Star Trek Ships Of The Line 2004 Wall Calendar [Calendar]

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Book Description

Publication Date: July 1, 2003 | Series: Star Trek

Star Trek "has nearly universal awareness: 98 percent of consumers are aware of or have seen an episode of Star Trek, "resulting in cumulative retail sales for Star Trek "merchandise of more than $4 billion worldwide. Every minute, five Star Trek "books are sold, making it the most successful ongoing licensed publishing program ever created. The 2004 calendar line will add even more success to this phenomenal franchise. "Ships of the Line is the best-seller in this extraordinary line of calendars, and features thirteen spectacular, awe-inspiring images created exclusively for this calendar. Included are ships from the three hundred years of Starfleet history. Plus, the unique horizontal format opens up the sweeping vistas of this peerless artwork. The exclusive art and large format is what has made this calendar the number one seller year after year, appealing to all "Star Trek fans.

Product Details

• Calendar: 24 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing (July 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0740737554
• ISBN-13: 978-0740737558
• Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 11.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,053,583 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars ST 2004 Ships of the Line Calendar - Something's missing!, December 19, 2003

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K. Wyatt "ssintrepid" (Cape Girardeau, MO United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Star Trek Ships Of The Line 2004 Wall Calendar (Calendar)

For several years now I've been purchasing and enjoying the various Star Trek calendars and have especially enjoyed the beautiful imagery displayed in the "Ships of the Line" calendars. For all of the years that the "Ships of the Line" calendars have been published, Paramount and Andrews McMeel Publishing has had the respect to use imagery from all of the television series, that is not the case with this 2004 calendar.

With all due respect to the powers that be when it comes to Star Trek, the lack of just a "single" image from Star Trek Deep Space Nine is just another slight against Star Trek's best overall series which in this reviewer's opinion was the richest character and plot driven series to date! One would've thought that the successful sales numbers throughout this last year on the DS9 DVD sets and Pocket Books DS9 re-launch series would've garnered DS9 some more respect, apparently not though. I guess DS9 and its multitude of fans can and will continue to wear the "red headed stepchild" hat proudly!

Although there have been some rough spots in the Star Trek Enterprise endeavor over the last two and a half seasons, I've stuck with it just as I had with all of the other series. Having said that, I would say that the number of images in this calendar devoted to Star Trek Enterprise suggests to me that they should've just finished it off with all of the images being from Enterprise and called it the Star Trek Enterprise calendar because this one is clearly aimed at improving that series image and hopefully increasing its viewer ship.

Since there is no link providing any of the images for this calendar they are as follows:

Strangely enough, the cover art here on Amazon is an image from Star Trek Enterprise, the calendar in my hand has some extraordinary imagery from Star Trek to include the Enterprise NCC-1701-A, an Excelsior class starship and three Klingon battle cruisers.

January - Star Trek Enterprise
February - Star Trek
March - Star Trek
April - Star Trek Voyager
May - Star Trek
June - Star Trek Enterprise
Centerfold - Star Trek Enterprise
July - Star Trek Voyager
August - Star Trek Enterprise
September - Star Trek The Next Generation/Nemesis
October - Star Trek Enterprise
November - Star Trek The Next Generation
December - Star Trek

Had I reviewed previous years "Ships of the Line" calendars all of them would've received a five star rating, had this one had just one image from Star Trek Deep Space Nine, it would've received a five star rating. Overall, this is another beautiful "Ships of the Line" calendar but it loses one star for the slight against Captain Sisko and crew! {ssintrepid}

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 2004 Ships of the Line Calendar, September 15, 2003

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This review is from: Star Trek Ships Of The Line 2004 Wall Calendar (Calendar)

This year's calendar has some truly nice artwork. Still, there are two important things that I must point out about it. I used the term artwork because some of the renderings look more like perfectly hand-drawn paintings instead of CGI. I can overlook this out of respect for creative license. However, The most annoying aspect about this calendar, is that it completely overlooked Deep Space Nine... Not one single picture was inspired from that show. That "oversight" is compounded by the overabundance of renderings dedicated to Enterprise (the series, not the ship). There are 5 pictures inspired from the show Enterprise. The rest of the shots are broken down like this: 3 Original Series Movie Era shots (counting the cover), with two additional shots of the Original Series 1701, two shots dedicated to Voyager, and one shot each dedicated to the Next Generation in both series & movie incarnations. I strongly request that in future calendars, Deep Space Nine not be overlooked again, especially in favor of the clearly inferior series Enterpise.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Second Best out of Four Years, November 1, 2003

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Rob Caswell (Haydenville, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Star Trek Ships Of The Line 2004 Wall Calendar (Calendar)

In general I think this is the best calendar of this series since the initial outing. Many of the renderings are finished with filters that give them a slightly painterly look - a refreshing departure from the unnaturally crisp appearance of some raw CG work. For me the stand out piece was the "Doomsday Machine" rendering, giving us a unique and updated glimpse into a familiar TOS event. I hope to see more TOS work in future calendars, as this "publication" presents a perfect opportunity to revisit and refine the dated FX shots of the original Trek.

I'd like to chime in with others in voicing disappointment that there was not at least one DS9-related image in the collection. In addition I'd like to express my disappointment in the fact that five of the thirteen images are from "Enterprise". I understand that it's the current focus of the franchise, but it's a show I have zero interest in. With such a deep fictional history to draw from, I hope we can look forward to more varied subjects next year.