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Zine
Title: Enterprise Log
Publisher: "Enterprise Log is a publication of the Star Trek Fan Club"
Editor(s): Debra Bruce
Type:
Date(s): around 1973
Frequency: six times a year
Medium: print
Fandom: Star Trek: TOS
Language: English
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Enterprise Log was a Star Trek: TOS fan club newsletter that was planned to be published six times a year by Debra Bruce from Plymouth, Wisconsin.

At one point, the club was planning an annual sister zine called "Energise."

Regarding the Name of the Club

In Sept/Oct 1973, Debra Bruce wrote about the generic name of her fan club, "Star Trek Fan Club" in a con report for Star Con:

I talked with Helen Young at the con and we discussed what can be done about so many clubs having the same name as mine does. She suggested that I perhaps put a 'I' or something else after my club name. She said it is very confusing and some club might say some bad things that I might get blamed for. I was thinking of what I could do and came up with this idea, "Star Trek Fan Club International." If anyone has a better suggestion please let me know. [1]

It is unknown if a name change occurred.

June 1973 Issue

Enterprise Log was published on June 28, 1973 and contains 8 pages.

cover of the June 1973 issue, Debra Bruce

From the editorial:

You have probably noticed that the printing is different for this issue of the Enterprise Log. Cathy Doyle is very busy with the annual and can't get the Log out bi-monthly.

[...]

I can bet you are wondering where the annual is. Well, I received several requests to have the annual copyrighted and it sounds like a very good idea. I'm not sure if I can have it done, but I am trying. So sit tight and please bear with the delay. Also if I can get it copyrighted, a fellow club member has promised to print her material in the annual. She has written the code for Star Trek Fans and other things which are very good.

If you have any material for the annual, you can still send it into either Cathy or me. We can still use more. The annual is coming along fine and I can tell you that we have some very talented people in this club.

August 1973 Issue

This issue was likely published in August and it contains 5 pages.

cover of the August 1973 issue, Debra Bruce is the artist

It states that the next issue will be published in October.

  • the club has a new vice president (Nancy Reince) as the previous one (Cathy Doyle) is going to college in the fall
  • the editor has chosen the name "Energise" as the name of the club's annual ("I went through a lot of names and considered them all very carefully. It was a hard decision, but Energise seemed to get a little attention.... When all the material is here, I'll get busy typing it up and get everything ready for printing. I am going to have it professionally printed so it will turn out nice. If the copyright doesn't come through before I'm read ready to have it printed, I'll just go ahead. I can well imagine you are getting tired of waiting for it. So am I. I hate to wait too.")
  • a short blurb that "Star Trek 9" by Bantam Books is now out
  • George Takei for Concilman ("Mr. Takei is running for political office in Los Angeles. A local station in LA is running Star Trek reruns five times a week. They are cutting out every episode Sulu was in. It seems some other candidates are complaining about his being in Star Trek and demanded they be taken off the air or that they be given equal time. That sure doesn't see fair to LA Star Trek fans. As WOKY, a radio station in Milwaukee concluded, "What would happen if Ronald Reagan ran for president?" [2])
  • Farewell to Gene L. Coon (a short bit about Coon's recent death from lung cancer)
  • a short description of the upcoming con, Star Con, three other mentioned upcoming cons are "a Philadelphia Con in the making," and International Star Trek Convention 1973, and "Starcon" (a planned August 1974 in Georgia)
  • a short blurb about Leonard Nimoy's book, "You and I"
  • club dues are going to increase, the blurb mentions that this newsletter is published six times a year
  • Star Trek Animation (some info on Star Trek: The Animated Series which was going to premier on September 8, 1973
  • a short blurb about the Star Trek Welcommittee

Sept/Oct 1973 Issue

This issue contains five pages.

cover of the Sept/Oct 1973 issue, Gary Gaber

One issue contains Dream of a Vulcan Healer, poem by Martha Hodgkins Rafter (reprinted in Mainely Trek #1). The cover is by Gary Gaber.

From the editor:

When this issue reaches you, I want everyone to send me a postcard with the date that you received the newsletter and saying that you got it. Please this is important! I am trying to check that everyone got the newsletter.... It would take me several months to write each of you, so please help me and yourself. Send in the postcard as soon as possible.

  • a con report by Debra Bruce for Star Con, see that page
  • a short blurb for Equicon '74
  • a short blurb for the zine, Warp Factor
  • comments by Monica Miller about Star Trek Animated (from the editor: "Well, the animation has been on for a few weeks now. I only got a few people who sent in their comments on the animation that wished to have them printed. I wish to thank these people very much. And for all of you who didn't may your tribbles have a population explosion, I will print comments next issue too, so come on and send them in.... I thought Monica's comment extremely interesting and thus have only printed her comment this issue to give us all food for thought."), see that page

References

  1. ^ from the Sept/Oct 1973 issue of "Enterprise Log"
  2. ^ Well, we found out.
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