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Star Trek: The Visual Dictionary BOOK REVIEW

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Star Trek: The Visual Dictionary book review .

With Into Darkness 's arrival imminent, this picture book provides a good way to get up to speed on decades of Trek continuity.
Covering the whole franchise, it itemises all the major races, vessels and conflicts, mostly in lavish double-page spreads.

There's only about an hour and a half's reading here, but then you don't buy a Dorling Kindersley book for the text. It's beautifully illustrated, with clever use of cutouts: for example, the profile of Picard is scattered with artefacts like his Ressikan flute.

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Hardcore fans will know it all already, and with vocabulary like "savant" and "polyamorous" scattered about, The Visual Dictionary is certainly not aimed at young kids. Ideal for a teenage Trek fan hooked by the Abrams movie who'd like to learn more.

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