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16 24 54 70 80

NEWS & EVENTS STARFLEET’S FINEST INTERVIEW A BRIEF HISTORY OF...

06 TEN FORWARD 24 OPERATIONS 32 MARY CHIEFFO 40 SHUTTLECRAFT
Star Trek news from Meet the personnel Drawing battle lines Doug Drexler
every quadrant of who really keep a with Discovery’s Klingon on the little ships
the galaxy. starship going. commander L’Rell. that do a big job.

REAL SCIENCE INTERVIEW INTERVIEW ANALYSIS

44 TREKNOLOGY 48 BJO TRIMBLE 54 MICHAEL WESTMORE 62 YESTERDAY’S ENTERPRISE
Probing original How Star Trek Part 2: Designing Director Rob
series episode, dodged the axe, aliens, from Morn to Bowman’s Next
“The Changeling”. one letter at a time. the Suliban. Generation gems.

MERCH & REVIEWS BRIEF ENCOUNTERS TAKE ME OUT TO TALENTED TREKKERS

70 TRICORDER 80 BEAM ME UP 84 THE HOLODECK 94 GARY JONES
Scanning the latest Belly-dancing Relax in our new fan Familiar faces reveal
releases, plus crafting Tania Lemani from zone, then test your their love for the
the Kelvin art books. “Wolf in the Fold.” Klingon knowledge! final frontier.

T H E H O L O D E C K

CARTOON LARRY NEMECEK’S TREK PRIZE BIG QUESTIONS IN

85 STARSHIP TREKKERS 86 A FISTFUL OF DATA 90 GIVEAWAY 92 THE NEUTRAL ZONE
The worst crew in Your canon queries Win Star Trek adult Archer’s big mistake?
Starfleet go on a considered, by our coloring books from Pick sides in the
search for socks. resident Trekspert. Dark Horse! great Trek debate.

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STAR TREK NE W S FROM E V ERY QUA DR A N T

DISCOVERY UNCOVERED
CBS All Access invited members of the press, licensees, bloggers, and (most importantly) some
very lucky fans to join the cast of Star Trek: Discovery at a lavish Hollywood launch event in
mid-September.

The official World premiere of the

new Star Trek series took place on
Tuesday, September 19, 2017 at
7:00pm, at the Arclight Cinerama
Dome on Sunset Boulevard,
Los Angeles. A vivid blue carpet
replaced the traditional red, along
which Discovery stars including
Sonequa Martin-Green (first officer
Michael Burnham), Michelle Yeoh
(Captain Georgiou), Jason Isaacs
(Captain Lorca), and Doug Jones
(Lieutenant Saru), spoke with the
World’s media prior to a special
screening of the two-hour pilot
episode, “The Vulcan Hello.”
After the screening ended,
Star Trek Magazine spoke to
several fans, and the response
to the opening episode was
overwhelmingly positive, with
many praising Sonequa Martin-
Green’s performance as Burnham,
and citing Saru as an instantly
classic Trek character.
We’ll be running a full report
on this special event next issue,
along with our review of the
opening episodes.
“The Vulcan Hello,” written
by Bryan Fuller, Alex Kurtzman,
and Akiva Goldsman, and directed
by David Semel, premiered on
CBS television 5 days later, on
Sunday, September 24, with the
second episode, “Battle at the
Binary Stars” released on CBS
All Access that same evening.
Episodes then release weekly
every Sunday until the mid-season
break in November. Internationally,
Discovery premiered on Netflix
on September 25, with each
subsequent episode available within
a day of the US release. The titles
of the following two episodes
have been announced by CBS as
“Content is for Kings,” and “The
Butcher’s Knife Cares Not for the
Lamb’s Cries.”
 TEN FORWARD

IDW GO I.D.I.C.
Multiple realities meet in an all-new IDW comic series

One alternate universe just isn’t

enough for comics publisher IDW, as
they set parallel Kirks, Spocks, and
crews from multiple realities on a
collision course, in a miniseries that
pays homage to the Vulcan philosophy
of “Infinite Diversity in Infinite
Combinations.” (I.D.I.C.)
At San Diego Comic-Con 2017,
writer Mike Johnson introduced Star
Trek: Boldly Go “I.D.I.C.” – a six-
issue story arc debuting this fall, with
part 2 slated for release in November.
The arc is set to explore a half dozen
different alternate universes, seeking out
who and what Kirk and Spock might
have become in each, and how these
incarnations would have drastically
altered their relationship.
In Johnson’s “What If...?” premise,
Kirk is reimagined as an android,
as a woman, as his Kelvin Timeline
counterpart, and even as a baby captured Klingons of the new show, promising
and raised by the fierce Klingons. A to enrich the landscape of the new
different artist takes the helm for each television series, plus the latest Star Trek:
installment, ensuring a more drastically New Adventures – a collection of tales set
different look across realities than, say, a aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise following
stick-on goatee or a gold sash. the events of Star Trek Into Darkness.
Other IDW Trek titles ready to land Expect to see a few new-yet-familiar faces
over the coming months include a Star thrown into the mix this time. So who
Trek: Discovery tie-in series exploring the could be at the front of the ‘Q’?

KICK BACK
ON QO’NOS
Plan your vacation with the Klingon Travel Guide

It’s only fitting that a show known for written by Dayton Ward and published
exporing the vast depths of space now by Insight Editions, is packed with equally
has its own series of travel guides, with useful tips, from how to blend in with
a second volume providing valuable the natives by donning fur and leather,
insight into the life and locations of to recommendations on where to find
an ancient and noble race. It’s time to the heartiest Klingon skull stew, plus a
learn all about the Klingons. glossary of handy phrases too (“nuqneH!”
The first pointer you’ll pick up from translates as “What do you want?” Like we
the Hidden Universe Travel Guides: Star said, dispense with the pleasantries.)
Trek: The Klingon Empire is to dispense In stores now, the book joins the
with the pleasantries. Pleasantries are not Hidden Universe Travel Guide to Vulcan,
a Klingon thing. This new survival guide, also written by the well-traveled Ward.

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PLAYING YOUR PART IN THE TREK UNIVERSE

BURTON
IS BACK
Star Trek Online welcomes the return
of a miracle worker

The universe of Star Trek Online gets once again in a brand new episode
a little bigger this fall, as LeVar Burton called “Melting Pot.” The Alliance has
joins
j the cast of the huge MMORPG, been helping two alien races, the Lukari
reprising his role of Geordi La Forge, and the Kentari, recently reunited after
in a new episode celebrating the being separated by a great schism in the
30th Anniversary of Star Trek: The past. Now working together, they have
Next
N Generation. united to build their own colony. As
Geordi (left), now the captain of player captains and La Forge beam down
his own starship, plays a major part in to check on the colony, a major threat
the newest content in Star Trek Online, emerges that will affect the storyline of
including a special 30th Anniversary Star Trek Online for years to come.
Star Trek: The Next Generation playable Season 14: Emergence also brings
episode, “Beyond the Nexus.” with it new ships to fly, and new uniform
In “Beyond the Nexus,” player options like the “skant” skirt uniforms
captains team up with La Forge to from Star Trek: The Next Generation, plus
investigate the mysterious disappearance the new Starfleet uniforms from Star
of a Starfleet vessel, and find themselves Trek: Discovery!
near the mysterious Nexus, last seen The new season episodes, features,
in Star Trek Generations. There’s a new and ships are already available on the
mystery to be solved, and a powerful PC version of Star Trek Online, and
new enemy to face. are coming soon to Xbox One and
During Season 14: Emergence, PlayStation 4. Visit startrekonline.com
Captain La Forge joins the players for more details.
01

THE LUKARI/
KENTARI COLONY
Over the past year in Star Trek The Lukari separated from since the original Fleet Starbase. To
Online, player captains have been another species generations strengthen the Alliance, and help
learning the story of a brand new ago – the Kentari. After a recent these two disparate races discover
alien species – the Lukari. They are reconciliation, the two races have new peace together, players can
a peaceful, scientific species, and worked together to create a brand donate any resources they gain by
the Alliance of the Federation, the new colony, and your fleet in Star playing the game to help the Lukari
Klingon Empire, and the Romulan Trek Online can be a part of it. and Kentari complete and upgrade
Republic has helped them take their The Lukari/Kentari Colony is their colony, receiving special
first steps to the stars. the first five-tier Fleet Holding rewards for their efforts.

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BORG CUBE
The new Star Trek RPG jumps out of the box

Resistance really is futile. The Borg special dice, a pad of 50 character and
nd
have returned, only this time they’re ship sheets, and a poster of the Alpha
invading the worlds of roleplaying and Beta Quadrants thrown in, all th hat’s
games and apps. left for you to choose is who to play as
Star Trek Adventures, the first new – the special Locutus of Borg miniature,
Star Trek RPG in a decade, comes the exclusive and ever-malevolent Loore,
ominously boxed in a Borg cube or any of the other character miniatu ures.
collector’s edition set from Modiphius Unlike many combat-focused
Entertainment, prepared to assimilate games, the core function of Star Trekk
gamers in a quest for perfection. The Adventures is as a call to arms for playyers
massive starter set, in a limited edition to figure out how to work as a team,
numbered from 1 to 1701, comes utilize limited resources, and overcom me
equipped with plenty of accessory perilous obstacles and adversaries. Suure,
add-ons including a massive 368-page there’s also the occasional space battle,
core rulebook, four sets of 32mm scale but much like the Star Trek campaigns
miniatures, and a 40-compartment foam seen on screen, that’s only a piece of
tray to store them in. With three sets of the action.

BACKPOCKET BORG
Cybernetic action for gamers on the go

Pocket Starships, the smartphone app Nine, and Voyager, the game’s creators
and trading card game that gives players at SPYR will add Star Trek elements
the chance to build and pilot their own to their existing massively multiplayer
spaceships, is set to expand into the world online game. That means the new
of Star Trek, following a new deal with edition will assimilate some familiar Trek
CBS Consumer Products. But players will equipment and technology and, as the
have to risk assimilation when Star Trek: name suggests, pit players against one
Borg Invasion is released this November. of the most terrifying, relentless, and
Folding in ships and characters unforgiving species discovered in the
from The Next Generation, Deep Space final frontier so far, the Borg.

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THINGS TO DO DURING SHORE LEAVE

STAR TREK
LAS VEGAS 2017
The highlights from this year’s annual Trek get-together
Words: Ian Spelling

01

Creation Entertainment’s annual, Many spent the weekend admiring The Discovery Panels
five-day Star Trek Las Vegas event was each other’s elaborate cosplay creations, Lucky attendees on day one were treated
the place to be for Trek aficionados in hanging out at Quark’s Bar, participating to four straight hours of Discovery panels,
August, as the Rio Suites Hotel played in karaoke and trivia contests, and featuring writers Kirsten Beyer, Ted
host to assorted aliens, artifacts, and attending panels and parties. There were Sullivan, and Akiva Goldsman, actors
activities. The event brought together demos of new Star Trek-related games, Mary Chieffo, Sam Vartholomeos,
thousands of fans and more than an array of cool displays (including Kenneth Mitchell, and Wilson Cruz,
100 Star Trek actors, screenwriters, recreations of the Guardian of Forever, creature and prop creators Neville Page
directors, producers, novelists, editors, an Enterprise bridge set replica, a and Glenn Hetrick, plus IDW’s prolific
and make-up artists, plus scientists, Transporter pad, and more), and special comic book scribe Mike Johnson,
comic book writers, merchandizers, exhibits devoted to Star Trek: The Next and David Mack and Ed Schlesinger
and cosplayers. Generation and Star Trek: Discovery. representing Pocket Books.

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02

03
Fans saw the first official image of
Kevin Mitchell as Kol, and Page and
Hetrick provided a detailed look at how
they crafted the prosthetics for Lt. Saru
and the Klingons, hinting at why the
ridge-headed aliens are bald in Discovery.
Fans also learned that Beyer would serve as
Discovery’s liaison for the tie-in books and
comics, and there were sneak peeks at the
covers of the first Discovery novel, David
Mack’s “Desperate Hours”, and Beyer and
Johnson’s tie-in Discovery comic.

The Discovery Exhibit

There was seemingly never less than a
30-minute line to check out the Discovery
Exhibit. And that was completely
understandable, as CBS All Access shipped-
in costumes and props directly from the
show’s set in Toronto. There were Starfleet of ribbing, lots of laughter, and some 01 The lobby fans with an intimate, fireside chat-style
of the Rio
outfits, Klingon ensembles, daggers, memorable exchanges: Suites Hotel
experience.
communicators, the already-iconic Klingon “I remember that I appealed to Rick welcomed During these panels, guests were
Torchbearer suit, EVA suits, masks, [Berman] and the writers, to write a Trek fans. able to talk about projects close to their
tricorders, insignia badges, and more. And, romantic encounter for Picard that wasn’t 02 Inside the hearts. Rene Auberjonois talked about
best of all, fans could pose for photos in the referencing a relationship that was 25 Star Trek: his art, photography, and support of the
Discovery captain’s chair. years old,” Sir Patrick Stewart revealed at Discovery charity Doctors Without Borders, while
exhibition.
one point. “So they did, and that led to Robert Picardo commented about his
The TNG Reunion ‘Captain’s Holiday,’ and we know what that 03 The Next work on behalf of The Planetary Society.
Generation
During an extended, nearly two-hour led to... don’t we?” At which, Sirtis leaned cast, reunited.
Chase Masterson discussed founding The
special event, Patrick Stewart, Gates in and wisecracked: “It led to any excuse Pop Culture Hero Coalition, which was
McFadden, Brent Spiner, Marina for him to take his shirt off. He’s very old, established to help combat bullying.
Sirtis, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, but he’s in great shape. I don’t say anything Others appearing on the stage included
Denise Crosby, and John de Lancie behind his back that I don’t say to his face.” Ira Steven Behr, Denise and Mike Okuda,
teamed up to celebrate the landmark authors Mike Johnson, Dayton Ward,
30th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next CBS All Access/ Ethan Siegel, David Mack, Robb Pearlman,
Generation, live on the main stage. Sadly, startrek.com Panels IDW editor Sarah Gaydos and comic artist
bad weather and transport issues stopped Startrek.com and CBS All Access joined J.K. Woodward, make-up masters Michael
Jonathan Frakes joining the party, but it forces to present more than 60 panels Westmore and Joel Harlow, James Cawley
remained an incredible event. on the CBS All Access Stage. The space of The Original Series Set Tour, and Adam
As always when The Next Generation could hold an audience of about 125 Nimoy – with fiancée Terry Farrell joyously
cast gets together, there was plenty people, and the idea was to provide crashing the fun!
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The Guest List

Creation Entertainment, as always,
brought many of Star Trek’s biggest names
to Las Vegas, who appeared on stage,
signed autographs, and posed for photos
with fans throughout the weekend. The
list of guests included William Shatner,
Patrick Stewart, Kate Mulgrew, George
Takei, Karl Urban, Nichelle Nichols, Brent
Spiner, Terry Farrell, LeVar Burton, Walter
Koenig, Linda Park, Rene Auberjonois,
Marina Sirtis, John Billingsley, Gates
McFadden, Michel Dorn, and many more.
Among them was real-life astronaut
and TNG guest star, Dr. Mae Jemison,
who was surprised at the end of her panel
by an appearance by her dear friend,
Nichelle Nichols (both pictured, right).
Upon Nichols taking the stage, the two
women hugged tightly and told a couple
of stories. Dr. Jemison then shared with
the audience her appreciation of Nichols
as an inspiration for young black women,
stating, to cheers from fans, “You gave me
and others permission to be in the room.”

DESTINATION DORTMUND
The touring Destination Star
Trek convention returns
to Germany in 2018
In addition to the already-announced
Destination Star Trek Birmingham,
set for the UK in mid-October 2018,
show organizers Massive Events Ltd,
Showmasters, and Media 10 have lined
up yet another destination to add to
your convention calendar, and this
time Germany will be the host nation.
Destination Star Trek Germany will
touch down in Dortmund on April 27,
2018, featuring the usual mix of live
panels and events over a packed three
days. Already confirmed guests include
Nana Visitor, Rene Auberjonois, Nicole
de Boer, James Darren, Casey Biggs,
Jeffrey Combs, Vaughn Armstrong,
Robert Duncan McNeil, Max
Grodenchik, and Aron Eisenberg. You
might notice that’s a Deep Space Nine-
heavy list... and for good reason. Follow
new guest announcements and get more
details at destinationstartrek.com.

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ROUNDUP
THE LATEST TREK TREATS IN STORE

CASUAL COSPLAY
Suit-up in style for the next generation of space exploration

The sleek new uniforms of the

Discovery crew have already
been restyled as comfy T-shirts,
complete with color accents
and the Starfleet delta badges
denoting rank and assignment.
Take command with the gold
stripes of a leader, or debate the
merits of dilithium crystals with your
engineer pals in a similarly-striped
blue shirt. Report to Sickbay in the
white and silver colorway, or make
the most logical choice, and go
for the blue and silver science
officer’s uniform.
These Discovery Ts are
available from a variety of retailers,
and come with a set of die-cut
Star Trek stickers featuring the
Discovery logo and Starfleet
badge, so you can ensure the rest
of your crew is aware of your Trek
love, even when you’re off duty.

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Featuring 12 months’ worth of full-color photographs Discovery, and with a limited edition of just 1,000 pins,
from the new series, who needs a series-link on your PVR the metal and enamel CBS All Access special edition
(or a ship’s computer) when you can go old school and pin will likely only be snagged by the most elite cadets
plot your own missions with a highlighter pen? (and some very lucky
shoppers). The $29.99
purchase includes
a $25 credit toward
a CBS All Access
subscription, so beam
over to ThinkGeek.
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exclusive Star Trek:
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the transporter pad.
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HUMAN BORN
VULCAN BRED

Star Trek’s new leading lady,

Sonequa Martin-Green, has walked
away from The Walking Dead and
boldly toward the final frontier. Now,
Discovery’s Michael Burnham can
finally reveal how Star Trek gave her
a Buzz Lightyear moment.
Wo r d s : B r y a n C a i r n s
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onequa Martin-Green knows she’s on and impact of such an unprecedented, part of the conversation, and hopefully
the cusp of making history with CBS progressive move was not lost on the actor. a part of, as cliché as it sounds, making
All Access’ highly anticipated Trek “It says the sky is the limit for all the world a better place, because I really
revival, Star Trek: Discovery. Back in of us,” Sonequa told Star Trek Magazine believe it. I think it’s vital.”
1966, Gene Roddenberry’s original during a tour of the Discovery sets in Best known as Sasha on the popular
Star Trek series championed diversity Toronto. “What we’re seeing now in our zombie drama series The Walking Dead,
and equality through its storytelling media is this push to diminish, and to Martin-Green’s other credits include
and casting. African-American Nichelle devalue, and to make people feel the sky The Good Wife, NYC 22, and Once
Nichols monitored communications as is not the limit for them, and that they Upon a Time. Ironically, Martin-Green’s
Lt. Uhura; soft-spoken Sulu, portrayed by are meant for the ground. Having me as involvement with The Walking Dead
Asian-American George Takei, helmed the the first black lead of a Star Trek series nearly prevented her from doing Discovery
U.S.S. Enterprise; and the following year, just blasts that into a million pieces. at all. Former showrunner Bryan Fuller
Russian Walter Koenig joined the cast as “That’s what we need right now. I approached Martin-Green about joining
navigator Pavel Chekov. think we need to turn to each other,” the space saga, but she still needed to
Discovery continues to honor that she continues. “We need to turn to good fulfill her zombie apocalypse obligations.
tradition of breaking new ground by storytelling, and we need to turn to art. As a result, Martin-Green assumed her
featuring the first female black lead of We need to turn to these things to see lack of availability closed the door on
the franchise, Martin-Green’s Michael the solution. This show serves as that. anything Star Trek related. And then
Burnham. The gravity, responsibility, I am eternally grateful that we are now Discovery’s premiere date got delayed.

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01 02

03

“At that time, such a monumental

chapter in my life was closing with The
01 Burnham
and Captain
MICHAEL BURNHAM
Georgiou FIRST OFFICER
Walking Dead,” Martin-Green recalls. (Michelle
“I was in such a place of contentment Yeoh) prepare When her family was killed by Klingons while under Vulcan
and peace about everything. I was to transport. jurisdiction, Michael Burnham was taken in and adopted by
excited for what was next. I was excited 02 A trek Sarek, a Vulcan Ambassador, and his human wife, Amanda.
to turn the page. I was just trusting through the They raised the girl as their own, alongside their son, Spock.
what was happening. As I was shooting desert for Burnham developed a particularly strong bond with Sarek,
Burnham and
those last few episodes of my end on her captain. and became a disciple of the Vulcan philosopher Surak, the
Walking Dead – and then Star Trek father of modern Vulcan culture. She learned how to suppress
03 First Officer
came – it felt like a snug fit. It really Michael
her destructive, human emotions, and master logic, but
did, but it moved on for me because of Burnham sometimes felt she was becoming more Vulcan than human,
the scheduling conflicts. So, I said, ‘You (Sonequa and she found that realization troubling.
Martin-Green).
know what? It felt like a snug fit, but, Burnham studied at the Vulcan Science Academy on
it’s gone, so that’s fine. I trust what’s Vulcan before joining Starfleet, and rose to become first officer
happening. I trust what’s meant to be on the U.S.S. Shenzhou, under the command of Captain
will be.’ I let it go. I just focused on Philippa Georgiou. Burnham grew under Georgiou, finding a
ending my journey on Walking Dead, second mother in her Starfleet captain, until the war with the
and I gave that my all. Then Star Trek Klingons set her on a new path.

