Reddit reviews Star Trek: Star Fleet Technical Manual

OMG YES THERE IS A BOOK FOR ALL OF THIS

https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Fleet-Technical-Manual/dp/0345340744

If you havent picked this up you will love it

There is this image:

http://i.imgur.com/M9NZ2UG.jpg

Out of this book (1975), but I never understood how the Klingon and Romulan Empires could be at war with each other if they were separated by the Federation.

Yes and I believe even the Star Trek The Next Generation: Technical Manual references it as well.

VOY - "The 37's".... Skip to 1:50. Janeway points to her combadge when she refers to the UT.

The in-universe explanation for why civilians can speak with others might be implants but and like I said inconsistency of writers is a thing. They go back and fourth because why would Starfleet personnel have a UT which can be taken off while civilians have the more practical option?

The TNG guide, Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise, The Franz Joseph TOS technical manual, Worlds of the Federation, and the Klingon dictionary (original and revised), and Klingon Hamlet. Probably a couple others I can't remember off the top of my head.
Someone mentioned the Space Shuttle Operator's guide, just found that one in a box recently, too.

The FJ ships were part of a book done in the late 60s/early 70s called "Star Fleet Technical Manual" - they were supposed to round out the Starfleet back when TOS was the only Trek available. Here's a link to a used copy of the book on Amazon.

The staples of the FJ designs were the Ptolemy (tug), the Hermes (scout) and the Federation (Dreadnought) class ships. They show up throughout the fanon from the 70s onwards.

Now...they are arguably canon since they show up on the display screens of the Enterprise during Trek III. But those display screens are literally just color-inversed copies of the Franz Joseph ships from his tech manual! So their canonicity is a little bit chicken-and-egg, and I'm guessing someone will come on here after me to correct me and ensure that I'm aware that they are indeed canon b'cuz b'cuz b'cuz.

EDIT: I forgot that the Hermes actually gets an iota of screen time as a legit ship in DS9, as part of the ruined fleet.

> I wasn't able, however, to find any plans, schematics, measurements, etc. online.

Wow. I'm sort of shocked, actually. I just assumed those plans would be all over the internet.

I'm pretty sure there are technical blue prints in this publication. https://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Fleet-Technical-Manual/dp/0345340744

Which has these two pages. http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/sftm/01-08-53.jpg

http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/sftm/01-08-52.jpg


Here's some other stuff from the book. (Its a great book BTW.)
http://www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/sftm.php


Here it is as a 3D .stl file for 3D printing and whatever else.

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:120544/apps/


EDIT: Maybe my google-fu is better than yours? Didn't take much effort to find those... Although, admittedly, I knew about the technical manual because I own it. And I took a guess and searched for Type-II phaser TOS 3D printing and searched images. BAM. There it was on thingiverse... just like I figured it would be.

I think you could use the .stl from thingiverse in a video game if you needed to.

Anyway, I am happy to help and good luck with your project.

Just out of curiosity, how are you going to make your model? What are you going to do with it?

Honestly I made most of it up on the spot. But I do have an extensive collection of Star Trek technical manuals many of which discuss the in-universe technical issues. The most popular being: TOS Tech Manual, TNG Tech Manual, Mr Scott's Guide to the Enterprise, and Enterprise Owner's Manual

The big flaws are that canon Star Trek tends to over-rely on manual human action instead of automation. The classic example being hand delivering a stack of PADDs to your superior officer, one for each document, instead of just emailing all your reports from a single PADD.

Good or non-android robots are nearly unheard of as well. But maybe more in use off screen in construction or industrial scenarios.

Really, it's just the idea of how easy large projects would be if you have reliable and cheap access to vacuum, zero-g, force fields, tractor beams, and transporters. Plan ahead and make everything modular and large construction projects become easy.

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Trek-Fleet-Technical-Manual/dp/0345340744

I had a copy when I was a kid, it's fun to flip through.