Klingon bird of prey book5/19/2023 So, in the book we talk about the establishment of the Klingon academies, which is something Ron referenced in one of his episodes. That ties up with this and that ties up with that.” Ron had used quite a lot of real-world parallels, and they were neatly slotted in there. I think when you go look at these things and you start to pick at them you think, “There are bound to be loads of contradictions, and I don’t know how we’re going to deal with that.” But, actually, there were great things about the Klingons and the more you looked at them, the more you thought, “Yeah, that makes sense. There are 600-odd episodes and a lot of the Klingon episodes were written by Ron Moore. Robinson: Actually, what I learned about the Klingon is how remarkably consistent they are. What did you learn about the Klingons and the Bird-of-Prey from working on this? So I wanted to create a book that had a nice balance between more technical data, but was still a bit more approachable than some of the really tech-heavy publications there have been in the past. At the same time, as I said, I think the Enterprise book had been very much a canter through these different ships, and nothing like as detailed as I knew some people would have liked it to have been. On top of that, I think that one of the great opportunities is that, because so many effects/CG models were created for the show, you’re able to use those in publishing in a way that never used to be possible. So I had a pretty good idea of what works well. It was at least a dozen years ago, working on the Star Trek Fact Files. Robinson: I started working on Star Trek, God knows how many years ago. So, what did you learn from doing the Enterprise Manual that you brought to Klingon Bird-of-Prey Manual, and what, exactly, did you want to do differently this time? Your goal was to do something different from the Enterprise Manual. So it was an interesting challenge, how we’d approach it. People sort of stand on the bridge and kill things, and they eat a bit. There were countless episodes where the characters said, “We’re going to go to Deck… whatever,” and you’d find out a lot about how things work. There’d been a Technical Manual for the Enterprise-D. When you look at the Enterprise, there was a lot of information that was already out there. So it was quite an interesting challenge when they started talking about, “What would we do next?” Klingon Bird-of-Prey seemed like the obvious candidate, but it was a very different situation. Robinson: It was very flattering and it was very nice to see that it sold so well and was a success. caught up with Robinson at home in England for an interview in which he previewed Klingon Bird-of-Prey Owners’ Workshop Manual.įirst, what did you make of the reaction to the Enterprise Manual? The eagerly awaited book – which features CGI renders, cutaways and other diagrams that detail the assorted model and key technologies, plus technical data cleverly interwoven into a history of operational roles – will be released in November. Haynes clearly liked the results, as they’ve turned to Robinson again, this time pairing him with Rick Sternbach, to write the Klingon Bird-of-Prey Owners’ Workshop Manual. Enterprise Owners’ Workshop Manual for Haynes Publishing back in 2010. Robinson (and Marcus Riley) penned the U.S.S. Ben Robinson must have done something right.
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