The Art of the Kelvin Timeline
ISBN: 9781785655845
Description
New alien species, fantastical new worlds and action-packed space adventures abound in this illustrated accompaniment to the space epic. Combining all three movies, The Art of Star Trek: The Kelvin Timeline showcases behind-the-scenes production, costume and set designs, intricate concept art and on-set photography.
Reviewed on 8th February 2026
This coffee table book covers the three films of the Kelvin Timeline - but mostly it covers the first one, and then less of the latter two.
There's a few pages on each element, from uniforms, to aliens, to sets, and ships. Each section has a small amount of text, with some commentary or insight from the design team. And then lots of images, schematics, paintings, and occasionally photots or screencaptures of the finished product.
While there are a lot of pictures, some of them felt very small, and I found it hard to really take in what the text wanted me to. The image captions weren't always as clear as I would have liked which imag or images they mapped to, and there didn't feel like as much of a narrative between them as perhaps I would have liked.
Some of the drawings had been replicated in a faint blue colour on white pages, which felt an odd choice and made them hard to see in detail - it felt like a better contrast would have helped.
Overall I was left feeling underwhelmed and that it didn't do the job as well as equivalent books from the 1990s.