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came around again. I said, ‘I knew it will deliver plenty of narrative

was a snug fit.’” opportunities and inner conflict.
Speaking of Fuller, over the years, “I like the struggle it provides from
he’s gained a reputation for bestowing a storytelling perspective,” the actress
his female protagonists with traditionally explains. “It’s evocative. It’s provocative
male names. Well, he did that here, too, because we’ve seen Spock struggle with the
with Michael Burnham. dichotomy of his identity, by literally being
“What I decided was I was named half-Vulcan and half-human. I am fully
after my biological father,” Martin-Green human, but I have been indoctrinated with
offers. “What’s really beautiful about a new culture. Here I am, being Michael
that is that we explore a father/daughter Burnham. Now, we have struggles that
dynamic on our show, definitely between come from culture shock. I did grow up
Sarek [James Frain] and I. You also have as a human for a while before my parents
this subtle, yet powerful, nod to it as were killed, and then was thrown into this
well because we can look to the future Vulcan way of life.
where gender roles are more fluid, where “There was the fight to assimilate what
a woman can have a male name, and a I had to deal with,” she says of Burnham’s
woman can be named after her father. personal struggles. “That’s trauma, all on
Or, a son can be named after his mother. its own. So, I take all of that – I take the
It’s quite innovative.” identity crisis of that right into Starfleet –
To help find Burnham’s voice, and then how I operate, as the first officer,
Martin-Green admits to spending plenty
of time watching the original Star Trek
TV series. In particular, she found
Spock’s first officer “profound.”
“As I was shooting
“Leonard Nimoy’s performance
is amazing,” Martin-Green says, full
those last few
of praise. “I love Zachary Quinto’s
performance as well, but Leonard
episodes of my end on
captured such a charm. He found the
humor and the dryness. He found a
Walking Dead – and
way to somehow be vulnerable, but
completely objective at the same time.
then Star Trek came –
It really speaks to his talent. It has to do
with why Spock is a popular, favorite
it felt like a snug fit. It
character. It has everything to do with
Leonard, so I watched him a lot. But,
really did.” Now, of course, I look at him differently.
in terms of who I modeled myself after, SONEQUA I’m constantly building and creating, so I
it’s just the story. There’s a lot going MARTIN-GREEN see him now and go, ‘Oh… Spock. I see
on, so I just had to dig into all these you running around the house. I see you
different facets of who I am, as Michael whether I lean into my Vulcan logic or I walking around the house in a very weird
Burnham, and try to make them as real lean toward my human emotion, these are way.’ It’s been fun building memories
as I could. I’m still doing that.” things I have to ask myself daily. with him involved.”
“But it’s not so binary, where it’s Star Trek and its spin-offs
Who Am I? just Vulcan or human,” Martin-Green commenced with the main crew and
Even though Discovery kicked off continues. “It’s a lot more multi-layered their mission established, with the
production at the start of 2017, plot than that. There are all these principles occasional fine-tuning here and there.
points surrounding the show’s direction swimming around in my mind and my However, the captains – Kirk, Picard,
– and Martin-Green’s character – have heart. I have to decide, ‘Who am I? Who Sisko, Janeway, and Archer – were all
remained scarce. However, during the Star am I going to be?’ I think anybody that firmly in place. Discovery plans to zero
Trek: Discovery panel at 2017’s San Diego has to deal with acculturation has to ask in on an ambitious first officer, who
Comic-Con, certain information emerged. that question. Anybody who moves away wants to eventually take command and
We already knew that Discovery takes place from home, once they’ve come of age, literally sit in the driver’s seat. Burnham’s
10 years before the original series, and they have to ask themselves, ‘Am I going exchanges with fellow crewmembers, and
that Burnham serves as first officer on the to be that person or a new person?’ This her wrestling with the crisis at hand, this
U.S.S. Shenzhou, but the producers chose is all part of the Discovery.” Federation/Klingon war, will shape her
the occasion to drop the bombshell that Martin-Green reveled in over the season.
Burnham was Spock’s adopted sister. contemplating Burnham and Spock’s “It’s very courageous,” notes Martin-
Spock’s father, Sarek, raised childhood together. After all, that was Green about shifting focus from a
Burnham from a young age after her uncharted territory, since Spock had captain to a first officer. “It was a brave
parents’ demise. As a child, she became never mentioned her existence. decision for them to do that. It offers
the only human to attend the Vulcan “Spock is my favorite person in the more avenues of storytelling. You are able
Learning Center and, subsequently, canon,” Martin-Green enthuses. “I know to see more. You are able to experience
Vulcan Science Academy. Martin-Green he’s a lot of people’s favorite. Spock is more, because I’m experiencing more.
believes Burnham’s unique upbringing an institution in the canon, as is Sarek. I’m not this permanent fixture who has

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04 05

grown into who I am, where it’s already things we touch on and, dare I say, in 04 Georgiou iteration of Star Trek, is that we’re able
been done, and I’ve been defined, I a very visceral way.” (Yeoh) and first to do that, that we’re able to go to those
know who I am, what I’ve done, and I’m officer Michael darkest places while still keeping the
Burnham
already here. I think there’s a place for Hope And Optimism (Martin-Green) light on, if you will. We’re able to build
that, but when you can instead go on the Despite the fact that Burnham’s Vulcan on the U.S.S. on what’s introduced into the story.
journey with me of self-discovery – of schooling emphasized logic over emotion, Shenzhou Everything has ramifications. These
bridge.
my journey to captain – you can see how she still feels negativity towards the are high-stakes consequences.”
that happens. Klingons. After all, the warrior race was 05 Burnham's Viewers expect to be blown away
adoptive
“That’s something we’ve never responsible for her parents’ death. In by the show’s production designers. Not
father, Sarek
seen happen before,” she says. “It the show’s teaser trailer, Captain Gabriel (James Frain). only will the U.S.S. Discovery and U.S.S.
would be wildly interesting to see any Lorca (Jason Isaacs) tells Burnham, “You Shenzhou take flight, but Klingon ships
of the captains that we know from the helped start a war.” Could she now be are ready to engage. Other settings will
Star Trek canon go from first officer seeking atonement for her actions? include the majestic bridge, impressive
to captain. What was Captain Kirk’s “This is a story of a lot of things,” transporter room, and the engine room.
journey like? It offers a tremendous Martin-Green affirms. “It’s a story of When asked to choose the set and iconic
opportunity to engage, because you failure and victory. It’s a story of fear. beats that thrilled her the most, Martin-
see an aspirational path we’ve never It’s a story of love and of guilt. It’s a Green is almost at a loss for words.
seen before. story of redemption, of restoration, and “All of it,” Martin-Green replies, in
“When you can see people actually of reconciliation and of degradation. I evident wonder. “I didn’t know it was
change – whether that be for good or think it’s a lot of those things, but all going to be that grand. When I walked
for bad – that’s one of the most exciting, the while maintaining the hope and onto the set, I was like, ‘What is this?
exhilarating things about serialized optimism that is Star Trek. You didn’t tell me it was going to be
storytelling. Seeing how decisions lead to “I truly think it’s high-quality a movie every week.’ I didn’t realize that.”
someone’s development,” Martin-Green storytelling,” she says. “We are able to When pressed, she admits that
adds. “You go on that journey with me, explore all these themes simultaneously. putting on the uniform for the first time
day by day by day, as I’m being changed, The only reason we’re able to do that is was a thrill, and says, “I love operating at
and shifting my decisions by the people the long-form storytelling that is offered my station, and pushing all the buttons.
that I’m interacting with, by the people by the digital-streaming platform. That’s I love the phasers. I love the tricorder.
I’m serving with and under. These are one of the beautiful things about this I love all of it. You had these little

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moments every day, where you’re like, 06 Burnham “On The Walking Dead, we had
‘Is this real life?’” (Martin-Green)
has her
“When I walked onto our knives with the little green-screen
The Alabama native’s eyes light up tag on it, where you had to fake the
even further when discussing one of
suspicions
about the
U.S.S.
the set, I was like, length of a knife,” the 32-year-old actor
those pinch-me moments. A sequence acknowledges. “I’m sort of used to that
involves Burnham donning a space suit,
Discovery.
‘What is this? You combination of tactile versus imaginary
scenario. I have not acted with green
and venturing into the cold vacuum of
space to take it for a spin. didn’t tell me it was screen like I have now. I’m an imaginative
actor anyway. I work only with
“Oh my gosh, my Buzz Lightyear,”
Martin-Green says with a big grin. going to be a movie imagination. I don’t pull from my own
life. I strictly imagine in the parameters of
“Oh man. The designs of the suit
are fantastic. It was heavy, it was so every week.’” the story. You really have to activate your
challenging, but so much fun. When imagination when you are just staring at
SONEQUA
things are fulfilling, it’s usually because the green screen. If it’s supposed to be
they require effort. I love wirework. I MARTIN-GREEN this other planet, or this war going on,
love action. I love fighting. I love all of it’s just screen. You have to picture it,
that stuff. I didn’t realize I’d be doing as Dead was very gritty and bleak. But, visualize it, so that has been challenging.”
much of it as I am, but I love it. Bring there’s a lot of grit and bleakness As our conversation ends, the
it on.” about our show as well. There’s also topic of fandom is brought up. The
It would be easy to assume that a lot of hope and optimism in our Walking Dead’s rabid fanbase routinely
Discovery couldn’t be more different show, but I think you can find hope tunes in every week, and proceeds to
than Martin-Green’s Walking Dead gig, and optimism in The Walking Dead. dissect every development, cliffhanger,
but that’s not exactly the case. The two You have these people sacrificing and, yes, death. So, did The Walking
series feature pressure-cooker situations themselves for each other. The idea Dead prepare Martin-Green for those
that put various characters’ resolve, of family is really emphasized in that devoted Trekkers, who know the detail
morality, and mettle to the test. And, show, so that’s hopeful.” behind every quantum moment of the
as Martin-Green notes, “at the heart of Filming on location for Discovery (currently) 700-plus hours of Star Trek?
both shows, there’s a human story. is obviously impossible, so to replicate “It has, in a way,” Martin-Green
“There’s a story about life,” that interplanetary environment, the concludes. “It’s been sort of a stepping
Martin-Green explains. “There’s a series relies on VFX razzle dazzle and stone for me. Experiencing that show,
story of the heart. There’s a story that enormous green screens. Martin-Green experiencing the fanbase, experiencing
exposes the soul. In that way, they’re states she was exposed to CG on The the global reach of that show. I think it
related. All high-quality stories are Walking Dead, but not on Discovery’s put me in the ball park, for sure. Star
related in that way. Yes, The Walking scope or scale. Trek is different. It’s bigger.”

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MAKING
IT SO
THE OPERATIONS DIVISION

In Star Trek, certain types of officers receive most of the attention,

and virtually all of the glory. Captains, Science Officers, First Officers,
Engineers, Medical Officers – they might make the big decisions and take
the biggest risks, but as Kirk tells Commodore Paris in Star Trek Beyond, when
she commends him on defeating Krall: “It wasn’t just me. It never is.”
None of these heroic officers could get a thing done
without the Operations Division.

Words: K. Stoddard Hayes

T
he Operations staff are the martialed out of Starfleet, then sent to
officers who keep the ship prison for fighting with the Maquis. If
flying on course, oversee the Voyager hadn’t been snatched away to the
proper function of all its Delta Quadrant, he would never have
complex technologies, maintain been allowed within a parsec of the helm
communications within the of a Starfleet ship.
ship and over interstellar Other officers are still extremely green.
distances, and make sure that phasers Harry Kim’s assignment to Voyager is his
and torpedoes hit their targets. When very first posting after graduation. He is
the captains give an order to set a course, so anxious to impress his new captain that
send a message, or fire a weapon, the her first order to him is, “At ease, Ensign,
Operations crew is ready to “make it so.” before you sprain something.” Hoshi Sato’s
On a starship bridge, the duties assignment to the Enterprise NX-01 is her
of these important officers are carried first space mission, too. But unlike Harry,
out mainly at four stations, depending she needs a lot of persuading to overcome
on the era and the starship class: Helm, 02 her fear of space, and only the lure of
Navigation, Communications, and discovering new languages gets her onto
Operations. veterans, who take almost any adventure Archer’s bridge.
  in their stride – or at least seem to. Chekov, the youngest of the
Officer Material Mayweather was actually born and raised Enterprise’s bridge officers, is not a raw
Nearly all of Star Trek’s Operations in space on his parents’ freighter, and recruit, yet he often shows his youth,
Division characters have had very feels more comfortable on a starship than especially in a tendency towards wisecracks.
traditional Starfleet backgrounds. Most on a planet.  When a magnificent alien being announces
graduated from the Academy and rose Tom Paris is also a veteran, but he himself to be the Greek god Apollo in
through the ranks to their present is the reverse of prime officer material “Who Mourns for Adonais?” Chekov can’t
positions. Some, like Sulu, Uhura, and when Janeway brings him on Voyager’s help but mutter sarcastically, “And I am the
Travis Mayweather, are experienced space mission to the Badlands. He was court- Tsar of all the Russias!” 

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ENSIGN
TRAVIS
MAYWEATHER
Played by Anthony Montgomery
Helm Officer, Enterprise NX-01
BORN: 2126, E.C.S. Horizon
PERSONAL: Mayweather grew
up in interstellar space aboard his
family’s freighter. This life not only
made him completely at home in
space, but gave him experience
flying many types of spacecraft.
Though his family expected him
to succeed his father as captain of
the Horizon, Travis instead joined
Starfleet, in part because of his 03
fascination with exploration. He
served as Helm Officer of Enterprise
for the ship’s entire service.
HOBBIES: Rock-climbing,
spelunking, playing practical jokes Red Alert or that the plan to get the ship out of
on his crewmates. While the Operations officers keep danger has failed. 
PET PEEVE: Gravity. He’d rather the ship running, they also have an When Voyager first enters Borg
be floating. important dramatic function. They tell space in “Scorpion” the whole crew is
STELLAR SKILL: During the Xindi the Captain, and the audience, when on edge as they prepare for the worst.
War, Mayweather’s piloting skill, something is going wrong.  At Ops, Harry Kim makes the first
space travel experience, and “No response to our hails, Captain,” report that sensors have detected Borg
above all his confidence proved is always a hint of danger to come; transwarp signatures, far away, but
essential. It’s likely that no other “Helm doesn’t respond, sir,” is slightly overtaking Voyager. And not just one or
human helmsman could have more of a worry; and as for “Shields two Borg cubes. As they get closer, he
navigated the Delphic Expanse failing...” Well, we can all tell that’s reports, “I’m reading two Borg vessels.
for so many months, or piloted bad news.  Make that three. Four. No, five.” Harry
his ship safely through so many Such reports let everyone know pauses, then reads out the deadly total:
hostile encounters in such a that the captains’ efforts to identify the “Fifteen Borg vessels. Distance, 2.5 light
deadly region of space. problem of the week aren’t working, years and closing.” 

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LT. C O M M A N D E R
HOSHI SATO
Played by Linda Park HOBBIES: Poker, aikido.
Communications Officer, PET PEEVE: 22nd Century
Enterprise NX-01 transporters, which have given
BORN: 2129, Kyoto, Earth her actual nightmares.
PERSONAL: A gifted linguist, STELLAR SKILL: As
Hoshi spoke numerous Communications Officer
human languages even of Earth’s first deep space
before venturing into space. mission, Hoshi initiated
By the time she had served dialogue with many species
on Enterprise for a year, she who would become important
spoke and understood as many to the Federation. She was
as 40 non-terrestrial tongues, the first human to be fluent
including some which she in Klingonese; while her
was the first human to under- quick mastery of the Axanar
stand. Hoshi is also a skilled language turned a potentially
cryptographer, since she regards hostile encounter into a
mathematical encryptions as friendship that would last
simply another language. many years (“Fight or Flight”).

And it’s Sulu who triggers the final occasions Uhura sets off events by Hailing Frequencies
crisis in The Wrath of Khan. Having pushed reporting on what communications Open
the wounded Enterprise to her maximum she cannot receive.  As Starfleet’s first interstellar
impulse speed, he measures that speed When a black hole throws the Communications Officer, Hoshi has a
against the accelerating Genesis detonation, Enterprise all the way back to Earth in very different job description to Uhura’s.
01 The
and says quietly to David Marcus, “We’re “Tomorrow is Yesterday,” Uhura can’t Operations
Her primary role is not to operate
not going to make it, are we?” David just get a response on any of the normal heads of the communications systems, but to
shakes his head, prompting Spock to leave Starfleet channels, but she is receiving the Kelvin communicate with alien races. Very
Enterprise.
the bridge without a word and head to the a radio broadcast – from 1969. Again, often, the races and their languages are
warp core. seconds after McCoy jumps through the 02 Lt. Harry unfamiliar even to the two non-human
The Communications officers often portal of the Guardian of Forever (“The Kim (Garrett officers, so Hoshi has to start from
Wang)
announce the start of a new adventure by City on the Edge of Forever”), Uhura scratch, equipped with nothing but
reporting an unidentified transmission turns to the Captain and reports that she 03 Lt.Uhura an early version of the universal
(Zoe Saldana)
or a hostile message, such as “We are was just talking to the Enterprise on her at the Comms
translator and her own extraordinary
the Borg…” However, on two notable communicator – and now it’s gone. station. ear for languages.

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LIEUTENANT
HIKARU SULU
Played by George Takei & John Cho including carnivorous plants.
Helm Officer, U.S.S. Enterprise, PET PEEVE: Anything that can
Enterprise-A control an innocent helmsman’s mind,
BORN: 2237, San Francisco, Earth  including possessed children, godlike
PERSONAL: While Sulu spent most computers, tiny spiderlike aliens, alien
of his Enterprise service at the helm, plant spores, and space infections.
he also had many opportunities to STELLAR SKILL: Sulu piloted the
take command during a crisis. His Enterprise through extraordinary
performance during these situations hazards, such as a giant space
would eventually see him rise to amoeba. He could also fly many
command his own starship, the other types of aircraft, including a
Excelsior. He was the only one of Klingon Bird-of-Prey and a 20th-
Kirk’s senior officers to have a family Century Huey helicopter. Sulu was
of his own. a remarkably cool-headed officer,
HOBBIES: Fencing, judo, collecting who rarely showed fear, or even
ancient handguns, xenobotany, nervousness in an emergency.

In the Prime universe, Uhura can only assume that the linguistic and
shows her technical mastery of starship technical communications skills of Hoshi
communications many times during the and Uhura are assigned to more specialized
Five Year Mission. When Apollo jams officers in the 24th-Century’s larger ships
ship-to-planet signals in “Who Mourns and crews.
for Adonais?” Uhura spends hours on the
intricate rewiring of the Steady As
entire communications She Goes
system to bypass him.
Spock observes that he
The Operations Star Trek’s helmsmen
never lose their essential
can think of no one more
qualified to do the job.
staff are the place at the forward bridge
station. From the earliest
And being Vulcan, he’s
not just giving a
officers who keep days of Earth’s warp-
powered starships to the
pep talk.
In the Kelvin
the ship flying 24th Century, a skilled
pilot and helmsman
Timeline, Uhura
demonstrates the other
on course. is sometimes all that
stands between the ship
reason she is Starfleet’s and a shipwreck. When
most accomplished Communications Enterprise finds herself crippled in a field
officer. As a newly minted Ensign, of cloaked Romulan mines (“Minefield”),
her ability to distinguish between Travis pilots the ship safely through them
Romulan and Vulcan earns her instant using only manual controls. And he does
promotion to the bridge during the it without accidentally shaking loose
Narada incident. Years later, during the Archer and Reed, who are outside on the
Battle of Yorktown (in Star Trek Beyond), hull trying to deactivate an attached mine. 
her aural acuity helps to save millions Sulu pilots the Enterprise through
of lives. Though she has spoken to Krall a time-traveling solar slingshot twice in
only a few times, she is able to pick “Tomorrow is Yesterday,” then, years
out his human voice from a fragment later, flies a Klingon Bird-of-Prey on a
of the Franklin’s audio-visual log, and similar time travel trajectory to search
identifies him as Balthazar Edison.  for whales in The Voyage Home. Once
Given the demonstrated importance of Chekov joins Sulu at the forward station,
these technical and linguistic skills, one has the two operate as a seamless team of
to wonder why the role of Communications pilot and navigator, as well as weapons
officer diminishes by the mid-24th Century. officers in countless battles. 
On both the Enterprise-D and Voyager, the While Paris doesn’t have to worry
“hailing frequencies open” duties fall mainly about handling the weapons, he has plenty
to the Operations or Tactical officers. We to keep him busy while piloting Voyager

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LT. C O M M A N D E R

PAVEL ANDREIEVICH CHEKOV

Played by Walter Koenig loyalty to his captain. 
& Anton Yelchin HOBBY: Bragging about any and
Navigator, U.S.S. Enterprise, all Russian accomplishments,
Enterprise-A especially invented ones.
BORN: 2245, Earth PET PEEVE: Drunken zKlingons.
PERSONAL: An only child, STELLAR SKILL: As a junior officer
Chekov entered Starfleet Academy on the Command track, Chekov’s
relatively young (extremely young commanding officers took a personal
in the Kelvin Timeline, where interest in mentoring him. He
he graduated at the age of 17). showed strong mathematical and
A model young officer with a scientific abilities, including making
penchant for the occasional complex calculations in his head, so
wisecrack, Chekov often became often substituted for Spock at the
romantically involved with fellow Science station, and even took over
officers, especially the pretty ones. from Scotty in Engineering (Star Trek
He also cherished a profound Into Darkness). 

through the unknown reaches of the Delta

Quadrant, especially when the ship reaches
Borg space. He is almost certainly the only
Starfleet helmsman to navigate through
fluidic space, and one of the first to
attempt flight with a slipstream drive.
He also gets a lot of experience
piloting Voyager with different versions of
transwarp technology. Piloting a transwarp
shuttle, he becomes the first to break the
warp 10 barrier in “Threshhold.” Most
likely the only thing that keeps a hotshot
pilot like Paris from wanting to attempt a
warp 10 flight again is that he doesn’t care
for the resulting evolutionary effects. After
all, amphibians don’t get to fly much.

