Who's Who in Star Trek
You may be looking for Who's Who in Star Trek Fandom, which was fan-produced and not for-profit.
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| Title: | Who's Who in Star Trek |
| Publisher: | the zine was published by April Productions, the mass market book was by Star Publications |
| Editor(s): | John Townsley |
| Type: | |
| Date(s): | 1980 (UK version), 1982 (US version), 1984 (reprinted with many more pages), 1988 (printed as a pro book) |
| Medium: | |
| Fandom: | Star Trek: TOS |
| Language: | English |
| External Links: | cited here |
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Who's Who in Star Trek is a show resource compiled by John Townsley.
This publication listed every gaffer, actor, stuntman, voice announcers, writer, production assistant, graphic designer, make-up people, production mixer, musicians, authors of the pro books, and just about everything else, including people who'd had jobs lined up for the "Star Trek movie project which was cancelled in 1977."
It also included the names of "super fans." These were fans who were chairs of the Star Trek Welcommittee, who had chaired the series of cons Star Trek Lives!, who were co-founders of Star Trek Association for Revival, and and who were authors in Star Trek: The New Voyages. There is even a professor listed as a super fan: Leo Strandeford, an astronomy professor who conducted the first one-credit course in Star Trek at Mankato State University in Minnesota.
It was originally a 38-page fanzine issued in 1980 in the UK, then in 1982 in the US. These two editions appear to be identical. Then the zine was issued in 1984, this time with 109 pages. In 1988 it was printed as a for-profit 112-page mass-market book.
The 38-page fanzine has several black and white publicity stills, and a single illo by Gee Moaven.
The Description from the 38-Page Zine
A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of everyone who has contributed to the Star Trek phenomenon... the actors... the writers... the directors... the authors.... the production people... the super fans... all who have made Star Trek what it is today.
Sample Pages
inside page of the 38-page fanzine
inside page of the 38-page fanzine
inside page of the 38-page fanzine, Gee Moaven is the artist
inside page of the 38-page fanzine
The "Super Fans" Listed
Note: Sondra Marshak's credits are four times longer than Leonard Nimoy's! In fact, only Gene Roddenberry's blurb is longer.
- Eleanor Arnason ("author of "The Face on the Barroom Floor" with Ruth Berman, a short story appearing in Star Trek: The New Voyages (Bantam Books, 1976).")
- Allen Asherman [sic] ("member of the "committee" that organized the first Star Trek convention (January 1972 in New York City).")
- Laura Basta ("co-founder of the Star Trek Association for Revival (1972) with Margaret Basta, George Christman and Jan Donaldson.")
- Margaret Basta ("co-founder of the Star Trek Association for Revival (1972) with Laura Basta, George Christman and Jan Donaldson.")
- Eileen Becker ("member of the "committee" that organized the first Star Trek convention (January 1972 in New York City).")
- Doris Beetem ("author of "The Hunting," a short story appearing in Star Trek: The New Voyages (Bantam Books, 1976).")
- Ruth Berman ("author of "Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited" and "The Face on the Barroom Floor" with Eleanor Arnason, short stories appearing in Star Trek: The New Voyages (Bantam Books 1976).")
- George Christman ("co-founder of the Star Trek Association for Revival (1972) with Margaret Basta, Laura Basta and Jan Donaldson")
- Myrna Culbreath ("author of The Price of the Phoenix (Bantam Books, 1977) and The Fate of the Phoenix (Bantam Books, 1979) with Sondra Marshak, Shatner: Where No Man ... (Ace Books,1979) with William Shatner and Sondra Marshak; editor of Star Trek: The New Voyages (Bantam Books, 1976) and Star Trek: The New Voyages 2 (Bantam Books, 1978) with Sondra Marshak; author of The Procrustean Petard," a short story appearing in Star Trek: The New Voyages 2 (Bantam Books, 1978) with Sondra Marshak.")
- Marcia Ericson ("author of "The Enchanted Pool," a short story appearing in Star Trek: The New Voyages (Bantam Books, 1976).")
- Connie Faddis ("author of Snake Pit!" and "Marginal Existence," short stories appearing in Star Trek: The New Voyages 2 (Bantam Books, 1978).")
- Claire Gabriel ("author of "Ni Var," a short story appearing in Star Trek: The New Voyages (Bantam Books, 1976)."
- Regina Gottesman ("member of the "committee" that produced the first Star Trek convention (January 1972 New York City)")
- Jennifer Guttridge ("author of "The Winged Dreamers," a short story appearing in Star Trek: The New Voyages (Bantam Books, 1976) and "In the Maze," a short story appearing in Star Trek: The New Voyages 2 (Bantam Books, 1978).")
- Jeanne Haueisen ("chairman of the Star Trek Welcommittee (1972-1973), an international organization which serves as an information service for Star Trek fans.")
- Deborah Langsam ("member of the "committee" that organized the first Star Trek convention (January 1972 in New York City).")
- Devra Langsam ("member of the "committee" that organized the first Star Trek convention (January 1972 in New York City).") and produced major Star Trek conventions (1973-1976).")
- Jacqueline Lichtenberg ("founder of the Star Trek Welcommittee (1972), an international organization which serves as an information service for Star Trek fans; author of Star Trek Lives! (Bantam Books,1975) with Sondra Marshak and Joan Winston.")
- Shirley M. Maiewski ("chairman of the Star Trek Welcommittee (1977-present), an international organization which serves as an information service for Star Trek fans; author of "Mind-Sifter," a short story appearing in Star Trek: The New Voyages (Bantam Books, 1976).")
