“The Doctor and the Enterprise” by Jean Airey
Trek/Who Fanfiction from the 80s (scan of 1st ten pages out of 130)Please don’t remove this blurb:
SYNOPSIS of “The Doctor & the Enterprise” (TOS) (h/c): Prologue: In 1979 I started writing a *fanzine* story in which the Doctor (from the “Doctor Who” universe) met up with the crew of the “original” “Star Trek” series. It was the first thing I’d written since graduating from college fifteen years before, and, with the assistance of an excellent author and very good friend, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, was able to finish it. The result turned out to be an enjoyable reading experience to a number of people. The story was not intended to be a satire, it was intended to be an honest representation of what might happen if these two particular universes met. It was intended as a fanzine in the most classic tradition of that particular genre. Unfortunately that popularity resulted in the ultimate “ripping off” of the story without my permission into a highly priced “book” format (in one version) and to a complete travesty of the original in yet another. For some years now, I had been offering to make copies available at the cost of postage — and was willing to “post” copies to the electronic networks. However, I did not want to rekey the whole rather lengthy document. After a recent discussion of the ‘zine on the network, Marc Barrett offered to scan the original into an ascii file. (Many thanks to him!) With some editing (Proportional Space type resulted in some unique versions of McCoy’s name! along with some other anomalies.), the following files are being posted to the net. The following are the rules for use of these files. A) You may read it — FREE. B) You may print it to a printer — FREE. C) You may make copies for your friends — FREE. D) You may redistribute to other electronic networks and databases, including ftp archives FREE. E) The text carries my copyright from the date of original publication and “publication” of these files in this format does not grant anyone anywhere permission to make copies either electronically or in print which carry *any* charge to anyone of any type for that copy. F) Any reproduction of the text (print or electronic) must carry this notice with it. An individual editing for a single copy for their own records is not bound by this requirement and may edit this paragraph out. Paper copies with the original artwork (including the marvelous cover by Gail Bennett) are available from me. SASE for details. Some dealers may also have appropriately priced *authorized* copies available (STARTECH is one of them). Not everyone is on a computer network! With regrets for being so picky — but I’ve been burned on this enough. Read and enjoy!Link to the author’s free etext copy: HERE
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About the scans: I scanned them from the beginning of the ‘89 second edition, which I bought at Philcon ‘90. It’s a compilation of the Enterprise fanzine, not the infamous “ruby slippers” bootleg.
The illustrations (by Tom Holtkamp, although it also includes Gail Bennet’s much more serious original cover art) are a cross between Mad Magazine art of the period, Hitchhiker’s Guide cover art and other contemporary in-jokes (see: Lassie). The story is more serious, attempting to fuse the style of TOS and late 70s Who.
So, basically, here’s a glimpse of fanfiction before the web existed and before the internet coalesced into a single unit. By 1989, people were exchanging fanfic on usenet, via email lists, and on college university mainframes, but this story was first printed in 1982, so it hails from the ‘zines-and-xeroxes decade before the web began. Even then, most fanfic authors were women.