Friends Like These

As you would expect, the Operations
officers form their closest relationships
among comrades of their own rank and
division. While Sulu and Chekov don’t
seem to socialize much off duty, on duty
they often comment to each other on the
crisis of the moment, as they do after their
fourth course-change during Spock’s pon
farr, in “Amok Time.”
“How do you figure it, Chekov?”
Sulu ponders. “First we’re going to
Vulcan, then we’re going to Altair, then
we’re headed to Vulcan again, and now
we’re heading back to Altair.”
“I think I’m going to get space sick,”
Chekov retorts. When Kirk puts through
04 Travis another call to Admiral Komack, the two
Mayweather agree privately that Chekov should plot
(Anthony another course back to Vulcan, just in case.
Montgomery)
at the helm of
Sometimes their commentary is
04
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COMMANDER to “jumpstart” the derelict U.S.S. form with which the Captain wanted her

NYOTA UHURA
Franklin in Star Trek Beyond, Kirk to communicate – and to fear for each
puts Sulu in charge of the split-second other. When an automated space station
maneuvers needed to get the ship flying. abducts Travis, leaving a replica “corpse”
As the Franklin falls straight down the to conceal his disappearance, Hoshi
face of the cliff, Chekov rolls wide eyes pushes Phlox aside and insists on seeing
towards his friend, asking wordlessly, Travis’ body to make a personal goodbye.
“Are you sure you can pull us out in By far the closest and most
time?” Sulu, of course, doesn’t even important friendship among the
notice, he is so focused on the timing of Operations crew is the bond formed by
the last-second acceleration. Harry Kim and Tom Paris. After Tom
Hoshi always had trouble connecting helps Harry avoid one of Quark’s scams
with people, thanks to the isolation of in “Caretaker,” Harry defies a senior
her childhood. However, she forms a officer’s warning against associating with
friendship with Travis, perhaps because a troublemaker like Paris, saying that he
he was one of a close knit family of makes his own choices about his friends. 
siblings, and quite her opposite. Travis is Harry’s short-term reward for this
also more at home on a spaceship than is that Tom insists on joining Janeway’s
anywhere else, while she finds space travel mission to the Caretaker’s array to rescue
disorienting and much more frightening Harry and B’Elanna. The long-term
than she expected, especially at first.  reward is that the two become as close
They were close enough to enjoy a as brothers, sharing holodeck adventures
practical joke – Travis once told Hoshi and romantic advice, pulling each
that some strawberry gelatin he’d put in other out of trouble, and leading each
the decontamination chamber was a life other into trouble nearly as often. More

Played by Nichelle Nichols & Zoe

Saldana
Communications Officer, U.S.S.
Enterprise, Enterprise-A
BORN: Mid-23rd Century,
Africa, Earth 
PERSONAL: Uhura cherished
her African heritage, and spoke
her native Swahili whenever she
had an opportunity. She was very
popular among her crewmates,
not only for her musical gifts
but because of her outgoing
personality. While romance
rarely came her way in the Prime
timeline, in the Kelvin Timeline
she became romantically involved
with Spock while at the Academy.
The relationship endured through
several years of service and a few
emotional bumps. 
HOBBIES: Singing, dancing.
PET PEEVE: Being hit on by
arrogant young males. 
STELLAR SKILL: Uhura’s skill at
intercepting, boosting, interpreting,
and tracing any communications
signal was unsurpassable. She was
also an extremely capable and
versatile officer, able to defend
herself and her comrades in any
physical encounter, and instantly
take over any bridge station if
another officer was suddenly
incapacitated. 

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precisely, it’s usually Tom leading Harry

into trouble, just because some adventure
LT. J U N I O R G R A D E
looks irresistible. But when the two
are incarcerated in a nightmarish alien
prison (“The Chute”), it’s Harry who
THOMAS EUGENE PARIS
takes the lead, protecting the injured
Tom from other prisoners, working desire for adventure, and as a
towards an escape, and rejecting every way of rebelling against his strict
suggestion (especially Tom’s) that he father. A series of bad decisions
should leave the wounded man behind.  got him court martialed and sent
Mirroring the close bonds that to a penal colony. When he first
form among senior officers, Operations joined Voyager, he saw himself
officers often become equally close, as both a brilliant pilot, and a
especially after long service together. screw-up – as did nearly all of
When we look at the senior staff of the Voyager’s crew. 
Enterprise-D as they welcome Picard into HOBBIES: Writing and playing in
their weekly poker game in “All Good holodeck adventures, spacecraft
Things...” or the officers of Deep Space 9 design, 20th-Century Earth
gathered in Vic’s to celebrate the end of culture.
the war in “What You Leave Behind,” or PET PEEVE: Having to work in
the bridge crew of the Enterprise greeting Sickbay, around the Doctor’s
the revived Spock on Mount Seleya (The sharp tongue
Search for Spock), there’s no doubt the STELLAR SKILL: Thanks to
05 Sulu (John
Operations crew are truly an essential Cho) pilots the Played by Robert Duncan his need for speed, Paris
part of the family, and always will be. Enterprise McNeill pushed for the building of the
Flight Controller, U.S.S. Voyager Delta Flyer, and was its primary
BORN: Mid-24th Century, Earth designer. All he really wanted
PERSONAL: The son of a was a fast and agile ship to fly,
05 Starfleet Admiral, Paris spent yet both versions of the Flyer
much of his youth getting into became essential to many of
trouble through recklessness, a Voyager’s missions.

ENSIGN

HARRY KIM
helped him graduate from
Starfleet Academy at the top
of his class.
HOBBIES: Volleyball, Parisses
Squares, playing and composing
music on the clarinet, holodeck
adventures with Paris.
PET PEEVE: Staying an Ensign
for seven years, while Paris gets
broken then promoted back to
Lieutenant, twice.
STELLAR SKILL: Harry may
not have taken command very
often, but he was an exceptional
second. He provided dependable
and versatile support to his
crewmates in all kinds of
Played by Garrett Wang  missions and special projects.
Operations Officer, U.S.S. Most importantly, he worked
Voyager with Seven of Nine to upgrade
BORN: 2348, South the Astrometrics Lab, helped
Carolina, Earth Paris design and build the Delta
PERSONAL: Harry was the Flyer, and contributed to several
only child of devoted parents experiments in advanced star
who encouraged him in all his drives. All these projects proved
interests and pursuits. Their essential to Voyager’s safe passage
support and his own abilities through the Delta Quadrant. 

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MARY
CHIEFFO
For a Klingon warrior, Mary Chieffo is
surely far too approachable. And great
company as well. Bursting with friendly
enthusiasm, the actor couldn’t conceal her
excitement over her role as L’Rell in Star
Trek: Discovery, spilling the raktajino beans
about her character to Star Trek Magazine
one sunny morning in Las Vegas. 
Wo r d s : I a n S p e l l i n g

“T
his whole time has been amazing.
A-maze-ing,” Mary Chieffo raves,
speaking backstage at the Rio
Suites Hotel, towards the end
of Star Trek Las Vegas 2017. “I’ve been
here the whole time, and the fans are so
passionate. I’ve loved meeting everyone,
and hearing their excitement about Star
Trek: Discovery. I’ve already seen fans in
Discovery uniforms, which is crazy, since
we’re not even on the air yet.”
Chieffo has thrown herself into the
fun of the convention, to the extent that
she was one of the judges for the event’s
costume contest. “I met Robert O’Reilly!”
she enthuses (O’Reilly played the Klingon
Gowron in numerous Next Generation and
Deep Space Nine episodes). “I am just so
excited to be a part of this. All of it.”

STA TREK
INTERVIEW

Chieffo, who plays L’Rell, a Klingon autographs, and posing for photographs
battle deck commander in Star Trek: with anyone who asked.
Discovery, had already spent nearly a week Right in the middle of Chieffo’s
in Las Vegas, immersing herself in the Star Trek Las Vegas experience, she
world’s biggest annual gathering of Star joined Star Trek Magazine for breakfast
Trek fans. On the morning of her first at one of the Rio’s restaurants. For the
“Bryan [Fuller] saw full day there, the actor – a stage veteran
from her time at the legendary Juilliard
better part of an hour, she introduced
us – passionately, enthusiastically, and
me as this six-foot- School of performing arts, but a fresh face
to television viewers – had simply blended
proudly – to L’Rell. She even spoke some
Klingon, although her guttural phrases
tall, angular-featured in, roaming around just like any other
regular fan, unnoticed, observing. A few
are hard to replicate in print. And despite
us being nestled in a corner booth at a
woman, and said, hours later, and that all changed when
she took to the stage alongside co-stars
far end of the restaurant, a few fans still
recognized Chieffo. How could they not?
‘I think we should Kenneth Mitchell, Sam Vartholomeos, and
Wilson Cruz, as the actors participated in
She’s a striking woman, standing at six-
feet-tall. As one might expect, the fans
base this design a Discovery panel to a packed auditorium.
For the rest of the weekend, Chieffo took
maintained a polite distance until after
the interview concluded.
kind of on you.’” Star Trek Las Vegas by the horns, interacting
with fans, assuring them that Discovery’s
“I’ve always been a sci-fi and fantasy
fan. I grew up with that whole genre,
MARY CHIEFFO Klingons will be well served, signing loving it, but I didn’t get introduced to

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Star Trek until the reboot movies,” admits MOLD MAKER “I think it really does do both,”
Chieffo, who pronounces her name Chief- Chieffo, who hails from New York City, the actor notes. “I keep saying, I think
oh. “From that, I just fell in love with the and is the daughter of actors Beth Grant the power of love is something that
chemistry of the characters, and all of the and Michael Chieffo, recalls that she seems very clichéd, but it’s something
great tenets we love about the franchise. arrived at her Discovery audition raring that has always been innate in the
That motivated me to go back, and I to go, with a reasonably good grasp of franchise. Our ability to see ‘the other’
watched all of the original-cast movies.” Klingon culture. She was subsequently and to see ourselves in the other –
As is so often the case, Star Trek floored and flattered by a comment from that’s a huge, huge theme that goes
brings generations together, and Chieffo’s Bryan Fuller, who co-created Discovery. across the board, in every iteration
family was no exception. “Once my dad “Bryan saw me as this six-foot-tall, of the franchise, and we have that in
saw I loved it, he was like, ‘Oh, well we angular-featured woman, and said, ‘I think spades in Discovery. And you see it
got to watch the originals,’” she laughs. we should base this design kind of on you,’” on both sides, which I think is one of
Having already gained an Chieffo smiles. “So, initially, I came onto the fresher aspects, maybe, within the
appreciation for the series, being cast the show because of my build, which is Klingons and within the Federation.
in Discovery gave Chieffo an excuse to so thrilling, because coming out of school Characters are struggling, and having
watch even more. “Once I got this role, being six-foot-tall, and being unique in internal struggles. Then, in a more
I did go back and watch all the Klingon- various ways, it’s hard to put me in a mold. symbolic way, you see Sonequa playing
featured episodes, from every series,” she But then to have a creature, an alien, that Michael Burnham, our protagonist,
says. “So, in the past year, I’ve fallen in fits so much of what I can fill, with my and you see her as a woman of color,
love with every Klingon character, from relationship with language, and having representing that.
every different iteration.” performed Shakespeare, it was perfect, “As the actors, I think we’re very
they knew what I was capable of.” aware of what we’re doing with L’Rell,
By now, fans will have seen a few and her being a commander,” Chieffo
episodes of Discovery, and are familiar continues. “I definitely feel that there
01 with both the show’s central characters are all these symbols, and new ways 01 L'Rell (Mary
Chieffo) meets
and basic set-up – it’s set 10 years before of representing our gender, our race, with T'Kuvma
the Kirk-Spock era, and focuses on a whatever it is. I don’t have big speeches (Chris Obi), the
nascent war between the Federation and where I’m like, ‘I am a female Klingon, Klingon leader.
the Klingon Empire. Chieffo stresses and I have struggles.’ It’s more that we are 02 Mary
that Discovery picks up threads from the there and present, and we’re aware that Chieffo onstage
original Star Trek series and its follow-ups there will be that little girl or boy who with Kenneth
Mitchell (Kol),
while, at the same time, being very much can see that male or female character, at Star Trek Las
a Trek show in its own right. and we will resonate with them.” Vegas 2017.

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THE WEAVERS OF LIES but she usually has to resort to plan X, 03

When we ask Chieffo what it is that Y, or Z. She understands that that’s part
really jazzes her about L’Rell, she smiles of life and the world. There’s one phrase
almost as broadly as she is tall, and that I say that is like her tenet,” Chieffo
recounts gushing to Discovery’s writers then utters something in fluent Klingon,
and producers about how she’d never “which means, ‘use compromise to
imagined that L’Rell could have so conquer.’ Getting to see her adherence
many facets to explore. to that, but also her struggle with what it
As the Klingon commander, Chieffo really means, is so interesting.”
says she gets to be a “tomboy, and gross, Chieffo goes on to share that there are
and fierce, and scary,” but that the character L’Rell scenes in one episode that show just
also reveals a deep capacity for love and how devious her character can be. Fearful
compassion. This all fits in with Discovery’s of revealing spoilers, she asks when this
nuanced depiction of Klingon culture. issue of Star Trek Magazine will be out, and
“The official backstory is that you Chieffo’s eyes light up once she’s told the
meet L’Rell as T’Kuvma’s battle deck episode in question will have already aired.
commander, which in layman’s terms “OK, then perfect!” Chieffo grins,
means she is his chief strategist. I’m kind happy to spread some Klingon gossip.
of his campaign manager,” she jokes. “Episode four, for sure, you get to see
“For the beginning half of my journey, Klingon flirting.”
you really see me as someone who is The scenes happen in “The Butcher’s
doing a lot of work behind the scenes, Knife Cares Not for the Lamb’s Cry,”
watching T’Kuvma, and making sure he’s directed by Olatunde Osunsanmi, and
staying on topic. T’Kuvma is the leader written by Jesse Alexander and Aron 04
of House T’Kuvma, so it’s me letting Eli Coleite.
him do his job. Now, what’s fun is that “What was beautiful about
we later reveal that while I’m House episode four was that it’s such a great
T’Kuvma, my mother’s side was House example of the collaborative process,”
Mokai, which is a matriarchal Klingon says Chieffo. “From what I’d been
house of spies. doing in episodes one and two, [the
“They are known as the watcher writers] were like, ‘Oh, let’s see how
clan, the deceivers, the weavers of lies,” we can create this story.’ They gave
Chieffo continues, with a glint in her me that opportunity. They wrote these
eye. “They work in the shadows. I think great scenes, and from that we found a
that’s a very interesting quality for a nuance, and an excitement. There’s also
Klingon, that L’Rell actually does not a real sensitivity and heart. You get to see
crave the mantle of leadership. She wants the sensuality. I want to say something
to get things done, but she knows how to more specific, because I’m so used to
be a team player. I always joke that L’Rell not being able to talk about things,”
would love to execute plan A, B, or C, Chieffo grimaces.

L’RELL
B AT T L E D E C K C O M M A N D E R ,
HOUSE OF T’KUVMA
As war rages between the Klingon Empire and the Federation, L’Rell
remains determined to support the leader of her house, T’Kuvma, who
seeks to unite the Klingon houses following generations of disarray
within the Empire.
A respected strategist, her unique white armor marks L’Rell out as a
powerful figure in T’Kuvma’s crew, to be feared as much as she is venerated.
And with good reason, as L’Rell belongs to two of the Great Houses
of the Empire. A warrior of the House of T’Kuvma, L’Rell’s mother was of
the House Mokai, the Klingon house of spies, often referred to as “the
weavers of lies.” L’Rell’s affiliation with both houses creates personal
conflict for the commander, echoed in the way she is viewed by her
enemies, both in the Federation and within the Empire itself.

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“I will say that the last scene in A JOB ON characters and, even better, provided a
episode four is very telling for L’Rell, TOP OF A JOB measure of public anonymity.
because you see that, even though she Beyond the character’s, well… character, “Well, I do joke that I have a weird,
does things that might seem evil or mean there are other major components of L’Rell masochistic sensibility, because I love a
in the moment, ultimately her heart is in to consider and address. Case in point: the giant challenge,” Chieffo says, laughing.
the right place,” Chieffo adds. “Her heart make-up and prosthetics. Anyone who’s “I love the challenge of the language; I
wins out, despite her better judgment, read interviews with Star Trek regulars love the challenge of the prosthetics. Sure,
and she really does care about her fellow who’ve played aliens, like Michael Dorn there are long days and hours where I get
Klingons, and upholding T’Kuvma’s (Worf), Rene Auberjonois (Odo), Armin tired, but there’s something about getting
message about being unified as 24 Shimerman (Quark), or John Billingsley up in the morning and getting into that
houses. She’ll do everything in her (Phlox), has heard the horror stories of chair. And we have a system now. We
power to make his message reach hours spent in a make-up chair, having blast ’80s music in the morning. I love
everyone. She leads with her heart, but their prosthetics carefully applied and, after the incredible artists in the prosthetics
03 Mary doesn’t let her heart get in the way of a long day of shooting, even more carefully trailer. James MacKinnon is our head.
Chieffo at what she needs to do for the cause. She’s removed. They were the first ones at the He worked on Deep Space Nine (and on
Star Trek Las
willing to sacrifice things she loves for studio in the morning, and the last ones to the 2009 Star Trek feature). He’s been
Vegas 2017.
the cause, because she loves the cause. leave at night. It was a job on top of a job. around forever, and he’s so meticulous.
04 Discovery's There’s something much larger than On the other hand, as several of them have That whole process is now very fun, and it
Klingons howl
during a death herself at stake, and she is willing to do cited, it served the dual purpose of allowing also helps me to take two hours of my day
ritual. what she needs to do.” them time to become lost in their respective where I’m not freaking out over my lines.”

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INTERVIEW

When it comes to seeing herself in right,” says Chieffo, not the first Klingon Chieffo is clearly downright giddy
the mirror, in full make-up and costume, to mention the Bard. “We’re all taking about seeing L’Rell emerge as part of the
Chieffo isn’t phased, which she puts that very seriously, and are working with Discovery marketing and merchandising
down to her training at Juilliard. [Klingon language translator] Robyn juggernaut. The day before this interview,
“I did a lot of mask and movement Stewart. There have been a few really she’d tweeted a picture of herself standing
work in college,” she tells us. “That was amazing moments on set, where the crew beneath her L’Rell teaser poster in the
always something I really gravitated doesn’t speak Klingon but they’re watching rotunda at Star Trek Las Vegas. She was
05 Mary
towards, and really loved. This caters to Chieffo meets the scene, and they get what’s going on. still psyched about that moment, but
that so perfectly. I literally have a different some fellow There was one where the Director of looking forward to wrapping her hands
Klingons at
face, and a different shape to my head. I Photography was like, ‘Oh, yeah, that part around something even more tangible.
Star Trek Las
found with L’Rell that I have this beautiful Vegas. where you go over and protect him…’ And “It was thrilling to see the poster, to
back of my head, that’s kind of an arc.” that’s exactly what I was doing. It really see this giant L’Rell eye,” Chieffo notes
06 Mary
Chieffo reaches a hand behind her head Chieffo as helps you realize the importance of what with enthusiasm, “but I am really excited
to illustrate. “She has all these sensors L'Rell. happens between the lines.” about the idea of an action figure,
back there, and I just started to develop particularly because so much thought
this head tilt upon looking at myself. and effort was put into her armor, and
Talking to Neville Page, our designer, 05 the fact that she isn’t overly sexualized.
he said, ‘That completely makes sense, Kids can play with her, and be like, ‘I’m
because you really do almost have stronger L’Rell. I’m badass.’ Hopefully they won’t
senses in the back of your head.’ You get say that if they’re eight! But to think of
to push the limits of expression. You get to kids being able to start to understand
use your eyes as the window to the soul.” that armor is armor, through an action
And let’s not forget about the Klingon figure, and understand that in that
language, as much of the Klingon dialogue moment she kicks butt, but it doesn’t
will be spoken by the actors in Klingon, have anything to do with her gender.”
with viewers at home reading English As Mary Chieffo disappears to
subtitles at the bottom of their screens. spread the L’Rell love around the
“As far as speaking Klingon, I keep exhibition halls of Star Trek Las Vegas,
making the Shakespeare analogy, in that we can only wish her success. Or
we want to get it right. You have to get it should we say, Qapla’!

