The Fanzines of Trek -- in situ

[mb22]

By the way, I know "Amok Time" is a vitally important episode to fandom and the show, and modern audiences love it, but I am inclined more toward Buck and Bob's point of view. I enjoyed "Mirror, Mirror", "Changeling" and maybe even "Adonais" better than "Amok Time". I didn't dislike it, and I appreciated the expansion of the Trekiverse, but it did not leave a deep impression.

By the 1970s, it seems to have come up in the popularity polls (Best of Trek #1):

 

[Neopeius]

By the 1970s, it seems to have come up in the popularity polls (Best of Trek #1):

And to be fair, I'm a guy, and the two poopooers are guys. Women dug Spock, and women comprised the majority of Trek fandom (at least, it sure seems that way) so it's no surprise the two Spock eps were rated so highly. All my fellow (female) travelers at the Journey loved that episode, too.

 

[Commishsleer]

And to be fair, I'm a guy, and the two poopooers are guys. Women dug Spock, and women comprised the majority of Trek fandom (at least, it sure seems that way) so it's no surprise the two Spock eps were rated so highly. All my fellow (female) travelers at the Journey loved that episode, too.

Amok Time has a really big fight scene in all of Trek which I would think appeal to many guys.
Has anyone done any studies of the fandom? If you were judging it just on the basis of who posts here it would be 90$% men and 10% women.

 

[Neopeius]

Amok Time has a really big fight scene in all of Trek which I would think appeal to many guys.
Has anyone done any studies of the fandom? If you were judging it just on the basis of who posts here it would be 90$% men and 10% women.

In 1967, the Trekzines, the membership of the Trek fanclubs (mainly Nimoy fanclubs), were overwhelmingly women. The BNFs, from Kay Anderson to Ruth Berman to Juanita Coulson to Bjo Trimble were women. The people who put together the first (big) Trek con in 1973 were all women. Fanfic was almost all women. The first published Trek stories were all by women and 50/50 of the novels.

TBBS was founded in the early days of the internet at a time when demographics skewed heavily male. Rule 30 and all that. And such spaces tend to be self-perpetuating.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Amok Time has a really big fight scene in all of Trek which I would think appeal to many guys.
Has anyone done any studies of the fandom? If you were judging it just on the basis of who posts here it would be 90$% men and 10% women.

That scene and the one with the Gorn in “Arena” are classics.

 

[MAGolding]

FIFY

Fixed that FTFY

FIFY

FIFY ? FITY ?

 

[Neopeius]

FIFY ? FITY ?

FIFY'ALL

 

[Ragitsu]

In Sifu

*Wing Chun moves*

 

[mb22]

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