Combinations

Zine
Title:	Combinations
Publisher:	As You Like It Press, at some point it was agented/distributed by Bill Hupe
Editor(s):	Nina St. Clair
Date(s):	1994-
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Medium:	print
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Fandom:	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Language:	English
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Combinations is a explicit het, slash, and femslash Star Trek: Deep Space Nine anthology.

cover of issue #1. The artist is Lana Pennington. The back cover is blank.

It required an age statement to purchase.

Issue 1

Combinations 1 was published in May 1994 and contains 116 pages.

The front cover art is not credited, but the artist is Lana Pennington.

• The Circle Complete by Andrea Porter ("How did Garak the Tailor and Gul Dukat meet and why is there bad blood between them?") (1)
• The Drinking of the Ranock by Aleysha Matthews ("It hadn't been a good day for either Kira or O'Brien until they got together for a drink in Quarks.") (8)
• The Hunger by Aleysha Matthews ("(Following the episode Dramatis Personae) Odo had expelled the entity from the station like so much waste material but its hunger still resonated in Kira. A transmuted hunger, no longer for power but for Dax.") (24)
• From Death New Beginnings by Paula Carter ("What happens when the Cardassian war orphans get sick and Bashir's only hope of saving them lies with Garak? To help Bashir, Garak must face his past. A past with surprising revelations. Revelations which begin to haunt Bashir.") (43)
• If We Be Enemies by Paula Carter ("Garak and Kira are stranded on a Bajorian moon, and their survival depends on their co-operation. And that co-operation engenders a new relationship between them.") (66)
• Choices by Aleysha Matthews ("(Follows the episode "Necessary Evil") Dukat's hand shot out and he grasped Kira by the arm, pulling her to his side. In the television version, Dukat lets her go and she leaves the station. In this version, Dukat changes his mind and Kira is trapped on Deep Space 9, in Dukat's quarters. His to do with as he will.") (87)

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  inside page from issue #1

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  inside page from issue #1

Issue 2

front cover of issue #2, artist is Lana Pennington, the back cover is blank

Combinations 2 (More Combinations) was published in October 1995 and contains 146 pages.

This issue does not contain photocopied screenshots used as illos that the first edition does.

• Latent Attraction by Aleysha Matthews ("Their attraction for each other may have started as a flow on effect from Luxwana Troi's Zanthi fever. But what happened afterwards, when Julian Bashir visited Kira's quarters, was totally their own. Quarters Dax chose as a hiding place from the infatuated Vendek Bareil.") (1)
• Sweetheart by Paula Carter ("She called him sweetheart. She called him her lover. She held his hand. And life would never be the same again for Kira Neyrs and Constable Odo because Odo wanted more.") (22)
• Jadzia by Aleysha Matthews ("Everywhere in Major Kira's universe had a double in the Intendent's universe. Dax's double was Jadzia -- sleek, sensuous, and on the prowl -- for Kira Nerys.") (34)
• After Jadzi -- Dax by Kim Carter ("Kira never guessed how hard it would be -- on her return from the Intendent's universe -- to look Dax in the face after making love to the Trill's counterpart. So she began finding excuses to avoid Dax. But Dax wasn't content to let Kira's evasions continue.") (51)
• A Simple Mining Survey by Aleysha Matthews and Paula Carter ("It should have been a simple mining survey but when Dr Julian Bashir and the Major Kira Nerys discovered one of Bajor's worst collaborators living on the Bajoran moon of Tindorit turned into a trip through hell that threatened Kira's life." -- the editor warns that this story contains "some elements of violence.") (69)

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2

I did pick up a load of zines at Shore Leave.... This zine is giving me my f/f slash fix. It's called MORE COMBINATIONS, and it mostly features Kira/Dax (DS9), though there are some heteroerotic stories (Kira/Odo and Kira/Bashir). For myself, I preferred the Kira/Dax stories; I would have preferred some male/male slash stories instead of (or in addition to) the heteroerotic stories.