INSIDE THIS ISSUE 21 MOURNING BECOMES HER 54 TASTING WORMTONGUE As Elektra, Jennifer Garner loves dueling with Bad guy Brad Dourif adds delicious evil to Daredevil Middle-Earth 26 WILD THING 58 COMES THE MESSIAH Laughing all the way, Victoria Pratt gets feral Ruling over all, Alec Newman fathers the on Mutant X Children of Dune 30 MAKING DREAMCATCHER 63 AT MUTANT WAR Feel cold chills when Stephen King's alien On the X2 set, Marvel's movie heroes face new invaders arrive challenges 36 GOODBYE TO ALL THAT 70 THANK GOD I'M A FAN BOY Lani Tupu considers his life & times out on Buffy's Tom Lenk doesn't understand all the the Farscape in-jokes 40 SCORPIUS, RYGEL & ME 74 HOLLYWOOD ADVENTURES Director Andrew Prowse truly charted For Edward Albert, acting is just the family fantastic television business 46 PETER JACKSON SPEAKS 81 MANNIX IN SCI-FI LAND The filmmaker has no life other than Lord of TV detective Mike Connors had a touch of the Rings genre action NEXT ISSUE ON SALE APRIL 8 guys and have the possibility to see them. For President/Publisher the moment this is all, because my complaining NORMAN JACOBS will not affect in any way how broadcasters in Italy decide to air certain programs instead of Executive Vice President RITA EISENSTEIN others. I'll just have to bleed myself dead to find the money to buy all the DVDs. Ciao to all! Executive Art Director Doris Mascherin W.R. MOHALLEY Italy Mail simply can't be forwarded. Other fans & Editor DAVID MCDONNELL advertisers may contact readers whose letters are SIGNS OF THE TIMES printed here. To avoid this, mark your letter Art Director "Please Withhold My Address." Otherwise, we ...As an autograph collector, I can surely sym- HEINER FEIL retain the option to print it. pathize with Page E. Lewis in #307. I differ Managing Editor Write: STARLOG COMMLOG I ask for auto- from her, though, in that an ALLAN DART Park South 475 Avenue graphed photo when I send a fan letter—which 7th Floor Contributing Editors I hope they like—and I send it by registered New York, NY 10016 ANTHONY TIMPONE mail. With the exception of Terry Farrell—from MICHAEL CINGOLD or e-mail: [email protected] whom I have autographed pix from her DS9 and TOM WEAVER IAN SPELLING Becker stints the only other freebie that I have — JOE NAZZARO THE VIEW FROM ITALY from anyone resembling a Star Trek star is from ...I wanted to drop you a note. After reading Natalia Nogulich (Admiral Nechayev). The Consultant KERRY O'QUINN Commlog for years now, I decided that it was problem isn't only with Trek actors, however: about time to write to you. My name is Doris Joanna Cassidy once sent me a free signed Associate Art Directors DINSDALE and I'm an Aussie living in Italy. On and off, photo. Now she's charging $20 a pop. JOHN DMITRIY OSTROVSKIY I've been following STARLOG for ohh... about James Clink 15 years. A couple of years ago, I finally sub- Glendora, CA Financial Director DEB IRWIN scribed so as not to lose any issues. Executive Assistants: Dee Erwine, You Americans are so Phillip cenessle, Nicholas Holden. Correspondents: (West Coast) Kyle lucky with all these SF Counts, Pat Jankiewicz, Kim Howard programs. I just shudder Johnson, Rhonda Krafchin, Bob Miller, Marc Shapiro, Bill Warren, Dan at the thought of what we Yakir; (NYC) Dan Dickholtz, Mike get here in Italy. Of course, McAvennie, Maureen McTigue, Keith we've seen Star Trek and The Olexa; (Boston) Will Murray; (Phoenix) Bill Florence; (Orlando) Bill Wilson; Next Generation. Deep Space (Canada) Peter Bloch-Hansen, Mark Nine is finally in reruns and Phillips; (England) Anne Gay, Stan Nicholls; (Booklog) Penny Kenny, Voyager is showing its fourth Jean-Marc Lofflcier, Michael Wolff; season. Who knows ;/—and (Toons) Kevin Brockschmidt, Alain "Big Bad Bubba" chaperon, Mike when—we'll see Enterprise? Fisher, Tom Holtkamp, Bob Muleady, Babylon 5 Season One aired Jason Yungbluth; (Photos) Donn Not- many years ago and then last tage, Lisa orris, Jo Beth