TV Guide

Real world article

(written from a production point of view)

TV Guide is a US publishing company that publishes a weekly mini-magazine about television programming. These magazines features covers relevant to television shows airing that week. Star Trek covers have appeared on many of these magazines, starting with the issue dated 4-10 March, 1967.

Two influential articles on Star Trek, written by noted science fiction author and scientist Isaac Asimov, have originally appeared in the magazine while Star Trek: The Original Series was still being aired,

"What Are a Few Galaxies Among Friends?" (26 November 1966, pp. 6-9)
"Mr. Spock is Dreamy!" (29 April 1967, pp. 9-11)

In addition to their weekly guide, TV Guide occasionally publishes collector's edition magazines. To date, they have published four based on Star Trek:

Prior to the airing of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's final episode "What You Leave Behind", TV Guide released four different covers featuring all of the main cast members. Around the same time, TV Guide called Deep Space Nine "the best acted, written, produced, and altogether finest… Star Trek series". (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion, p. ?)

Cover gallery[]

1960s[]

Issue	Cover(s)	Cover story
4 March 1967		William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy of 'Star Trek'
24 August 1968

1990s[]

Issue	Cover(s)	Cover story
31 August 1991
18 July 1992
2 January 1993
24 July 1993
31 July 1993
4 September 1993
18 December 1993
15 January 1994
14 May 1994
8 October 1994
14 January 1995
29 April 1995
15 July 1995		The shooting for this cover took place on Monday 8 May 1995, the fourth day of filming on VOY: "The 37's". According to the call sheet, the shooting took place at Paramount Stage 9. Also shot on this day was a TV Guide roundtable with all series regular cast members at the captain's ready room set on Paramount Stage 8.
7 October 1995
17 February 1996
24 August 1996
10 May 1997
8 November 1997
10 April 1999
29 May 1999	Avery Brooks Nana Visitor and Rene Auberjonois Alexander Siddig, Colm Meaney, and Cirroc Lofton Nicole deBoer, Michael Dorn, and Armin Shimerman	Space's Final Frontier: It's an out-of-this-world farewell as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine reveals a galaxy of surprises.

2000s[]

Issue	Cover(s)	Cover story
29 July 2000
19 May 2001
25 August 2001		Star Trek Exclusive! First look inside the ship plus meet the new crew. Enterprise looks back to bring forth the legacy of Kirk and Picard Covers 4 and 5 only available through tvguide.com.
20 April 2002		Star Trek 35 years! 35 Greatest Moments! 35 Covers!
17 April 2005
24 July 2006		The Ultimate Sci-Fi Preview. Star Trek Exclusive: Lost creator J.J. Abrams talks for the first time about this new Trek movie.