U.S.S. Enterprise Haynes Manual (Star Trek)

I bought this for my boyfriend who loves all things Star Trek and owns a few Haynes Manuals for cars. He really got a kick out of it. It's a hardback, so it's durable and the graphics are highly detailed.

Is your other car the Enterprise? Do you love Star Trek or know someone who does? If you answered yes to either of these, then you must get this book! Highly detailed pictures, cut-aways, and extensive information on every incarnation of the USS Enterprise. From NX-01 to 1701-E, including alternate reality versions. Enterprise history, systems overview, shuttlepods and shuttlecraft, engineering systems, main bridge, and more for every ship. Extensive information on warp theory, transporters, time travel, parallel universes, holodeck, you name it, this book has it. At 160 pages, with a forward by Michael and Denise Okuda, this book is an officially licensed product. It has become my second favorite Star Trek book ever, second only to the Star Trek Encyclopedia! Buy this book!

What a great idea. A Haynes Manual for Star Trek. If you have ever seen a Haynes manual, you know what to expect from this book---wrong!

This book is simply embarrassing. Coming from Haynes, one would expect technical details. Instead, it is just a piece of garbage intended to milk those die hard trek fans who will buy anything trek.

What get you get is a chapter on each ship.

a. Each chapter starts with cutaway diagram of the type shown on the cover. These diagrams are merely chapter icons. They are of low quality, poorly placed on the page and provide no useful information.
b. There is a flyweight specification listing. For example, length overall is given. Things you would expect (e.g. saucer diameter, engineering hull length) are not given.
c. Then there is a trek world biography of the ship. These are illustrated with scenes from the movie or TV show---the same kind of stuff that has been run in fan magazines for decades. This kind of material makes up the bulk of the book.
d. There are multi view orthographic diagrams of the ship. These are 1) so dark that little detail shows up 2) ineptly placed on the page so that they go into the spine, even when they could have fit on the page vertically and 3) (for you rivet counters) not accurate. My view is that for non-real objects like this, there is room for a certain amount of artistic liberties. Here the plans are both inaccurate view of what appears in the films and TV and are of low grade quality.
e. There is usually a bridge diagram. Rivet counters complain about these in the various forums.

In other words, there is:
a. Nothing new in this book.
b. Nothing of quality in this book.
c. Nothing technical in this book that comes close to the quality of fan produced material available freely on the Internet.

Pure garbage in print like this explains why the Trek folks do not like fan produced materials: The fan materials are of much higher quality compared to officially licensed products. You would think that officially licensed products would have access to materials not available to fan produces. Clearly not the case.

Unless you saw "Star Trek: Nemesis" more than once in the theaters or you are one of those collectors who must have absolutely everything Trek, don't waste your money on this.

"This Haynes Manual is fully authorized by CBS and technical consultant Michael Okuda, who spent thirteen years working on STAR TREK TV series and movies."

Shame on you Haynes.
Shame on you Paramount and CBS.

Despite being a big fan of Haynes' "workshop manuals" and previous Star Trek technical manuals, I found this book to be a serious disappointment. It's quite slick and polished on a visual level, but that's where the positives end. The text is seriously dumbed down and largely bereft of the in-depth technical material you'd expect from a "manual." Instead, it focuses largely on the history of the seven Enterprises, pausing here and there to describe how basic Star Trek technology, such as warp drive, photon torpedoes, and transporters work. If you already own the TNG manual published in 1991, you've already read these parts, and in much greater detail. Very little attempt is made to provide anything more than a superficial look at these ships, with large chunks of this book consisting of screenshots from the series and movies, accompanied by a basic recap of significant events in each ship's career. The computer-generated views of the ships' interiors are nice, but again, don't show anything not already seen onscreen. The cutaway views of the Enterprises are nicely done, but aren't labeled and several of them look suspiciously like redrawn versions of illustrations by SciPubTech and David Kimble. Copyright infringement, anyone?

I would only buy this book if you have to own EVERY Star Trek book ever published. It tries too hard to appeal to "average" (no offense, guys) Star Trek fans, and reads like a fifth grade textbook published in 2380 as a result. If you're looking for an accessible Trek Tech book, go for Haynes' Klingon Bird of Prey manual, which does almost everything right that this book did wrong.

Myself and the other engineers about the USS Constitution (NCC-1700) have been having some issues with the ship after the first replenishment refit and were looking for reference material to augment our normal maintenance databases. This volume, while easy to follow, was lacking in several important areas.

The procedure for tearing down the impulse drive's linear accelerator was not supported with either exploded drawings or a "tools needed" guide. The manual references the Type 27 Mod A power coupling at the primary hull/dorsal interface but most earlier ships (such as ours) use the Type 25 Mod C. Lastly, the ink the volume is printed with attracts Rigelian arthropods so two of the three copies were purchased have been eaten.

I would recommend this guide for block III ships and those that have not docked in Rigel recently. Other than that, pass...

