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elf posted: Come watch Star Trek: TOS with us!

Galactic Journey has reached a momentous point in its travel through the past: This is the year Star Trek began. (Or rather, 55 years ago is when Star Trek began, because the Journey is 55 years ago today.) We're all very excited about the new show!

Last week, we watched both pilots & then the first episode via Discord stream, on Saturday, Sunday, and Wednesday. The plan is to watch it together every Wednesday at 8:30 pm, Eastern and Pacific (two showings), and we'd love more people to join us at Discord. (If we get lots and lots of people, we'll split to more streams.)

It's amazing to see the show in the context of the era.

I've been doing this and it has been a blast!

This Discord invite expires in 7 days
https://discord.gg/sKutYfB5

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1732594.html

catalenamara posted: KiSCon 2019 - approaching deadlines

Thank you to all who have signed up to be KiScon 2019 members. We are looking forward to seeing you in Seattle at KiScon 2019, November 1-3. Please ask your friends to come also!

Deadlines are approaching, so take note:

Memberships
We need a few more (full and supporting) memberships to reach our budget goals. To all of you who are planning on attending or who are still sitting on the fence, now is the time to become a KiScon 2019 member!

Go to KiScon2019.org and fill out the membership form.
Attending memberships are US$160, available until Oct 10th, 2019.
Supporting Memberships are US$60.

You can pay via PayPal or check; please get your membership now while you are thinking of it.

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1713399.html

Just received a notification about this survey. More details at the link below

".......a research survey for the University of Oxford. It is fully anonymous. It is geared toward Kirk/Spock shippers, but anyone in the Star Trek fandom is welcome to participate. It is especially important to get some fandom veterans. Here is the link:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QF9SC25

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1700500.html

Episode 113: Women in Trek Fandom: Jacqueline Lichtenberg

We’re joined by Jacqueline Lichtenberg – creator of the Kraith fanfic series, author of Star Trek Lives!, and founder of the Star Trek Welcommittee – to discuss everything from her professional writing career to her thoughts on the future of Trek fan culture.

Tags:fandom history, star trek, DWCrosspost

Tumblr post (this is likely a reblog, and may have more pictures over there)

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reactor_feed posted: Star Trek: Discovery Proves Captain Pike Passed One Test Kirk Failed

Last year, Captain Pike didn’t have a personality. Before Star Trek: Discovery’s second season, Christopher Pike was less of a character and more of an answer to a trivia question. But now, thanks in part to the new episode “Through the Valley of the Shadows,” Pike has become a completely rounded person. Not only does Pike’s decision in this episode make him one the bravest Star Trek captains ever, we now know he actually faced —and passed — one test that James T. Kirk famously screwed up.

Spoilers ahead for Star Trek: Discovery, season 2, episode 12, “Through the Valley of the Shadows,”

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1684296.html

reactor_feed posted: Star Trek: Discovery’s Pike and Spock Relationship Perfectly Sets Up Kirk

The male duo of Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock is famous; not only for being the most enduring on-screen bromance of all time, but also for birthing an entire subgenre of fan fiction. But Kirk…Kirk was not Spock’s first. What about Pike/Spock? How did Spock’s long relationship with Captain Pike prepare him, or guide him, or shape him into being Kirk’s best friend in the original Star Trek?

The second season of Star Trek: Discovery is answering that question right now, and actors Anson Mount (Pike) and Ethan Peck (Spock) both have very specific insights as to how their versions of Pike and Spock are creating the dynamic duo the original series.
Spoilers ahead for Star Trek: Discovery, season 2, specifically, episode 8, “If Memory Serves.”

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1677590.html

“The Online Exhibit

This online exhibit is organized based on type of work, such as art, needlework, other crafts, or publications. Given with each item’s photograph(s) is the 4-digit University of Iowa Special Collection number (MsC xxxx) that refers to the named collection in which the item located.

Original Art Work Housed in the Special Collections

Kwa Heri, Hadiya: Original art by Leslie Fish for Trinette Kern’s story “Kwa Heri, Hadiya” in The Other Side of Paradise #2 along with scans of the published story’s title page and the page with illo.(MsC …)

Source

Here is my personal story about the fanart. I came across the mounted pencil drawing at a fan event. It was left on the charity swap table ( table where fans recycle fan-related material. You then place cash in the charity donation paper cup.). It was near the end of the event and the art clearly had not found a home. We had no idea about the origins of the art, what story it was related to…or even if it had ever been used in a fanzine.

Fast forward to a few years later when I received a copy of the fanzine “The Other Side of Paradise #2” and was idly leafing through the pages and found the story and the art. What fascinated me was how they had transferred the art to the zine in an era (1977) when photocopying was not cheap or easy. The image transfer had also been reduced to fit the zine page. Before the area of word processing or computers, fanzines were typed up manually on typewriters and the art was then copied, cut and glued onto the pages. Then each page with art was copied and then those pages were copied to make the zine. No wonder zines had limited print runs. 400 copies of “The Other Side of Paradise” #2 were published and two weeks after it was published, it was out-of-print.

