Enterprise with a bottle ofChampagne.
• Soran'sgun,Romulantricorders, newscamera,Sailing ship navigational table
• The Valley of Fire set
• Storyboards of the Enterprise-B

Part Two, Star Trek: First Contact[]

• TheUSSEnterprise-E - Designing theSovereign-classstarship.
• Ships for the "Battle of the Borg" - Sketches and CGI models of variousFederation starships, including theSteamrunner-class,Norway-class,Saber-class,Defiant-class andAkira-class.
• Enterprise-E physical model
• The Enterprise-E Bridge - Design sketches, building the physical set and finished photos.
• ThePhoenix - Design sketches, building the physical set, finished photos,mission patches and logos.
• The Endeavor - an unrealised "cutting-room floor" casualty
• TheBorg sphere andcube
• TheVulcan Lander, theT'Plana-Hath
• The Enterprise-ECorridor Set
• TheAirlock Set
• Quantum torpedolauncher
• The costume designs ofDeborah Everton, beautifully illustrated byGina Flanagan
• Various Enterprise-E Details - Sketches and photos of themain shuttlebay,deflector,warp nacelle struts,phaser rifles.
• Borg props - "All Things Borg and Beautiful: The art ofRicardo Delgado" and other sketches and storyboards by John Eaves,Alex Jaeger, Deborah Everton & Gina Flanagan. Includes the opening pullback forStar Trek: First Contact, by Illusion Arts.

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Starships and vehicles[]

USSAkira •USSAppalachia •Borg Queen's cube •Borg sphere •USSBudapest •D12-classBird-of-prey •USSDefiant •USSEnterprise-B •USSEnterprise-D •USSEnterprise-E •USSExcelsior •USSFarragut •USSLakota •SS Lakul •Phoenix •USSSteamrunner •T'Plana-Hath •USSYeager

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External link[]

• Star Trek: The Next Generation Sketchbook: The Movies article atMemory Alpha, the wiki for canonStar Trek.