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JAMES BOND STARWARS Meet Bil SLEEPY HOLLOW NOW & AGAIN Devilish FARSCAPE BEASTMASTER Marc Singer remembers I . Postage & Handling: USA Please add $19.95. Account No California residents add 8 1/4% sales tax. : Card Expiration Dale: t Cash Check CI Vbur Daylime Phone (_ 'J Money Order [_l Discover Master Card Q| Visa Print Name As It Appears On Your Card : I I I L 1 L I l Li L Sard cash, check or money order So: Stariog group, Inc. __Buffy $129 475 Park Avenue South New york, NY 10016 Limited Edition Figures City Please indicate quantity being ordered. Angel $129 Your Signature NUMBER 271 FEBRUARY 2000 THE SCIENCE 22 SURVIVING FLIGHT 180 FICTION Here's a movie that won't earn you frequent flyer miles UNIVERSE® 29 ALIEN INVASION: PHASE II The First Wave continues for series creator Chris Brancato 32 IN THE YEAR 2525 Cleopatra wakes up to a brave new world of SF adventure 38 007 ON HOLIDAY? Exhausted superspy Pierce Brosnan is ready for a rest 43 THE FASHION IN DEATH James Bond's women are all dressed up with no one to kill 47 TOM HANKS SPEAKS He's once again making a splash talking as Woody 53 THE DEVIL & DR. THEO Now & Again, Dennis Hays- bert tempts the hero he created 58 HUNTER OF THE DARK Vin Diesel paints this nightmare action Pitch Black 63 CLASSIC BEASTMASTER Heroic Marc Singer talks to animals & fights the lizards 66 MEET BIB FORTUNA Behind the mask of Jabba's major domo is Michael Carter 72 SPACE COWBOY Ben Browder ventures to Farscape and beyond 76 CALL HIM ICHABOD in Sleepy Hollow, they still remember Johnny Depp STARLOG: The Science Fiction Universe is published monthly by STAR LOG GROUP, INC., 475 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016. STARLOG and The Science Fiction Universe are registered trademarks of Starlog Group, Inc. 82 BICENTENNIAL PLAN (ISSN 0191 -4626) (Canadian GST number: R-124704826) This is issue Number 271. February 2000. 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Other fans and advertisers respond to her commentary regarding Janeway's W.R. MOHALLEY sometimes contact readers whose letters are printed here. personal life. To avoid this, mark your letter "Please Withhold My Editor I wholeheartedly agree that it is time for the DAVID MCDONNELL Address." Otherwise, we retain the option to print it. producers to focus on the woman behind the uni- Write: STARLOG COMMLOG Managing Editor 475 Park Avenue South, 8th Floor form and allow her to show her "human" side. KEITH OLEXA New York, NY 10016 However, if they intend to do so in the most obvi- Special FX Editor or E-mail: manner providing her with a love interest, ous by DAVID HUTCHISON communications @ starloggroup.com then they should pair her with her First Officer, Commander Chakotay. Aside from the magnificent Contributing Editors ANTHONY TIMPONE THE NAME GAME chemistry between Mulgrew and Robert Beltran, MICHAEL CINCOLD ...I've been reading STARLOG non-stop since which has been publicly acknowledged by the TOM WEAVER IAN SPELLING issue #6. 1 was 14 at the time and was in awe of the actors and producers from the start, from the char- talent you showcased every month. So it was of acters' point-of-view it makes much more sense Consultant special significance to read my own name in that Janeway would choose to develop a relation- KERRY O'QUINN Joe ship with someone she already knows and cares STARLOG's pages in an article on Crusade by Senior Art Director Nazzaro. I've spoken to Joe on many occasions. for. JIM MCLERNON After Crusade's unsurprising demise, I'm Given their circumstances—stranded so far Art Director happy to announce that I've been asked to join Star from home with limited resources—it makes little RICK TENC Trek: Voyager as set designer and occasional illus- sense that Janeway would invite a stranger to join West Coast Correspondents trator. Anyway, I just wanted to say thanks! her crew simply because she has romantic feelings MARC SHAPIRO Tim Earls for him. It would hardly boost crew morale to have BILL WARREN Star Trek: Voyager a stranger on board Financial Director: Joan Baetz who serves no pur- Marketing Director: Daniel Sierra MOVIE pose other than as the Circulation Manager: Maria Damiani MYSTERIES captain's paramour. Art Staff: Yvonne Jang, John Dins- IAE THINKS WE KEEP NOT dale, Dmitriy Ostrovskly, May Yung, ...I just wanted to write It would also require Ivette Zapata. and thank you very UNSTAJ&GLlMG THESE the writers to inte- Staff: Debbie Irwin, Dee Erwine, Jose Soto, Sunny Witchel, Shane French, character much for the extensive JrESVWE UGHTS TU1S ^EAK grate a new correspondents: (West coast) Kyle coverage of Mystery into a show that Counts, Pat Jankiewicz; (NYC) Mike McAvennie, Maureen McTigue, Joe wonderful, already has nine Men.