Spockulations
You may be looking for the zine The Spockulator.
| Zine | |
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| Title: | Spockulations |
| Publisher: | Leonard Nimoy Association of Fans |
| Editor(s): | Karen Flanery & S. Cornelie "Sam" Cole |
| Date(s): | 1971-1975 |
| Series?: | |
| Medium: | print zine |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
| Language: | English |
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Spockulations is a gen anthology of fiction and non-fiction focusing on Spock.
Issue 1
Spockulations 1 was published in January 1971 (despite the '70' on the cover) and contains 54 pages.
The art is by Karen Flanery and Renee Byrd Smith.
The reason the cover has 1970 on the cover and the zine wasn't published until January 1971 was because the editor, Sam Cole, suffered some very serious health issues, and this delayed the zine. She explained much more in the editorial:
This letter to members will get printed. I've written several, to go with this issue, at different times when I expected to mimeo the Journal last year. I've read them over and find them obsolete and over long. 1970 has been a an eventful year filled with more illness and delays than any year I've had the club, A heart attack in August has made it imperative that the work load be distributed.
This issue contains some correspondence between Sam Cole and those staging and promoting a Star Trek play. See Star Date 3113.7.
It also includes a letter from David Gerrold giving his okay to fans mentioning tribbles in their own fanworks, and states that he doesn't mind fans writing parodies as long as they were non-profit and in good taste, not malicious, and clever. "When I wrote and asked David Gerrold for permission to refer to him and his tribbles in "Once Upon A Star Trek, this was his reply:"
Dear Sam, Thanks for your note. As for your request; as long as this is strictly non-professional (i.e. no profit involved) you have my permission to refer to Tribbles and to me. Of course, I expect you to send me a copy of the printed version for my own files. Have fun with it — we had fun with the original.
I have little objection to fans doing parodies or take-offs on stories I have done, as long as they are (a) in good taste and non-malicious (b) as clever as possible. Your care and thoughtfulness in contacting me first are great points in your favor, and I would be a heel to deny you the fun — and I don't want to be a heel. This year. (David, you couldn't be a heel any year! sam).
- Editorial (Naw, Sam's Letter) by Sam (dated January 1971) (i)
- Area Captains (Or Who's Got Whom) by Sam and L'Shaya Salkind (iv)
- Spock Walks at Night, poem by L'Shaya (1)
- Comparison Between Star Trek and 2001: A Space Odyssey, article by Mike Sobota (2)
- Soup Stupidity and Spock, fiction by Sam (reprinted from from Retrospect: Spotlight on Leonard Nimoy, published by Linda Stanley) (5)
- Definition of a Trekkie by Sam (8)
- Just for Fun by Diane Marchant (9)
- A New Department Anew Or, How I Stuck Foot In Mouth In It Without Even Trying by Daphne Ann Hamilton (10)
- Quo Vadis, or Spick's [sic] Scribes by Ann Headley Pub. Dir (11)
- Vulcan Recipes by T'Yumm, Chef (Kang's Knokoction (beef stew), Mara's Meatloaf, Amanda's Delight Cake) (12)
- This Side of Paradise, poem by Daphne Ann Hamilton (13)
- Diary (of Seana Leith) by Jeanne O'Donnel (part one, the next part was to be in "Spockulations" #2 but wasn't. Instead, it was reprinted, along with the rest of the story, in Minara Nova) (14)
- What of Star Trek, essay by Tina deGuer (25)
- Farewell to Mr. Spock, poem by Charlotte Amesbury (26)
- Gone, poem by Suzann Hughes (26)
- Forgotten Heritage, fiction by Ellie Ockert (about Spock's older brother) (27)
- Soliloquy by Capt. James T. Kirk (30)
- Just for Fun Fill-in by Mary Kissel (crossword puzzle) (31)
- Second Letter, or "What Sam Forgot in her 1st Letter (unnumbered page)
- This Man is Spock, essay by Kathy Watkins (32)
- Stay, fiction by Norma M. Smith (reprinted in Showcase #1 in 1974) (34)
- Once Upon a Star Trek, chapter three: "Home Was Never Like This" by Sam & the Locos (Sam got David Gerrold's permission to mention him and tribbles in this extremely self-referential, meta, self-insertion, real life crossover) (40)
- Advertisements by Sam (54)
- Portfolio Order Form by Ellen Winder (58)
- Pastaklan Vesla, full page ad by Michelle Malkin (59)
from issue #1, chapter three of Once Upon a Star Trek, "Home Was Never Like This"
from chapter three of Once Upon a Star Trek, Karen Flanery
from chapter three of Once Upon a Star Trek, Karen Flanery
from issue #1
from issue #1, Diane Marchant
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from issue #1, from "Diary"
from issue #1, from "Diary"
from issue #1, from "Diary"
from issue #1, from "Diary"
from issue #1, from "Forgotten Heritage"
from issue #1, from "Forgotten Heritage"
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from issue #1, from "Stay"
Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1
[Stay]: Due to uncertain coordinates and a wide range, an unassuming Twentieth century Earth woman is unexpectedly hijacked into the Twenty-Second century when Captain Kirk, Spock, and Dr. McCoy beam back up to the Enterprise. The trio had come to Earth through a time-gate known as the Guardian of Forever, on a special Starfleet Mission. Scotty promises the Earth woman she'll return home, but when the time is right, she will have to leave post haste, or else she will not be able to return to Earth for 50 years. While aboard the Enterprise, the Earth woman meets Ambassador Sarek, Spock's father, with whom she develops an immediate rapport because he is so kind and nurturing. The two even engage in mind-melds, further creating a bond between them. Sarek is headed for Mauretania aboard the Enterprise to deliver vital information to the Vulcan government that would greatly interfere with current covert Klingon activities. The crew receives a distress signal, from an uncharted planet, that appears blatantly suspicious. However, Kirk cannot just ignore a call for help, so he, Spock, Dr. McCoy, Ambassador Sarek, the Earth woman, and three security men beam down into an ambush. It rapidly becomes clear that Ambassador Sarek is the target. The three security men are killed, and an unknown, fast-acting substance attacks and debilitates both Spock and Sarek. The attackers, assumed to be Klingons, are imperceptible to the officers' instruments because of the Klingons' shielding devices. The party splits up leaving Sarek behind to rest. Upon their return, they find Sarek beaten nearly to death! How will the landing party save Sarek and his all important mission now? In addition, STAY! has a harrowing ending, which leaves the reader in a philosophical quandary. This is a great Kirk-Trek read! SPOILER: During the attack, Sarek has sustained severe internal injuries. McCoy told Kirk that Sarek is beyond medical help; the only possible solution is for Sarek to save himself using the Vulcan technique of rigid concentration. But, in Sarek's weakened state, this is not possible without assistance. McCoy tells the Earth woman she must enter a mind-meld with Sarek to bolster his will to live until they can get him an antidote, which would help him heal rapidly. After many hours in contact with Sarek's mind, and a scant two hours away from finding the antidote, Scotty alerts the Earth woman that she must beam up now in order to return to her own time, back in the Twentieth century. What will she do? Stay and save Sarek, and his mission, refusing her desire to go home? Or, will she return to her family and leave Sarek to die? And this is how the story ends. [1]
Issue 2
Spockulations 2 was published in January 1972 and contains 109 pages.
The art is by Janet Martorano, Karen Flanery, Diane Marchant (not credited), Mary Ellen Rabogliatti, and "D." The illos for the futuristic fashions are not credited.
The new club publication schedule is "4 bulletins a year (each club gets the same bulletin) and one Journal per club. Nana Grasmick does the Newsletters (Bless her) and I do the 2 Journals. Spockulations and the Nimoyan, all material should come to me. Spockulations deadline is March 31st, and the Nimoyan deadline is August 31st."
From Sam, the editor:
The debt I owe Bjo Trimble, Thelma Stone, and Jan Gohmert for putting out the 2 Nimoyans and 2 Spockulations, while I was ill, can never be repaid.
From the editor:
Karen and I would like some of you other artists to contribute once in a while. Karen never intended to be sole artist nor did I intend her to be, but we must have art and when we don’t get it, I yell at poor Karen, who would like the load lightened. Besides being vice-president (that’s president in charge of Vice), she is our Art editor, which means she has the job of putting all art work on stencil and NOT that she does every bit of it. I know there are artists out there. Our thanks to Janet Martorano for her cartoon, art. Let’s give Karen a break.
Author's note for "Last Leaf":
This script was written and intended to by the last episode of Star Trek. But rather it has become a memorial and was almost not quite, accepted by Gene Roddenberry in the last season of the series. Another story version of LAST LEAF was sent out on the rounds some time ago, but has never been returned to the author. Those who have read it will find the script rendition slightly different, and I hope, better. Since a few have urged me to circulate the script and since the original story form was lost... or kidnapped, I am sending my brainchild out in hopes that those who read, will enjoy it. The mailing list will be made up of members that can be depended on to take care of an pass the story onto the next on the route. Only a few at a time will be set down to prevent, or cut down the chance of it being lost. Also to be able to keep track of more easily.