Here is a review from The Halkan Council #24 in April 1977

“Unquestionably, we have entered the era of value of money in Trekzines. TOSOP #2 may be the best bargain available at this particular moment, for quantity of high-quality work. It looks good and reads well, and it offers a variety of types of stories, articles, artwork and poetry; moreover, it provides the unexpected in the form of an unabashedly romantic vignette by Paula Smith and a Star Trek story by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Bradley further proves her versatility by providing, with the help of Walter Breen, an eminently logical ‘Vulcan Valentine.’…
There are two quibbles to be made about the construction of this zine. The reduction on most of the type is 1/3, which is still readable to me when I’m wearing my glasses instead of contacts. On pages with illustrations, however, the type has been further reduced, until is it too small for comfortable reading by those of us not blessed with 20/20 vision. The other problem is that this is the third zine in which Leslie Fish’s filksongs have appeared. Too many of us have already seen them, delightful as they are. The table of contents lists twenty-three separate items; rarely does even so large a zine provide that kind of variety. Those looking for fantasy (this is a combined fantasy/Trek zine) may be disappointed to find that the fantasy is confined almost entirely to the artwork; all the major stories and poems are ST. Most of them range from good to excellent, and there is simply not space to comment on all of them.
There is a plethora of fine style here; not a single story suffers from awkwardness. Genius Loci’ by Connie Faddis is the KIND of story that made the best Trek episodes, yet it finds a new and acceptable twist for putting the terrific trio through their paces. The Bradley story mentioned above shows us Kirk’s first few days aboard the Enterprise, when Spock and McCoy were strangers. There are two stories by Mandi Schultz and Cheryl Rice from their Diamonds and Rustseries, interesting, but suffering from rather obviously setting the readers up for information to be revealed in future stories. By the end of the second story, one is a bit peeved to still not know for whom Chantal IS working. Trinette Kern’s story has her hallmarks: one of the most readable styles in fandom, and pain. This time it is Spock and Uhura she’s getting. Unfortunately, to set up the circumstances for 'Kwa Heri, Hadiya.’ she completely distorts the character of Uhura – not to mention Spock! The most moving story in the collection is ’T'Uriamne’s Victory,’ one of Eileen Roy’s alternate-Kraith stories. As the title suggests, it is a parallel to 'Spock’s Argument,’ only this time there is not a tie –T'Uriamne wins. Amanda, and all the other offworlders must leave Vulcan. What an Amanda we have here, strong, proud, independent, competent, intelligent! Roy twists us with wondering what Sarek will do, at the same time she is poking delightful fun at Kraith Vulcans – imagine a drunken Vulcan named Slieez! Indeed, there is much more, in this story, and in the zine as a whole. Buy it. “

Tags: fandom history fanart fan art university of iowa gempath's roadtrip fanzines

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1677387.html

To the Moon and Beyond

KiScon 2019 - “It’s A Go!”

Hilton Seattle Airport Hotel & Conference Center

Nov 1-3, 2019

The KiScon 2019 website is up and running - kiscon.org - and we invite you to join us in celebrating all things Kirk/Spock, Star Trek, and the 50th anniversary of the landing on the moon.

Please join us in Seattle for an “out of this world” weekend filled with inspiration and entertainment, discussion and creativity, fun and games. There will be many great activities: panels, workshops, cosplay, art and zines, vid shows (and vid karaoke!), an exciting art auction, several competitions, and of course: the famous KiScon banquet on Saturday night, featuring a lovely K/S cake (green peens optional). A more detailed program will be published closer to the event. You will have the opportunity to suggest activities and vote on your favorite panels etc.

Meet old friends and make new friends!

Attending and supporting memberships are now available! Go to kiscon.org to find membership and hotel reservation information.

If you are among our Early Bird members who signed up for KiScon 2019 during the last convention (KiScon 2017 in L.A.), you should have already received an email message with a specific registration form only for our Early Birds. If you have not received this message, please get in touch with us asap.

Spread the word, please! KiScon 2019 is happening and we’d love to have you on board!

Judy and Lari

Con-chairs
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Received a comment on the LJ crosspost

Subject: KISCON 2019 ezine
Greetings and Solicitations

I volunteered to edit this year's Kiscon ezine. Since we're getting a late start on the submissions I need to ask that you please DO NOT wait until October 1 to send me your stories. Instead, let's work on them over time starting now. Also, I don't have access to that Kiscon Gmail account so let's use this address until further notice: auntholly@cox.net. I look forward to working with you.

Holly, aka Carleen

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1676645.html

Posted in full at: https://ift.tt/2SVXj1Z on March 10, 2019 at 05:00PM

One of the things I like about second season Star Trek Discovery is how it is (subtly??) confronting one of my complaints about all the Star Trek reboots (film and TV). The shift from the original series “space and species connections and peaceful federation” to “conflict, confrontation and war is good”.

( Read more... )

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1675596.html

fanlore.org

The Awful Offal - Fanlore*

In which writer David Gerrold, a Harlan Ellison wannabe, takes aim at women, hippies, and Star Trek and Lord of the Ring fans who are ruining the purity of Science Fiction Fandom

The year is 1969…..and writer ~~Gerrold Ellison~~ David Gerrold pens a vitriolic attack on women, hippies and Star Trek and Lord of the Ring fans…

*The Fanlore link leads to a more detailed description and analysis of the essay. The essay contains mentions of sexual assault, rape, along with racist imagery.

[EDITED: What follows is lifted from the Fanlore article and from David Gerrold's Fanlore page].

"David Gerrold got his start in television with the sale of his script, ‘The Trouble with Tribbles’ (1967) to the Star Trek TV series. Since that time, he has written and co-written several other scripts for Star Trek. .......David Gerrold temporarily got over his disdain of Star Trek and its fans by personally selling many Tribbles at conventions until he stopped attending conventions in 2016:

I knew it was time for me to stop going to conventions when I showed up at one and there were thirty people selling Tribbles. You say to them, “You don’t have the right,” and they say, “Fuck you, you made enough money off Star Trek. Now it’s my turn.” This was the shift. In '72 or '73, you’d meet the fans, and they were grateful for the opportunity to meet people who worked on Star Trek. By '75 or '76, the attitude was “We own Star Trek now. The studio doesn’t care. We do.”

More excerpts from Fanlore article (which I did not write):

“The Awful Offal is a 4-page essay by David Gerrold.

Accompanying it is an illustration of Kirk and Spock created by Jerry Mayes. Another illo, a horribly racist cartoon by Maynes accompanies the essay on the last page. This illo does not appear to be directly related to the essay and is simply embedded random filler.

The essay was printed in the science fiction zine “Trumpet” #9 in 1969. A similar 1968 essay, one by Harlan Ellison, is The Words in Spock’s Mouth.

Gerrold’s essay starts with the provocative statement that “with the exception of Lord of the Rings, Star Trek is undoubtedly the worst thing that has ever happened to Science Fiction (note the capitals)…. [snipped] But lest, at some future con I be quoted out of context and get punched in the nose, or ostracized, or worse, I now reserve the right to elucidate upon the very definitely opening sentence of this essay.”

Gerrold makes much of the differences between “science fiction” and “Science Fiction,” and how uneducated, undisciplined fans of Lord of the Rings and Star Trek are ruining almost EVERYTHING.

He also employs the term “trekkees,” a very early use of this label. Replies to his essay in the next issue of “Trumpet” spell it “trekkies.” It is unclear if the spelling Gerrold used was a consistent typo by the editor, or Gerrold’s choice of words, and if it was the latter, was the double “ee” used because the term hadn’t been standardized, ignorance, or something else?

