In what is certainly one of the most ambitious feats in magazine publishing history, the April 20th issue of TV Guide® (on newsstands Monday, April 15), will salute the 35th anniversary of the Star Trek franchise with a record 35 collector's covers. The 35 Star Trek covers surpass TV Guide's previous record of 24, which was the number of Simpsons covers produced on October 13, 2000.

Each cover of the special Star Trek issue will feature one or two characters from one of the five television series: Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Enterprise. The 35 covers are arranged as six interlocking sets, one for each of the five series, and a sixth featuring three of the top villains of the franchise.

Click here to see the covers of the five captains.

As a special bonus, five covers, each one featuring one of the Star Trek captains from each series, will be autographed by all five lead actors who portrayed captains — William Shatner (Captain Kirk), Patrick Stewart (Captain Jean-Luc Picard), Avery Brooks (Captain Benjamin Sisko), Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway) and Scott Bakula (Captain Jonathan Archer) — and will be available only on eBay, beginning April 12, with all profits benefiting Rosie O'Donnell's For All Kids Foundation. One of the covers will be available each week for five weeks, beginning with the cover featuring Scott Bakula of Enterprise. Each Friday, a new cover will become available in the following order: Mulgrew, Brooks, Stewart and ending with Shatner, available beginning May 10.

Rosie O'Donnell established the For All Kids Foundation, Inc. in 1997 to provide financial support to nonprofit programs servicing economically disadvantaged children and their families. Since its inception, Rosie's For All Kids Foundation has helped thousands of children across the country through more than 1,500 grants to child care, after-school, literacy, health care and other essential nonprofit programs. The foundation's main focus is center-based infant and toddler child care and preschool programs, and first priority is given to organizations serving low-income urban areas, where many families struggle to find affordable, quality care.

The TV Guide cover story counts down the 35 greatest moments in the 35-year history of the Star Trek franchise on television. TV Guide rates the best of the best including such tragic moments as William Shatner's Captain Kirk watching Joan Collins' Edith Keeler die, and gut-wrenching scenes such as Jonathan Frakes' William Riker giving the order for the U.S.S. Enterprise to open fire on its own captain after Patrick Stewart's Captain Picard had been kidnapped and assimilated by the Borg.

Star Trek actually lent itself to another TV Guide milestone when it was the subject of the magazine's ground-breaking first set of multiple, collectible covers. The August 24, 1996 issue of TV Guide featured four different covers, each featuring a different Star Trek captain, and celebrating what was then the upcoming 30th anniversary of the franchise.

TV Guide will continue its salute to Star Trek's 35th anniversary with the release of "Star Trek: A Timeless Guide to the Trek Universe," a special standalone publication hitting newsstands on May 6. Details of the publication will be announced in the near future.

A preview of the Top Three Greatest Star Trek Moments is as follows:

1) "All Good Things..." (Star Trek: The Next Generation, May 23, 1994)
The series that re-launched the Star Trek phenomenon closes with the crew's regular card game, plus one unexpected guest — Captain Picard. His officers are puzzled, as he has never come to play cards with them before. He looks around the room at his crew and whispers with regret and affection, "I should have done this a long time ago." Deanna Troi answers with warmth and sincerity, "You were always welcome." Picard smiles, begins dealing and speaks the final 11 words of the series, "So. Five-card stud, nothing wild. And the sky's the limit!" as an overhead camera shot pulls off the room and then off the ship and the series comes to a close.

2) "The City on the Edge of Forever" (Star Trek, April 6, 1967)
Kirk travels back through time to Depression-era America to prevent McCoy from inadvertently causing disastrous changes to the future, but falls for social worker Edith Keeler (Joan Collins). It turns out that Edith must die in an accident for history to be made right, otherwise the Nazis will win World War II and the Enterprise will never exist. Kirk agonizingly holds McCoy back as Edith steps in front of an oncoming truck, and Kirk is left with a heartbroken look as he realizes what he has done.

3) "The Best of Both Worlds, Part I" (ST: TNG, June 18, 1990)
The image of Picard as a Borg is shocking enough, but it's Riker's giving the once-unthinkable command to kill his captain and friend in the final moments of this season-ending classic that causes a collective gasp among the Trek faithful.

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