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The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine was an authorized magazine published by Starlog Press between December 1987 and November 1994, focused on Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The publishers of Starlog, Kerry O'Quinn and Norman Jacobs, launched the spin-off magazine in December 1987, shortly after the premiere of The Next Generation, partly in order to reduce the amount of Star Trek material being featured in Starlog, which was referenced on the magazine's cover.

The magazine provided summaries of episodes, as well as interviews with production staff. Like the other Starlog Press publications, the magazine is notable for the reproduction of numerous behind-the-scenes photographs and production art work, rarely seen in other publications. However, unlike Starlog itself, it suffered from an erratic publication schedule.

Issues[]

Issue # Month Cover Contents
1 December 1987 TNG Official Magazine issue 1 cover Episode summary: "Encounter at Farpoint"

Interviews: Gene Roddenberry, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Andrew Probert, Paul Lynch, David Gerrold
Features: Touring the Enterprise, The World of Star Trek: The Next Generation

2 January 1988 TNG Official Magazine issue 2 cover Episode summaries: "The Naked Now", "Code of Honor"

Interviews: John de Lancie, D.C. Fontana, Majel Barrett, Tracy Tormé, Michael Westmore, Katharyn Powers, Michael Baron
Features: Creating Special Effects, Creating Makeup Effects

3 March 1988 TNG Official Magazine issue 3 cover Episode summaries: "The Last Outpost", "Where No One Has Gone Before", "Lonely Among Us", "Haven"

Interviews: Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, Richard Krzemien, John de Lancie, James G. Becker
Features: Why Q returned

4 April 1988 TNG Official Magazine issue 4 cover Episode summaries: "Justice", "The Battle", "Hide And Q", "Too Short A Season", "The Big Goodbye"

Interviews: Patrick Stewart, Michael Dorn, Denise Crosby, Jonathan Frakes, Wil Wheaton, Gates McFadden, Andrew Probert, Rick Sternbach
Features: Designing the Enterprise

5 March 1989 TNG Official Magazine issue 5 cover Episode summaries: "The Child", "Angel One", "11001001", "Home Soil", "Coming of Age", "Heart of Glory", "Skin Of Evil", "Conspiracy"

Interviews: Jonathan Frakes, Guy Vardaman

6 April 1989 TNG Official Magazine issue 6 cover Episode summaries: "Where Silence Has Lease", "The Outrageous Okona", "Elementary, Dear Data", "Datalore", "When The Bough Breaks", "The Arsenal of Freedom", "Symbiosis", "We'll Always Have Paris", "The Neutral Zone"

Feature: From the Bridge: The New Sets

7 May 1989 TNG Official Magazine issue 7 cover Episode summaries: "Loud As A Whisper", "The Schizoid Man", "Unnatural Selection", "A Matter Of Honor"

Interviews: Diana Muldaur, Marina Sirtis, Jonathan Frakes, Patrick Stewart, Michael Dorn
Features: The Weapons & Technology; The Uniforms & Civilian Outfits

8 June 1989 TNG Official Magazine issue 8 cover Episode summaries: "The Measure Of A Man", "The Dauphin", "Contagion", "The Royale", "Time Squared"

Interviews: Diana Muldaur, Howard Weinstein
Features: Engineering (USS Yamato okudagram, Straleb security vessel sketches, El-Baz design sketches)

9 December 1989 TNG Official Magazine issue 9 cover Episode summaries: "The Icarus Factor", "Pen Pals", "Q Who", "Samaritan Snare", "Up The Long Ladder", "Manhunt", "The Emissary", "Peak Performance", "Shades of Gray"

Interviews: Jaime Hubbard, Michael Jan Friedman

10 January 1990 TNG Official Magazine issue 10 cover Episode summaries: "Evolution", "The Ensigns of Command", "The Survivors", "Who Watches The Watchers"

Interviews: Rob Bowman, Corey Allen
Features: The Borg; The Art of "The Next Generation"

11 March 1990 TNG Official Magazine issue 11 cover Episode summaries: "The Bonding", "Booby Trap", "The Enemy", "The Price", "The Vengeance Factor"

Interviews: Marina Sirtis, Wil Wheaton, Gene Roddenberry, Jonathan Frakes

12 May 1990 TNG Official Magazine issue 12 cover Episode summaries: "The Defector", "The Hunted", "The High Ground", "Deja Q"

Interviews: Marina Sirtis, Michael Dorn, Colm Meaney, Denise Crosby, Gates McFadden, Keith Sharee, Steve Price, Peter Moyer, Stan Kellam
Features: The Special Effects; The Romulans

13 February 1991 TNG Official Magazine issue 13 cover Episode summaries: "A Matter of Perspective", "Yesterday's Enterprise", "The Offspring", "Sins of The Father", "Allegiance", "Captain's Holiday", "Tin Man"