Some Topics Discussed

Star Trek fandom, science fiction fandom, Lord of the Rings fandom
Gerrold displays much misogyny, describing fans as stupid, panting little girls, bragging how he gets to “score” with aggressive females at cons, describes two female science fiction writers by their “Wow” looks, and much, much more!

“Any girl who comes to a con not expecting to be deflowered - or at least ravished a little - is not only in need of a shrink, but is obviously a spoilsport and unamerican as well.”
Lord of the Rings has had an “appalling effect” on Science Fiction, spawning terrible imitators, causing fans to dress in stupid clothes, and generally “looking backwards” rather than to the future and medieval knights and their ladies (Usually, all badly done.)“
gatekeeping and control, protecting one’s turf
fans and their ridiculousness, the stupidity of the masses
fans’ inability or refusal to recognize and be grateful to the actual writers of television shows (rather than the actors) ^[1] who give them the shows they love; television writers get no respect for the creative, sensitive, hardworking geniuses they are
the essay has an effusiveness of the phrases "shit” and “shit head”
hippies and their wrong adoption of Robert Heinlein’s book “Stranger in a Strange Land”
Star Trek is worse than Lord of the Rings because it pretends to be science fiction
Gerrold invokes some name-dropping, at one point addressing Gene Roddenberry directly: “Believe me, Gene, I do [hold great warmth and affection for you] – you never re-wrote any of my stories – why should I hate you?”
Star Trek can be good but it is not great; it is good enough, however, to not make it a waste of Gerrold’s time to write about it
“The NBC vice-presidents are afraid of three things: Star Trek, science fiction, and people who are smarter than they are.”
Violence sells on television: “For God’s sake man – I’d rather have my kids watch four hours of stag movies than one hour of Saturday morning programming.”
“Instead of all those wonderful things television might be doing, we look forward to things like another season of nuns that fly – and boys who like to dress up as girls, etc. etc. (I can hardly wait…like, man, it’s the millenium [sic].) So, is it any wonder that a show like Star Trek which has the potential to be the greatest Science Fiction show on TV—no, make that the greatest show on TV—ends up being just another Voyage to the Bottom of the Barrel.”
“Here is a show which could have examined every aspect of mans’ inhumanity to man, made moral statements about every element of life – and instead finds itself just one more pseudo-adventure series, where the adventures are being conceived by stale old men who think science fiction is just like western – only you use phasers instead of Colt /45s…[Star Trek] is a show which promised to be very very good – and then the networks broke that promise.”
disses his own tribbles! “"These are the rabid little trekkees who got excited seeing a real tribble (damn it, it’s only a powder puff!)”
“…the networks have debased and prostituted the art of the drama until it is little more than a crowd-drawer for the traveling medicine show—and once the crowd has been sufficiently teased and tantalized, the patent medicine and nostrums go on sale…. How the hell can a creative artist survive when he’s supposed to be a brassiere salesman first, and then an artist?!!”
professional jealousy
Gerrold considers Ronald Reagan and George Murphy to be “fine actors”
“…The SHlT-HEADS!! What a perfect name for a group of fans!”

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EDITED 1/10/2019 [TO ADD A COMMENT FROM DAVID GERROLD LEFT BELOW]

Fandom Year 69

Date: 2019-01-10 04:48 pm (local)
From: (Anonymous)
May I comment?

That was 1969. I had just come off a very bad experience with the third season producer of Star Trek. I had just come off a very bad experience with several fans. I was new to fandom, I was young and inexperienced. I was angry. I wrote some stuff. I regret it now and I apologize for it.

I have learned better — as anyone who has read any of my more recent work.

I don't think it's appropriate to blame me today for mistakes I made fifty years ago.

Thanks for reading this.

David Gerrold
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EDITED 1/11/2019 [ANONYMOUS SUBMISSION]: To learn more about David Gerrold and his interactions with fandom I found:

https://fanlore.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_K/S_Fandom_by_David_Gerrold (1984)
https://fanlore.org/wiki/DraftTrek_Interview_with_David_Gerrold (1985)
https://fanlore.org/wiki/Somebody_asked_me_again_what_I_thought_about_K/S_fans (2013)

From 2015: David Gerrold on Star Trek and Social Justice http://www.jimchines.com/2015/02/star-trek-and-social-justice/

But I think this Fanlore section sums it up best: David Gerrold and Fandom: Sometimes Complicated

And if you want to read something amusing, I found this:

Gerrold as a Gateway to K/S and Slash
Some fans credit Gerrold with their introduction to K/S, citing his comments in the revised edition of The World of Star Trek.
A fan writes:
I first read about K/S in a rude comment in a David Gerrold book (thank you, Mr. Gerrold!) and then in fan literature. It sounded a little weird, but okay. When I actually saw some, I was hooked immediately. Now it's the only Trek I buy.^[13]
Another fan writes:
My involvement with K/S began in early '86. I'd been thinking/fantasizing about Kirk and Spock "like that" for ages... when I finally chanced upon Gerrold's famously funny remarks about the "K/S ladies'; - and practically jumped for joy! I wasn't alone!! The first zine I ever ordered was AS I DO THEE 2, and it was even more wonderful than I'd imagined K/S would be.^[14]
And another says:
Fascinating how many of us owe knowledge of fandom of K/S to David Gerrold. Haybe we should get up a petition of thanks, or something. ^[15]

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Edited 1/11/2019 [ADDITION FROM ME]

As much as I love to hear from new people, I don't have time to moderate or respond to comments,so I will have to turn them off. As time permits, I will include more links and thoughts as I find them

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1652627.html

From Fanlore:

"Roddenberry does a bit of 1966 cosplay. "A Romulan Commander? No. It's Star Trek's producer Gene Roddenberry in a costume from "Balance of Terror" at the 24th World Science Fiction Convention." -- printed in Cinefantastique #20"

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1651916.html

I am looking for copies of the vid shows from

Kiscon 2001
Kisocn 2004
Kiscon 2008
Kiscon 2010
~~Kiscon 2012~~
~~Kiscon 2017~~

I am also looking for basic info (playlists etc) for the Kiscon vid shows

Kiscon 2001
Kiscon 2004
Kiscon 2008
~~Kiscon 2017~~

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1609500.html

Posted in full at: https://ift.tt/2Gua2Xl on March 26, 2018 at 04:34PM

spockslash:

An open Tumblr letter to younger fans, from a 77-year-old TOS fangirl.....

