Space-Time Continuum (Star Trek newsletter)
Also see Space-Time Continuum.
| Zine | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Space-Time Continuum |
| Publisher: | Checks were to be made payable to Bjo Trimble, PO Box was in Kingwood, Texas |
| Editor(s): | Bjo Trimble (editor), John Trimble (manager), Kathryn Trimble (mail manager) |
| Type: | Newsletter |
| Date(s): | Early 1990s |
| Frequency: | |
| Medium: | |
| Fandom: | Star Trek & multimedia |
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Space-Time Continuum was a semi-pro, for-profit newsletter for "Fans of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, Television & the entertainment field."
It was edited by the original "SAVE STAR TREK” lady, Bjo Trimble." On at least one flyer, Trimble herself used the tag-line: "Edited by the lady who saved Star Trek!"
The focus was very much on official information and canned PTB info.
From an ad in Starfleet Communique: "STAR TREK, other SF & Fantasy movie, TV newsletter- no rumors! Insight into old favorites & new releases.
Around September 1996, this zine became Sci-Fi Spotlight.
Read by Many PTB, Including "Lurch"!
According to a mid-1990s flyer, this zine was supposedly read by a variety of PTB, including Rene Aberjonois:
I can't get enough of SPACE-TIME CONTINUUM -- eagerly await each issue." Arthur C. Clarke: "I've found quite a few interesting items of news in STC that haven't appeared elsewhere!" Carol Struycken (the actor who portrayed "Lurch" from "The Adams Family"): "The most efficient & enjoyable way to keep track of what is going on in the Sci-Fi comnunity!" and William Shatner: "Bjo has always been a leader in taste in science fiction, especially where it applies to Star Trek. In my opinion, her nose for news is not to be sneezed at!
one side of a mid-1990s flyer
the other side of a mid-1990s
Advertisement for Space-Time Continuum, listing its overseas distributors (private addresses redacted), as published in The Science Fiction and Fantasy and Horror Fan Resource Book, December 1994.
Description
From a July 1993 ad in GAZ:
A newsletter especially for visual media fans. A more or less monthly visual media newsletter edited in the casual, but authoritative style by Bjo Trimble, author of the humorous "On the Good Ship Enterprise" and the definitive ST encyclopedia, "The Star Trek Concordance". Bjo's-inner studio contracts mean that facts and rumors are checked at the source. Readers can trust STC, a down-to-earth, no-frills newsletter with no rumors, just facts about visual media including Hollywood reports from Forrest "Mr Sci-Fi" Ackerman!
Fan Comments
Bjo Trimble's bimonthly Space-Time Continuum builds a richly-detailed mosaic of developments in media fandom and among fannish space activists. Especially when ST:TNG, Deep Space 9 and perhaps another Trek movie are in production there's a great deal of interesting news about casting, scripts and actor appearances to report. STC covers at least a little bit of everything in fandom that interests Bjo, which makes for a rich reading experience.
The zine conceives of itself as a wide-ranging reporter of fictional and real space exploration but to do that job Bjo needs to fitter out obvious mistakes like the "Special Bulletin" in the October issue announcing "Our Congress voted pay raises for themselves and kept $170 billion [emphasis in the original] in the US budget for their own 'Other Services' (travel, moving expenses, decorating their offices, etc.)" where ignorant cynicism is being passed off as political wisdom.
At the risk of winning my own Boobus Americanus award, I have been through the zine five times, found four places readers are urged to subscribe, without finding the rates. But don't be deterred! Request sibscription [sic] information from Bjo at [address redacted]. [1]
An occasional newsletter from veteran fan, Bjo Trimble (the Star Trek Concordance). News and comment packed newsletter, covering Trek, SF, fandom, and the genre media. More news per square inch than just about any other fan publication. [2]
Issue 2-5
Space-Time Continuum v.2 n.5 was published in Sept/Oct 1993 and contiains 40 pages.
- Emmy Awards Snub Science Fiction Again!, article
- Star Trek Wins Hugo
- official info about Babylon 5, Quantum Leap, Time Trax, and many other shows
- Dusty Memories, a column by Kevin B. Stephens (topic is collecting memorabilia)
- Forrest Murmurings, or, Jottings for Jobe, column by Forest Ackerman (mainly self-promotion)
- many letters from fans and others
- ads and things for sale
References
- ^ from File 770 #95, November 1992
- ^ from Atavachron v.7 n.3