Vintage: A Tribute to Star Trek: The Next Generation

Zine
Title:	Vintage: A Tribute to Star Trek: The Next Generation
Publisher:	Unicorn Press agented this for Queen's Pawn Productions
Editor:
Author(s):	Anna C. Bowling
Cover Artist(s):	Beverly Chick
Illustrator(s):	no interior illos
Date(s):	August 1997
Medium:	print
Size:
Genre:	gen
Fandom:	Star Trek: TNG
Language:	English
External Links:	original flyer
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Vintage: A Tribute to Star Trek: The Next Generation is a gen 39-page novel by by Anna C. Bowling.

front cover, Beverly Chick

The back cover is a flyer for The Poet Warrior and Other Klingon Legends.

Summaries

From an ad:

Vintage is a touching tale of the TNG crew. It takes place shortly after Generations. It reunites the crew to fight their most dangerous enemy yet ... time, and separation. A wonderful short novella by Anna C. Bowling, Vintage captures the wonder and sheer joy of The Next Generation. Anna is a renouned [sic] fanzine author. Her column appears monthly in Mission Profile. Anna is the President of the Jonathan Frakes Appreciation Society, and is the editor and publisher of the Purities fanzine from Cat Toy Publications.

From the publisher:

[This novel] takes place between "Generations" and "First Contact". After the losing his brother, nephew and, the Enterprise D, Jean-Luc Picard returns to the family vineyards to help his sister-in-law but, will he be content for the rest of his life? What about the rest of his crew? Digest sized.

Author's Note

From the zine:

When Jason asked me to write a special story to celebrate Next Gen's ten-year anniversary, I was immediately excited. Then, the reality hit that I would actually have to write a story to celebrate Next Gen's ten-year anniversary. With all of the fabulous characters, plotlines and threads left hanging, it was a hard choice narrowing things down . In the end, though, I think I found the heart of the matter. If "Vintage" strays a bit from the space adventures we've come to expect, I think it still falls well within the boundaries. So I stretched them a little. If parts of the story seem a little sappy, anniversaries always get me feeling sentimental. This one is no different.

This story also came about in an odd way, kind of a breech baby, making me wonder if it would ever come fully, until with one great gush, there it finally was. I hope it's worth it.

"Vintage," for those of you who have a burning need to place things on timelines (Elise), this falls into a nebulous time after Generations, but before First Contact. Here's to ten more wonderful years.