Enterprise Regained

Zine
Title:	Enterprise Regained
Publisher:	Steve Wilson
Editor:
Author(s):	Steve Wilson
Cover Artist(s):	Steve Wilson
Illustrator(s):	Steve Wilson
Date(s):	May 1984
Medium:	print
Size:	quarto
Genre:
Fandom:	Star Trek: TOS
Language:	English
External Links:	Enterprise Regained - A Star Trek Fan Fiction Novella (1984), Archived version
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Enterprise Regained is a 45-page gen Star Trek: TOS novel by Steve Wilson.

Part of a Trilogy

• Enterprise Regained (1984)
• Enterprise Lost (1985)
• Enterprise Betrayed (1997)

Summary

From Media Monitor:

In 1982, when excitement over CLASSIC Trek ran high, DC Comics author Steve Wilson wrote this sequel to 'The Wrath of Khan.' Spock stayed dead, Kirk kept the Enterprise, and Lt Saavik found herself forced to fill the shoes of her mentor. When another starship is destroyed by an alien intelligence, Jim Kirk finds himself inexplicably mind-linked with the ship's dying captain. When the other captain is dead, Kirk's mind, believing itself dead, shuts down. Only Saavik can go in and bring her new Captain out.

The Covers

There were at least 3 printings, with covers shown below. The 1st printing (May 1984) was the only one with that artwork. A 2nd printing in Aug. 1984 used new artwork, and omits the author's name from the cover (this cover is uncredited, but almost certainly by Wilson). A 3rd printing, of 200 copies in Aug. 1985, keeps the artwork of the previous printing, but uses a different design layout, which includes the author's name. Another slight variant exists (4th printing?) with a cover identical to the 3rd printing, but with a white background.

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  Cover, first printing: "For the zine’s cover, I couldn’t afford color. I was publishing on my parents’ office Xerox machine! So I xeroxed a photo of the Enterprise (I think from the STTMP Souvenir Program Book center spread), trimmed with scissors and pasted over the Starfleet Delta, which I formed with 4pt layout tape on thin graph paper. I printed it on canary yellow paper. All copies with this cover were printed at home on my parents’ office copier, and all artwork was thus reproduced from the original by Xerox. I did 25-50 copies of this [yellow] one, and then my parents said “enough.” If I was going to mass-produce, I needed to do it right and go to a real printer."

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  Cover, second printing: "This is a scan of the original master for the second cover. I though it was better to emphasize the people, rather than the ship, and make it clear this was a Saavik story. This master used a half-tone of my original, which was charcoal. Haven’t found that artwork yet, but hope to, as the half-tone lost some of the detail. Copies with this cover have half-tones of my original pencils on the interior. I believe 200 copies were printer. Maybe 400?"

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  Cover, third printing: "When that batch sold out, I decided the cover needed some color, so I made it tan. For this edition, to save money, I went with pen and ink for the interior illos."

Comments by the Author: 2013

I’ve put a lot of time and energy lately into preserving the work that a lot of people, myself included, did back in the 1970s and 1980s, and so I’m thinking of a lot to say about it. And, yeah, I think our work deserves to be remembered. So there it is, and here’s a rundown of the artistic effort that went into making my first fanzine, lo those three decades ago.

Fanzines in the 1980s had amazing artwork, not always done justice by the printing technologies fan publishers were forced to use. When I decided to publish my own zine in 1984, I wanted it to have its share of artwork. Being a one-man-show, I had to provide my own. Fortunately, in those days, illustration was something I did. I’d also worked on the school newspaper and yearbook, so I was comfortable with publication design.

[much about the covers and interior art snipped]

You’ll note that all the Saavik images are based on Robin Curtis, even though the story was written and the publication almost complete before she ever played the part. I took an immediate liking to her as Saavik. I think it’s a shame that people only seem to remember Kirstie Alley now. I’ve met and worked with Robin several times over the years, and she’s a fun and friendly person.

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Looking back, it’s probably a mistake that there’s no illustration of Angela Teller. I think, had there been, a lot less people would have believed I had created the character for this story. She was, after all, the same lady who appeared in the episodes “Balance of Terror,” “Shore Leave” and “Turnabout Intruder.” I just always liked her, so I put her aboard the new Enterprise.

Sample Interior

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  "The first illustration I ever did of Kevin Carson (left) and Terry Metcalfe in their original Trek context. This was pencil on a page from my sketchbook. I later did a pen and ink version, tracing it on a light table. I was never as happy with that one. The smoky-looking constructs show the influence Richard Powers had on me at the time. I was so taken with his illustrations for Heinlein’s Number of the Beast."

Fan Comments

... I haven't read it yet. All I know about this one is that Saavik is in it, (she wasn't in the other zine I bought at the same time) and I only paid a buck for it. So it may turn out that I got what I paid for.