Galileo 7 (Star Trek: TOS zine by Spock Underground)

Zine
Title:	Galileo 7
Publisher:	Spock Underground
Editor(s):	an advisory board: Carle' Johnson, Naomi Bradfield and Sheryl McNevin (though Sheryl McNevin was in charge)
Date(s):	1968-1969
Series?:
Medium:	print
Genre:	gen
Fandom:	Star Trek: TOS
Language:	English
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Galileo 7 is a gen Star Trek: TOS anthology published by the writer's club, Spock Underground It contains poems and mostly Spock-centric stories.

This zine promoted a tactic for fans that encouraged them to send in pennies to TPTB (aka "Klingon finks") to force them to put Star Trek back on the air.

It was published while the show was still on the air. For a list of similar zines, see List of Star Trek TOS Zines Published While the Show Was Still On the Air.

Issue 1

Galileo 7 1 was published in 1968.

Issue 2

Galileo 7 2 was published in February 1969 and contains 17 pages.

cover of issue #2, Bill Warren

The art is by Bill Warren, Vera Heminger, and Jane Peyton.

Two reasons were given as to why the issue was shorter than planned. 1) the editors couldn't get it out of the printers sooner, but wanted to alert fans to the bad news that the show was going off the air, 2) "This issue is shorter than the last as we are saving material for the next issue."

From the zine: "Dedicated to the proposition that all networks are created equal we don't care who carries ST as long as it carries."

From the first editorial:

The true Galileo has now been at the printers for three weeks and I refuse to wait for it a moment longer. This is a much abbreviated version which will at least get some folks off the hook who want to know what Harry Mudd and Arnon are up to. This is going out for a very definite reason to tell you what I have learned about Star Trek and its renewal-cancellation.

If the term renewal-cancellation is confusing to you, think what it is doing to NBC.

[...]

If NBC wanted us to stop writing letters they would simply make the flat statement: there is absolutely positively no chance for ST for next season, stop writing. With the hedging around the question, they run the risk of getting more mail (and money) than they know what to do with. Soooo.

Keep those cards and letters coming in, folks, and also those beautiful pennies. You might also be sure to put your return address on some of them. Reason: the NBC secretary told me that everything has to be returned....and if you send three cents NBC has to spend 6 cents returning it to you, not to mention bookkeeping, addressing, etc.

Also write to CBS and ABC--NOW. The sooner the better. And if you like, send them money, too. Let them know you really support the show. Tell them you’re behind it and willing to support it even to the point of monetary backing. But write NOW. There is no time to waste. Both GET SMART and THE GHOST AND MRS. MUIR have been dropped by NBC and picked up by CBS. So WRITE we’re not sunk yet.

I took to stencil this time to get this out. I have no idea when the printer will finally return the real Galileo to me, but if and when he does, I will include it in the offset issue coming out in April. Sorry this issue is so small, but I think the next one will more than make up for it. And if you write your letters to CBS and ABC, both the Galileo and the Enterprise will stay in flight.

Write today and tomorrow and tomorrow.

Anyone live in the New York or LA areas? Why not call instead of just sitting there. Call several times a day and ask for progress reports. Try for the top--ask for the man in charge. The most they can do is say no. And remember, they're not about to be too rude to someone who buys their sponsor's products.

You folks out Midwest could also call your local newspapers and talk to the radio-TV editor. There not likely to have one if it’s a small town, but they’ll darn well connect you with someone. Then ask them if they’ve had any word and why haven’t they kept you posted. And if you have a large group over some night, why not line up at the phone and hit them with an organized assault? Telephone calls are very effective. And if you say you direct dialed, they might construe it to mean long distance. If you dial a number in the same town, it’s also direct dial. A technicality, but one which the telephone company confirmed. And one which will impress network flunkies no end.

Again, write to the sponsors of the various programs and ask that they sponsor ST again even if on another network. Since RCA owns NBC, I would not consider writing to RCA and asking them to sponsor ST on another channel to be one of the better ideas. But by all means give it a try. It may scare them into thinking that you are writing to all the sponsors.

From the second editorial:

From the Fiendish Schemes department comes this; when you write, if you can find a couple of old pennies or so to throw in, please do so. The plan heretofore has been to send money which they could use, like say a dollar on up, OK, fine... In fact, great. Keep it up, but also on the side if you have time stick a few pennies to a sheet of paper and throw it in the mail of ST. Imagine if you will the chaos at NBC. First of all, if the money comes in in any amount, they will have to hire additional help. If the sum is in pennies, nickles, and dimes, they will have to hire additional help at any rate. Since they are not allowed to take money under these circumstances and keep it under the false pretense of renewing ST, they will have to return it if is not renewed. (They would probably do so, even if it was renewed.) BUT...to return two pennies to a sender would cost NBC 6 cents to mention the additional cost of hiring help.

And of course....if one or two or a hundred or so of us forget to place our return addresses on the envelope, this would greatly hamper the efforts of the Klingon finks to return the money.....and both the FCC and the IRS would be highly interested in any money not returned. So--- we enter into another episode of Life Can Be Miserable.

• Editorial: Emergency (1)
• Editorial: Letter (3)
• Reasons Page (5)
• Collision Course by Bill Warren (6)
• The Visitor We Must Not Meet, fiction by Bill Warren (original science fiction) (7)
• Selena: A Vulcan Sad Song, poem by H.B. Oxford (8)
• Logical Love, part two fiction by Naomi Bradfield (9)
• The Search, poem by H.B. Oxford and/or Adrien Spectra (15)
• The Price, poem by H.B. Oxford and/or Adrien Spectra (15)

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  from issue #2, illo by Jane Peyton

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  from issue #2, illo by Jane Peyton

Issue 3

Galileo 7 3 was reported to have been in the mail as of November 1969, but a fan in Spock Underground #7 says that as of January 1970, she had not received it.