A fan, Wendy Worthington, has a letter in this issue about a project she is working on, one that predates similar the for-profit books Star Trek Lives! (1975) as well as Susan Sackett's "Letters to Star Trek" (1977):
I am working on an extensive investigation of STAR TREK'S impact, a project which so far has the support of James Blish, DeForest Kelley and a wide variety of fans across the country. At the moment, I am attempting to gather as much material as possible on all aspects of its impact on the viewing public. If you have any particular members who have unusual stories, reminiscences, philosophies, etc., in connection with STAR TREK, I would be very happy to hear from them. The wider my sources, the more valid my conclusions.
- We Get Your Letters by Knutt (1)
- Sam’s Letter by Sam Cole (2)
- Bjo’s Letter (letter by Bjo Trimble) (4)
- Costume Contest Results, includes a short essay "Fashions of the Future" (There were 41 entries by eight fans) (5)
- May You Live Long and Prosper, article by Jacqueline Lichtenberg (the topic is encouraging fans in a letter campaign to the networks/Paramount: "Let's keep them rocked back on their heels, mouths agape at the idiotic blunder they made in cancelling ST. They have indeed begun to see this error. Let's drive it home good and strong!") (15)
- I Was a Neophite, a very long con report for Star Trek Lives! by Lori Dell (16)
- Reunion, story by Denny Arnold (21)
- The Outsider, poem by Audrey Baker (23)
- Selen’s Pen Pal Column by Selene Dionythus (includes an interview with a fan named Christine Donald) (24)
- Star Trek, long comic, art by Janet Martorano (26)
- Last Leaf, script by Naomi Bradfield (This was later published as Last Leaf, the 18th issue of Saurian Brandy Digest.)(36)
- O Don't Sleep in the Subway, Darlin', or, Who Put the Tribbles on the Eighteenth Floor of the Statler-Hilton?, con report for Star Trek Lives! by K-Nut (78)
- Ensign Flanery, illustration by Karen Flanery (88)
- That World and Welcome to It, fiction by Denny Arnold (89)
- A Private Little War, fiction by Karen Flanery (92)
- Star Trek Convention I, con report for Star Trek Lives! by Devra Langsam (this same con report previously appeared in an issue of T-Negative) (93)
- Once Upon a Star Trek: A Fantasy, conclusion to the story by Sam and Daphne Hamilton, illos by Karen Flanery (97)
- Mr. Spock, poem by Margie Marcotte (107)
- Advertisements (108)
- Spock's Scribe's Acknowledgment Questionnaire
from issue #2
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from issue #2, first page of the story "Reunion"
from issue #2, Janet Martorano
from issue #2, Janet Martorano
from issue #2, Janet Martorano
from issue #2, Janet Martorano
from issue #2, Karen Flanery
from issue #2, Karen Flanery
from issue #2, Karen Flanery
from issue #2, Karen Flanery
from issue #2, "Dynie" (Diane Marchant)
from issue #2, not credited, signed "D"
Issue 3
Spockulations 3 was published in 1973 and contains 60 pages.
- Editorials (1)
- Coming Home, fiction by Norma M. Smith (3)
- Further Mutterings of an Amnesiac by K-nut (25)
- Glass Planet, fiction in script form by Beryl Van Riper (26)
- 6 Rooms Riv Vu, cartoon by Karen Flanery (33)
- Warping Through Manhattan, con report by Louise Stange (34)
- Son of Spock by Jeane Davis (41)
- Watchers (41)
- Another ST Fantasy: Amok Spock by Janet Morteaneo (42)
- A Loyal Friend, poem by Margie Marcotti (51)
- Episode, poem by Margie Marcotti (51)
- The Good Ship Enterprise, poem by Margie Marcotti (51)
- I Knew You, poem by Cynthia Huie (52)
- I'll Never Leave You Here Alone, poem by Cynthia Huie (52)
- Me and You, poem by Karen Flanery (52)
- Into My Mind He Came, poem by Cynthia Huie (53)
- Genesis II and Further Tales of Uncle Genesis... as swiped from Lincoln Enterprises flyer (plug and description for Genesis II) (54)
- Open Letter to ST Fans by D.C. Fontana (a letter plugging Star Trek: The Animated Series) (55)
- Interoffice Memos (humor) (56)
- Shuttering Spock, cartoon by K-nut (57)
- Open Letter to ST Fans by AE LaVelle (it is titled "open letter" in the table of contents, but is really just a blurb about re-runs of Trek being shown in Philadelphia on WEBS/Channel 48) (58)
- Honorary Guest: Tony Young (Tony Young is the actor who played Kryton) (59)
- Ads (59)
from issue #3, Karen Flanery
from issue #3, first page of "Glass Planet"
from issue #3, Karen Flanery
from issue #3, first page of a very stream-of-conscious, LONG con report for Star Trek Lives!
