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Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual

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This work is noted as providing the basis for the Star Fleet Universe series of games.

• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 General Section
• 1.3 Command Section
• 1.4 Sciences Section
• 1.5 Support Services Section
• 1.6 Miscellaneous Section
• 2.1 Production use
• 2.2.1 Cover gallery
• 3 References
• 5 External links

Summary [ ]

All sections of the manual except the Introduction have "flysheets" that bear the Enterprise ship badge with various symbols in the centers.

Introduction [ ]

General section [ ].

• Declaration
• Chapters 1 – 19 (containing 110 articles)
• Statute – Interplanetary Supreme Court of Justice – not printed
• Statute Regulating Interplanetary Commerce – not printed
• Romulan Treaty of Peace
• Organian Treaty of Peace
• United Federation of Planets Banner
• United Federation of Planets Seal
• United Nations Planet Earth, Sol system Flag
• United Nations Planet Earth, Sol system Seal
• Planetary Confederation of 40 Eridani Banner
• Planetary Confederation of 40 Eridani Signat
• United Planets of 61 Cygni Shield
• United Planets of 61 Cygni Arms
• Star Empire of Epsilon Indii Standard
• Star Empire of Epsilon Indii Seal
• Alpha Centauri Concordium of Planets Pennant
• Alpha Centauri Concordium of Planets Arms
• Official Type Style – Earth, Sol system – Star Fleet Specification
• Official Type Style – Alpha Kentaurus – Star Fleet Specification
• Uniform Color Code – Star Fleet Specification

Command Section [ ]

• SFAF – Org – Simplified Chart
• SFAF – Org – Mil. Staff Comm./Star Fleet Command
• SFAF – Org – Fleet Operations/Base Operations
• SFAF – Org – Logistics/Inspector General – not printed
• SFAF – Org – Personnel/Judge Advocate General – not printed
• SFAF – Org – Surgeon General/Sciences – not printed
• SFAF – Org – Engineering/Comptroller General – not printed
• SFAF – Org – Technology/Communications – not printed
• SFAF – Org – Nav. Gen/Planetary Rel./Galaxy Exp – not printed
• SFAF – Org – Tactician/Cosmologist/Alienologist – not printed
• The Star Fleet Academy – Organization
• SFHQ – External Arrangement
• SFHQ – Typical Cross-Section
• SFHQ – Typical Section Thru Dock
• SFHQ – Typical Long. Section
• SFHQ – Ground Plan – Bays 1 & 2
• SFHQ – Ground Plan – Bays 3 & 4
• SFHQ – Ground Plan – Bays 5 & 6
• Insignia and Rank – Star Fleet Armed Forces
• Duty Uniform – Male – All SFAF
• N/C (Non-Computerized) Tunic Pattern
• Duty Uniform – Female – Officers SFAF
• N/C (Non-Computerized) Tunic and Panty Pattern
• Duty Uniform – Female – Ensigns SFAF
• Duty Uniform – Male – Medical SFAF
• Duty Uniform – Academy Cadet – Male – not printed
• N/C (Non-Computerized) Tunic Pattern – not printed
• Duty Uniform – Academy Cadet – Female – not printed
• N/C (Non-Computerized) Tunic and Panty Pattern – not printed
• Fleet Ship Classifications – SFAF – Class I Starships
• Class I Heavy Cruiser – MK-IX
• Authorized Construction
• Class I Destroyer – MK-VIII
• Class I Scout – MK-VII
• Class I Transport / Tug – MK-VI
• Class I Transport Containers – MK-V and MK-III
• Class I Transport Containers – MK-II and MK-I
• Class I Transport Containers – MK-IV Starliner
• Class I Transport Containers – MK-IV Deck Plans
• Class I Dreadnought – MK-X
• Shuttlecraft – 7 person – MK-12B – External Arrangement
• Shuttlecraft – 7 person – MK-12B – Internal Arrangement – only partially printed
• Typical Single Stateroom – Primary Hull – Class I SS
• Typical Double Stateroom – Primary Hull – Class I SS
• Main Bridge – Primary Hull – Class I SS – Deck Plan
• Main Bridge – Primary Hull – Class I SS – Elevations
• Command Module – Main Bridge – Plan & Profile
• Command Module – Main Bridge – Elevations
• Main Bridge – Primary Hull – Helmsman's Station
• Main Bridge – Primary Hull – Navigator's Station
• Main Bridge – Primary Hull – Command Con
• Main Bridge – Primary Hull – Astrogator
• Security Section – Primary Hull – Class I SS (This actually depicts the main brig.)
• Controls Console – not printed
• Hand Phaser – Type I – General Arrangement
• Hand Phaser – Type II – General Arrangement
• Hand Phaser – Type II – Details
• Offensive/Defensive Ray Gun – General Arrangement (This is actually the hand beacon used unsuccessfully in " The Squire of Gothos ".)

