The Neutral Zone (Star Trek: TOS zine published in Ohio)

The Neutral Zone is a Star Trek: TOS zine. Each issue explores a different episode and contains about 16 pages.
==Reactions and Reviews==
==Issue 1==
The Neutral Zone 1 was published in February 1976 and contains 12 pages. 
* Sci-Fi: It's [sic] sad state on the tube (1)
* Sales Center #1 -- Items for sale (2) (items sold by Nova Enterprises: conflict simulation games, blueprints and calendars by Ballantine, pro science fiction books, and "a new science fiction board game called "INFINITY")
* Profile: Of First Officer Mr. Spock (3)
* Space:1999 vs. Star Trek (4)
* Review in Perspective: "The Mantrap"
* The Romulans -- What is their real origin? (6)
* Sales Center #2 -- Items for sale (7)
* This months [sic] designs from Star Fleet (8)
* Star Trek Welcommittee notice (9)
* The finishing touch (10)
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==Issue 2==
The Neutral Zone 2 explores and discusses, "The Cage." 
==Issue 3==
The Neutral Zone 3 was published in June 1976 and contains 20 pages. 
* What Are The Klingons, part 2 (1)
* ST sketch: Comic (2)
* ST Sales Center #1 (3)
* ST's 20 best & worst episodes (4)
* Elaboration on the 40 choices (5)
* The Menagerie (6)
* City On The Edge of Forever (7)
* Amok Time (8)
* ST Sales Center #2 (9)
* Where No Man Has Gone Before (10)
* ST Sales Center #3 (11)
* Balance of Terror (12)
* ST Sales Ceter #4 (13)
* A fuzzie thing happened (14)
* ST's yearly review: Season 1 (15)
* Season 2 (16)
* Season 3 (17)
* ST sales Center #5 (18)
* The finishing touch (19)
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==Issue 4==
The Neutral Zone 4 was published in July 1976 and contains 14 pages. Its focus is "Errand of Mercy."
 
* A starships [sic] medical officer (1)
* Things that never got on the blooper reel by S.F. Czapla (2)
* Cover-ups and bloopers (continued) (3)
* Return to the Edge of Forever by Bill Stratton, Jr. (4) (fiction)
* Forbidden Voyage by Bill Stratton, Jr. (6)
* Zine Review: Stardate, see that page (9)
* ST Sales Center #1 (10)
* Episode Review: Errand of Mercy (11)
* Return to the Edge of Forever (continued) (12)
* The finishing touch (13)
 
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==Issue 5==
The Neutral Zone 5 was published in July 1976 (a week later than the previous issue) and contains 14 pages. Its focus is "Assignment: Earth."
The editor writes: "P.S. Please forgive us for the appearance of some of our zine, we are experimenting with several formats. Thank you."
* A starships [sic] communications officer: Lt. Uhura (1)
* part two of "Return to the Edge of Forever," fiction by Bill Stratton Jr. (2)
* full-page ad for Starlog (the table of contents calls it a review/preview) (3)
* Forbidden Voyage, final part (fiction) by Bill Stratton Jr. (4)
* Star Trek vs Lost in Space by Bill Stratton Jr, a serious attempt to do a serious review (10)
* Review in Perspective: Assignment: Earth, Gary Seven and the nuclear missile crisis (10)
* a review by S.F. Czapla of ...A Handful of Snowflakes and Other Trek Tales, see that page (11)
* a review by S.F. Czapla of Star Trek Primer: A Child's Garden of Space, see that page (12)
* The finishing touch (13)
Image:neutralzone5-1.jpg|cover of issue #5
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==References==
Category:1976 Zines
Category:Star Trek TOS Non-fiction Zines