Star Trek Maps (1980)

[DrWho42]

i stumbled across this via reddit, but here are scans of the 1980 book star trek maps courtesy of Cygnus-X1:
Star Trek Maps

[DEWLine]

That is definitely a trip down a subspace lane of nostalgia in several ways!

[jkittles]

Hello,
Nice find. I'm looking forward to going through it.

John

[kennystone]

The maps look wonderful, there's something appealing about the stars. Especially after the crew dragon astronauts are brought in.

[Lavia Frons]

Oh whoa, these are awesome.

[Astrocartician]

A lot of work went into making these maps. For the cartography, Geoffrey Mandel tried to show star system positions in all 3 dimensions. He said later in an interview that he decided to make the later star charts in only 2 dimensions. I can't remember exactly why but apparently he did not think it made a significant difference. I suppose it was also much easier considering how much information he had to put on the star charts after the new tv shows and movies came out. The coordinates are correct for most stars except for a few in the small map of the original federation volume. But the attempt to make the maps truly accurate as to star positions and true to canon was impressive.

The maps are folded and put in the case which puts creases in them. However, about 25 years ago I saw someone selling ROLLED maps that had not been folded. They also had a set that had been in the smithsonian with the TV enterprise model.

[dpitchtheauthor]

Hahha love it! Nice find. Thanks for sharing