* who has shipped Spirk since that night in 1967 that Amok Time first aired
* and helped storm NBC to keep TOS on the air for a 3rd season
* and wrote fanfic way back in the day
* and was privileged to be around for the earliest days of fandom, when Leonard used to come to your house if that’s where the fan club was meeting and sit on the sofa with you in that Spock hair cut and eat cake

All of you who are writing TOS/AOS fan fiction and creating fan art now: remember, YOU are the ones shaping the traditions of fandom. You have inherited the kingdom. Bless you for keeping it vibrant, growing, alive. In fifty years, you will be the ones who are remembered for molding it and handing it down to the future. It probably doesn’t feel like now, but you are making history.

Your current addiction to TOS and the feels you get when you contemplate the love between Jim and Spock will be with you for life. It won’t always be in the forefront; you will sometimes go years, sometimes go a decade, without Star Trek being more than a passing thought. But then something will remind you and every consuming feeling you feel right now will come rushing back, every bit as powerful and deep and strong as it is today. All there, right where you left it.

The friendships you make in fandom will be with you for life. Like all friendships, they will wax and wane as the focus of your life shifts over time, but you will always be able to pick up the thread. You will — to give you a hypothetical example — be 77 years old and discover Tumblr and get a rush of Spirk feels after a decade of not giving TOS a thought, and contact your 83-year-old fangirl friend in the nursing home, to whom you haven’t spoken in several years. You will open the conversation with, “So, Jim and Spock love each other and that just makes me so happy.” And your friend in the nursing home will sigh and say, “Yes. They do love each other. It’s such a comfort.”

That look that Jim and Spock give each other, of absolute adoration and acceptance and love? That’s real. It’s rare, but it’s real. One of my greatest joys in life is to see my son and his husband give each other looks like that. Of course I don’t know you; I don’t know your strengths and struggles or your place on the spectrum of gender or anything about your sexuality or what you look like or what your life has taught you to believe about yourself, but I do know this: YOU DESERVE TO BE LOVED AND LOOKED AT THE WAY JIM AND SPOCK LOOK AT EACH OTHER. Please don’t accept less than that in your life.

The future of our planet does not seem very hopeful at the moment. But please remember that when Gene created Star Trek, the world was in turmoil and the future seemed very bleak. Star Trek is, was, always shall be about hope. Reach for it. When TOS first aired, we hoped to see some form of a Starfleet on the horizon in our lifetimes. That vision must be passed on to you. Do it. Make the world worthy of launching the human race out into space. CREATE STARFLEET.

You are all creative and funny and amazing. Far more amazing than you know. Be kind to yourselves. Live long and prosper, kids.

Tags are in reference to my first bullet point. Meant as a kudos to your work, but feel free to untag yourself if you don’t want to be linked to my ramblings; I won’t be offended! (Also, this extends to a thousand other artists and writers out there who deserve kudos. tag at will.)"

The author of this October 2017 post passed away recently and if there is one blog entry that encapsulates her, it is this one.

LLAP

Tags:some of these may be borrowed tags, fandom history, fandom meta, fandom love, DWCrosspost, spockslash, star trek, kirk/spock, llap

Tumblr post (this is likely a reblog, and may have more pictures over there)

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1596293.html

Connie Faddis has graciously offered to allow us to post her fic online. For now, they will be available in PDF format download. If someone wants to convert them to html and post them on a fic archive, I'd be happy to put you in contact with her.

First up: The Place of Men-Made-Stone by Connie Faddis

Spock joins an anthropological landing party on a desert planet in hopes of a bit of R & R and ends up experiencing an episode from the planet’s past in which the indigenous Ummir drive the lizard-like Kivari to destruction for having enslaved them - creating the rock formations in the valley.

Dropbox link to PDF

Crossposts: https://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1578584.html

Syn Ferguson passed away on Dec 9, 2016. I reached out to her quilting group and they confirmed it (they did not provide any further details). She was 74 years old.

I had hoped to interview her for the oral history project this summer.

I've updated her Fanlore page and have added a Memorial section. Please feel free to share this news and encourage fans to add their memories to Fanlore.

https://fanlore.org/wiki/Syn_Ferguson

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1558796.html

My positional vertigo is not gone but lies lurking, ready to jump out at me like a jack in the box. Flying in planes and looking up or down seems to trigger it. The anti-vomiting meds are still effective.

I have had right ankle problems since April and have been working with a podiatrist to find a pair of shoes that will cushion my feet more. I already have custom orthotics and will need a new pair made. But I have been walking twice daily even with the right ankle pain. During my recent trip, I cut my walking in half and the pain went away. Unfortunately that level of walking = sedentary and I cannot maintain my current weight (nor my overall cardio health). A stationary or recumbent bike would be a good choice except I'd have to use low resistance and it hurts my back. To match the daily walks I would have to spend three hours a day on the bike. So I resumed my twice daily walks and now...

...now my left ankle is swollen and hurting and I cannot wriggle a few of my toes. Another visit to the foot surgeon surgeon next month. Last time he only took xrays and told me to start physical therapy for the right foot. I am still looking for a physical therapist who can handle EDS patients. So I am back to the walking very little and am finding that the increased sitting is making my back flare up. Jack in the boxes and whack a moles seems to be my thing nowawdays.

In short, I will continue to be preoccupied by health and may be distracted, extra cranky and may ignore you.

On another note: The only Star Trek series I did not watch from start to finish was Voyager so I have started that on Netflix.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1497553.html

I've seen this mentioned in numerous places but have not yet found the name of the case.

"Boldly Going Where No Copyright Claim Has Gone Before

One of the most notorious cases of copyright omission happened in connection with a little show called Star Trek— another NBC series, but this one a production of Desilu Studios. When originally telecast during the 1966-67 TV season, the entire first season’s voyages of the starship Enterprise aired without a single indication of copyright anywhere in the program.

It wasn’t until years later — and after Star Trek had metamorphosed from a short-lived cult TV show into a cultural phenomenon and highly prized commodity — that the copyright lapse even drew any attention. It was at the time of the advent of home video, when a number of small mom-and-pop outfits, believing that first year of Star Trekto be in the public domain, began selling copies of the episodes on videocassette.

Paramount, which had inherited the Star Trek franchise and produced the remaining two years of the series and all of its spin-offs after parent company Gulf + Western purchased Desilu in 1967, sought to regain exclusive rights to the first season by mounting a legal challenge to the little nickel-and-dime distributors that were circulating those first 26 episodes.

