Fantasia (Star Trek: TOS zine)

Fantasia is a gen Star Trek: TOS anthology fanzine published by Blatant and Latent Press.
This zine was originally going to be called "Strange New Worlds." From the submission request in The Halkan Council (August 1976): "Strange New Worlds is planned, out by 9/76 or 10/76; fiction, poetry, artwork, jokes, limericks. Contributions of all of the above welcome."
==Issue 1==
Fantasia 1 was published in January 1977 and contains 57 pages. The art is by Marty Siegrist (front cover), Dennis Drew (back cover), Cheryl Frasure, Joe Fleming, Gerry Downes, Amy Falkowitz, and Ron Chang.
===Issue 1: From the Editorial===
From the editorial for issue #1: 
Also from the editorial: 
Also from the editorial: 
===Issue 1: "Gerry's Theme"===
"Editor's note: Kathy came up with this little gem after reading Gerry Downes' ALTERNATIVE. Part of Gerry's response was the accompanying illo. Thanks a heap, you two!"
"Gerry's Theme" is a limerick by Kathy Langley. It is a "G-rated" riff on Alternative: Epilog to Orion. Gerry Downes, author of "Alternative: Epilog to Orion," illoed the limerick.
: "There was a ship's captain named Kirk"
: "Who developed a very strange quirk."
:"'Til once with with a leer,"
: "He pinched Spock on the rear"
: "And up did the Vulcan's brows perk?" 
===Issue 1: Contents===
* Editorial (by "Jeanie K," includes some recs for zine series, info on the WSA program, a reprint of Mandi Schultz' letter about the WSA) (2)
* IT by Karen Fleming (6)
* Limerick: Gerry's Theme by Katherine Langley (A G-rated limerick inspired by Alternative: Epilog to Orion, illoed by Gerry Downes herself.) (10) 
* Haiku by Frankie Jemison (11)
* Fountain of Sorrow by Mandi Schultz (a Zarabeth story) (12)
* general announcements and warning by Mandi Schultz (26)
*Fleurs du Mal by Cheryl Rice (28)
*Is This What Thee Truly Wishes by Amy Falkowitz (pt. 3 of "Rift-Crossing" series in Rigel) (38)
* poem by Frankie Jemison (57)
*Shore Leave by Frankie Jemison (57)
* Three Romulan Ships by Lizette Hill (58)
*Before the Kahs-wan by Frankie Jemison - poem (58)
File:Fantasia1art1.jpg| from issue #1, Amy Falkowitz
File:Fantasia1art2.jpg| from issue #1, Marty Siegrist
File:Fantasia1art4.jpg| from issue #1, Joe Fleming
=== Issue 1: Reactions and Reviews===
==Issue 2==
Fantasia 2 was published in February 1978 and contains 34 pages. Cover: Joni Wagner; back cover: Dennis Drew. Art by Bill Bow, Leslie Fish, Gayle F, Signe Landon, Joni Wagner, Amy Falkowitz and Gordon Carleton. 
The editors wanted to get it out in time for SeKWester*Con. 
From the editorial: 
* Editor's Page (1)
* By the Waters of Babylon by Ingrid Cross. (3)
* Society for Creative Anachronism by David Lubkin (article) (4)
* A Price Too High, poem by Ingrid Cross (5)
* Yesteryear, Today & Tomorrow by Leslie Fish. (reprinted in Enterprise Incidents #10, continued in "Winterlight" in Matter/Antimatter #2.) (6)
* We Do Our Best by Ginna LaCroix. (also in Trek Encore #1) (17)
* How Kirk and Spock Went Out, poem by Frankie Jemison (16)
* Omicron, poem by Frankie Jemison (19)
* Cavalier by Denny Arnold & Amy Trembley (20)
* So Seldom Wakes, poem by David Lubkin (23)
* Insert... and Rotate by Denny Arnold. Short (25)
* Parting by Denny Arnold. (27)
* Steve's Little Toy by Richard Arnold. Original Fiction (p. 28)
* The City by Jean Stevenson. (29)
* Lament for an Unsung Love, poem by Rusty Hancock (34)
* Leningrad, poem by David Lubkin (34)
File:Fantasia2art1.jpg|interior art from issue #2, Gordon Carleton for "Insert... and Rotate"
File:Fantasia2art2.jpg|interior art from issue #2, Signe Landon for "How Kirk and Spock Went Out"
File:Fantasia2art3.jpg|interior art from issue #2, Leslie Fish for "Yesteryear, Today & Tomorrow"
File:Fantasia2art4.jpg|interior art from issue #2, Gayle F for "Omicron"
=== Issue 2: Reactions and Reviews===
==The Possible Third Issue==
An ad for a third issue of this zine was in the "On the Printer's Doorstep" in Datazine #15, but it is unclear if this zine ever got off the ground.
The ad: "... a Rocky Horror/Fantasy issue. fiction and flights of fancy by Paula Smith, David Lubkin, and Geoffrey Renet. Art work by Anne Ward, Gordon Carleton, and Jean Kluge... Estimated release date October 1981."
==References==
Category:Star Trek TOS Gen and Het Anthology Zines
Category:1977 Zines
Category:1978 Zines