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Star Trek: The New Voyages (1976) is an anthology of short fiction based on Star Trek, edited by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath. Although published professionally, the collected stories were written and submitted by fans. Many of the stories were previously published in fanzines, or collected in fan-published anthologies.
Science fiction fanzines had been published with some frequency prior to Star Trek; however, their format was focused on non-fiction articles and research, and letters from fans. Early Star Trek fanzines were similar, but many were also anthologizing fan fiction, some of which Lichtenberg believed was comparable to the television series. [1]
The first media fanzine was a Star Trek fan publication called Spockanalia, published in September 1967 [15] [16] by members of the Lunarians. [17] Some of the earliest examples of academic fandom were written on Star Trek zines, specifically K/S ( Kirk / Spock ) slash zines, which featured a gay relationship between the two.
The first media fanzine was a Star Trek fan publication called Spockanalia, published in September 1967 [12]: 1 [13] by members of the Lunarians. [14] They hoped that fanzines such as Spockanalia would be recognized by the broader science-fiction fan community in traditional ways, such as a Hugo Award for Best Fanzine.
The first Star Trek fanzine, Spockanalia, appeared in September 1967, including the first published fan fiction based on the show. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, who was aware of and encouraged such activities, [2]: 1 a year later estimated that 10,000 wrote or read fanzines. [3]
The Starfleet emblem as seen in the franchise. As early as 1964, Gene Roddenberry drafted a proposal for the science fiction series that would become Star Trek.Although he publicly marketed it as a Western in outer space—a so-called "Wagon Train to the stars"—he privately told friends that he was modeling it on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, intending each episode to act on two ...
This scene from Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) has been pointed to as supporting a homoerotic interpretation of Kirk and Spock's relationship. [1]Kirk/Spock, commonly abbreviated as K/S or Spirk [2] and referring to James T. Kirk and Spock from Star Trek, is a popular pair in slash fiction, possibly the first slash pairing, according to Henry Jenkins, an early slash fiction scholar. [3]
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is a science fiction anthology series of licensed, fan-written, short stories based on, and inspired by, Star Trek and its spin-off television series and films. The series was published by Simon & Schuster, from 1996 to 2016, edited by Dean Wesley Smith , with assistance from John J. Ordover and Paula M. Block.