- Sondra Marshak ("author of Star Trek Lives! (Bantam Books, 1975) with Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Joan Winston; author of The Price of the Phoenix (Bantam Books, 1977) and The Fate of the Phoenix (Bantam Books, 1979) with Myrna Culbreath, Shatner: Where No Man ... (Ace Books, 1979) with William Shatner and Myrna Culbreath; editor of Star Trek: The New Voyages (Bantam Books, 1976) and Star Trek: The New Voyages 2 (Bantam Books, 1978)with Myrna Culbreath; author of "The Procrustean Petard," a short story appearing in Star Trek: The New Voyages 2 (Bantam Books, 1978) with Myrna Culbreath.")
- Shirley Meech ("author of Sonnet from the Vulcan: Omicron Ceti Three," a poem appearing in Star Trek: The New Voyages (Bantam Books, 1976).")
- Jane Peyton ("author of "Cave-In," a dialogue appearing in Star Trek: The New Voyages 2 (Bantam Books, 1978).")
- Elyse S. Rosenstein ("member of the "committee" that organized [[the first Star Trek convention (January 1972 in New York City) and produced major Star Trek conventions (1973-1976).")
- Al Schuster ("member of the "committee" that organized the first Star Trek convention (January 1972 in New York City); produced non-affiliated Star Trek conventions (1975-1976).")
- Leo Strandeford ("astronomy professor, conducted the first one-credit course in Star Trek at Mankato State University in Minnesota.")
- John Townsley ("producer of major Star Trek conventions (1976-present); creator and designer of numerous Star Trek products; producer of "Themes from Star Trek" (Tristar Records, 1977).")
- Bjo Trimble ("author of The Star Trek Concordance (Ballantine Books, 1976); organizer of the first "Save Star Trek" letter campaign (1967).")
- Jesco Von Puttkamer ("senior staff scientist at NASA, special science advisor for Star Trek - The Motion Picture; author of "The Sleeping God," a short story appearing in Star Trek: The New Voyages 2 (Bantam Books, 1978).")
- Joan Winston ("member of the "committee" that organized the first Star Trek convention (January 1972 in New York City) and produced major Star Trek conventions (1973-1976); author of Star Trek Lives! (Bantam Books, 1975) with Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Sondra Marshak, The Making of the Trek Convention (Doubleday, 1977); editor of Startoons (Playboy Press 1979).")
- Joyce Yasner ("member of the "committee" that organized the first Star Trek convention (January 1972 in New York City) and produced major Star Trek conventions (1973-1976).")
- Helen Young (chairman of the Star Trek Welcommittee (1973-1977), an international organization which serves as an information service for Star Trek fans.")
Fan Comments
This is a British book that was originally not published in North America. The April Publications version was, for all intents and purposes, a fanzine printing, while the Star Publications version was a mass market paperback. Each version of the book lists people involved with the show, sorted by surname, and lists their connection to the show. It also includes novelists and "high profile" fans. Both included a large number of black and white photos of the cast and crew. Neither edition was licensed by Paramount, and as such both were "unauthorized" printings. [1]
1988
- "...brings together for the first time everybody who contributed to this Science Fiction phenomenon; the actors, the writers, producers and directors - who made Star Trek the greatest cult TV series of all time."
Hmmm... So runs the blurb on the back cover! Priced at £2.50, the book really is just a long list. Clearly, an attempt HAS been made to bring them all "together', but the result is not exactly comprehensive. Certainly, we seem to have all the actors here, from "Abbot, Jon - Ayelbourne in Errand of Mercy" to "Zuckerty, Bill - Sheriff in Spectre of the Gun". But, apart from trivia, it is difficult to see the USE of such a list.
NO attempt is made at all at cross-rererencing any of the entries. Unless you already KNOW the name of the actress who played, say, Tamoon in Gamesters... it is unlikely that you will find it very easily here - except by reading through all the entries!
But I DID learn things from this book. Am I the only one who was unaware that Peter Kirk and Tommy Starnes were played by the same boy? Or that John Winston, as well as playing Lt. Kyle, was the bartender in "Wolf in the Fold"? Probably...
The book also, rather strangely, seems unable to make up its mind whether to include the feature films or not. Thus we are able to find out who played such minor parts in The Motion Picture as 'The Alien boy" (?) and "Chief Ross", but Ricardo Montalban is credited ONLY for "Space Seed" and the actress who played Carol Marcus doesn't even get an entry!
Similarly, with regard to the authors of the professional novels, the book is more in teresting in who it leaves out. The earlier Bantam books seem to be well represented - so even people like Charles Spano Junior, get a mention, but all the Pocket novels have been ignored, meaning that poor Vonda McIntyre gets no entry at all! Despite this, the list can be unintentionally amusing - this must surely be the only book to refer to "Collins, Joan" ONLY as "Edith Keeler in City on the Edge of Forever" and "Soul, David" ONLY as "Makora in The Apple" (!). We are told, too, that "Lafferty, Marcy" IS the wife of William Shatner in her entry, but NOT that JA Lawrence was also Mrs James Blish. Jeff Hunter is listed as "deceased", but not Celia Lovsky or Ted Cassidy, despite the book havng been quite clearly rapidly updated to include "the stars of the new TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation".
All in all, then, a book for Star Trek lest or trivia fans - but don't expect too much! A nice bonus is the sixteen pages of black and white photographs, mainly quite early publicity stills from the series, some or which appear on the front cover montage.
Now...who did play Zora? Stella Mudd? Jahn?
You1'll find them - eventually - in "Who's Who in Star Trek!" [2]