Valjiir Collected

Zine
Title:	Valjiir Collected
Publisher:	Intergalactic Underground Press
Editor(s):	Cheryl Newsome and Susan Sizemore
Date(s):	1984
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Medium:	print zine
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Fandom:	Star Trek: TOS
Language:	English
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Valjiir Collected is a adult het Star Trek: TOS anthology, composed of stories in The Valjiir Universe.

cover of issue #1

"Valjiir was originally a fan-fic universe based on Original Star Trek, created/contacted by Cher and Susan. Susan dropped out of this universe over 20 years ago, and it is now maintained by Cher and Dave and as of 2005, Mylochka. Many of the stories seen here were first published in the fanzines In a Different Reality, Alternaties, and The Valjiir Continuum." The series underwent a recent revival and, as of 2012, fiction and artwork can be found here.

Issue 1

Valjiir 1 was published in July 1984 and contains 116 pages and eleven stories. All of the material in this zine were previously in In a Different Reality #9 and #10.

The editor is Marguerite Krause.

• Starcrossed by CP (3)
• The Terror of Alterra by Susan Sizemore (20)
• Those Shoes by Cheryl Petterson and Susan Sizemore (34)
• The Dead Have Names by Cheryl Petterson and Susan Sizemore (52)
• You Love the Thunder by Susan Sizemore (60)
• Montage by Cheryl Petterson and Susan Sizemore (70)
• Working' On a Starship Blues, filk by Cheryl Petterson and Susan Sizemore (77)
• My Friend, the Witch Doctor by Cheryl Petterson and Susan Sizemore (78)
• A Time Honored Tradition by Susan Sizemore (90)
• It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature by Cheryl Petterson (91)
• You Don't Mess Around With Jim by Cheryl Petterson and Susan Sizemore (118)

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  illo from issue #1, Virginia Lee Smith

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  illo from issue #1, Virginia Lee Smith

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  illo from issue #1, Virginia Lee Smith

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  illo from issue #1, Virginia Lee Smith

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  illo from issue #1, Virginia Lee Smith

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  illo from issue #1, Virginia Lee Smith

Issue 2

Valjiir 2 was published in 1986 and contains 74 pages. Marguerite Krause was the editor.

The content originally appeared in In a Different Reality #8 and #11, with exceptions noted below.

[the editorial]:

Welcome to the second volume of stories of the Valjiir Universe, collected from the pages of out-of-print issues of In a Different Reality. If Volume 1 could be called 'the introductory issue,' then this one must be considered the 'relationship issue'! Within these stories you will watch many people getting to know one another, as they work together day by day. And a complex process, it is, too!

If any of you already own issues #8 and 11, from which this volume was extracted, you'll see a few new things. "Double Vision" is a new title, and both "Wild Heart" and "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad" are brand new vignettes, epilogues to the stories which preceded them. There's also a bit of Virginia Smith's artwork which has never seen print... on page 11.

That about says it all! Enjoy your foray into the Valjiir Universe, and keep in touch for news of further volumes of Collected Storie and for new issues of IADR!

• Waterfall (2)
• Wild Goose Chase (4)
• The Long Run (15)
• Wild Heart (28)
• If I Were... (29)
• Double Vision (original title: Interlude) (52)
• Two Out Three Ain't Bad (74)
• back cover poetry by Noel DelMande and Cheryl Petterson

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  editorial and illo from issue #2

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  from issue #2, artist is Virginia Smith

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  from issue #2, artist is Virginia Smith

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  from issue #2, artist is Virginia Smith

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  back cover of issue #2

Fan Comments

1984

I've been wanting to mention a wonderful series of Trek stories that I've been reading, but I haven't mentioned it because the series is not K/S and it also has bean taking place in 12 issues of a zine, and I couldn't very well tell you all to go out and buy 12 zines! But I have recently found out that they are going to do a "collected" issue and so I want to say to you all, "Go out and order this zine!!!!" "What is this incredable series?" I hear you say. Well, I'll tell you. it is called the In a Different Reality. And the 'collected" zine that will be coming out will probably be called In a Different Reality Collected. This series of stories has been written by two women, Cheryl Petterson and Susan Sizemore and has been edited by Marguerite Krause. The stories have appeared in Marguerite's zine IN A DIFFERENT REALITY, starting in issue a of that zine with at least one or two Valjiir stories appearing in each issue through the current issue which is issue #20 (which is totally Valjiir stories). There is much more to come.

In my opinion, this is the best large work that I have EVER read in Trek. I think it is better than Kraith and better than The Weight and it is certainly more fun to read than the others. Although there is some suffering In some or the stories (and a lot of suffering in many of the stories), there is also a lot of joy, and at least Spock doesn't have 'the kiss of death" as he does in Kraith. The Valjiir series centers generally around two new characters (although there are many new characters in this series), Ruth Maxwell Valleyani Ramy and Jilla Costain Majiir, two aliens from different planets (Ruth from Antari and Jilla from Indii) who come aboard the USS Enterprise as ensigns and then get involved with the various crew of the ship.

The story follows them from their teenage years before they join Starfleet and continues on (forever, from what I can see). But each story is complete within itself and although you may want to know more about these characters, you are not left unsatisfied at the end of each story. These two new characters are real people. They have flaws and neuroses and they are loved by some of the crew, but not necessarily by all. These stories also make the rest of the crew more real also, especially your two favorites, K and S.

There are other interesting new characters in this series, who pop in and out of the stories. All of them are very well defined. I don't want to tell you too much about this series, because I think it is more fun to read it yourself. But in it some people on the Enterprise have taken illegal drugs in their past and done other things which are not quite kosher. Also there is a lot of sex going on on the ship, which is what you'd expect if you had a ship full of 430 people. There is a lot of stuff about people's day to day lives, and also a lot of adventures that they go through together. Take my word for it, it is a terrific universe. Also, Marguerite does not send out her flyers for a zine until she has it printed. In the past when I have gotten a flyer from her, I have sent her a check the next day, and usually it is less than three weeks before I have the zine in my hot little hands. Valjiir Collected not printed yet, so she is just taking SASEs.

Usually their zines are very reasonably priced. Tell you what, you all buy it when it comes out. If you read it, and you feel that it was not worth the money you paid for it, send it to me (as long as it is in reasonably new condition), and I will send you a check for what you paid for it. I wouldn't mind haying some extra copies around to lend out. Anyway, I'm positive that none of you will lake up my offer, the stories are so good. But now you have a money back offer from me. Go for it!