The latest volume in the Shipyards series features ships of the United Federation of Planets, including Vulcan, Andorian, Tellarite, Bajoran, Trill, and Earth Civilian ships. Each vessel is illustrated in CG artwork, with original VFX models made for the TV shows, alongside a technical overview and operational history.Featuring 27 ships! Starships include the Vulcan D'Kyr, the Vulcan cruiser and the T'Plana Hath; the Andorian battle cruiser, the Bajoran solar-sailor, the El-Aurian S.S. Lakul; and Civilian Federation Ships The Festoon, the S.S. Xhosa, and Harry Mudd's Class-J starship, the Norkova. Federation Members is latest volume in the Star Trek Shipyards Encyclopedia series - the very first set of books to collect all of the ships from Star Trek film and television shows in chronological order. series - The very first series of books to collect all of the ships from Star Trek film and television shows in chronological order. Each ship profile features artwork from the original visual effects models, detailed technical specifications, service history, and annotated views of the ships features. Written by Ben Robinson, author of the USS Enterprise and Klingon Bird-of-Prey Haynes Manual books. From the Inside Flap This volume features ships belonging to the interstellar federal republic known as the Federation, with chapters on the Vulcan Command Fleet, Alpha and Beta Quadrant Species, and Civilian Federation Ships. Each ship is illustrated with CG artwork, including original VFX models made for the TV show, and includes a technical overview and operational history. Chapters include size charts, showing the ships to scale, and an appendix of class listings. Ben Robinson is best known as the man behind Eaglemoss's Official Star Trek Starships collection, which in the last three years has become the largest and best-regarded collections of model Star Trek ships ever produced. He has been involved with Star Trek for 20 years. Ben was the launch editor of the huge Star Trek Fact Files reference work, which sold over 50 million units. Then he went on to edit the US Star Trek: The Magazine, which ran between 1999 and 2003. He has co-written two Haynes Manuals, the first featuring all seven Enterprises, and the second focusing on the Klingon Bird-of-Prey. Ben is particularly passionate about the writing, design, and visual effects behind the series. In the last two decades he has conducted extensive interviews with many of the most significant figures in the history of Star Trek from Dorothy Fontana and Matt Jefferies to Michael Piller, Ira Steven Behr, Ron D. Moore, and Bryan Fuller. Foreward The ships in this book were all operated by members of the United Federation of Planets, the vast organization that is at the heart of STAR TREK. The line between Starfleet and the Federation has always been a fuzzy one. Starfleet’s crews are drawn from the countless races that make up the Federation, but every now and again we have seen ships that clearly belong to the individual member races. Many of those vessels are described as freighters or science vessels, and are operated by organizations such as the Trill Science Academy and the Federation’s civilian citizens, including Harry Mudd and Ben Sisko’s wife, Kassidy Yates. For those who like to quibble, we’d like to acknowledge that many of those ships made their debuts in STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE, which is set in the decades before the Federation was formed. That show introduced us to most of the Vulcan, Andorian and Tellarite ships you’ll find on the following pages. Technically, these aren’t Federation vessels, but, despite our concerns about the timeline and their place in history, we’ve included them because this is where they seem to belong. We made the decision to treat similar vessels from Earth’s history differently, and they can be found in the sister volume to this book, which covers the early years of Starfleet. We’ve also included ships that are operated by the Federation’s closest allies – the Bajorans, again because this seemed like the best place for them. This book should be seen very much as part of a series, and ideally should be consulted alongside the other volumes, which cover Starfleet, the Klingons, and the other alien races that fill the STAR TREK Universe. Together the goal is to create a comprehensive reference to all the ships that have appeared in STAR TREK. We hope that this volume in particular provides a glimpse of the wider world of STAR TREK, which has often only hinted at the depth and richness of the cultures that make up the Federation.   Chapter 1 VULCAN COMMAND FLEET VULCAN SURVEY VESSEL D’VAHL   The D’Vahl was a Vulcan survey ship that landed on the primitive planet Earth in the 20th century. By the mid-20th century in the Earth calendar, Vulcan was a warp-capable civilization that had begun to expand and explore the Galaxy. Survey vessels of varying classes and capabilities began cataloguing the technologic