Mahko Root

Mahko Root is a het, gen, and slash Star Trek: TOS anthology. The title is a reference to the TOS episode "A Private Little War".Mahko root on the Memory Alpha wiki
==An Early Submission Request==
From Warped Space #23: 
==Mahko Root and Early Slash==
The first issue contains a story, ... And Dust to Dust, that the author, Gerry Downes, considers K/S.
She remarks in a later review in Stardate: Unknown #4 that the second issue "will contain four short stories on the K/S relationship." 
The K/S stories in the second issue are the last six in the zine, the ones by Katy Young. They form the series Yea, Though I Walk.
==Issue 1==
Mahko Root 1 was published in January 1977 and contains 96 pages. There were 500 copies printed. 
The art is by Gerry Downes, Theresa Holmes, Mary Ann Emerson, Patti Thompson, Connie Faddis, Carol Davis, Ann Leonhart, Sheila, Patti, and Susan.
This zine was dedicated to Gerry Downes. It required an age statement to purchase.
From the editorial: 
* Editor's Page (2)
* Twenty Years After by Sheila Clark (3)
* Do Not Go Gentle by Jane Aumerle (4) ("What has gone before: in Bev Volker's "When the Time Comes" (Contact III), Kirk discovers that he has ectoneuralitis, an incurable degenerative disease of the central nervous system. It is usually fatal within six months of onset, but destroys the victim's mind long before it kills him.	In con-siderable distress, Kirk asks Spock to let him die with dignity, and Spock reluctantly agrees. In "Not Yet Time" (C III), Spock, acting on a sudden perception of Kirk in danger, rushes to the Captain's cabin. He is, howev- er, too late: Jim has committed suicide. As he is berating himself for his own sad negligence, Spock realizes that he is being shaken; he wakes up to find Kirk bending over him, still very alive. Spock has been having a nightmare. He tells Kirk then that he and McCoy have been researching a possible cure, but had not told him about it because they did not want to raise false hopes. Kirk then returns to his cabin and puts away the scalpel he had been about to use on himself when he became aware that Spock needed him. "Do Not Go Gentle" takes place about two weeks later.")
* In Search of Meaning by Trinette Kern (13)
* Vulcan Beckons by Trinette Kern (14)
* Time Before and Time After by Mariann Hornlein (15)
* Exposure by Sheila Clark (reprinted in Computer Playback #4) -- Sheila's web page mistakenly says it appears in Computer Playback #2. It is also in Home to Roost #3 -- that editorial mistakenly says an issue of Classified Assignments) (19) 
* Love Song to a Starship by Trinette Kern (27)
* Tomorrow is Today by Jean Stevenson (28)
* Touch by Susan Burr (31)
* Mission, part 1 by Theresa Holmes (32)
* Where Logic Ends by Trinette Kern (song, reprinted in Starsong) (55)
* Insid'er Spider by Paula Smith (56)
* Share the Joy (filk) by Trinette Kern (61)
* Sans Notre Bonne Chance by Jean Stevenson (62)
*Meld by Susan Burr (64)
* Send in the Clowns by Trinette Kern (65)
* ... And Dust to Dust by Gerry Downes (the author considers this a K/S story, see review below) (66)(reprinted in Relay #3)
* The Dreamer by Susan Burr (90)
* Reviews by Jane Aumerle Deep Grope, Kraith Collected, Menagerie #12 and #13, Stardate: Unknown #3, Warped Space #28, Obsc'zine #2, see those pages (91)
* reviews by Jane Aumerle of the pro books Planet of Judgment, The Price of the Phoenix 
* "Pull Out the Plug, Spock" (95)
* Writing (Mainly) Contest (96)
File:Mahko1art1.jpg|from issue #1, Connie Faddis
File:Mahko1art2.jpg|from issue #1, Connie Faddis, for "Do Not Go Gentle"
File:Mahko1art3.jpg|from issue #1, Connie Faddis
File:Mahko1art4.jpg|from issue #1, Mary Ann Emerson
File:Mahko1art5.jpg|from issue #1, "SA"
File:Mahko1art6.jpg|from issue #1, Theresa Holmes
File:Mahko1art7.jpg|from issue #1, artist, uncertain
File:Mahko1art8.jpg|from issue #1, Gerry Downes, the title page for ... And Dust to Dust
File:Mahko1art9.jpg|from issue #1, Theresa Holmes
File:Mahko1art10.jpg|from issue #1, Mary Ann Emerson
File:Mahko1art11.jpg|from issue #1, Dover Clip Art and Mary Ann Emerson
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1==
==Issue 2==
Mahko Root 2 was published in September 1978 and contains 114 pages. The front cover is by Signe Landon. It has art by Signe Landon, Gerry Downes, Mary Ann Emerson, Nan Lewis, Leslie Fish, Theresa Holmes, Gordon Carleton, Randy William Ash, Patti Thompson, Carol Davis, Gayle F, Gil Smith.
This issue is dedicated to Dotty Barry, and like the first issue, required an age statement to purchase.
From the editorial, which also expressed the desire to run this zine into at least five issues: 
* Off the Wall, editorial (2)
* Lamentations by Gerry Downes (3)
* Unknown Thing by Stephen Bangs (4)
* A Private Conversation by Alice Thompson (6)
* Looking In by Katy Young (13)
* Touch by Toni Cardinal (14)
* Gemini by Katy Young (16)
* Mission, Part II by Theresa Holmes (18)
* Spake the Argelian Soothsayer by Pat McCormack (41)
* On Pon Farr by Dotty Barry (42)
* Dragons Aplenty by Randy William Ash (43)
* The slash series by Katy Young: 
** The First Mile	by Katy Young (slash) (52)
** Almost Home	by Katy Young (slash) (60) 
** Around the Next Corner	by Katy Young (slash) (65)
** Being Lost is Worth the Coming Home	by Katy Young (slash) (70)
** A Place to Dwell	by Katy Young (slash) (85)
** My Rest Forever	by Katy Young (slash) (103)
 
