Star Trek: Science Logs [Paperback]

Andre Bormanis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1, 1998 | Series: Star Trek (Unnumbered Paperback)

A collection of real life scientific information pulled from the "Star Trek" television shows and movies. Each entry is based on a TV show's adventure and is written to resemble a report to Starfleet Headquarters .

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About the Author

Andre Bormanis is a former NASA scientist and is the Science Consultant for Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and the current Star Trek feature films.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Pocket Books/Star Trek; Original edition (March 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0671009974
• ISBN-13: 978-0671009977
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #334,659 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable, lite science reading, January 6, 2002

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M. Hofer (Virginia Beach, VA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Star Trek: Science Logs (Paperback)

It is an interesting book and is easy to read. It is broken up into chapters, and in each chapter is a one to two page sections on a particular subject like telepathy. It hits a wide area of subjects.

Andre Bormanis, science advisor for the Star Trek franchise, explains the science in broad layman's terms, but enough to explain the basics and the logic behind what the team did.

I enjoyed reading it even with a sever lack of previous knowledge in some of the areas. It gave a neat look into the why they handle the science on the show. If you don't have too much time to sit down and read or you just want to have something to read during the commercials, this is an good book to have.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great book on the real science of Star Trek, May 27, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Star Trek: Science Logs (Paperback)

I liked this book. I haven't read much other Star Trek books, so I don't have much to compare to. I really liked the authors easy, concise explanations for things like warp drive, wormholes, alien biology, time... all the favorite sciences, and what's real and what's not! The segments are based on accounts from specific episodes with "science logs" from favorite Star Fleet personelle. The photo's and such add a nice touch as well. In short, if you like Star Trek, and ever wondered if what you saw was possible, I highly recommend this book. The science-minded will love it!

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Looks like a poor photocopy, February 15, 2010

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This review is from: Star Trek: Science Logs (Paperback)

Nice idea for a book, lots of good information, and well written.
But the quality of the printing is very poor! It looks like they scanned an original at low resolution and then printed from the scan. The lettering is fuzzy, and any small size type can be almost impossible to read.
This really affects the clarity of the illustrations. This was originally a lushly illustrated book and there are numerous photographs (on every third or forth page on average) but the low resolution scan nature of this printing now makes many of them useless. Photographs with large dark areas show little or no detail, and many photographs have an alternating dark and light pattern that looks like we are looking through bubblewrap.
The last time I saw a book this poorly printed it was a photographic copy of a mainstream book that was run off in Taiwan. At that time (and perhaps still) copyright laws did not apply in Taiwan, and there was a thriving business of low cost book knockoffs.
This book looks like it may be an example of "publishing on demand", and if this book is an example of what we can expect from this technology then it is a definite step down in quality.