The NCCs of the starships deserve nitpicking. For instance, the Constitution-class starship registries are not those found in the Encyclopaedia. Also, the Destroyers and Scouts contain registries that the Encyclopaedia gives to other starships.

I just donated mine to charity, so I don't have it any more to consult...

It contains the Articles of Federation, Romulan Peace Treaty, and (I think) Organian Peace Treaty. It also included patterns for uniforms (for the sewing inclined), external ship diagrams (including the single-nacelled scout and destroyer class, and the triple nacelled dreadnought class).

NCC's were basically reserved in a block by class.
Scouts were NCC-7xx, Destroyers NCC-8xx, Constitution class NCC-17xx (except the Constellation), and Dreadnoughts were NCC-20xx or 21xx (I can't remember).

Interestingly, the AoF authorized the construction of 12 starships only.

Boy, Scott, that's a good excuse for not having to be the one to haul in out and spent
an hour transcribing the relevent info to this board. :-)

We're packing to move, and my wife made me get rid of my TOS Tech Manual, TOS Medical Reference Manual, and my TOS Blueprints, not to mention 15 more cartons of books. I am psychologically incapable of throwing away a book (old Micro$loth manual excepted), so I donated to charity and the local library.

It has a diagram of the VULCAN LYRE! They were obviously hurting for material. Not to mention that "ray gun"...

Sorry ScottN, but the manual says that the AoF authorized fourteen original Heavy Cruiser (Constitution) Class Starships (on Stardate 0965)

They are:

1)Constellation NCC-1017 **
2)Constitution NCC-1700*
3)Enterprise NCC-1701
4)Excalibur NCC-1705
5)Exeter NCC-1706
6)Farragut NCC-1702**
7)Hood NCC-1707
8)Intrepid NCC-1708**
9)Kongo NCC-1710
10)Lexington NCC-1703
11)Potempkin NCC-1711
12)Republic NCC-1371
13)Valiant NCC-1709**
14)Yorktown NCC-1704

*Class ship
**Lost in the line of duty

IF you like you can see my very thorough comparison of the Encyclopedia's ships to those of this manual under:

Bulletin Brash Reflections: NextGen: The Next Gen
Sink: Star Trek Fact File: Galaxy Class ships

Well, like I said, I gave mine away, so I was working from memory! Besides, that's a nit on the AoF! Why should the AoF authorize the construction of 14 ships? Wouldn't that be a matter for the Federation Council? Were the Constitution class vessels the 14 authorized? If so, then the Federation is a heck of a lot younger than we think!

<<Gets out technical manual>>

The exact wording is:

"The following ships of the MK-IX class were authorized by the original Articles of Federation of stardate 0965:"

Then it proceeds to list the fourteen ships mentioned above, which are solely Constitution class.

However the original Aof also authorized:

20 Destroyer (Saladin) Class ships
15 Scout (Hermes) Class ships
15 Transport/Tug (Ptolemy) Class ships

That still begs the question as to why the AoF even authorized the construction of a specific number of ships. I still think that's a matter for the Federation Council.

I mean, that would be like the US Constitution authorizing the construction of 14 naval vessels.

Oh, boy, where to start. I was so excited to get it when it first came out, I gave it a glowing review in a fanzine. Then I started nitpicking. But I still like a lot of it, since it does have a lot of neat stuff. But it's not nearly as good as it could have been. There are so many inaccuracies, and I think they "cheat" a bit. They leave out a lot of pages. The implication is that the "real" technical manual would be something like a hundred volumes of a thousand pages each, and they would have put it on CD-ROM
anyway.
To start with the cover, it claims that Federation Codes are included. But when you go to the appropriate page, the Codes are classified!
It shows a map of the nearest stars, with Sol being in the center, and the positions of the stars has no relationship to the real positions of the nearest stars. There's no effort to tell how the Vulcans, etc. felt about Sol being put in the middle of the map.
Many of the star names are interesting and exotic. I haven't identified very many of them. They do include a Mongo (from Buck Rogers).
A whole class of starships is given names of these stars, but there's another nit.
One starship is named Hor; that's a homonym for an English word, y'know. What were they thinking??
Two other ships have the names Tutakai and Tikopai; the names are too similar and there's risk of confusion.
A few starship names from this were used in the first ST movie, but not again; why not?
Many of the starship names are too long, and klutzy, cumbersome, not alliterative or beautiful. There's a whole class of ships named after Earth scientists. None named after Vulcans or Andorians? Of course, they'd just be nonsense words to us, but still.
The Dreadnaught Class has particularly strange names. Alliance, Konkordium and Trusteeship don't sound so bad, but just imagine somebody saying, "I'm Captain Kevin Riley, of the Starship Trusteeship." It just doesn't have the right ring to it. And when the crew of the Starship Dominion are sent to fight the evil Dominion...

The shuttlecraft engines are classified. Why? I guess the writers weren't reading the science fact columns in Analog magazine. And there's no reference to the antigrav devices we saw in "Charlie X."

That's all for now.

