Furaha

Furaha is a gen Star Trek: TOS fiction and art zine. It was published by the Nichelle Nichols Fan Club, who also put out a newsletter, Amani.
Regarding the zine's title: "Furaha" is the Swahili word for "joy."
==Troubles==
In fall of 1978, Winston Howlett wrote this personal statement:
The editor of Right of Statement, also published Howlett's denial that he was now in charge of the zine, and had this addition in 1978: 
While Scuttlebutt had an announcement in its section on zines going to press that mentioned a seventh issue, it is unlikely that issue #7 ever made it to fruition. It was to have been "a Majel Barrett special featuring fiction and art of all her various incarnations, with fiction by Cantor, Emily, Witt. Art by Moaven. Target date of 9.77."
Further evidence of trouble as a fan in the fall of 1979 asks:
==General Reactions and Reviews==
==Issue 1==
Furaha 1 was published in March 1975 (second printing was December 1975) and contains 52 pages. The front cover is by Ellen Vartanoff. The inside art is by Laura Virgil, Robin Hill, Anji Valenza, Ros O. Ludwig (inside back cover), and Merrie K. (back cover).
* Esprit de Corps by A. Stuart Walker (a story about Number One, now a Commodore, and her return to the Enterprise) (1)
* art by Laura R. Virgil (3, 5, 9, 12)
* art, Tribbles by Robin Hill (12)
* Personal Log-Kirk by Virginia Walker (13)
* poetry by T'Lay (14)
* Shore Leave by "T' Lay" [Also in Space-Time Continuum #9] (a brief Kirk/Uhura encounter) (15)
* art by Laura Virgil (16)
* Personal Log—Spock by A. Stuart Walker and Virginia Walker (17)
* Creator by Stephan Clarke (the Enterprise returns to the twentieth-century) (18)
* art, Nomad by Laura Virgil (24)
* Last Skimmer to Jericho by W. Howlett (also in Probe #1, The Goddess Uhura issue; also Probe #5 (a science fiction story that gives a glimpse of African culture in the 23rd century) (25)
* art by Anji Valenza (38)
File:Fuhura1-1.jpg|from issue #1, Laura Virgil is the artist
File:Fuhura1-2.jpg|from issue #1, Anji Valenza is the artist
File:Fuhura1-3.jpg|from issue #1, inside back cover by Ros O. Ludwig
File:Fuhura1-4.jpg|from issue #1, first page of fic
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1===
==Issue 2==
Furaha 2 was in June 1975 (reprinted October 1975) and contains 54 pages. The front cover is by Joni Wagner and the back by Laura Virgil.
* Low Spirits by A. Stuart Walker [Also in One Trek Mind #3, and one of the J.D.I.F.C.] (Scotty runs out of scotch and rigs up his own still) (1)
* Uhura, art by Jack Townsend (9)
* Mission Impossible - or is it? by Joel Davis (10)
* Gene Roddenberry, art by Laura R. Virgil (11)
* QueST or... by Joel Davis (12)
* Uhura, art by Laura Virgil (14)
* Uhura, art by D.L. Collin (15)
* Personal Log by A. Stuart Walker (also in One Trek Mind #2 and Terra Vulcan Yearbook #3) (16)
* Interference, or Fanzines Reach Farther than You Think by A. Stuart Walker [Also in One Trek Mind #3] (Spock is being telepathically influenced by the lay Spock fiction in 20th-century fanzines) (17)
* Uhura, art by D.L. Collin (22)
* Sequel by Johanna Cantor (an extended 'Journey to Babel' piece) (reprinted in Archives #4) (23)
* Uhura, art by Jack Townsend (37)
* Worth a Thousand Words by A. Stuart Walker (a story that suggests a role of ESP in creativity, features Christine Chapel) (38)
* A Music Lesson, art by Laura R. Virgil (54)
* inside back cover by Larry Greider (reprinted from Berengaria #1)
* back cover art by Laura R. Virgil
File:Fuhura2-1.jpg|from issue #2, Laura R. Virgil
File:Fuhura2-2.jpg|from issue #2, Jack Townsend
File:Fuhura2-3.jpg|from issue #2, D.L. Collin
File:Fuhura2-5.jpg|from issue #2, sample text
File:Fuhura2-4.jpg|fom issue#2 inside back cover by Larry Greider
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2===
==Issue 3==
Furaha 3 was published in September 1975 (reprinted December 1975) and contains 50 pages. The front cover is a photograph. The back cover is by Merrie K. and is a reprint from Spectrum #18.
The editorial: 
* art by Diane McClaugherty (2)
* The Lady's Alone Tonight, poem by Nichelle Nichols, reprinted two years later in All About Star Trek Fan Clubs #3 (3)
* Once More With Feeling by Johanna Cantor (9 pages) (reprinted in Archives #1) (4)
* story illo "Uhura" by Jack Townsend (7)
* art "Sehlat" by Elizabeth Marshall (11)
* Some Day, poem by Shirley Maiewski (12)
* art "Uhura" by Debbie Collin (13)
* art "Uhura" by Jack Townsend (14)
* Beyond Antares—A Star Trek Story by Sam Segal (15) 8 years later Sam Segal brought an unsuccessful copyright lawsuit against Paramount Pictures' Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country, alleging they had infringed on a Star Trek script he had submitted to them called "Star Trek TV: Inside the Klingon Empire." The lawsuit was dismissed upon summary judgement. See 
* Personal Log: Scotty by Joel Davis (17)
* art "Amanda" by Laura R. Virgil (18)
* The Summer Place by Johanna Cantor (19) (reprinted in Rim of Starlight #4)
** art "Amanda" by Laura Virgil (21)
** art "Handclasp" by Laura Virgil (21)
** art "Panorama" by Laura Virgil (25)
** art "Touch" by Laura Virgil (26)
** art "Sarek" by Laura Virgil (28)
** art "Kirk" by Ellen Vartanoff (30)
** art "T'Pau" by Merrie K (34)
** art "Together" by Laura Virgil (35)
** art "Storyteller" by Laura Virgil (38)
** art "Child" by Laura Virgil (41)
** art "Commander" by Laura Virgil (42)
** art "Romulan Justice" by Laura Virgil (43)
** art "Naming" by Laura Virgil (44)
* Monitoring the Bridge by A. Stuart Walker (45)
* inside back cover "Spock" by Ellen Vartanoff
* back cover "Uhura" by Merrie K
File:furaha3-1.jpg|from issue #3
File:furaha3-2.jpg|from issue #3
File:furaha3-3.jpg|from issue #3, Jack Townsend
File:furaha3-4.jpg|from issue #3
File:furaha3-5.jpg|from issue #3
File:furaha3-6.jpg|from issue #3
File:furaha3-7.jpg|from issue #3
File:furaha3-8.jpg|from issue #3
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 3===
==Issue 4==
Furaha 4 was published in December 1975 and contains 87 pages. Artwork by Laura R. Virgil, Alan E. Andres, Elizabeth Marshall, Connie Faddis, Virginia Walker, and Gee Moaven.
* club listing (2)
* Routine by Anna Mary Hall (reprinted from Impulse #6/7; also in Aisha Milele, Fanikiwa and Archives #6) (3) 
* art, "Love at First Sight" by Elizabeth Marshall (32)
* art, "Christine" by Laura R. Virgil (33)
* Folio, which includes poems by Nichelle Nichols, and interpretations of the Folio by Connie Faddis and Virginia Walker (9 pages)
* art, "Bones" by Gee Moaven (42)
* Caduceus by Connie Faddis (McCoy story. The survey team on the planet Alcestis has become the victim of an unknown disease and McCoy and Christine Chapel, piloted by Chekov, are sent to find the cure. To complicate matters, on the planet is Doctor J.O. Calvin, a man McCoy has reason to hate. As the disease progresses claiming everyone including the rescue team, McCoy makes a pact with the mysterious insect-like Keeris sacrificing more than his life to effect a cure.) (This story was later heavily revised as a general science fiction story and sold to Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction.) (42 pages)
File:Fuh4art1.jpg|from issue #4, Alan Andres, frontispiece
File:Fuh4art2.jpg|from issue #4, Gee Moaven
File:Fuh4art3.jpg|from issue #4, Virginia Walker
File:Fuh4art4.jpg|from issue #4, Connie Faddis
File:Fuh4art5.jpg|from issue #4, Connie Faddis
File:Fuh4art6.jpg|from issue #4, Elizabeth Marshall
File:Fuh4art7.jpg|from issue #4, Connie Faddis
File:Fuh4art8.jpg|from issue #4, Laura Virgil
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 4===
==Issue 5==
 
