I've not seen a issue of Communicator since Enterprise went off the air....is it still around at all? I was hoping their ship articles would get to the Dominion Battlecruiser (as I've yet to see good references for the ventral side), but it looks like they got cancelled with Enterprise.
Anyone know?
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Well I checked out the Star Trek Fan Club Store and this issue was being discussed on the forums. Apparently the Magazine is being released bi-monthly and is said to always be late in terms of release dates. I have not heard of it being cancelled.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Hmm....there really is a lot of things (tech/ship wise) they could go into without re-hashing stuff from ST:TM or Fact Files.
Many ships were never really covered and just when we started seeing great stuff luke Sternbach's article, the old mag got canned. I'd love to (for example) see good schematics and a scale established for those Cardassian weapons platforms...
...and who better than us to debate them, I ask?
I may have to start a thread...
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Sooo...it seems pretty dead to me. BOth Barnes & Noble and Borders say they no longer carry it (here anyway).
So, unless I want to subscribe (yeah, riiight) I'll not see another issue.
Posted by Captain Boh (Member # 1282) on :
I think they owe the guys that print it money or something
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Yeah, because they cant afford it...though they can afford Barbie magazine and six kinds of horror/SFX movies that never sell.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
Barbie Magazine? Seriously?
How the hell could you write a monthly magazine about Barbie? I can see the Nitpicker-type questions from readers now... "In the ad for the new Barbie dolls in the September issue, Barbie's breasts are noticably larger than in the ad seen in July. Can these illustrations be considered canon, and if so, does this imply that Barbie has undergone breast augmentation in the last few months? -barbie_fan7746, Piedmont, WI"
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
I really dont understand the Barbie thing either....but then, there's also several electric railroad mags, five or six action figure mags, a Pokemon magazine and one dedicated to 12" "figures" (the old G.I. Joe dolls and the more recent army dolls that grown men still play with...er..."collect").
Hmmm..I've seen a Yu-Gi-Oh magazine as well.
Really, I can (sorta) fathom stuff like that if it's the big craze of the year (like Yu-Gi-Oh was, I guess) but Borders has an entire rack of weird shit that I see stacked up endlessly each time I go there.
That means the Communicator's sales must have really sucked hard if Barbie is still carried and it is not.
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
But I bet you still have fantasies about Barbie in that red yeoman's outfit. Admit it, its the Smithers in you.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
No....though I could easily see many real women in that costume.
Robin Meade from CNN for example....(drools)
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
There are, of course, Star Trek Barbies for those hungry for a crossover.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Yes...from back when Paramount was riding high on the whole "25 years" thing.
Back when they schlocked out any silly thing and the fans (supposedly) bought it.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
The X-men/Star Trek cross over comic? GAH!
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
What's worse- they did two of them.
Greedy Paramount bastards.
Posted by Captain Boh (Member # 1282) on :
Alot of those magazines also double as price guides, don't they?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
I guess so- I've never fanned through Barbie magazine, but some of the action figure mags have prics (how the make these prices up is beyond me).
If you ever want spoilers on upcoming sci-fi movies, just look through the action figure mags- the toys have to be done well in advance of any movie release, and the mags get the first pics of the toys.
I recall seeing what Doc Ock looked like (from the last Spider Man movie) almost a year before the trailer was released. Same with a lot of the LOTR stuff.
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
admit it...you thought the panel where a someone asks Dr. McCoy a question and both the Beast and Bones both answer and look quizingly at each other funny.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
You mean in Toyfare? I love that! That's what Robot Chicken started as, you know.
The best is a strip wherein the Baroness is pissed at Tomax and Xamot (who are sitting on her sofa drinking beers), and she's saying "When is your brother going home? He's been here two whole weeks!"
One of the twins replies "Two hole weeks is right! Ha!" The other says "Can we say that?
Soo very messed up.
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
The Star Trek Communicator, the official magazine of the Star Trek Fan Club, has ceased publication, and subscribers will be refunded their payments.
Decipher, which had published the official fan magazine, made the announcement on its web site. "Decipher Inc. will not publish the Star Trek Communicator magazine after Issue #155," wrote company president Cindy Thornburg. "We are in the process of developing a program to access and process subscriber data, calculate refunds, and post to subscriber accounts." Instructions for refunds will be mailed to each subscriber.
As previously reported, the company faced lawsuits and numerous letters from fans complaining about delays in publication and lack of available information about a schedule. Editor Larry Nemecek said that Decipher would cease publication of the magazine, but told fans at a convention this summer that "Paramount will not let the Fan Club and magazine die."
On the Comic Boards, frequent Communicator contributor Kevin Dilmore told fans that he was "confident that you should not completely write off the Communicator's future just yet."
Dilmore said that the goal at the Communicator had always been to create a magazine that people would want to buy. "When they don't, that sends a message: Either people are not as interested in Star Trek as a whole anymore, or that they're not as interested in the magazine as a whole. In either case, that's enough for a company to decide to cease publication."
He added that, should publication resume with another publisher, he hoped that fans would let the new management what kind of material they wanted to see included.
Stick a fork in it, it's done.
Crap.
B.J.
Posted by Nim (Member # 205) on :
quote:"you should not completely write off the Communicator's future just yet"
Aah, I remember the last sentence in a certain favorite old book of mine;
quote:All these things, with some very surprising incidents in some new adventures of my own, for ten years more, I shall give a farther account of in the Second Part of my Story.
I've got all day, Defoe! *thumpthumpthumpthump*
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
"She's dead Jim"
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
"I've got all day, Defoe! *thumpthumpthumpthump*"
Defoerebuts.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
I'd rather see "The Further Adventures of William Defoe".
Or not.
Really, it's no big shock, I mentioned that Borders and barnes & Noble had dropped the mag months ago- and unless they were to go with a hardcore technical journal type of thing (which we'd love but would probably not sell real well), they had run out of anything new to publish.
Still, tey had some nice ship articles- except that inaccurate Nebula which, frankly, sucked my asshole.
Posted by Johnny (Member # 878) on :
Eww, didn't need to read those last three words.
Anyway.. Lawsuits? I know Americans have a reputation for suing at the drop of a hat, but who takes legal action over a bloody magazine being delayed?
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Who even buys magazines anymore?
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Well, when the internet's down, the porns gotta come from somewhere...
Posted by B.J. (Member # 858) on :
I'm just wondering what the heck you were doing up and online at 5:09 AM Miami time?!??
B.J.
Posted by Aban Rune (Member # 226) on :
quote:Originally posted by Johnny: ... who takes legal action over a bloody magazine being delayed?
Advertisers. Probably.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
quote:Originally posted by B.J.: I'm just wondering what the heck you were doing up and online at 5:09 AM Miami time?!??
B.J.
Scanning and setting a press for a 10K print job. Nothing fun, unfortunately.