Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 8

Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 8 was the thirty-second issue of , a " Special" with alternate collector's edition cover, published in to commemorate the release of the "Director's Edition" DVD. It was the fifth of ten total collectible covers in the magazine's run.
==Content==
===Interviews===
* Robert Wise, pp. 14-17
** Director of 
* Stephen Collins, pp. 18-22
** Captain Will Decker
* David C. Fein and Michael Matessino, pp. 24-26
** The Director's Edition
* Foundation Imaging, pp. 51-61
** Director's Edition VFX
** Making it Match: Blending old and new footage
* Sounding Right, p. 62
* Douglas Trumbull and John Dykstra, pp. 63-69
** Visual Effects: 1979
* Robert McCall, pp. 70-73
** Illustrator for the movie 
* Harold Livingston, pp. 82-83
** Writing the first Star Trek movie
* Matt Jefferies, Richard Taylor, and Andrew Probert, pp. 84-87
** Redesigning the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
* Richard Taylor, pp. 90-96
** V'Ger: The Living Machine
* Harold Michelson, pp. 97-99
** Production Design 
===Articles===
* Finishing the Movie, pp. 12-13
* Spock and Xon, pp. 27-28
** The Vulcan who never was
* Persis Khambatta, pp. 29-30
** The late actress who brought Lt. Ilia to life.
* The Memory Wall, pp. 88-89
** A sequence deleted from the movie
* The Props, pp. 100-101
* Collectables, p. 109
* Star Trek Stories: Tell Montgomery Scott What To Do!, p. 112
** Teaching a legend to fly - James Doohan pilots the shuttlepod
===Briefings===
*U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 Refit, pp. 31-51
**Main Bridge
**Main Engineering
**Blueprints
**Engineering suits
**Willard Decker
**Lieutenant Ilia
**Environmental Suits: 2271
**Phaser: 2271
**Communicator: 2271
**2270s Tricorder
*K'T'Inga-Class Battle Cruiser, pp. 74-81
**Main Bridge
**Blueprints
*V'Ger, pp. 102-107
**Voyager 6
=== Gallery ===
File:Robert Wise directing the actors on the set of the Enterprise bridge.jpg|p. 16
File:Production staff of Robert Wise Productions.jpg|p. 25
File:Vulcan matte painting for TMP.jpg|p. 26
File:USS Enterprise CGI models.jpg|p. 52
File:Robert Wise Productions staffers Chuck Michael and David Fein.jpg|p. 62
File:Robert McCall with one of the V'ger concepts.jpg|p. 70
File:V'ger concept art (3).jpg|p. 72
File:Constitution II class torpedo launchers design evolution.jpg|p. 86
File:V'ger concept art (1).jpg|p. 90
File:V'ger concept art (2).jpg|p. 93
File:Travel pod partial full scale mock-up.jpg|p. 112
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