Star Trek Action Committee
You may be looking for the UK club Star Trek Action Group.
| Fan Club | |
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| Name: | Star Trek Action Committee (STAC) |
| Dates: | 1973 |
| Founder(s): | Susan Clarke |
| Leadership: | |
| Country based in: | Australia |
| Focus: | Star Trek |
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Star Trek Action Committee was an Australian Star Trek fan club.
One of its functions was to organize fan campaigns to keep Star Trek on the air.
While short-lived (less than a year), some members combined with members of the former Down Under Space Kooks and formed Astrex.
Its Birth
Star Trek was finally cancelled after its third season in 1969 and Fans in America and Australia combined together to protest the cancellation. July 28, 1969 was designated Deluge Monday when everyone worldwide would phone NBC or write letters timed to arrive on that day. One of the organisers was Susan Smith (later Clarke), then a schoolgirl in Sydney's Blacktown. Plans were made to combine local fans under Shayne McCormack, a stenographer from Auburn.Shayne was interviewed about her activities in TV Times in March of that year. As a result she received over 75 letters from people wanting to help. This led to her forming D.U.S.K. (Down Under Space Kooks). The petition she helped organise measured 8 feet and contained over 2,200 signatures. D.U.S.K. published a fanzine, Terran Times, and organised irregular meetings and social outings before folding around 1970....
In 1972 Jenny Stevenson (now Kentwell) and Susan Clarke (nee Smith) published the first issue of what was to become Australia's longest running Star Trek fanzine, Beyond Antares.
In 1973 STAC (Star Trek Action Committee), a new Star Trek club comprising a number of old D.U.S.K. members as well as newer fans, was founded by Susan Clarke. Later that year, it was combined with a club run in Sydney by Julie Townsend and Edwina Harvey and the name changed to Astrex. [1]