Intercom (Star Trek newsletter 1)

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Zine
Title: Intercom
Publisher: U.S.S. Achernar
Editor(s):
Type:
Date(s): mid-1980s; probably 1983
Frequency:
Medium: print
Fandom: Star Trek: TOS
Language: English
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Intercom is a Star Trek: TOS newsletter for the fan club U.S.S. Achernar, published in southern California (Los Angeles / San Diego region). Issues are known up through Vol. 10 in 1992. If they published regularly, with new volumes for each calendar year, then the newsletter would have begun in 1983.

V.1 N.1

Intercom v.1 n.1

V.1 N.2

Intercom v.1 n.2

V.1 N.3

Intercom v.1 n.3

V.1 N.4

Intercom v.1 n.4 was published before 1986. "Achernar: The Origin of a Name (reprinted in The Achernar Tapes)

  • other unknown content

V.5 N.4

Intercom v.5 n.4 was published in August 1987.

cover of v.5 n.4


V.10 N.5

Intercom Vol. 10 No. 5 was published in May 1992. It was a 27 page newsletter, edited by Pamela DuPuy. Other staff are Story Editor Dan Bromley and Proof Reader Valorie Hamm.

  • Captain's Log (Editor news and comments)
  • First Officer's Log (President's comments, Kathi Sea)
  • Briefing Room (Meeting minutes)
  • Space Quizzes (Science trivia questions)
  • Stationary (Letterhead stationary for the club)
  • Personnel Profiles ("Personnel" record for the editor's cat)
  • Future Briefings (Upcoming meetings)
  • Mission Im-Paws-I-Bull (Novelette by Clayton George & Albert Turek, pp. 5-18)
  • Chrysalis (Short story by Dan Bromley, pp, 19-22)
  • The Avatar (Short story by Kathi Sea) (the setting of the TV series "V"; the other two fiction stories appear to be in the Star Trek Universe, but not with Star Trek characters.)