Re the intrusion into fandom: Harve and Pocketbooks were involved in Interstat (and vice versa) - many letters were (indirectly) aimed at them to get them to change something in the movies or the pro tie in novels or TNG (which aired for the last 3 years of Interstat ). Many of the fan writers who subscribed to Interstat were also the pro tie in novel writers and they argued back and forth about both their novels and zines. So it has been interesting to see some of the same Observer Effect patterns play out decades earlier.