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My Other Car
is a Type 6
STAR TREK’S SHUTTLECRAFT

01

As cool as every one of the many props from assorted

Star Trek productions are, nothing pulls at the
heartstrings like the idea of the little lost shuttlecraft.
Doug Drexler reflects on his on-set experiences with
the worker bee vehicles of Starfleet.
Wo r d s : D o u g D r e x l e r

40 STAR TREK
 SHUTTLECRAFT

I
’ll never forget one day, early in Egbert became its president in all shuttlecraft to come, for the next
my Trek career, when Mike Okuda 1961. He decided the company half century and beyond.
asked me what the purpose of a needed a hot, splashy car, and The legend of the lost shuttle
shuttlecraft was. “That’s easy!” hired Raymond Loewy, who had begins with the original, full-sized
I replied. “To get personnel from earlier worked for Studebaker, Galileo 7 prop that was built to
one place to another.” “Nope,” said and whose designs ranged from Kellogg’s design. After Star Trek
Mike. “The purpose of a shuttlecraft streamlined locomotives to the ended, the iconic prop drifted
is to get lost.” logos of Shell and Lucky Strike. perilously across the eddies and
I remember thinking how cool After Avanti, Kellogg went on back-washes of time until, like any
this Okuda guy is. I also remember to work on designs for exteriors good plot device, contact was finally
thinking how mind-bogglingly for Rolls-Royce, Porsche, and lost. Migrating from one owner to
ironic the story of the Galileo 7 recreational vehicles; dinnerware the next, there had been various
shuttlecraft was. for Wedgwood; the interior design failed attempts to restore her. For
The father of the Galileo shuttle of the DC-10 aircraft for McDonnell a long time, we were sure she had
was not Star Trek’s art director Matt Douglas… and, of course, Star Trek’s been destroyed. But then, almost
Jefferies, but an industrial designer Galileo shuttlecraft. Not too shabby. like a page from a science fiction
named Thomas Kellogg. Kellogg Galileo would set the standard for novel, the shuttlecraft Galileo 7
was part of the Avanti automobile was spotted resting in an industrial
design team, put together by the scrapyard in Ohio. It was spotted in a
greatest industrial designer of them
all, Raymond Loewy. Incidentally,
“Clean, straightforward, Google satellite photo; I kid you not.
Clean, straightforward, with a
Loewy was the man I drew inspiration
from when styling the NX Enterprise.
with a touch of touch of architecture and plenty
of aircraft logic, the Galileo 7
He was a master at rethinking
existing designs, and his book,
architecture and remains the preeminent shuttlecraft
design. Even after many mistreated
Industrial Design, was on my desk
throughout the entire process.
plenty of aircraft logic, years, weather-beaten, rusted, and
cracked, it was still beautiful.
Look at the Studebaker Avanti
automobile, and you will clearly see
the Galileo 7 remains 01 The
shuttlecraft
Since the little shuttlecraft lost
was found, she’s been lovingly
the design lineage of the Galileo
7. Some Avanti history for you: The
the preeminent from "The
Galileo 7."
restored, and resides all shiny and
beautiful at the Houston Manned
Studebaker-Packard Corporation
was teetering on the brink of
shuttlecraft design.” 02
Approaching
the Enterprise
Spaceflight Center. Kinda gets you
right here... er... I mean... well for you,
financial collapse when Sherwood DOUG DREXLER shuttlebay. Spock, that would be over here...

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF SPACECRAFT

DOUG
03 04

DREXLER
Doug Drexler worked on Star Trek
television and movie productions
for 15 years, beginning as a make-
up artist on The Next Generation,
before becoming a visual effects
designer for Deep Space Nine,
Voyager, and Enterprise. He has
contributed to numerous books on
Star Trek as a writer and illustrator.

05

Living The Life when we bid farewell to Scotty, in all of the consoles were up and
For me, living on the Paramount the Next Gen episode, “Relics.” running. But that was nothing. Mike
backlot for almost two decades, One day, while I was still took the pilot seat and motioned to
running into docked shuttlecraft in doing make-up on Star Trek: the co-pilot seat, which I promptly
the alleyways was not uncommon, The Next Generation, I ran into slid into into like it was made for
and the thrill never wore off. I Mike Okuda outside sickbay. I’d me. From within the shuttle, and
often tripped over the econo-car just gotten done soaking up the at the controls, outside the canopy
of Star Trek shuttles, which we wonderful design work for only was the complete shuttlebay. I
affectionately referred to as “the the ten-thousandth time. I got a loved sitting in the Type 6 shuttle
Hyundai.” You know it better as the little gushy, no doubt, and Mike when it was on the Enterprise-D
Type 15 Shuttlepod. looked uncomfortable. He looked hangar. Worlds within worlds, and
Once upon a time, in the early left, looked right, grabbed me by you could really get lost in it all.
days of The Next Generation, the arm and dragged me down
Andy Probert designed a beautiful the corridor to those big shuttle She’s Not My Girlfriend
shuttlecraft that was all curves, bay/holodeck doors. It took force Chaffee was one of those things that
like the Enterprise-D itself. to pry them open, which Mike did came out of left field. I was in the art
Unfortunately, the coolness of the expertly. “I’m sorry to have to be department, lighting matches with
design was just too expensive to so secretive,” said Mike, “but last my feet, when Gary Hutzel appeared
build, so this teeny weenie mini weekend 12k worth of costumes in a flash of light and smoke. Shuttle!
was built in a hurry. It’s a spud, but I disappeared. So, best not to sound Yes? New! Yes? Today! Oh god!
have a soft spot for it. too enthusiastic out in the open...!” Hurry! Go like the wind!
Later, when they were shooting The door slid open, and there And that’s pretty much how it
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and was shuttlebay 3 in all its glory, and always happens, except that I had
had the money, two impressive lit. But that was nothing. Backed just completed the diagrams of the
shuttlecraft were built, inside and right up against the corridor door Defiant for the Deep Space Nine
out. TNG inherited one of them, was the tailgate of the Type 6 Technical Manual.
the Type 6 shuttle, and it was shuttle. Recall that the entire back “Gary!” I blurted out, like
restyled by the amazing designer of that shuttle was one big door, a little kid who didn’t wanna.
Rick Sternbach. Most people and it was open. But that was “Where? Where is it supposed
remember this shuttle best from nothing. The interior was lit, and to launch from?! It’s impossible!

42 STAR TREK
 SHUTTLECRAFT

There is no place!” And to prove girlfriend!” Now it was time for me From there, Gary sent it to Tony
it, I unfurled the newly-minted to be impressed – Rick Berman Meinenger and his Brazil Company
diagrams on top of the lightbox. jumped straight in to set the record to build the physical model. Mike
“See? I’ve worked out every nook! straight: “Don’t be ridiculous!” he Okuda and I went over to Image G
There is absolutely no place… no explained. “Chaffee is one of the to watch Gary shoot the sequence.
place… um… hey… it could go Apollo 1 astronauts that died on It also featured a DS9 Runabout
right here!” I pointed to the circular the pad. Approved!” bay, which I designed for Gary
ring on the bottom of the ship. as well. It’s always a thrill to see
Right here! Some modest adjusting Romulan Shuttle someone like Meinenger take
and… it could work! There was I was fortunate, once again, to be one of your designs and realize it.
another flash of light, a roiling of asked by Gary Hutzel to design a Tony’s builds were always exquisite.
thunder, and Gary was gone, his Romulan shuttle for an upcoming I knew I’d done a good job on
di
disem bodied voice echoing around Deep Space Nine episode. the Romulan shuttle when Andy
me: “T Today… today… today…” “It’s a brief, almost throwaway Probert (designer of the Romulan
Chaffee capitalized on shot of the shuttle landing at Warbird, the source of inspiration
Matt JJefferies’ idea of putting DS9’s mid ring, and riding the for the shuttle) used it in one of his
Enterp prise-style nacelles on the elevator down into the station’s Ships of the Line paintings. The
Galileo, so there was no doubt hangar,” explained Gary. “We’ll secret of my success? My parrot of
who th he shuttle belonged to. need a design for the shuttle, plus 35 years was sitting on my shoulder
The D Defiant was a very different the hangar interior… Can a guy when I made the first rough sketch.
Federation starship, with very like you, do a thing like this, for No joke.
unusual nacelles. We decided to go someone like me?” I can’t resist
03 The Type 15
with m maestro Jefferies, and visually Gary. Not only talented, he had Shuttlepod.
Closing For Now
tie thee Chaffee to the Defiant. a great sense of humor, and like Look, I’m outta room. Maybe these
04 The Type 6
What I really remember is
W Richard Benjamin once said, “There guys’ll let me do it again. Believe
shuttlecraft.
getting scolded by someone in the is nothing better than funny.” me, 20 years in Starfleet and you
front o office for naming the shuttle First, I did a rough sketch for 05 The U.S.S. have some stories. Until then, keep
Defiant's
Chaffe ee. “Who do you think you approval by Gary, then a tight tiny shuttle, your bridge side up, and your
are, na aming a shuttlecraft after your diagram in Adobe Illustrator. Chaffee planetary sensor side down.

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T O M O R R O W ’ S FA N TA S Y / T O D AY ’ S T E C H N O L O G Y
 NOMAD

NOMAD:
UNMANNED
& UNHINGED
THE PROBE THAT WENT WHERE
NO PROBE HAD GONE BEFORE

“The Changeling” introduced us to the deranged interstellar probe

Nomad, one of the most formidable threats faced by the crew of
the U.S.S. Enterprise – and one of the best examples of Star Trek’s
ability to predict future technologies.
Words: Chris Dows

N
omad was created unndertook a literal nomadic journey until
by the brilliant yet enncountering Tan Ru – “The Other” – a
erratic Starfleet huugely powerful alien probe with the
scientist Dr. simmple task of securing and sterilizing soil
Jackson Roykirk, samples from other planets. Nomad merged
and his intentions with Tan Ru, was repaired and amplified
in launching the byy it. In the process, it took fractions of
probe were entirely benign. In fact, the what it remembered as its mission, and in
2002 launch of Nomad had exactly the same a reprogramming mash-up of catastrophic
motives as real-world space agencies had at prroportions, ended up with a new
that time, and continue to work towards. obbjective – to seek only perfect lifeforms
Roykirk wanted Nomad to be the annd destroy anything that didn’t meet up
first interstellar probe to successfully seek too its scrambled standards of perfection.
out new life, and to form a safe basis
upon which manned missions could Nomadic Prophecy
N
then be undertaken. NASA’s interest in Sppock later calls up a blink-and-you’ll-miss-
Mars is a perfect real-life example of this; it schematic, detailing Nomad ’s original
Rovers Curiosity and Opportunity are still coonstruction (drawn by production designer
investigating the red planet’s surface, and Matt Jefferies, the real designer of Nomad
M
will be joined in 2020 by an additional annd a hundred other super-cool Star Trek
NASA Mars Rover, three unmanned crreations). It reveals some startlingly prophetic
Chinese vehicles, and a slew of proposed deetails about Roykirk’s “perfect thinking
private companies gearing up for manned machine
m capable of independent logic.”
missions. Send the probes first, then people Jefferies used his background in
second – very Starfleet, don’t you think? avviation and mechanical engineering to
The horror that Captain Kirk and nclude entirely logical extrapolations of
in
his crew experience when they realize that exxisting technologies.
Roykirk’s hopeful machine was responsible From top to tail, Nomad includes
for wiping out the entire Malurian race is uch features as computer data banks
su
entirely understandable. Something had gone capable
ca of recalling and transmitting
very wrong with its prime directive, and
thanks to a case of mistaken identity (Kirk
“I am Nomad. I am data, an acquisition sensor, a tracking
screen with prediction scanner (to avoid
= Roykirk in Nomad’s fried electronic
brain), the Captain was able to command
perfect. That which accidents – which clearly didn’t work too
well!), a data assimilation digital encoder,
the probe to drop its impenetrable
protective screen and allow Spock’s mind-
is imperfect must be and a magnetohydrodynamic vernier pulse
motor. All of these technologies not only
meld to uncover the dreadful truth.
After most of its memory banks were
sterilized.” exist, but renamed and updated versions of
most of them can be found in manned and
destroyed in a meteor collision, Nomad NOMAD unmanned spacecraft today.

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However, it is Nomad ’s remarkable 25 years service, to be producing images Into Infinity?

transformation (a tragic one for the four 10 times sharper than ever before is All unmanned probes are designed with
billion souls in the Malurian system) nothing less than remarkable.  an expected lifespan, but even then an
that is most intriguing. Is it possible Then there’s the New Horizons space unforeseen accident or malfunction (the
that existing technology or obsolete probe, launched by NASA in 2006 with European Space Agency’s Mars Lander
equipment can be reprogrammed?  a mission to fly by and gather data on or the UK’s Beagle 2 being notable
Ask the scientists running the Jupiter in 2007, before heading out to examples) can result in a failed mission.
Hubble telescope, and the answer is a survey Pluto and the Kuiper Belt – a It is clear that “The Other” extended
resounding yes. Notwithstanding the massive disc made up of small frozen Nomad ’s longevity and power (along with
realignment of its main mirror three objects beyond Neptune. By 2016, accidentally making it into an unbeatable
years after its launch, and four successive those missions were complete, and New killing machine), but just how long can
major upgrades that will extend its life to 02 A schematic Horizons was given new programming, to any probe continue to function? 
of Nomad's
around 2030, new computational analysis internal tech. explore more targets in the Kuiper Belt. It might surprise you to learn there
of the Hubble’s signals have pushed the If it remains operational by 2026, New are several unmanned probes already
03 Nomad
telescope far beyond its original limits. exterminates
Horizons’ extended mission will be to out there, not only continuing their
For a machine knocking on the door of Mr. Scott. explore space beyond our solar system. voyages towards the final frontier, but
still sending back information way
past their expected use-by dates. No
one at NASA can quite believe that
Mars Rover Opportunity is still happily
trundling along after 14 years, looking
at rocks and sending information back.
While nothing’s been heard for some
time now, scientists were staggered to
receive telemetry from Voyager 1 (the
inspiration for The Motion Picture’s
V’ger) back in 2013 – 36 years after its
launch. Presumably it’s still going strong
somewhere in interstellar space, and
there’s no evidence to suggest its sister
vessel, Voyager 2, isn’t still truckin’ either.

PHOTONIC
COMMUNICATION
LOW ENERGY, HIGH DENSITY DATA TRANSFER

When Uhura and Spock attempt to decode the messages

communicated to them by Nomad, it becomes clear that the
speed of its binary-based, multiple channel signal is far beyond
the capacity of the Enterprise’s analysis sector computer.
Contemporary satellites don’t have the luxury of the almost
unlimited power provided by “The Other,” so the challenge is to
produce a transmission and reception system that can send and
receive large amounts of data from a small, low energy unit. At
Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications
Technology (NICT), they have just successfully tested the “The
world’s most compact quantum transmitter (SOTA) aboard the
microsatellite SOCRATES. A single-photon beam with data Changeling”
encoded at 10 million bits-per-second was broadcast from the
satellite to an optical ground station in Koganei city, opening Star Trek, Season 2, Episode 3
the way for industry to further develop deep-space optical All life in the Malurian star system has
networks with exploratory probes. Over in China, a team using been wiped out, and it seems that
the Micius satellite has transmitted entangled quantum particles Nomad, a deep space research probe
via a ground-based laser over 1200 kilometers, smashing the launched from Earth 265 years ago, is
previous record of 100 kilometers. Its significance goes beyond responsible. But what can have warped
communicating over huge distances; it also has implications for the parameters of its original mission
quantum teleportation, although future developments will have to commit such a heinous act, and why
to avoid blowing up computer terminals in the process. does it recognize Kirk as its creator?

46 STAR TREK
 NOMAD

A Step Too Far bring Mr. Scott back to life. The ESA
While Spock chides Mr. Scott over his has recently debated the difficulties
sizeist attitude to intelligence, the offensive of conducting emergency medical
and defensive capabilities of Nomad, a unit procedures during space missions, but
weighing 500 kilograms and just shy of a Nomad does it all without even moving
meter in length, are hard to believe.  a metal muscle, having consumed a
A team of scientists working out of good part of Starfleet Medical’s database
Japan’s Tohoku University have unveiled without blowing up another of Spock’s
a new twist on tried and tested electrically consoles. What’s perhaps most worrying
powered plasma thrusters with a new is the ease with which Nomad worked out
electrodeless device, working on the the location of Earth and then added it
premise that only tiny amounts of energy to its bucket list of things-to-eradicate.
– not the power of 90 photon torpedoes – When you consider Voyager 1 and 2’s
will reliably be available to interstellar craft. predecessors, Pioneer 10 and 11, could
Nomad zaps everything from entire planets still be traveling through deep space, both
to security guards (four redshirts get it in
“The Changeling”) with no discernible
containing engraved plaques giving clear
instructions on how to find us, you begin CRASH
dimming of those internal flashing lights.
Then you have Nomad ’s ability to
to wonder if sending out such calling
cards was a wise move. After all, you can’t TEST
wipe the memory of Uhura without
causing any brain damage, and to
always rely on a Starfleet captain being
available to talk a machine to death.
DUMMIES
CAN SATELLITES SURVIVE
A COMET COLLISION?

One thing that Nomad and real,

unmanned probes share is their
potential for being damaged
or destroyed in the hostile
environment of space.
In 2002, NASA launched
the prototype COmet Nucleus
TOUR, or CONTOUR Discovery-
class space probe, to investigate
the Encke and Schwassmann-
Wachmann-3 comets. Six weeks
after launch, little more than
three faint echoes of debris
were detected that may have
been the remains of CONTOUR,
02
presumed destroyed by either
structural failure or a collision. So
the question of whether Nomad
could have survived an impact and
continued to wander through space
thereafter, battered but still going,
is a fair one.
Recent examination of images
recorded in 2014 by one of NASA’s
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter’s
cameras might give a little more
credence to the story. The usually
pristine images from one of two
Narrow Angle Cameras became
distorted; as the other Narrow
and single Wide Angle cameras
were not affected, the LRO team
ran a computer simulation and
concluded that a meteoroid around
half the size of a pinhead hit the
Orbiter. How much damage could
something so tiny do, you might
ask? It’s tiny. Very true – but its
speed was estimated to be in
excess of 1700 miles per hour.
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INTERVIEW

01

02

48 STAR TREK
 BJO TRIMBLE

BJO
TRIMBLE
THE WOMAN WHO
S AV E D S TA R T R E K
When the original Star Trek series was threatened with
cancellation by NBC, it was Bjo Trimble and husband John
that organized the unprecedented letter-writing campaign
that saved the show. The success of that campaign should
never be underestimated, as without it Star Trek would
now be but a dim-and-distant memory. In this first part
of a two-part interview, continued next issue, Bjo Trimble
remembers the highs and lows of campaigning
to keep Trek on TV.
Wo r d s : C h r i s G a r d n e r

S
peaking from her home in the Southern would never have made it to a third season. And
California foothills, near Pasadena, USA, without a full three seasons’ worth of episodes,
84-year-old Bjo Trimble puts the longevity Star Trek (which originally aired from September
of the series down to its own strengths 8, 1966, to June 3, 1969) would probably never
rather than anything she and her husband have been sold into syndication.
achieved during their famed Save Star Trek letter- Three seasons was generally considered to be
writing campaign. the minimum amount required to attract stations
“Star Trek was an intelligent, grown-up beyond the US network system to buy a show,
show,” she says. “Adults acted and reacted like let alone air new episodes, night after night. It
adults. The scripts did not condescend to us.” was the healthy financial return of broadcast
So, where would Star Trek be now without syndication that initially sparked network
the dedication of Bjo Trimble and husband, interest in a Star Trek television comeback, and
John? A well-respected but niche footnote in the lure of big-screen bucks that transformed
the annals of science fiction history perhaps, but Star Trek: Phase II into the 1979 release of Star
certainly not the worldwide phenomenon that Trek: The Motion Picture. Without the Star Trek
it is today. films proving that there was a paying audience
Without the duo’s efforts encouraging out there for Gene Roddenberry’s creation, a
fans to bombard America’s NBC network with staggering 25 additional seasons of new Star
letters, demanding that Star Trek remain on air, Trek would probably never have made it onto
it’s likely that the original series – which made television. Think about that for a moment – no
international stars of William Shatner as Captain Next Generation, no Deep Space Nine, no Voyager
James T. Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock, or Enterprise, no Kelvin timeline, and definitely
and DeForest Kelley as Dr. Leonard McCoy – no Discovery...

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IT’S ALL JOHN she agreed to display costumes from the It was not the first time that the cast
TRIMBLE’S FAULT new show during her fan-made costume and crew had received such news.
The campaign was launched after Bjo and competition. She happily said yes. During Star Trek’s first season,
her husband John had visited the Star Trek “We were visiting the set during cancellation was threatened as early
sets during filming of Season 2. They had filming of ‘The Deadly Years,’ and as two months into broadcast, but
been invited by the show’s creator, Gene noticed how glum people were,” Bjo Roddenberry co-opted Harlan Ellison
Roddenberry, after meeting him at Tricon, recalls. “So, we asked the crafts services to lead an early campaign that included
the World Science Fiction Convention, in man. He told us that it wasn’t official yet, fellow writers Robert Bloch, Lester del
Cleveland, Ohio, in early September 1966. but that the word was the show would be Ray, Frank Hebert, Richard Matheson,
“Gene brought episodes of Star Trek cancelled at the end of the season.” and Theodore Sturgeon. NBC relented.
to Tricon, a week or so before the show “On the way home, John said we
premiered, so we saw them before anything ought to be able to do something about
was aired on TV,” Bjo remembers. The
Trimbles liked what they saw: “We were
“We called Gene to see that, and I agreed, so it’s all John Trimble’s
fault!” Bjo laughs. “We called Gene to see if
becoming fans before the series aired.
“It was a rocky time in 1966, with
if he really wanted to he really wanted to save the show, because
it would be a waste of effort if he’d thrown
many young people not communicating
with their families,” Bjo continues. “Star
save the show, because in the towel. He had already been talking
to his staff when we called, trying to figure
Trek gave fans a family of people they
could identify with, and space travel that
it would be a waste of out how to reach the fans.”
Roddenberry was particularly
included several ethnic groups. At that
time, the space race had started, but it
effort if he’d thrown in downhearted, as it was rare for any
television series with less than two seasons’
was an all-white endeavor.”
During Tricon, Roddenberry offered
the towel.” worth of episodes to sell into syndication.
Star Trek would die, he feared, and fade
Bjo, short for Betty JoAnne, a set visit if BJO TRIMBLE into obscurity, forever.

