{"id":8757,"date":"2010-04-05T17:53:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T00:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=8757"},"modified":"2010-04-05T17:53:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T00:53:13","slug":"star-trek-magazine-fanzines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/04\/star-trek-magazine-fanzines\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek Magazine: Fanzines"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the beginning of the Star Trek<\/em> franchise, fans wanting to continue their own Star Trek<\/em> voyages wrote stories and submitted art to fanzines for the benefit of their fellow fans.<\/p>\n

Some of today’s Star Trek<\/em> authors and artists got started in fanzines, which lead some to professional careers.<\/p>\n

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In the latest Star Trek Magazine<\/em>, issue #25, available now, the history of fanzines is detailed, and some familiar names of today were contributors to those eagerly awaited publications. “Although fans probably know her best as the co-writer of many Star Trek<\/em> non-fiction titles and co-editor of Pocket Book’s Strange New Worlds<\/em>, Paula M. Block<\/strong> was at one time a contributor to Warped Space<\/em>, a fanzine that lasted an impressive ten years with more than fifty issues.”<\/p>\n

Another famous Star Trek<\/em> fan name is that of Bjo Trimble<\/strong>. “The famous Star Trek Concordance<\/em> (1976) written by superfan Bjo Trimble began life as a fanzine publication by Dorothy Jones Heydt<\/strong> in 1968.”<\/p>\n

One of Star Trek Magazine<\/em>‘s own wrote regularly to a popular fanzine. “Larry Nemecek<\/strong> (author of The Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion<\/em> and co-writer of the story for the Voyager<\/em> episode Prophecy<\/em>) was known to write letters during the 1970s to TREK: The Magazine for Star Trek Fans<\/em>. In fact, his TNG guidebook began as a fanzine concordance and was read by the writers and producers of the television show (the shuttle Nenebek from TNG\u2019s Final Duty<\/em> was named for Larry by Jeri Taylor<\/strong>).”<\/p>\n

The quality of fanzines varied, from ones that looked like they came from the mimeograph machine in the teacher’s lounge at school, to slick professional-looking magazines. “Sometimes fanzines became so professional in editing and design that they were difficult to distinguish from licensed publications. TREK<\/em> was edited by Walter Irwin <\/strong>and G.B. Love<\/strong>, and is arguably one of the most successful and professional Star Trek<\/em> fanzines.<\/p>\n

“Beginning in 1975 and running for nearly 20 years, TREK<\/em> produced consistently impressive art, parodies, poems, interviews, behind-the-scene treatises, academic articles, and fan fiction. The most popular articles were eventually collected into 18 The Best of TREK <\/em>books published from 1978 to 1996. Some of the features of TREK<\/em>, such as ‘Reader’s Mysteries’ where fans would write in to ask about inconsistencies between episodes or just nitpick were so popular that modern and official Star Trek<\/em> publications continue to have similar columns.”<\/p>\n

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