Trekzine

English

Etymology

From Trek +‎ zine.

Noun

Trekzine (plural Trekzines)

  1. (dated, fandom slang) A Star Trek fanzine.
    • 1975, Jacqueline Lichtenberg; Sondra Marshak; Joan Winston, Star Trek Lives!, page 86:
      The aloofness and emotional control of Vulcans has driven many of Star Trek's female viewers crazy, for the almost-stated first principle of the Vulcan Love Story of the Trekzines is to break into the inner emotional nature of the outwardly calm Vulcan.
    • 1981, Walter Irwin; G. B. Love, editor, The Best of Trek: From the Magazine for Star Trek, page 75:
      You are the only Trekzine of your kind, and besides that, you are of consistently high quality and classy, both in format and execution.
    • 1997 October 29, Judygran, “Re: Fanfic, Writing 'n' Stuff (Re: Slash writers (long)(reply is long too!)”, in alt.startrek.creative‎ (Usenet):
      The early Trekzine publishers like Devra Langsam, editor of the aforementioned Spockanalia and later of Masiform D, used mimeo, often with astonishingly good results.
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