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50 STAR TREK
 BJO TRIMBLE

40 SACKS with donations of stamps, and even of

OF STAR TREK mimeograph paper.”
MAIL
The Trimbles decided to organize a
letter-writing campaign of legendary
The mimeograph machine, or stencil
duplicator, was a low-cost duplicating
machine that worked by forcing ink
BJO AND
proportions, urging fans to write to
NBC, politely asking the network to
through a stencil onto paper.
“Along with this, fans were posting
JOHN
keep the show on air. They started by
contacting everyone on the Tricon
mailing list, where Star Trek had had
our letter on bulletin boards, from high
schools to major corporations such as
Kodak, to organizations like Mensa.
TRIMBLE
its first public screenings, and scored California Institute of Technology
another list of addresses from book students were given ‘Star Trek Lives’ and
01 Bjo and
dealer “Big Howard” DeVore, but the ‘I Grok Spock’ bumper stickers to hand Long before they met Star Trek
John at San
Trimbles knew they needed more. out at their march on NBC Studios Diego Comic- creator Gene Roddenberry for
Many more. in Burbank.” Con, 2016 the first time in September,
“We asked Gene for fan mail The campaign used what Bjo calls 02 Fans gather 1966 – in fact, long before he’d
addresses,” Bjo reveals. “When he called the “Rule of 10s.” at a Save Star even conceived of his “Wagon
the mail room, they said there were 40 “This is so easy,” Bjo says. “You write Trek rally, in Train to the stars” – Bjo and
March 1968.
sacks of Star Trek mail that had never a letter and ask 10 people to write. They John Trimble were a well-
been opened! We got several hundred write a letter, and ask 10 people to write. 03 A Save established presence at science
Star Trek rally
addresses. Then we asked science fiction And so on, and so on. It really works. fiction and fantasy conventions,
outside NBC's
fans for their mailing lists, and anywhere They encouraged the fans to write short, studios. and it was their shared love for
else we could think of. The result was to-the-point letters to the network and these fantastical genres that
04 The
we had thousands of addresses, from its sponsors, stating the case for keeping Trimbles in originally brought them together.
across the country, sent to us, along Star Trek on the air.” costume.
“My first science fiction was
Edgar Rice Burroughs’ A Princess
of Mars, though most people
will argue that it is fantasy,” Bjo
04 recalls. “Then I was given a stack
of Astounding Science Fiction
magazines, and read Isaac
Asimov’s ‘I, Robot.’ I had no idea
what a robot was! Science fiction
was an exciting new world to me.
John found Robert A. Heinlein
juvenile books thanks to a kindly
school librarian. Later, he found
science fiction magazines at the
local drug store.”
The Trimbles also had military
service in common. Bjo served
in the US Naval Reserve, better
known as Women Accepted for
Volunteer Emergency Service
(WAVES), in the 1950s. At the
same time, John was in the
Air Rescue Service of the US
Air Force, serving in Korea,
Japan, and Taiwan during the
Korean War. They met under a
piano during a rowdy party, and
married in 1960.
Bjo had been an active
participant in fandom since
the mid-1950s, and the newly-
married couple originated the
WorldCon Project Art Shows
in 1960, which they stewarded
for 17 years. These days, the
Trimbles are active members
of the Society for Creative
Anachronism, a medieval
re-enactment organization.

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OUR HOUSE WAS 05

FILLED WITH LETTERS
Anyone invited to the Trimbles’ home
for dinner found themselves helping out
with the Save Star Trek campaign.
“There were local fans and unwary
friends who came by for dinner and
were dragooned into helping,” Bjo says,
looking back at the enterprise. “Some
fan-friends came in from other areas to
sleep on our living room floor and work
on the campaign all weekend. And the
dining room, the kitchen, and basement,
where the printing press was kept.
“Our house was filled with letters
that needed to be folded and stuffed into
envelopes, then address labels added.
That task was given to our daughters,
Kathryn and Lora.”
The Trimbles took donations, including
scripts secretly donated by Roddenberry
to be sold, to help cover the costs.
“A lot came out of our pocket, with
donations large and small from other fans.
During work weekends, fans would bring
something for potluck meals. There are a
whole lot of very generous fans out there!”
Above all, it was important that, as
Bjo says, Roddenberry remained at arm’s
length from the campaign.
“We wouldn’t let Gene get involved
in the Save Star Trek campaign, because we
knew that NBC would say he had organized
it, and was paying for it,” Bjo adds. “NBC
blamed him for it anyway, but we tried.”
Despite their prominence during
the campaign, the Trimbles were rarely in
contact with Roddenberry.
“Gene was far too busy for that,” Bjo
says. “He did invite us to call when we were
in town, and come visit the sets. We lived in
the Bay Area at the time, and John would
occasionally have a business trip to Los
Angeles. When he did, we’d get a babysitter
and go down together, so we could visit 06
the sets and have lunch with Gene.”
Despite all their efforts, the Trimbles
never heard back from the network or
the studio.
“Neither Paramount nor NBC ever
contacted us about anything. They seemed
to feel that if they ignored us, we would
go away,” she smiles. “We heard about the
series being renewed the way everyone
else did: an announcement at the end of
the episode that said Star Trek was being
renewed, and to stop sending letters.”
To this day, the Trimbles aren’t sure
how many letters were sent to NBC in total.
“We were told at one time that over one
million letters went to NBC. The network
denied they had received that many.”
Whatever the figure, Star Trek was
granted a second stay of execution.
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07 that the series had enough episodes to go reflects, wryly. “I was always the one
into syndication, which in turn meant interviewed, and poor John got left out
that the show reached more people than of everything! Without him, there would
ever before,” says Bjo. “The campaign have been no campaign.”
assured that Star Trek would not become The writing was on the wall for
a distant memory.” Star Trek when NBC scheduled Season
3 in a Friday night, 10pm time slot.
THE WRITING With the show’s target audience busy
ON THE WALL celebrating the end of the working week,
After the campaign, the Trimbles were ratings dropped. Roddenberry stepped
contacted by a Washington Post reporter, away from the show in protest, and it
who asked how they had reached so soon became clear that no letter-writing
many Star Trek fans in so little time. campaign would save the show this time.
“I explained the Rule of 10,” Bjo “Fans were fairly glum, trying to
says of the brief conversation. “The find a way to renew it again, but that
reporter pondered this for a second, and wasn’t happening,” Bjo recalls. “For
05 Bjo and
John Trimble.
then firmly said, ‘No, that can’t be it. weeks after the show was cancelled, I’d
That’s too simple.’ I said, ‘You may be call Desilu to find out if the sets had
06 Bjo Trimble
right,’ and hung up.” been taken down. The day the sets were
on stage at
Star Trek Las Soon Bjo was being heralded in the struck, we knew the show was dead. It
Vegas 2016. media as Star Trek’s savior. was very sad, but real life went on. Gene
07 Bjo Trimble “At that time John was in middle philosophically turned to other TV ideas,
and William management, which the media didn’t wrote a movie or two, and never gave up
Shatner on set consider very interesting. The feminist on Star Trek.”
of Star Trek:
The Motion
movement was high at that time, so Neither did the Trimbles.
Picture. ‘the little woman’ was better news,” Bjo To be continued next issue...

STAR TREK
CONCORDANCE
The Trimbles were regular visitors to the Star Trek sets I thought it should be shared. Dorothy agreed, so I took
at Desilu Studios during the show’s production, and the cards to transpose onto paper on my little Olympia
those experiences led to Bjo writing one of Star Trek’s typewriter. Then I filled in parts that had not been of
first companion books, Star Trek Concordance. interest to Dorothy, with the advantage of reel-to-reel
“We often met fans practically tapes made off the TV set. Friends helped me,
camped out at Paramount. We did not including Joan Pearce and James Ferrigan II.
hang around all the time – this was a After a while, Dorothy lost interest, but
professional production that didn’t need I continued.”
a lot of people getting in the way, and A professional edition of the Star Trek
making noise during filming,” says Bjo. Concordance was eventually published by
“Gene was delighted that fans liked the Ballantine Books in 1976, which additionally
show, especially since the ‘experts’ were covered the animated series.
still naysaying, so he extended invitations When Citadel and Titan Books published
to visit the set during filming. There is a an updated edition in 1995, revised
magic that makes plastic look like stainless Concordance was expanded to cover the
steel, and plywood look like a room when original crew feature films, and episodes of
it is finally viewed.” other Star Trek series (including The Next
Their visits informed the book, first Generation and Deep Space Nine) that
published in 1969 as a fan publication featured any original series castmembers.
covering the first two seasons, which John printed in the “When I was rewriting the Star Trek Concordance,
Trimbles’ basement. A third-season supplement followed I asked Majel for permission to access Gene’s files in
in 1973. the UCLA library,” Bjo remembers. “She not only gave
However, Bjo did not write the Star Trek permission, but invited me to stay in the Roddenberry
Concordance alone. home. So, I was met at LAX by a butter-yellow Rolls Royce
“An avid Trek fan, Dorothy Jones (now Heydt), kept a for an elegant trip to meet Majel after a very long time.”
pile of index cards filled with first-season Trek trivia,” Bjo Bjo, with Robert Littlepage, is currently working on an
explains. “She took this information off the TV screen, and eBook version of the Star Trek Concordance.

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 MICHAEL
WESTMORE
ALIEN ARTISTRY PART 2:

THROUGH THE

wormhole
In the world of entertainment, success breeds sequels, and with
Star Trek guaranteeing big audiences in both cinemas and on TV
with The Next Generation, it was only a matter of time before
commissioners came looking for another Trek TV series. So it
was that Deep Space Nine stepped into the limelight, and with
it a myriad of opportunities for make-up supervisor Michael
Westmore to create countless new alien races.
Words: Chris Gardner

f the Star Trek make-up freedom fighter Major Kira Nerys, Nana Visitor
department was busy on required a nose appliance; Terry Farrell’s Trill
The Next Generation, it science officer, Jadzia Dax, needed spots
became doubly so in painted onto her face; and as for shapeshifting
1993, with the launch of Constable Odo, played by Rene Auberjonois,
Deep Space Nine. his work day started early. Very early.
Set at a galactic Westmore remembers Auberjonois being a
crossroads, aboard a willing victim of his make-up chair, as the layers
space station orbiting the of Odo make-up were laboriously applied each
planet Bajor, Deep Space day. Visitors, however, could only marvel at the
Nine would require more alien actor’s patience.
make-up than any Star Trek series or movie “Everybody kept saying, especially to
before it. Rene, ‘Why are you doing this?’“ Westmore
The station’s command crew alone laughs. “His answer was usually, ‘I’ve got two
included three regular characters who required kids in Ivy League College.’ But he loved it,
various degrees of make-up. As former Bajoran and he said if somebody came up to him and

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said ‘talk like Odo,’ he couldn’t do it. Quark head with much larger, wrinkled
He had to get in the make-up and see ears,” Westmore adds. “We made old-
himself in the mirror to do him.” age pieces, like a Mr. Potato Head, that
Terry Farrell had a much easier time would work with it – an old throat,
being made-up as Dax, and although he forehead, and the backs of the hands.
applied her trademark spots on nearly His make-up had as many wrinkles as an
every occasion she appeared on screen, old elephant I saw in a Hungarian zoo.
there were a couple of times when Then there was another head that we
Westmore wasn’t available. To ensure made that was a bit softer and smoother,
consistency, he created a chart of Dax’s with smaller ears, which we used on
spots which others could follow, and the women. I had six different sizes of
Dax’s spots were numbered every time Ferengi heads we could choose from,
Westmore painted them on her. because some performers needed a little
“We got Terry up to 351 on the more room in them, and I didn’t want
show. Then I did her once in Vegas, on them to all look exactly alike.”
stage in front of a couple of thousand The Cardassians were an almost
people, which was great. We chatted, just constant presence in Deep Space Nine, so
like we were back in the make-up trailer,” as with his Ferengi appliances, Westmore
Westmore recalls. “We are still friends. built up a kit of parts that made making-
In fact, she’s coming over for lunch up actors a relatively streamlined process.
on Wednesday.” “From a simple Cardassian on The
Next Generation, one day I had nine
of them to do on Deep Space Nine,” he
“I had six different chuckles. “I thought, ‘That means I’ve
got to have nine foreheads, nine pairs of
sizes of Ferengi heads shoulders, nine pairs of ears...!’ Again it
was like a Mr. Potato Head.
we could choose from, “I had to design different pieces
along the way, for when a person’s face
because some performers 01
was too small or too large, so I had a
room filled with boxes where I stored
needed a little more Cardassian pieces, Ferengi pieces, and all
the other aliens,” Westmore continues. “If
room in them.” a character only worked once, we’d use left
-over pieces from the Cardassian box. We
MICHAEL also used pieces from the box to make-up
WESTMORE the background Cardassians.”

LOTS OF THE DAWN

LOBES OF MORN
Scores of Bajorans lived on the station, “In the beginning I had to create nine
alongside a plethora of exotic alien new aliens for Deep Space Nine, and it
residents. The Cardassians, original was a challenge,” admits Westmore, who
builders of Terok Nor (renamed DS9 by hired Michael Key and Gil Mosko to
Starfleet), would be a constant presence, join his team. The amount of masks they
and then there were the Ferengi, had to make resulted in a studio that
most notably barkeep Quark (Armin often looked more like a building site.
Shimerman), who kept everyone fed and “Michael, Gil, and I covered the floor
watered, so long as there was a profit in it. in old, hard, plaster from making the
With a Ferengi playing such a major molds on the clay sculptures,” Westmore
role in Deep Space Nine, was Westmore remembers. One of those sculptures was
minded to make any changes to the destined to become something of a Star
toothsome, large-lobed miscreants that he’d Trek legend, but it all rested on the whim
originally created for The Next Generation? of a director.
“No, no,” Westmore insists. “It was “When the latex alien heads were
basically the same design. We used the painted and applied, they went down
original mold I’d made for smaller heads to the set and the director picked out
on The Next Generation. Armin’s head was one of them to sit at Quark’s bar,” says
larger, though, so he needed a new, custom Westmore, “and that was a big-headed,
made latex head that had more room, brown alien character called Morn.”
because the original flattened his ears down Named after Norm Peterson, the
uncomfortably tightly against his head. barfly played by George Wendt in the
“Then there was Zek (played by sitcom Cheers, Morn was portrayed by
02
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03

04 05

“Mark had great big, brown eyes, “He was supposed to talk in one of FACES OLD
and didn’t need contact lenses. His big the episodes in the very last season, but AND NEW
eyes were absolutely perfect,” Westmore as they kept shooting they kept taking his 01 Terry When series finale “All Good Things...”
Farrell as
remarks, affectionately. “Morn never dialogue away, until they finally got to the brought The Next Generation to an end
Jadzia Dax.
spoke the entire seven years, so Mark just point where they said, ‘No, no. We’re not in 1993, Westmore thought he’d made
sat at the bar, wearing his alien head and going to have him talk,’ so he never did.” 02 Armin Michael Dorn up as Worf for the last time,
Shimerman
bulky costume, day after day, hour after Thanks to Westmore, Morn also as Quark. but Dorn returned to the role in Deep
hour, sitting there in a very hot costume.” almost got himself a girlfriend. Space Nine’s Season 4 opener, “The Way
03 Rene
The writers had a lot of fun with “We sculpted and made-up a Ms. Auberjonois
of the Warrior.” Over the course of that
Morn’s taciturn nature, often having Morn that was never used,” Westmore as Odo. season, Westmore modified Dorn’s make-
the station’s crew complain about his reveals, with a mischievous twinkle. “It up, making application quicker and easier.
04 Mark Allen
incessant chatter. Westmore remembers had a little feminine look to it, and we Shepherd “Michael’s make-up was about two
the seventh season episode, “Who thought it was neat. Had the writers ever as Morn. hours to start with, but we finally got him
Mourns for Morn?” came close to thought of it, it would have worked, but 05 Michael down to 20 minutes when he was in Deep
changing all that. they didn’t think of it. I did.” Dorn as Worf. Space Nine,” Westmore recalls. “It was like a

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06

award
winner
Michael Westmore is no stranger
07

snap on. The latex was all pre-glued and pre-

painted very close to his own skin tone, so
NEW VOYAGES
While The Next Generation was set on the
08

to awards ceremonies. In 1985, he we didn’t need a lot of make-up on his face.” final frontier of known space, and Deep
won an Academy Award for Best Multiple copies of Worf ’s headpiece Space Nine on the edge of a brand new
Make-up, for his work on Mask, the were required, with a fresh one applied one, Voyager saw its titular ship catapulted
true-life story of Roy Dennis, an every day he was on set. “It wasn’t worth to the far side of the galaxy. Familiar aliens
American boy who suffered from cleaning up an old one and re-applying,” were suddenly a thing of the past, so
a rare disorder known as lionitis. Westmore says. Westmore had to stretch his creativity.
He was also nominated for the Deep Space Nine marked a high-point “The idea was not to repeat myself,”
same award on three other in representing the sheer diversity of Trek’s Westmore recalls. “Reading the scripts
occasions, including for Star Trek: on-screen future, which included the trio and finding out what kind of place we
First Contact. of species that formed the series’ primary were going to land on, what we were
During his illustrious career, adversaries, the Dominion. “I designed going to meet, dictated all the rules in my
he was also nominated for 33 an alien called the Jem’Hadar. It was a mind that I needed to come up with.”
Primetime Emmy Awards in total, combination of rhinoceros and dinosaur,” The last thing Westmore wanted
winning nine, of which five were for 06 Voyager's says Westmore, who often used real-world were comparisons being made between
his work on Star Trek. Nominations Hirogen, species as a basis for his designs so that his Alpha Quadrant aliens and the
for 10 other awards saw Westmore 07 Ethan “when you look at it, you’re familiar with Delta Quadrant races that Voyager
and his team claim a Hollywood Phillips it but you don’t know what the hell it is.” would encounter.
Make-up Artist and Hair Stylist as Neelix. Watching his creations congregate “I didn’t want that to happen, so I
Guild Award for Best Special Make- 08 Jennifer on one set in particular was a thrill for was always changing colors, changing
up Effects – Television (for a Mini- Lien as Kes. the designer. “All these aliens roamed shapes. When I first started, I was
Series/Motion Picture Made for 09 Jeff Allin the space station, and especially the thinking, ‘Oh my, I only have 10
Television) for Geppetto. as Gedrin. Promenade,” Westmore smiles. “That thoughts. How am I going to stretch that
10 A Borg was a lot of fun watching them, because out?’” He laughs. “Then I found that
drone. the Promenade was fantastic.” the more I did, the more my creativity
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literally expanded. I could keep going

forever, and it was so much fun.”
Voyager’s Talaxian morale officer Neelix,
played by Ethan Phillips, was a case in point.
“The producers told me they wanted
a character that would make a good doll,”
says Westmore. “I had just seen The Lion
King, so Neelix’s make-up is basically
a combination of the warthog and the
meerkat. Grass eaters are nice, so I ground
down his false teeth so that they were
flat on the ends to resemble a vegetarian
animal, and we finished by applying
friendly spots on his face and hands.”
One of Westmore’s standout
creations on Voyager was the Hirogen,
a race of nomadic hunters who pinned
other species to the bulkheads of their
starships as trophies. Westmore based the
Hirogen on Gila monsters, venomous
lizards indigenous to the United States
of America.

“I had just seen The

09
Lion King, so Neelix’s
make-up is basically
a combination of the
warthog and
the meerkat.”
MICHAEL
WESTMORE

Westmore made that choice after

“reading how the Hirogen were going
to react to other people, how they were
going to conduct themselves, whether
they were good guys or bad guys,” adding,
“I figured they are kind of nasty, and once
they bite onto you they don’t let go. Little
hints like that I would take from the story
to come up with my creative thoughts.”
One make-up that Westmore
applied hundreds of times during Voyager
was Chakotay’s facial tattoo, painted
onto actor Robert Beltran.
“I did his face tattoo 750 times,
and I hand-painted it every time,” says
Westmore. “Stencils wouldn’t work, as
there was always a chance of smearing
or improper placement, and that would
mean starting over. At that time, I
preferred to hand paint his tattoo with
tattoo ink. It went on quickly and I
never made a mistake. Robert has little
freckles and spots on his forehead, so
10 they were my guide points to be able to
just paint it on.”
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STEP BACK 11
IN TIME
Enterprise, the prequel series that debuted
in 2001, was a very different experience
for Westmore. Executive producer Rick
Berman became much more involved
in the design process of Westmore’s
alien make-up, beginning with initial
concepts. “Rick wanted to see sketches,”
Westmore recalls of his final four years
with the franchise.
At 4pm, each day in his office on
the Paramount lot, Westmore would sit
down with his sketchbook and pencils,
and sketch away.
“I would spend a quiet hour, usually
after production meetings when the
telephone had stopped ringing for the
day, when it was time to sit down and
sketch my thoughts. Rick wanted to see
different looks for whatever character
I had in mind. I decided to do 10 new
sketches for each episode, and then take

on the
spot
Michael Westmore loves meeting
12

Star Trek fans at conventions.

