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 through, while Star Trek: The Original Series was still in production.

Ruth Berman produced and edited twelve eight-page issues (with the exception of issue 1 which had twelve pages) 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, the club and magazine were discontinued. Editor Berman immediately started a new fanzine, T-Negative, that ran for 35 issues from 1969 until 1979. 

Endorsed by Gene Roddenberry, editors were given access to the studio and contributions were made by 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. 

Relaunch
Seven years later, in 1976, the magazine was relaunched, following a similar formula. While it was retitled Star Trektennial News, it continued the numbering, where Inside Star Trek had left off, issue 13 being the first one under its new heading. Endorsed by Roddenberry's Lincoln Enterprises, it was relaunched in order to keep fans appraised of his efforts to bring back Star Trek as a live-action production, from Star Trek: Planet of the Titans, via Star Trek: Phase II through. Roddenberry's personal assistant during those years, Susan Sackett, together with Virginia Yable, served as editors for the magazine.

The magazine ran for another eighteen issues, with page count intermittently increasing from 1977 onward as possible productions assumed more substance, and starting to include behind-the-scenes pictures. Publication ceased shortly before the release of The Motion Picture in 1979.

External link

 * Inside Star Trek at fanlore.org