Thank You, Star Trek
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| Title: | Thank You, Star Trek |
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| Editor(s): | Kris Smith |
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| Date(s): | May 1969 |
| Medium: | print zine |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
| Language: | English |
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Thank You, Star Trek is a gen Star Trek: TOS 150-page anthology edited by Kris Smith. According to The Strekzine List, its content was "mixed" and it "ended with reluctance."
This zine was a sister zine to Star Trek Gab.
For more zines published in this era, see List of Star Trek TOS Zines Published While the Show Was Still On the Air.
From the Editorial
Once in a decade, if even that, a television program burst onto the scene which captures the hearts and imaginations of a lot of people -- and makes them better people than they were before. A program comes on the air and says, "Hey, look! Here's something you can look forward to! Here are a group of people who care about each other."
People today find it difficult at times to look into the future in an optimistic manner. They fear nuclear war, and they see the hatred all around them. Problems are many, solutions are few.
[...]
Star Trek wasn't just a space show -- it was, as well, a show about humanity. Gene Roddenberry had created a program that said, "This is what your future can be like!" And I liked what I saw...
Tolerance, Respect, Freedom, Beauty, Courage, Admiration, Love... Everything we hold dear is there.
It takes a lot to make a show worthwhile, and to keep it worthwhile, a lot! Star Trek has done admirably!
The Enterprise will complete its five-year mission in space, if its fans have anything to say about it....
And we will all come away feeling a little safer, a little wiser, and a little more determined to make what COULD BE a reality.......
Contents
- Editorial by Kris Smith
- Theme from Star Trek (lyrics)
- Books to Buy, Albums to Buy
- For Sale, Photos
- Spock, a poem by Kris Smith
- Vulcan, God of Fire by Emily Keenon (article about mythology)
- Pheasant Run Playhouse: Leonard Nimoy in Visit to a Small Planet by Dee L. Meuser (not much is said about the play itself, but rather it is all about Dee's personal recollections of meeting Nimoy, talking about the LNNAF,
- An Impossible Dream, poem by Dee L. Meuser
- The Back Way Out, satire by Peter Summers, "taken from Overland Park Paper, Kansas" (one of the many of its kind, this one starring Mr. Squak and Bones McClod)
- Star Trek Bloopers, transcript from a recording at Fun Con July 4-7, 1967)
- The Crucial Time, poem by Sandie Lanning
- Man in the Big White Ford, poem by Sandi Lanning
- Mr. Spock, poem by Kris Smith
- Mr. Spock's Answers, poem by Kris Smith
- Mr. Spock, poem by Kris Smith
- Captain Kirk, poem by William Shatner (?)
- Mr. Spock's Message to the World, essay by Kris Smith
- Captain Kirk, poem by Kris Smith
- DeForest Kelley, poem by Kris Smith
- DeForest Kelley is Wonderful, poem by Kris Smith
- Meeting L.N. by Kris Smith (about meeting Nimoy at the Seattle airport where he arrived to be at the "coronation of the Seafair Queen," and later to sign records at the "Warehouse of Music," Smith gives him a love bead necklace and puts it around his neck)
- Something Different! (Hello? Who is This... Really?) by Kris Smith (a fantasy phone call with Nimoy)
- DeForest Kelley by Kris Smith (about meeting Kelley and how nice he is)
- Bones by Kris Smith (essay about McCoy and how he is not as grumpy as he seems)
- Star Trek ("a short skit for school"), transcript by Kris Smith
- As a Youngster by Kris Smith (first-person, story about Spock's experience as a child)
- Leonard "Bones" McCoy, fiction by S.L. Kotar
- A Vulcantabulous Meeting by Lin Stanley (meeting Nimoy, Bob Crane, Bozo the Clown, and Donna Douglas at event for elementary aged, partially sighted children - December 8, 1967)
- Conclusion: Live Long and Prosper!!!!!! (acknowledgements)
- Requiem for Star Trek, handwritten dedication and thank you
Sample Interior
from the play
