Star Trek: The New Voyages

You may be looking for the fanfilm series, Star Trek: Phase II, previously known as "Star Trek: New Voyages".
Star Trek: The New Voyages was a two-volume series of Star Trek fan fiction anthologies edited by Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath, and published commercially by Bantam Books.
The two books were a project born of the pro book Star Trek Lives!. Jacqueline Lichtenberg wrote: 
The books were very popular for many reasons, three being the public, mainstream recognition of fan fiction, the reputation of the names Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath, and because the books were published after Star Trek had gone off the air, the latter which meant many fans were starved for new material.
The first volume was much more popular than the second one. This was due to the first volume's reliance on actual fanfic, the story introductions by actors from the show, and possibly because some of the fan writers chaffed at their fiction being edited without their permission. 
For many fans, this pro book series was their first introduction to fanfic. 
See List of Star Trek TOS Pro Books with Fan Connections.
==Groundbreaking==
The series is noteworthy on several grounds. Not only did the fanfic appearing therein receive professional publication, but many of the stories in the first volume were accompanied by introductions written by members of the original Star Trek cast, and Nichelle Nichols, originator of the role of Uhura, contributed a story to the second volume. 
In 1991, a fan wrote: 
The first volume's content: seven of the nine stories/poems had originally appeared in fanzines.
The second volume's content: four of the ten stories/poems were originally from zines. 
==Born of "Star Trek Lives!"==
From a 2012 interview with Jacqueline Lichtenberg:
==Creation & Editing Process: Marshak & Culbreath's Account==
According to Marshak and Culbreath in Star Trek: Voyages of Imagination, Bantam editor Fred Pohl had initially turned down the proposal for Star Trek Lives!, then later accepted it, realizing that the Star Trek phenomenon was by no means dead. While it was in production, Marshak and Culbreath proposed that "with the right editing, the best of the fan fiction could be made professionally publishable.... New Voyages was to become the true mass-marketing breakthrough. It has been widely creditedBy Marshak and Culbreath themselves, no doubt. with helping fuel the growing fan phenomenon that led to increasingly massive Star Trek conventions and eventually to the revival of Star Trek in movies, then in ongoing new formats." Marshak and Culbreath refer to this period as "the birth of new Star Trek fiction."Jeff Ayers, Voyages of Imagination: The Star Trek Fiction Companion. Pocket Books, 2006.
Many fans saw it as a sign that Star Trek fandom and fan fiction were being taken seriously by the mainstream culture and by Paramount as well as the Star Trek producers. Thanks to their friendship with Joan Winston, Marshak and Culbreath had long portrayed themselves as having a special "in" with the likes of Roddenberry, Shatner and Nimoy, as seen in Star Trek Lives! and other publications.
==Not All Fans Were Happy With This Colonization==
In April 1976, A Piece of the Action 37 included a discussion by fans revealing that not all were happy with these books, citing unauthorized alterations to the fiction and neglect in mentioning their original sources. It appears that the heavy editing and rewriting -- in some places, completely rewritten from the originals -- took place without the authors' knowledge, control or permission. The authors did not receive copies of their contracts before the book went to press. None of the material was ever returned to the authors, and the stories were presented as "never before published", which was untrue: every one of them had appeared in a copyrighted fanzine, and no fanzine was mentioned or credited.More in A Piece of the Action 37, April 1976.
Also in 1976, a fan speculated: 
A fan in 1983 wrote: 
In 2009, a fan wrote: 
==Comments from Some of the Authors==
* In 1984, Shirley Maiewski wrote: 
*In 1984, Ruth Berman wrote: 
*In 1985, Shirley Maiewski commented on this story and explained why she didn't write anything after it: 
*In a letter to Interstat #113 in March 1987, Claire Gabriel referred to the version of "Ni Var" in the pro book as "heavily edited." (The original story is online at sime-gen.org.)
*In 1991, Shirley used her story as a warning to other fanwriters: 
==Some Fans Felt Excluded from the Process==
In an article in Trek magazine in 1979, amateur author Mary Jo Lawrence described her experiences as a "late bloomer" Trek fan who wanted to contribute to the culture of Trek fandom. She wrote numerous letters to Marshak and Culbreath after the publication of the two New Voyages books, wherein they had issued what appeared to be an open invitation to amateur authors to submit material for further volumes. Taking this literally, Lawrence did send a short story. Marshak and Culbreath never replied to her letters or acknowledged the story. Lawrence then read Joan Winston's The Making of the Trek Conventions, which gave her the impression that "Miss Winston and her cronies were on the 'inside Trek' and she obviously wanted us to know it": 
==Why Were There Only Two Volumes?==
It seems that there were definite plans for at least two more volumes of of New Voyages:
From 1978: 
A very similar request for contributions was also published in Warped Space #35/36 (March 1978). In that blurb, these additions were included: 
Fans have long speculated on why Marshak and Culbreath didn't complete these two additional volumes. The most likely explanation is that the second volume didn't sell as well and Pohl didn't feel a third one was worth considering. It is possible that Shirley Maiewski's very vocal and widely publicized opposition to the series really did influence fan writers to refuse to submit anything further, or they heard about the editing of the stories in the first two books in another way. Given the nature of fan communicationSee Leonard Nimoy's account of "Mary from Chicago and Sally from Denver", which appears in The World of Star Trek and which he's repeated numerous times in interviews., even people who had not yet read the first book or weren't familiar with the original stories would have known about what happened within weeks of publication. Or they had had a similar experience to Mary Jo Lawrence's and felt that their submissions wouldn't be considered if they weren't in the clique. 
