Inside Star Trek (magazine)

Inside Star Trek (magazine)

The Inside Star Trek magazine was the official magazine from the first officially authorized fan club for the Star Trek franchise, the Star Trek Interstellar: The Official Star Trek Fan Club. The magazine was published from 1968 through 1969, while Star Trek: The Original Series was still in production.

Ruth Berman produced and edited twelve eight-page issues of Inside Star Trek and enjoyed close access to Star Trek's cast and crew during the production of the series' third season. After Star Trek was canceled by the network in 1969, the club and magazine were discontinued. Editor Berman immediately started a new fanzine, T-Negative, that ran for 35 issues from 1969 until 1979. [1]

Contributions were made by Gene Roddenberry, D.C. Fontana, John Dwyer, Matt Jefferies, William Theiss, Charles Washburn, Fred Phillips, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Walter Koenig, Nichelle Nichols, and George Takei, amongst others. Future Star Trek production staffer, but fan at the time, Andrew Probert illustrated a number of covers and some interior art work, as did Gregory Jein. [2]

Issues

1968 Advertisment announcement
		1968 advertisement for Star Trek Interstellar: The Official Star Trek Fan Club and Inside Star Trek magazine from Star Trek Catalog #1
Issue #	Cover	Contents
1, July 1968	Cover A Cover A	Cover: Rae Ladore "Remarks to Television Editors", by Gene Roddenberry in a speech given on June 22, 1968, pp. 6-9 "Beaming up: William Shatner", interview by Berman, pp. 10-12 "Behind the camera: John Dwyer", interview by D.C. Fontana, pp. 12-14
2, August 1968		Cover: Gregory Jein "Behind the camera: Fred Phillips", interview by Berman, pp. 3-7
3, September 1968		Cover: N. Criss "Beaming up: DeForest Kelley", interview by Berman, pp. 4-7
4, October 1968		Cover: Rae Ladore "Trials and Tribble-ations of a Master of Properties", by Irving A. Feinberg, pp. 6-7
5, November 1968		Cover: Rae Ladore "The Film Library", by Ed Cotter, p. 2 "Beaming Up: James Doohan", interview by Berman, pp. 3-5
6, December 1968		Cover: Rae Ladore "Beaming Up: Leonard Nimoy", interview by Berman, pp. 3-4 "Behind the camera: William Ware Theiss", interview by D.C. Fontana, pp. 5-8
7, January 1969		Cover: Andrew Probert "A Note On Casting", by Joseph D'Agosta, p. 3 Behind the camera: William Ware Theiss", Part 2, interview by D.C. Fontana, pp. 4-8
8, February 1969		Cover: Andrew Probert Beaming Up: George Takei", interview by Berman, pp. 3-7
9, March 1969		Cover and interior art: Andrew Probert "Behind the camera: Charles Washburn", interview by D.C. Fontana, pp. 3-6
10, April 1969		Cover: Andrew Probert "Behind the camera: Music Editor", by Richard Lapham, p. 3 "Desilu soundstages", by Kay Anderson, pp. 4-8 (original publication in ST-Phils)
11, May 1969		Cover: Andrew Probert "Desilu soundstages", Part 2, by Kay Anderson, pp. 4-8
12, June 1969		Cover: Rae Ladore "Behind the camera: Walter M. Jefferies", interview by D.C. Fontana, pp. 2-5 "Beaming Up: Star Trek gaffer", by George Merhoff

External link

• Inside Star Trek at fanlore.org