This book, created by
Mike Okuda and Rick Sternbach, gives full details of the technologies of the
United Federation of Planets and gives many working
specifications of the
U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D and its support craft (
e.g. shuttlecraft).
The book has the opening quotation "Some men see the way things are and say, 'Why?' I dream things that never were and say, 'Why not?'" by Robert F. Kennedy, and has an introduction by
Gene Roddenberry, the creator of
Star Trek and an afterword by Rick Berman, the producer of
Star Trek: The Next Generation. The acknowledgements stretch on for
miles.
First published 1991, ISBN 1-85283-340-8.