T'Mera and The Ranklin Twins

Zine
Title:	T'Mera/The Ranklin Twins
Publisher:	Dalmation Press
Editor:
Author(s):	Maria Woisard , edited perhaps by Anne E. Anderson
Cover Artist(s):	no cover art
Illustrator(s):	no illustrations
Date(s):	around 1984
Medium:	print
Size:
Genre:
Fandom:	Star Trek: TOS
Language:	English
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T'Mera/The Ranklin Twins is an explicit het Star Trek: TOS 159-page collection of two novels by Marie Woisard. They are about Kirk and a Vulcan woman. This zine was issued with a blank blue cover and required an age statement to purchase.

The story, "T'Mera" was also sold as a single novel.

From an ad in Universal Translator #26: "This is a charming, cheerful, sexy tale set in the time after V'ger."

Summary from an ad in Datazine #31: "'Most sexual dysfunction is not physical Jim. No, I think it's mental. Hell, Jim, 43 is a long way from 50. In fact, mine still works, and I'm ten years older than you...' [In this story], James T. Kirk inadvertently commits a faux pas on Vulcan and acquires an unwanted bondmate. Does he or doesn't he free himself from the encumbrance?"

Contents

• T'Mera
• The Ranklin Twins

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Reactions and Reviews of T'Mera

"What happens when our illustrious Captain Kirk, the defender of female virtue, saves an eighty-year-old, unbonded Vulcan female from a dreaded lematya? Why, he marries her, of course! Could we expect no less from our duty-bound, sucker-for-a-pretty-face Kirk? The author thrusts the reader into the main action of the story from the outset. What follows is many incidents of classic comedy with all our beloved regulars completely in character. As well as classic comedy, T'MERA is classic romance. Two people so alike, yet so different turn a rather uncomfortable situation into calm acceptance. As time progresses, calm acceptance blossoms into the rarest of the emotions: true love. It is very refreshing to see a content Kirk, who always feared commitment, strike a career/relationship balance. He is given his beach to walk on, albeit for a short time. The only criticisms I have are basically those of production. The margins make for difficult reading, and there is an abundance of hyphenated words. Although the author has many good thoughts, at times they are expressed in choppy sentences and short chapters. The story is highly erotic. At times, too much so. A little less sex and a little more story would have done nicely. All in all, I consider T'MERA to be a promising first effort. Be on the lookout for further escapades from Dalmation Press. Summation: A good cheap read: Much sexual content; order wisely."