* Pull Out The Plug Spock by Dixie Owen and Jane Aumerle (113)
* zine reviews by Dixie G. Owen and Jane Aumerle (108), Sehlat's Roar #5, Menagerie #14, Fantasia #2, Stardate: Unknown #4, Diamonds and Rust, Thrust, Zebra Three #1 and #2, and Solar Sailors, see those pages
* acknowledgments and Rag Tags (114)
 
File:Mahko Root 2 by Gayle F.jpeg|from issue #2, Gayle F
File:Mahko Root 2 by Leslie Fish.jpeg|from issue #2, Leslie Fish
File:Mahko root 2 by nan lewis.jpeg|from issue #2, Nan Lewis
File:Mahko root 2 gerry downes.jpeg|from issue #2, Lamentations - art & poem by Gerry Downes
File:Mahko Root 2 Mary Ann Emerson.jpeg|from issue #2, Mary Ann Emerson
File:Mahko2art1.jpg|from issue #2, Mary Ann Emerson
File:Mahko2art2.jpg|from issue #2, Nan Lewis
File:Mahko2art3.jpg|from issue #2, Mary Ann Emerson
File:Mahko2art4.jpg|from issue #2, Signe Landon
File:Mahko2art5.jpg|from issue #2, Theresa Holmes
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2==
==Issue 3 that Never Was==
A third issue was planned for publication in 1979, though this issue never made it off the ground. An ad in the back of Mahko Root #2 listed the plan: 
"[Issue #3] will include more of 'Mission'; "The Third Stair," a sidebar to Alternative by Gerry Downes and Laurie Haldeman, illoed by Gerry; "Warp Seven" an honest to goodness Star Trek existentialist short by Barbara Greenwood; a full color (we hope) Gayle F of Spock and Miranda with interp; "Homo Factus Est,' by Jane Aumerle; and "Coventry Cafol" a segment of Jane's K/S series. Plus poetry by Dotty Barry and Pat McCormack, reviews and other goodies."
The editor had this short note in Forum in the spring of 1980: "There will be no 'Mahko Root III." I'm still getting SASEs, and one or two random submissions from time to time. I would like to save a bit of effort and postage by letting everyone know this."
==References==
 Category:Star Trek TOS Gen and Het Anthology Zines
Category:Star Trek TOS Slash Zines
Category:1977 ZinesCategory:1978 Zines