Visit to a Weird Planet
| Star Trek Fanfiction | ||
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| Title: | Visit to a Weird Planet | |
| Author(s): | Jean Lorrah and Willard F. Hunt | |
| Date(s): | September 1968 | |
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| Genre: | gen | |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: The Original Series | |
| External Links: | online here[1] | |
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Visit to a Weird Planet is a Star Trek: TOS story by Jean Lorrah and Willard F. Hunt. It was originally in Spockanalia #3 and reprinted in Computer Playback #5.
An Early RPF
This story is a very early known example of RPF. "Visit to a Weird Planet" sends Kirk, Spock and Bones back to the set of the filming of Star Trek. The three characters meet, among others, Gene Roddenberry. Supposedly, a copy of "Visit to a Weird Planet" was sent to Gene Roddenberry. [2]
Response/Reaction Fics
- Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited by Ruth Berman in Spockanalia #5. (The situation is reversed and the actors of Star Trek beam up to the real Enterprise. This story was later republished in the pro novel Star Trek: The New Voyages).
- Visiting a Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited by Melanie Fletcher (Star Trek: TNG)
- Visit to the Weirdest Planet—Earth by Mercutio (Star Trek Voyager)
- Visit to a Weird 'Gate Address Revisited by Eleanor Rose aka User 4574. (Stargate SG-1)
- Visit to a Weird Island by callensensei (Gilligan's Island)
- Visit to a Weird Dungeon by Dementor Delta (Harry Potter)
- Visit to a Weird 'Verse, Re-revisited by CABridges (Firefly)
- Visit to a Small Airforce, a Hanover Street vignette by an unknown author in Facets #2
A Brief Scuffle Over Copyright
In October 1996, the author of the story sent an urgent message out to alt.startrek.creative that someone has reposted the story to a website without permission."I have an alert for any of you who have had a story published in a Star Trek fanzine in the past thirty years. Check this website: http://tos-www.tos.net/services/I found "Visit to a Weird Planet" posted there, and wrote to remind the site owner, [email redacted], that he had not asked for my permission, and that he had omitted the copyright notice. I asked if he had received permission to reprint the story from Devra Langsam, the editor of Spockanalia, where the story originally appeared.
I got a snotty reply that he is one of the founders of the internet and has been on line for ten years, and I am a newbie and therefore have no right to tell him nettiquette. Because he found the story posted somewhere else without a copyright notice (and of course he did not say where he supposedly found it), he had the right to put it on his own site the same way, but he is now removing the story from the site.
Well, that's fine with me. But he has dozens of Trek stories posted. You may want to check the site and see if he has one of yours, and if he does, decide what you want to do about it.
Please feel free to distribute this message anywhere that fans who have had Star Trek stories published in fanzines, or who have edited fanzines, over the past thirty years may see it."
The copyright notice on later issues of Spockanalia read: "Copyright Sherna Burley and Devra Michele Langsam 1968. All rights assigned to the writers and artists responsible for the material. Brief, credited quotations are permitted; otherwise written permission of the writer/artist is required. In that case, it would be appreciated if Spockanalia were credited as the source, and two copies set to the editors."[3]
References
- ↑ WayBack Archive link.
- ↑ Fanthropology
- ↑ Spockanalia #3, Fourth printing, August 1976.
