The Digital Times
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| Title: | The Digital Times |
| Publisher: | Rex Marks the Spot (Ontario, Canada) |
| Editor(s): | Shandra Docksey |
| Date(s): | 1994 |
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| Fandom: | Star Trek: TNG |
| Language: | English |
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The Digital Times is a gen Star Trek: TOS anthology. It was published in 1994 and contains 85 pages.
The publisher said in an ad in The Flight Log that "The Digital Times focuses on the adventures and questionable exploits of our favourite android brothers, Data and Lore, and their enigmatic creator, Doctor Noonian Soong."
"With the exception of its covers (which have been commercially colour-laser copied), all artwork was digitally scanned with a HP ScanDesk IIc and along with all other contents, EACH copy of THE DIGITAL TIMES was entirely produced on a HEWLETT PACKARD LaserJet 4MP printer."
Regarding the Zine's Title
The editor recounts seeing Brent Spiner at a SpinerCon in Chicago... and what was on his wrist:
There it was, strapped to his left wrist. Black, chunky, probably a TIMEX...
...digital!!
Time stood still for a commercial break as a stupid expression doubtlessly plastered itself across my face and those above mentioned words echoed inside my head.
The Universe had come together for me. My day was made. It was true.
His "timing" was "DIGITAL"!!
And a zine title was born...
Also from the Editorial
By the way, for those of you who may be interested, this is my "I have a need to publish" phase I'm going through. Remember, you have been warned! So, humour me for a few more lines -- I promise, the next eighty or so pages after this are much more enthralling.
As to the rest of you poor unsuspecting souls, welcome to the premier issue of
The DIGITAL TIMES!!
[snipped]
So folks, it's time now to switch on the VCR, get comfy in your tubs, and turn the page.
May you ENJOY!
Contents
- Begin Program by S.A. Docksey (4)
- Recreation by Skye Dumoulin, illustrated by Gail Burt (6)
- Lobster Quadrille by Julia Fraser, illustrated by Arla F (14)
- The Bird by Skye Dumoulin, illustrated by Jan Fleck (32)
- When Hope Dies, by LRH Balzer, illustrated by Warren Oddsson (36) (originally in Skylarking Digest)
- In Your Dreams, Honey! by Emily Gallagher, illustrated by Rob (72)
- A Poetic Ode to an Android by Ron Darian, illustrated by Melody Rondeau (80)
- End Program by S.A. Docksey (84)
- other art by Aria Fontaine-Kerins, Jan Fleck, Melody Rondeau and Alicia Galka
- front cover by Gail Burt
- back cover by Adriana Villalobos Araya
Sample Interior Gallery
Jan Fleck
Aria Fontaine-Kerins
Warren Oddsson
Warren Oddsson
Warren Oddsson
Aria Fontaine-Kerins
Melody Rondeau
Aria Fontaine-Kerins
Melody Rondeau
Aria Fontaine-Kerins
Alicia Galka
Reactions and Reviews
I just today received a copy of The Digital Times. WHAT a beautiful zine. I haven't started reading it yet, but I've flipped through... and flipped out! I have to watch my money these days (oh Gosh... who doesn't??) and I'm trying to be discerning about the zines I order, especially if they come from abroad... sigh... so when a gorgeous journal like TDT or TBE flops through my letterbox, my heart sings like a lark. [1]
References
- ^ from an LoC in The Body Electric #2