Let's See What's Out There (Star Trek: TNG & Star Trek: TOS zine)
Are you looking for Let's See What's Out There, a Star Trek: TNG zine?
| Zine | |
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| Title: | Let's See What's Out There |
| Publisher: | Rosetta Publications out of the UK |
| Editor(s): | Morag Philips & K. Heintz |
| Date(s): | around 1993 |
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| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: TNG & Star Trek: TOS with some DS9 |
| Language: | English |
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Let's See What's Out There is a gen Star Trek: TOS and TNG fiction 100-page anthology. Proceeds went to benefit the Childline UK charity.
A third issue was proposed in October 1995 according to an ad listed in IDIC #41, but this issue most likely did not occur.
Issue 1
Let's See What's Out There 1 was published in or around 1993.
From an ad in IDIC #29: "Rosetta Productions (formally Empathy Press), a new Classic/Next Gen genzine. Featuring Contagion and T'Kon prizewinning writers, also poetry and artwork... Picard prepares for a seminar; Chekov goes AWOL; Spock stands watch over an injured Kirk; Troi tries to help out victims of Terrorism; Chapel makes a decision; Alexander and his new friends get into some hot water, and lots more."
- The Incomprehensible Ones by Matthew Christie
- Gweetings by Matthew Christie
- Scotty, poem by Lisa Marie Epple
- A Test of Diplomacy by Susan Bell
- Scotch Mist by Heather Gibson
- Legitimate Targets by Morag Phillips
- Camouflage by Elizabeth "Heather Gibson" Roberts
- Two Point Three Minutes by Karen Cloney (competition winner at T'Kon)
- Let the Marines Look After Themselves by Sarah Walker
- other unknown content
Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1
This is a fanzine from a new publisher, so I was pleased to be asked to review it. It is a collection or 12 stories and 6 poems crammed into 100 A4 pages. Also included are some pieces of artwork.My favourites, for no reason I can think of, are Matthew Christie's The Incomprehensible Ones (yes, he's a Wayne's World fan) and Gweetings - Deep Space Nine, which has to be seen to be appreciated. Lisa Marie Epple's poem Scotty made me smile. It stands out from the others because anyone who reads it knows it's true.
The stories are a mixture of Classic and TNG stories, six of each, varying from a series of letters between Wesley Crusher and the Enterprise after the events of First Duty (letters by Morag Phillips), to the beautiful and very funny Scott/McCoy reunion which McCoy thinks is a dream (Scotch Mist by Heather Gibson). A Test of Diplomacy by Susan Bell is a wonderfully humorous glance at Picard and Troi preparing for a very unusual seminar. I won't say more or it will ruin the story. Legitimate Targets by Morag Phillips was written as a response to the IRA bombing of Warrington and much of her feelings of anger and shock come through to make this a powerful story of the aftermath of indiscriminate bombing-Camouflage by Elizabeth "Heather Gibson' Roberts is a very nicely written TNG story concerning a known killer hiding behind an assumed name. There are some similarities to the story Conscience of the King, but not enough to stop this from standing in its own right Very readable. Two Point Three Minutes by Karen Cloney is a fiction competition winner (TKon) and deservedly so. !t is short, tight and very readable. In the H/C category (just) - Kirk is wounded and Spock is sorting out his feelings. Let The Marines Look After Themselves by Sarah Walker is a good examination of the 'why are there so few female Star/fleet officers?' question. An interesting solution, too.
Well I've read it all five times and it's in my bookcase in case I want to read it again. [1]
Issue 2
Let's See What's Out There 2 was published in 1994.