Beam me up Scottie! Fortean Times #215 will be out on news-stands from this Friday, and the latest issue focuses on Star Trek. Here’s the rundown of articles:
- From Deep Space to the Nine: What happened when Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry was hired by an occult organisation to write a movie preparing humankind for first contact with aliens? David Sutton examines the strange history of Lab Nine, Spectra and The God-Thing.
- The Science of Star Trek: NASA physicist David Allen Batchelor offers his personal view of the feasibility of Star Trek’s scientific basis and the possible future for its technology.
- Do you speak klingon?: Star Trek’s most popular aliens have triggered the development of an artificial language. Jen Ogilvie explores the world of the Klingon tongue and those who speak it.
- Conventional Wisdom: David Sutton boldly goes where no FT editor has gone before: undercover at a Star Trek convention. His three-day mission: to seek out the meaning of a modern cultural phenomenon enjoying its 40th aniversary.
- Photographing Phantoms: The Brown Lady of Raynham Hall has been held up as convincing evidence for spectral forms. FT’s ghostwatcher alan murdie re-examines long-forgotten files and reaches his own conclusions.
- 9/11: The Video: It is now five years since the terrorist attacks on New York’s World Trade Center and Jack Sargeant finds many alternative explanations on the Internet, video and DVD.
Head to the Fortean Times website for further information, or for some great free articles from past issues.
