New Enterprise Log

Zine
Title:	New Enterprise Log
Publisher:	The New Enterprise
Editor(s):	Wendy Holt & Mich Clarke
Date(s):	March 1981-1?
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Medium:	print
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Fandom:	Star Trek: TOS
Language:	English
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New Enterprise Log is a gen Star Trek: TOS fanzine that was published in England.

Reactions and Reviews: The Series

Average stories by assorted authors, with a few good ones here and there. In #2, Kirk by J.A. Clarke, tells of Kirk's joining the Enterprise and his attempts to get through to Spock - one of my favourite themes. The Siminids by Kate Mallet, in #4, is a humorous story of aliens looking for life in outer space, who are visited by the Enterprise with unfortunate results for the crew. #7 has two light-hearted stories, both of which I enjoyed: La Squeak by Terry Evans, where Kirk gets the hygiene squad and engineering to overhaul his chair and search the Bridge to Investigate a squeak. Read it for yourself to find out the answer! Amop Time by Susan Taylor is one of the very few send-ups of episodes that I have really liked. It definitely has its moments!

[issues #2 and #3]:

Firstly, I feel that it is only fair to state my interests in ST reading 90% K/S, 10% general ST fiction. Secondly, I consider that I must use my own name. The editor already knows that I do not agree with that part of editorial policy and I personally believe that anyone bold enough to write an LoC on someone else's zine, (something they have sweated over, loved, wrestled with and put together for the enjoyment of other fans), should have the guts to put her/his own name to it.

'New Enterprise Log 2 & 3 are the club zines of the New Enterprise ST Club. They are well presented, having been photocopied and some of the artwork, notably by Wendy Holt and Mark Jenkins is excellent.

Many of the stories, however, are either romances of the 'Mills and Boon' type or of what I can only describe as the 'Baby Syndrome'. I am therefore presuming that the majority of members are either teenagers or mums (and I don't mean that disrespect fully) so I have tried to review the zines on that presumption.

In some of the stories, a little more attention to characterization would have helped and a stronger, more realistic approach would have overcome the sentimentalism.

I also think that some authors have mixed ST characters with the ST actors. (Would Kirk really go out hunting with a bow and arrow, shooting wild animals solely for his own gratification? I'd like to think not. Mr. Shatner, however, has done this.

I also think that the zines would have been improved by tighter editing. Unlike some of the teachers, I hope I do not nit-pick over points of grammar. However, some of the grammar, punctuation and spelling errors in N.E. 2 & 3 were particularly bad and I also found the over-abundance of cliches most annoying. Stricter editing would have helped to overcome these problems.

I hope that I have not been over-critical and also that the points raised will help. They are, however, my own views and other readers may think differently. (Some zines I love, my friends can't stand and vice versa.) In any case the ultimate aims for both writers and readers are entertainment and enjoyment and if a zine achieve: that for just one person then it is worthwhile. Tastes vary; the spirit of IDIC lives on.

Issue 1

New Enterprise Log 1 was published in March 1981

cover of issue #1

• Uhura Personal Log 3251.7 by J.A. Clarke (1)
• Kirk by A. Earl (4)
• Boys Will Be Boys by Julie Maggs (5)
• One in a Million by Wendy Downes (13)
• Newsflash by Sue Ride (17)
• My Time Slip by Theresa Evasn (18)
• Final Exams by Lesley Arrowsmith (30)
• Uhura by A. Early (31)
• Competition by The New Enterprise (32)
• Doctor McCoy by A. Earl (33)
• Proving Ground by Rebecca S. Kortan (34)
• Remember Me by Lesley Arrowsmith (38)
• Sulu by A. Earl (38)
• Another Contact by Julie Maggs (39)
• Just One of Those Days by Wendy Holt (49)
• The Watchers of Damis by Dawn Smith (53)
• art by Wendy Holt and J.A. Clarke

Issue 2

New Enterprise Log 2 was published in March 1981 and is 64 pages long. The art is by Wendy Holt, J. Clarke, and Donna Poster.

• Don’t Tell the Captain, story by Sue Warvill (17 pages)
• The Angered Soul, story by Theresa Evans (5 pages)
• To All Men, story by Sue Williams (8 pages)
• Crossroads on the Enterprise, story by Sue Warvill (5 pages)
• Kirk, story (14 pages)
• The Apple Garden, story
• The Hind Revealed, story
• Human Love, poem by Elaine W.
• a word search
• a puzzle
• a song

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Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2

The zine contains seven good length stories, illustrations by Wendy Holt, J. Clarke, and Donna Poster and six pieces of poetry, one 'Human Love' by Elaine W. of outstanding quality. In addition there is a word search, logic puzzle and a song.