NOT depicted is the Phaser rifle that James T. Kirk used in " Where No Man Has Gone Before " against Gary Mitchell . (The rifle was, unfortunately, never shown, much less employed, in any other TOS episode.)

Sciences Section [ ]

• Command Intelligence – Main Bridge Station-Class I Starships
• Controls Console (Bridge Science Station)
• Sciences Tricorder – External Arrangement
• Sciences Tricorder – Arrangement - Unit Open
• Sciences Tricorder – Internal Arrangement (This is depicted as a 20th Century substitute; the actual is declared CLASSIFIED under the Prime Directive .)
• Sciences Tricorder – Case Details
• Galactic Coordinate System – Great Spiral Milky Way Galaxy M-O
• S.I.N.S. Database Datum – In Galactic Coordinate System
• Course Tracking Element Schematic Diagram – Class I Starships
• Velocity/Time Relationship – Interstellar Space/ Warp Technology
• Standard Orbits – Class I Starships
• Milky Way Galaxy
• Known Galactic Region
• United Federation of Planets - Principal Stellar Systems
• Deck 7 – Plan – Primary Hull – Class I Starships (This depicts the Sickbay .)
• Medical tricorder – Standard Field Equipment Item – Type I
• Medical tricorder – Open Arrangement
• Medical tricorder – Internal Arrangement (The internal circuitry is marked CLASSIFIED, being subject to the Prime Directive .)
• Medical tricorder – Details
• Heartbeat Reader – Star Fleet College of Medicine Standard
• Spray Applicator – Star Fleet College of Medicine Standard
• Medical Scanner – Star Fleet College of Medicine Standard (This is the "Feinberger" McCoy often carried; see the Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual . )
• Anabolic Protoplaser – Star Fleet College of Medicine Standard – Minor Injury Version
• Anabolic Protoplaser – Star Fleet College of Medicine Standard – Massive Injury Version
• Surgical Scalpels – Star Fleet College of Medicine Standard

The two "technical orders" for the anabolic protoplasers are actually printed in REVERSE order; the large version, according to the table of contents, should have been printed first. Orientation of the page headings suggests that the page was bound on the wrong edge.

Support Services Section [ ]

• Communications – Main Bridge Station – Class I Starships
• Communications Control Console – Main Bridge Station – Class I Starships
• Communicator – Standard Field Equipment Item
• Communicator – Circuitry Diagram – Type I (This is described as being "20th Century Terran Early Development.")
• Ear Receiver – For Non-Public Reception
• Universal translator – U.F.P Standard

The circuitry diagrams of the Main Bridge Ear Receiver, MK05 and the hand-held model of the Universal translator are not printed.

• Main Bridge Station – Class I Starships
• Engineering Control Console – Main Bridge Station – Class I Starships
• Engineering Section – Primary Hull – Class I Starships
• Impulse Power Unit – Class I Starships – External Arrangement
• Main propulsion – Class I Starships – External Arrangement
• Transporter – Standard 6 Person – Primary Hull – Class I Starships
• Transporter – Emergency – Primary Hull – Class I Starships
• Transporter – Cargo – Primary Hull – Class I Starships
• Hangar Deck – MK-IX Model Only – Class I Starships
• Hangar Deck – Principal Elevation – MK-IX Model Only – not printed

The internal arrangements of the impulse and main warp engines are marked CLASSIFIED, as their technology is considered subject to the Prime Directive . Also, a later, on-line only, version of the manual shows a simplified version of the controls console for the transporter; this is not printed in the hard-copy versions.

• Vulcan Lyrette – Orchestral Model Musical Instrument
• TriDimensional Chess – Regulation Tournament Board
• Tridimensional Chess – Regulation Tournament Playing Pieces (This also includes some rules for playing the game using the board and pieces whose designs are provided.)

Miscellaneous Section [ ]

Background information [ ].

• None of the book editions feature a page numbering.

Production use [ ]

While this book has long been considered apocryphal, it has itself has been used as a source and on-screen reference both from dialogue and visual sources in four Star Trek motion pictures, and at a number of episodes.

