Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise
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Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise is a book describing the post-refit Constitution class USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) from the Star Trek fictional universe, written from the viewpoint of the character Montgomery Scott. The manual was written and illustrated by Shane Johnson and was published by Pocket Books; the first printing was in 1987.
The Guide opens with a brief introduction by Mr. Scott and a description of the Constitution class refit. Following this, a chapter on general information, containing such data as Starfleet uniforms of the era, fonts used in computer displays and hull markings, and various graphics used aboard the ship. It goes on to describe the Enterprise deck by deck from the top downward and concludes with a description of the Enterprise (NCC-1701-A).
By modern standards of Star Trek canon the Guide should not be considered canon. Although Star Trek staffers such as Michael Okuda and Andrew Probert served as consultants for the book, there were many serious errors with regard to later canon. The book depicts the end of the original five year mission as being on April 7, 2212, while later canon references (and more authoritative reference books such as Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual and The Star Trek Encyclopedia, as well as an on-screen reference in Star Trek Voyager put the end of the mission around 2270. The description of transwarp drive, and other technologies was very different, if not outright incompatible with later descriptions. However, it did have access to set designs and other production works which were used in producing detailed deck plans of many rooms and compartments aboard the Enterprise. This leads most fans likely to consider the book secondary to anything seen on screen and any official books later published, but at least valid on any information unmentioned in any other sources.
The book used the FASA Star Trek Roleplaying Game for its source materials, including its chronology, hence leading to much of the confusion with its canon status. Since Paramount revoked FASA's license soon after this book was published and began to contradict FASA's own canon with its own at around the time Star Trek: The Next Generation premeiered and a new policy and attitude about canon was established, the book was likely considered canonical when first created, but largely contradicted soon after it was written.