All seven of the stories are well written with good plots. Two stories, both written by S. Warvill, are in a lighter vein. I enjoyed 'Don't Tell the Captain' where Spock gets left holding a new-born baby, but 'Crossroads at the Enterprise', a satire on friends of the writer aboard the Enterprise, I did not think quite came off, probably because I don't know the people concerned.

'The Hind Revealed' and 'Kirk' are both stories concerning the first meetings between Kirk and Spock and their reaction to each other, while 'Apple Garden' has a young Kirk getting into trouble with his brother. The two best stories, in my opinion are "To All Men" by Sue Williams, where the sudden arrival of two Romulans, one heavily pregnant, causes a stir, and "Angered Soul" by Theresa Evans. This last story, although short was, I thought, excellent and concerned the ghost of Edith Keeler who returned to seek vengeance on the person she believed to be responsible for her death.

I enjoyed the zine and would say that as Gen-zines go it is well above average in its presentation, illustrations and especially its content.

'Don't Tell the Captain' by Susan Warvill was, I thought, one of the best stories in the zine. Uhura and Christine Chapel smuggle a baby girl aboard the Enterprise and with the help of McCoy and Spock attempt to hide it from the Captain. Some of the interchanges between the characters were amusing and I particularly liked the scene where Spock was left in sole charge of the child with instructions to 'wind her' should she cry. The use of the English word 'nappy' was irritating at times but I did like Susan's style, pace and humour.

'The Angered Soul' by Theresa Evans left me cold. The 'Soul' in question is Edith Keeler's ghost, her body twisted and warped by the accident, who haunts Kirk, accusing him of killing her. She is now bent on Kirk's own death as revenge. The climax is a seance, involving Kirk, Spock, McCoy and an ouija board and the soul is finally persuaded that she had made a ghastly mistake, that Kirk loved her and that she no longer needs to destroy him.

'To All Men'by Sue Williams was not my type of story either, because I just don't appreciate plots in which at the height of the Christmas gaiety aboard the Enterprise, a pair of strangers happen by (in this case Romulans), the woman subsequently giving birth to a boy child, and everyone gazing down at it with awe. It was just unfortunate that these two stories were in the same zine, since I dislike tales of the occult and hints of religious fervour.

The final story 'Kirk' by Jackie Clarke concerns the beginning of the Kirk/Spock friendship, and I did enjoy many of the scenes, although the beginning and the ending let it down rather. At the start of the story, Kirk, home on leave 'down on the farm', is greeted by a curiously simple and homely mother, who declares "Oh, God, Jim you're home!" Weeps unashamedly with joy, (her 30+ year old son declaring "Mother, stop it or you'll start me off!") who worriedly admonishes "You look a bit 'peeky' and who buries her head into her "youthful son's shoulder to hide her tears.'". However, the story picks itself off the ground when 'the youthful son" arrives on the Enterprise determined to make friends with Spock, meeting rebuff after rebuff and ending with yet another Spook-saves-Kirk situation in rather dubious medical circumstances.

Issue 3

New Enterprise Log 3 was published in April 1982 and contains just over 60 pages.

cover of issue #3

• One Last Kiss and then Goodbye--Terry Adams
• Sulu (Poem)--A Earl
• Perchance To Dream, A Sudden Request--Sue Williams
• The Security Guards Lament--Lesley Arrowsmith
• Crossroads on the Enterprise pt2 --Susan Warvill
• Amok Time (Poem)--Susan Taylor
• Wordsearch--Donna Foster
• Friendship--Julie Maggs
• The Test--Katie Mallett
• For The World Is Hollow (Poem)--Deborah Short
• Metamorphosis--Deborah Short
• Contimuum--J A Clarke
• Answers to Problems in Log 2

Reactions and Reviews: Issue 3

'One Last Kiss, Then Goodbye' by Terry Evans appeared to be loosely based on the movie 'The Graduate' with the young cadet, Kirk, in the student's role and Ruth, a professor's wife, as Mrs. Robinson. Kirk visits the house to await the professor and Ruth immediately knows that if she is not careful, she will be caught by 'the golden webs that lurk within his eyed' and no doubt his 'soul filling smile', too. Kirk's dear old mother even turns up again in the ensuing conversation. She has only a few hands to help her down on the farm. Then Ruth's husband, John, arrives and as Kirk departs 'sweet tears seeped from her (Ruth's) closed eyes onto her velvet cheeks'.

Kirk continues to frequent Ruth's home for some time on the pretext of extra coaching from John, until, at last, he is due to be posted and goes to say goodbye. John, conveniently, is away for a few days. Kirk asks Ruth why she was crying that first night and the answer is somewhat surprising. Despite her happy marriage and her wanting for nothing, 'she tried vainly to hold her tears...' whilst 'Jim sat quiescent, her emotions holding him' ... John has one big dream 'to hear a child's laughter fill the house'. But John, she confesses, is sterile. But that is not why she cried. The reason for her tears was because Jim would be able to father a child but because of his devotion to Starfleet, never would, which all seemed so unfair to poor old John, The upshot is that Kirk makes love to Ruth (the details are mercifully left to the imagination) hoping that he will make her pregnant so that she can give the child to John. The mission completed and virginity ruined, he's off. Ruth kisses him for one last time. "That was nice", Kirk says discovering that "To be in love was to cry", I would like to have known if Ruth did get pregnant and if the baby had the hereditary "golden webs" lurking within the eyes.

