When the great fanzine
Enterprise Incidents went national, it became a slick magazine, which meant that it got color sections, but diversified the content to include other genre films and shows. Of course, the sometimes-amateurish layout belied its fanzine origins occasionally, but the articles were well-done and I enjoyed it as much as the more professional Starlog. Making the leap to an nationally-published magazine was a big step, and James Van Hise is to be commended for his efforts, as it enabled me to find it on the news-stands, which was hardly ever the case with the earlier zine, which was only available at specialty shops. I still missed the card-stock publication of earlier days, though, when it was devoted mostly to Trek.
This time we are opening issue #13, published in January of 1984. (
View the cover here from an
earlier post.) The first part of this article was apparently in one of those earlier issues that I missed, but I have parts 2 and 3 to share with you. This is Part 2, and Part 3 is coming next week or so.
(Click on images to enlarge. Once open you may have to click on it again to view full-size.)
Bonus: Below, Shatner shows off one of the wrist-communicators used in ST:TMP.
"And this speed-dials any of the names of all the women in my little black book."
Thanks for posting these! I look forward to the next one. :)
ReplyDeleteI find it ironic that Douglas Trumbull would have liked the Enterprise model from the movies to be bigger than it was (I think it was about six feet in length; the "Discovery" model from "2001" was, IIRC, about 20 feet long), while ILM's crew wished it were much smaller; they thought it was much too big.
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