Longtime Star Trek artist John Eaves has been working with the franchise for nearly thirty year, joining the Star Trek V: The Final Frontier team back in 1989 and having a hand in nearly every incarnation since: the Next Generation series and feature films, Deep Space Nine, Enterprise, the Kelvin Timeline films, and now Discovery.
His designs include headlining Trek starships from the Sovereign-class Enterprise-E from Star Trek: First Contact to the Walker-class USS Shenzhou in Star Trek: Discovery. While his design work has been featured in special presentations like the “John Eaves Sketchbook” interview series on the DS9 DVD sets and the Star Trek: First Contact & Star Trek: Insurrection Sketchbook, a great majority of Eaves’ work has not been seen outside of the studios…
Until, it seems, this summer! Eaves revealed on his Facebook page this morning that he is preparing a new Art of Star Trek-style book for publication this year, set to include artwork from every incarnation of Trek he’s been associated with — from The Final Frontier through the Kelvin Timeline films to Discovery.
UPDATE: The Facebook post linked above has been deleted.
Working with author Joe Nazzaro, who most recently helmed the Star Trek Beyond – The Makeup Artistry of Joel Harlow hardcover released in 2017, Eaves showcased dozens of binders and tubs full of reference artwork amassed over the decades, being cataloged and prepared for use in the upcoming Titan Books publication.
In the comments of the announcement post, Nazzaro previewed a bit of what we can expect to see when the book arrives:
We originally talked about a Star Trek: Discovery only book, but quickly realized there was no point in limiting ourselves when there was so much ground to cover, so we’ll be exploring everything as John says, from Star Trek V to Discovery and everything in between.
That includes the TNG movies, DS9, Enterprise, the Kelvin/Abrams-verse films and a bunch of other interesting extras that I don’t want to give away just yet. That’s basically three decades of work, so there will be a LOT of stuff in this book.
…[It’s] going to be a BIG book.
Between the Harlow Beyond book and December’s Art of Star Trek: The Kelvin Timeline release — and the upcoming TOS Lost Scenes hardcover — Titan Books has been knocking their Trek releases out of the park, and we’re sure that this book centered around Eaves’ long life in the Trek universe will be one to immediately add to our collection!
There’s been no official announcement on this book’s release date yet from Titan Books, but we’ve reached out to them for comment. Eaves, however, commented in his Facebook update that he believes the book is targeted for a July debut in time for San Diego Comic Con.
We’ll bring you all the latest news on this exciting release as soon as it breaks!