Naked Singularity

Naked Singularity is a slash Star Trek: TOS 221-page anthology edited by Pam Trippel. The covers are by TACS. It has interior art by The Southern Cross, TACS, Maureen B., Nan Lewis, Caren Parnes, Andrea Kunz, ERIC, and Gennie Summers.
==A Proposed Split==
This zine was originally meant to be published in two issues, one slash and one explicit het zine. 
From a publisher's announcement in Datazine #28: 
The het zine was to be called "Fore 'n' Aft" and was scheduled to be published in fall of 1983, something that didn't happen.
==Contents of Naked Singularity==
Summaries below are by Gilda F.
* What Are Friends For?	by Deverly Helm (Humor: While in jail after Kirk accidently desecrates a sacred urn, Spock goes into pon farr. Prequel: Discovery.) (1)
* Kiwi Fruit, poem by B.L. Barr (8)
* Tears that We Shed in the Dark by Alayne Gelfand (Kirk and Spock are marooned for over a year by a shuttle crash, and during that time they become lovers and bond but are unsure of going back to Starfleet after their rescue.) (also in Charisma #8) (9)
* How Can You Ask?, poem by Dre'Lanzer (34)
* A Matter Of Law 	by Vivian Gates (Unrelated Vulcan story.) (35)
* Companion, poem by Meg Fine (46)
* Into Your Heart, poem by Patt (47)
* Shoreleave, poem by Patt (47)
* Gaming	by C.J. McNally (While hiking on shoreleave, Kirk and Spock take shelter in a small shack when it starts to rain and pass the time playing 20 questions.) (48)
* T'Pring, poem by Emily Ross (51)
* Will You Chart The Stars Without Me? by 	Kirk (A/U: A young Spock meets Jim Kirk who works on the ranch Spock is visiting, but the love they discover is fated not to be until death brings them back together.) (53)
* Interludes Pass	by Dre'Lanzer (an AU) (74)
* Bitter Wine: A Soliloquy, poem by Meg Fine (79)
* Entwined, poem by TACS (80)
* Windjammer	by Tere Ann Roderick (Spock books passage for himself and Kirk on a sailing ship as a birthday present for his captain, unaware that it is a gays-only cruise.) (81)
* Illogical Limericks by Gene S. Delapenia (97)
* Waiting, poem by Patt (98)
* Touching, poem by Patt (98)
* Masquerade	by Megan Carter (After forcing Spock to take shoreleave on the Caretakerʼs planet, Kirk goes down and, posing as an android, makes advances to Spock that he is delighted to find reciprocated.) (99)
* Illogical Limericks by Gene S. Delapenia (113)
* Position Impossible	by Nicole Silver (Spock responds to Kirk after being slipped an aphrodisiac, but then has to convince Kirk that he felt that way before given the drug. In this story, Spock (like all Vulcan males) has two penises. One is the primary organ, and one is a secondary smaller one. The story oddly, doesn't really discuss or utilize this during the sex act, but it gets used as a punch line in a joke at the end. For other examples of creative Vulcan dicks, see Vulcan Genitalia.) (114)
* Dreams I Never Knew I Had, poem by Cynthia Drake (122)
* Miracles, poem by Meg Fine (123)
* Alien	by Dark Morgan (Kirk waits for McCoy to pick him up from a conference, knowing that Spock will be there after a three months absence but not knowing how to recapture his bondmateʼs love.) (124)
* untitled poem by B.L. Barr (146)
* Boredom	 by Sharon F (Kirk goes to the science lab hoping Spock will relieve his boredom, and finds a perfect tool to make sure he does.) (147)
* Fantasies, poem by Sharon F. (147)
* Serendipity	by Lucille Carey (K/S/Uhura) (153)
* untitled poem by Gene S. Delepenia (169)
* On the Cusp, poem by Emily Ross (170)
* Mutual Benefit	by The Undiscovered Country and Cassandra Smythe (M/U: "Excerpt from the novel of the same name." [This refers to an explicit K/S novel by Cassandra Smythe and The Undiscovered Country. Art was to be by TACS. It was to be "Mirror story of intrigue and precarious cooperation planned for winter of 1985." -- from Datazine #32. See: Command Decision]. This novel was never completed. See Universal Translator #23 for more information.) (171)
* Two Out Of Three	by A.T. Bush (Kirk makes a wager with a wrestling partner, unaware of what it is heʼs wagering until Spock advises him through their bond.) (181)
* Lines to a Vulcan: A Sonnet Sequence by Flora Poste (192)
* A Little Romance	by Cassandra Smythe (M/U: After killing his science officer, Kirk acquires a Vulcan he plans to train and hopefully trust.) (193)
* For Some Diseases, poem by Flora Poste (220)
* Tribble, Tribble, Who's Got the Tribble (221)
==Sample Interior Gallery==
Image:nakedsing1-1.jpg|TACS, Spock eating a kiwi fruit. A very explicit variation of this illo was printed a few months later in California K/S #1. 
Image:nakedsing1-2.jpg|Maureen B.
Image:nakedsing1-3.jpg|ERIC
Image:nakedsing1-4.jpg|Andrea Kunz
Image:nakedsing1-5.jpg|TACS
Image:nakedsing1-6.jpg|TACS
Image:nakedsing1-7.jpg|TACS
Image:nakedsing1-8.jpg|TACS
Image:nakedsing1-9.jpg|Caren Parnes
Image:nakedsing1-10.jpg|Gennie Summers
Image:nakedsing1-11.jpg|uncredited
Image:nakedsing1-12.jpg|Nan Lewis
Image:nakedsing1-13.jpg|TACS
Image:nakedsing1-14.jpg|The Southern Cross
Image:nakedsing1southerncross.jpg|The Southern Cross
 
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==References==
Category:Star Trek TOS Slash Zines
Category:1984 Zines