The upshot? Based on its existing copyrights on all subsequent Star Trek properties, Paramount won the right to retroactively copyright the entire first season of Star Trek, in the process, successfully suing all of those little companies — the ones that thought they were in the clear selling public domain shows — right out of business."
https://thegolddiggers.wordpress.com/2007/09/21/whose-show-is-it-anyway/

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1490571.html

The recording "T'hy'la" is a K/S filk song. We have been unable - so far - to ID who wrote it or who sung it. It does not help that the recording is poor. Having said this, we'd love to 'crowd-source" transcribing the lyrics. Below are 2 transcribed versions of the lyrics - questionable words are in brackets. If you're interested in helping, drop me a note or email me at mdawn6 @ yahoo.com and I'll send you the link to the file.

Version A

T'hy'la

You needed me now
I needed you then
The time has
come to [heal] again

CHORUS:
T'hy'la
my t'hy'la
:28 time marker
From a distant [year] you call my name
From a distant land I came

:40 time marker
Reach out
to me my brother
Call out my name in your
mind
No matter where I am I'll hear
you
seek me out and see what you find

CHORUS

1:15 time marker
I thought I could make it
without you
[Heritage can't be denied]
Somehow you reached out and touched
me
Somehow a part of me [cries]

CHORUS

1:45 time marker
[Away for 3 years from Vulcan]
Vulcan nature or thought
1:53 [Friendship] is something forever
Feelings could never be fought

CHORUS

You needed me now
I needed you
then
The time has come to [begin] again

Version B

T'hy'la

You needed me now
I needed you then
The time has come to [heal] again

CHORUS:
T'hy'la
my t'hy'la
:28
From a distant [year] you call my name
From a distant land [I kind]

:40
Reach out to me my brother
Call out my name in your mind
No matter where I am I'll hear you
[pick] me out and see what you find

CHORUS

1:15
I thought I could make it without you
Where have you cast me tonight
Somehow you reached out and touched me
Some how a part of me [cries]

CHORUS

1:45 [I'm very unsure about most of this verse]
A way for be it a Vulcan
Vulcan nature or thought
1:53 Stretch him is something forever
Feelings could never be fought

CHORUS

You needed me now
I needed you then
The time has come to heal again

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1483507.html

"Officer's tango, Kirk & Spock" (Watch on YouTube)

Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1WR0eEa at November 10, 2015 at 09:00PM
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j__8T_671BM)

Get a room?

This vid was shown at Kiscon 2015.

Vidder: parapandaful

Tags:vidder: parapandaful, vidding, kiscon, fanvid, star trek, kirk/spock, DWCrosspost
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Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1478206.html

"ADDICTED // kirk+spock (tos)" (Watch on YouTube)

Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1O2BqH8 at November 10, 2015 at 06:00PM
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fh_ucLZU4BM)

This vid was shown at Kiscon 2015. Like most viewers, I wish it was longer. NSFW

Vidder: BrTutty

Tags:NSFW, kiscon, star trek, kirk/spock, vidding, fanvid, DWCrosspost, vidder:BrTutty
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Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1478030.html

heresluck:

The Test (by here’s luck)
fandom: Star Trek reboot (plus bonus TOS)
music: The Chemical Brothers feat. Richard Ashcroft
summary: Now I think I see the light. Kirk, K/S.
originally posted: March 2010
see also: AO3 | DW | LJ
password: shining

This vid was shown at Kiscon 2015.

vidder: here’s luck

Tags:kiscon, Kirk/Spock, vidding, fanvid, star trek, vidder: here’s luck, DWCrosspost
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Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1477521.html

"Star Trek: Tik Tok" (Watch on YouTube)

Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1M3ldAR at November 09, 2015 at 09:00PM
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZWaWrvJ7nA)

This vid was shown at Kiscon 2015. Tomorrow will be the final day of Kiscon vid recs,

Vidder: MissSheenie

Vidder’s summary: Working on the Enterprise is pretty much a non-stop party as far as I’m concerned. (Probably because the only parts I pay attention to are the Kirk/Spock moments, Scotty when he’s drinking, Chekov when he’s macking on his girlfriend and doing no work, and Uhura singing and just HAVING A GOOF in general.

Tags:vidder:MissSheenie, kiscon, star trek, vidding, fanvid, DWCrosspost
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Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1477322.html

"Icarus | Jim Kirk [HD]" (Watch on YouTube)

Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1QpnDNm at November 09, 2015 at 08:01AM
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcW8IjEQ7k0)

This vid was shown at Kiscon 2015.

Vidder: Yunuen

Tags:kiscon, star trek, vidding, fanvid, DWCrosspost, vidder:Yunuen, Kirk/Everyone
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Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1477108.html

"Kirk/Spock - Star Trek Forever" (Watch on YouTube)

Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1NjdvQY at November 07, 2015 at 06:01PM
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgOHig0tYgw)

Vidder’s summary: Do not attempt to adjust your television set…
Signal interference with the past and present is normal. If crossing of alternate realities persists for more than 4 hours–god help you.

This vid was shown at Kiscon 2015. The complete list of vids is here: http://ift.tt/1SqKyHa

Vidder: Kerinaty’s channel

Tags:vidding, fanvid, kiscon, star trek, kirk/spock, vidder:Kerinaty, DWCrosspost
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Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1475603.html

"Common People-Kirk/Spock (Top Ten in Ship's Closet Video Contest :)" (Watch on YouTube)

Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1kho14j at November 07, 2015 at 10:00AM
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8ZNGzEIwUg)

This vid was shown at Kiscon 2015. It starts off very funny and then takes shift to pathos.

