Star Trek: The Magazine
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| Star Trek: The Magazine | |
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| Publisher: | Fabbri Publishing (US) |
| Published: | 1999-2003 |
| No. of issues: | 48+4 test issues |
- For the Titan Magazines publication, please see Star Trek Magazine.
Star Trek: The Magazine was an officially authorized magazine published from April 1999 to March 2003 by Fabbri Publishing (US), the US arm of UK publisher GE Fabbri.
A total of 48 112-page issues were published in three volumes - twenty-four in volume 1 and twelve each in volumes 2 and 3. In addition, several "special edition" issues sported multiple covers. The publisher also offered readers the opportunity to buy faux-leather dark blue cassettes, only obtainable from the publisher, for storage of the magazines, each cassette capable of holding twelve issues.
Each issue contained numerous interviews, reviews, and (in-universe) technical schematics and diagrams ("Briefings"). About one-third to one-half of each issue repackaged background features and artwork from the Star Trek Fact Files, published by the same company. The largely American-targeted magazine fulfilled the contractual niche in that country promised by Fabbri after the Fact Files were sold everywhere worldwide except the US. Unlike the Fact Files, which was wholly conceived as an in-universe publication, The Magazine was a mixture of in-universe and real-world, behind-the-scenes articles. GE Fabbri introduced this formula in edited form in Europe and the Commonwealth in their 2004 release of Star Trek: The Collector's Edition and the 2007 UK and Commonwealth only release of Star Trek: The Original Series - The Collector's Edition, using material originally written for The Magazine.
While about fifteen percent of the content of each issue was taken up with advertising (including merchandise reviews), that was limited to Star Trek related merchandise.
Issues
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| Test Issues These issues are extremely rare, as they were only test-marketed in two cities: Columbus and Seattle. They however, only contained excerpts of articles which were later published in their entirety in later issues of the regular run. | ||||
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| Issue # | Month | Cover | Contents | |
| 1 | Published November 1998. | 
| Looks similar to the May 1999 premiere issue. Instead of the Borg on the premiere issue, there is a Bird-of-Prey. Cover: Patrick Stewart. Briefings: Star Trek: Insurrection ships, The Son'a, and the Borg. | |
| 2 | Published December 1998. | 
| Cover: Nicole DeBoer. Briefings: Deep Space Nine, USS Prometheus, Transporters, and the Borg. | |
| 3 | Published January 1999. | 
| Cover: LeVar Burton. Briefings: Communications, The Dominion, and the USS Enterprise. | |
| 4 | Published February 1999. | 
| Cover: Patrick Stewart. Briefings: Star Trek: Insurrection ships, Weapons, Starship Voyager, and the Romulans. | |
| Volume 1 | ||||
| Issue # | Month | Cover | Contents | |
| 1 | May 1999 | 
| Interviews: Patrick Stewart, Rick Berman, Ira Steven Behr and Brannon Braga.
Features: Creating Seven of Nine, The Crew that Never Was, Designing Tricorders, Herman Zimmerman's Production Diary (Part 1), An Inside Look at "Dark Frontier". | |
| 2 | June 1999 | 
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| 3 | July 1999 | 
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| 4 | August 1999 | 
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| 5 | September 1999 | 
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| 6 | October 1999 | 
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| 7 | November 1999 | 
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| 8 | December 1999 | 
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| 9 | January 2000 | 
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| 10 | February 2000 | 
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| 11 | March 2000 | 
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| 12 | April 2000 | 
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| 13 | May 2000 | 
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| 14 | June 2000 | 
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| 15 | July 2000 | 
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| 16 | August 2000 | 
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| 17 | September 2000 | 
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| 18 | October 2000 |  Cover 1  Cover 2 | ||
| 19 | November 2000 | 
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| 20 | December 2000 | 
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| 21 | January 2001 | 
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| 22 | February 2001 | 
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| 23 | March 2001 |  Cover 1  Cover 2 | ||
| 24 | April 2001 | 
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| Volume 2 | ||||
| Issue # | Month | Cover | Contents | |
| 1 | May 2001 |  Cover 1  Cover 2 | ||
| 2 | June 2001 | 
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| 3 | July 2001 |  Cover 1  Cover 2 | ||
| 4 | August 2001 | 
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| 5 | September 2001 | 
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| 6 | October 2001 | 
| Interviews: Patrick Stewart, Rick Sternbach, Ira Steven Behr and Michael Piller.
Features: Gravity, Federation members, Gene Roddenberry tribute, 35 years of Star Trek, Star Trek: Starfleet Command - Orion Pirates. | |
| 7 | November 2001 | 
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| 8 | December 2001 |  Cover 1  Cover 2 | ||
| 9 | January 2002 | 
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| 10 | February 2002 | 
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| 11 | March 2002 | 
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| 12 | April 2002 |  Cover 1  Cover 2 | ||
| Volume 3 | ||||
| Issue # | Month | Cover | Contents | |
| 1 | May 2002 | 
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| 2 | June 2002 | 
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| 3 | July 2002 | 
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| 4 | August 2002 | 
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| 5 | September 2002 |  Cover 1  Cover 2 | ||
| 6 | October 2002 | 
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| 7 | November 2002 | 
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| 8 | December 2002 |  Cover 1  Cover 2 | ||
| 9 | January 2003 | 
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| 10 | February 2003 |  Cover 1  Cover 2  Cover 3 | ||
| 11 | March 2003 | 
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| 12 | April 2003 |  Cover 1  Cover 2 | Interviews: Nana Visitor, Casey Biggs, Nicholas Meyer and Ira Steven Behr.
Features: Star Trek: The Next Generation the Seventh Season, The Art of Matte Painting, Designing Hirogen Ships . | |