“I encourage them to come
up and talk to me, if they have any
questions or thoughts they want to
share,” Westmore says.
He recalls queuing for breakfast
at a Las Vegas convention with
his wife Marion, and spotting a
teenage fan made-up to look like
Deep Space Nine’s Trill science
officer, Jadzia Dax.
“She was maybe 20ft ahead of
us and we finally wound up with her
right next to me, so I introduced
myself and told her that I had applied
Terry Farrell’s spots. I said, ‘Can I show
you how to do them properly? Do
you have an eyebrow pencil?’ She
pulls one out of her purse.”
With that, the Oscar-winning
make-up artist gave the teenager an
on-the-spot lesson in Trill spotting.
“Her mother had brought her to
the convention for her 13th birthday,
to see all the wonders of Star Trek.
I really loved that interaction. Then
Marion and I sat down and had
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‘I don’t even care if she’s a half Vulcan,

her character doesn’t work with these
natural eyebrows.’ If you look at T’Pol
in the first season and then the fourth
season, little by little I had her outside
brow point raised up a little bit, and
nothing was ever said. Had we filmed the
full seven seasons, I might have had her
brows as slanted as Spock’s.”
Westmore did so many sketches
for Enterprise that he reckons Star
Trek could have continued for another
decade, well beyond Enterprise’s fourth
and final season.
“We’d just started making changes
during the fourth season,” recalls
Westmore. “Manny Coto had taken over
13
as executive producer, and we talked
about recreating the salt monster, and
them up to Rick’s office where he would going back to the original Star Trek,
mark the one he liked. then they pulled the plug. The show was
“Before Enterprise, I wouldn’t bother getting better and better, and the ratings
doing sketches on Star Trek unless I were going up. But it got very expensive
wanted to do something for my own and, boy, unless the ratings had tripled or
pleasure, like design a special contact lens quadrupled, there was no way of saving
for an alien to wear, because they were us at that point.”
all custom hand-painted,” Westmore While the demise of Enterprise
says. “With Enterprise, and on the Star would mean the end of Westmore’s
Trek movies, there was more to think involvement with the franchise, he
about. For the movies I would discover remains immensely proud of his work on
new textures and patterns, and then put the series, and the dedication of his team.
a picture book together of all the things
that I wanted to incorporate. Once I
had an approval, I didn’t have to stop
and worry about doing something that
“If you look at T’Pol in
wasn’t acceptable. I didn’t do sketches on
the other series. I’d tell Rick what I had
the first season and
in mind and he’d say ‘OK.’ I’d make a
plaster cast of the actor’s head or face, and
then the fourth season,
immediately start the alien clay sculpture.”
This different way of working set
little by little I had her
Enterprise apart from the other series
in Westmore’s mind. Because of it,
outside brow point
Enterprise felt less like the Star Trek he
was used to.
raised up a little bit.”
“It didn’t really feel, maybe, totally MICHAEL
Star Trek with what we were doing there,” WESTMORE
he says. “Although it didn’t stop me as
far as creativity was concerned. We had “Normally there were four or five
14
a ball on the different characters in the regular staff in the make-up department,
pilot episode, ‘Broken Bow,’ where they and that went up to as many as 50,
land on the planet and the Enterprise crew and then there was the hair department
members are walking through the bazaar. RAISING 11 An
on top of that,” Westmore smiles. “It
“You just wish the camera had stayed EYEBROWS Enterprise was like a big family. I took care of
on a few of them a little more,” Westmore Westmore’s biggest challenge on Tellarite. everybody, made sure they got their
smiles. “Some alien walks by, and all Enterprise was not the look and feel of 12 A Xindi
hours in to cover their pensions and
you see is their back, and you’ve got the the ship’s Denobulan doctor, Phlox, but warrior. medical insurance, and that was a
greatest looking head, in a make-up that that of Vulcan commander T’Pol, played part of the job that I enjoyed doing.
13 Michael
took six hours to create. You always wish by Jolene Blalock. Westmore found Westmore All the make-up artists bonded, and a
they’d give the make-ups more coverage. himself advocating for the established applies Dax's lot of them are still working together.
With Scott Bakula as our final captain it spots to Terry When it all ended, they were all saying
Vulcan look as used since the very first
Farrell at STLV
was a lot of fun. Enterprise was a nice cast. episode of Star Trek, aired in 1966. 2014. this was the best time of their lives.
I’m still good friends with all of them. “We had pointed ears,” Westmore It was fantastic. A real, total, Star
14 Jolene
We all meet in Las Vegas once a year, it’s reveals. “But, the thing is, they approved Blalock
Trek experience. It’s the best job, and
a good reunion with everybody.” regular eyebrows on her, and I’m saying, as T'pol. everybody loved working on it.”

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ENTERPRISE
R E V I S I T I N G S TA R
T R E K’S PA ST
 ROB BOWMAN

KEEN-EYED
BOWMAN
When CBS remastered Star Trek: The Next Generation in High
Definition, the episodes they chose to screen to showcase their
spruced-up versions shared the same director. “Where No One
Has Gone Before,” “Datalore,” and “Q Who” were all helmed by
Rob Bowman, a young firebrand of a director who’d raised The
Next Generation’s game during its tricky first few seasons.
Here, in the first of our new retrospective series, we examine
what Rob Bowman brought to The Next Generation (besides
being co-voice of the Borg), and how he helped set the template
for the success to come.
Words: Rich Mathews

R
emember that moment in Star Trek: with one another – a utopian scenario that
The Motion Picture, when Admiral Kirk often rendered drama all but impossible. On
first steps onto the bridge of the refitted top of that, a strike by the Writers Guild of
U.S.S. Enterprise? Before him is a picture America meant some early episodes were
of total chaos – people are shouting over each recycled from the aborted Star Trek: Phase
other, bright lights dazzle, wires hang from II series. This was all reflected on-screen,
open panels. Hardly what you’d expect to resulting in a show that spent a good while
find on the bridge of Starfleet’s flagship. By all finding its feet.
accounts, that’s exactly what the production The best thing Gene Roddenberry did for
offices of Star Trek: The Next Generation were The Next Generation was assemble the crew,
like during its tumultuous first few seasons. whose charisma and acting prowess steered
Creative chaos ruled, as writers and the Enterprise-D through the stormy waters
directors stumbled through a revolving door, of Seasons 1 and 2 until new blood, led by
hired and fired by the show’s creator who Rick Berman and Michael Piller, were able
insisted his Enterprise crew would never clash to navigate the series into calmer waters in
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Season 3. From that point onwards, The

Next Generation was plain sailing, with
booming syndication ratings, a devoted
fanbase, and plaudits aplenty.
Despite the behind-the-scenes
tribulations, and some variable
storytelling over those first two years, The
02
Next Generation still managed to put out
some notable Trek highlights, including
Wesley Crusher’s early showcase “Where
No One Has Gone Before,” the Data- Not The Pizza director’s showreel, and was impressed
driven double-whammy of “Datalore” Delivery Boy enough to get over his shock at how
and “Elementary, Dear Data,” and the Bowman helmed 13 episodes of The Next young Bowman was. It’s a lovely note for
introduction of iconic series villains Generation between October 1987 and the Star Trek history books that Justman
The Borg in “Q Who.” What do these October 1990, taking in everything from considered his hiring of Bowman to be
episodes have in common? They were all holodeck supervillains to celestial babies, one of his proudest achievements on The
directed by Rob Bowman. teen love, Lwaxana Troi’s lustful pursuit Next Generation.
Only 27 when he was brought on of a certain French captain, and an Weathering moments like
board, Bowman proved to be a guiding unfortunate series first – a clip show! Rick Berman mistaking him for the
light behind the camera for those early A primary asset was Bowman’s talent pizza delivery boy, Bowman was
years – so much so that it’s remarkable under pressure. This young gun was the understandably nervous when faced with
that he didn’t direct another episode perfect man to be dropped into those one of the most demanding visual effects
after Season 4 Data classic, “Brothers.” early years of 24th-Century chaos, able to schedules yet experienced on the show.
Instead he went off to direct The X-Files transform scripts mired in perpetual rewrites This proved a challenge, but Bowman
TV series and its first spin-off movie, and internecine squabbling, like a genesis showed his mettle, focusing on a script
kickstarting a career as a movie director torpedo bringing life to a barren moon. that he described as “enlightening,” and
(on such films as Reign of Fire and “Where No One Has Gone Before” latching on to its philosophical elements
Elektra) and television producer. was subject to constant revisions, and the Wesley wunderkind storyline.
Bowman’s influence in putting the multiple changes of screenwriter, and He even found time to treat the
The Next Generation on track during the substantial writers’ room acrimony 14-year-old Wil Wheaton with respect
first two seasons can’t be underestimated, before finally being handed to… Daniel – something that the actor has famously
and is perfectly illustrated by his turning 01 "Q Who." Petrie to direct. It was only when Petrie said wasn’t always the case. “Where
“Datalore” – arguably the first truly 02 "Where No was offered the chance to direct Cocoon: No One Has Gone Before” became
great episode of the series – from a One Has The Return that producer Bob Justman the series’ first standout episode, and
Gone Before."
dog’s dinner into a positronic winner of scrambled for a replacement. Luckily was notable for staving off the brewing
character acting and genuine suspense. 03 "Datalore." for Bowman, Justman came across the Wesley backlash. At least for a while.

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SHIP’S
MANIFEST
ROB BOWMAN
Born in Wichita Falls, Texas, in 1960, Rob Bowman
made his television directorial debut with episodes
of Stephen J. Cannell’s short-lived Stingray in 1986.
Bowman worked on numerous TV series during
the period he was directing episodes of The Next
Generation, lending his directorial flair to shows
as diverse as 21 Jump Street, Alien Nation,
and Baywatch.
An associate producer on The A-Team,
Bowman produced 89 episodes of The X-Files
between 1995 and 2000, and was an executive
producer on Castle for all seven seasons.

EPISODE LOG
Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes
directed by Rob Bowman:

SEASON 1
“WHERE NO ONE When the Enterprise
HAS GONE BEFORE” explores the planet
Written by: Diane where Data was
Duane and Michael discovered, the
Reaves crew find a second,
First aired: identical android, who
October 26 1987 carries dark secrets
When a warp engine about the past.
03
test propels the
Enterprise to the “TOO SHORT A
farthest reaches of SEASON”
Goodbye Dixon Hill, Bowman then found himself with the universe, the Written by: Michael
Hello Data another mountain to climb, after the alien Traveler who Michaelian and DC
After further finding his feet on “The production order was changed when the accidentally caused the Fontana
Battle,” Bowman would have been preceding episode to “The Big Goodbye,” acceleration turns to First aired:
forgiven for starting to feel comfortable, his next job, wasn’t ready to shoot. Wesley for help. February 8 1988
but his next episode was a tough gig. “Boy, was I ready to do the ‘The Big A hostage rescue
Leonard Maizlish (Gene Goodbye’,” he said. “It was going to “THE BATTLE” mission takes a
Roddenberry’s lawyer, and a principle have a different look and texture, and Written by: Herbert disturbing turn
player in the show’s backstage chaos), [was] going to be real different.” With J. Wright and Larry when the elderly
had been busy inserting lines, pages, and the Dixon Hill gig now handed over Forrester Admiral leading the
scenes that he had written under the to director Joe Scanlan to shoot first, First aired: negotiations begins to
guise of Roddenberry into Bowman’s Bowman was assigned a complex script November 16 1987 get younger.
next episode, “Too Short a Season.” The that no one thought would work. That Captain Picard begins
result was a dialogue-heavy script, with episode was “Datalore,” and Bowman to vividly relive a past “HEART OF GLORY”
too much focus on the guest star. determined to prove everyone wrong. battle when a group Written by: Maurice
When Bowman arrived on set, he Making Brent Spiner his creative of Ferengi present him Hurley, Herbert
had to contend with a guest actor who ally, the duo delivered virtuoso turns with his old ship, the Wright, and DC
wasn’t as ensemble-focused as the main – Spiner giving a double performance Stargazer, as a gift. Fontana
cast wanted, some dodgy old-age make- that would define Data, and Bowman First aired:
up, and a $10,000 wheelchair prop that displaying such ease with split screen “DATALORE” March 21 1988
didn’t work. Yet again, Bowman was up shots, body doubles, and motion- Written by: Robert Three fugitive
to the task, working separately with actor control cameras (techniques that he Lewin, Maurice Klingons board the
Clayton Rohner on his character to milk would take to even greater heights in Hurley, and Gene Enterprise, testing
drama from his friction with the regular Season 4 masterpiece “Brothers”) that Roddenberry Worf’s loyalty to
cast, and shooting what action there was he established himself as the off-screen First aired: his crew, ship, and
to within an inch of its life. wunderkind of the show. Consequently, January 18 1988 Starfleet.

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(CONTINUED)

SEASON 2
“THE CHILD” “Q WHO”
Written by: Jaron Written by: Maurice
Summers, Jon Povill, Hurley
and Maurice Hurley First aired:
First aired: May 8 1989
November 21 1988 Q flings the Enterprise
Everyone onboard across the galaxy,
the Enterprise is bringing the crew into
shocked to learn their first encounter
that Counselor Troi with a mysterious life-
is pregnant – in what form called the Borg.
appears to be a
divine conception. “MANHUNT”
Written by: Terry
“ELEMENTARY, Devereaux (Tracy 04
DEAR DATA” Tormé)
Written by: Brian First aired:
Alan Lane June 19 1989
First aired: The always colorful
December 5 1988 mother to Counselor
Geordi unwittingly Troi, Ambassador
puts the Enterprise in Lwaxana Troi, boards
danger when he tasks the Enterprise on a
the ship’s computer mission to find a mate
with creating a to marry.
holodeck villain worthy
of defeating Data. “SHADES OF GRAY”
Written by: Maurice
“A MATTER OF Hurley, Richard
HONOR” Manning, and Hans
Written by: Burton Beimler
Armus, Wanda M. First aired:
Haight, and Gregory July 17 1989
Amos Riker is comatose,
First aired: struck down by a
February 6 1989 parasitic creature that
Riker gains first-hand can only be cured by
experience of life on the Enterprise first 05
a Klingon warship officer reliving painful
as part of a Starfleet past memories.
exchange program. “Datalore” stands as the one bona fide The Game Is Afoot
“THE DAUPHIN”
SEASON 4 classic from Season 1.
Bowman’s next two slots in the
Having lost out on “The Big Goodbye,”
Bowman was drawn to the holodeck
Written by: Scott “BROTHERS” director’s chair went smoothly. The Victoriana of the Sherlock Holmes homage.
Rubenstein and Written by: Rick ‘Worf meets other Klingons’ script But while the episode that emerged is one of
Leonard Mlodinow Berman dilemmas of “Heart of Glory” had been The Next Generation’s all-time best, it seemed
First aired: First aired: resolved before shooting began (Maurice like there was a conspiracy to scupper its
February 20 1989 October 8 1990 Hurley wrote his script in only two chances. First, Roddenberry decided that the
When the Enterprise When a homing signal days), and the shoot for Season 2’s ‘Troi idea of having Picard lie to the holographic
is tasked with takes control of Data, has an alien baby’ opener, “The Child,” Moriarty was too deceitful, so wanted the
transporting the the android’s diverting (a story retooled from Star Trek: Phase II) episode’s ending changed. Then, when the
young leader of of the Enterprise puts was equally straightforward. Surprisingly, cost of building the massive street sets
Daled IV, Wesley is a sick child’s life in it was the slam-dunk of a premise, proved higher than expected, a whole
immediately smitten. danger. “Elementary, Dear Data,” that next put day was cut from the shooting schedule
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One challenge, was the implied

babysitting of Majel Barrett-Roddenberry
(“I was asked to make sure that she did
her best”), but the actor gave one of her
finest early accounts of Lwaxana, and the
holodeck antics proved satisfactorily fun.

Style And Substance

The characteristic of Bowman’s that served
him best when facing such challenges
was his gift as a visual storyteller. It’s
no surprise that he went on to direct
feature films, because he consistently
demonstrated a visual flair and eye for
cinematic composition, even within
the squarish confines of the late-80s
4:3 aspect ratio TV screen. With their
complex camera moves, myriad technical
marvels, and inventive blocking, his
episodes were instantly recognizable.
It’s worth contemplating that he
may have jumped (star)ships at just the
right time, because the only potential
downside to Next Generation finding
its rhythm was that it also found a
visual style that would subsequently
be applied across every Star Trek series.
Most of Bowman’s work is a little more
exploratory, undeniably contributing to
that final style but not constrained by it.
You can even see some tension between
his techniques and TNG ’s by-then-
entrenched house style when he returned
to make “Brothers,” the only episode
Bowman directed once the show’s look
had fully coalesced.
In fact, Bowman had been chastised
06 by the studio for being too cinematic
with “The Child”’s harsher shadows and
greater depth of field. He’d been given
carte blanche to play with whatever toys
to deliver an hour of TV in just seven in “A Matter of Honor,” before helming he’d wanted, having license to bring in
days, an experience which he described the somewhat simplistic Wesley romance new cameras and equipment to help him
as “one of the most unpleasant shooting of “The Dauphin,” where the only real achieve the look that, ironically, he was
processes I’ve been through.” challenge was minimizing screen time then asked to dial back.
Yet the result was exemplary. Brent for some pretty lousy creature suits. Ever- “Photographically, we went for more
Spiner delivered an amazing Data/Holmes present budgetary concerns on “Q Who” of a feature look,” explained Bowman,
hybrid, Daniel Davis was sublime as actually worked in the series’ favor, when “although the consensus from the studio
Moriarty (returning in Season 6, once its originally conceived (and way too was that it was too dark and looked too
some Sherlock Holmes rights issues expensive) insectoid bad guys were replaced much like a feature, so we brightened it
were resolved, for the beautiful “Ship by the cybernetic masterstroke of the Borg. up a little.”
in a Bottle”), and the story moves at a Bowman at last had his chance to The genesis of the trust the
clip, providing one of the most wholly play with the 1940s private detective producers placed in the young director
entertaining hours in the show’s entire run. milieu in Tracy Tormé’s “Manhunt,” came from his success with “Datalore”
Sadly, the money men got their revenge although the changes made to his script – a technical challenge that would have
for Bowman’s triumph-over-the-odds by saw the writer insist on his name being floored many older, more experienced
lumbering him with The Next Generation’s taken off the final episode (and he left directors. Seamless and inventive, the
Worst Episode Ever, “Shades of Gray” – a the show at the end of that season). combination of two Brent Spiners
half-baked clip show shot in three days, Featuring a libidinous Lwaxana Troi in was framed in a dynamic, impactful
and proclaimed by exiting producer a diverting romp, Bowman confessed way, loaded with power hierarchies
Maurice Hurley as a “piece of...” (The that her plotline had zero connection to 04 "Heart of and nail-biting suspense. It could so
Glory."
Klingon word is baktag.) Picard’s Dixon Hill holodeck elements, easily have been flat and conventionally
The next few episodes were kinder to but he didn’t care because he finally got 05 "A Matter composed, but it’s the less obviously
Bowman, and he sailed through Riker’s to enter the fictional world he’d had his of Honor." showy flourishes that really distinguished
inter-species starship exchange experience eye on since losing “The Big Goodbye.” 06 "Brothers." Bowman from his peers.

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Getting Ship Shape death ritual in “Heart of Glory” – were that appealed to him. He embraced its
When he first arrived at Paramount often show firsts framed by Bowman. He flair for allegory, examining people’s
Studios, Bowman’s initial instinct was was the first to mount vertical shots in lives, fears, and joys through metaphors
to spend a month acquainting himself engineering; the first to use a Steadicam on that made their trials and tribulations
with the Next Generation sets, and he saw the show; the first to present the complex timeless. The beauty of science fiction
enormous detail – almost too much. mix of live action and VFX required to is that you can get a message across
“They had a lot of scope and scale, bring the Borg to life... without the preaching or didacticism
but we’d only have five or six people on But the reason all those firsts worked that tends to characterize more on-the-
the bridge,” he said. “How do I shoot wasn’t because they were cool or clever or nose storytelling.
the production value and then get all the tricksy. It was because they serviced the Combine that with a knack for
coverage I need? I didn’t want to sacrifice story, or illuminated the characters. All getting series-best performances from
anything. There’s no reason to be on a the trickery of “Datalore” and “Brothers” talented actors, a playfulness that set the
multi-million-dollar set and then not is there purely to showcase the ingenuity standard for representing characters like Q
photograph it.” of Brent Spiner, and thus to explore Data’s on-screen, and a cinematic verve that gave
That research gave Bowman an character. None of that would have worked the sets extra dimensionality and the action
immediate advantage when he got his as well without Bowman’s direction. Flashy a bit more zing, and you have a director
first script. He could visualize the shots he camera moves and snazzy VFX that aren’t who blazed a trail through an inconsistent,
wanted to capture, and he knew how to grounded in meaning are always fleeting; developmental time for Star Trek.
stage it – he knew the Enterprise. Shots that when invention is slave to the story and Sure, he made some duds – that’s the
we take for granted – like Picard on the exploration of character, they linger in nature of the churn of network television
bridge of the Stargazer, ghosts manning the memory. – but he hit more than he missed, and
helm and conn in “The Battle,” or the Bowman has publicly stated that it 07 "Heart of Rob Bowman’s best episodes are some of
vertiginous pull away from the Klingon was the universality of Star Trek stories Glory." the best in the Star Trek canon.