The complete list of vids shown at Kiscon 2015 is here: http://ift.tt/1SqKyHa

Vid by TheJAMFactor

Tags:vidding, fanvid, kiscon, star trek, vidder: TheJAMFactor, DWCrosspost
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Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1475155.html

"Star Trek - Last Friday Night *version 2*" (Watch on YouTube)

Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1WGmIb3 at November 06, 2015 at 07:00PM
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niRUpJEbVx4)

This vid was shown at Kiscon 2015. The full list is here: http://ift.tt/1SqKyHa

Vidder: Estalita11

Tags:vidder:Estalita11, kiscon, vidrec, fanvid, vidding, kirk/spock, star trek, dwcrosspost
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Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1474835.html

"[Star Trek] Kirk/Spock - another place and time" (Watch on YouTube)

Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1Q8m47f at November 06, 2015 at 06:00AM
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2Qc_JHU6Ug)

This AU vid was shown at Kiscon 2015. The full list is here: http://ift.tt/1SqKyHa

Vidder: MorraMorgenstern

Tags:vidding, vidrec, fanvid, kirk/spock, kiscon, vidder:MorraMorgenstern, DWCrosspost
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Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1474061.html

"【Star Trek】Spirk-Counting Stars" (Watch on YouTube)

Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1WARHuk at November 05, 2015 at 10:00PM
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LShCkPKgExE)

This vid was shown at Kiscon 2015. The full list is here: http://ift.tt/1SqKyHa

Vidder:Joe Jojo

Tags:vidrec, vidding, star trek, fanvid, kiscon, vidder:Joe Jojo, DWCrosspost, Kirk/Spock
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Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1473762.html

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Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1MmOecb at November 05, 2015 at 08:06PM

larissabernstein. KiScon 2015 - All the vid shows!:

I will be reblogging a few of these vids each day for the next week. Should be over by Tuesday.

Tags:kiscon, vidding, fanvid, DWCrosspost, star trek

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Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1473078.html

"[Star Trek] Kirk/Spock - his love will conquer all" (Watch on YouTube)

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Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1GNqw8A at November 05, 2015 at 08:00AM

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWEAo1xTinU)

This vid was shown at the Kiscon 2015 Star Trek convention.

Vid by MorraMorgenstern

Tags:kiscon, fan vid, vidding, vid rec, vidder:MorraMorgenstern, kirk/spock, DWCrosspost

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Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1472460.html

"Kirk/Spock - Save The Last Dance" (Watch on YouTube)

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Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1MJNoIv at November 04, 2015 at 11:22PM

(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qplvE-Wpk9Q)

The first of many vids from this year’s Kiscon vid show. The full list is here: http://larissabernstein.dreamwidth.org/30828.html

Vid by EimeoMoon

Tags:vid rec, vidding, fanvid, kiscon, star trek vid, Kirk/Spock, DWCrosspost

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Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1471934.html

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Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1NckOK9 at November 03, 2015 at 04:14PM

spirkian:

The cake.

Star Trek K/S fans held their annual Kiscon convention in Seattle this weekend. This is the celebratory cake, festooned with artwork from Courts of Honor. Courts of Honor was written by Syn Ferguson who was the guest of Honor.

Tags:Star Trek convention, fandom history, fanzines, Kirk/Spock, space husbands, DWCrosspost

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Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1469531.html

Posted in full at: http://ift.tt/1MlFVNS at October 09, 2015 at 01:01PM

bert-and-ernie-are-gay:

saathi1013:
So [my roommate from college]‘s aunt and uncle were old-school fen, back in the day. This is what she recently inherited:
Now, I’m going to omit credits on these, simply because some of the names of the artists may be their real names. Since what fandom was then is not what fandom is fandom now, and there’s a big difference between ‘publishing something in a limited-run mail-order printed fanzine in 1973’ and ‘posting it online where google can find it in 2015,’ my policy here is to add credits only if the artists request it (they can email me at this username dot gmail dot com).
Ready, friends?
Are you sure?
It gets better.
Aw, that’s…
…oh hey tentacles, nice to know some things were always classics.
“Draw me like one of your french girls” before Titanic was even a thing.
Is that Risa?
It’s gotta be Risa.
I actually really like this artist. Fortunately, they were fairly prolific:
You know what, I know what the context for this one and the next is, but they’re better without.
And then the classic ‘caught changing’ pinup, which I find much more entertaining than the reboot version:
And lest you think it’s all about the dudes:
…this is just a small sampling. I haven’t even got to the tentacle-penis pinup or the slavery AU or the “did they go to a Roman planet? and is that a crucifixion in the background of the kirk/spock snogging” pics. Or the tribble humping a wig stand. But this post is long enough.
There are some research library fanzine collections (Univ of Iowa and Univ of Texas specifically) that would LOVE to have those, eventually, if you felt like making sure they’d be preserved for fandom. Beautiful stuff, early slash fandom. Incredibly courageous.

Oh please donate them to either Iowa or TAMU. They’d both love them.

http://ift.tt/1huBsM0

The “prolific” artist is Gayle F (you can find more of her work on Fanlore).

Lots more info about all of these zines under the Star Trek zine categories.

http://ift.tt/1LbCJ34

http://ift.tt/1MlFVxB

http://ift.tt/1LbCLIe

http://ift.tt/1MlFVxE

Tags:fanzine archives, fandom history, star trek fanzines, star trek history, fanlore, university of iowa, texas a&m university, DWCrosspost

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Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1466142.html

I have blogged about fan made scrapbooks before. This weekend, I helped sort a fan friend’s papers (she passed away in November). In the bottom of a pile, I found her Star Trek themed notebook/scrapbook. On the first page she writes that the year is 1982: "I attended [several Star Trek] conventions. I had fun, purchased memorabilia, watched the bloopers but I have lost most of the souvenirs including a tribble…..I do not have fellow fans or others to share - now I am a lone fan. I am dedicating this book (which I intend to fill with pictures and autographs, ST quotes and personal memories) to Star Trek and what ST means to my life. I wish to not lose and forget something I enjoy so much.”

I do not know if my friend - Stacy Doyle - ever found her lost tribble. But I can say that 30 years later she was still in love with fandom and had made lifelong fan friends. For her fandom was a way of life (FIAWOL) and not just a teenage phase or passing hobby.

So in her words (and the words of so many other Star Trek fans): Star Trek Lives!

I may post excerpts from her notebook from time time. These excerpts are being used with her family’s permission.

#fandom #fandom love #fandom is a way of life #fiawol #fanlore #fandom history #Star Trek history #imagine the loneliness of being a new fan in the days before the Internet #digital preservation

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1421443.html

The early Star Trek conventions were fan produced and fan run. The conventions were hugely popular and thousands of people would show up. The history of some of these early fan conventions has been documented onFanlore, the fan run wiki here.

After the 1975 convention, fans wrote a filk song about their experiences.

A 1975 filk, “Battle Hymn of the 1975 ST Con” in Tetrumbriant #7, by “A Cast of Thousands” :

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the ending of The Con.

They were tramping out the carpet when the movies were not on.

