"I Don't Think You Should Do That, Dave"

The LNAF was a fan club for the Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy. They published fanzines and newsletters and every year would put out a Yearbook collecting fanfic, news, articles and essays. The year is 1978 and for most fan, the computers of Star Trek are decades away. Except for one fan whose husband discovered that his computer was not all that impressed by his gaming strategy.

Dear Diary...The Image Was Too Powerful To Hold In My Memory

I found this on tumblr today:

The text above and below reads:
"SOMEONE WENT TO A STAR TREK CONVENTION IN THE 1980’S AS SPOCK AND KIRK’S PENISES I AM NOT MAKING THIS SHIT UP

THEY PERFORMED SPIRK THROUGH INTERPRETIVE DANCE."

I remember making this screencap for the Fanlore page. Wonderful to see it being re-discovered again and again.

And speaking of memories….Memories (or the lack of them) is one of the many reasons for Fanlore to exist. I watched the skit on videotape with my friend Sandy in the 1990s…I know this because she wrote a post to Virgule, the slash mailing list describing our glee and joy and hysteria. An email which I found 20+ years later tucked away in a folder. But in 2011, when someone asked me about the Dancing Penii, I had no memory of the skit. Or ever having watched it.  The image must have been too powerful to hold in my memory.  So I began researching in order to add more history to the Fanlore page. And that's how the screencap and Kandy's description of the skit  found its way there.