1984: LANE SMITH "V" INTERVIEW in ENTERPRISE INCIDENTS

From March 1985: A V: THE SERIES interview with Lane (Nathan Bates) Smith from ENTERPRISE INCIDENTS. 

Smith was a venerable TV and movie trouper, often cast as unsavory or unscrupulous business or political leaders (indeed, I was watching the original RED DAWN over the weekend and there he was as the town mayor... also an untrustworthy collaborator name of Bates. It's easy to believe the movie influenced the thinking of the weekly series, especially episodes like The Wildcats). His others great genre TV contribution, playing somewhat against type, was as Daily Planet editor Perry White in LOUS & CLARK: THE NEW ADVENTUTUES OF SUPERMAN the next decade.

This interview must have been carried out early in his run as manipulating businessman Nathan Bates in the ill-judged weekly incarnation of the NBC invasion franchise. He was one of a number of cast members (arguably all the most interesting characters... Or expensive talent) jettisoned in the mid-season purge which coincided with a hefty budget cut and simplified (LA as an "Open City" governed by Bates becomes a all-out war zone, albeit with a budget too small to realistically realise it) format. The writing was on the wall. 

The show was cancelled the following year. 

He was nominated for a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Nixon in the 1989 ABC teleflick THE FINAL DAYS. 

Smith died, aged 69, in 2005. 

The now-professional EI, having jettisoned its origins as a TREK fanzine was already tranisioning into SF MOVIELAND by running both logos. 

1984: ENTERPRISE INCIDENTS Issue 14

From February 1984: ENTERPRISE INCIDENTS issue 14.

From circa issue 12, EI's remit expanded so that it was no longer just a TREK tie-in, although (as this cover shows) the publishers were careful not to alienate their existing fan base by moving to far to fast. 

1984: ENTERPRISE SPECIAL COLLECTORS EDITION Issue 5 (NMP)

From November 1984: the eye-catching cover (it's the Enterprise burning up in orbit above the Genesis Planet from STAR TREK III: THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK) from the fifth (of six) ENTERPRISE COLLECTORS EDITIONS.

This reprints the seventh issue of the original run, first published with a different cover (art of a fleet of Romulan Warbirds) in 1981. 

1983: ENTERPRISE SPOTLIGHT Issue 4: STAR WARS

From 1983: ENTERPRISE SPOTLIGHT issue 4, dedicated to STAR WARS.  

This is where I need a bit of help.  This seems to be a spin-off from ENTERPRISE INCIDENTS or, possibly, ENTERPRISE... the magazine that seems to have replaced (or appeared alongside) EI circa 1983.

This seems to be (based on my admittedly basic web search) a pretty much unrecorded branch of Trek publishing, so it would be nice to gather more information.  

There were clearly three issues prior to this one (and possibly more after) but I can't find anything about them online. 

Anyone able to provide a potted history of EI/ ENTERPRISE/ ENTERPRISE SPOTLIGHT?  Any high-res cover scans would also be a welcome addition to STARLOGGED (or... alternatively... if you are willing to sell at a reasonable price)...

1984: ENTERPRISE INCIDENTS SPECIAL COLLECTORS EDITION Issue 4 (NMP)

From July 1984: ENTERPRISE INCIDENTS SPECIAL COLLECTORS EDITION number four, reprinting the sixth issue of the original run. 

1984: ENTERPRISE INCIDENTS COLLECTORS EDITION Issue 4 (NMP)

From April 1984: the third (out of six) issue of ENTERPRISE INCIDENTS SPECIAL COLLECTORS EDITION magazine.

This one reprints the fifth issue of the original run... EI must have significantly increased its page count with that issue as it still runs roughly the same length as the previous Collectors Editions, which each crammed two old issues in. 

1984: ENTERPRISE INCIDENTS SPECIAL COLLECTORS EDITION Issue 2 (NMP)

From January 1984: the second (of six) issue of ENTERPRISE INCIDENTS SPECIAL COLLECTORS EDITION, reprinting (from the late Seventies) issues 3 & 4 of the original fanzine.

Note the nostalgic Forbidden Planet 2 green price sticker (see my other post today for more) and apologies for the dealer sticker top-left. 

1983: ENTERPRISE INCIDENTS SPECIAL COLLECTORS EDITION Issue 1 (NMP)

From November 1983: ENTERPRISE INCIDENTS SPECIAL COLLECTORS EDITION Issue 1.

Regular Starloggers might be forgiven for thinking that this is a re-post (which does sometimes happen)... but this is actually a new purchase.

I've already got a copy of the first issue of EI from 1976 (see: here) but this is a 1983 reprint (the first of six... of which I was able to get five) that compiles the contents of the first two original issues.

We're still in fanzine territory here (EI evolved into a general SF magazine by the early eighties) but it has a nice mix of original art and press clippings.  The latter are now nice historical curios which are unlikely to surface (at least in print form) anywhere else.