• Scout Revere NCC-595
• Scout Columbia NCC-621
• Dreadnought Entente NCC-2120
• Cruiser Merrimac NCC-1715
• A star chart appearing on the Enterprise bridge displayed in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan named several planets:

• Starship designs from the book were used as bridge displays in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock :

• Constitution -class starship NCC-1700

• Heavy cruiser USS Kongo NCC-1710

Enterprise details and specs

• Joseph's material appeared again in the Star Trek: Discovery second season episode " Brother ", where the specifications for the "Class I Heavy Cruiser – MK-IX" were copied onto the display graphic of the USS Enterprise .

Reprints [ ]

The Technical Manual was first published as a vinyl-jacketed hardcover in 1975. The actual book, removable from the vinyl jacket, was labeled "Star Fleet Technical Manual" on a solid red cover, printed in a fashion to look like a real technical manual or textbook, with no mention of Star Trek at all. Later printings have all been paperbacks with updated covers, all mentioning Star Trek prominently:

• 1986 – a " Star Trek 20 years 1966–1986" logo was added to the top left of the cover
• 1991 – a " Star Trek 25th Anniversary!" logo is displayed in the left corner
• 1996 – an all-new cover with a " Star Trek 30 years" logo in the same corner
• 2006 – "Star Trek" portion of title enlarged, with the "40 Years" logo on the middle right and "Star Fleet" spacing slightly changed to appear as two words rather than just one

Titan Books also published their own version of the book in the UK in 1991, coinciding with the 25th anniversary .

Cover gallery [ ]

References [ ]

40 Eridani A ; destroyer ; dreadnought ; Entente , USS ; Federation -class ; heavy cruiser ; Hermes -class ; NCC-500 ; NCC-585 ; NCC-3801 ; NCC-4000 ; Ptolemy -class ; Saladin -class ; scout ; Valiant , USS ; warp factor scale

See also [ ]

• Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual
• Star Fleet Battles
• Star Trek Blueprints
• Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise
• Star Fleet Uniform Recognition Manual
• Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual
• Star Trek: The Next Generation Officer's Manual
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual
• The Worlds of the Federation

External links [ ]

• Star Fleet Technical Manual at Memory Beta , the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• "Forgotten Starships" at TrekPlace.com – a February 15, 2003 article discussing the canon material from this book
• "Spotting the Ships from the Star Fleet Technical Manual "  at Ex Astris Scientia
• 3 ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701)

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Star Trek Puzzle Manual

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Published by Scholastic, 1978

ISBN 10: 0553010549 ISBN 13: 9780553010541

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Star Trek The Next Generation "A Final Unity" Reference Manual

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Star Trek The Next Generation: Technical Manual

Sternbach, Rick; Okuda, Michael

Published by Pocket Books, 1991

ISBN 10: 0671704273 ISBN 13: 9780671704278

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Star Trek Puzzle Manual : Puzzles, Mazes and Trivia to Baffle, Enlighten and Amuse Star Trek Fans Everywhere - Abridged Edition.

Published by Bantam, CANADA. [Published Simultaneously with USA Ed), 1977

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Star Trek: Klingon Bird-of-Prey Haynes Manual

Ben Robinson, Rick Sternbach

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Star Trek: Star Fleet Technical Manual TM: 379260

Franz Joseph

Published by Ballantine Books, New York, 1975

Seller: Philosopher's Stone Books , Kingston, NY, U.S.A.

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Sternbach, Rick and Ben Robinson

Published by Gallery Books, new y, 2012

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Star Trek Roleplaying Game : Starfleet Operations Manual

Hite, Kenneth

Published by Decipher, 2003

ISBN 10: 1582369046 ISBN 13: 9781582369044

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STAR TREK : Star Fleet Techinical Manual

Published by Ballantine Special Book Club Edition, New York, 1975

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STARLOG PRESENTS THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION TECHNICAL MANUAL

SHANE JOHNSON

Published by STARLOG COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL, NEW YORK, 1992

Seller: TARPAULIN BOOKS AND COMICS , THETFORD, United Kingdom

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. First Printing. Standard Magazine size. Card covers Colour illustrations from the TV series. Fold out pages with technical illustrations of the Enterprise, Shuttles, Romulans, Klingons, The Borg etc. 82 Pages. Slight wear on cover edges, being most noticable on the top of the exterior spine, where there is slight peeling Clean pages. Strong binding. No inscriptions. Slight bend to top of pages. Distribution sticker on the front cover.

