1. Contents

2. History

3. Use as reference material

The Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual ({{ISBN|0345340744}}, Ballantine Books 1975, reprinted 1986, 1996, 2006) is a fiction reference book by Joseph Schnaubelt Franz, about the workings of Starfleet, a military, exploratory, and diplomatic organization featured in the television series, Star Trek.

Although it is fiction, the book is presented as an in-universe collection of factual documents, describing the 23rd century Starfleet and United Federation of Planets, and it is described as having been accidentally sent from the future to the 20th century—specifically, when as described in "Tomorrow Is Yesterday", the Enterprise was accidentally propelled back in time in a freak mishap, causing the manual's contents to be accidentally downloaded into the main computers of the now-closed Omaha Air Force Station.

Contents

The book provides some detail on the workings of technology used in the original series, including its ships, phasers, tricorders, universal translators, and medical equipment, and even diagrams for a working communicator built using 20th century electronics. It also contains plans for 3-dimensional chess, and lays out some basic game rules.

History

In 1973, Franz and his daughter joined a San Diego Trek appreciation society called STAR, the members of which spent time making their own Trek props and costumes. Using his aerospace design talents, he began making technical drawings of phasers and tricorders. He quickly amassed a large collection and sent copies to a very impressed Roddenberry, whose wife Majel Barrett's company, Lincoln Enterprises, was producing Trek memorabilia at the time. Though he considered the franchise dead, Roddenberry encouraged Joseph to seek Barrett's help in creating a manual, a project blessed with privileged access to original props and carpenter's blueprints.{{citation needed|date=January 2016}}

The book, published by Ballantine, took the number-one spot on The New York Times trade paperback list, breaking the existing record for profitability. Its success hinted at the brand's great potential, and within a year of its publication, Paramount and Roddenberry contracted to begin work on a Star Trek movie.{{or inline|reason=This looks like a fan's attempt to attribute the production of the first Trek film to Trek fans' enthusiasm, rather than industry trends toward speculative fiction in the wake of the success of "Star Wars". It would be a dubious claim even if it had a source, but it definitely can't stay unsourced.|date=May 2018}}

Use as reference material

The book was culled for background imagery in the first three Trek films. Elements from the manual that appear on screen include:

• Listings of starship names, adapted for opening-scene backgrounds at the communications outpost in The Motion Picture;
• Starship-class schematics, seen in background bridge displays in the Kobayashi Maru test in The Wrath of Khan; and
• Enterprise plans, used in The Search for Spock in a monitor display when the seal on Spock's living quarters is broken.

In addition, the manual, along with semi-official blueprints available at the time of the Klingon and Romulan ships, was a major source for the initial designs used for Federation ships for the board game, Star Fleet Battles.

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