 Welcome back to another review and today I'm gonna take a look at the Star Trek the official guide to the animated series book I have to admit I never watched the show as a kid I don't think I remember seeing this in Switzerland on TV But I was somewhat aware of it and the Netflix started streaming it and I watched them and despite the Limited's animation given the format and the budget it's understandable But it was still fascinating to watch because they had all the voices had new music for the show and the stars were actually pretty cool Especially yesterday year the one about Spock should watch that so when they announced the official guide To the animated series. I was very very excited. So let's check this out and see what's in there So throughout the book, you're gonna see a lot of artwork where it's sketches concept work. It's already very cool Got the intro here. This is done by Aaron Harvey and Rich Shepi's. I'm assuming these are your pronounce it Shepi's Even here in the contents you have sketches. You got model sheets storyboards. It's really very cool I'm a big fan of this when you got a little early on sketches. These are final frames from the show Dedicated and an intro And you got really sketches Spock look at that. See that is just super cool. You see the early versions of the characters This is the animated version This is the animated concept art and the book gives you a good introduction to what was going on at time What it accomplished you can see here It's a little bit of a story some of the awards that it won a bit of production update with the creator Jean Rottenberry and It's full of little stories and photos and behind the scenes Very very cool gives you a bit of a background of how this animation got started The company who did this and why and the budget and then you have things like this here where it's from script to screen It's a two-page spread explaining the whole process from script all the way down to the finished episode Which is again very very cool I tacked this here because there is this rumor that the person responsible for the show was Karla blind and and that's why you had Specific colors like the Klingons wore pink and that is apparently not true That was all art directed and the person who was in charge of doing all the colors was not colorblind So it addresses some of those rumors and myths about the show and because the budget was so small There's something here You couldn't use more than six cell levels under the camera And that's why you have certain mistakes where colors overlap or parts of the body are missing So they even go into more details than bloopers and things like that and then it goes season one Explaining the show and then having kind of a behind-the-scenes and explanation and an overall overview over each episode for every season It's very cool tells you who's in it the voice acting kind of the story early sketches for Some of the new ships or the creature that you see there's something called something for the kids with little details about that Including bloopers and all kinds of interesting facts you like fascinating and here got the bloopers area again Fill with sketches and final imagery. It's just so cool. I'm such a nerd. I love this Including here you got the data bank outlining what's going on in terms of what do we see what kind of lifeforms what kind of props What kind of planets? This is an awesome episode by the way Yes, the year if you have access to the show watch yesterday or at least that one. It's great So this continues on For every single episode. So there's a ton of artwork a ton of sketches model sheets So cool Even if you haven't seen the show and you're somewhat interested in Star Trek just to seeing all of the designs I want to page through these like that. Look at that. It's just so cool so nerdy Lots of details and behind-the-scenes that are brand new and Published for the first time in this book. It's very very cool and this ends with that And then it goes into the series legacies with more information about what happened afterwards The influences and of course the merchandise and the toys and with an afterward and the acknowledgements Here with the two in Star Trek uniform and there you go. That's the end of the book backside It's really really cool as an animation nerd It's awesome to see all the details and the sketches and the designs like I said And on top of that if you start right nerd seeing all that for the first time is super cool You can get the show in DVD and blu-ray as well if you're interested link in description, of course So there you go. This is the book and it says here for $34.99. You can get that in the US if you check it out on Amazon It is $31.49. I don't want to link the Amazon product page in the description Of course, you can get this wherever you can that's it That was a quick look at the book if you have this already the comments are open Let me know what you thought about it. That's it for me. I think the next one is going to be this one I want to take a look at this book to that might be the next one book wise But then again, these are probably going to be first That one and number two Obviously fantastic. These are probably the next ones in terms of books, but that's it for me Thanks for watching and I'll see you in my next review