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3,Generations - Official Movie Magazine
4,
Sven Harvey
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In what seems to be an ongoing tradition, Starlog have published the
official adaptation of the latest movie. It comes in two versions; a
standard version or a special 3-D 'lenticular' edition for a couple
of pounds more. To be honest the nice effect on the cover isn't worth
the extra money.
The magazine is thicker than the usual DS9, Next Gen or Voyager
magazine fare but in a very similar format. The publication has a
great photographic coverage of the movie as well as behind the scenes
information and of course the usual complement of Trek related
merchandise adverts!
Add to this interviews with the major cast members, Rick Berman and
director David Carson and you have a reasonable keepsake of the
movie, except for one thing...
You would assume that the magazine would give you a decent idea of
what the film was about. However the actual film plot is storyboarded
by only 8 pages of stills! That is quite ridiculous - an 84 page
magazine with less than 1/10th on the film plot! Quite silly! Why? A
way to get us all to buy the novel? Probably...
Overall 4/10
Simon Plumbe
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I won't waste space describing the magazine here again, but contrary
to Sven's point of view, I actually quite like the magazine. As with
everything Starlog have proudced, the writing and interviews are of
an exceptionally high standard and it's quite easy to see why Starlog
have the reputation as being amongst the best in the world when it
comes to SF publications.
All of the interviews were thoroughly entertaining, and it was good
to see that a fair amount of space was devoted to each of the cast,
including the Classic Trek stars. There is a liberal selection of
photos covering the entire cast of the movie, and there are shots
from all of the major scenes. It is also interesting to see a good
mix of photos from scenes that were either edited out of the finished
film (such as Kirk's skydiving sequence) or the photos from the
original ending.
While some may argue that such a magazine needs to cover the plot of
the movie, I don't really think that that is quite the case. As far
as this magazine is concerned, there is a good 8-page spread telling
the story of the film in a photographic way, with captions which
effectively tells the entire story. Now, the people who are likely to
be buying this magazine KNOW the story of the film, so they are not
really interested in being told the plot AGAIN, are they?! Another
point to make is that, as with all OFFICIAL productions, Starlog are
at the mercy of Paramount and can't include anything in the magazine
that Paramount don't want them to.
As this movie special was produced PRIOR to the film's release, there
is NO WAY that Paramount would allow the publishing of the film's
plot, in the same way that none of the Official Fan Clubs were
allowed to. Having experienced Paramount's writing restrictions first
hand (as have Colin Gunn and Tim Smith as well through our work for
the Official UK Fan Club), we can attest to the fact that Paramount
scrutinise everything carefully and they expect writers to toe-the-
line without exception. I am quite certain that they placed a great
deal of restrictions on Starlog over this particular publication!
With regard to Sven's closing remark about the magazine being a way
of promoting the novel... I couldn't disagree more. Not only would
the magazine refer to the novel if that were the case, but remember
that this magazine is from Starlog Press and the novel is from Pocket
Books - two separate companies.
Overall, this is a far better way to remember the film - it doesn't
have Data's jokes or swearing, and it has equal exposure of all of
the cast! Another first-rate title from Starlog. 7/10