Howard Weinstein

Howard Weinstein contributed to Star Trek: TOS zines before writing multiple professional novels for Star Trek, ST:TNG and V.
Weinstein attended his first Star Trek convention in 1973 and his first as guest of honor was in 1976. "I've been a convention guest since 1976 -- in fact, I'd only been to one prior to that, the very-first-ever Star Trek Convention in New York City in January 1973. - from Weinstein's essay, "My Four Years at Hunt Valley; or, Rabbits I Have Known," printed in the 1984 Shoreleave program book 
==Example Pro Works==
Weinstein wrote the Star Trek: TAS episode, "Pirates of Orion" in 1974 and the Star Trek pro novel, The Covenant of the Crown in 1981.
==Some Bios==
From a 1981 self-description in the 1981 Shore Leave program book: 
==Program Book Bios==
 
Image:howiebio1976.jpg| bio from the 1976 Star Trek Lives! program book
 Image:howiebio1981.jpg| bio from the 1981 Shoreleave program book 
 Image:howiebio1982.jpg|bio from the 1982 Shoreleave program book
 Image:howiebio1983.jpg| bio from the 1983 Shoreleave program book, illo by Regina DeSimone 
Image:howiebio1987.jpg| bio from the 1987 Shoreleave program book
Image:howiebio1990.jpg| bio (with a photo of Annie) from the 1990 Oktobertrek program book
 File:Shoreleave1995programbook-5.jpg| from the 1995 Shore Leave program book 
==Fanworks==
===Fanfiction=== 
* Eel-Bird Banders' Bulletin #2 (Star Trek: TOS zine)
* Fesarius #4 (Star Trek: TOS zine) (1979) 
* Escape from Cancellation, a Battlestar Galactica (1978) story in Guardian #4 (1982)
* "Pirates of Oreo," a parody of "Pirates of Orion," in Eel-Bird Banders' Bulletin #2)
* Double Natural (M*A*S*H zine) (August 1981)
===Fanart===
* Captain's Log (1976)
* Fesarius #6 (Star Trek: TOS zine) (1984)
===Reviews=== 
* Fesarius #5, #6 (1982, 1984)
* The Propagator (letter of comment)
==Conventions==
40 years later after it occurred, Howard Weinstein wrote about attending the 1972 Star Trek Lives!: 
Other essays:
* August Parties I Have Known, or, Why Do These People Keep Calling Me?, an essay in the August Party program book (1985)
* Are the Good Old Days over-or just beginning?, essay in the ClipperCon #5 program book
===Convention Guest of Honor===
Weinstein was frequent a fan guest of honor and convention participant.
In 2008, Nancy Kippax remembered Weinstein as a costume contest judge at an early Star Trek Lives! con: 
====1970s====
* Schuster Con (Washington D.C. 1976) 
* Star Trek Lives! (1976)
* Star Trek America (1977)
* Mini Trek Con (1977)
* Minicon (in Virginia) (1977)
* Astra*Con (may not have occured) (1977)
* Schuster Star Trek Conventions/1977 (September) New York City Schuster Star Trek Convention (1977)
* Star Trek America (1978)
====1980s====
* Augustrek (1980)
* HalCon (1980)
* August Party (1981)
* Shoreleave (1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1987, 1989)
* Summer Media Fest (1982)
* Washington Media Fest (1983)
* ClipperCon (1984, 1985)
* WishCon (1984)
* Creation Con (New York City: January 7-8, 1984)
====1990s====
* Shoreleave (1991, 1994, 1996)
* Fan-Out (1990)
* OktoberTrek (1990, 1991, 1992)
* Farpoint (1994)
====2000s====
* Shoreleave (2000)
==A Tribute by a Friend==
By Bob Greenberger in an essay in the 1984 Shore Leave program book: 
==An Apologist, and Supporter, of Pro Trek Novels==
In 1983, two fans, Lisa Wahl and Julia Ecklar, decided to take action against what they considered to be poor quality Star Trek pro novels. One of these actions was the formation of Association for Readable Trek.
 
Howard Weinstein, who wrote the forward to the pro book by A.C. Crispin, Yesterday's Son, commented: 
A.C. Crispin, author of Yesterday's Son commented: 
==References==
Category:Fanwriters
Weinstein, Howard