Magazines in the future

[F. King Daniel]

I randomly caught a bit of Search For Spock on TV the other day, and in Rand's cameo during the Enterprise docking sequence, there's a magazine on the table on the far right of the screen! Kinda cool to know they still exist in Trek's world.

Does anyone know what the magazine is? Was it a random generic prop magazine, or maybe something specially made?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Rolling Stonn

 

[Melakon]

The Mission: Impossible series always had Barbara Bain on the cover of a fictitious Elite magazine during the dossier sequence. Maybe they used one of those.

 

[Avro Arrow]

It was the latest issue of Obsolete Publications.

It's very meta.

 

[cardinal biggles]

It was a copy of Starlog's Star Trek III: The Search for Spock collector's magazine. Hey, if they can watch the movie before it's over in Spaceballs...

 

[F. King Daniel]

I checked out HD screencaps on Trekcore, it's called "FLIGHT"

It was a copy of Starlog's Star Trek III: The Search for Spock collector's magazine. Hey, if they can watch the movie before it's over in Spaceballs...

 

[Franklin]

I randomly caught a bit of Search For Spock on TV the other day, and in Rand's cameo during the Enterprise docking sequence, there's a magazine on the table on the far right of the screen! Kinda cool to know they still exist in Trek's world.

Does anyone know what the magazine is? Was it a random generic prop magazine, or maybe something specially made?

Magazines, maybe. But a newspaper lying there would've stretched believability too far.

 

[dstyer]

I checked out HD screencaps on Trekcore, it's called "FLIGHT"

It was a copy of Starlog's Star Trek III: The Search for Spock collector's magazine. Hey, if they can watch the movie before it's over in Spaceballs...

I'm looking at what appears to be an ashtray in front of the magazine...really?!?

 

[Franklin]

I checked out HD screencaps on Trekcore, it's called "FLIGHT"

It was a copy of Starlog's Star Trek III: The Search for Spock collector's magazine. Hey, if they can watch the movie before it's over in Spaceballs...

I'm looking at what appears to be an ashtray in front of the magazine...really?!?

That was my first thought too, so I looked at a larger picture on another website. It's just a bowl, but a bit of leaf overlaps it in a way that looks like there's an impression in it for a cigarette. Now what the it's doing there is yet another question. It's hardly decorative. Does is hold complementary Starfleet candy? Potpourri?

 

[Leto_II]

Back in the '80s, the FASA RPG published an "in-universe" 23rd century magazine as part of an adventure module:

 

[trekshark]

an ash tray might not be out of place. Apparently smoking still occurred in starfleet at that time as there are signs banning smoking in certain areas
http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/?p=1643

 

[Peach Wookiee]

So that's where Cowboy Bebop got the idea...

 

[Melakon]

Isn't there a No Smoking sign during the Bridge Simulator scenes of TWOK? People might still be smoking, but they might not be smoking tobacco.

eta:
Looking at a pack of Marlboro Black that I have right now, the word tobacco isn't even on the box.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Back in the '80s, the FASA RPG published an "in-universe" 23rd century magazine as part of an adventure module:

I have that one! I've also got the fan-produced Starship Design mag.

 

[Maurice]

It's FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, probably from the 70s or early 80s given the logo and the square bordered photo. Here's an example of a cover from that era (link).

 

[F. King Daniel]

It's FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, probably from the 70s or early 80s given the logo and the square bordered photo. Here's an example of a cover from that era (link).

Awesome! Thank you!

A little Googling has shown me that Flight International had some fantastic cutaway diagrams of planes. I can totally imagine a 23rd century issue featuring the diagrams from the Haynes Enterprise manual, which are in the exact same style.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Bump! I found the issue, it's for the week ending 26 June 1980. Cover scan here.

 

[SPCTRE]

Holy attention to detail, Batman!

 

[Orphalesion]

I often wonder if people's eyes in the future don't hurt fromreading everything on screens all day, though i suppose if modern computer/ebook reader screens aren't as damaging to the eyes anymore as older monitors then the 24th century might even have come up with completely comfortable screens. However the tendency they have to superimpose brightly colored text on black screens even in the 24th century makes me wonder about that.

In short with replicators what they are in ST there is nothing that speaks agains somebody replicating the latest online magazine (or whatever the equivalent is) into a physical copy. On journeys books and magazines can be preferable to e-book devices you can fold them, cram them way at the bottom of your bag, accidentally sit on them/drop them/fall asleep on them without them getting broken and they are less likely to be stolen (though the last point would be moot in utopian starfleet)

 

[tharpdevenport]

I think it's more along the lines of somebody on set, perhaps one of the two actors, reading between takes and the continuity person not noticing the magazine when filming commenced.


It's how we get digital watches on people in old history films, airplanes in the sky of old westerns, etc.