They were pushing back the walls

the guests had rested hands upon.

Praise GhuG,* they are all gone!

Chorus:

Glory, Glory Roddenberry!

Praise GhuG, they are all Gone!!

They were lurking in the corridors

where Gene and Majel lived,

Our security arrangements were as leaky as a sieve,

Room numbers Committee didn’t know

Trekkies would gladly give!

Praise GhuG, they are all gone!

Chorus 3X.

Bill Shatner, owes his life,

to fen who’s names he’ll never know.

They are placing their fragile bodies,

where Trekkies want to go.

And all are deeply thankful

Leonard Nimoy did not show!

Praise GhuG, they are all gone!

Chorus 3X.

Our Guests were wont to wander,

where Helpers fear to go.

Dear George once tried to roam around

and thought no one would know.

We picked up what was left of him

and put him in the show.

Praise GhuG, they are all gone!

Chorus 3X.

Ike Asimov made speeches where he told

all he did know.

Jeff Maynard set up for six days,

to put on his Light Show!

Robert Lansing gave us extra work,

he knows where he can go!

Praise GhuG, they are all gone!

Chorus 3X.

There wasn’t much of Destiny,

her costume didn’t show!

The Vulcan Hooker, Patia

matched her blow for blow!

But the Helpers didn’t notice —

they were busy clearing rows!

Praise GhuG, they are all gone!

[snipped]

Chorus 3X.

Bob Lansing, Gene and Majel were all

drinking in the suite.

The Committee and Assistants are all nursing blistered feet.

We’ll discuss our plans for next year’s con

BUT, NOT BEFORE WE EAT!!!!!

Praise GhuG, they are all gone!

Chorus 3X.

David Gerrold brought some fur with him,

A Tribble it was called.

Dick Hoagland gave us speeches on

the Space Program, now stalled.

And Bill Theiss showed us costumes

which we all thought would fall.

Praise GhuG, they are all gone! [31]

*If anyone knows what “Praise GhuG” means drop me a note.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1404639.html

The original of this drawing arrived in the mail today. I wish we could put together a traveling gallery of all the stunning K/S fan art to take to fan conventions. Until then, enjoy this low resolution version.

From Fanlore, the fan run, non-profit wiki about media fandom

Pieta back cover First Time #46, [artist: Shelly Butler]. The pose, which is an art classic, was used decades earlier in the drawing by Wendy Pearson accompanying the poem Pieta in Starbase M.T.L. #6. One comment on the work: "The image is a reflection of the glorious sculpture, Pieta. Here, a long-haired Spock lovingly holds an angelic Kirk on his lap. Notice Spock’s hand delicately and gently placed on a vulnerable Kirk’s belly. Kirk’s blissful, sublime expression relates to their intimate relationship, and a soft light seems to shine on him.”

Another fan wrote this: “The impression I get from Pieta is that Spock is preparing to infuse the man in his lap with something great, mysterious, and ultimately very powerful. Dare I call it by its name? Love.”

More art commentary is here.

The drawing won a STIFfie Award in 1997.

PS. I did contact a few of the fandom archives about displaying fan art - while they can preserve/archive fan art, they do not have space to display it. That is typical of most special collections.

PPS. How awesome is it that there are "a few...fandom archives" in the US?

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1399617.html

(link to larger version)

On occasion, people will ask me: “Why is there a digital media fanzine collection at Texas A&M University. TAMU is not…is not….well, it’s not that science fiction-y. Is it?”

The answer is (a) yes it is, (b) TAMU has one of the oldest science fiction and fantasy special collections, (c) TAMU has hosted Aggie-Con, a gathering of science fiction and fantasy fans for decades (how does 45 years sound?) and (d) the archivists are wildly enthusiastic about all things fannish, including media fanzines and filk. So check out TAMU’s sci-fi/fantasy collection and the Sandy Hereld Memorial Digital Fanzine collection.

Article printed in “The Eagle” dated March 25, 1976

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1394179.html

Does anyone have copies of The Halkan Council #1-5 (The Halkan Council was an early Star Trek letterzine). We'd like to borrow it to scan for the preservation project. We have the remaining issues through 26/27.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1379923.html

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.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1350986.html

Proof that cheesy lyrics demand cheesy vid effects. That Kirk/Spock are DESTINY. And there was a profound imbalance of bare-chested Spock to bare-chested Kirk scenes. We should immediately notify the Reboot script writers.

"Futuristic Lover:star trek (Kirk/Spock)" (Watch on YouTube)

Direct link

They say, be afraid
You're not like the others
Futuristic lover
Different DNA
They don't understand you

[Pre-Chorus]
You're from a whole 'nother world
A different dimension
You open my eyes
And I'm ready to go
Lead me into the light

Kiss me, ki-ki-kiss me
Infect me with your love and
Fill me with your poison

Take me, ta-ta-take me
Wanna be a victim
Ready for abduction

PS. What a Fox Mulder vid this would have made...

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1349270.html

This arrived in my inbox over the weekend. What can I say...I have the best friends.

"Because sometimes life is like this, and all you can do is contemplate The Duck."

Drawing is from the Kirk/Spock fanzine Beyond Dreams #5. "Child's Play" art by Ingela

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1348424.html

Finding fanzine posts on tumblr is hard. Imagine trying to find media fanzine references on twitter. Impossible. I did find one fan selling her copy of The Trekker Cookbook here.

First up: Enterprise Eggnog (click for larger version)

Pages from Star Trek The Trekker Cookbook REBUILT

"Captain, I do not object to the diverse
ingredients included in the
liquid solution known as eggnog...
though I find many of them frivolous
rather than nutritional ...."
~Mr Spock in "Survivor" written by Alan Dean Foster

Eggnog, according to the Cookbook is the perfect drink for the Enterprise holiday parties.

"It’s Christmas!
The Captain’s bluff worked (again)!
The planet really was inhabitable (and uninhabited)
They found the vaccine!
This star-mapping gets boring; let’s throw a party
LET’S CELEBRATE!"
~The Trekker Cookbook

Next: The Pon Farr Cocktail followed by some leftover Vulcan Thanksgiving pie (click for larger version)

Pages from Star Trek The Trekker Cookbook REBUILT-3

Art by Amy Harlib

And finally, don't forget to try the Vulcan's Delight.

