wahid@dvinci.DEC (Parwez Wahid) (08/12/85)
TO: K. Bellar WB0SJP Teltone Corp.
uw-beaver!tikal!kirk Kirkland, Wa. USA (206) 827-9626
There are many fan fiction magazines known as fanzines which fantasize
Kirk and Spock having a love affair. I know the title of one of them,
it is (hold on) "Naked Times", complete with explicit drawings. (The
cover has Spock dragging Kirk in chains.) Some artists have made
nude renderings of The Captain and His First Officer. (In fact at a
convention I had taken part in running in 1983 our art room featured
such paintings. Guess who was coming down the corridor to see the
art work? Dora Nimoy, Leonard's Mother. Luckily some people rushed in
just before Mrs. Nimoy got there, took down the paintings and hid them
behind a curtain. The curtain was still waving when Mrs. Nimoy came in
but we were safe. Whew!)
The people who have such fantasies about Kirk and Spock feel the same way
about Starsky and Hutch and now more recently the duo from Miami Vice.
I have never read these articles myself because I don't think I could
stomach them. If you are really interested in getting your hands on some
K/S literature I might suggest a science fiction convention dealer's room.
Once you can make contact with one editor you can subsribe to a dozen others
if you so wish.
Parwez Wahid
DEC, Marlboro MAsyn@uoregon.UUCP (syn) (08/15/85)
Feminists who are interested in erotica written by women for women should find themselves very able to "stomach" K/S. They should check out the rave review of K/S written by SF feminist author Joanna Russ in a fanzine namec NOME, "Another Addict Raves about K/S." Natrually there is a spectrum of material--from mild to X-rated, from well-written to total trash. This material is widely circulated, but not "Published" in the ordinary, or profit-making sense, and is in fact underground material of great interest to the participants--the writers, readers and editors. Unfortunately, attention paid to K/S for its feminist importance, may be damaging to fandom as a whole, if Paramount gets too interested in it. Starsky/Hutch and Star Wars fandoms were severely restricted by paranoid producers. Joanna has refused to supply the names of K/S editors and writers to the editors of Penthouse FORUM--but FORUM is interested. As for the writers involved, writing fan material is wonderful fun, and may just provide the impetus for writers to break into publication, as a number of fan writers have. While it is true that REAL SF writers look ascance at Trek as formula fiction, the first item of importance to most aspiring writers is GETTING PUBLISHED. Trek is a "hungry" market.