The Captain's Log (Star Trek: TOS zine edited by Craig Fincannon)
| Zine | |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Captain's Log |
| Publisher: | out of North Carolina |
| Editor(s): | edited by Craig Fincannon, written by Bruce Nardoci |
| Date(s): | 1970-1971 |
| Series?: | |
| Medium: | |
| Genre: | gen |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
| Language: | English |
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The Captain's Log is a gen Star Trek: TOS non-fiction and poetry anthology edited by Craig Fincannon and written by Bruce Nardoci. It has the subtitle: "An Eulogy to Star Trek...."
It was planned to be published five times a year. There were two issues.
In T-Negative #12, Bruce Nardoci said he was changing the name of the zine to "The Guardian of Forever."
Issue 1
The Captain's Log 1 was published in August 1970 and contains 12 pages.
- stories and articles
- edited by Craig Fincannon
- stories by Bruce Nardoci
Issue 2
The Captain's Log 2 was published in January 1971 and contains 30 pages. The art is by Barbi Marczak.
The editor apologizes for it being three months late.
From the table of contents: "This second issue of the Captain's Log is fondly dedicated to Miss Star Trek herself, our friend, Ruth Berman."
- Some Comparisons Between Star Trek and 2001: A Space Odyssey by Michael Sobota (5)
- Star Trek's Sonnet by K. Farnell (8)
- An Interview with James Doohan (actually a questionnaire with handwritten answers by Doohan) (9)
- The Enterprise and the Real McCoy, fiction by Michael Sobota (10)
- Star Trek crossword puzzle (18)
- The Women in His Life by Craig Fincannon, article about some women in Star Trek ("For all male readers of this article, it will be a pleasant reminder of all those wonderful, beautiful, provocative Star Trek broads. For the wonderful, beautiful provocative Star Trek broads that read this it will probably be a reminder of the times that they ran to the kitchen for something to nibble on or to the phone for a quick call. For this is a eulogy to the women in the crewmen's lives.") (19)
- Realization, poem by Michael Sobota (24)
- A Little Secret, part one (reprinted from issue #1) and part two, by Mac Whatley (25)
inside issue #2
inside issue #2, You are Receiving this Zine Because
Issue 3
This was titled "Guardian of Forever" and it was advertised as available in Nimoyan Dispatch (February 1972).
