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The Official Star Trek The Next Generation: Build the Enterprise NCC-1701-D has been a highly ambitious project conceived by the Japanese branch of DeAgostini in 2010. Conceived after the conclusion of the Japanese versions of the Star Trek Fact Files and the Japanese DVD/Magazine version of the Star Trek: Fan Collective, called "Best Episode Collection", Japanese editors wanted to continue with the publication of a Star Trek part-works. As chief-editor Tim Leng recalled on his blog of 3 July 2011, "About 18 months ago the Japanese team who I worked closely with to produce the Japanese Fact Files and Best Episode Collection came to me with an idea they'd had for a new Star Trek part-works. The project was called Build the Enterprise, and as you might guess, the idea was that you would get to build a model of the Enterprise (the TNG version) week by week. Bearing in mind I'd been working on these sorts of things for a decade by this point, I was surprised to find that my fanboy side completely and utterly pushed to the fore; I thought the idea was amazing, and I was very keen to get going on it." [1]
The format eventually chosen upon was a part-works that consisted of magazines, a model kit of the USS Enterprise-D and a set of revised Enterprise-D blueprints, to be collected over the span of an 100-run issue. As Leng stated, "What I should say here is that the Japanese team don't do things by halves. They literally threw everything bar the kitchen sink at this project." [2] Both Rick Sternbach and Michael Okuda were invited to revisit and update their original writings on the technical aspects of the Enterprise-D, which they did in detail.
Sternbach revisited his Star Trek: The Next Generation USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D Blueprints and updated them, whereas Okuda revisited the texts he wrote for Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual and updated those, embellished with new CGI illustrations by former Foundation Imaging employee Robert Bonchune.
Gabriel Koerner was the artist responsible for all the new CGI imagery on the magazine covers. All texts were originally submitted in English and were translated into Japanese by the Japanese editorial bureau of DeAgostini for publication.
Issues
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| 1, 14 June 2011 | 
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* Blueprint - dorsal exterior view * Tour of Deck - Deck 1 * Critical Systems - Conn * Apparatus - Photon Torpedo * Mission Logs - "Encounter at Farpoint" * Star Trek Memories - Jonathan Frakes interview Part 1 | |
| 2, 21 June 2011 | 
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* Blueprint - Deck 2 * Tour of Deck - Deck 2 * Critical Systems - Captain's chair * Apparatus - Lifeboat * Mission Logs - "The Naked Now"/"Code of Honor" * Star Trek Memories - Peter Lauritson interview | |
| 3, 28 June 2011 |
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* Blueprint - Deck 4 * Tour of Deck - Deck 4 * Critical Systems - Command Division * Apparatus - Jefferies Tube * Mission Logs - "Haven"/"Where No One Has Gone Before" * Star Trek Memories - Michael Westmore interview, Part 1 | |
| 4, 5 July 2011 | 
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* Blueprint - Deck 3 * Tour of Deck - Deck 8 * Critical Systems - Master Systems Display (pool table) * Apparatus - Medical Tricorder * Mission Logs - "The Last Outpost"/"Lonely Among Us" * Star Trek Memories - Enterprise designs | |
| 5, 12 July 2011 | 
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* Blueprint - Deck 5 * Tour of Deck - Dorsal view * Critical Systems - Tactical console * Apparatus - Antimatter generator * Mission Logs - "Justice"/"The Battle" * Star Trek Memories - Michael Piller (never before seen archive interview) Part 1 | |
| 6, 19 July 2011 | 
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* Blueprint - Port and Starboard views * Tour of Deck - Deck 11 * Critical Systems - Operations division * Apparatus - Bussard Collector * Mission Logs - "Hide and Q"/"Too Short a Season" * Star Trek Memories - Herman Zimmerman interview Part 1 | |
| 7, 2 August 2011 | 
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* Blueprint - Deck 1 * Tour of Deck - Deck 9 * Critical Systems - Bridge science stations * Apparatus - EPS step-down node * Mission Logs - "The Big Goodbye"/"Datalore" * Star Trek Memories - Jonathan Frakes interview Part 2 | |
| 8, n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | * Blueprint - Deck 8 * Tour of Deck - Port and Starboard views * Critical Systems - Medical devision * Apparatus - Reaction control thrusters * Mission Logs - "Angel One"/"11001001" * Star Trek Memories - Michael Westmore interview Part 2 |
| 9, n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | * Blueprint - Fore and Aft exterior view * Tour of Deck - Deck 36 * Critical Systems - Transporter console * Apparatus - Internal sensor/sensor data preprocessor * Mission Logs - "Home Soil"/"When The Bough Breaks" * Star Trek Memories - Bridge designs |
| 10, n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | * Blueprint - Deck 9 * Tour of Deck - Deck 14 * Critical Systems - Engineering division * Apparatus - Emergency beacon * Mission Logs - "Heart of Glory"/"Coming of Age" * Star Trek Memories - Michael Dorn interview Part 1 |
| 11, n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | * Blueprint - Blueprint - Deck 7 * Tour of Deck - Deck 3 * Critical Systems * Apparatus - Communicators 2364/2371 * Mission Logs * Star Trek Memories - Rick Berman interview Part 1 |