The Haynes Owner's Workshop Manuals are usually pretty decent books. As a Star Trek fan, I found this book to be delightful. However, I was hoping for more blueprints, cross-sections of the ships, and maybe even faux instructions on how to operate a piece of equipment. This book serves to be more of an introduction to U.S.S. Enterprise and all of its interactions & some systems from the Constitution class, all the way to the Sovereign class. If you're someone who enjoys the technical details about all things Star Trek, it seems to be omitted in many areas. If you're a new fan to Star Trek, I feel that this is an excellent book to get introduced to the famous starship.

In various fan circles, this book has been discussed, dissected, and otherwise run over the coals several times, so at the very least, there was a certain level of morbid curiosity about whether or not it was really as misbegotten as everyone was saying.

Well, it's not. It's actually a fun little book. As others have said, it reads more like an RPG supplement than a tech manual, and doesn't really have a lot of new information, but the presentation is well produced, it's got a good dose of technobabble for those so inclined, and the use of the LCARS layout isn't half bad.

As for whether or not it's worth the $27 price tag, I don't think so. I'd say either get right here on the store for around ten bucks less or, if you're either very patient or dirt poor, wait for it to hit the clearance shelf.

The sad thing about all this is that poor sales of a book that overpromised and underdelivered will likely be seen by the publisher as further proof that tech books just don't sell, when the real lesson is that poorly conceived tech books don't sell; good ones sell just fine.

I think most of the people who purchased this book and have provided poor reviews didn't do their research beforehand. They should have examined how many pages were in the book. This told me it would not be an encyclopedia type publication, nor super technical. Either would require a thick book like the original Star Trek Technical Manual (B002NC4F18). If you want to get a book for someone new to Star Trek or for a brief overview of the ships, this is the book for you. The book itself has an excellent construction (and a nice new book smell). I would recommend it, provided it fits the expectations I've laid out.

The Haynes Owners' Workshop Manual for the U.S.S. Enterprise has the funniest cover idea I have seen in a long time: take the classic repair manual series and apply it to the world's most popular line of starships. And while the content inside is smartly presented and very well written and researched, the authors abandoned the repair manual concept for all the stuff inside the book.

Even so, the text is written in a very accessible style even to non-Trekkies (such as my wife, who bought our copy), and covers the ships' history within TV and film continuity accurately and entertainingly. The pictures, particularly the cutaways, illustrate the ships very well. As a fictional history book with a gag cover, it's still well worth reading.

Sadly, this still leaves me with very little to go on when it comes to replacing those worn warp coils.

DISCLAIMER: I'm a 1st-Generation Trekkie, yes, TREKKIE, so take that information when I talk about this book.

The book is essentially a 'historical' take on the series of Star Trek vessels named 'Enterprise', so ignore the sailing ship, ENTERPRIZE, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier ENTERPRISE (CVN-65), and the test-glider space shuttle ENTERPRISE. Only the fictional starships.

It starts with the NX-01 vessel from the series: Star Trek: Enterprise, talking about the numerous ship systems and developments, going all the way to the latest (at the time of this writing) 'reboot' of the Star Trek franchise, pointing out on how there can be a 'reboot' of the timeline (got to love 'Treknology') that would cause development along a different, if somewhat parallel path.

All along the book, there are extra 'snippets', highlighting the aspects of technology shown in the decades-long franchise, from warp-drive to transporter devices. While it isn't large in comparison to the numerous other texts out there on 'Treknology', the book itself is full of color pages and diagrams showing the workings of particular aspects of the vessel, and that by itself almost makes it worthwhile.

While this sort of information is already present in numerous other books, authorized and otherwise, it's a useful addition to anybody that has an interest in the subject and wants an 'Enterprise-only' book for settling disputes of geekery.

This book supplies only a cursory overview of the different periods in the Enterprise's history. One might hope for detailed, exploded-view diagrams, since it is a Haynes manual, but such is not the case. Flip though this before you buy it.

Even after reading a lot of the reviews here that said this was a disapointing book, I still wanted it in my collection. It's nice enough, very colorful and fun to look through. I enjoy it.
My copy, however is binded upside down! The internal contents are flipped the opposite direction from the outer cover. Is this perhaps one of those rarities that will go up in value because of this error?? One can only hope! (Anybody remember the red-faced Data action figure?)

This book supplies only a cursory overview of the different periods in the Enterprise's history. One might hope for detailed, exploded-view diagrams, since it is a Haynes manual, but such is not the case. Flip though this before you buy it.

Even after reading a lot of the reviews here that said this was a disapointing book, I still wanted it in my collection. It's nice enough, very colorful and fun to look through. I enjoy it.
My copy, however is binded upside down! The internal contents are flipped the opposite direction from the outer cover. Is this perhaps one of those rarities that will go up in value because of this error?? One can only hope! (Anybody remember the red-faced Data action figure?)

The manual says that in order to restart the warp core, we can access the automated repair system via the 17th aft Jefferies tube. What the manual does NOT tell you is the location of this Jefferies tube. We had to do it manually and it killed my science officer.

We crew members found this manual very helpful when the ship was stranded in Klingon space and Scotty was down with the Denobulan flu, which he was treating with Aldeberon whiskey. With this books help, we found that the warp coils could be repaired by substituting the carburetor from a 1947 Hudson (luckily ships stores still had them in stock!) and the Dylithium crystals could be patched with duct tape.
5 stars in Federation space for this one!