Orion Quadrant

Zine
Title:	Orion Quadrant
Publisher:	Clandestine Press
Editor(s):	Ellen Blevins Heather Nachman
Date(s):	1979-1980
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Medium:	print
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Fandom:	Star Trek: TOS
Language:	English
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front cover of issue #1, David Penn

from issue #1, back cover of issue #1, David Penn

Orion Quadrant is a gen Star Trek: TOS anthology edited by Ellen Blevins.

Issue 1

Orion Quadrant 1 was published in July 1979.

• Maiden Voyage, editorial (2)
• His Lady Enterprise, poem by Sarah Leibold (4)
• The Heart Has Its Own Logic, fiction by Martha Moore, art by Ellen Blevins ("Spock and McCoy experience a reversal of the their logic/humanistic roles.") (5)
• Portrait, poem by Sarah Leibold (15)
• Night of Darkness, Night of Fire, fiction by Lynne Stephens, art by Ellen Blevins (postulates a sort-of reverse mind-meld between Kirk and Spock) (16)
• The Illogic of Love, poem by Martha Moore, art by Pat Cash (21)
• McCoy to Kirk: Confidential, fiction by Martha Moore (22)
• The Human Condition, fiction by Lynne Stephens, art by Ellen Blevins (37)
• Familial Duty, fiction by Heather Nachman, art by Pat Cash (Sulu-centric) (37)
• Shattered Dreamings, poem by Sarah Leibold, art by Pat Cash (48)
• The Half Plane - Geometry, fiction by Lynne Stephens (50)
• One More Time, With Feeling, fiction by Martha Moore, art by David Penn (humor) (52)
• Scotch Musings, poem by Sarah Leibold, art by Ellen Blevins (58)
• The Life That Never Was, fiction by Colleen Roark, art by Ellen Blevins (Kirk/Miramanee) (59)
• Lament, poem by Colleen Roark (63)
• To Escape the Past, poem by Sarah Leibold, art by Pat Cash (64)
• Magnolias and Memories, fiction by Lynne Stephens, art by Ellen Blevins (the effect of the Kirk/Spock relationship on McCoy as he survives alone into antebellum old age) (65)
• All Except One, poem by Colleen Roark, art by Pat Cash (78)
• Reflection on Promotion, poem by Colleen Roark, art by Pat Cash (80)
• Amanda, fiction by Martha Moore, art by Pat Cash (84)
• The Sole Decision, fiction by Lynne Stephens, art by Ellen Blevins and Pat Cash (From the editorial: "A touching treatment of the importance to future generations of the importance of the Kirk/Spock relationship.") (86)
• Reunited by Colleen Roark (104)
• Hand by Lynne Stephens, art by Martha Moore (105)

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  from issue #1, Pat Cash

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  from issue #1, Ellen Blevins

Issue 2

front cover of issue #2, Robin L. Belyea and Ellen Blevins

back cover of issue #2, Chuck Dransfield

inside page from issue #2

Orion Quadrant 2 was published in July 1980 and contains 124 pages. Art is by Pat Cash, Winston Howlett, David Penn, Robin L. Belyea, and John Hazzard. The front cover is by Ellen Blenvins and Robin L. Belyea. The inside front cover is by David Penn. The back cover is by Chuck Dransfield.

• Many Sunrises, poem by Gene S. Delapenia (7)
• ... On to Fortune by Lynne Stephens (9)
• The Propulsion System of the Starship Enterprise, article on warp drive by Jesco von Puttkamer (25)
• The Game by J. Russel (29)
• The Healing Step, poem by Sarah Liebold (45)
• First Night Home by Martha Moore (46)
• My Friend, poem by Gene S. Delpenia (47)
• Rhyme Without Reason by Lynne Stephens (49)
• In the Likeness of Men by Robin L. Belyea (59)
• Echoes of a Faraway Child, poem by Sarah Liebold (75)
• A Gentle, Forgiving Man by Lynne Stephens (76)
• Who's Minding the Store by Martha Moore (81)
• We Interrupt by David Penn (86)
• Station L by Winston A. Howlett (89)
• To Spock by Martha Moore (110)
• Musings of a Stargazer, poem by Colleen Roark (111)
• Star Trek: The Motion Picture review by Lynne Stephens (112)
• Star Trek: Christmas Wish Book by David Penn (115)
• My Mid-Summer Night's Dream by J. Russell Woolridge (118)
• The Final Day by Martha Moore (121)