Beam Me Up! Beam Me Down!

Zine
Title:	Beam Me Up! Beam Me Down!
Publisher:
Editor(s):	Kathy Curry
Date(s):	1992
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Medium:	print
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Genre:	het
Fandom:	Star Trek: TOS
Language:	English
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Beam Me Up! Beam Me Down! is a het 15-page Star Trek: TOS zine by Kathy Curry. On one version of the cover: "A totally radical Star Trek zine."

It contains no interior illos. The stories are satirical.

Notes on the Publishing Date

While the date of the author's forward is 1980, this zine was published in 1992.

Author's Forward

How many of you out there believe we went to the Moon? I think what happened was that Kennedy made his big speech about reaching the Moon by the end of the decade. NASA officials in effect said, "Shit! The President really put us on the spot! We can't put together a Lunar mission by '69! Our only choice is to fake it." This may be one of the reasons Kennedy was assassinated. It's likely if Project Apollo were legit, it would have been pushed back several years due to the usual problems NASA has to this very day. I realize this is the stuff of James P. Hogan novels, but I wouldn't put it past those rascals.

Enough people believe in Project Apollo to let them get away with it. In those people's minds, it is real. T'Rof believes Star Trek happened because enough people believed in it during the 20th Century. They consciously or subconsciously set events in motion to make the Federation and the starship Enterprise possible. Star Trek is a far better entertainment value than NASA. Even turkeys like "Specter of the Gun" are more imaginative than faked Moon landings or exploding space shuttles. T'Rofs origins are somewhat of a mystery. At only a few months old, she was abducted from her parents and changed into a human. Her abductors leave her on Earth of the mid-I960's. During the 1980's, she is turned back into a Vulcan and returned to 20th Century Vulcan. She was born sometime in the future.

This zine is in a compact, double column format to reduce printing expense and postage costs. The text in this zine would fit on twenty pages easy if I used a single column format.

Contents

• Amanda & Sarek: The First Time (A crude, blunt short story where Sarek rapes Amanda on their wedding night.) (3)
• Into the Offworld Service (3)
• The Do's and Don'ts (13)
• A Talk with T'Pring (The author's forward says this was written in 1987.) (13)

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