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BOOKS / COMICS / COLLECTIBLES

01
 ARTBOOKS

THE ART OF THE

ABRAMS-VERSE
Titan Books goes behind-the-scenes of the trio of Kelvin Timeline movies in two
new books that showcase the artistry of their production design and make-up.
Joe Nazzaro, author of Star Trek Beyond: The Makeup Artistry of Joel Harlow,
speaks with Jeff Bond, writer of The Art of Star Trek: The Kelvin Timeline, and
Titan Books editor Andy Jones about the creation of both books.
Wo r d s : J o e N a z z a r o

02

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tar Trek fans who want more If one of those names looks familiar, 01 Sofia working on them, so I could give some
behind-the-scenes info about it’s because I did indeed spearhead the Boutella in full credit to all of the artists and technicians
Jaylah make-
the three “Abrams-verse” latter project along with Joel Harlow. up (Star Trek
that were part of Star Trek Beyond, and
films are about to get their It means forsaking the traditional Beyond). everybody could get their moment in
wish – and then some. Titan journalistic third person here, so forgive the spotlight. It’s easy to be the guy
02 The U.S.S.
Books is releasing not one the indulgence. This wasn’t my first foray Kelvin is calling the shots and making the final
but two books over the next into the subject, having written Star Trek: destroyed, in decisions, but a lot of credit really needs
couple of months that explore that The Next Generation Makeup FX Journal Star Trek (2009). to be shared with everybody. The way
very subject. The Art of Star Trek: The with Michael Westmore back in 1992, this book came together with designers
Kelvin Timeline by Jeff Bond explores but it wasn’t until a magazine interview and sculptors being credited, and images
the design aesthetic of the three films, with Harlow last year disclosed the fact of the makeup artists applying the
from production design to visual effects, that he had taken literally thousands of makeups, I think is brilliant, because
along with commentary by the artists photos, documenting every stage of the everybody got to have ownership of
who created them. And Star Trek Beyond: production, that a book project suddenly what they did on the film.”
The Makeup Artistry of Joel Harlow by became a very real possibility. The bulk of our work on the
Joe Nazzaro focuses on the 50-plus alien “I think the biggest accomplishment book comprised of endless phone
races of the most recent film, showing in my eyes was to get those images of our calls between my office in New Jersey
their design, sculpture, and final on-set characters out to the public,” elaborates and Atlanta, Georgia (where Joel was
makeup application.  Harlow, “as well as images of the crew busy shooting Marvel’s upcoming

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“It was really interesting,

talking to those guys, all of
whom had very distinctive
design aesthetics and
influences.”
JEFF BOND
AUTHOR

Kelvin Concepts
Meanwhile, Jeff Bond had already started
work on his own Abrams-verse. “I had
recently worked on a Planet of the Apes
book with Joe Fordham,” he remembers.
03 “He had been contacted by Titan to do
the book when Dawn of the Planet of the
Apes was being made, but he had a very
short deadline and didn’t think he would
Black Panther movie), while back in “I think all seemed to go really make it, so Joe got in touch with me, and
London Titan’s busy art department smoothly,” notes Harlow, “from our I ended up working on the section of the
was working their way through literally initial talks in the beginning, to seeing book about the original film, as well as a
thousands and thousands of images. We the half-layout, and finally the full chapter on music. Titan was very happy
also lined up interviews with concept layout. I occasionally chimed in and with it and assured us we would be doing
designers Neville Page, Carlos Huante, changed some images, but I think that more work for them, then editor Andy
and Allen Williams, as well as every all made it better. Jones ended up contacting me about the
major artist and sculptor involved with “I had sort of built my own book Star Trek book.”
the production. For each alien, we for the shop guys and makeup artists on As a showcase of concept art and
were able to show the creative process the film, using an online book-building production design, the visual side of the
involved with that character, starting program, but this was a real thrill,” project came first, with Bond adding
from its initial concept design, into a he continues. “Even though I’ve been the words. 
three-dimensional sculpture, and finally included in other books in the past, “They had laid it all out, so my job
showing how the makeup was applied on I’ve never been part of a project that was to go in and look at the artwork on
set in LA, Vancouver, and Dubai. specifically dealt with just the makeup, each page and what the topics were, and
With 50-plus alien races to cover, makeup effects, and special characters like write some detailed, bite-size captions to
the big challenge was figuring out how to this, which was the focus of the entire go into those spaces,” explains Bond. “I
divide them up in an interesting way. It book. And to come in at such a high spent two or three weeks reaching out to
became obvious the best way was to start page count, it proved to me the volume various people, such as Sean Hargreaves,
with key characters like Krall, Jaylah, of work we had done. As time passes, who designed the Enterprise you see at
and Manas, and split the rest up by their you kind of forget just how much there the end of Star Trek Beyond. He was on
respective location, whether it was the was, so seeing it all again was nice, and one of the Facebook spaceship modeling
Enterprise, Yorktown, or planet-side. archiving it like this was really special.” groups, so I got in touch, and also ended

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interesting science and physics-related

05
rationales for how everything was going
to look on screen. Roger talked about
how he had very visual memories of the
original film of the Moon landing and
the Apollo Moon shots, and how he
liked the specific, high-contrast look of
light in space, which he thought looked
more dangerous than the way space was
often depicted in movies, so he wanted
to bring some of that feel to it. Peter
Chiang had all sorts of interesting ideas
about how the warp bubble worked, how
it should look on film, and what all of
that technology should look like. I had
very lengthy conversations with both of
up getting some other people like art distinctive design aesthetics and influences, those guys, and I was able to use some of
03 One of 50
director Tom Sanders, who unfortunately and we were able to talk about how they new alien those quotes in the book.”
recently passed away. I’ve also known integrated some of those into what they races devised While Bond was able to get testimony
[illustrator] John Eaves for years, from were doing with the design of Star Trek.” for Star Trek from a range of contributors, some weren’t
Beyond.
when he worked on Star Trek: Enterprise, One of Bond’s biggest challenges available, meaning compromise was an
and he provided me with a number was to describe what was going on in the 04 The U.S.S. essential part of the process.
Kelvin from
of contacts.” actual page layout while trying to widen Star Trek (2009).
“There were areas where we just
Bond also reached out to effects the scope of the book wherever he could. couldn’t get some of the people we
“The text ended up being a 05 Cover art wanted,” admits Bond, “like the costume
legends ILM, and spoke to some of their
and pages
key creatives. combination of things, because it was from The Art designer [Michael Kaplan] for the
“I spent a couple of weeks talking with my chance to talk to people like Roger Of Star Trek: first two movies. We had quite a lot of
a bunch of their visual effects guys, graphic Guyett, the visual effects supervisor on The Kelvin costume design material in the book, so
Timeline.
designers, and illustrators. That included the first two movies, and Peter Chiang, we ended up reducing some of it, and I
people like Ryan Church, who designed the visual effects supervisor on Star Trek used quotes from other people who had
the J.J. Enterprise. It was really interesting, Beyond,” says Bond. “Both of those guys stuff to say about makeup and costume.
talking to those guys, all of whom had very were very philosophical, and had really I spent the final week coming up with

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more general captions; some that didn’t depth. A different kind of craftsmanship
use any quotes at all, just to address what
was going on with a few images. I think
is on display, so the book is dominated
by lush photography showing the various Release
we got most of what we wanted.” stages of makeup application. Jeff had
to take a much broader stance in how
Dates:
The Editor’s Hand he approached his book, and as a result Star Trek Beyond:
The responsibility of making both books there wasn’t too much of a problem of The Makeup Artistry of
as different as possible fell to Titan Books subject overlap.”
Joel Harlow 
editor Andy Jones, As Jones explains,
By Joe Nazzaro
who says there wasn’t giving each book its
as much overlap as one
might think.
“I hope this book will own visual identity
very much starts with
Titan Books
Publishes on October
“The franchise
artbook is quite
live on long after the company’s art
department. “I actually
17, 2017

wide-ranging,” Jones
elaborates, “in that it
we’re all gone, so had the same designer
working on both
The Art of Star Trek:
The Kelvin Timeline 
covers almost all of the
major touchstones of
the idea was to put books, which was very
beneficial as he could
06 Joel
Harlow at work
By Jeff Bond
the movie trilogy, but
always from a concept
as much into it as constantly look between
the two and ensure they
on his favorite
creation for
Titan Books
Publishes on
art perspective,
showing how the ideas
possible.” each had their own
identity. We had a lot
Star Trek
Beyond. December 5, 2017

07 Joe Taslim
evolved and what J O E L H A R L O W, of help, though – all as Manas,
the thinking behind AUTHOR the concept artists in Star Trek
everything was.  whose work appears in Beyond. different group of creatives; using those
“Joel’s book, on the other hand, the franchise artbook had wildly different 08 Cover art illustrations in combination with the
deals with a very specific aspect of styles, which obviously helped keep the from Star amazing photography ensured that the
production – the alien makeup – which pages visually interesting. In addition, Trek Beyond: makeup book looked different and very
The Makeup
gave us an opportunity to delve into that the artists who produced concepts for the Artistry of Joel much its own thing.”
particular department in much greater aliens in Joel’s book were a completely Harlow. Perhaps not surprisingly,
simultaneously putting together two
books covering overlapping subject
matter was probably a good thing. “It
certainly helped keep my head in the Star
Trek zone!” Jones agrees. “I had a good
dialogue with CBS, and we would often
talk about both books at the same time,
so overall I would have to say yes I think
it was beneficial to work in that way.”
With both books finally finished, Star
Trek fans will soon get to enjoy a veritable
treasure trove of new material about the
recent film series. “It was a short deadline,”
acknowledges Bond, regarding The Art of Star
Trek: The Kelvin Timeline, “but the amount
of text was really minimal, and just the way
it was done, it was so clear what needed
to be plugged in. I don’t want to say it was
easy to do, but it was certainly one of the less
stressful book projects I’ve had, for sure.”
As for Star Trek Beyond: The Makeup
Artistry of Joel Harlow, I’ll leave the last
word to my esteemed collaborator Joel
Harlow, whose work on the latest film earned
an Oscar nomination and a Saturn Award
win. “I’m extremely thrilled with the pieces
that Justin Lin, Simon Pegg, and Sofia
Boutella delivered, but I also think the
images and layout are fantastic. 
“If I had to pick one thing that
I’m really happiest about, it’s the cover,”
Harlow adds, “because that was an
image we weren’t allowed to share in the
beginning, but that image best sums up
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aspect of the character, so to have that is getting the chance to show previously
image as a cover was fantastic, because even unseen work to the world. Certainly the
though Natalia isn’t in the film that much, franchise artbook contains a fair amount
she’s very much a standout character. This of concept art that I don’t think fans
book is the swansong for all of our work have seen before, particularly some of
on the film. When the film came out we the art produced for Star Trek Beyond.
promoted the idea of ‘50 aliens for 50 years “And Joel’s book is similar in that
of Star Trek,’ and we promoted our work there was so much amazing work that
during the Oscar race, but this is the last went into creating the aliens for Star
chance for us to showcase these characters. Trek Beyond, and many of them got very
The idea was to put as much into it as little screen time in the movie itself.
possible, packing it full of as much imagery So we here at Titan Books, and of course
and story, and as much credit to the Joel himself, were all really keen to
crew as possible. Hopefully people will make sure all this incredible artistry
appreciate that.” gets the recognition it deserves in the
“I guess my hopes are essentially the form of a luxurious book. And now it’s
08
same for both books,” finishes Jones, “which finally happening!”

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Set Phasers
on Fun! Star Trek: Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock
Bluetooth Figure Speakers by Fametek

Inspired by William Shatner’s original in any audio device via the speaker’s barks “Full ahead, Warp Factor One”
series Captain Kirk and Leonard headphone socket, using the supplied when you disconnect. Spock, logically,
Nimoy’s redoubtable Mr. Spock, fun is auxiliary 3.5mm line-in cable. The has his own set of phrases and effects,
definitely the setting for this pair of Star podcast sounded clear and crisp through and each speaker is pre-loaded with nine
Trek-themed Bluetooth speakers from the 1.5 inch/38mm Massive Audio cool sounds in total. If you find yourself
Fametek. They look cute, and come driver, and just as good in Bluetooth out of Bluetooth juice, then you can
packed with a selection of Trek sound mode as it did via the line-in. always play the effects with a press on the
bites, but how does Klingon opera But what’s the point in buying a speaker’s SFX button.
sound through them? wireless speaker and connecting it via a If you’re an audiophile with a taste
Personally, wailing Klingons isn’t cable? Especially if it means you’ll miss for discrete, wireless black boxes, then
my preference, so I tested a Kirk speaker out on sound effects! Switch the Kirk maybe these aren’t the devices for you –
out by tuning into Engage: The Official speaker to Bluetooth mode, and Kirk but if you fancy beaming sounds through
Star Trek Podcast via my smartphone. welcomes you with, “This is Captain thin air, and having some Star Trek fun
A switch on the rear of each speaker James Kirk of the U.S.S. Enterprise.” in the process, then who better to beam
allows you to select between auxiliary Phaser fire then notifies you when Kirk up than Kirk and Spock?
or Bluetooth modes, and you can plug pairs with your device, and the Captain Chris Gardner

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STAR TREK: THE

NEXT GENERATION
“Mirror Broken”
Pa r t 3
Writers: David and Scott Tipton, Art: J.K. Woodward
IDW Comics
Here’s the curious thing about the Mirror Universe – to me, it never, ever
felt dangerous. In Star Trek’s multiple TV visits to the feudal alternate
timeline we were always in the company of one of the good guys; a pal
or two from our universe. There was a safety net. And besides, all those
familiar faces playing against type was so much fun. As were the beards.
The deeper we get into Scott and David Tipton’s bleak, violent, and
edgy “Mirror Broken,” however, the more ill at ease I feel – and that’s a
good thing.
Stripped of the trappings of the “real” world, the Tiptons and artist
J.K. Woodward are delivering a slice of mirror action that drips with
danger from every panel and snarled line of dialogue. It’s easy to believe
any one of these rotters would stab another in the back, and I’m sure a
few of them will before this miniseries has run its course.
Part 3 sees Picard and his co-conspirators hijack the I.S.S.
Enterprise-D, showing no mercy for anyone who sides with the truly vile
Captain Jellico. He ends up on the wrong side of an airlock, and that’s
probably a happy ending compared to what awaits the Klingons and
Cardassians over the next few issues. Great plotting, fantastic art.
“Mirror Broken” is a high-water mark for this trio of creators.
Christopher Cooper

STAR TREK:
New Visions
Vo l u m e 5
Photoplay by John Byrne
IDW Comics
Collecting issues 12 to 14 of John Byrne’s ongoing exploration of the
photonovel format, Volume 5 opens with “Swarm,” arguably the closest
Byrne has come to recreating the genuine feel of the original Star Trek
series, with a cheeky nod to Krall’s swarm from Star Trek Beyond.
“Swarm” follows the tried and tested “bottle episode” format – those
episodes set entirely on standing Enterprise sets, featuring only the regular
cast – and it is by far the most successful of the feature-length strips
presented here. It’s a proper Star Trek tale, and the final panel nails
the ethos of the show perfectly, with a well-chosen image of a thoughtful
Doctor McCoy.
The remainder of the volume sees Byrne test his format, and the
boundaries of photorealism, in various ways. “The Hidden Face” is pure
New Visions territory, with CG environments and rendered helmets that
almost mask (excuse the pun) an unusual and imaginative premise. Less
visually successful is “Sam,” a story of trust and betrayal, but that’s mainly
down to the unconvincing beard and wig pasted onto William Shatner as
Kirk’s brother. The story, however, has an emotional core that plays out
extremely well. Last, but not least, if you’re a Scotty fan with a taste for
the Gorn then you’re in for a treat with “More of the Serpent than the
Dove.” It’s not as high-concept as the other stories, but it is great fun, and
you’ll finally get to see what a lady Gorn looks like.
Christopher Cooper

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STAR TREK:
Waypoint #6
“The Rebound Effect”
Writer: Corinna Bechko, Artist: Christopher Herndon
“The Fear”
Writer and Artist: Gabriel Hardman
The strength of IDW’s consistently enjoyable Waypoint
miniseries has been its commitment to intimate, character-
based stories, leaving the big issues that Star Trek usually tackles
to one side. Better still have been the times where the focus
has been on side characters, and in the instance of issue 6, a
character so far to the side that he never made it onto
TV, let alone into the public consciousness.
Corinna Bechko’s “The Rebound Effect” follows Nurse
Christine Chapel as she questions her reasons for choosing
deep space exploration over a career in research. Chapel gets
far more story here than she was ever allowed on TV (beyond
casting longing glances in Spock’s direction), revealing her true
grit and medical genius. If only the original series had pushed
accepted stereotypes as far. The art by Christopher Herndon is
also delightfully different.
But the big sell in this final issue is the Star Trek: Phase
II adventure, “The Fear,” which puts Spock’s replacement,
Xon, in the spotlight. Drawing heavily from Phase II concept
art, Gabriel Hardman’s striking panels could have been
lifted straight from the serialized Trek newspaper strips of
the late 70s, and the story (Hardman also wrote “The Fear”)
convincingly suggests that Xon was destined to be much more
than a Spock surrogate.
Launched as a project to celebrate 50 years of Star Trek, it’s
to be hoped that IDW find an excuse to revive Waypoint in the
near future.
Christopher Cooper

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RETRO REVIEW:

Mobile Media
3D STAR TREK VIA VIEW-MASTER

Have you signed up to to CBS All wide range of on-demand, 3D content, There were five Star Trek releases
Access? Are you a cable-cutting streamer? directly to your eyes via cardboard disc. in total, besides The Motion Picture and
A DVD box-setter? Or have you had Imagine, if you will, the View-Master! its follow-up, The Wrath of Khan. The
to explain to some curious young pup If you’re not familiar with the original series episode “The Omega
why the box under your TV has a big, technology, it employed a series of Glory” was sprecially photographed with
rectangular hole in the front, and that paired, stereoscopic, photographic slides a stereoscopic camera during production,
your Star Trek video library is still on on circular discs, which were inserted while frames from The Animated Series’
something called VHS? into the View-Master hardware (a “Yesteryear” were redrawn and the
Hardware moves on, right? Codecs plastic device not unlike a pair of toy episode repackaged as “Mr. Spock’s Time
change almost as fast as viewing habits, binoculars). So, not true 3D, and the Trek.” Finally, The Next Generation was
and they’re already talking about the audio capabilities were limited to how represented by a 21-slide rendition of “A
iPhone 21. Things must have been so well you could whistle a theme tune, Matter of Honor.”
hard in “the old days,” without all the but at least you could relive the visceral Unless you count the blister pack,
lovely tech that we enjoy today… thrills of Star Trek: The Motion Picture these discs featured no extras, but at least
Well, we weren’t so badly served in the palm of your hand (more likely they weren’t region-locked. Take that,
as you might think, kids. Imagine a two hands, as changing slides involved Ultimate Blu-ray edition!
portable device, capable of delivering a manual operation of a chunky lever.) Christopher Cooper

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BEAM ME UP
BRIEF ENCOUNTERS WITH STAR TREK

TANIA
LEMANI
KARA, “WOLF IN THE FOLD”

Tania Lemani is a favorite at Star Trek

conventions around the world thanks
to her portrayal of the heavenly (but
doomed) Argelian dancer Kara, who met
her fate at the hands of the Redjac entity
in the original Star Trek series episode,
“Wolf in the Fold.” 
Lemani, who still belly dances and often
sports a replica of Kara’s outfit, retired
from acting decades ago, but she still
loves her enduring connection with Star
Trek and its many fans. She wrote about
her life and career in detail in a 2007
memoir, Have Belly Will Travel.
Words: Ian Spelling

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01 Tania Lemani
as the doomed
dancing girl,
Kara.

02 Scotty
(James Doohan)
enjoys the
cultural delights
of Argelius II.

02

S
tar Trek Magazine: Were you When I came on set and I saw this
hired for “Wolf in the Fold” gorgeous man, like a Greek god, I said,
because you could dance, because “Oh, who is that?” They said, “Oh, that’s
you could act, or both? William Shatner.” I go, “My God.” My
Tania Lemani: Both. Because I could do heart was pounding. I said, “He is
both. My agent had called me about it, so so gorgeous.”
I auditioned. And my agent was, like, 100
years old at the time. God bless him, he And two years later, you met again on
was a sweetheart. I loved him. He called Star Trek…
me, and he says, “You have an interview.” I didn’t know if he remembered me
I go, “Where?” He says, “Paramount.” when I came on the set. He was sitting
I go, “Oh, which show?” He goes, “Star there and smiling. They were introducing
something or other.” I go, “Well, what type me to the different castmembers, and
of show is it?” I wasn’t aware of Star Trek at Shatner said, “Oh, yes. I know her.”
the time, really. I go, “You remember me?” He goes,
“Yes, I do.”
You worked with William Shatner before
Star Trek, right? He called you after the episode, and
[Laughter] Oh, Bill. Oh, yeah, Bill. Yes. the two of you dated for a while. What
I met him on another set, at Paramount, do you recall of that experience?
before Star Trek. It was a Pilot, Alexander So, we went out. All night long, all he
01 the Great. I was one of the slave girls. did was talk about his kids and his ex-

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wife. He was crying on my shoulder. So wanted to see. I did not discuss my moves that’s so beloved by so many, all
I’m sitting there, being a good friend, with him. He let me do my own dancing around the world?
listening. I said, “Well, maybe you can without interfering. I am only now realizing I am so proud that I had an opportunity
fix things up with your wife, and this that I really did contribute to the episode. to be part of this incredible journey. 
and that, because you have beautiful
girls.” Things like that. And he says, “No, Fred Phillips created Kara’s make-up, We’ve heard that you have an idea
I don’t think she wants to.” So then we and Bill Theiss oversaw her costume, for bringing Kara back to Star Trek.
started dating. We had a wonderful time. but some of the pieces What can you tell us
I mean, he is funny. He loved to eat. you wore were actually about that?

Our understanding is that you

yours. What’s it like now
to appear at conventions
“I saw this I don’t want to give too
much away, because
choreographed your own dance for
Kara in “Wolf in the Fold.” As a young
and to see young women
walking around, dressed
gorgeous man, like they might just do it on
their own. But basically,
actress and dancer, how did you enjoy
having the opportunity to contribute
as Kara, and even
dancing as her?
a Greek god. I said, it’s a really, really good
idea – bringing back
to the episode?
I did my own choreography after I listened
I love it. It’s flattering.
As a matter of fact,
‘Who is that?’ They Jack the Ripper. And
I know how to do it.
to the music. They gave me the music
ahead of time. And the director, Joe Pevney,
03 Is Scotty
yesterday we had a
photo opportunity, and
said, ‘Oh, that’s And how to bring back
my character, too.
left it up to me as far as the dancing was
concerned. He directed the camera and the
a killer?

04 Scotty
this young lady was in a
Kara costume. She said,
William Shatner.’” But if the phone rang
crew with the lights, etc. We had to shoot
and Kara get
“Can I take a picture TA N I A L E M A N I with the folks at Star
to know one
it many times over because of what Pevney another. with you?” I said, “Yeah, Trek: Discovery saying
of course,” then she came back here to they’re interested, you’d be there in two
the autograph room and we talked. So, minutes, right? And you’d play Kara
yeah, I’m flattered, really flattered. again, of course...
03 Not only to play the character, I would
What does it mean to you to have want to help write it as well. And I can
been a part of this legendary show, still dance!

“Wolf in the Fold”

Star Trek, Season 2 Episode 14
During shore leave on the hedonistic
planet Argelius II, Scotty, Captain
Kirk, and Dr. McCoy enjoy a drink in a
local café, and the seductive dance of
a young Argelian woman named Kara
(Tania Lemani).
After striking up a conversation,
Kara asks Mr. Scott to take a walk with
her, but soon after they disappear
into the foggy night, her screams
echo through the streets. Kara has
been murdered – and a bloodied
Montgomery Scott has been found
clutching the knife that killed her.
Is the Enterprise engineer truly
responsible for this heinous crime, or
is a more sinister force at work?  
04

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86 A FISTFUL OF
DATA
Star Trek expert Larry The Yorktown and Artemis
Oil on Canvas (Size: 2ft by 3ft)
Nemecek answers your
continuity questions.
Celebrating his 100th column,
Larry looks back at some
of his favorite questions in
20 years of calming canon
conundrums.

