T'rayza's Treatise

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Title: T'rayza's Treatise
Publisher:
Editor:
Author(s): D.F. Wilkins
Cover Artist(s): Nancy
Illustrator(s): D.F. Wilkins and Nancy
Date(s): September 1981
Medium: print
Genre: mild het
Fandom: Star Trek: TOS
Language: English
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T'rayza's Treatise is a 93-page Star Trek: TOS novel by D.F. Wilkins.

front cover, Nancy
back over, Nancy: "Klingon Battle Cruiser"

It has art by Wilkins and by Nancy.

The Dedication

Dedicated to: Bryan P., who thinks fanzines are illogical,

Olivia J., who buys shopping bags full of 'zines at each con.

The man who said: "I have a dream!" [1]

Chapter Titles

  • Welcome Aboard (7)
  • Class in Session (11)
  • Star Cheating (14)
  • The Accident (23)
  • A Few Surprises (31)
  • Where Have All the Broghals Gone? (39)
  • The Jig is Up, or is It? (63)
  • First Impressions (65)
  • The Preliminaries (71)
  • The Competition (85)

Author's Foreword

the author had plans for a second issue

Dear readers,

This is my first attempt at writing a fanzine, I never realized it would be so much work! This book will have left the printing press only one day before this convention. In the future I hope to have a staff more reliable than myself and a few friends, T'rayza has been in my dreams for at least three years. She had come to life for my close friends long before this fanzine was even outlined. There comes a time when dreaming and verbally telling stories about a character is no longer satisfactory. It's time to take pen in hand and share your dream with others.

Realizing that I am, an amateur writer has caused me many a sleepless night. Will anybody read it? Will they be interested? Will they buy it in the first place? Why don't I forget about the whole thing?! Well, I couldn't forget about it, so now you're holding the result.

I hope you enjoy the book. Read it for fun; realizing that even the main plot may be fantasy gone wild. Many people reading 'zines for the first time don't realize that the 'fan' in fanzines could mean two things: the reader is a fan, or the book is the author's fantasy based on Mr. Roddenberry's fantasy. I have a friend who won't read 'zines, because he feels the story lines conflict with the series too often. Loosen up, fellah! Use your imagination!

My writing and vocabulary have improved drastically while I've been working on this project, Reading the book over, I find many things I would like to change. It's too late, of course, but next time I'll make fewer, or at least, different mistakes. My characterization will improve also. If enough interest is shown I may even revise this 'zine at a later date.

Please forgive the artwork I put in. Some of it is mine, I know as much about drawing as a fly knows about the dog whose stuff he's sitting in. If I can't improve on my artwork I'll have to find more talented artists to help me. One girl couldn't hack illustrating the entire book. I purposely put the illustrations in the table of contents so that you could tell who I was trying to draw!

I'd like to thank my girlfriends. Rose for her undying support, Nancy for proof reading my first draft, and for her beautiful artwork. And Elizabeth, who kept offering to help me while I, with my bearish behavior, never found time to call her and discuss anything. Sorry Lizzie, I also thank God for letting me survive for another days journey.

Enjoy and look for more!

Sample Interior

References

  1. ^ This is likely a loose reference to Gene Roddenberry, not Martin Luther King, Jr.