Keep on Trekkin'

Zine
Title:	Keep on Trekkin'
Publisher:	the fan club Loyal Order of Trekkers (L.O.O.T.)
Editor(s):
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Date(s):	mid-1970s
Frequency:	six times a year
Medium:	print
Fandom:	Star Trek: TOS
Language:	English
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Keep on Trekkin' was a Star Trek: TOS club zine published by Loyal Order of Trekkers.

V.2 N.1

Keep on Trekkin' v.2 n.1 was published in January 1975 and contains 4 pages.

In New York during the months of January and February there will be two S.T. conventions as opposed to only one last year. The reason for this is that the committee chairman for last year's convention, Al Schuster, was kicked out of the committee by the rest of the committee. The rest of the committee elected a new chairman and started plans for a February Star Trek Convention.

Then, all of a sudden, poor little Al Schuster pops up with his own International Star Trek Convention.

Well, well, well...now you don't know which one to go to. We can't recommend one, but if you can, go to both (if you are a real Trekker, you have to go to at least one.

What do you do at a Star Trek convention? Well, for your membership fee you get a card (and a lot of other junk) that you pin on your chest, like a good little kid, and with it you can come and go as you please. Soon you completely immerse yourself in the world of Star Trek.

One by one, these are the things you can do: 1) any good convention has an art room or art display. In this area, art work both two and three dimensional, done by Star Trek fans are displayed and/or auctioned off. This is usually a calm and pleasant place, and the art work (although much is done by amateurs) is fantastic. 2) All cons have a dealers or "Hucksters" room. This is usually a gigantic room with tables all around. Behind these tables are people trying to sell you all sorts of goodies such as posters, fanzines, comic books, pictures, models, but tons, etc. You can spend a whole day in that room just wandering around looking at all the weird things these people sell. If you're not careful, you'll come out broke. 3) The main nerve center of a convention is the main auditorium, where they show Star Trek episodes. Science Fiction movies, and slide shows. This is where the old Star Trek actors, writers, producers, and what not, all the people you've worshiped on the screen, talk to you in person, and if you are lucky you can get a photograph, autograph, or a hand shake. Also in the main auditorium they hold costume balls where Star Trek fans dress up as Enterprise crewmen, Vulcans, Tellerites, Andorians, Tribbles, Hortas, and believe it or not, even the Enterprise!!! Conventions also run trivia contests and more.

But the best thing about a Star Trek Convention is the people that go there. People of all ages, all of them Star Trek fans just like you. All in all, a Star Trek convention is quite an experience.

• Preview to the N.Y. Star Trek Conventions '75 (1)

V.2 N.4

Keep on Trekkin' v.2 n.4 was published in 1976 or before.