Star Trek Science Logs

For polite and reasoned discussion of Star Wars and/or Star Trek.
Post Reply
Jedi Master Spock
Site Admin
Posts: 2164
Joined: Mon Aug 14, 2006 8:26 pm
Contact:

Star Trek Science Logs

Post by Jedi Master Spock » Wed May 23, 2007 5:06 am

I recently acquired a book by this title (used, good condition, original 9.99 pound price tag still on it, for a bargain price) and will be looking over it in detail when I'm tired of everything else I'm going through.

Anybody else have it? Frankly, from a quick flip-through, it doesn't seem to meet the quality of the blurb/reviews claiming it explains the behind-the-scenes reasoning behind science in Star Trek, but I suppose I'll see.

User avatar
2046
Starship Captain
Posts: 2042
Joined: Sat Sep 02, 2006 9:14 pm
Contact:

Post by 2046 » Wed May 23, 2007 6:34 am

I have it. It's a fun Trek book, but often it's Bormanis saying "this isn't real, but we needed to make up something of quality X, so this is it. But it's kinda sorta half-ass based on Real Thing Y, so I'll talk about Real Thing Y for awhile now."

I didn't see anything that useful.

User avatar
Praeothmin
Jedi Master
Posts: 3920
Joined: Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:24 pm
Location: Quebec City

Post by Praeothmin » Wed May 23, 2007 4:18 pm

I liked it.
I learned a few things about real science in there, bnut it is true that you don't learn everything about ST science though.

watchdog
Jedi Knight
Posts: 342
Joined: Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:26 am
Location: Not at home

Post by watchdog » Mon Jul 16, 2007 5:36 pm

Coming late to this but I bought the book when it was new because I thought it could help me with these debates, it has some fun flavor text and tells a bit about real science. It's probably really useful in writing a star trek story only.

Post Reply