Star Gazette

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Zine
Title: Star Gazette
Publisher: USS Stargazer, a fan club out of Kansas City, MO
Editor(s): Captain Coyote
Type:
Date(s): late 1980s, early 1990s
Frequency:
Medium: print
Fandom: Star Trek
Language: English
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Star Gazette is the newsletter for the Star Trek fan club, USS Stargazer out of Kansas City, MO.

V.2. N.9

This issue of "Star Gazette" was published in July 1990 and contains 51 pages.

front cover of v.2 n.9
  • info about the upcoming Delecon, at this point they have 150 paid memberships
  • an article about "protistas," unicellular or colonial eukaryotic organisms
  • a fun report about the last Fan Picnic (a rousing success)
  • information about their volunteer highway clean up project: "Our Missouri slice is from the Kansas State line on I-635 north about 3/4 of a mile to the Hwy. 9 exit." Bags are provided, the club gets to keep all the money from recycling the cans they find, and there is a picnic afterwards.
  • Fabrications, directions on how to make a Starfleet vest
  • reports from Shuttles (clubs) in "Starfleet Region 12"
  • a collage of convention flyers, plus actual con flyers
  • some newspaper clippings
  • full page explanations of Trek Net (Bulletin Board Services/BBS) listings
  • a short article about "The Future of Books," a report of the annual L. Hubbard Writers of the Future Awards Ceremony had at the American Booksellers Association Convention in Las Vegas: one line is "Many seers envisioned imaginative computerizations, video, and sensory type electronics"
  • a word find