Beta Niobe (Star Trek: TOS zine)
You may also be looking for the Star Trek:TOS zine Beta Niobe Revisited.
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| Title: | Beta Niobe |
| Publisher: | S.T.A.G. |
| Editor(s): | Jenny Elson |
| Date(s): | 1973-1974 |
| Series?: | |
| Medium: | fanzine, print |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
| Language: | English |
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Beta Niobe is Star Trek: TOS anthology that ran for three issues. It was published in the UK by Jenny Elson and was created as a fund-raiser for STAG and the first British Star Trek convention.
Note: while Beta Niobe Revisited sounds like it is a sister zine, it isn't.
In the Planning Stages
This zine was written about in the first issue of STAG in April 1973: "We're are planning a quarterly magazine. Called BETA NIOBE, it will feature STAR TREK stories, and lots more."
It was also mentioned in STAG #2 (June–July 1973):
BETA NIOBE, the Action Group's own Zine, will be ready within the next two weeks. Please order yours now. Price 25 pence plus 5p. for postage. REMEMBER, all money recieved from the sale of this zine will go towards our very own CONVENTION. (Which is what we're in the business for after all!) Included in Beta Niobe No. 1 will be; " When Evening Comes," a beautiful little story by Heather Lennon about Spock as a boy, "The Ceremony" by Jenny Elson concerning Spock's bonding to T'Pring, "The Initiation," the first in a series about a nosy nurse aboard the Enterprise who has the habit of getting mixed up in other people's affairs, "The Snowflower,"... in case you ever wondered what happened to Zarabeth after Spock left her in the ice age, then the "Snowflower" will tell you! Yeah! Lots more, too, plus art work by your hard-working, exam taking vice president, Heather Lennon. O.K. So buy Beta Niobe No. 1, and see for yourself. You're gonna like it, folks!
Issue 1
Beta Niobe 1 was published in 1973 and contains 33 pages.
The art is by Heather Lennon.
The editor writes of this zine being "ready within the next two weeks" in April 1973. She writes about it again June/July 1973. Due to the differences in the description of the zine in June/July and the actual table of contents, it appears that some of the stories that were to be in the first issue ended up in the second issue. This change in plans probably means the zine was published later than the editor expected. In the end, it appears to have been published in around August 1973.[1]
- The Star Trek Concept, article by Margaret Betram (may be missing in some issues)
- Stars of Paradise, fiction by Jenny Elson (one page)
- The Snowflower, fiction by Jenny Elson (one page)
- Space Port, fiction by Heather Lennon (two pages)
- The Thieves of Nickdon, fiction by Jenny Elson (five pages)
- Dear Jo, No. 1, letter by Jenny Elson (one page)
- A Distant Whisper, fiction by Heather Lennon (three pages)
- Thoughts, a series of eight poems by Jenny Elson (two pages)
- The Ceremony, fiction by Jenny Elson (three pages)
- The Bulls of Minos, fiction by Jenny Elson (four pages)
- Initiation, fiction (Cathy King No.1) by Jenny Elson (three pages)
- unnamed limerick
- When Evening Came, fiction by Heather Lennon (one page)
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Issue 2
Beta Niobe 2 was published in spring (probably May) 1974 and contains 40 pages.
The art is by Helen MaCarthy, Heather Lennon, Marianne Jielesch, and Rosemary Chivers.
- Goodnight Sweetheart by Dawn and Floss Del Vecchio
- Mirror Revisited by Ann Wigmore
- Dear Jo (No.2) by Jenny Elson (letter from McCoy to his daughter)
- Dawn of Athenike by Jenny Elson
- Neverending Hate, part one by Roseanne O'Kane
- Paradise in Eternity by Christine Jones
- Search the Stars by Jenny Elson (sequel to "The Snowflower" in issue #1)
- The Tar of Nedin by Jenny Elson
- The Awakening by Margaret Wade
- James T. Kirk poem by Pat Jenkins
- The Genesis Equation, part one by Helen MaCarthy
- The Further Adventures of Cathy King by Jenny Elson
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Issue 3
Beta Niobe 3 is undated, but was published in December 1974. It has about 20 pages and measures 9 x 10 1/2. Art by Marianne Tielesch, Phyllis Bridgeland, Rosemary Chivers, Robin Hill, and Helen McCarthy.
- The Rift by Johanna Butler (reprinted in The Best of Sarek and Amanda)
- Lelia by Ann Wigmore
- More Adventures of Cathy King by by Jenny Elson
- A Time to Rebuild, a Time to Die by Frances Ball
- The Stranger by Beryl Waters
- Dear Jo by Jenny Elson (letter from McCoy to his daughter)
- Where No Man Has Gone Before? by Robin Hill
- Never Ending Hate, final installment by Roseanne O'Kane
- The Genesis Equation, part two by Helen McCarthy
- The Parting by Jenny Elson, final story in "The Snowflower Series"
from issue #3, Marianne Tielesch
from issue #3, Phyllis Bridgeland
from issue #3, Robin Hill
from issue #3, Helen McCarthy
