Freedom (Star Trek: TOS zine)
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| Title: | Freedom |
| Publisher: | William Shatner Fan Fellowship London Group, and then Raynesford Press |
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| Author(s): | Kay Stagg |
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| Illustrator(s): | Cheryl Brown |
| Date(s): | January 1986 |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
| Language: | English |
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Freedom is a gen 167-page Star Trek: TOS novel by Kay Stagg.
The interior art is by Cheryl Brown.
The zine was edited by: Shirley Buck and Steve Tidey and typed by: Kay Stagg.
The zine contains ads for other zines at the end.
From Bill Hupe: "An in-depth study of Kirk and his reaction to the loss of freedom away from the Enterprise and his two closest friends."
 cover of the reprint with new typesetting done by Vel Jaeger |
Reactions and Reviews
Kirk goes on leave to Earth, giving Spock command of the Enterprise. He goes and stays with friends he hasn't seen in four years. He meets their cousin Helen, with whom he falls in love! Later on Helen joes with a scientific party to Zelta II; much later, the Enterprise receives a message that people are going missing from the village on Zelta II. When he gets there Kirk finds that Helen is one of these who are missing.
After a fruitless search and sorting things out with Starfleet, Kirk and two Security personnel go down to Zelta II. After a while they are captured by Romulans and Spock cannot track them because of a cloaking device. Kirk is then taken underground to a mine, and there he is reunited with Helen. They both have to work in the mine, but they can live as a couple in special quarters. Kirk causes trouble and is punished in a steel tank with the Chinese water torture. Helen is pregnant but the Romulans must not find out as they don't know what they will do to her.
On the meantime McCoy and Spock persuade Starfleet (eventually) to let Spock get captured so that he can find Kirk. He does get captured and changes places with one of the Romulan guards. How he finds Kirk, and if he finds him alive... Well, buy the zine! This is mostly a Kirk story. I'm not a Kirk fan by any means, but this zine I really enjoyed - well worth the money. [1]