Bonds of the Matriarch

Zine
Title:	Bonds of the Matriarch
Publisher:	Mkashef Enterprises, later agented/distributed through Bill Hupe
Editor:
Author(s):	Taerie Bryant
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Date(s):	1991
Medium:	print
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Fandom:	Star Trek: TNG
Language:	English
External Links:	online flyer
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Bonds of the Matriarch is a 150-page adult het Star Trek: TNG novel by Taerie Bryant.

It was nominated for a 1992 FanQ Award.

It has a lot of white space.

Summaries

Summary from the publisher:

Finally a matriarch society with sexy men! Riker is forced to confront a painful era of his past tainted with savagery and sacrifice as the Enterprise vies with the Romulans for a planet in the neutral zone. As Riker's team-mate on the mission, Deanna is thrust into an exotic situation full of danger and sensual delights! A Star Trek adventure for adult readers.

Summary from Bill Hupe's catalog:

The Enterprise travels to a planet from Riker's past, a barbaric world where telepathic women rule over bands of proud, warrior husbands. Ensign Riker had to learn to become one of them to survive, but can Commander Riker go back? And what about Troi? As Riker's partner on the away team, she finds herself in the most peculiar adventure of her career. Adult situations involving both Riker and Troi, but not together.

Author's Notes

This was a lot more fun than I expected it to be. What started out as a rough idea and a jumble of indecipherable notes slowly worked itself into a story that just got easier and easier to write. I had fun with it but I had my doubts about it too. So I bundled up my notes and grabbed the most rabid Next Generation fan I could find. In the great Northwest that honor belongs to Debbie Talbott. Cleverly, I managed to isolate her on a remote farm in the mountains where I proceeded to verbally lay out my entire plot up to where I was helplessly stuck. (For those of you who want to write ST:TNG but feel you do not have enough expertise on the subject I heartily recommend this method. 1 call it the "Captive Audience and Enforced Fan Input Method" of writing. (Look for future tapes and seminars coming to a convention near you!) Well I either succeeded in brain washing or entertaining her because she volunteered to read the final draft and she convinced a friend of her's to lend me some magazines for photo references. Thanks Debbie!

No zine of mine would be complete without acknowledging the tremendous karma debt I owe Wendy Rathbone. Thanks Wendy for the final edit and for being such a great friend and teacher! All credit for the look of this zine the print layout and the last minute cover go to Sherri Bryant, sister extraordinare. She managed, through ways she can explain but I can't comprehend, to convert my program to her computer and produce the spiffy laser copy that appears throughout

Many thanks to the talented folks behind the series and to the enduring power and creativity of fandom. May both live long and prosper!

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Reactions and Reviews

For my heterosexual tastes, there is BONDS OF THE MATRIARCH (ST:TNG), I'm not particularly a Deanna Troi or Will Riker fan, but these two came off quite nicely in this zine novel. The most fascinating character is an author-created one named Araven, a male warrior in a matriarchal culture, who possesses l—o-o-ng hair (which I have a fetish for).