A 1984 Interview with Carla Salveta
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| Title: | A 1984 Interview with Carla Salveta |
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| Interviewee: | Carla Salveta |
| Date(s): | November 1984 |
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| Fandom(s): | Star Trek: TOS |
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A 1984 Interview with Carla Salveta was an interview in Beta-Niobe.
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WHAT IS IT LIKE TO BE BRITISH COMMITTEE REP?
Busy! Welcommittee is similar to an information centre. I send out info received from various sources and try to track down information specifically requested. I also, and most importantly put new fans in touch with fandom — give them club addresses, let them know what fandom is all about. I'm also trying to set up a network of local addresses because I think knowing other fans locally is of prime importance and makes fandom that much more enjoyable — but that's hard work as I've got to try and correlate hundreds of addresses, I can't provide personal addresses for actors — because I don't have them — not can I provide much information on what they're doing outside Trek, though I will pass people onto actors fan clubs if they exist as they might be able to provide that kind of information.
At the moment I answer about 10-15 letters a month with about 60% from new fans looking for information on fandom. I couldn't manage all this alone (especially as my typing is terrible and very slow) and my right hand is Linda Watt who helps me in a hundred ways including calming me down when I'm about to crack up as yet another deadline approaches. I've also got my local group Warped Out who drive me to distraction in a nice sort of way and are there when I need help.
ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO THE RELEASE OF ST III WITH EXPECTATION OR TREPIDATION?
At the moment expectation as McCoy is supposed to have a good role and it's being directed by Leonard Nimoy who should know what good Trek is all about. Although there are a lot of rumours flying about that they're going to destroy the Enterprise, which I don't like one little bit. It's almost as if Paramount are trying to destroy Trek as we knew it from the series and introduce something totally different, still masquerading under the name of Star Trek; new characters, new uniforms, new ships etc. Although I hated Spock getting killed off in the last movie and regard all the movies as something apart from Trek — like alternative universe — I hope Paramount don't pander to fans and bring him back. Death is an unfortunate fact of life and Spock died a hero to save the people he loved. To bring him back in some surrealistic form or for him to have miraculously escaped the effects of the radiation, Genesis device notwithstanding, in my mind belittles the Trek fan. I think there are possibilities for a really good movie and I hope the storyline is not exploited for commercialism.
WHY STAR TREK?
Why not? Star Trek appeared on TV when I was about 16 - just the right age to see beyond the adventure story which appeared every week, to question the ideals behind the show. Sure I fell in love with McCoy at first sight, but the characters were always important, the interaction between them was as important as the escapism of the storyline. Throughout the 70s I enjoyed watching the repeats on TV but more importantly I enjoyed finding the novels, written about the characters but somehow to me, not about the series. In fact fairly early on I separated the TV series Trek from the written Trek and I rarely watch the episodes any more unless it's to check a particular point - I much prefer the written Trek, both amateur and the professional. The amateur writing especially shows how people all over the world took the seed of an idea from a TV series and turned it into a future, one which Trek fans will help to create for this world, because Trek fans can shape the future like any other group, by insisting the space programme in the US be kept and expanded and a hundred other things.