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A Trekkie (a portmanteau of "trek" and "junkie") or Trekker is a fan of the Star Trek franchise, or of specific television series or films within that franchise. The show developed a following shortly after it premiered, with the first fanzine premiering in 1967. The first fan convention took place the year the original series ended.
A Mary Sue is a type of fictional character, usually a young woman, who is portrayed as free of weaknesses or character flaws. [1] The character type has acquired a pejorative reputation in fan communities, [2] [3] [4] with the label "Mary Sue" often applied to any heroine who is considered to be unrealistically capable.
A Star Trek fan, she has been actively involved in the Trekkie fan movement. In particular, she wrote the first Kraith Star Trek fan fiction. She is one of the Friends of Darkover and her early writing has been mentored by Marion Zimmer Bradley. Lichtenberg has a chemistry degree from the University of California, Berkeley.
The plans to publish a curated selection of fan-written fiction evolved into The New Voyages series, edited by Marshak and Culbreath. [ 4 ] The book was published in July 1975 by Bantam Books in the U.S. and Corgi in the U.K. Star Trek Lives! was a bestseller, and received eight printings between 1975 and 1979.
Archive of Our Own (AO3) is a nonprofit open source repository for fanfiction and other fanworks contributed by users. The site was created in 2008 by the Organization for Transformative Works and went into open beta in 2009 and continues to be in beta. [2]
science fiction adaptations for television serials (e.g., Star Trek) in the 1960s-1970s the growth of role-playing (in the 1970s and 1980s) as a genre of tabletop, live-action and eventually video/computer gaming, which not only inspired roleplay of favorite characters in full-body costumes but also inspired existing franchises to adapt their ...
Star Trek fan fiction (1 C, 3 P) Fan films based on Star Trek ... Free Enterprise (film) G. ... Star Trek spin-off fiction;
The Organization for Transformative Works offers the following services and platforms to fans in a myriad of fandoms: . Archive of Our Own (AO3): An open-source, non-commercial, non-profit, multi-fandom web archive built by fans for hosting fan fiction and for embedding other fanwork, including fan art, fan videos, and podfic.