Media:Calendar Edition:Wal Pages:24 Number Of Items:1 Shipping Weight (lbs):0.5 Dimensions (in):11.5 x 11.5 x 0.3
ISBN:0740726021 EAN:9780740726026
Publication Date:October 2002 Availability:Usually ships in 1-2 business days Shipping:Expedited shipping available Shipping:International shipping available Condition:NEW--SEALED in PLASTIC! Don't let this great collectible go!
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Book Description This calendar features breathtaking, dazzling images of renowned Star Trek ships from all five series, including the newest starship, Enterprise NX-01. These images are set among awe-inspiring panoramas of planetary landscapes and outer space, each capturing a mood of its own, whether it portrays a ship storming through the fog of San Francisco or floating above the silver clouds of a distant world. This was a best-selling calendar in 2000 and 2001 and is one that any Star Trek or space odyssey fan will love.
Star Trek's "Ships of the Line" CalendarDecember 17, 2002 Josie(Central Islip, NY USA) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
It a very good Calender,the Pictures are all original art work.a great job.
A pretty cool calender!November 16, 2002 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sure to become a collectable, this calender features some great shots of the favorite ships of Star Trek. Every one from the classic Enterprise to Voyager and even the new Enterprise. The pictures are so nice that you will be proud to hang this on your office wall. Just don't ruin it, you will want to go back and look at it time and time again.
The Debate ContinuesOctober 17, 2002 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The issue of to landscape or not to landscape has been argued long and hard since this calendar first came out. Personally, I like the landscape version as I don't write on my calendar, I just use it to reference the date. Perhaps they should release two versions of the calendar and then we can debate "letterbox versus fullscreen" to our little trekkie heart's content. As always it's the artwork that keeps me buying this calendar no matter what the format. The beautifully rendered pictures are so much more fascinating than a calendar filled with frames cut from the TV shows or movies. I would have rated it five stars, but Simon and Schuster has cancelled the book that they have been promising in the last two versions of the calendar, so I'm a little peeved at them.
THE BESTOctober 17, 2002 G-man(Mississauga, ONTARIO Canada) 0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Fantastic! Poster sized pictures of starships from all five trek series! And unlike last years calendar (half page, artificial distortion and art effects like blurring?) this one is not a huge disappointment. Fortunately they've returned to SHIPS OF THE LINE format from the 2001 inaugural edition. Sure they still haven't figured out where to put the holes (or at least offer an optional hanger that helps display it) but lets face it, you're not buying this for the dates, this is traffic stopper and I'd get a calendar frame because each one of these pictures are art. Finally I don't have to spend a month facing Quark's/Worf's/Neelix's/Phlox's/place over prosthetically made up alien face here. Keep it up Pocket, you've got a winner here!
Could be a lot betterOctober 16, 2002 Boris Skrbic(New York) 3 out of 7 found this review helpful
What distinguishes Adam 'Mojo' Lebowitz and Rob Bonchune are their credentials. Mojo, now a freelancer, was working for the renown CGI vendor Foundation Imaging from the start, producing effects for the original version of Babylon 5's pilot 'The Gathering' along with the company's founder Ron Thornton. Mojo and Rob were instrumental to the first three seasons of the show which proved that computer-generated imagery, if done well, can signficiantly lower the cost and improve the quality of visual effects on television.
This was a big reason why Foundation Imaging was hired to create CG effects for the third and subsequent seasons of 'Star Trek: Voyager' and was, along with Digital Muse (now basically Eden FX), responsible for most of the CGI in that show, the last two seasons of 'Star Trek: Deep Space Nine' and now 'Enterprise.' Mojo in particular has been tinkering with the Foundation/Eden library of CG models, trying to make it suitable for the photographic medium while commissioning new or improved models from his friends and other talented artists for the purpose of calendars, magazine covers and reference books.
This calendar shows some of them, including a brand-new Defiant by Andrew Bradbury which combines features of the physical miniature and the first Digital Muse model, a TOS Enterprise and shuttle by Daren Dochterman and the Enterprise-E on the front cover. While making this calendar, Mojo also was working on a book called 'Unseen Frontier' which, as we now know, will not be published as planned. It was supposed to depict scenes from Federation history only hinted at in the shows, and a lot of fan input went into making this book as true to Star Trek as possible.
The book might be the reason why two-thirds of the images in this calendar are rather the 'seen' frontier -- recreations by Mojo and other artists of scenes we've seen onscreen, and as such hardly of interest compared to those in the previous calendars. The calendar likewise contains a simple frame-grab, unless ILM contributed an original Veridian III evacuation scene. There is also an unusual amount of blur, which obscures details on some of the scenes. The horizontal book format is a plus for those who want to see the scenes in a two-page 'widescreen' mode, but not for actually hanging the calendar on a wall.
For more of Mojo, Rob, and company's work, check out 'Starship Spotter', the 2001 and 2002 'Ships of the Line' calendars as well as 'Star Trek: The Magazine', where Mojo continues to contribute many original covers. Foundation Imaging also produced special effects for the Director's Edition of 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture,' and is now a CG vendor on 'Enterprise.'
