Star Trek: Communicator

Star Trek: Communicator was the main magazine publication of the Official Star Trek Fan Club, and was a progression from the earlier Star Trek: The Official Fan Club Magazine. Published bimonthly, licensed since 1982 and carrying catalog merchadise starting the next year, the title grew from an offset magazine to half-sized format and then full color/full-sized beginning with issue "100", a continuation of the issue numbering from its predecessor.
On , Decipher purchased the assets of FANtastic Media, including the fan club, and continued publication of Communicator.
In 2005, the company announced the cancellation of the magazine after issue 155, walking away from the entire Star Trek Fan Club license amid the collapse of the card gaming industry that was its primary focus. Decipher cited complaints about subscription mailing delays and the threat of lawsuits. 
Attempts to revive the club and publication by creator/club founder Dan Madsen and its managing editor Larry Nemecek in 2007, amid the uncertainty in the franchise and its owners after the Viacom split into CBS and Paramount, proved unsuccessful.
== Recurrent sections ==
:Note: a concerted effort was made to group articles and interviews that shared similarities into sections, though both section contents as well as section headings changed several times over the publication's run. A typical subdivision was:
;Dossier
:Readers' letters
;Briefing
:News on upcoming episodes, information on Trek actors, sets, behind-the-scenes, etc.
;Profile 
:Information and interviews with actors and actresses in Trek
;Tech
:Specifications of ships and stations, "Treknology"
;Media
:Star Trek gaming
;Quark's Bazaar
:Catalog of items for sale from the fan club
==International editions==
The Decipher version of the magazine has seen an internationally released variant in the form of the edited Italian language Star Trek: La Rivista Ufficiale, which was published between 1997 and 2000 by Fanucci Editore. From 2000 onward, publication of the magazine was taken over by the official Italian Star Trek fanclub, , with a restarted numbering as (Inside) Star Trek magazine.
A second international edition concerned the edited German-language Trekworld publication from the "Star Trek Central Europe" (STCE) fanclub, the later "Offizieller Star Trek Fan Club" (OSTFC) as of 2000. Between 1986 and 1999, the fanclub released 64 issues under the auspices of editor-in-chief and fanclub president Dirk Bartholomä, starting out very much like Communicators predecessor The Official Fan Club Magazine, and likewise transitioning into a FANtastic Media "semi-pro" version-style format over the course of its existence. This was unlike its younger Italian counterpart, which had been "semi-pro" from its start.
Even though contents were lifted from the American source publication(s) in translation, for both foreign-language versions applied that neither of them were quite clones thereof, as they also contained original Italian/German-initiated content.
==Issues==
100-110 | 111-120 | 121-130 | 131-140 |141-150 | 151-155
For issues 1-99, see Star Trek: The Official Fan Club Magazine	For issues 1-99, see Star Trek: The Official Fan Club Magazine	For issues 1-99, see Star Trek: The Official Fan Club Magazine	For issues 1-99, see Star Trek: The Official Fan Club Magazine
Issue # 	Month 	Cover 	Contents
100 	/ 	 	 
101 	February/ 	 	 
102 	May/ 	 	 
103 	July/ 	 	 
104 	October/ 	 	Interviews: Merri D. Howard, Barbara March, Gwynyth Walsh.
105 	/ 	 	 
106 	March/ 	 	 
107 	June/ 	 	 
108 	August/ 	 	 
109 	November/ 	 	 
110 	January/ 	 	 
111 	March/ 	 	 
112 	May/ 	 	 
113 	August/ 	 	review, turbolifts, designing the , villains, Star Trek: The Experience, Interviews: Rick Berman, Marina Sirtis, Robert Beltran, André Bormanis
114 	/ 	 	 
115 	February/ 	 	 
116 	April/ 	 	 
117 	June/ 	 	 
118 	August/ 	 	 
119 	October/ 	 	 
120 	/ 	 	 
121 	February/ 	 	 
122 	April/ 	 	 
123 	June/ 	 	 
124 	August/ 	 	Special DeForest Kelley memorial issue; DS9 and Voyager season reviews
125 	October/ 	 	 
126 	/ 	 	Brannon Braga, Marina Sirtis and Dwight Schultz discuss ; Robert Beltran interviewed; 20th anniversary of Star Trek: The Motion Picture; Marco Palmieri, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Jeffrey Lang, Michael Jan Friedman, Susan Wright, S.D. Perry, Karen Rose Cercone, Judith Reeves-Stevens, and Garfield Reeves-Stevens discuss The Lives of Dax
127 	February/ 	 	Special time travel issue, CCG finalists, Klingon Hamlet, Interviews: Rick Berman, Harve Bennett
128 	  	 	 
129 	  	 	 
130 	October/ 	 	 
131 	/ 	 	 
132 	February/ 	 	 
133 	June/ 	 	 
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134 	August/ 	 	 
135 	October/ 	 	 
136 	/ 	 	 
137 	April/ 	 	 
138 	June/ 	 	 
139 	August/ 	 	 
140 	October/ 	 	 
141 	/ 	 	 
142 	February/ 	 	 
143 	April/ 	 	 
144 	June/ 	 	 
145 	August/ 	 	 
146 	October/ 	 	 
147 	/ 	 	 
148 	February/ 	 	 
149 	April/ 	 	 
150 	June/ 	 	 
151 	August/ 	 	 
152 	October/ 	 	 
153 	/ 	 	 
154 	February/ 	 	 
155 	April/ 	 	Final issue
===Starship replica exclusives===
A number of "limited edition" cold-cast resin Star Trek starship miniatures, measuring from eight to twelve inches in length, were produced in 1996 by Legends in 3 Dimensions for the fan club and sold through mail order around the turn of the millennium. Advertised as fanclub exclusives and retailed through issues of the Star Trek Communicator magazine, these replicas were also sold at Las Vegas' Star Trek: The Experience, with editions limited to 2,500 models per ship. 
The series consisted of replicas of the , Deep Space 9, Klingon Bird-of-Prey, , , and , the latter mastered by its designer, John Eaves.
A small pewter miniature of the was also retailed by mail order through Star Trek Communicator magazines during the same era. Produced by Rawcliffe in 1997, the miniature was a homage to the legendary gaming miniatures released by former licensor FASA over a decade before, and was duly executed in the approximate 1:3900 game scale.
The Captain's yacht miniature was produced by an unknown manufacturer and executed in PVC rather than cold-cast resin, and like the T'Plana-Hath, was designed and mastered by John Eaves. Limited to 5000 pieces, the Cousteau model came with a stand that resembled the vessel's dedication plaque.
As with the Playmates Toys version of the ship, the upright position of the yacht's nacelle pylons (while in flight mode) was changed to a downward cant by 's producers after the products had been mastered, resulting in discrepancies between the onscreen appearance of the ship and its contemporary miniature replicas. Eaves also commented that the ship's deflector array had undergone some late modifications for use in the film. 
File:Legends In 3 Dimensions Star Trek ships.jpg|Legends in 3 Dimensions' starships and station, sold through Communicator
File:FASA-Rawcliffe RF16 RPG miniature USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E 1997.jpg|Rawcliffe's RF16 USS Enterprise-E miniature, sold through Communicator
File:Official Star Trek Fan Club Starships.jpg|John Eaves' Captain's yacht Cousteau, sold through Communicator