Pages from Star Trek The Trekker Cookbook REBUILT-2

Art by Gayle F.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1344244.html

"An Astounding Personal Testament to the Star Trek mythos" — Forbes

Star Trek: The Art of Juan Ortiz. The exhibit is based in Los Angeles and admission is free.

I've loved Juan Ortiz's poster art for years and am pleased it is getting recognition. But, yes the irony.....

Another reason I am glad that the OTW and Fanlore exists.....

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1332757.html

From time to time, I come across fans arguing that preservation is "unnatural" - that everything - including websites - "dies a natural death" and that we should not be trying to preserve "it" without permission.*

In 1997, Sara Conklin, a Beauty and the Beast fan and Star Trek fan died - there was an outpouring of memories on mailing lists and a few tribute websites set up. One website was on Geocities.com and is thankfully preserved by the Internet Archive.

This memory caught my eye: "Sara was buried in her Star Trek uniform, complete with working communicator button. Jackie said that when they were leaving Sara's house for the last time, Sara made Jackie go back and get it. After Sara died, when Jackie when to the funeral director, he asked for the clothes to bury Sara in. She gave him the uniform and he smiled and said "we only get coffins here, we don't have any photon torpedoes!" Can you imagine decades from now, archaeologists digging up the MILITARY commentary and finding everyone else in their military uniforms and Sara in her Star Trek outfit!!!!!!"

Websites (and their contents) are not living things - but neither are they just static words and empty spaces. They neither live nor die natural or unnatural deaths. That they once existed cannot be denied - even if some wished it were not so. No one deserves to be forgotten - it will happen in spite of our efforts, as time and entropy and vast distances overwrite everything eventually. But we should not be rushing to erase each other or our memories. We will get there soon enough.

"Put a little light out in the tunnel for me -- it doesn't have to chase away the darkness - it only has to guide me." ~ Sara Conklin

*Broadly paraphrased from here.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1332174.html

Within a year the flow of stories to the new newsgroup slowed significantly and some fans suggested that the moderation be removed to encourage fans to post their family friendly fiction. The moderators insisted however that the newsgroup was not dead, it was just "resting".

Read about Alt.startrek.creative Slash Wars.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1329917.html

Whenever someone starts talking about fandom community rules, fandom morals, fandom etiquette, fandom "my way is the Way and it has always been", I remember the good old days of the Internet. In 1997 a few fans complained about the existence of adult fanfiction on the Internet saying that because the Usenet was a public forum, we had to keep the "airwaves" child friendly. Why?: Because ".....restraint and rules are necessary for society to function. Yes, you are free to express yourself -- but within the limits of society -- or else you will have only chaos and anarchy."

And the Net's response: "....this isn't "society" -- whatever the hell *that* is! -- this is the Internet. And it goes all over the entire world, and the only real rule is, there ARE no systemwide rules. There are a few customs, observed by more users than not. But there are NO hard and fast "rules", and I for one hope that there never will be. We have handed over far too much of our freedom to well-meaning moralistic prudes. This [newsgroup] , and the 'Net in general, are where I personally draw the line. In case you hadn't noticed, the very essence of the 'Net is decentralized chaos -- and for the most part it works really well."

Read more from the "Less NC17 Stories!" thread at alt.startrek.creative here. This debate led to an attempt to - surprise surprise - create spaces that would be free of fiction that "introduced the concept of homosexuality" (aka No Slash Here).

Bottom line: anyone speaking for Fandom ("Fandom with a capital F and that spells Trouble right here! in River City"), can only truthfully represent their own limited POV. The fandom world is vast, multicultural, multilingual and multi-POV. Just take a peek at tumblr and twitter and remember: "This has all happened before. And it will all happen again." Please report back to me when it does. Thank you kindly.

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1329034.html

Dear Diary, this weekend I spent time with this fan. This is a photo of her in her younger years wearing her award winning sehlat costume at a 1970s Star Trek convention. She is still a Trek fan 40 years later, proving you are never too old or too embarrassed to be a fan.

(photo used with permission)

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1325464.html

This week I scanned this zine for the authors and their families.

The zine, The Rack, was a response to the K/S premise by carrying forward the then current views about homosexuality into the Star Trek future with devastating consequences. It made quite an impact when it was published in 1980. And it, in turn, created more response fic.

As the authors explained: "We have stated that many readers were emotionally upset by the tragedy of THE RACK. Some expressed their feelings through Letters of Comment, while others were compelled to write their own stories, poems and vignettes, ideas inspired by the heartwrenching, difficult-to-accept ending... Other stories, published elsewhere, were also inspired by our novella. Mariann H, in TRIAL (NEXUS 1), delivers an alternate ending which had its own impact on fandom. While we don't agree with her premise, we know Mariann's story did satisfy those for whom the unhappy ending of THE RACK was difficult to handle....People have been compelled to analyze the story, write alternate endings for it and continue to request we reprint ALL THE KING'S HORSES. Working on THE RACK, its sequel and this 'zine has been a unique and important experience for us as writers. The stories have touched our lives, becoming part of us in a very personal way — we've learned a lot about people in general, fandom and the art of writing"

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1318594.html

ScotPress, one of the earliest Star Trek fanzine publishers in the UK has posted the first 10 issues of their letterzine IDIC online. You can read the issues here. And there is more info about the newsletter's history on Fanlore here.

Here's a snippet from the first newsletter:

"It was the advent of video which changed the face of conventions. At first, the technology was too expensive for the average 'man on the street,' but conventions could afford to hire the equipment, and although blank tapes were £15.00 a time, a secondary programme of available episodes began to take shape, splitting the attendees into smaller groups. The 'one big happy family' feeling began to dissipate; I'm told of a convention where Trek episodes were available 24 hours a day on the hotel's in-house system, resulted in some people never leaving their rooms for the entire weekend!... Nowadays if an original Trek episode formed part of the main programme at a convention, it would have a very poor attendance indeed, and it seems that a higher percentage expect to be entertained 24 hours a day, rather than being prepared to make their own amusements."

Crossposts: http://morgandawn.livejournal.com/1315740.html

Because everyone looks fantastic in a Christmas sweater! I’ll even bet Mr. Spock has a matching one…

(The last image is a drawing by Vel Jaeger an excellent Star Trek fan artist from the days of fanzines, stone knives, bear skins, and knitting needles. You can see more of her art on Fanlore here: http://fanlore.org/wiki/Vel_Jaeger)

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