Interviews: LeVar Burton, Ronald D. Moore, A.C. Crispin, Howard Weinstein

14 April 1991 TNG Official Magazine issue 14 cover Episode summaries: "Hollow Pursuits", "The Most Toys", "Sarek", "Ménage à Troi", "Transfigurations", "The Best of Both Worlds", "The Best of Both Worlds, Part II"

Interviews: Dennis McCarthy, Ron Jones, Mark Lenard, Patrick Stewart, Colm Meaney, Joanna Miles

15 June 1991 TNG Official Magazine issue 15 cover Episode summaries: "Family", "Brothers", "Suddenly Human", "Remember Me", "Legacy", "Reunion", "Future Imperfect", "Final Mission", "The Loss", "Data's Day"

Interviews: Rick Sternbach, Michael Okuda, Michael Dorn

16 September 1991 TNG Official Magazine issue 16 cover Episode summaries: "The Wounded", "Devil's Due", "Clues", "First Contact", "Galaxy's Child", "Night Terrors", "Identity Crisis", "The Nth Degree"

Interviews: Sarah Higley, Robert Blackman, Keith Birdsong

17 February 1992 TNG Official Magazine issue 17 cover Episode summaries: "Qpid", "The Drumhead", "Half a Life", "The Host", "The Mind's Eye", "In Theory", "Redemption"

Interviews: Leonard Nimoy, Cliff Bole, Marina Sirtis

18 April 1992 TNG Official Magazine issue 18 cover Episode summaries: "Redemption II", "Darmok", "Ensign Ro", "Silicon Avatar", "Disaster", "The Game", "Unification I", "Unification II", "A Matter Of Time"

Interviews: Jay Chattaway, Leonard Nimoy

19 June 1992 TNG Official Magazine issue 19 cover Interviews: Tom Benko, Robert Wiemer, David Livingston, Robert Iscove, Win Phelps, David Carson, Michael Rhodes, Rob Legato, James L. Conway, Marvin V. Rush, Patrick Stewart

Features: Director Checklist

20 September 1992 TNG Official Magazine issue 20 cover Episode summaries: "New Ground", "Hero Worship", "Violations", "The Masterpiece Society", "Conundrum", "Power Play", "Ethics", "The Outcast"

Interviews: Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Scheerer
Features: Next Generation Trivia.

21 February 1993 TNG Official Magazine issue 21 cover Episode summaries: "Cause And Effect", "The First Duty", "Cost Of Living", "The Perfect Mate", "Imaginary Friend", "I Borg", "The Next Phase", "The Inner Light"

Interviews: Rick Kolbe, Les Landau, Peter Allan Fields, Naren Shankar, Ralph Phillips

22 April 1993 TNG Official Magazine issue 22 cover Interviews: Brannon Braga, Hannah Louise Shearer, Pamela Gray, Thomas and Jo Perry, Alan J. Adler, Vanessa Greene, Michel Horvat, and Patrick Barry
23 June 1993 TNG Official Magazine issue 23 cover Interviews: Robert Lederman, Timothy Bond, Ron Jarvis, Phil Scorza
24 August 1993 TNG Official Magazine issue 24 cover Interviews: Chip Chalmers, Russ Mayberry, Robert Becker, David Kemper, Kacey Arnold-Ince, Jacqueline Zambrano
25 November 1993 TNG Official Magazine issue 25 cover 100-page special

Interviews: LeVar Burton, Brent Spiner

26 February 1994 TNG Official Magazine issue 26 cover Interviews: Gabrielle Beaumont, Alex Singer, Peter Lauritson, Brent Spiner, Leonard Crofoot, Allison Hock, Randee Russell, David Bischoff, Philip LaZebnik

Features: Directors' Index

27 April 1994 TNG Official Magazine issue 27 cover Episode summaries: "Descent, Part II", "Liaisons", "Interface", "Gambit, Part I", "Gambit, Part II", "Phantasms"

Interviews: Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Carolyn Seymour, Corey Allen, Jeri Taylor, Edithe Swensen

28 June 1994 TNG Official Magazine issue 28 cover Episode summaries: "Dark Page", "Attached", "Force of Nature", "Inheritance", "Parallels"

Interviews: Gates McFadden, Dennis Russell Bailey, Hallie Todd, Adam Nimoy, James Kahn, Steve Gerber, Beth Woods

29 August 1994 TNG Official Magazine issue 29 cover Episode summaries: "The Pegasus", "Homeward", "Sub Rosa", "Lower Decks", "Thine Own Self"

Interviews: Lance Dickson, Jean Louise Matthias, Ronald Wilkerson, Dan Koeppel, Nick Sagan
Features: Q Quips

30 November 1994 TNG Official Magazine issue 30 cover  


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