Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #495950 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Calendar
• 12 pages

Customer Reviews

Ships of the Line Does It Again!
I love the Ships of the Line Calendar series and have every year's entry since inception. The 2008 edition has some truly great renderings. (As I true Trekkie, I can point out, with my tongue firmly planted in cheek, the one mistake I noticed so far, of using a Generations style shuttle instead of the correct movie-era Galileo) However, my only real caveat, is that with only 14 renderings (counting the cover & centerfold) that too much space is dedicated to the Original Series & Enterprise. The Original Series gets 6 entries & Enterprise gets 4... Leaving only one page each for Voyager & Deep Spece Nine. C'mon guys... Share the space more evenly! There is also one very interesting Federation large shuttle/runabout style non-canon ship image which I don't mind at all. (In fact, I hope we can see more Trek ships that never made it on-screen so we can finally see Captain Riker's U.S.S. Titan or the background ships of Wolf 359 someday!)

More or less the same, but still good looking
I agree with earlier posts that the artists creativity is getting repetitive, but to knock on it vs. the book is a little backwards. The book is a compendium of the calendar images and this year's calendar art was decided before the book was published. Personally, I HATED the book after having the calendars. The images were just too darn small.
Complaining about the note space is a little off, too. No one ever said you had to be able to take notes on a calendar to find it useful. A calendar tells you the dates, and this one does that. One year in this series they did try and do a "traditional vertical calendar with space for notes" and it was an extremely unpopular decision.

More of what you'd expect
No surprises here again. Mostly the same type of images we've been seeing in this series--which is, as usual, still a bit disappointing. Only a couple of real standouts this time, both from ST:Enterprise: a really cool shot of the Arctic One vessel over the North Pole encampment from the Borg episode "Regeneration" and a great image of the NX-01 flying over 1940's New York (in sepia tone!) from the season four two-part opener. The big disappointment comes from the centerfold image. Just a re-use of the cover of last year's Ships of the Line hardback. Yes it's a fine image but nothing new. Most surprisingly (or perhaps not surprisingly) only a single picture that utilizes new imagery from Star Trek Remastered--a shot of the old NCC-1701 protecting a couple freighters (like the one shown recently in the remastered "Charlie X", itself based on a ship from the 70's animated series) from the often shown D-7 Klingon ship. And why, oh why are we getting yet another image of the Enterprise in drydock? A quick flip through the SOTL hardback and you get at least six previous calendar images of ships in drydock. With so many years' worth of material you'd think the artists could come up with something else. This years' non-canon conjectural vessel is a strange looking ice-shuttle (sort of a Starfleet shuttle-snowmobile combo). I really wish they'd leave these flights of fancy out. And, as previously mentioned elsewhere, DS9, TNG and Voyager are barely represented here.

I've been purchasing this product since its inception and chances are, if you are considering buying it so have you. It is exactly what you'd expect, no more, no less. I'd like to say that the featured artists' compositions have gotten more imaginative but sadly (and predictably) I cannot. Not to say that's bad (it's just a calendar after all). It's just that it merely meets one's expectations and doesn't surpass them.