They had a drinking game in the
Starlog offices back in the mid-1980s. Every time anyone proposed publishing an article about any aspect whatsoever about S
tar Trek, they all took a swig of whatever was closest. Unfortunately, they got a little hooked on the booze, and the result is an avalanche of
Trek coverage.
Okay, clearly I made that up. (But if it were true, it would explain the recent
Howard the Duck cover.) Meanwhile, feel free to drink – responsibly! – every time you see another
Trek article listed in these writeups.
Starlog #114
76 pages (including covers)
Cover price: $2.95
Animation legend Chuck Jones and science legend Arthur C. Clarke chime in this issue with letters to the editor. Any issue that features those can't be half-bad.
The rundown: Spock's image takes the lead position this month, featured on the cover (and the whole man is featured in an interview inside). Kerry O'Quinn's From the Bridge column cites the Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations ethos of
Star Trek (drink!) to support his call for a new understanding of tolerance and enjoyment of people's differences (though, to be fair, let's remember that
Trek is one of the most conservative shows around when it comes to featuring gay characters); in the Communications pages, Chuck Jones thanks the magazine for a recent article about him in
#108, Arthur C. Clarke claims some credit for predicting live media coverage of the moon landing, tons of readers respond to Ben Bova's recent guest column (in
#106) on stellar war and peace, a reader actually follows up on his complaint that
Starlog doesn't cover
Rambo (quit while you're behind, sir), and more; Medialog features David McDonnell's genre news roundup (printed on a streaky black-and-white page that is nearly unreadable, though I can just barely make out that plans are afoot for a new version of the
My Favorite Martian TV series), plus there's news about a new
Star Trek series (you know what to do) called
Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Eric Niderost visits the San Francisco set of
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home; Brian Lowry talks to Tom Patchett, writer/producer of TV's weird
ALF series; the Fan Network section includes photos from a dress-up screening of
The Fly, a note about a symposium being led by Industrial Light and Magic wizards, a Looney Tunes/
Star Trek cartoon, and more; Brian Lowry interviews actor Robert Hays, star of the new spinoff TV series,
Starman; Mike Clark talks with actor Guy Williams about his time in
Lost in Space and
Zorro; Daniel Dickholtz pens the Comcis Scene pages, looking at
Watchmen; David Hutchison's Videolog covers the latest video releases, such as
Legend; John Sayers profiles animator Don Bluth (
American Tail); Lee Goldberg talks with director Peter Hunt (
Hyper Sapien); Randy and Jean-Marc Lofficier interview Leonard Nimoy about directing and acting in
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (bottoms up!); Chris Henderson's Booklog covers the latest print releases, such as Vonda N. McIntyre's
Enterprise: The First Adventure; Edward Gross interviews Marc Daniels, director of TV episodes such as "Mirror, Mirror" from the original
Star Trek; William Rabkin talks with Michael Ritchie about directing
The Golden Child; Roger Anker interviews writer William F. Nolan about his mentor Ray Bradbury,
Logan's Run, and more; Brian Lowry chats with actor Paul Reiser about his role in
Aliens; Dan Scapperotti, veteran of competitor
Cinefantastique, joins the
Starlog contributors' cadre with "Memories of
Fu Manchu"; Jean Airey and Laurie Haldeman interview actor Gareth Thomas about
Blake's 7; and David McDonnell's Liner Notes gets all Christmasy on us.
"One thing we've tried to express with Watchmen is the investigation of the superhero. We've tried to work out how a real superhero would live and function in a realistic world, what he would be like psychologically, what sort of things would really motivate him. We've also tried to examine how the presence of a superhero would alter that world in terms of technology, politics, what people think and so on."
–Alan Moore, writer, interviewed by Daniel Dickholtz: Comics Scene: "Man & Overman"
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