Chris (Star Trek: TOS newsletter)

Zine
Title:	Chris
Publisher:
Editor(s):	Beth Carlson
Type:
Date(s):	1982
Frequency:
Medium:	print
Fandom:	Star Trek: TOS
Language:	English
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Chris is a Christine Chapel and Christine/Spock newsletter edited by Beth Carlson. It contains fiction, lists zines with Spock/Christine stories, and "lists editors who print realistic characterizations of Christine Chapel." Each issue is 7-10 pages. Includes reviews and a "trade column." There were at least two issues.

About Copying

Some of the readers of 'Chris' (a newsletter for Chapel-Christine/Spock fans) will be tying to get out-of-print C-C/S stories to one another by way of the information in my newsletter. The information column I run each month will have names of those wishing to exchange materials. It will also run the strong suggestion that they track down and contact the authors/editors for permission before xeroxing anything and that no money change hands beyond the cost of copy, postage, etc. Most of the authors I know would not mind this, however, if you have written C-C/S materials that you do not wish to be copied at cost... please let me know. I will then list specific authors who do not wish their materials copied. Of course, I can not assure that my suggestion will be heeded. That, must remain up to the personal integrity of the fan.

Issue 1

Chris 1 was published in 1982 and contains 8 pages.

From the editorial:

This newsletter was created because I got tired of trying to hunt down Chapel-Christine/Spock writings and fans, and got tired of submitting things to editors just to find out that they were of the 'Chapel stinks' club.

Slowly, and because it was the law of averages and consequence, I ran into some of you and your works. Along the way, I was also scribbling out my "masterpieces' and submitting them with a varying degree of success and failure. Hopefully, this newsletter will help to alleviate that problem both for older fans and for those 'baby-neos' who come along--as they must. I am not a big believer that Trek fandom is dwindling. Perhaps in numbers of mediocre 'Trekkies'—but not in the earnestness of true Trekfen that produce in one way or another and are active.

This is not be any mean going to be a 'class act'. You're going to see typos and evidences of my lack of skill at this all over the place, but I refuse to spend a lot of time away from my own writing just to make this pretty, when the basic idea is to get information across. That, I will try to do well and at least legibly.

The newsletter lists "editors responsible to print healthy Chris characterizations":

• Johanna Cantor -- "Johanna is fond of Chris but not fanatical"
• Caro Hedge/Sue Crites -- "Caro is one of us, folks"
• Mary Ann Drach/Kathleen Lynch -- "Neither Mary Ann nor Kathy are fond of C/S as a rule, but have been known to print one when the mood hits and the story is right. The are very good in accepting responsible characterizations of Chris, though."
• Laurie Huff -- "Laurie puts out the excellent Galactic Discourse. That I know, she has never printed a C/S. She does, however, accept things (mainly dealing with 'the big three') with good Christine in them. Laurie is a very discriminating ed. Submit only your best with substantial plot, characterizations, and drama. Ask for her remarks if she turns you down. You won't regret it."

Newsletter Contents:

• From the Horse's Mouth (1)
• Other Chapel-Christine/Spock Fans (2) (the list has ten names and addresses)
• Christine/Spock Zines (3) (Starweaver, Fermata, Beyond Shattered Illusions)
• Prominent Christine Stories (3) (Natural Selection in Odyssey #5, Cream in Sublight Reading #2, Give It Time and Bridge Between Souls in Accumulated Leave #1, The Explorer in Menagerie #16, First Beloved in T-Negative #25, Time Enough and More in Maine(ly) Trek #3, Support Services and A State of Continuance in Maine(ly) Trek #4, Transition and Second Best in R & R #16, Spoils of War in R & R #17, Deneva Darkness in Clipper Trade Ship, and a proposed zine with the title: "This Simple Feeling Wing and a Prayer Pr" )
• Beg, Borrow, Steal (6) (stories/zines: out-of-print zines: Crossroads, A Grief Well Ended, A Bridge of Crystal and Light, Mission to Mrinn, Parted from Me, Dilithium Crystals)
• Yeds (7)
• Snippets (7)

Issue 2

Chris 2 was published in 1982.