Power of Speech

Power of Speech is a Star Trek: TOS and multimedia letterzine. There were three issues. 
From "Southern Enclave": "Power of Speech, a new ST/media letterzine with absolutely no censorship and devoted to civilized controversy is ready to go to print. Price not yet finalized. First issue includes articles and discussions on the Vulcan katra, the Vulcan wars, the Jedi, Blake's 7, the Professionals, analyses of the ST films vs. the series and lots more. Guaranteed to exercise the brain."
From another ad in Southern Enclave: "POWER OF SPEECH is a ST/media letterzine dedicated to the uninhibited right of free fannish expression. Civilized controversy is not only welcomed but actively sought."
==Reactions and Reviews==
==Issue 1==
Power of Speech 1 was published in the fall of 1985 and has 18 pages.
* a fan writes a very detailed letter, complete with a chart, comparing Star Trek and Blake's 7
* a fan writes that she is now "bonkers" for The Professionals and has a long letter about the show and some of the varied fan fic she has read
* a fan writes a long, long letter about her views of the Star Trek movies
* "The Secret of Vulcan Immortality or Would You Buy a Used Katra from This Man?", article by Lynda Carraher
* "The Vulcan Wars" ("Concerning the War Years, the loss of Vulcan space colonies and the acceptance of Surak's Philosophy of Nome"), article by Michelle Malkin
* a fan complains about a recent fan survey he'd received that was biased, he also writes that the neo fans he's encountered lately are: 
* a fan writes about his experience at Media*West #5, and he has a very, very early mention of vids: 
* a fan writes: 
* Roberta Rogow is happy with the Star Trek tie-in novels: 
==Issue 2==
Power of Speech 2 was published in summer 1986 and contains 25 pages.
From Boldly Writing: "Sandra said in her editorial, 'The delay in getting this out was largely a lack of submissions!' She also said of the previous issue, 'I knew that I had put in too many editorial comments in the middle of the LoCs.' This time, Sandra inserted her editorial comments at the end of her publication."
* a fan addresses a point another made about the ration of male and female characters in Star Trek
* a fan writes that others need to be more patient with zine eds and late zines
* "From Wence They Came," an article reprinted from Pastaklan Vesla #2 by Michelle Malkin
* a copy of Pocket Book's style sheet for Star Trek novels is reprinted
* "Fandom's Lost Ideal," article by Sandra H. Necchi, reprinted from Fesarius #6
* the editor says another fan wrote: 
* there is a single piece of art in the letterzine, one the editor really didn't want to print when she received it from another fan: 
* a fan writes that there is: 
* a fan writes about why she thinks some shows inspire same-sex fiction and others don't. She references Joanna Russ' essay on slash fiction "Pornography by Women, for Women, With Love" in the book "Magic Mommas, Trembling Sisters, Puritans and Perverts." She comments that Starsky and Hutch has both a lot of S/H and S&H, and the Professionals has a lot of slash, but Star Wars doesn't: 
* a writer is aghast at Professionals fiction, especially the slash, and the elf stories: 
==Issue 3==
Power of Speech 3 contains 44 pages was published in summer 1987. It was the last issue. 
* there is a discussion on Blake's 7, The Professionals, Aliens, slash fiction, the Star Trek films and series and various and sundry items commenting on NASA and the CHALLENGER space shuttle.
* The editor writes: 
* there is an excerpt from a transcript of an interview from DraftTrek '85 done by Randall Landers and Tim Farley in which David Gerrold takes on K/S, saying there are far bigger issues in the world, like AIDS, starvation in Africa and a blood donor shortage and that Gerrold doesn't consider K/S fans "real Star Trek fans": 
* Finally, the editor comments on Interstat and then prints a letter, titled "Anatomy of a Letterzine," by Kristen Brady, a pseud, that had been sent to three letterzines, one of who refused to print it This letter was printed in Orion and "Power of Speech"; the editors of Datazine refused to run it, as did Interstat -- for the editor's comments about this, see Interstat #123 : The editor prefaces the comments with: 
"Anatomy of a Letterzine" takes a look "at the letterzine know as 'Bennett's Tenets,' also known as 'The Harve Bennett Fan Club Newsletter,' or, as it is more commonly called, Interstat". The review takes Interstat to task for two things: one, its "gnashing of teeth, the raking of claws, and the lashing of tongues -- not to mention the backbiting, mudslinging..." and two, the reviewer's belief that it is nothing but a censored rag dedicated toward TPTB.
Excerpts from "Anatomy of a Letterzine" by Kristen Brady: 
== References ==
Category:Star Trek TOS Non-fiction Zines
Category:Multimedia Zines
Category:1980s