Published by Bantam, New York, 1976

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STAR TREK'' STAR FLEET TECHNICAL MANUAL (STAR TREK)'

FRANZ JOSEPH

Published by TITAN BOOKS LTD, London, 1991

ISBN 10: 185286396X ISBN 13: 9781852863968

Seller: The Secret Bookshop , Tararua, New Zealand

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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A gift inscription, otherwise fine. A copy of the "Star Fleet" technical manual, issued to celebrate Star Trek's 25th anniversary. Also included are articles on the Federation, details of Federation flags, uniforms and seals, and detailed schematics of Star Fleet equipment.

Star Trek: STAR FLEET TECHNICAL MANUAL First State First Edition

Joseph, Franz

Published by BALLANTINE, New York, 1975

ISBN 10: 0345247302 ISBN 13: 9780345247308

Trade Paperback. Condition: N-Fine. First Edition/First Printing. Oversize paperback encased in a plastic/vinyl cover. Moderate reading wear, browning to the text block edges. Vinyl case shows some rubbing. Text book format for cadets at the Star Fleet Acadamy.This copy also includes a copy of the letter from Franz Joseph to Ballantine Books confirming that the book is precisely correct and complete as authorized by Star Fleet Command LAID in. The letter is typed on stationary with the Star Fleet Command letterhead dated Stardate 7012.02. The letter is not signed but does close with the salutation " Live long and prosper" . THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY. Size: 4to - over 9�" - 12" tall. Book.

Star Trek Star Fleet Technical manual

Joseph, Fran

Published by Ballantine 1975, 1975

Seller: Wonderland Books , Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.

First Ed. ed. VG+.

Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual

Published by Ballantine, New York, NY, 1975

Seller: Blue Skye Books , Novato, CA, U.S.A.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition. NF/ (published without dj?). Fully illustrated in black & white. Chapters include: 1. Articles of Confederation 2. Federation Flags, Seals & Uniforms 3. Navigational Charts & Equipment 4. Star Fleet Organization 5. Detailed Schematics of Star Fleet Equipment 6. Interstellar Space/Warp Technology 7. Federations Codes. Also included is the Japanese cinema program (24 pp) for Star Trek First Contact (some English text but the vast majority is in Japanese); and 12, 8 by 10 1/2 inch Star Trek glossy color prints on AGFA paper. Nice copy.

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STAR TREK STAR FLEET TECHNICAL MANUAL

Published by Ballantine Books, 1975

Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979 , ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.

Association Member: ABAA ILAB

First Edition. STAR TREK STAR FLEET TECHNICAL MANUAL, Ballantine Books, 1975, first edition, fine in flexible black leatherette.

Star Trek: Kirk Fu Manual: A Guide to Starfleet's Most Feared Martial Art

Ward, Dayton

Published by Insight Editions, 2020

ISBN 10: 1683835212 ISBN 13: 9781683835219

Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd. , Galway, GY, Ireland

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Condition: New. Cornia, Christian (illustrator). 2020. 1st Edition. hardcover. . . . . .

Star Trek: Star Fleet Medical Reference Manual

Eileen Palestine

Published by ? Ballantine Books, 1977

Seller: H&G Antiquarian Books , Sheboygan, WI, U.S.A.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Book, title sheet, cover and text in very good condition, binding tight and square spine not creased, text clean and unmarked no names no stamps.

Published by Ballantine, 1973, 1973

Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers , Omaha, NE, U.S.A.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine in Softcover in Near Fine vinyl covers. 1st Printing.

Star Trek: Star Fleet Intelligence Manual: Two Book Set Game Operations and Agent's Orientation Sourcebook

Designed and written by Theisen, John A.

Published by Fasa Corporation, Chicago, 1987

ISBN 10: 0931787394 ISBN 13: 9780931787393

Trade Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition/First Printing. There is some light rubbing wear to both items. Pretty nice set. Part #2014. Star Trek role playing game. Two book set. THIS ITEM IS IN MY POSSESSION AND WILL NORMALLY SHIP NEXT DAY. Book.

Star Trek. - U.S.S. Enterprise Owners Wrokshop Manual.

