Those Who Remain: A Comprehensive Listing of the Remaining Star Trek Fanzines

Zine
Title:	Those Who Remain: A Comprehensive Listing of the Remaining Star Trek Fanzines
Publisher:	"published and freely distributed by Orion Press"
Editor(s):	Randall Landers
Type:	adzine
Date(s):	June 2000
Medium:	print
Fandom:	Star Trek: TOS, other Star Treks
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Those Who Remain: A Comprehensive Listing of the Remaining Star Trek Fanzines is a 42-page listing of print zines he knew were available at the time.

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From the Zine's Editorial

One of the questions I'm often asked these days is "Why are you still publishing fanzines?" And "Why can't you just post them to the Internet?" And even "Is anyone still printing fanzines?" And my favorites: "What is a fanzine7" and "Are these scripts?"

To answer your first question, we are still publishing zines because we enjoy exploring the boundaries of Star Trek universe, from Christopher Pike's Enterprise to Kathryn Janeway's Voyager, from the distant reaches of Benjamin Sisko's Deep Space Nine to Jean-Luc Picard's fifth starship to bear the name we love so dear, from James T. Kirk's first days at the Academy to his death on a distant, barren world years and lightyears away from his old friends. We explore these boundaries, and push them as hard as we can, asking questions such as "What if the events of Generations (or any given movie or series or episode) had never occurred?" and "What if these two characters had a relationship beyond what we saw on the screen?" But above all, we still publish because we love these characters, we love the shows they appear in, and we love to write.

To answer the second question presupposes that we don't post material to the Internet. Many of us do, many of us don't. The World Wide Web is a wonderful thing, but there's so much material on it that your average fan fiction reader will have a hard time finding it all. Do a search on "Star Trekfan fiction," and you will find over 50,000 sites to visit. Some of these have nothing to do with "Star Trek fan fiction" - they just want you to visit their site - and some of these are just listings of sites with fan fiction. Over half the links provided, though, are no longer valid. The odds of you finding the one fan fiction site you want to read...well, you'd need Spock or Saavik or Data or Bashir or Tuvok to tell us those odds.

The second question also reminds me of Samuel T. Cogley's exchange with James T. Kirk in "Court-martial" wherein Cogley gives an impassioned defense of the printed word, so impassioned that even Jim Kirk is impressed. Yes, there's nothing like the printed word. You can take a fanzine to bed with you. You can take it into the tub. You can take it on the plane, you can take it on the train. You can read it in the car, you could take it to a bar. Ooops. Sorry, but having three young children often causes me to drop into Doctor Seuss mode. But in all seriousness, there's something about the printed word that makes it more tangible (at least to some of us) that it's preferable to anything we might find on the Internet, no matter how good. (And honestly, most folks print out the stories on the net that they want to read.)

The answer to the third question is in your very hands. You are reading a comprehensive catalog of every Star Trekfanzine still in print in the year 2000 A.D.- or, at least, every fanzine we could track down and get permission to include here (and, sadly, there were a few who didn't want to be included). You will find listings for every type of Star Trekfanzine, every genre, every relationship. We searched everywhere, contacted everyone we could and assembled this catalog so that you will see just how many of us are still printing our zines. (If someone's not included, it wasn't because they weren't asked - everyone, everyone was invited - if not begged - to participate.) This catalog is being distributed to as many people as we could find. Most of you who received this by mail had your mailing address provided for this one time mailing.

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I assembled this catalog together because the lines of communications between editors and fanzine readers were disintegrating to the point that we were even unaware of what each other was doing these days. I wanted to introduce my readers to other zines, and introduce the readers of other zines to my own meager offerings, because I'm afraid that Star Trek zines may indeed be dying. Given the flood of Star Trek material available to fans today, fanzines were getting lost. From the professional fanzine Strange New Worlds (and let's be honest, as a fan-written anthology, it's technically a fanzine professionally published by PocketBooks) to those 50,000 websites to the alt.startrek.creative newsgroups to nearly thirty Trekbooks published a year, it's become overwhelming. Saturation doesn't come close to describing just how much material the average fan has thrown at them. There would appear to be more Star Trekfan fiction than ever available for fans to read, and probably because of this, the sales for all Star Trekzines are down. Some presses are no longer even publishing them regularly. Some will no longer release new titles. I'm afraid Star Trekfanzines are indeed dying, and I'm doing my best to resuscitate it.

