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- INTRODUCTION
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- Welcome to the first issue of the new Amiga disk-mag all about that wonderful
- sci-fi series, STAR TREK. The idea came to me after being rather sick of all
- the usual boring disk mags that were just about the Amiga. Hey, I thought,
- Amiga owners have got to have more interests than just the Amiga, so here it
- is!
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- This isn't the first fanzine I have produced. The first was a general sci-fi
- zine on paper called TEMPORAL PHYSICS (I still have a few copies left if
- anyone is interested - for full details, see the Reader's Adverts) which
- catered for DOCTOR WHO, STAR TREK, THE NEXT GENERATION, RED DWARF, QUANTUM
- LEAP, TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES and anything else. As well as that I have
- also written for four other fanzines, I ran a sci-fi fan club for 12 months,
- the club produced a regular fanzine (TEMPORAL PHYSICS) plus a one-off DOCTOR
- WHO Interview Book, I wrote a regular demo review section for a disk magazine
- (the catalogue disk/disk mag from Lorenzo's Domain) and I'm also doing a
- similar regular column for the cat-disk from GROUND ZERO P.D. so I've got a
- bit of experience in writing/fandom in general.
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- This mag will try to cater for all Amiga owning STAR TREK fans with articles,
- interviews, reader's and video charts, art, episode guides, music,
- animations, TREK-related games and utilities and more!! The main idea
- however, is that this is mag for STAR TREK fans who just happen to own
- Amigas, not the other way around. This means that we can give the best TREK
- coverage we possibly can. All contributions will be welcome to the address at
- the end of this file and all those whose stuff we use will get a free copy of
- the current issue! For more details read the CONTRIBUTIONS info.
-
- This magazine has been created with European Trekkers fans in mind. All the
- software etc. will only run on PAL systems. The disk will not be converted to
- run on NTSC systems as it would be too time consuming. It is going to be a
- TREK zine with a British/European outlook. However, it can be distributed in
- America as long as it is left in this PAL format. Americans can still read
- the articles and listen to the music.
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- Although this mag is freely distributable and is not shareware, any cash
- donations would be greatly accepted (cheques/PO's payable to "Simon Plumbe")
- as we have no income for the mag (apart from adverts) and we do have expenses
- such as competition prizes, free copies to authors, mag adverts for new
- writers etc. Many thanks.
-
- I won't try and make any excuses for the presentation. I know it is no where
- near as good as other disk magazines, but they are mostly polish and
- presentation with little thought on the content. It is their presentation
- that makes one different to the other. As THE FINAL FRONTIER is the only Star
- Trek disk mag around we have no competition. We will improve the presentation
- over a period of time, but I believe that it is the articles and content that
- are more important. On top of that, how many menu systems are there that
- allow you to load art (in ALL graphic formats including HAM), play a choice
- of music, run demos, play animations synchronised with sound and display
- large quantities of compressed text files? The answer - none! If a suitable
- system comes along, or if someone is willing to write one for us then, of
- course, we'll use it.
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- Also, I'm sorry that most of the written content is reviews, but that's all I
- was sent and I simply wasn't able to write more articles in time (with saying
- that, I've written most of this issue anyway!). The Richard Arnold article
- alone took me three weeks SOLID to get it ready!
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- All I can say is bear with us and send your material in. Give us TIME, the
- same way Paramount did with THE NEXT GENERATION.
-
- This mag was produced and edited by Simon Plumbe (that's me!) and Andrew
- Wilk. Additional help from Mark Haggett, Vince Hirst, Tobias Richter, Colin
- Gunn and Laurie McCullogh.
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- To kick off with issue 1 we have two EXCLUSIVE pieces of ray-traced art from
- none other than the incredible TOBIAS RICHTER!! On top of that we have a Next
- Generation animation, music, articles, book and video reviews, a competition
- and much more.
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- Originally, the music was going to be conversions of a few tunes from the
- movies and The Next Generation, but both of our musicians found it almost
- impossible to convert them, so we have a few original pieces instead - hope
- you enjoy them! Although normally we want music etc. to be EXCLUSIVE to THE
- FINAL FRONTIER, the music this time will be used on a few demos/music disks
- by LSD. We couldn't avoid this as we had to have some music!
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- I had planned to try and get an interview for the first two issues while I
- was at a convention recently in Scotland. However, I wasn't able to, but I
- can bring you the next best thing and this issue sees a special article based
- on the talks given by Paramount's Trek Research Consultant, Richard Arnold.
- Thanks go to Richard Arnold for this. This is effectively an interview, but
- it was conducted by hundreds of Trekkers instead of just one or two!
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- Issue two will see two more in this series, with John de Lancie (Q from The
- Next Generation)!! Again, this was based on his talks during the convention.
- The other features Paramount's Co-Research Consultant for TREK and regular
- extra and stand-in on THE NEXT GENERATION, Guy Vardaman. Note that the guests
- AGREED to these articles - I did get their permission!
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- I don't know what you think of these articles, but I'd love to hear your
- comments. Personally, I'd rather see these than interviews as they can be
- MUCH bigger, and you never get short of questions to ask! With a one-on-one
- interview, you will probably get no more than 45 minutes, where as the
- Richard Arnold article was based on talks lasting for over 4 hours!
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- Editorial Address
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- To contact THE FINAL FRONTIER either with contributions (all text to be sent
- on paper or Amiga/Atari ST/PC-formatted 3.5 inch disks as 74-column ASCII
- files or on audio cassette as dictated articles!), donations or just comments
- or if you are a software house or magazine interested in contacting one of
- our contributors then write to:-
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- THE FINAL FRONTIER
- c/o Simon Plumbe
- 14 Rousdon Grove
- Great Barr
- Birmingham
- B43 5HN
- ENGLAND
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- Or you can call me on +44 (0)21 358 1213 after 7:00 pm, Mondays - Fridays,
- or at anytime on weekends.
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- Live Long and Prosper....
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