Robinson, Ben and Marcus Riley:

Published by Pocket Books/Star Trek, 2010

ISBN 10: 1451621299 ISBN 13: 9781451621297

Seller: Antiquariat Deinbacher , Murstetten, Austria

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4�, Hardcover/Pappeinband. 1.Auflage,. 160 Seiten mit zahlreichen Abbildungen, Einband mit geringen Lagerspuren, innen sehr guter und sauberer Zustand 9781451621297 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 747.

Star Trek Deep Space Nine": Technical Manual

Sternbach, Rick; Etc.

Published by Simon & Schuster, 1998

ISBN 10: 067101563X ISBN 13: 9780671015633

Seller: bmyguest books , Toronto, ON, Canada

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. No Remainder Mark. Clean With No Inscriptions Or Remarks. 178 Pages With No Index. Soft Cover. Has The 1 On The Copy Right Page,- We ship from Canada and the USA. Specializing in academic, collectible and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us.

STAR TREK STAR FLEET TECHNICAL MANUAL [Fully Illustrated]

Published by Ballantine Books, N.Y., 1975

Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA , Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.

Association Member: ABAA ILAB MWABA

Condition: Fine. First Edition. A fine copy. Stated First Edition. Paper back in stiff red covers, house in plastic folder. Training Command Star Fleet Academy. * Articles of Federation * Federation Flags, Seals & Uniforms * Navigational Charts & Equipment * Star Fleet Organization of Star Fleet Equipment * Interstellar Space/Warp Technology * Federation Codes. A very nice copy.

Star Trek: Star Fleet Technical Manual: Training Command Star Fleet Academy

Franz Joseph-Compiler

Seller: Friendly Books , Lakewood, OH, U.S.A.

Used Condition: Good

Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Softcover red manual in black plastic case. Very minimal wear noted to case or to cover. Very minor wear noted to edges, and spine. Pages slightly yellowed but clean except for water damage to T0:00:10:10 of Uniform Color Code. An Official Version for Cadets from United Nations, Earth, Sol System. Includes Articles of Federation: Federation Flags, Seals & Uniforms: Navigational Charts & Equipment: Star Fleet Organization, Detailed Schematics of Star Fleet Equipment: Interstellar Space/Warp Technology and Federation Codes. FIRST EDITION BY NUMBERLINE.

Official Star Trek Cooking Manual

Piccard, Mary Ann

Published by Bantam Books, 1978

ISBN 10: 0553118196 ISBN 13: 9780553118193

Seller: Wm Burgett Bks and Collectibles , San diego, CA, U.S.A.

Used - Softcover Condition: Very Good+

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. CLEAN very good+ 1978 first edition paperback.

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Star Trek: Star Fleet Technical Manual Federation Classified This Manual is for the Specific Use of Star Fleet Academy Cadets .Training Command Star Fleet Academy

Ballantine Books

Seller: Uncommon Works , Gridley, CA, U.S.A.

Pictorial boards. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. A fine, stated first edition in the original (fine) hard plastic cover. Quarto. "Federation Classified" "This manual is for the specific use of star fleet academy cadets" articles of Federation; Federation flags, seals & unifroms; Navigation charts & equipment; Federation codes;Detailed schematics of Star Fleet equipment;Star Fleet Organization; Interstellar space/warp technology.

Star Fleet Technical Manual, Federation Classified. [Star Trek Series]

Joseph, Franz.

Published by [New York : Ballantine Books], 1975., 1975

Seller: Joseph Valles - Books , Stockbridge, GA, U.S.A.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st printing ; red wrappers in vinyl covers with outer plastic sleeve ; FINE. Book.

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Star Trek Starfleet Technical Manual: Training Command Star Fleet Academy Hardcover – January 1, 1975

• Print length 194 pages
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George takei 'lost freedom' some 80 years ago – now he's written that story for kids.

Samantha Balaban

George Takei was just 4 years old when when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066:

"I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of War, and the Military Commanders... to prescribe military areas in such places and of such extent as he or the appropriate Military Commander may determine, from which any or all persons may be excluded..."

It was Feb. 19, 1942. Japan had attacked Pearl Harbor two months earlier; For looking like the enemy, Japanese and Japanese American people in the U.S. were now considered "enemy combatants" and the executive order authorized the government to forcibly remove approximately 125,000 people from their homes and relocate them to prison camps around the country.

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Star Trek actor George Takei has written about this time in his life before — once in an autobiography, then in a graphic memoir, and now in his new children's book, My Lost Freedom.