Furaha 5 was published in April 1977 and contains 66 pages. It was a "The Women of Star Trek" issue, and had illustrations of 34 Star Trek females by Joni Wagner with accompanying stories or poems by Connie Faddis, Winston Howlett, Don Clarke, Karen Fleming, Johanna Cantor, Jacqueline Bielowicz, Monica Miller, Paula Smith, Mary Lou Dodge, Nancy Kippax, Laurie Haldeman, Shirley Maiewski, Sharon Emily, Jean Lorrah, Lucy D. Witt, and Joan Verba.
* Nancy Hedford/The Companion by Jacqueline Bielowicz
* Natira by Karen Fleming
* Leila by Johanna Cantor
From the editorial by Connie Faddis: 
File:fur5art1.jpg|from issue #5, Zarabeth
File:fur5art2.jpg|from issue #5, Elizabeth Dehner
File:fur5art3.jpg|from issue #5, Janice Rand
File:fur5art4.jpg|from issue #5, T'Pau
File:fur5art5.jpg|from issue #5, Miri
File:fur5art6.jpg|from issue #5, Deela
File:fur5art7.jpg|from issue #5, Janice Lester
File:fur5art8.jpg|from issue #5, Roberta Lincoln
File:fur5art9.jpg|from issue #5, Mother Horta
File:fur5art10.jpg|from issue #5, Edith Keeler
File:fur5art11.jpg|from issue #5, Areel Shaw
File:fur5art12.jpg|from issue #5, Vanna and Droxine
File:Furaha 5 Miranda Jones.jpg|from issue #5, Miranda Jones
File:Furaha 5 Natira.jpg|from issue #5, Natira
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 5===
==Issue 6==
Furaha 6 was published around July 1977. 
It is an an Uhura/Swahili special with Gee Moaven covers. 
The fiction is by Winston Howlett and Joanna Cantor. 
It contains the Encyclopedia of Uhura Trivia.
 
 
==References==
Category:Club Zines
Category:Star Trek TOS Actor-centric Zines
Category:Star Trek TOS Gen and Het Anthology Zines
Category:1975 Zines
Category:1976 Zines
Category:1977 Zines