Template:Realworld December 2001 "Special Issue", coming in two alternate covers and covering both Star Trek: The Motion Picture as well as the 2001 "Director's Edition" DVD.
Interviews
- Robert Wise, pp. 14-17
- Director of Star Trek: The Motion Picture
- Stephen Collins, pp. 18-22
- David C. Fein and Michael Matessino, pp. 24-26
- The Director's Edition
- Foundation Imaging, pp. 51-61
- Director's Edition VFX
- Making it Match: Blending old and new footage
- Sounding Right, p. 62
- Douglas Trumbull and John Dykstra, pp. 63-69
- Visual Effects: 1979
- Robert McCall, pp. 70-73
- Illustrator for the movie
- Harold Livingston, pp. 82-83
- Writing the first Star Trek movie
- Matt Jefferies, Richard Taylor, and Andrew Probert, pp. 84-87
- Redesigning the USS Enterprise NCC-1701
- Richard Taylor, pp. 90-96
- V'Ger: The Living Machine
- Harold Michelson, pp. 97-99
- Production Design
Articles
- Finishing the Movie, pp. 12-13
- Spock and Xon, pp. 27-28
- The Vulcan who never was
- Persis Khambatta, pp. 29-30
- The late actress who brought Lt. Ilia to life.
- The Memory Wall, pp. 88-89
- A sequence deleted from the movie
- The Props, pp. 100-101
- Collectables, p. 109
- Star Trek Stories: Tell Montgomery Scott What To Do!, p. 112
- Teaching a legend to fly - James Doohan pilots the shuttlepod
Briefings
- USS Enterprise NCC-1701 Refit, pp. 31-51
- Main Bridge
- Main Engineering
- Blueprints
- Engineering suits
- Willard Decker
- Lieutenant Ilia
- Environmental Suits: 2271
- Phaser: 2271
- Communicator: 2271
- 2270s Tricorder
- K'T'Inga-Class Battle Cruiser, pp. 74-81
- Main Bridge
- Blueprints
- V'Ger, pp. 102-107
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