Engage! (Star Trek TNG zine published by Craig Lawler)

Engage! is a Star Trek: TNG club zine published by the official Patrick Stewart Fan Club.
 
==Issue 15==
Engage! 15 
* has an illo of Patrick Stewart as "Dixon Hill," artist is Gabrielle M. Wrubel
* it has a front cover by Renee Bowe
* reviews for Patrick Stewart "on Broadway"
* other unknown content
==Issue 16==
Engage! 16 was published in April/May 1992 and contains 24 pages.
* this issue focuses on "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour," a play performed February 15-16, 1992, directed by Patrick Stewart, starring many of the ST:TNG cast and the Orange County Symphony in Garden Grove, California, includes many clippings from newspapers, a photo of the cast, a reprint copy of the play's program
* fan club member, Christina Bangle, writes about seeing Patrick Stewart in the play "A Christmas Carol," performed in Pasadena, CA last December in "Stewart Fan Sees the Light"
* this newsletter has "entered into an exchange," their "first FOREIGN club exchange"; it is with the Austrian Star Trek Association of Fans (ASTAF)
* notices of Patrick Stewart's Creation Con appearances
* a reprint of a form letter by Patrick Stewart highlighting his accomplishments and plugging Amnesty International
* a full-page illo of "Dixon Hill" by Renee Bowe
* a newspaper clipping of fans giving tribbles to old people in nursing homes
* some fan ads
==Issue 17==
Engage! 17 
==Issue 18==
Engage! 18 was published in August/September 1992 and contains 18 pages.
* interior art of Patrick Stewart as Robin Hood, Renee M. Bowe is also the artist
* a couple of LoCs praising the fanzine
* a con report for the April 17th Creation Con, focus is Patrick Stewart
* several updates on what Stewart has been up to professionally
* a full-page publicity still of Captain Picard
* a full-page ad for several Creation Cons
* a newspaper clipping about Wil Wheaton
* a cast photo of "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour"
* two different full-page ads for many ST:TNG photos for sale by fans
 Image:engageofficial18.jpg| cover of issue #18, Renee M. Bowe -- the editorial remarks that "this drawing is taken from the "Parade Magazine" photo that appeared in the last issue of "ENGAGE!"
Image:engageofficial18-1.jpg|illo by Renee M. Bowe
==Issue 21==
Engage! 21 was published April/May/June 1993.
==Issue 22==
Engage! 22 
==Issue 23==
Engage! 23 was published October/November/December 1993 and contains 22 pages. The cover art is by Elizabeth Trach.
* includes a handwritten note by Patrick Stewart welcoming new members to the club
* a fan says that because of Stewart's "incredible portrayal" in the episode "Chain of Command," she has sent money to Amnesty International
* several LoCs from fans praising the newsletter (everyone loves it, no one has any criticism or suggestions), one fan asks why Patrick Stewart is referred to as Mr. Stewart in it, rather than the informal Patrick: "For me, he'll always be Patrick." 
* a full-page photo of Patrick Stewart and the fan club president and newsletter editor, Craig Lawler
* many large photos of Patrick Stewart, taken by Craig Lawler, August 14, 1993 (at a con)
* a fan's testimonial about meeting Patrick Stewart
* many updates about Stewart's professional going's on
* a full-page ad for fans to join a new fan club, the Shuttle Oberon NCC 2002-05 out of the Sacramento Valley/Sierra Foothills area of California 
* a full-page reprint of a previous Engage! 1992 cover, this one signed by Stewart
* "You Saved the Future Once -- Help Do It Again! A Plea from Majel Barrett Roddenberry": 
Image:engageofficial23-1.jpg|inside page from issue #23
Image:engageofficial23-2.jpg|inside page from issue #23
Image:engageofficial23-3.jpg|inside page from issue #23
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 23==
==Issue 24==
Engage! 24 was published January/February/March 1994 and contains 18 pages.
* "What's Patrick Been Up To?
* some letters to the editor about how helpful the fan hotline is, how good the newsletter is, and what a good person Patrick Stewart is
* three fans write of their experience of seeing Stewart in the play "A Christmas Carol" at Pasadena's Cal Tech Beckman Auditorium
* this issue has several full-page clippings of ads featuring Stewart, two full-page publicity photos, several clippings for play reviews, and a full-page ad for a 1994 charity calendar of celebrities and their pets
* this issue has two small fan-created illos
* some comments about Patrick Stewart's appearance on "The Tonight Show": 
==References==
Category:Star Trek TNG Zines
Category:1990s