from issue #3, Karen Flanery
from issue #3, Janet Morteaneo
from issue #3, Janet Morteaneo
from issue #3, plug for Genesis II
from issue #3, open letter by D.C. Fontana, asking for fan support for Star Trek: The Animated Series
from issue #3, Karen Flanery
from issue #3, Karen Flanery portrays Tony Young
Issue 4
Spockulations 4 was published in January 1974 and contains 142 pages.
It was edited by Nana Grasmick.
The art is by Karen Flanery with one cartoon by Betty Jean Derro. The front cover is by Evelyn Turner.
The editor wrote that "with this issue, we are going back to the 'one journal' a year."
From the table of contents page:
In the next issue, I'd love to see some more SAMA LUNA encounters, LN reports, clippings, fan doings, reports on cons, sillyness [sic] and even home-visits!!!! This issue we have a fine example of what happens when the whole family runs amok in Nimoyland... I know there are other geniuses out there!!! Ask your kid for a story, he or she may just surprise you! If you want more Nudnicks, dreg em out of your soul. Bring em here, and we'll continue. We have a beautiful story by Sam in the wings of a ST-parallel Universe!!
- Editorial (2)
- Letter from Sharon Emily (describes her busy life, her cat, her home office) (5)
- Unicef Report by Jeanie Fudala (6)
- Nota Bene by Dr. Wertham (blurb from a book: "The World of Fanzines") (8)
- Yes, Again (9)
- Eyeball Witness: a series of reports on LN and Fandom by Gail Abend (10)
- I Went to the 1st British Minicon, con report by Fran Toosey (10)
- LN Sighings...er, Sightings by Jeanie Fudala (meeting fans to see Nimoy in a stage play in Hyannis on July 26, 1973, and then in a Broadway play for "Full Circle" then at the Shrine Circus on Feb 14 in Rochester NY, then at ISTCON 1974, meeting him backstage: "Leonard has the kind of mind that is forever opening into new vistas...") (13)
- LN (22)
- A Star's Trek in Politics -- His Star Trek is Over -- LN Sang (newspaper clippings) (23)
- A Visit to "Full Circle" by Pat Dana (a positive report by a fan about Leonard Nimoy in the Broadway play, "Full Circle" -- also an uncomplimentary clipping by a critic named Richards) (29)
- Roddenberry: Genesis 2 and The Questor Tapes, descriptions by Edna Mae Hahn (30)
- cartoon by Betty Jean Derro (33)
- Speaking of a Phenomenon: ST Still Spellbinds 'Em -- Now ST Fans Can Do Their Thing for Credit -- ST Fans Multiply: Get Bigger Con Site -- 15,000 Fans Jam Meeting (newspaper clippings) (34)
- Sama Woncha Please Go Home, fiction by Nina Nicoloff, Clifford Lake, and K-nut Flaner (37)
- poems by Linda H. Lawson (49)
- The artist... and the artist
- To Mr. N... a compliment
- Of Actors and Magicians
- The Impersonator
- December Mission
- Paris: A Reflection
- The City Sleeps
- Thesis on Advanced Medical Techniques: A Logical Approach (a la Ogden Nash), poem by Cliff Lake (49)
- Legend of the Lost, tale of the nudnicks (a round robin story) (50)
- Fran Lake's Paris Stories: Past Flashbacks of Paris the Great ("continued from the last issue "What did you do in the war, Paris?") (three interlocking stories) (107)
- Untitled
- Double Devotion (reprinted from the March 1973 issue of There and Back Again)
- Encounter
- Fran Toosey's Vxols (cartoons) (115)
- Whey Do All the Ballrooms Look Alike?, con report for Equicon 1974 by K-nut (also printed in an issue of JDIFC) (116)
- Equicon 1974, con report by Denny Arnold ("copy of this went to STW zine") (123)
- InterOffice Files (humor) (126)
- DragonLight, fiction by Fran Toosey (129)
- Captain's Log, fiction by Edna Mae Hahn (winner of a fiction contest) (133)
- Jimmy the Pooh and the Meese Mission, fiction by Fran Lake (winner of a fiction contest) (134)
- One Small Step, fiction by Fran Lake (winner of a fiction contest) (137)
- IMF Globetrotters Walk Thru San Diego Twisted Doors by Cliff Lake (140)
- An Enterprising Trio by Cheryl Lake (141)
- flyer and description of Star Trek Showcase
- flyer for LP albums by Leonard Nimoy
- Ads and anything else I forgot
from issue #4, club finances
from issue #4, Karen Flanery
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from issue #4, Karen Flanery
from issue #4, Karen Flanery
from issue #4, Karen Flanery
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from issue #4, Karen Flanery
from issue #4, Karen Flanery
Issue 5
Spockulations 5 was published in August/September 1975 and contains 107 pages.
