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Marjorie Miller
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| Name: | Marjorie Miller |
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| Type: | fan, fan club organizer, cosplayer, charity |
| Fandoms: | Star Trek, Star Wars |
| Communities: | Austrek, Kirk's Klingons |
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Marjorie Miller (often called "Marj" or "Marjie" was an Australian Star Trek and science fiction fan. She was a fanwriter and a keen participant in clubs and activities, conventions, and social activities.
She contributed to Captain's Log (newsletter) and fanzines including Spock, Beyond Antares and Kirk.
Marje founded a club called Kirk's Klingons, which published at least one issue of its newsletter/fanzine.
She was active in fandom from the 1970s to the 1990s, and she passed away sometime after that.
Gifts and Gifting
Marjorie was known for her hospitality and generosity. She would frequently bring specially baked cakes to fan events such as conventions, birthdays, and Star Trek anniversaries. She also made and gifted costumes for fans.
For Trekcon 1 in 1978, celebrating the tenth birthday of "Star Trek" in Australia, she presented a birthday cake to congoers at a pre-convention birthday gathering:
Marj Miller made a beautiful cake as always and fashioned it after the "Gang Book" from the episode "A Piece of the Action." We all sang Happy Birthday as cheers and bubbly ran with enthusiasm as Marj cut the cake as a courtesy gesture as it was to be kept for TREKCON in two days.[1]
Marjorie also made connections with Bill Shatner and Leonard Nimoy and got their personal imprematur for the William Shatner Fund for Multiple Schlerosis and the Alan Nimoy Memorial Fund for Cystic Fibrosis, which she ran within the Australian fandom community.[2]
On at least one occasion, a fan returned the compliment for her generosity by gifting a remixed fan story on Uhura, which was published in Spock and dedicated to Marjorie.
Kirk Fan
Miller won second place for fiction in a writing contest for her story. [3] She wrote a letter to Data 4.2 (February 1977), explaining why she had purposely broken a rule, and was glad to do so:
My apologizes for having tossed the rule of NO MARRIAGE FOR KIRK aside and given him a wife and son.
Perhaps you would like to know my reasons? I feel after the five year mission, with dangers met and overcome, Kirk has the right to something more substantial than women who are killed or simply beamed out of his life forever. He could almost imagine him becoming a lonely, frustrated old man, years hence.
I like to believe that in the vast Universe of Space, there is one woman who can hold his love and love him enough to wait for his journeys in space to be complete, who can love him and be loved in return, not to the determent of the Enterprise and crew, but to tighten the bond with it and them. To love him, yet be aware of the danger he constantly faces that could take, him from her forever. And she is there to comfort him when he needs it most. Though she is an added responsibility, his love for her makes him take that in his stride as he does all problems.
I like to believe his son is the final link in Kirk's chain of life, the complete fulfillment of ones' existence. A child who lives to follow in his father's footsteps or make an entirely new life of his own. The child, like Spock, is a being of two worlds. Though not restricted in emotions, he would still have many problems to overcome. (May even write a story about him.)
So I hope, dear friends, that you will bare with me and enjoy the story as it was intended, FOR I TOO AM A KIRK FAN.
References
- ^ "Trekcon 1 Report", Captain's_Log #14.
- ^ "Austrek" page in the "Trekcon 2 Convention Report, Austrek, 1980.
- ^ This appears to be the 1976 Astrex Literary Contest, in which winners were published in Beyond Antares.