The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine

The Official Star Trek: The Next Generation Magazine was an authorized magazine published by Starlog Press between and , focused on . 
The publishers of , Kerry O'Quinn and Norman Jacobs, launched the spin-off magazine in December 1987, shortly after the premiere of The Next Generation, partly in order to reduce the amount of Star Trek material being featured in Starlog, which was referenced on the magazine's cover. 
The magazine provided summaries of episodes, as well as interviews with production staff. Like the other Starlog Press publications, the magazine is notable for the reproduction of numerous behind-the-scenes photographs and production art work, rarely seen in other publications. However, unlike Starlog itself, it suffered from an erratic publication schedule.
== Issues ==
Issue #	Month	Cover	Contents
1 	 	 	Episode summary: 
Interviews: Gene Roddenberry, Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Wil Wheaton, Andrew Probert, Paul Lynch, David Gerrold
Features: Touring the Enterprise, The World of Star Trek: The Next Generation
2 	 	 	Episode summaries: , 
Interviews: John de Lancie, D.C. Fontana, Majel Barrett, Tracy Tormé, Michael Westmore, Katharyn Powers, Michael Baron
Features: Creating Special Effects, Creating Makeup Effects
3 	 	 	Episode summaries: , , , 
Interviews: Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, Richard Krzemien, John de Lancie, James G. Becker
Features: Why Q returned
4 	 	 	Episode summaries: , , , , 
Interviews: Patrick Stewart, Michael Dorn, Denise Crosby, Jonathan Frakes, Wil Wheaton, Gates McFadden, Andrew Probert, Rick Sternbach
Features: Designing the Enterprise
5 	 	 	Episode summaries: , , , , , , , 
Interviews: Jonathan Frakes, Guy Vardaman
6 	 	 	Episode summaries: , , , , , , , , 
Feature: From the Bridge: The New Sets
7 	 	 	Episode summaries: , , , 
Interviews: Diana Muldaur, Marina Sirtis, Jonathan Frakes, Patrick Stewart, Michael Dorn
Features: The Weapons & Technology; The Uniforms & Civilian Outfits
8 	 	 	Episode summaries: , , , , 
Interviews: Diana Muldaur, Howard Weinstein
Features: Engineering ( okudagram, Straleb security vessel sketches, El-Baz design sketches)
9 	 	 	Episode summaries: , , , , , , , , 
Interviews: Jaime Hubbard, Michael Jan Friedman
10 	 	 	Episode summaries: , , , 
Interviews: Rob Bowman, Corey Allen
Features: The Borg; The Art of "The Next Generation"
11 	 	 	Episode summaries: , , , , 
Interviews: Marina Sirtis, Wil Wheaton, Gene Roddenberry, Jonathan Frakes
12 	 	 	Episode summaries: , , , 
Interviews: Marina Sirtis, Michael Dorn, Colm Meaney, Denise Crosby, Gates McFadden, Keith Sharee, Steve Price, Peter Moyer, Stan Kellam
Features: The Special Effects; The Romulans
13 	 	 	Episode summaries: , , , , , , 
Interviews: LeVar Burton, Ronald D. Moore, A.C. Crispin, Howard Weinstein
14 	 	 	Episode summaries: , , , , , , 
Interviews: Dennis McCarthy, Ron Jones, Mark Lenard, Patrick Stewart, Colm Meaney, Joanna Miles
15 	 	 	Episode summaries: , , , , , , , , , 
Interviews: Rick Sternbach, Michael Okuda, Michael Dorn
16 	 	 	Episode summaries: , , , , , , , 
Interviews: Sarah Higley, Robert Blackman, Keith Birdsong
17 	 	 	Episode summaries: , , , , , , 
Interviews: Leonard Nimoy, Cliff Bole, Marina Sirtis
18 	 	 	Episode summaries: , , , , , , , , 
Interviews: Jay Chattaway, Leonard Nimoy
19 	 	 	Interviews: Tom Benko, Robert Wiemer, David Livingston, Robert Iscove, Win Phelps, David Carson, Michael Rhodes, Rob Legato, James L. Conway, Marvin V. Rush, Patrick Stewart
Features: Director Checklist
20 	 	 	Episode summaries: , , , , , , , 
Interviews: Bebe Neuwirth, Robert Scheerer
Features: Next Generation Trivia.
21 	 	 	Episode summaries: , , , , , , , 
Interviews: Rick Kolbe, Les Landau, Peter Allan Fields, Naren Shankar, Ralph Phillips
22 	 	 	Interviews: Brannon Braga, Hannah Louise Shearer, Pamela Gray, Thomas and Jo Perry, Alan J. Adler, Vanessa Greene, Michel Horvat, and Patrick Barry
23 	 	 	Interviews: Robert Lederman, Timothy Bond, Ron Jarvis, Phil Scorza
24 	 	 	Interviews: Chip Chalmers, Russ Mayberry, Robert Becker, David Kemper, Kacey Arnold-Ince, Jacqueline Zambrano
25 	 	 	100-page special
Interviews: LeVar Burton, Brent Spiner
26 	 	 	Interviews: Gabrielle Beaumont, Alex Singer, Peter Lauritson, Brent Spiner, Leonard Crofoot, Allison Hock, Randee Russell, David Bischoff, Philip LaZebnik
Features: Directors' Index
27 	 	 	Episode summaries: , , , , , 
Interviews: Robert Hewitt Wolfe, Carolyn Seymour, Corey Allen, Jeri Taylor, Edithe Swensen
28 	 	 	Episode summaries: , , , , 
Interviews: Gates McFadden, Dennis Russell Bailey, Hallie Todd, Adam Nimoy, James Kahn, Steve Gerber, Beth Woods
29 	 	 	Episode summaries: , , , , 
Interviews: Lance Dickson, Jean Louise Matthias, Ronald Wilkerson, Dan Koeppel, Nick Sagan
Features: Q Quips
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