Another tale is 'Perchance to Dreamby Sue Williams, Spock, on going into
pon farr beams down to Vulcan as soon as he feels the "first stirrings within him"
and gets himself bonded to an aristocrat of "delicate constitution" (who has two
robust sisters), the "fragile T'Elene" & few obligatory months later, T'Elene gives birth to a son, whom the happy parents call Jim, after you-know-who, and they pay a visit to the Enterprise when the celebrations of little Jim's birth really do get under way.

'Friendship' by Julie Maggs is a nice, well-written story of the "child "syndrome" class, although the plot is unoriginal and it suffers somewhat from this. This time '.' no less than four children are beamed aboard, their parents having died of a disease, from which the children's age protected them.

I enjoyed Jackie Clarke's 'Continuum' too. In essence it is a Kirk/Alexander story, which was nicely written with plenty of good action/adventure, which certainly made a welcome change - a good story to end a zine on....

Issue 4

New Enterprise Log 4 was published in 1983 and is 59 pages long.

cover issue #4

• The Day The Hazel Eyes and Affectionate Look Routine Failed (13 pages)
• Task Of Evil (5 pages)
• The Siminids (5 pages)
• T’Elene’s Viewpoint (6 pages)
• Trust Rekindled (5 pages)
• A New Beginning (2 pages)
• The Poet (8 pages)
• Crossroads On The Enterprise Part Three (12 pages)

Issue 5

New Enterprise Log 5 was published in 1983 and is 59 pages long.

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Issue 6

New Enterprise Log 6

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Issue 7

New Enterprise Log 7

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Issue 8

New Enterprise Log 8

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Issue 9

New Enterprise Log 9

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Issue 10

New Enterprise Log 10 was published in August 1985 and contains 120 pages.

cover of issue #10

The art is by Wendy Hold, Sandra Finch, Carol Hart, Mark Jenkins, Sharon White, and Ena Glogoska.

Some of the stories were entries to the "What If" competition in the newsletter.

• What Could Have Been, fiction by Susan Warvill (1)
• The Paradise Syndrome Take II, fiction by Sharmain Martin (38)
• Silver Lady, poem by Fiona Culpeck (45)
• The Way of the Word, fiction by Janet Lawn (46)
• Famous Last Words, poem by Katie Mallett (60)
• The Snakeskin, fiction by Terry Evans (61)
• Rendezvous at Aurigae, fiction by Kelly Mitchell (69)
• Spock, poem by Kathleen Stapley (95)
• Sacred Stones: The Garden of the Gods, fiction by Sue Williams (96)
• Brief Encounter, fiction by Kate Lach (105)
• Nurse Chapel, poem by A. Earl (109)
• What If...?, fiction by Patricia Thompson (110)
• Chekov, poem by A. Earl (114)
• Conscience of the King, poem by Tanya Rachel (115)
• Thoughts of Lt. Pavel Chekov, poem by Fiona Barrowclough (116)
• You and Me, poem by Katie Mallett (119)

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  from issue #10, Carol Hart

Issue 11

New Enterprise Log 11 was published in 1986 and contains 60 pages.

• The Meeting (3 pages)
• The Mark Of Sorrow (8 pages)
• A Friend In Need (15 pages)
• Heroes Never Die (6 pages)
• Through The Mirror (7 pages)
• Children Of The Night (10 pages)

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Issue 12

N.E.L. 12 was published in March 1987 and contains 60 pages. It was published by Mich Clarke. The front cover is by Steven Matijas, other art by Steven Matijas, Sharon White, and Cheryl Brown.

cover of issue #12, Steven Matijas

• Foreword
• The Question--Terry Evans
• Laughter~The Best Medicine--C J Guirad
• The Enterprise Flies The Universe--Kathy Pugh
• To The Last--Kelly Mitchell
• Logic Problems--Donna Foster
• Cartoons--Peter Matijas
• The Unheard Farewell--Janet Lawn
• Thoughts--Brenda Kelsey
• The Captain, The Creator And The Created--Fiona H Culpeck
• The Experiment--Susan Humphries
• Fear of Feeling--Gillian Armitage
• wordsearch--Patrica Thompson
• The End of the Azimov--Kathleen Stapley
• Children of the Universe--Katie Mallett
• Paradox--Janet Lawn
• Answers

Issue 13

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