The Neutral Zone (Star Trek: TOS zine published in Ohio)
| Zine | |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Neutral Zone |
| Publisher: | out of Ohio |
| Editor(s): | Bill Stratton Jr. |
| Date(s): | 1976 |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
| Language: | English |
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The Neutral Zone is a Star Trek: TOS zine. Each issue explores a different episode and contains about 16 pages.
Reactions and Reviews
This has to be preserved as a monument to the spirit of amateurishness and naiveté. The articles are usually one per issue, double spaced, and lacking in any content. The artwork looks like poorly reproduced pencil. Paste-ups are covered with finger printy scotch tape. Pages are printed only on one side however, it is typed - though the amount of print (aside from a couple of reprints from flyers) would cover less than an ordinary page of SD. I'm sure that who ever put this our either never saw a (good) fanzine before, (and hasn't bothered to, yet) or is somewhere around the age of 8 years old, Not that I'm slamming it, however, all sincere efforts are to be cherished. I'm only saying that there is no way for the Neutral Zone to compete or be compared alongside virtually any ST fanzine I've seen. And when you can't compete, find something that is unique, and [persue] that. Specialise in that which you do better than anyone else. [1]
Issue 1
The Neutral Zone 1 was published in February 1976 and contains 12 pages.
- Sci-Fi: It's [sic] sad state on the tube (1)
- Sales Center #1 -- Items for sale (2) (items sold by Nova Enterprises: conflict simulation games, blueprints and calendars by Ballantine, pro science fiction books, and "a new science fiction board game called "INFINITY")
- Profile: Of First Officer Mr. Spock (3)
- Space:1999 vs. Star Trek (4)
- Review in Perspective: "The Mantrap"
- The Romulans -- What is their real origin? (6)
- Sales Center #2 -- Items for sale (7)
- This months [sic] designs from Star Fleet (8)
- Star Trek Welcommittee notice (9)
- The finishing touch (10)
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Issue 2
The Neutral Zone 2 explores and discusses, "The Cage."
Issue 3
The Neutral Zone 3 was published in June 1976 and contains 20 pages.
- What Are The Klingons, part 2 (1)
- ST sketch: Comic (2)
- ST Sales Center #1 (3)
- ST's 20 best & worst episodes (4)
- Elaboration on the 40 choices (5)
- The Menagerie (6)
- City On The Edge of Forever (7)
- Amok Time (8)
- ST Sales Center #2 (9)
- Where No Man Has Gone Before (10)
- ST Sales Center #3 (11)
- Balance of Terror (12)
- ST Sales Ceter #4 (13)
- A fuzzie thing happened (14)
- ST's yearly review: Season 1 (15)
- Season 2 (16)
- Season 3 (17)
- ST sales Center #5 (18)
- The finishing touch (19)
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Issue 4
The Neutral Zone 4 was published in July 1976 and contains 14 pages. Its focus is "Errand of Mercy."
- A starships [sic] medical officer (1)
- Things that never got on the blooper reel by S.F. Czapla (2)
- Cover-ups and bloopers (continued) (3)
- Return to the Edge of Forever by Bill Stratton, Jr. (4) (fiction)
- Forbidden Voyage by Bill Stratton, Jr. (6)
- Zine Review: Stardate, see that page (9)
- ST Sales Center #1 (10)
- Episode Review: Errand of Mercy (11)
- Return to the Edge of Forever (continued) (12)
- The finishing touch (13)
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Issue 5
The Neutral Zone 5 was published in July 1976 (a week later than the previous issue) and contains 14 pages. Its focus is "Assignment: Earth."
The editor writes: "P.S. Please forgive us for the appearance of some of our zine, we are experimenting with several formats. Thank you."
- A starships [sic] communications officer: Lt. Uhura (1)
- part two of "Return to the Edge of Forever," fiction by Bill Stratton Jr. (2)
- full-page ad for Starlog (the table of contents calls it a review/preview) (3)
- Forbidden Voyage, final part (fiction) by Bill Stratton Jr. (4)
- Star Trek vs Lost in Space by Bill Stratton Jr, a serious attempt to do a serious review (10)
- Review in Perspective: Assignment: Earth, Gary Seven and the nuclear missile crisis (10)
- a review by S.F. Czapla of ...A Handful of Snowflakes and Other Trek Tales, see that page (11)
- a review by S.F. Czapla of Star Trek Primer: A Child's Garden of Space, see that page (12)
- The finishing touch (13)
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