Taylor, Glenn & Scott Welner. year we saw Years Four and Special Thanks to: Ben Affleck, Five. Who knows what the Edward Albert, Trevor Albert, Shawn Ashmore, Charles Barile, Kym Barrett, powers that be did with Sea- Michael Broidy, Jeff Chiaravanont, sons Two and Three? And Aisling Clancy, Karen Clifton, Terrl conners, Mike Connors, Bill Corso, Farscape: Forget it. I doubt Brian Cox, Carol Cundleff, Brad Dou- we'll ever see it. Earth Final rif, Guy Dyas, Jason Flemyng, Jennifer Conflict: lust Season One Garner, Jennifer Garnick, Alex Gor- don, Howard Green, Andy Heidel, and then. ..nothing. I read in Kelly Hu, Jon Hutman, Hugh Jackman, STARLOG about all these Peter Jackson, Mark Steven Johnson, Lawrence & Mark Kasdan, Lana Kim, fantastic SF series and movies and wonder if us CORRECTIONS: Leah Krantzler, Tom Lenk, Jackie Italian SF lovers will ever be as blessed as you A computer gremlin eviscerated—and ren- Lopez, Mike Nelson, Alec Newman, dered unreadable—the two photo credits on last Albert L. Ortega, Owen Paterson, Tom Phillips, Paul Picemi, Victoria Pratt, issue 's Contents Page. They should have read: Andrew Prowse, James Dale Robin- Photo: Courtesy Blanc Communications Corp. son, Teryl Rothery, Newton Thomas sigel, Bryan singer, Carol spier, Emily Pig, And Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Spitale, Patrick Stewart, Lisa Stone, Tweety, Sylvester, Yosemite Sam, Pepe he Pew, Lani Tupu, Jeff Walker, Hugo Weaving, Shane west, Peta Wilson. 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Ruditis also —Dr. Harleen Quinn, Birds of Prey penned a recent Enterprise novel, Shock- wave (he, $19.95). STUPID MOVIE DECISION April and May bring a two-part tale by OF THE MONTH J.G. Hertzler (who played DS9's Klingon Paramount: Maybe five days before General Martok) and Jeff Lang, The Left The Two Towers wasn't the best time to Hand ofDestiny #1 & #2 (pb, $6.99 each). release even a pretty good entry in the fad- No Surrender, the Star Trek: S.C.E. ing Star Trek film series. Wouldn't Octo- Omnibus Book 4 (pb, $6.99) collects e- ber or early November have been more book tales of the Starfleet Corps of Engi- strategic dates to unleash Nemesis! neers—including "Past Life," a story by former STARLOG editor-writer Robert TRIPLE REALITY STUPID Greenberger—in actual, rather than elec- TV DECISION tronic, print. OF THE MONTH Carrie 2, Slaughterhouse Five and Big Trou- Our friends at Newmarket Press are A second consecutive nod to Fox, ABC & ble in Little China. He also worked in TV as publishing two more screenplays of note the WB for cancelling recent genre shows a writer and producer {The Untouchables, in April: Gods and Monsters: The Anno- and then treating audiences to the replace- Peyton Place, 12 O'clock High) and scripted tated Script by Bill Condon (foreword by ments: the alternate "realities" of Joe Mil- the 1979 Salem 's Lot mini-series and the first Clive Barker, intro by Sir Ian McKellen) lionaire, The Bachelorette, Celebrity Mole: "V" regular series episode ("Liberation and Dreamcatcher: The Shooting Script Hawaii, High School Reunion and The Sur- Day"). by William Goldman and Lawrence Kas- real Life. And, yeah, we know almost all of John Mantley (January) The veteran TV dan (with an intro by them & Stephen them are hits. Sigh. producer of Gunsmoke, How the West Was King). These two volumes are both Won and MacGyver, who was most signifi- $18.95 in tpb; Dreamcatcher is also avail- STUPID STARLOC cant to SF fans for his tours of duty produc- able for $26.95 in he. In May, Newmarket DECISION ing The Wild Wild West and the second unleashes X-Men 2: The Illustrated Story OF THE MONTH season of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. & Screenplay (intro by director Bryan That title? What the devil is a WIZ- He scripted the 1957 SF movie The 27th Singer, $19.95, tpb; $40 deluxe he, which BANG anyhow? Well, other than an Day based on his own novel and "Behold, includes gatefolds).