By Marcus Riley, Ian Chaddock and Mark Wright

Hero Collector Books, out now

A detailed look at the Borg’s vessels and a selection of ships from the Delta Quadrant.

Hero Collector’s ongoing series of books devoted to different aspects of Star Trek’s spaceships turns its eye on the Borg and 50 alien craft. This first volume takes us alphabetically from Abaddon’s ‘Junk Ship’ to the Krenim Temporal Weapon Ship, with Volume 2’s L-Z also now available.

As always, the reproduction of the vessels is excellent, with original CG assets used to render the images. The Borg section includes Cube, Sphere, Queen’s Ship, Renegade Ship, Tactical Cube and Probe, a useful comparison chart scaled at 1:18,000 and commentary about the features of each ship and how it is used in the narrative.

The 50 Delta Quadrant ships covering A-K get between one and six pages apiece, and what really strikes you is both the intricacy of the designs and the imagination displayed in creating such a variety of designs. There’s a useful index at the back which illustrates the episode(s) each ship appears in, and a reverse version where we get the episode titles first. It’s a useful way to make this detailed resource easy to use when trying to work out just exactly which Kazon vessels appeared in the Basics two-parter or how many times the Borg cube has been used (more times than you’d think).

Verdict: An excellent, detailed resource for those with an interest in the Delta Quadrant’s vessels. It’s quite an eye-opener how many different ships there are – and this is just half of the story! 9/10

Nick Joy

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