92 THE NEUTRAL
ZONE
The Neutral Zone is where
two super-fans argue
over a pivotal moment in
Trek history, without fear
of flaming. This issue,
were Archer’s warp drive-
stealing actions justified
in the Enterprise episode,
“Damage”?

96 TREK TRIVIA
It’s trivia, Jim, but not as we
know it. Test your knowledge
of the Klingon Empire in this,
the first of our new, regular
The S.S. Artemis
Star Trek quizzes. Oil on Canvas (Size: 24” by 28”)
STARSHIP TREKKERS
THEY’RE THE WORST CREW IN STARFLEET
 LARRY NEMECEK’S
A FISTFUL OF DATA
MAKING SENSE OF THE FUTURE

As we celebrate Star Trek’s return to the small screen, I’m thrilled and amazed to share
with you another, if smaller, landmark of my own. It turns out that this issue marks the 100th
edition of my canon-connecting column, which first appeared in Issue 34 of the UK’s Star
Trek Monthly magazine, way back in December 1997, and continued when the magazine hit
US shores. To celebrate the occasion, this issue we’ve compiled a “greatest hits” of questions
from across those 20 years...
Larry Nemecek

TAKE A FIRST CONTACT

DEEP ISSUE 45: OCTOBER 1998

BREATH
ISSUE 34: DECEMBER 1997
Reaching out to the creators of Star Trek
has solved many a canon query...
“I am a huge fan of both Star Trek and
In earlier versions of the script there
had been a third Phoenix crewman – not
a speaking character, just a throwaway
this magazine! However, there are a few reference in dialogue to a technician,
questions that people at school have “Collins.” Ron believes he’d been
asked me about First Contact, and I named in honor of the Apollo 11
have no idea what to say! Please, can astronaut Michael Collins, the “third
you help me? man” of that crew, who stayed alone in
1. Who was the third seat on the the command module while his comrades
Phoenix originally for? made history on the lunar surface below.
2. What did Zefram Cochrane use in This star-trekking Collins would then
the matter/antimatter reaction chamber have been among the support crew
instead of dilithium crystals?” killed by the original Borg attack in
Tim “G’Itster” Glister the launch bunker.
01
Monkseaton, Northumberland And as for a reaction power source?
“We had talked about it being from
From the very first column, comes the We certainly don’t want any problems something modified from the thermo-
very first question... for you at school, so I asked writer Ron nuclear warhead, that somehow set off
“In Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Moore about your questions. the fission reaction,” Ron told me.
Country, the Klingon moon Praxis
exploded, and is supposed to have left
Qo’noS with only 50 years of oxygen. 02
But in The Next Generation and Deep
Space Nine, about 70–80 years on, the
Klingons are still living happily on
their home planet when they should be
dead. How did they achieve this?”
Jamie Suffield
Norton on Derwent, North Yorkshire

Let’s go back and look at the entirety of

what Captain Spock told his top-secret
briefing audience in that film. His guess at
the future life-bearing ability of Qo’noS’
atmosphere included, as you say, the dire
warning of 50 years of breathable air
remaining, along with the observation
that the Klingon economy could not
possibly “have the resources to combat this
catastrophe.” Thus, with this implication
that repairs were an option, they likely
followed with Federation aid as a result of
the Khitomer Accords, and further helped
cement the resulting détente between the
two powers – for, as we all know, Klingon-
UFP relations did indeed become cozier
and cozier thanks to Sarek, Riva, Curzon
Dax, and other mediators.

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A KLINGON KONUNDRUM
ISSUE 92: SPRING 2002 DATACORE
Sometimes we answer a question that the “bumpies” debut in Star Trek: The
LARRY NEMECEK
eventually gets answered by the show itself... Motion Picture actually took place just
“Why are the Klingons in Enterprise two or three years after the end of the Coming from
in the style of Star Trek: The Next series (at least in the Trek timeline). They a background
Generation? What happened in the were hardly a TNG thing. in news and
100 years between Enterprise and the Seeing Kor, Koloth, and Kang age theater, Larry
original Star Trek series, and then from original series, smooth-headed Nemecek
again in The Next Generation, that mode to bumpies on DS9, for example, now creates
made them change so dramatically? has become the most confusing of his TREKLAND blog and
Please tell me you have a solution to any Trek point. Even dyed-in-the- videos, alongside archives at
my problem.” wool original series fans like writer/ larrynemecek.com, sporting
Vicki Levy producers René Echevarria and Ron his longtime career as Star
D. Moore couldn’t fit a workable, Trek author, editor, studio
I hate to be the one to cause even more simple explanation into the 1996, 30th consultant, interviewer,
insomnia, but there is no solution. anniversary special, “Trials and Tribble- 01 The Klingon speaker, archivist, and even
In fact, the Great Klingon Dilemma ations.” And if they couldn’t juggle the moon Praxis film site tour leader. Producer
– smooth vs. bumpy, and why? – is the marbles needed and make sense within explodes. of documentary The Con of
biggest ongoing question mark in Trek canon, who could...? 02 Cochrane's Wrath, and his Trekland: On
lore today. Flash-forward to Enterprise, and Phoenix, from Speaker remastered interview
Star Trek:
One point that tends to be despair no longer: despite the seeming First Contact.
archives, Nemecek’s Star Trek:
forgotten, aside from the fact that contradiction, just know that inquiring Stellar Cartography book and
03 No pasties
Gene Roddenberry always wanted his minds are still hashing out ways to maps set is available now from
on these "Day
Klingons to look more alien but couldn’t, explain it all and make a good story of the Dove" 47North/Amazon.
due to TV budgets of the 60s, is that out of it. In other words, stay tuned... Klingons.

03

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MAKING SENSE OF THE FUTURE

04

VIDIIAN
VERSE
ISSUE 92: SPRING 2002

Finally, in what might be the most creatively phrased

question of all time…
Regarding the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Deadlock”:
Two Voyagers, both alike in density,
In the Delta Quadrant, where we lay our scene,
The Vidiians, whose natural propensity
Endangers the organs of our intrepid team.
One ship must self-destruct to save its twin,
The method, overloading the warp core,
Destroying the Vidiians so they would win
Though dead, their twins would live to venture more.
Yet there is a fearful error in this tale,
Both ships, one source of antimatter shared,
Surely, then, this daring plan must fail,
Both ships would be destroyed while all despaired!
How could the writers this great plot hole miss?
We wish to ask you, Larry, what is with this?
Jessica Williams and Llinos Cathryn Thomas,
North Wales

05

Never, in all my years of print, email, Because the Voyagers’ physical states
and conventions, have I ever received are relatively stable, we must assume
a question in Bardish couplet! I was that even the antimatter shielding is
inspired to try to match you in the intact, or their survival would have been
answer, but the clock was ticking. You moot long ago! With one of the ships
have such a good point that it is hard to undergoing a controlled self-destruct
come up with something, even in prose... via warp core overload (not a breach!),
As the twinned Janeway and Torres we must also assume that the
realize, their predicament is not unlike dimensional detachment for self-
a pair of Siamese twins sharing only destruct included a shielded cut-off.
a single heart – even in overlapping Thus, the antimatter, even aboard ships
dimensions. And just like the twins’ in confusing flux, was shunted to one
separation, one can be left alive, though ship and its separation point shielded;
it means the death of the other without antimatter input on the sacrificed
a heart, save any artificial means at hand. Voyager was cut off after the core had
Thus, the contest over who will volunteer been allowed to build up pressure for
to be sacrificed. the detonation.

Send your canon conundrums to A Fistful of Data at:

[email protected], via larrynemecek.com, or @larrynemecek on twitter.

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CANON FODDER
PUTTING CONTINUITY IN THE FIRING LINE

06

07 08

Sometimes we put aside readers’ as the galactic standard language? group and other worlds to form
questions to raise a Star Trek Did no-one bother to explain the the Coalition of Planets, which later
bugbear of our own, and this complexities of the apostrophe, let evolved into the UFP itself.
one has vexed some of us here alone the Oxford comma?! After the trial-by-fire of the
at STM for years: Why, when the We need look no further than Romulan War, and the Federation’s
United Federation of Planets the prequel series that tried to iron founding, it seems that Earth’s
is such a lauded melting pot of out such kinks in our future history. culture was the one that everyone
extraterrestrial diversity, does it As Star Trek: Enterprise managed else looked toward, and could
appear to be so Earth-centric? to essay before its storytelling days jointly trust. We wore our faults on
How did it get that way, and why were cruelly cut short, Earthlings our sleeves, and made it clear we
does the rest of the Federation were central to the formation strove to overcome them.
put up with this status quo? of the galactic union, and were Even after a century or two, it
the common link between Earth, seems that initial draw was enough
Let’s ignore the real-world fact that Vulcan, Andoria, and Tellar Prime to convince others to let Earth
Star Trek, a sci-fi TV and movie uniting by necessity against a anchor and color the Federation’s
series, has always been produced looming Romulan threat. We saw patchwork of cultures... with
on Sol III (otherwise known as how humanity’s unique qualities – no questions asked? Could the 04 Captain
planet Earth), and that its general our flexibility and resourcefulness, members of this vast Federation, Janeway (Kate
Mulgrew).
outlook is colored by being filmed over and above those other races from the oldest to the newest,
specifically in North America, by – allowed old prejudices to be have simply accepted an Earth- 05 An organ-
hungry Vidiian,
creative thinkers who can’t help but overcome for the greater good. centric community as a fact of life? from Voyager
be a bit US-centric in the values they Humans may have been the new Perhaps it was the force of the episode
project on the galactic adventures kids on the block among local Federation’s founding, that trial- "Deadlock."
of the 23rd and 24th Centuries. spacefaring civilizations, but our by-fire, and Earth’s decisive role 06–08
After all, it’s a futuristic space series rookie charm was so endearing that in smoothing the galactic waters, Starfleet
that’s really about life on Earth, in even the Romulans recognized it that had such a strong and lasting Headquarters,
as seen in
the here and now. We all know that’s as key to the rise of a united front impact. The idea certainly fits Gene Star Trek
the real reason, but is there an in- against them. While their plot to Roddenberry’s optimistic vision movies The
universe explanation for why Earth is disrupt humanity’s impact failed, of human potential. Who knows, Undiscovered
Country, and
so important? And while we’re at it, their analysis was sound, and it maybe Star Trek: Discovery will The Motion
why was English so readily accepted was indeed humanity that led that someday fill in the details. Picture.

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THE NEUTRAL ZONE
WHERE OPINIONS COLLIDE

C A P TA I N A R C H E R :

DAMAGED
GOODS?
Welcome to The Neutral Zone, where our expert team of Star Trek
fans take a controversial event in Trek lore... and then pick sides!

This issue, we ask: 01

“In the Enterprise episode
‘Damage,’ was Captain
Archer justified in attacking an
Illyrian vessel and stealing its
warp coil, or were his actions
a fundamental betrayal of
Starfleet values?”
Archer’s Advocate: Michael Clark
Defending the Prime Directive:
Bunny Summers
Michael Clark: Archer was totally
justified. You must remember what had
happened up to that point; Earth had been
attacked, with over seven million people
dead. Evidence suggested that a full-scale
Xindi attack was imminent, which would
destroy Earth and wipe out all humanity.
Our extinction would ensure that the
Federation would never be created. At this
point, the Illyrians were less important.
Bunny Summers: Wait a minute, the
Illyrians were new to the sector and had
nothing to do with the Xindi. They’d done
nothing wrong, and Archer stranded them
in deep space with minimal supplies – that
could very well have been a death sentence.
MC: When Archer started that
mission he approached it as a Starfleet
Captain, but as time went on he found
that the Expanse was unlike anything he
had encountered before. Archer and his
crew were attacked, hijacked, frozen, and
on the verge of failing in their mission. The
Enterprise was on its own; no support, no
base, just one ship and a crew of 80.
BS: So, what you’re basically saying
is that Archer couldn’t deal with the
unknown. And instead of rationalizing
like Picard would, he went all-out without
thinking of the consequences for another
species. Even Janeway didn’t stoop to this
level – and it was going to take her crew

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70 years to get back home! Yet the Voyager BS: Archer didn’t give the Illyrians strand the Illyrian crew. There were no
crew encountered numerous species and a second thought. When you watch the feasible alternatives at hand, there was no
chose to take no action that would prove scenes where he told the crew of his plan one to help, and no time to find another
harmful to any of them. I don’t see how to strand the Illyrians, Archer had already warp coil.
Archer is justified in his decision to steal made up his mind and wanted no input, BS: No, sorry, but Archer was
the Illyrian coil. because he knew the crew would object. It not solely responsible for seven billion
MC: Enterprise was battered, her was morally wrong, and they all knew it. humans. If that was put on him, then
01 Captain
warp drive was gone, and within three MC: Archer admitted it himself. “I’m Archer (Scott that was wrong. Archer was in no way
days Archer had to make a rendezvous about to step over a line – a line I thought Bakula). the sole savior of humanity here. He was
with Degra which could change Xindi I would never cross. And given the 02 MACOs carry already losing his own when he started
perceptions of humanity, and even make nature of our mission, it probably won’t out Archer's thinking it was justifiable to strand
them see their attack on Earth in a different be the last,” he said. He was ultimately orders. some innocent bystanders. Yes, he had a
light. That outcome was dependent on responsible for the lives of over seven 03 Travis meeting – but could there not have been
Archer making the meeting. What other billion human beings, so he couldn’t take Mayweather a way around this? Trip could have fixed
(Anthony
options did he have? If they missed that the risk of not meeting Degra. Stealing the warp core, given time.
Montgomery)
opportunity, would they have had another that warp coil was the only way Archer asseses the MC: Archer did what he could to
chance to find the Xindi superweapon? could make it. He had no choice but to "Damage." help the Illyrians; he left them supplies
to help them survive for three years,
no vital systems were damaged, and
overall they were in much better shape
than Enterprise.
02
BS: For how long? Thanks to Voyager,
we know that Nova class ships weren’t
built for long journeys. This vessel was
similar. If there was an attack on the ship,
supplies would not have saved them.
MC: At that moment Archer had to
make a big decision. He had to choose
between a crew of one starship or billions
of humans. He made the right choice. It
was a necessity in a time of war, and the
end really did justify the means. Earth
had to be saved, but Archer would never
be the same after making that choice.
BS: Let’s just take a minute to
consider who started this war – it was the
Sphere-Builders, the Guardians, who the
Xindi trusted after being guided to new
planets after losing their homeworld.
Why would the Xindi not believe their
benefactors when Archer turned into
the very thing that the Guardians had
warned them about? Archer knowingly
crossed a line, and this episode serves
as a key example as to why the Prime
03
Directive was needed.
MC: Fortunately for Archer, the
moderate factions of the Xindi saw beyond
his desperation and were willing to listen to
him about Earth not being a threat. Archer
was lucky, but that chance at peace would
never have happened had Archer not met
Degra on time. You’re right though – the
Prime Directive was needed to ensure
nothing like this would ever happen again.

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01
THE STARS
WHO LOVE
TREK
 THE HOLODECK

GARY JONES
Star Trek has inspired people from all walks of life to dream big and reach
for the stars, from doctors and artists, to astronauts and even presidents.
Talented Trekkers seeks out familiar faces whose lives in the public eye
have been energized by the final frontier...
Words: Mark Phillips

I
t took actor Gary Jones many years and Ian Boothby (as Spock, McCoy,
to fully clock Star Trek’s appeal. Best and Scotty, respectively), earned rave
known as Chief Sergeant Harriman reviews for their performances, and the
in over 100 episodes of Stargate SG- production was a smash hit success.
1, the actor recalls, “The first time I even “When we first opened, Star
heard of Star Trek was in the summer of Trick brought the house down with
1972, when we emigrated from Wales laughter,” Jones recalls. “Our cast was
to Canada. We were living with another stunned. We had no idea we would tap
family in Ontario and their daughter, into such a pop cultural vein. It gave
close to my age, was obsessed with Star me a great boost professionally, and it
Trek. I thought this might be a good way made me into a much more confident
of getting to know her, so I watched performer. It remains the best and most
the show.”  fun theater experience of my career. As a
The results? Negative! “I couldn’t see result, Star Trek has a very dear place in
what the fuss was all about. I came from my heart.”
a country where the science fiction bar
was set by Doctor Who, and back then
the Daleks were as scary as hell. Star

STAR
Trek just didn’t grab me.”
That changed as Jones grew older.
“I realized the show was about disarming

TURN
situations more than inflaming them.
Not everyone was shot and killed to
settle an argument. That’s when I knew it
was a different space show.” He also liked
the characters. “People inherently related
to Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Scotty 02
because they were representatives of the
human psyche. The Enterprise crew was energetic and swaggering interpretation
on more of an anthropological mission of Captain “James T. Quirk” by Jones
than one of domination. They wanted to – although he’d initially turned down Catherine Schell, the
learn about other species rather than to the role. actress who played
kill or conquer.”  “I didn’t think I could pull off Maya, Space: 1999’s
Of course, some of the original a decent impression of Kirk,” Jones mysterious shape-
series’ idiosyncrasies left Jones bemused. confesses. “I thought Bones would be shifting alien, was a
“I loved that there was always an endless an easier and safer role to play – thank big Star Trek fan. She
array of gorgeous alien females, and that you, Mr. Low Self-Esteem!” he laughs. once rendered Leonard
Kirk slept with so many of them!” “But they insisted I play Kirk, so I did Nimoy speechless
01 Gary Jones,
Star Trek would profoundly some research and came across a clip of pictured at San
during an appearance
change Jones’ life when the young a really funny stand-up comedian, Kevin Diego Comic- on a Boston talk show
actor was asked to star in a Canadian Pollack, who did a killer impression of Con. by greeting him with a
stage production called Star Trick: The Kirk. I modeled my impression after 02 Star Trick Vulcan salute.
Musical in the early 1990s. Vancouver’s his.” Once secure in the part, “it was scored rave
TheatreSports Improv put on an really super to play him,” says Jones. reviews for
Jones and the
affectionate satire which included a bossy The entire cast, which also included theatreSports
alien Queen, dead redshirts, and an Dean Haglund, Shawn MacDonald, Improv group.

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 Q U I Z
As the Klingons make their TV comeback in Star Trek: Discovery, put your honor to the test, in...

Q a P L A’ ! T H E Q O ’ N O S Q U I Z

THE TROUBLE WITH TRIVIA WAY OF THE

1. Who was the tyrannical 3. If you encounter a Klingon in WARRIOR
Klingon ruler killed by close combat, which anatomic
Kahless the Unforgettable, feature should you aim to strike 1. Which class of battle
uniter of the Klingon people, with a shattering blow, thus killing cruiser replaced
and founder of the Klingon your opponent stone dead? the fearsome D7
Empire? A: The K’och’zix warship in the Klingon
A: Mordor B: The tricipital lobe Imperial Fleet?
B: Moloch C: The sagittal crest A: The K’t’inga-class
C: Mothra D: Their tear ducts B: The Bird-of-Prey
D: Molor C: The D8-class
4. Which Chancellor of the D: The Raptor-class
2. Which ship was commanded Klingon High Council signed
by legendary warrior and the Khitomer Accords, making 2. Travelling at warp 4.5, how
Dahar Master Kor, son allies of the Federation and the many Earth days would it take
of Rynar? Klingon Empire? to travel the 90 light years
A: IKS Kronos A: M’Rek between Earth and Qo’noS?
B: IKS Klothos B: K’mpec A: 5 days
C: IKS Klytus C: Azetbur B: 3 days
D: IKS Kolikos D: Gowron C: 4 days
D: 2 days

3. Where do the terrifying tribbles

DR. PHLOX’S CRANIAL CONUNDRUM originate from?

A: Jorindas
Examine these Klingon sagittal crests to identify five famous warriors... B: Iota Geminorum IV
C: Maranga IV
D: Triannon
1.

2.
ANSWERS:
3. B: Iota Geminorum IV
1. A: The K’t’inga-class 2. C: 4 days
WAY OF THE WARRIOR

3. 4. Worf again 5. Gowron

1. Worf 2. Lursa 3. Kor
DR. PHLOX’S CRANIAL CONUNDRUM

3. B: The tricipital lobe 4. C: Azetbur

1. D: Molor 2. B: IKS Klothos

4.
THE TROUBLE WITH TRIVIA

If you scored 12 points, you will be

welcome in Sto-vo-kor, and many songs will
be sung about your great deeds.
If you scored more than 6 points, then fewer
5. songs will be sung, and only after much
blood wine.
If you scored 5 points or less, you have no
honor. This would be a good day to die.

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The Romulan Star Empire liked to keep a low

profile, at least during Kirk’s era, but they came
back with a vengeance during the continuing
mission of the U.S.S. Enterprise-D. Will the
Last Time,
Romulans get any attention in Discovery? Who
knows, but they were barely seen in Deep Space
in Captions Logged...
Nine – at least until the Dominion War broke The annual meeting of the U.S.S. Enterprise-D Sit-Down Hokey
out, when strange bedfellows among the great Cokey Appreciation Society was as poorly attended as usual.
galactic powers became the norm.
Captions Logged this issue looks back at JANEY MOUSEUL
KENSINGTON, LONDON
Monday, April 13, 1998, and the first day of
shooting Deep Space Nine’s Season 6 finale,
“Tears of the Prophets.” The crew are about to
film scene 20, in which Sisko and his uneasy
wartime allies meet to discuss an attack on
the Dominion’s military infrastructure
near Cardassia.
Backstage, make-up artist Belinda Bryant
can be seen touching up the deviously stoic
visage of actor David Birney, playing Romulan
Senator Vreenak. So what is it that’s making
him raise that pointy eyebrow?

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