Memory Beta (Star Trek/SF fan club)
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| Fan Club | |
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| Name: | Memory Beta |
| Dates: | mid to late 1970s |
| Founder(s): | |
| Leadership: | |
| Country based in: | east coast of the United States |
| Focus: | Star Trek and Science Fiction |
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Memory Beta was a Star Trek and Science Fiction club on the east coast of the United States.
It was associated with the Paterson Fanzine Library.
Some of its members contributed material to the zine series Grip.
About
From an LoC by Roberta Rogow in The Alpha Centura Communicator v.4 n.4 (December 1978):
The Paterson situation for Memory Beta Star Trek/SF club is peculiar. We are part of the Paterson Library's program for young people, which means that we are technically supported by the library's funds. What it really means is that we can't pay anybody anything, because the Paterson Library can't even pay its own staff, let alone guest speakers. If I weren't the coordinator, they couldn't even afford ME! So I tend to put the arm on my friends and local people with outer-space connections. Some of this season's monthly programs have been: ST episodes on film; costume call and demonstration (club members showed off their weird get-ups. A couple of our people had been making money all summer by wandering about at fairs in a Wookiee and Tusken Raider get up. We also had a Vampire and a sexy lady in draperies. The librarians were popeyed) sat the Christmas Party we ran a short film made by our Wookiee friend, Carol Walske and Fern Marder, a pair of New York-based Trek writers, came to talk about their stories ("Nu Ormenel," a series of stories and novels about the Klingon Empire. The best meeting we had all year in my opinion--a great discussion.); convention reports from New York and Boston (a very disorganized meeting); Carolyn Venino, another local New Jersey lady, with her guitar, singing "Songs of Star Trek" (original music, based on the Trek episodes and philosophy. Not filk, but serious stuff. Very nice, and great fun!); Kearny Space Administration's Rocket Show (This is some more local talent—an SF/Rocket club that's going under, due to all the members moving out of New Jersey! Ours is their last show. We've got a couple of model rocket buffs who have been putting up with all the art and literature and music to get to the Good Stuff, the things that go BOOM in the night!); and finally our Annual Picnick and Rockt Launch. That's what we've been doing in the Garden State.