Starlines (multifandom zine edited by Amie Herrick)
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| Title: | Starlines |
| Publisher: | Bill Hupe for Star Trek Club of Grand Rapids out of Grand Rapids, Michigan, US |
| Editor(s): | Amie Herrick |
| Date(s): | 1987 |
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| Medium: | print zine |
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| Fandom: | multimedia, Star Trek: TOS |
| Language: | English |
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Starlines is a multifandom gen anthology edited by Amie Herick.
Issue 1
Starlines 1 was published in 1987 and contains 82 pages. On the cover, "A Midsummer Night's Zine." The front cover artist is Marie Williams, the back cover artist is Jim Haley.
According to a comment by Amie Herrick in her editorial, at the time of this zine's release, the fan club that created it had 49 members.
[Bill Hupe's comments]:It all started on some enchanted evening when I was interrupted by the ring of my doorbell. On the doorstep stood Marie Williams and Gavin Czetli. What followed were frequent idea sessions, which finally culminated in the production of a Star Trek interview on cassette tape. This introduced me to several members of their Star Trek Club in Grand Rapids, Michigan. During the grueling 20-hour session, the enormous pool of talent within the group became apparent to me. By the time we finished the tape's production Sunday afternoon, we had the foundation for a fanzine composed entirely to by Star Trek Club of Grand Rapids (STCOGR).
Four months of exceptionally hard work by Amie Herrick brought this first issue of Starlines together. She did a great job, and I'm proud of her. I hope you are too.
Let us know what you think of this fanzine by sending your letters of comment (LOC) to me [address redacted] and we'll print them in the second issue, due in Winter 1987/88.)
- Opening Credits, comments by Amie Herrick (editor) and Bill Hupe (publisher and consultant) (0)
- Star Trek — The Shakespearean Play by Gavin Czetli, Marie Williams, and Roger Sorensen, art by Dani Lane (1)
- Retirement, art by Roger Sorensen (10)
- Deadlock , part one by David A. Marshall ("Based on a script written when the TV series was going to take off again, in 1976. This led, instead, to Star Trek: The Motion Picture]]"), art by Marie Williams (11)
- Klingon Drydock, art by Roger Sorensen (25)
- Love on a Rock (Science Fiction romance) by Amie Herrick ("A science fiction, condensed Reader's Digest version of a Harlequin romance, only better.), art by Dani Lane (34) (26)
- Vulcan Rendezvous, art by Roger Sorensen (34)
- The Pledge by Marie Williams ("McCoy makes a Freudian slip in his on-again, off-again relationship with Spock, and almost kills him. Kirk teaches Spock the true meaning of blood brothers.") (25)
- Basically Strange by Jim Emelander ("A comic, and the title tells all.") (45)
- Fires of Singularity by Roger Sorensen ("A good scenario of the Starship Enterprise to the rescue.") (53)
- Doctor’s Orders by Thom Mattingly ("When Worlds Collide -- that is, the worlds of Star Trek and Doctor Who.") (72)
sample from issue #1
sample from issue #1
sample from issue #1
Issue 2
Starlines 2 was published in 1988 (premiered at MediaWest*Con) and contains 68 pages. It has the subtitle, "The All-Night Trek Stop."
From Hupe: "Lots of Trek stories, including a novella: Starfleet's newest technological wonder ship's first adventure; "I'm Happy I Live in a Split-Level Head" - what if Spock didn't return to life and McCoy retained his katra?; a Worf story; "Deadlock" conclusion, and more. Art by 1987 FanQ nominee Lane, and others."
- loDnI'pu' (Brothers) by ChuckLucky (Star Trek the Next Generation) (2)
- poetry by Jaime Yingling (10)
- Deadlock (part 2) by David A. Marshall (novelization of the the script adaptation of the script from the abandoned 1970's Star Trek TV revival: "Star Trek Phase II") (12)
- The Ticonderoga by Garvin Czetli (Star Trek universe; different ship, the adventures of Starfleet's newest technological wondership) (22)
- poetry by Denise Piela (48)
- I'm Happy I Live in a Split-Level Head by Bill Hupe and Marie Williams (Star Trek - what if McCoy had not been able to get rid of Spock's katra) (50)
- A Day at Star Trek - The Next Generation and Other Fun Things I Did in California (a newsy report of one Fan's exclusive tour of the Next Generation sets, as well as tours of Star Tours and Captain Eo) (65)