Treklit
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Treklit is a term for Star Trek fanfic.
It is an older term, used mainly in science fiction and Star Trek: TOS zines and on Usenet. It was also used to refer to Star Trek tie-in novels.
Examples of Use
1976
The first problem with Trek novels is that they jar with the series format--an episode is short, while a novel goes on, and on, and on... (Disagreement: Treklit readers are readers--they are not necessarily TV oriented. They aren't geared for action, climax, action, climax ((comment from the floor: "They are with GRUP stories.)) Novels are not screenplays, they are sometimes difficult to translate into such a format.)
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Novels popping out of the woodwork are the result of maturation of Trekdom. People are working with character, using longer format to detail character change and development. Treklit is growing in scope, even if one doesn't agree with the changes detailed.[1]
1978
Well, SV has been long-awaited. (In fact, I’m reviewing a friend’s copy ’cause mine hasn’t arrived yet.) The question is: is it worth the wait? And the answer is a "mixed-bag," folks! I believe in consuming the icky stuff first so that its neutralized by the mmmm-good part. Here goes: I do like light/humorous Treklit but "Mr. Spock, Would You Care to Dance?" by Toni Cardinal leaves me cold. It reminds me of nine-year-olds sniggering in the closet over medical texts or Playgirl. I guess these are the jokes you’d find at a stag party with a sign on the door: Dogs and Vulcans not allowed.[2]
"Bitter Avatar", the major piece in the zine, is a completely serious novelette which speaks volumes on the subjects of inter-species integrity, tolerance, the Prime Directive, culture shock, and bearing the responsibility for one's own -- and one's species' -- actions. Read. It can't fail to move you. it explores, all too realistically, the probable Truth behind the STAR TREK dream. It is that all too rare occurrence in Treklit -- or in any kind of literature -- the story that matters. Again, read.[3]
1980
... back in the dark ages there were stories about female friends in Treklit. The two-girls-aboard-the- Enterprise stories were a staple in the early days of fanzines.[4] Usually, though, one got either Spock or McCoy, and someone came along and labeled them "Mary Sue stories" and scared them out of the fanzines. Too bad. Had they had a normal development, we might be seeing two-women-aboard-the-Enterprise-who-remain-friends-and-find-fulfillment-in-some-way-other-than-marrying-one-of-the-Big-Three stories. And I don't mean lesbian stories.[5]
References
- ^ Trek Novels (1976 panel discussion) by Sharon Ferraro, Beth Robertson, and Shirley Maiewski
- ^ comments by Jean Stevenson, from Right of Statement #1 (1978)
- ^ review from Right of Statement #2 (1978)
- ^ For example, the Dorothy-Myfanwy stories by Dorothy Jones Heydt and Astrid Anderson in T-Negative.
- ^ Jean Lorrah in Interstat #31