Dan Madsen
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Dan Madsen is a publisher and past president of the Official Star Trek Fan Club. In 1979 at the age of 18, he attended a showing of Star Trek: The Motion Picture and fell in love with the movie, leading him to begin publishing a fanzine. In 1982, Paramount Pictures and Gene Roddenberry contacted him and asked him to license his newsletter. After doing this, it became the 'Star Trek: The Official Fan Club Magazine (later Star Trek: Communicator).
Around 1986, he formed the company FANtastic Media and began running the Star Trek fan club. He was also the president of the official Star Wars fan club, eventually making a cameo appearance in the first Star Wars prequel.
He received special thanks in the credits of Journey's End: The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation and appeared in the Star Trek 25th Anniversary Special for an interview.
After selling FANtastic Media to Decipher in 2001, he eventually moved out of the publishing and fan club businesses.
