Star Trek: Magazine
Star Trek Magazine – known as Star Trek Monthly until issue 110 – is an official magazine, published eight times a year, featuring news, interviews and reviews covering all seven live-action series, the animated series and the movies.
First published on 28 February 1995 as a monthly title, the magazine began life in the UK, but soon expanded to Ireland and Australasia, with limited distribution in Europe.
Early in its run, the magazine featured reprints of several DC Comics-produced comic strips, but this ended after issue 22.
With issue 113, the publication went to a bi-monthly release schedule, and increased its page count from 68 to 100. Before this change, various issues were special “bumper” releases (100 pages, costing £4.99, usually with a gift – typically a Titan-released Trek book) to commemorate a specific occasion, such as the 30th and 35th anniversaries, the end of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, and others.
A separate North American edition of the magazine came into being in August 2006, otherwise synchronized with the UK version for contents, due in part to the loss of the Star Trek: Communicator in 2005, which had aggravated the previous 2003 loss of Star Trek: The Magazine, leaving the home market devoid of any and all “official” Star Trek franchise magazines. Issue #1 of the run – bi-monthly like the UK edition – was released on 22 August 2006. Numbering of the UK edition maintained its internal continuity, with the US #1 being relatively the same as UK issue 128. Later US editions returned to 68 pages in length, with the additional UK pages being inserted in the form of a supplement at the center of the magazine. This practice was quickly discontinued, and the various editions were standardized with issue 134.