It's about the years he and his mom, dad, brother and baby sister spent in a string of prison camps: swampy Camp Rohwer in Arkansas, desolate Tule Lake in northern California. But first, they were taken from their home, driven to the Santa Anita racetrack and forced to live in horse stalls while the camps were being built.

"The horse stalls were pungent," Takei remembers, "overwhelming with the stench of horse manure. The air was full of flies, buzzing. My mother, I remember, kept mumbling 'So humiliating. So humiliating.'"

He says, "Michelle's drawing really captured the degradation our family was reduced to."

Michelle is Michelle Lee, the illustrator — and researcher — for the book. Lee relied heavily on Takei's text and his excellent memory, but it was the research that both agree really brought the art to life.

"I'm telling it from the perspective of a senior citizen," Takei, 87, laughs. "I really had to wring my brains to try to remember some of the details."

So Takei took Lee to the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, where he is a member of the board. They had lunch in Little Tokyo, got to know each other, met with the educational director, and looked at the exhibits. Then Lee started digging into the archives.

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"I looked for primary sources that showed what life was like because I feel like that humanizes it a lot more," Lee explains. She found some color photographs taken by Bill Manbo, who had smuggled his camera into the internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming. "While I was painting the book, I tried as much to depict George and his family just going about their lives under these really difficult circumstances."

Takei says he was impressed with how Lee managed to capture his parents: his father, the reluctant leader and his mother, a fashion icon in her hats and furs. "This has been the first time that I've had to depict real people," Lee adds.

To get a feel for 1940s fashion, Lee says she looked at old Sears catalogues. "What are people wearing? All the men are wearing suits. What kind of colors were clothes back then."

But a lot of information has also been lost — Lee wasn't able to see, for example, where Takei and his family lived in Arkansas because the barracks at Camp Rohwer have been torn down — there's a museum there now. "I didn't actually come across too many photos of the interior of the barracks," says Lee. "The ones I did come across were very staged."

She did, however, find the original floor plans for the barracks at Jerome Camp, also in Arkansas. "I actually printed the floorplan out and then built up a little model just to see what the space was actually like," Lee says. "I think it just emphasized how small of a space this is that whole families were crammed into."

One illustration in the book shows the work that Takei's mother put in to make that barrack — no more than tar paper and boards stuck together — a home.

"She gathered rags and tore them up into strips and braided them into rugs so that we would be stepping on something warm," Takei remembers. She found army surplus fabrics and sewed curtains for the windows. She took plant branches that had fallen off the nearby trees and made decorative sculptures. She asked a friendly neighbor to build a table and chairs.

"You drew the home that my mother made out of that raw space, Takei tells Lee. "That was wonderful."

Michelle Lee painted the art for My Lost Freedom using watercolor, gouache and colored pencils. Most of the illustrations have a very warm palette, but ever-present are the barbed wire fences and the guard towers. "There's a lot of fencing and bars," Lee explains. "That was kind of the motif that I was using throughout the book... A lot of vertical and horizontal patterns to kind of emphasize just how overbearing it was."

Takei says one of his favorite drawings in the book is a scene of him and his brother, Henry, playing by a culvert.

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"Camp Rohwer was a strange and magical place," Takei writes. "We'd never seen trees rising out of murky waters or such colorful butterflies. Our block was surrounded by a drainage ditch, home to tiny, wiggly black fishies. I scooped them up into a jar.

One morning they had funny bumps. Then they lost their tails and their legs popped out. They turned into frogs!"

"They're just two children among many children who were imprisoned at these camps," says Lee, "and to them, perhaps, aspects of being there were just fun." The illustration depicts both childlike wonder and — still, always — a sense of foreboding. Butterflies fly around a barbed wire fence. A bright sun shines on large, dark swamp trees. Kids play in the shadow of a guard tower.

"There's so much that you tell in that one picture," says Takei. "That's the art."

"So many of your memories are of how perceptive you are to things that are going on around you," adds Lee, "but also still approaching things from a child's perspective."

Even though the events in My Lost Freedom took place more than 80 years ago, illustrator Michelle Lee and author George Takei say the story is still very relevant today.

"These themes of displacement and uprooting of communities from one place to another — these are things that are constantly happening," says Lee. Because of war and because of political decisions ... those themes aren't uncommon. They're universal."

Takei agrees. "People need to know the lessons and learn that lesson and apply it to hard times today. And we hope that a lot of people get the book and read it to their children or read it to other children and act on it."

He's done his job, he says, now the readers have their job.

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