MattyJ wrote:

Yossarian wrote:

ST: ID

Spoiler:

I don't believe he did, the realisation of where they were was what caused him to surrender. I believe he was simply planning a campaign of terrorism to get them released.

Yup, this is what I thought. Otherwise, there was no reason for him to do that thing you just said.

JMW wrote:

ERE, how many of these ship magazines will there be?

JMW wrote:

70?!! Jeez, I was considering it for about 10 or something.

   The Starfleet Reference Library: Stellar Cartography collects together ten original, never-before-seen large-format maps of the Star Trek universe. Pulled from the cartography archives of Starfleet Academy, these beautifully reproduced maps provide a rare opportunity to view the expanse of Federation space (and beyond) through the multiple lenses of the Galaxy's key players.

   The maps include an ancient Vulcan map, a Klingon Empire map from the pre-Organian Peace Treaty era (in the native Klingon), an official Romulan government map of the Empire, a native Cardassian Union map from the Bajor occupation, along with Federation maps from the modern era. Housed in a handsome clamshell case and paired with a fully-illustrated reference book providing detailed information on planets, systems, and topography, this exclusive collection showcases the Star Trek universe like never before.

   The thing itself - I was talking about it not being exactly a book - what you get is a clamshell, so it opens up like a book, and it's a tri-fold. The two outer things have a pocket... there's ten maps, twenty-four by thirty-six inches - two by three feet - on a really cool paper stock that doesn't crease easily. So even though they're going to be folded, if you get them out and you want to frame them right off the bat or something they're not going to do like the old maps, the old blueprints would always do, which was crack after you've used them a little bit. So there's a pouch on each side, and there's five in one, and five in the other.

   Then the book, although there's tonnes of text in it, it's going to feel a little bit like a giant hardback childrens' book. So there's like a spread for each map inside, the text. On one hand it's more visually heavy than it is textual, but on the other hand there's some really important textual concepts that I got to play with and massage. To me they've either been a gap, or there's things that have been bugging. It's like I see fans running round in circles arguing - and although this obviously isn't aired canon, it's my way of saying "Peace, peace! There is no need to be so confused and divided about this".

The much debated logistics of the Dominion War will be addressed, with Nemecek attempting to resolve some of the long-standing confusion over how numerous key Federation worlds were constantly under threat of attack by Dominion front lines. Using Earth's own geography as a reference, Nemecek describes how he theorized a distant front line of the Dominion and Cardassian war machine could reach deep into Federation space: "It's almost like, if Cardassia was say, North America, and the homeworlds, with the Klingon beyond, and the Romulans beyond, were like Europe. And the Klingon Empire was like North Africa. It's almost like everything was happening down in the Caribbean, that was Cardassia. But it's almost like, if you followed the jet-stream across over to Europe, that's the Northern Front that I came up with."
   
Fans wanting a more complete picture of the Federation can rest easy, as the charts will tie together detailed maps of both Alpha and Beta quadrants, as Nemecek describes, Stellar Cartography will cover "Known space of the Alpha Quadrant, and known space of the Beta [Quadrant], and they're set up so that you can hang them together and they'll mate up along the edge. You can have the known space of the Alpha and Beta - Which mainly focuses on the Federation."