Holly Brown Star Trek Fanzine Collection

Archive
Name:	Holly Brown Star Trek Fanzine Collection
Date(s):	acquired in 2015
Archivist:	University of Texas Libraries (at College Station)
Founder:	Holly Brown
Type:	print zine archive
Fandom:	Star Trek TOS
URL:	Holly Brown Star Trek Fanzine Collection
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The Holly Brown Star Trek Fanzine Collection is a collection of Star Trek zines and other items donated to the University of Texas Libraries Special Collections by Holly Brown.

Similar Collections

For similar archives at TAMU, see Texas A&M Cushing Library Fanzine Collection.

For similar archives at Iowa, see University of Iowa Fanzine Archives.

Scope and Contents

This collection contains fanzines and some scattered other materials relating to the television series Star Trek: The Original Series [TOS] (1966-1969). The driving force behind most of the stories in the collection - as reflecting the cultural interests of collection donor Holly Brown - is the close friendship between the characters Captain James T. Kirk and Mr. Spock. However, stories in the collection do involve many different characters and situations.

The majority of the contents in this collection consist of fan fiction. Fan fiction is the name given to literary or artistic productions created by fans about the collection is identified as "slash”. "Slash" refers to fanworks that feature same-sex relationships and are sometimes (though not always) sexually explicit. In slash, sexual identity, sexuality and/or romance are often the centers of the story, rather than the conventional adventures featured in more traditional fanworks. Holly Brown is herself a slash writer, and much of her collecting was driven by her interest in slash.

Another substantial portion of the collection consists of "het" material. "Het", like slash, refers to fanworks featuring sexual or romantic content, but with opposite-sex relationships. "Gen" stories are those that, speaking broadly, involve the more standard sorts of adventures one might encounter in the television series or other original source material, or that do not involve sexual content as a focus of the story.

Gen and het items are identified as such on the item folder. If an item is *not* identified as gen or het, it is to be assumed that the item is slash.

A small portion of the collection involves media productions other than Star Trek [TOS]. These include the show's sequel series Star Trek: The Next Generation [TNG] as well as anthologies of multimedia fanfiction featuring stories from many different sources.

Other, smaller portions of the collection include copies of script drafts from various episodes of Star Trek [TOS] and Star Trek: The Animated Series [TAS], as well as program books and other materials from a number of science fiction conventions.