Starfleet Ladies' Auxiliary and Embroidery and Baking Society

Starfleet Ladies' Auxiliary and Embroidery/Baking Society was a private electronic forum.
 
It, along with Quantum Leap Ladies Club and estrogen brigades, was one of the first all-female electronic mailing lists. 
It was created in late 1992 and had seven members. By June 1993, it had twenty-one members. Membership peaked at forty-eight.
One member's description: "The Starfleet Ladies' Auxiliary and Embroidery/Baking Society, which is composed of 48 women from all walks of life who chat about matters from politics to sexism and other social issues, to whether or not pantyhose were invented by men to have something to pull over their faces during bank robberies." Mailing Lists 
It stopped accepting new members in 1997: " Due to pressing mail quota problems from some members, we have been forced to stop accepting new members... If you are interested in womanspace mailing lists (or just general coed mailing lists), don't be discouraged by the above! The Ladies' Aux has already spawned a new group, and we hope to do so many more times to come. After the group appeared in Newsweek, we got several applications for membership that sent us over our cap." Mailing Lists 
==FAQ/About==
Last upsdated in 1999:
==A 1994 Description==
From an article in 1994: "AS A LONGTIME "STAR TREK" devotee, [J C] was eager to be part of the Trekkie discussion group on the Internet. But when she first logged on, [J C] noticed that these fans of the final frontier devoted megabytes to such profound topics as whether Troi or Crusher had bigger breasts. In other words, the purveyors of this "Trek" dreck were all guys. Undeterred, [J C], a physicist at California's Loma Linda University, figured she'd add perspective to the electronic gathering place with her own momentous questions. Why was the male cast racially diverse while almost all the females were young, white and skinny? Then, she tossed in a few lustful thoughts about the male crew members. After those seemingly innocuous observations, "I was chased off the net by rabid hounds," recalls [J C]. Before she could say "Fire phasers." the Trekkies had flooded her electronic mailbox with nasty messages-a practice called "flaming." [J C] retreated into her own galaxy by starting the all-female Starfleet Ladies Auxiliary and Embroidery/Baking Society. The private electronic forum, based in Houston. now has more than 40 members, including psychologists, physicians, students and secretaries. They started with Trektalk, but often chose to beam down and go where no man had ever wandered before-into the personal mode." Men, Women & Computers/WebCite, from The Daily Beast, posted May 15, 1994, accessed March 10, 2010 
==The Community's Fanworks==
See [https://web.archive.org/web/20040608054534/http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~masterma/sflaebs/biblio.html The Star Fleet Ladies' Auxiliary And Embroidery/Baking Society Bibliography[ (last modified: 14 October 1997) 
See Links to Archive Works.
https://web.archive.org/web/19991011034749/http://www.eecis.udel.edu/%7Emasterma/sflaebs/stories/TheScenario (a Star Trek: TNG]] RPF story that includes members of Starfleet Ladies' Auxiliary and Embroidery and Baking Society
==Members==
Some members were Naomi Novik, Janis Cortese , Kate Orman, Kellie Matthews-Simmons, others: The SFLAaE/BS at a Glance.
See Travel to the home pages of the Star Fleet Ladies' Auxiliary Choose Your Destination.
==Similar Groups==
* The Ladies' Sewing Circle & Terrorist Society (began in 1988 or before)
* Quantum Leap Ladies Club (1991)
* Star Trek Women's Terrorist Task Force (began in 1994)
* Starfleet Ladies' Auxiliary and Embroidery and Baking Society (began in 1994)
* various estrogen brigades
==External Links==
* Men, Women & Computers/WebCite, from The Daily Beast, posted May 15, 1994, accessed March 10, 2010
* Pioneers on the New Frontier/WebCite/Archive.is
==References==
Category:Star Trek Mailing Lists
Category:1990s