Goings On
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| Title: | Goings On |
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| Editor(s): | Karen Fleming |
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| Date(s): | June 1975-? |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
| Language: | English |
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Goings On is a Star Trek: TOS newsletter edited by Karen Fleming.
Issue 1
Goings On 1 was published in June 1975 and consists of a single piece of paper, printed on both sides.
Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1
One page (front & back), faint offset (or fair mimeo... hard to tell). This is a new newsletter that will be devoted to the very current news of the activities of the ST cast & crew, & the progress of the movie and any other items of interest. Karen plans to publish it twice monthly or irregularly as news comes in. She has some good news in the first issue, and Goings On promises to be valuable tool in fandom. To make sure you get the next issue ... send a first class stamp to Karen... [1]
Issue 2
Goings On 2 was published in August 1975 and consists of a single piece of paper, printed on both sides.
Issue 3
Goings On 3 was published in October 1975 and consists of a single piece of paper, printed on both sides.
Issue 4
Goings On 4 was published in December 1975 and consists of a single piece of paper, printed on both sides.
front page of issue #4
Issue 5
Goings On 5 was published in January 1976 and consists of a single piece of paper, printed on both sides.
A PIECE OF THE ACTION reports that Roddenberry says fans should NOT write to Paramount about the STAR TREK movie. The negotiations are on a very delicate level and ha doesn't want anything to be upset. This news was relayed by Walter Koenig at THE AMERICAN STAR TREK CONVENTION (Oct 9-12, 1975 in Dallas, Tx.)
front page of issue #5
Issue 6
Goings On 6 was published in February 1976 and consists of a single piece of paper, printed on both sides.
On the TOMORROW program, February U, DeForest Kelley said that the STAR TREK movie has a starting date of July 15. It still didn't have an accepted script, though an unknown number of writers had submitted ideas. But, Roddenberry had told Kelley that he knew a lot of people who had scripts...but no starting date.
About the first half of the TOMORROW program was a rather leisurely chat between the host, Tom Snyder, and DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, and Walter Koenig. Kelley, and Doohan seemed to have very positive attitudes toward ST, while Koenig, for the most part, seemed more moderate. Doohan said ST was a great show because it had something for every age and because of the moral messages in the episodes. And. Kelley remarked that it was rather strange being in a hit show that was getting hotter all the time...and it's a ghost. They said there always had been talk about ST's going off the air. And Koenig said that he feels that ST's ratings were probably accurate, that ST's devotees had been extremely vocal and active in their support, and that now ST has the numbers it needed while still being filmed — that now ST is much more accepted all over the country and its viewers are much more diversified,
Harlan Ellison and Al Schuster joined the group for about the last half of the show. The show moved along snappily after that — with Ellison acting as a one-man debating team. He decried ST's "mediocrity" and called ST a "cop show" (spacemen going throughout the galaxy straightening things out). About "City On the Edge of Forever" he said he thought "they had mucked it up badly" and he bemoaned ST fans' interest as "hero worship on the same plane as the Beatles..." To be fair, he had some good points to make (for example: against rip- off artists and network and studios' idiocies at the administrative level. And some of his comments on ST and super- Trekkies weren't entirely off the mark.
But, I felt he was leaning too far toward the negative side of ST to be any more correct than the people who can find nothing
wrong with ST. Ellison's negativism even forced Koenig into defending ST. I felt that Schuster added little, if anything, to the discussion; he only made one brief comment on violence in ST and a couple of comments about his ST cons. Also, a Bridge-to-transporter excerpt from "Omega Glory" was shown — which I think points up the misguided over-reliance on gimmicks and gadgetry that the studios and networks seem to expect from science fiction.
front page of issue #6
Issue 7
Issue 8
Goings On 8 was published in June 1976 and consists of a single piece of paper, printed on both sides.
issue #8
Issue 9
Goings On 9 was published in August 1976 and consists of a single piece of paper, printed on both sides.
issue #9