I have no intention of going gently into the night. I hope you'll consider ordering some of the zines advertised herein, and equally importantly, I hope you'll consider writing Star Trek stories for these editors and presses.

Regarding Content and Participation: Online Comments in 2008

From a June 2008 post by Randall Landers:

THOSE WHO REMAIN, a comprehensive catalog of all remaining Star Trek fanzines, is now available on the ORION PRESS website. Containing information on virtually all the remaining 250+ Star Trek fanzines, over 5000 copies of this catalog has been distributed amongst Star Trek fans through the combined mailing lists of nearly two dozen fanzine presses as well as at various Star Trek conventions, such as Shore Leave. An updated HTML version of this file is now available on the ORION PRESS website: http://www.mindspring.com/~randylanders/ThoseWhoRemain.htm This is a free site.

From a June 2008 post by Randall Landers:

Participating presses with THOSE WHO REMAIN include:

Joy Baker -- VOY

Margaret Basta -- Star-Borne Press -- TOS, TNG

Bearly Spaced Enterprises -- TOS

Christine Bichler -- DS9

Anna C. Bowling -- Cat Toy Publications -- TNG

Thea Bradley -- VOY

Meg Bruck -- Trick or Treat Press

Gloria Fry -- TOS

B. Juste -- Nanopress -- TNG

Lynnette Knox -- DS9

Randall Landers -- Orion Press -- TOS/TNG/DS9/VOY

Gabrielle Lawson -- DS9

MKASHEF Enterprises -- TOS K/S

Sharon Monroe -- DS9

Penny Robinson -- Pens Nest Press

Lynda K. Roper -- TOS

Michael Ruff -- Ruff n Ready Press -- TOS/DS9

Laura Sandler -- TNG

E. Siefert -- DS9

Jenna Sinclair -- TOS K/S

Gayle Stever -- DS9

Joan Marie Verba -- FTL Publications -- DS9

Copies were distributed to a combined mailing list of nearly 2000 fans and were distributed to nearly 2000 ShoreLeave attendees.

Gamin Davis commented:

This response is mainly for other fans, since Randy and I have already had considerable E-mail contact about this. For whatever reasons, not everybody he contacted *chose* to participate in this listing, my publishers included (so you won't find my zines in there, among others missing)--so anybody ordering this or viewing it online should probably be aware that it wasn't as "comprehensive" as Randy intended it to be, through no fault of his. Eventually, he hopes to convince those who were left out to post info for his website, which *should* take up the slack. I still have to E-mail my publishers, Jim and Melody Rondeau, about sending information to him.

Randall Landers commented:

Actually, we've still received little word back from those who chose not to participate, and that's fine. Jim and Melody will be sending ads when they're ready, I guess. They publish 17 Star Trek fanzines these days, but they tell me they're six months behind in doing things. Kathy Resch's zines aren't listed either, but she sent ads for inclusion into the website. She had real life considerations to deal with. Another one of the KS publishers said she was just "too underground" these days to have her zines listed, and we never heard back from Unicorn Press (mainly VOY zines) or Linda Knights (who has reportedly discontinued her Trek zines). To my knowledge, those are the only five presses who did not get mentioned. Gloria's zine listings are comprehensive, as are those of Jenna Sinclair and MKASHEF Enterprises. Gloria's zines are not K/S, but Jenna's and MKASHEF's are. We certainly had quite a few listings from both. Like I said in my introduction, we asked, we begged, we pleaded for listings. If anyone's not there, it's not my fault. :)