(written from a Production point of view)
Star Trek: The Official Fan Club of the UK Magazine was the publication of Star Trek: The Official Fan Club of the UK and began publication upon the formation of the club in the summer of 1993. Published quarterly, the magazine was the only significant content in the membership pack.
For a 1994 Star Trek: The Next Generation cross-promotion, free issues of a "Special Pizza Hut Edition" of the magazine were featured at Pizza Hut restaurants in the UK.
With issue 5, the magazine adopted a "Stardate" issue numbering. As editor Tim Gaskill explained in Issue 9.03.01, "The first number is the overall issue number […]. The second number represents the […] year of publishing […] and the last digit represents the quarter.".
Following the takeover of the fan club by the Titan Entertainment Group, three more issues of this magazine were produced. Having only minimal content featured over just 20 pages, the magazines served as stop-gap measures until Titan launched their own fan club membership pack. It was superseded by Titan's Star Trek Explorer, Federation News, and Fair Trade magazines.
Issues[]
Issue # | Date | Cover | Contents |
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Volume 1, Number 1 | Summer 1993 | Interviews with Siddig El Fadil, Michael Westmore. Feature on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. | |
Volume 1, Number 2 | Autumn 1993 | Interviews with Patrick Stewart, Whoopi Goldberg, Colm Meaney. | |
Volume 1, Number 3 | Spring 1994 | New look logo and design.
Interviews with Majel Barrett, Jeri Taylor. Features on the Star Trek Wellcommittee, the genesis of Star Trek, the Star Trek timeline. | |
Volume 1, Number 4 | 1994 | Klingon Special.
Interview with Patrick Stewart. Features on the Klingons, the Klingon language, Star Trek: Voyager | |
Special Pizza Hut Edition | 1994 | Special Pizza Hut Edition.
Interview with Patrick Stewart, Whoopi Goldberg | |
5.02.01 | 1st quarter 1995 | New issue numbering.
Star Trek: The Next Generation Special. | |
6.02.02 | 2nd quarter 1995 | Interviews with George Takei, William Campbell, Carolyn Seymour. Feature on Star Trek: Voyager, split personalities. | |
7.02.03 | 3rd quarter 1995 | Star Trek: Voyager Special.
Interviews with Roxann Biggs-Dawson, Ethan Phillips, Robert Picardo. Features on Star Trek: Voyager and "Treknology". | |
8.02.04 | 4th quarter 1995 | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Special.
Interviews with Aron Eisenberg, Armin Shimerman, Rene Auberjonois, Fred Bronson. Features on the factions of Deep Space Nine and the creation of CIC Video's VHS covers. | |
9.03.01 | 1st quarter 1996 | Q Special.
Interviews with John de Lancie, Terry Farrell. Feature on Q. | |
10.03.02 | 2nd quarter 1996 | Interview with Garrett Wang. Profiles of Marc Alaimo, Dwight Schultz, and Gene Roddenberry. Features on The Science of Star Trek, Star Trek computer games, Bjo Trimble remembers Gene Roddenberry. | |
An unknown number of additional issues. | |||
Titan releases | |||
July 1997 | July 1997 | Interviews with D.C. Fontana, Leonard Nimoy, Walter Koenig. Feature on Star Trek: The Animated Series. | |
August 1997 | August 1997 | Features on The Next Generation, the music of Star Trek, the Gerry Anderson connection. | |
September 1997 | September 1997 | Interview with J.G. Hertzler. Features on Deep Space Nine and Voyager. |