Don't forget the Dreadnaught "Star Empire." Sure, it's a cool name. But does it give the right message about the Federation? "I'm Captain Kevin
Riley, of the United Federation of Planets Starship Star Empire. Our mission is peaceful..."

Speaking of Dreadnoughts, there are three versions of their story, all of which contradict. The novel "Dreadnought" says that there is only one, the USS Star Empire. the Technical manual says that 20 were constructed on stardate 6066, between Classic Trek and the films. According to Alan Dean Foster`s TAS novelizations, the Dreadnoughts were old starships which were abandoned.

I used to have a model of the Dreadnought. It was a miniature designed for use with a Star Trek war game. I also had a Constitution-class, as well as a destroyer, scout, and transport-tug, all of which were plastic, and a Klingon battlecruiser, Romulan Bird-of-Prey, and a Tholian ship, made of pewter. They were all approximately the same scale as the Star Trek Micro-Machines, all to scale with one another, and all HIGHLY detailed, except no paint or decals. I really wish I still had them. I don't know what happened to them. I must have foolishly given them away a long time ago.

The Dreadnought thing works. I can tie them together. Work with we here I didn't read the book.
All 20 were laid down (construction began) 6066.
19 were scrapped due to the out datedness of the design/technology in favor of the more forward thinking Excelsior design.
1 was completed.
There are historical analogies to this situation.
Oh, oh I still got a lot of those models...and the game. However I modified the rules significantly to make it more realistic (Star Trek 3.11)
Its possible the Federation charter limits the number of ships. I don't know why they'd do that but hey these are the same guys that signed a treaty that denied them cloaking technology. Building up the fleet might require constitutional amendment.

Adam, would you consider selling or trading any of your models? I've been looking for them for a long time. Please e-mail me.

In the listing of the Constitution class starships, the original "Defiant", which appears in "The Tholian Web" is not listed. There is a ship called the "Defiance", but it is the wrong class and specification.

This has nothing to do with the topic. But does anybody know where I can download some really good font that they used in the Original Series titles?
I have MSWORKS for 3.1, I think, I've been looking for it but could never find it...

I found the 'destroyed' ships listed inaccurate, when one considers the USS Valiant. The first, obviously was from 200 years prior, and not a Constitution-class ship. However, the one listed as destroyed in this book would seem to indicate the ship destroyed at Eminiar VII> But, wait a minute; that happened 50 years ago! No Constitution-class ship is 50 years old (not even the Enterprise when she's burning up over Genesis). The Enterprise cannot be 50 years old, either, because she's the 'flagship' of Starfleet, and not a 'sagging rust-bucket', as a ceertain drunk Klingon would have us believe. As such, the Valient listed in the book should be the THIRD Valiant, and still in service. The Exeter is also questionable, as she's in one piece, but highly contaiminated, which means she was probably scrapped. As such, it should have been listed as such.
Anybody also notice how the main exit of Engineering leads into a turbolift, when we all know it should be a corridor?
Othrwise, it's one of my all-time favorite works of Trek facts.

Also a big mistake by putting the Klingon and Romulan empires on either side of Federation territory in his map of the galaxy. That would seem to contradict how the Klingons and Romulans could have become allies, as The Enterprise Incident revealed.

The TOS Tech Manual has a multi-level floor plan for what is labeled as Star Fleet Headquarters. This appears to be nothing more than a humongous recreation complex, or perhaps a Utopian planned community. Where does Star Fleet conduct its business?

If you'll note, Starfleet Academy is on the border between two segments.

Also, it's not a multi-level floor plan, it's a ring, divided into segments.

Is it just me, or does anyone else read "Shapley Center" as "Shapely Center"?

Now that you mention it, Paddy, it did look a bit like that. But then again, I've always had a problem with dyspepsia.

oh? Your stomach gets upset often?

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By Spockania on Wednesday, January 20, 1999 - 11:53 pm:

Don't forget the Dreadnaught "Star Empire." Sure, it's a cool name. But does it give the right message about the Federation? "I'm Captain Kevin
Riley, of the United Federation of Planets Starship Star Empire. Our mission is peaceful..."

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The bad thing is given the Klingon Opera on DS9 if Riley did that to them they might make him an ambassador.

I saw a larger model of a Dreadnought class ship in a very cool model display case of Sci-fi ships outside Journey to Jupiter at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Alabama. I wish I had been able to find a model kit for one when I was older. I think the case had a Destroyer as well, along with ships from Battlestar Galactica and the Sulaco from Aliens.

The rocket garden at MSFC in Huntsville is impressive. You can see the Saturn V for several miles. D@mn, that's one large (and beautiful) bird.

Another problem with the maps - the edges are marked in gradians (Up to 400) instead of degrees (which go up to 360)

Murray Leeder on Friday, January 15, 1999 - 2:14 pm: It has a diagram of the VULCAN LYRE! They were obviously hurting for material. Not to mention that "ray gun"...

You forgot the Tridimensional Chess!

I had this a long time ago.

For some reason, they put the Klingon and Romulan Empires on opposite sides of the Federation. Of course, the two empires are side-by-side.