Volume 2, Number One 1995
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Volume 2, Number One 1995 Welcome to LogBook's all-Babylon 5 special, the if you haven't already. There is every indication that perfect counterpart to August's all- Trek issue. This this series, despite its pre-planned finite life span, could issue, since it will be a couple more months before well be analyzed and studied in the future as there are new episodes to chronicle, is going out a bit extensively as any incarnation of Star Trek; that it is early (hopefully enough to compensate for the fact that the first special effects-heavy, space-based science fiction our Trek special got out rather late). series to survive this long without the benefit of the Additionally, since this guide contains the complete words Star Trek in its title is a milestone in itself. record of 05 from premiere to episodes that haven't This guide is specially constructed to bring you up even aired yet (thanks to the generous sharing of to date - of course, while it's no substitute for watching storylines from British fans who got to see season two's the show yourself, we hope it'll get you interested final four episodes two months ahead of their U.S. enough to do so. counterparts), it's the perfect place to get hooked on it This is also the penultimate issue of LogBook. EDITORIAL nLAOTGABBOAONKK Now, Go Forth And Bring Me...AnotberShrubbery! .y...rlGree.. Birthdays Since the B5 issue is coming along so well, and the all- Trek issue September I, 1914: Robert Wise, director of Tbe Day the ElI.rtb came in so late and turned out to have a page less of Trek than Stood Still and the first Star Trek movie, among many others. planned, I decided I'd finish off September's edition early and fire September 14 [year unknown): Bruce Hyde, also known as Lt. them off as a double issue. That way, you also wouldn't have to Kevin Riley from the original Ster Trek. One ...more ...time! wait a month for the details of August's" Sayonara, LogBook" blurb. September 14, 1936: Walter "Chekov" Koenig, now unleashing So here you go. telepathic nastiness as Psi-Cop Bester on Baby/on 5. It's amazing somehow that this publication managed to stay on September 17, 1857: Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, grandfather of the the map for over a year. And in another way it's amazing that it Russian space program and, with Oberth and Goddard, a pioneer of won't stick around for another year, because I feel it's gotten better rocketry. with every issue. September 22, 1944: Frazer Hines, Doctor Who's popular Scottish But a1l things must end. Due to a combination of dwindling sidekick Jamie through all but a couple of Patrick Troughton's readership, lack of cooperation from some computer network stories in the late sixties. moderators whose forums were the best promotional option we had, September 23, 1949: Rosalind Chao (Keiko O'Brien on Next and my own finances not exactly improving, the great experiment Generstion and DS9). must come to a close. September 25, 1952: Mark: HamiJl. I've made some preliminary preparations for an online edition to open up shop on the LogBook we? site, but l:m holding ~ff. on . Historical Data - Pioneer 11's "Division Bull" going much further; I am not making a comrmtment to this Idea right September I, 1979: Saturn received its first man-made visitor as now. Due to matters that require my attention in real life and a Pioneer II passed within 21,000 miles of the planet's outer rings; gradual loss of interest in the kind of "professional fan" lifestyle that originally it had been proposed that Pioneer dive through the I've been living for the past several years, I thought now would be a "Cassinidivision," an apparent gap in the rings visible from Earth. good time to put the 'zine on hold until further notice. When you're Not a good idea, since the "division" is actually composed of dense, doing Trek at home, Trek at work, and even your cats pester y~u to very dark chunks of rock and ice; the Voyagers figured this out in show thema1l the Spot episodes of Next Generation one more lime 1981...from a safe distance! Pioneer toox six years to travel from 'except for that one where Spot turns into an iguana because it scares Jupiter to Saturn, whereas Voyagers I and 2, which were them, it's quittin' time. approaching Jupiter at this time in 1979, used that planet's immense There's a real good chance LogBook simply will not return. gravity to slingshot their way to Saturn in only two years. Sorry. September 3, 1976: Viking 2 landed in the Utopia Planitia region of Sti1l, in the meantime, I think we've accomplished a lot. And Mars, a relative flatland area often mentioned as the future there's still one issue yet to come, which will run the gamut from construction site of the Enterprise in Star Trek: The Next Ap01l0 13 to Power Rangers (no jokel), Batman to Doctor Who, and Geuerstion. Viking 2 was launched on September 9, 1975. a1l that wacky, zany, neat-o stuff you've come to expect. One more September 5, 1977: Voyager I was launched on its way to Jupiter time. and Saturn, trailing behind sister probe Voyager 2 but reaching So, what was LogBook? I think it was an interesting fan Jupiter first. Original plans called for Voyager 1 to make an publication that took a more serious than usual look at what's on the unusual slingshot around Saturn to arc into a trajectory that would air, peppered with occasional bits of silliness, some real live science allow a rendezvous with Pluto, the only planet we have not seen up and space exploration news, and some real live opinions. I think it close, but Congressional trimming of NASA's budget denied us looked good (we1l, until I decided to stick with the copier at work perhaps the only opportunity for such an exploration in most of our after Kinko's screwed me over big on one occasion), with graphics on lifetimes. Yet another reason to thank the guys in the capitol a level that most fan publications can't afford to attempt. building. Hopefu1ly it was good for you guys too. (Wait a minute. Let September 8, 1966: NBC premiered a science fiction series called Star me rethink my wording there ...) Trek; the episode in question was The Mao Trap. It's probably So ends the story - it's been fun! See ya one more time in a still running in some form somewhere. month. September 12, 1959: man reached the moon ...well, sort of. The Luna 2 probe launched by the Soviets achieved more bragging rights And now for a word from a fellow fanzine: than scientific facts. It slammed into the moon's surface, the first Planet Walk has been' producing a quality 24 page, bi-monthly man-made object to "land" there. fanzine since 1993. Join us, since we are now bigger than ever! 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(Foreign: $4.75) Planet Walk's address: (c)1995 GFP (Glutton for Publishment) Planet Walk 5230 Barcelona NIXT ISSUE ...we'li examine Apollo 13on the screen, on disc, in print and in Little Garland, TX Rock ...reviews of the latest Doctor ltWlo videos ...and Inside Them tries to answer the 75043 question ...just who does Zordon think he is?!? All this and more in the final issueof LogBook! BABYLON 5 3 Complete Episode Guide, Part I (1993-1995) from the Babv/on 5 LogBook computer file by Earl Green Babylon 5 created by J. Michael Straczynskl The Pilot Movie - 1993 in the movie. Another curiosity: dose examination t John Snyder (Soul Hunter #2), Toni Aueu (Med Tech the station in the pilot film reveals th~t the cobra b #t), Jim Bentley (Man), Mark Conley (Tech #1), David doors from which the fighters launcb to the series ar D.