Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 8
Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 2, Issue 8 was the thirty-second issue of , a " Special" with alternate collector's edition cover, published in  to commemorate the release of the "Director's Edition" DVD. It was the fifth of ten total collectible covers in the magazine's run.

Content

Interviews
 Robert Wise, pp. 14-17
 Director of 
 Stephen Collins, pp. 18-22
 Captain Will Decker
 David C. Fein and Michael Matessino, pp. 24-26
 The Director's Edition
 Foundation Imaging, pp. 51-61
 Director's Edition VFX
 Making it Match: Blending old and new footage
 Sounding Right, p. 62
 Douglas Trumbull and John Dykstra, pp. 63-69
 Visual Effects: 1979
 Robert McCall, pp. 70-73
 Illustrator for the movie 
 Harold Livingston, pp. 82-83
 Writing the first Star Trek movie
 Matt Jefferies, Richard Taylor, and Andrew Probert, pp. 84-87
 Redesigning the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
 Richard Taylor, pp. 90-96
 V'Ger: The Living Machine
 Harold Michelson, pp. 97-99
 Production Design

Articles
 Finishing the Movie, pp. 12-13
 Spock and Xon, pp. 27-28
 The Vulcan who never was
 Persis Khambatta, pp. 29-30
 The late actress who brought Lt. Ilia to life.
 The Memory Wall, pp. 88-89
 A sequence deleted from the movie
 The Props, pp. 100-101
 Collectables, p. 109
 Star Trek Stories: Tell Montgomery Scott What To Do!, p. 112
 Teaching a legend to fly - James Doohan pilots the shuttlepod

Briefings
U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 Refit, pp. 31-51
Main Bridge
Main Engineering
Blueprints
Engineering suits
Willard Decker
Lieutenant Ilia
Environmental Suits: 2271
Phaser: 2271
Communicator: 2271
2270s Tricorder
K'T'Inga-Class Battle Cruiser, pp. 74-81
Main Bridge
Blueprints
V'Ger, pp. 102-107
Voyager 6

Gallery 

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