Dorothy and Myfanwy Series

The Dorothy and Myfanwy Series is a set of seven Star Trek: TOS stories by Dorothy Jones and Astrid Anderson. 
The first story was printed in T-Negative #1 in June 1969.
The series was discussed in Star Trek Lives!.
==About==
The "Dorothy and Myfanwy" series of stories by Dorothy Jones (later Heydt) and Astrid Anderson began in T-Negative #1, edited by Ruth Berman, in June 1969. 
These are seriocomic tales about two junior officers, linguist Dorothy Conway and xenobotanist Myfanwy Orloff. Eventually they marry Spock and McCoy, respectively; but these should not be mistaken for Mary Sue stories. The two women are portrayed as highly intelligent and educated but otherwise perfectly normal, without unrealistic traits; they are exceptional people on a starship full of exceptional people. The storylines and canon characters are well in keeping with original series episodes such as "Shore Leave". The stories reinforce the canon from "Where No Man Has Gone Before", that by the time of Star Trek, psi abilities are generally acknowledged in earth societies, and all Starfleet cadets are tested for ESP.
A linguist and science fiction enthusiast, Jones created a Vulcan language, including the expression ni var -- originally describing an art form depicting one subject with two natures, it became a fanon phrase similar to the way IDIC was used, and eventually established as canon when it was used in Star Trek: Enterprise as the name of a Vulcan ship, and in Star Trek: Discovery as the new name for the planet Vulcan itself after the Romulan-Vulcan reunification.Ryan Britt, "With Ni'Var, Discovery Pays Homage to an Original Star Trek Fanzine." startrek.com, December 1, 2020. 
Through the Dorothy and Myfanwy stories, Jones had begun exploring Vulcan culture and the wider universe of the Federation when the first Kraith story by Jacqueline Lichtenberg came out in T-Negative 8 (August 1970). The last Dorothy and Myfanwy story, "The Rainbird", appeared in January 1971.
==Some Art==
File:Tneg2back.jpg|back cover of issue #2, from "Bright Alpha," art by Alicia Austin
Image:tneg2art1.jpg| insert from issue #2, artist is Alicia Austin
[[Image:tneg2art2.jpg| insert for "Tomlinson" from issue #2, artist is Alicia Austin
File:Tneg4art1.jpg| inside art from issue #4, Juanita Coulson, from "The Stainless Steel Rose" 
Image:tneg8art1.jpg|art for 'A Letter', supposedly tri-d photos of Spock and Dorothy's wedding, from issue #8, Anthony Tollin
File:Tneg9art4.jpg|art from issue #9 by Anthony Tollin for "The Rainbird"
==The Stories==
===1969===
* Bright Alpha by Dorothy Jones and Astrid Anderson (The first of the Dorothy-Myfanwy series, featuring xenolinguist Lt. Dorothy Conway and xenobiologist Lt. Myfanwy Orloff. When a landing party returns from an exploration, two of them seem to be transparent. They are actually not there at all. The indigenous life forms on the planet project elaborate illusions based on whatever they see in your mind. Lt. Orloff has a field day thinking up appropriate weapons and technology for Spock to use in his search for the missing crewmen.) (T-Negative #1)
* Tomlinson by Dorothy Jones and Astrid Anderson. (Following the events in "Balance of Terror", something begins to wreak havoc on the ship, most of it amusing if inconvenient. The incidents are determined to have been caused by the ghost of Tomlinson, the man who died in the Romulan attack. Unaware that he's dead, he's been trying to get people's attention. Conway, who like Tomlinson is Roman Catholic, arranges for a Mass to put his soul to rest.) (T-Negative #2)
* The Stainless Steel Rose by Dorothy Jones and Astrid Anderson. (9) (An adventuress and thief named Rose kidnaps Spock.) (T-Negative #4)
===1970===
* Tomorrow Is Yesterday by Dorothy Jones and Astrid Anderson. (In a mission involving time travel, various crew members find themselves attending a Star Trek convention on 20th century Earth. There are many characters at the con including numerous BNF science fiction writers, Bjo Trimble, the evil Harlan Ellison, and others making this story an early RPF.) (T-Negative #6)
* The Vigil (The transporter messes up and Captain Kirk is lost on a planet without his communicator. Spock uses a combination of shuttlecraft landing parties and meticulous sensor scan of the entire world, sector by sector, staying awake and focused until the Captain is found. Anticipating that he will begin to speak Vulcan as he tires, Spock keeps Lt. Conway near him for translation purposes. After about a week of this, the Captain is found. Exhausted from the long vigil, Spock ends up in sickbay, and when Conway visits him he uses Vulcan poetry to propose to her.) (T-Negative #7)
* A Letter, by Dorothy Jones. (Written from Spock's ancestral home by Dorothy Conway to Myfanwy Orloff, talking about their marriage and her Vulcan language studies. Among other things, there is an explanation of Spock's "Xtmprsqzntwlfb" family name that Dorothy Fontana came up with.) (T-Negative #8)
===1971===
*The Rainbird by Dorothy Jones and Astrid Anderson. (With Dorothy still back on Vulcan with Spock, Lt. Myfanwy Orloff goes on shore leave with a small party of crewmates, including Dr. McCoy. Along the way, they confess they are attracted to one another, although McCoy is far older. This also features a Regenswelter, a birdlike humanoid whose people have been at war with the Federation until very recently.) (T-Negative #9)
==Reason for Color==
These stories were the driving force for some early color mimeo in the zine series, T-Negative. In 2017, Ruth Berman wrote: 
==Mary Sues?==
A fan in 1995 wrote: 
In 2017, Berman said: 
==An Attempt to File Off The Serial Numbers==
Dorothy Jones Heydt, who collaborated with Astrid Anderson on the Dorothy-Myfanwy series of short stories subsequently abandoned her narrative. In the mid-1970s, she attempted to rewrite and expand it as a novel with characters changed and renamed. The manuscript was rejected by publishers as being "too much like "Star Trek", and Jones went on to other things. 
==Inspired Fanworks==
* Incident on Tara by Sue Bursztynski (from Spock #46 (1987)
==References==
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