Transtater

Zine
Title:	Transtater
Publisher:	Beyond Antares out of the UK
Editor(s):	Fran Ball
Date(s):	1985-1990
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Medium:	print
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Fandom:	Star Trek: TOS
Language:	English
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Transtater is a gen Star Trek: TOS anthology with at least seven issues.

Origin of the zine's title: TRANSTATER: The technological basis for every piece of important equipment used by the Federation.

Issue 1

Transtater 1 was published May 1985 and contains 63 pages. It contains no interior illustration.

cover of issue #1

• Ready, Steady ... by Maggie Devonshire (1)
• Charlie (poem) by Charlotte Grant (2)
• Sleepers Wake Up by Jeremy S.C. Broadribb (3)
• If I were to Leave You (poem) by Madelaine Cowell (14)
• For the Future by Madelaine Cowell (15)
• When Doves Fly by Maggie Symon (16)
• The Green Hills of Earth (poem) by Meg Fenney (21)
• To Make The Punishment Fit The Crime by Jeremy S.C. Braodribb (22)
• Remembrance by Madelaine Cowell (24)
• Cloud Minders (poem) by Charlotte Grant (25)
• The Price of Friendship by Julie Bradshaw (26)
• The Great Experiment (poem) by Charlotte Grant (32)
• Within the Log by Jeremy S.C. Broadribb (33)
• On the Winds of Time by Maggie Symon (T'rael series) (34)
• Apotheosis by Jeremy S.C. Broadribb (54)
• Miri (poem) by Charlotte Grant (58)
• Now and Forever by Madelaine Cowell (59)

Issue 2

Transtater 2 was published in August 1985 and contains 60 pages.

Art by Maggie Symon and Mark Jenkins.

cover of issue #2

• Who is the Fairest? by Jeremy S.C. Broadribb (1)
• Horta, poem by Charlotte Grant (9)
• The Fallen Angel by M. Cowell (10)
• Scotty, poem by Charlotte Grant (13)
• Asking by Maggie Symon (14)
• Regrets, poem by Maggie Devonshire (15)
• Mudd's Planet, poem by Charlotte Grant (15)
• A Peaceful War by Jeremy S.C. Broadribb (16)
• Lady Enterprise, poem by Maggie Symon (20)
• The Heart Remembers by M. Cowell (21)
• Kodos, poem by Charlotte Grant (22)
• Mitchell, poem by Charlotte Grant (22)
• The Time for Change by Julie Maggs (23)
• A Bright Particular Star by M. Cowell (33)
• More Each Day by Maggie Symon
• Zarabeth, poem by Charlotte Grant (53)
• Fall-Out Problem by Jeremy S.C. Broadribb (54)

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  inside page from issue #2, sample text

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  inside page from issue #2, Mark Jenkins

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  inside page from issue #2, Maggie Symon

Issue 3

Transtater 3 was published in 1987 or before and contains 75 pages. It has fiction by Linda Allen Ainsworth, Cliff Pooley, Karen Broadribb, Madelaine Cowell, Bev Wright, and Lori Cassella. Art by Mark Jenkins.

Issue 4

Transtater 4 was published in April 1987 and contains 69 pages. It contains no interior illustration.

cover of issue #4

• Review (fiction) by Jeremy S.C. Broadribb (1)
• The Tholian Web, poem by Julie Bradshaw (8)
• The Luck of the Devil... by Julie Maggs (9)
• Accidents Will Happen by Charlotte Allery (11)
• Love Thy Enemies, poem by Marion Smart (12)
• Father Daughter, Father Son...? by Penny Gutridge (13)
• Temper, Temper, poem by Lori Cassella (25)
• Pranks Can Be Dangerous!!! by Julie Bradshaw (26)
• The Piper's Price, poem by Antonio Galea (42)
• Love Thy Enemies by Lynda Allen Ainsworth (43)
• Mind Link, poem by Karen Briscoe (56)
• A Question of Balance by Jeremy S.C. Broadribb (59)

Issue 5

Transtater 5 contains 97 pages of fiction and poetry by Penny Gutridge, Susan Humphries, Fiona Barrowclough, Jeremy S.C. Broadrib, Madelaine Cowell, Christine Maybank, Maggie Symon, and Lynda Allen Ainsworth.

cover of issue #5

Issue 6

Transtater 6 was published in October 1988 and contains 78 pages.

cover of issue #6

• stories by S.C.R. Catchick, Madelaine Cowell, Karen Sparks, Nicole Comtet, Maggie Symon and Synda Surgenor. The stories by Karen (Star Trek V: Time Present and Time Past) and Maggie (... And Men) were both winners in the Beyond Antares fiction competition.
• Arrival by S.C. Catchick
• Batikara by Madelaine Cowell
• A Memory (poem) by Maggie Symon
• Star Trek V: Time Present and Time Past by Karen Sparks
• A Cruise on the Enterprise by Nicole Comtet
• ....And Men by Maggie Symon
• Encounter by Synda Surgenor

Issue 7

Transtater 7 was published in May 1990 and contains 66 pages. It contains no interior illustration.

cover of issue #7

• Tasks of Equal Honour by Lynda Allen Ainsworth (1)
• Enterprise Made Flesh by Sue Stockwell (19)
• Too Young to be a Father by J Devlin (23)
• Economies of Scale by Fred Brown (25)
• Paperwork by Maggie Symon (32)
• I Never Said Goodbye (poem) by Karen Sparks (35)
• Request for Assistance by Christine Hall (38)
• A Long Way to Go by Maggie Symon (54)
• Nasochism - Security in Numbers by Sue Stockwell (65)