Orbit (Star Trek: TOS zine)

Disambiguation, see Orbit.

Zine
Title:	Orbit
Publisher:	out of Grandview, MO
Editor(s):	Chery J. Shelton
Date(s):	1979- at least 1981
Series?:
Medium:	print
Genre:	gen
Fandom:	Star Trek: TOS
Language:	English
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Orbit is a gen Star Trek: TOS anthology of fiction, articles, poems, games and art.

It was published quarterly, and each issue had about 20 pages.

The content encompassed all the episodes and the movie.

It is a ditto zine and a sister zine to Standard Orbit.

Issue 3

cover of issue #3, Kate Fuller

Orbit 3 was published in July/Aug/Sept 1979 and contains 22 pages.

• Scotty, drawing by Heather Firth (3)
• Balok by Ken Brian Gooch (6)
• Star Base Kansas City Logo by Dennis Bahm (8)
• Montgomery Scott - ST-TMP, Publicity Pic (11)
• Star Trekon '79 Log (13)
• Maureen Holton and Doohan by Carolyn Smith (13)
• Scotty and Girl, drawing by Joan Sailler (14)
• Dave Bahm, Pic by Stan Nevins (17)
• Cartoon by Beth Brown (18)
• Cartoon by Gerry Dashner (22)

Issue 7

cover of issue #7

Orbit 7 was published in July/Aug/Sept 1980 and contains 24 pages.

• Letters from Home, part one: An Interference, fiction (1)

• DeForest Kelly - Notes from a Press Conference (2)
• Games - People and Places (5)
• Listen, poem (6)
• Crossword Puzzle (14)
• Spock Cartoon (16)
• Vulcan Sun, Red, poem (17)
• Comic Strip About the Crew (18)

• Notes of Some Interest (20)
• subscription information (21)
• The Rescue, fiction (22)
• Star Trek in Animation, article (23)

Issue 8

Orbit 8 was published in Oct/Nov/Dec 1980 and contains 27 pages. It was edited by C.J. Shelton.

cover of issue #8

• Life Cannot Exist on Earth, article by Frank Logan (2)
• The Kelvans and the Scalosians and Reality, article by Matt James (3)
• Of the Men Who Sailed the Stars, poem by Wilma York (4)
• The Game, story by Kate Fuller (5)
• The Maze, a game by Eric Daniels (12)
• Scotty's Love, poem by Jean Edmonds (14)
• From McCoy's Notebook - excerpt -, article by Beth Brown (15)
• The Fate of the Thralls, Pro and Con, article by Lt. Mele Frankian (sp?) and Lt. John Mixx (18)
• Word Search by Kate Fuller (19)
• You Are There, Ensign!, game by Kate Fuller (19)
• Update on Grace Lee Whitney (20)
• Balance Sheet for 1980 (21)
• Litebrig Rescue, story by Debbie Edmonds (23)
• Letters from Home, part 2: An Interference, fiction by Matt James (24)
• answers to puzzles (26)
• subscription information (26)

Issue 9

Orbit 9 was published in March 1981.