Official Star Trek Fan Club

The Star Trek: The Official Fan Club was the officially authorized fan club for the Star Trek franchise, based in Aurora, Colorado. At its peak, the group had more than 100,000 subscribers.
== History ==
Originally founded by Dan Madsen as an unofficial Fan Club in , the organization began as fifteen members paying $15 a year, independently printing a bi-monthly club newsletter. With the release of , the club was renamed Star Trek II: The Movie Fan Club, a registered nonprofit organization. 
In , an issue of the club's newsletter-fanzine found its way to Paramount Pictures, who then contacted Madsen that he did not have a license to publish the magazine. Instead of legal action, Paramount Pictures' licensing department offered Madsen a license and contract. 
=== Officially licensed ===
In , Madsen founded FANtastic Media to run both the club and magazine. In 1995, the magazine became the Star Trek: Communicator. 
On 9 February 2001, Decipher purchased the assets of FANtastic Media, including the Fan Club, and continued publication of Communicator until 2005, when the company announced the cancellation of the magazine after Star Trek: Communicator issue 155.
Paramount and CBS announced a new fan club in , but nothing came of it.
==Starship replicas==
A number of limited edition Star Trek starship miniatures were released by the fan club. These replicas were created from cold-cast resin, measured from eight to twelve inches in length, and were sold through the fan club's mail order and at retail inside Las Vegas' Star Trek: The Experience. Editions were limited to 2500 models of each ship. Dissimilar to the other releases, the Cousteau had an edition of 5000 pieces and was made of PVC.
The , Deep Space 9, Klingon Bird-of-Prey, , , and were produced for the fan club by Legends in 3 Dimensions in 1996. 
The fan club also produced the Captain's yacht which was designed and mastered by John Eaves, who had also mastered the earlier T'Plana-Hath model. The Cousteau model came with a dedication plaque stand.
Rawcliffe also produced a small pewter FASA-sized gaming miniature of the (RF16) that was issued in 1997 as a Star Trek: Communicator exclusive.
File:Legends In 3 Dimensions Star Trek ships.jpg|Starship and station models
File:Official Star Trek Fan Club Starships.jpg|Captain's yacht Cousteau model
File:FASA-Rawcliffe RF16 RPG miniature USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E 1997.jpg|USS Enterprise-E miniature
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