The art is by DL Collin, Karen Flanery, .
Every Man Should know what year he is in:
I think it's 1975. Think of it. 1975. Wow. I remember once thinking of 1976 being some kind of a science-fiction date and lo! by golly it's next year and not too many months to go before it either!
Where did the time go? It went all right.....since the fall of 1958 strange things have happened to all of us. For some of us, like Sam for instance, it happened right away. Sam is a smart lady. No one had to tell her that Star Trek wasn't some kinda Show to watch on t.v. Or that Leonard Nimoy wasn't some kind of a man who because he decided he was an actor crawled into our lives and sorta took it over.
K-nut has finally gotten to Carlos Casteneda. This summer, rocketing across country in her yearly treks to her home in Wyoming, she grabbed the CC books and dived-in. It's a MUST on the reading list. Everyone should learn how to "stop the world" and it's got nothing to do with taking, eating, smoking or ingesting ANYTHING. You can pick up an entire world just by reading three lil paperbacks it's
worth it and very entertaining.
- Believe it or not, editorial by K-nut (5)
- Sam's Letter to the members with LN news (10)
- Slippery Rock Report, by Karen Flanery (long report of meeting Leonard Nimoy after Star Trek Lives! (1975) at a lecture at Slippery Rock College campus in Pennsylvania, accompanied by Diane Marchant) (12)
- Nana's letter to the members by Nana Grasmick (very personal, she steps down as staff member) (14)
- Incident Revisited, fiction by Leonard Stanislowski (15)
- Star Trek Puzzle by Kay Houston (31)
- A Very Subjective Report on Vul-Con I, con report by Sheila Strickland (33)
- Cartoon by Kay Houston and Betty Jean Derro (34)
- Equicon 74, con report by Denny Arnold (35)
- Nice Things Happen in Fandom by Denny Arnold (description of Leonard Nimoy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" at Little Theatre in Sullivan, near St. Lousi) (36)
- Overheard in Passing, excerpts from an interview with Nimoy (37)
- Are You Sleeping, poem by Beth Robertson (38)
- Jewel-Time, poem by Beth Robertson (39)
- Forethought, poem by Beth Robertson (39)
- Super! Lucky! Fan! by James Errante (in script-form) (40)
- Channel Flipping by Jean Sellar (about an interview with Nimoy on a local television station) (49)
- How Old Am I?, fiction by Sam Cole
- Lament for an Unsong Love by Anon ("Dec. 25-26, 1972 -- For K-nut because you sent me a present that caused it all.") (79)
- Home is Where the Heart Is!!, poem by Dawn Sanders (80)
- Beyond, poem by Cynthia Kade Huie aka Mrs. Alan Cole (81)
- Meeting, poem by Cynthia Kade Huie ("Since the writing of these poems, this young lady has changed her name to Mrs. Alan Cole & is the mother of little Perigrin Cole." [2]) (82)
- Cat's Night Out, RPF fiction by Francis Lake (84)
- Reprisal, fiction by Fran Lake (90)
- Twofold Mission by Fran Lake (92)
- Astroll Gee by K-nut (a weird astrology thing) (93)
- Don't You Know There's a Paper Shortage! by Cathy Adamson (an RPF stories starring a fan named Sandy and cardboard model of the Enterprise for the next World's Fair in two years) (96)
- Puzzle Solution (100)
- Letters to the Scribe Members (101)
- And a Word from the Great Bird Himself!!!!!!!! (info from Gene Roddenberry about movie plans) (105)
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References
- ^ simegen.com, Synopsis written by Rochelle Campbell
- ^ This is likely a misspelling of "Peregrin".