The Ermine Violin (Star Trek: TOS zine)

The Ermine Violin is a gen Star Trek: TOS and Science Fiction anthology. 
The title comes from a part in the Star Trek: TOS episode, "The Trouble with Tribbles." It that episode, Spock notes an ermine violin would be a furry and pleasant-sounding alternative to tribbles. It presumably would have combined the sound qualities of a traditional violin with the soft fur of an ermine, an earth mammal related to a weasel. Spock noted that he could not see an advantage to having such an instrument. 
==Sister Zine==
It is a sister zine to The Jedi Journal.
From an editorial in The Jedi Journal: 
==Issue 1==
The Ermine Violin 1 was published in February 1978 and contains 42 pages. It has a front cover by Colleen Winters.
* A Brief History of the Origin of the Ermine Violin (4)
* An Editorial by Eileen Dougherty (5)
* Things to Come by Eileen Dougherty (5)
* The Ermine Violin by Lena Beatrice Marie and Eileen Dougherty (6)
* The Continuing Saga of the Great Tribble Invasion by Colleen Winters
* Starships: You've Seen One, You've Seen Them All? by Tom Ep (7)
* Science Fiction Game Review Series #1: Ogre by Dan Farrow (9)
* Crossword Puzzle by Gaylen Reiss (10) (reprinted from Finagle's Folly)
* And All I Ask is a Tall Ship and a Star to Steer Her By" by D.A. Lewis (12)
* The Strange Circumstances Surrounding the Case of the Once and Future Manuscript by Lena Beatrice Marie (15)
* Crossword Puzzle Solution by Gaylen Reiss (23)
* Roll Call by Tom Epp (24)
* Fourth Season by Eileen Dougherty (26)
* Meanwhile, Back at the Cantina by Gaylen Reiss (29) (reprinted from Finagle's Folly)
* Roll Call Solution by Tom Epp (31)
* Lines We'd Like to Hear by Michelle Waterloo (32)
* It's Purring! by Michelle Waterloo (33)
* The Phantom In: The Cleaning of Central Park by Colleen Winters (34)
* More Lines We'd Like to Hear by Michelle Waterloo (40)
* Untitled by D.A. Lewis (41)
* Even More Lines We'd Like to Hear by Michelle Waterloo (41)
* Cartoons by Colleen Winters, Eileen Dougherty, D.A. Lewis, Dan Farrow and Tom Epp (back cover)
==Issue 2==
The Ermine Violin 2 was published in July 1978 and contains 60 pages. The art is by Colleen Winters and Michele Waterloo. and the lettering is by Tom Epp.
100 copies were printed. 
From the editorial: 
* Another Continuing Saga by Colleen Winters (3, 17, 18, 21, 29, 31, 57, 58)
* This is an Editorial? by Eileen Dougherty (4)
* Still to Come by Eileen Dougherty (5)
* The Mouse and the Lion by D.A. Lewis (Star Trek) (6)
* I Wish I Had Not Written this Story by Dan Farrow (original) (15)
* Funny Song by Mud Puddles (Star Trek) (18)
* Crossword Puzzle by Tom Epp (19)
* Duath: The Passage of the Story by Therem Estraven (Star Wars) (22)
* Traveller: Science Fiction Game Review Series #2 by Tom Mitchell (30)
* A Public Disservice Message by Colleen Winters (32)
* What's Next by Gaylen Reiss (33)
* Trivia Teasers by Tom Epp (34)
* Graffiti (35)
* Rock Trek by Michelle Waterloo (38)
* Solution to the Crossword Puzzle by Tom Epp (44)
* A Military Review of "Arena" by D.A. Lewis (Star Trek) (45)
* The Adventures of the Super-Horta by Michelle Waterloo (Star Trek) (47)
* Answers to Trivia Teasers by Tom Epp (48)
* The Phantom In: The Cleaning of Central Park, Conclusion? by Colleen Winters (Star Wars) (49)
* You are Receiving this Zine Because (59)
 
Image:ermine2-1.jpg| from issue #2, Colleen Winters
Image:ermine2-2.jpg| from issue #2, Colleen Winters
Image:ermine2-3.jpg| from issue #2 
Image:ermine2-4.jpg| from issue #2, Colleen Winters
==Issue 3==
The Ermine Violin 3 was published in February 1979 (100 copies) and contains 62 pages. The art is by Colleen Winters, Mary Mabrey, Gaylen Reiss.
* A Continuing Cartoon Saga by Colleen Winters (3)
* The Etruscan Leotard, a responsefic by Gaylen Reiss to the tie-in novel The Procrustean Petard (4)
* Trivia Teasers by Tom Epp (13)
* Judas, fiction by Jo Horvath (Battlestar Galactica (1978)) (14)
*Overheard, a pun (22)
* The Classified Ads (pithy parodies) by Jo Horvath, Eileen Dougherty, and Bill Dougherty (23)
* A Continuing Cartoon Saga by Colleen Winters (24)
* R & R, fiction by Jo Horvath (Star Trek) (25)
* Filksong by Jo Horvath (Battlestar Galactica, to the tune of the Monty Python song, "I'm a Lumberjack and I'm O.K.") (30)
* Why There is No Editorial by Eileen Dougherty (30)
* Dragonslayer, fiction by Colleen Winters (31)
* A Continuing Cartoon Saga by Colleen Winters (37)
* Save the Extras! by Jo Horvath (38)
* Trial by Sword by D.A.Lewis (Star Trek) (Kirk and Spock adopt a 14-year old human/alien girl named Heather who in two years can speak multiple languages, has out-skilled McCoy in surgery techniques, and is smarter than almost everyone, and is preparing to go to the Academy when she is kidnapped by aliens. She escapes and all is well.) (39)
* A Continuing Cartoon Saga by Colleen Winters (58)
* Answers to the Trivia by Tom Epp (59)
* A Continuing Cartoon Saga by Colleen Winters (60)
* You Are Receiving This Zine Because (61)
 
Image:ermine3-1.jpg| from issue #3
Image:ermine3-2.jpg| from issue #3
Image:ermine3-3.jpg| from issue #3
Image:ermine3-4.jpg| from issue #3
Image:ermineviolin3boxey.jpg|detail from issue #3, Colleen Winters portrays Apollo and Boxey
==Issue 4/5==
The Ermine Violin 4/5 was Summer 1980 and is 102 pages. 
According to an ad in Universal Translator #4, it is a "Trekzine which also includes some B:G poetry and a Dr. Who story, 'Dr. Who and the Planet of the Crorrdi' by Gaylen Reiss, as well as a humorous article on the genesis of the Doctor (Who) by J. Holly Horsman. Art by Greg Smith, Stefanie Hawks, Colleen Winters, and others. Off-set." 
* And Then There's the Mouse Story
* A Different Kind of Courage
* Who?
* First Turn of the Hourglass
* Dr. Who and the Crorridi (Doctor Who)
* Doctor Who and the Pawns of Darth Vader, response to a fiction challenge (see Dimensionally Transcendental) 
* other unknown content
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