Aisha Milele, Fanikiwa
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| Zine | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Aisha Milele, Fanikiwa |
| Publisher: | Nichelle Nichols Fan Club |
| Editor(s): | Virginia Walker |
| Date(s): | 1974 (date on zine) |
| Series?: | |
| Medium: | |
| Size: | 42 pages |
| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
| Language: | English |
| External Links: | |
| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
Aisha Milele, Fanikiwa is a gen 42-page Nichelle Nichols club zine. It contains articles and fiction.
It has several sister zines: Furaha and Amani.
Regarding the title: Aisha Milele, Fanikiwa is Swahili for "Live Long and Prosper."
The date on the zine is 1974, but the letters inside as well as the enclosed fan club application are dated January 1975.
Contents
- Nichelle Nichols Fan Club Application
- Welcome, from Nichelle Nichols (1)
- First Officer’s Greeting (2)
- Routine by Anna Mary Hall (story) (reprinted from Impulse #6/7; also in Furaha #4 and Archives #6) (3)
- Something About Kwanza Foundation by Nichelle Nichols (article) (33)
- Poems by R. James Brown (set to music by Dean Groves) and Virgina Walker (34)
- a full-page flyer for the Star Trek Welcommittee
- a full-page ad by the Star Trek Welcommittee encouraging fans to write another letter campaign, this one called "Star Trek Revival": ("There is now serious consideration being given to a live-action Star Trek movie by Paramount Studios and a new live-action Star Trek series by NBC and Paramount Studios. Now is the time to show them that people are interested in seeing new episodes of Star Trek on a weekly or series basis or in movie theaters. You can write several letters and help bring Star Trek back. Here are the people you should write to. They are listed in order of relative importance to revival, so if you are only going to write a few letters, please being with the names at the top. Let them know how you would feel about reviving Star Trek with live-action and let them know right away.")
- Monitoring the Bridge by A. Stuart Walker (story) (37)