David Gerrold in a 2013 Facebook post relates an anecdote which references Marshak and Culbreath and may pertain to a proposed third volume:
Some fans blamed Bantam, and not Marshak and Culbreath, for the editorial hatchet job. In a 2009 discussion on the old Star Trek: Phase II forum, a fan using the handle Andriech had this assessment:
The Star Trek: Phase II episode "Mind-Sifter" can be seen on YouTube. There are several editions with modern and 60s-era style visual effects, and with commentary and production interviews.
==Slash in New Voyages==
Writing in 2009, fan reviewer delmarsdoll found the initial story, "Surprise!" to be filled with slash subtext. Written by Nichelle Nichols with Marshak and Culbreath, the story is a screwball comedy about the Enterprise crew conspiring to a surprise birthday party for Captain Kirk, dropping understandable hints that if anyone is intimate with Spock, it is Uhura. According to Marshak and Culbreath, Nichols based the story on something that really happened in her family, and that the ending was "absolutely authentic". 
Responding to this, KLangley56 says: 
== Volume 1 ==
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Star Trek: The New Voyages appeared in March 1976, with the following table of contents. All but one of the stories and poems had been selected by the editors from a variety of fannish sources.
Regarding "Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited" -- from the editorial in Masiform D #5: "I'm very happy to say that my copyright dispute with said Bantam Books has been settled. They had neglected to include my copyright statement when they published a story drawn from SPOCKANALIA #5 in The New Voyages, people told me that I should ask for money, too, but I hate fights (9 parts chicken, that's me)."
===Volume 1: Gene Roddenberry's Introduction===
===Volume 1: Contents===
* Foreword (Gene Roddenberry)
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction (Marshak & Culbreath)
* Ni Var (story by Claire Gabriel; introduction by Leonard Nimoy) (earlier version published in Quartet) from T-Negative #10)
* Intersection Point by Juanita Coulson (originally printed in T-Negative #10)
* The Enchanted Pool (story by Marcia Ericson; introduction by Nichelle Nichols)
* Visit to a Weird Planet Revisited (story by Ruth Berman, introduction by Majel Barrett Roddenberry) (Originally appeared in Spockanalia 5, it is very early RPF and a sequel to Visit to a Weird Planet in Spockanalia #3) -- online here 
* The Face on the Barroom Floor (story by Eleanor Arnason & Ruth Berman, introduction by George Takei) (previously published in T-Negative 1#8)
* The Hunting (story by Doris Beetem, introduction by Marshak & Culbreath)
* The Winged Dreamers (story by Jennifer Guttridge, introduction by DeForest Kelley) (also in Tricorder Readings)
* Mind-Sifter (story by Shirley Maiewski, introduction by William Shatner) (revised from a story in Showcase #2)
* Sonnet from the Vulcan: Omicron Ceti Three (poem by Shirley Meech) (also in T-Negative #15 and Star Trek: The Poems)
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== Volume 2 ==
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Star Trek: The New Voyages 2 appeared in January 1978, with the following table of contents. In this volume, all story introductions and editorial matter were written by Marshak and Culbreath unless otherwise noted.
This volume differs greatly from the first one in that instead of the majority of its content coming from prior fan publications, only three (according to the authors' preface) of the ten stories were from zines. 
 
 
===Volume 2: Contents===
* Editors' Preface: The Once and Future Voyages 2 -- The Camelot Connection (xi)
* Introduction by Jesco von Puttkamer (xxiii)
* Editors' Introduction (1)
* Surprise! by Nichelle Nichols (2)
* Editors' Introduction (32)
* Snake Pit! by Connie Faddis (first published in the zines Universal Transmitter #1 (1975) and Rigel #3 (1977)) (33)
* Editors' Introduction and Bio-Introductory Notes (56)
* The Patient Parasites, a story in Script Format by Russell Bates; includes bio-introductory notes by Bates ("a Kiowa Amerindian") which includes: "[The first draft for the animated series] of "The Patient Parasites" attempted to do several things. 1, write ST in half-hour theme and still be faithful to the show's original quality; 2, introduce an Amerindian character aboard the Enterprise (Dawson Walking Bear first appeared in this script; Dorothy Fontana sadly said that he was not very different from any other crewman; he was lifted out and later became pivotal to "Serpent's Tooth," which was an Amerindian myth-based story; thus it is that I have substituted Sulu for Walking Bear in this book); and, 3, finally write for ST as I set out to do back in the sixties.") (58)
* Editors' Introduction (96)
* In the Maze by Jennifer Guttridge (first published 1974 in the zine T-Negative Issue #23) (97)
* Editors' Introduction (124) 
* Cave-In by Jane Peyton (first published 1970 in Spockanalia #5) (124)
* Editors' Introduction (130)
* Marginal Existence by Connie Faddis (first published 1971 in the zine T-Negative Issue #11) (131)
* Editors' Introduction (150)
* The Procrustean Petard by Sondra Marshak & Myrna Culbreath (151)
* Editors' Introduction (195)
* The Sleeping God by Jesco von Puttkamer (198)
* Editors' Introduction (246)
* Elegy for Charlie, poem by Antonia Vallario (247)
* Editors' Introduction (248)
* Soliloquy, sonnet by Marguerite B. Thompson (249)
* Epilogue by Nichelle Nichols (250)
* Acknowledgments (252)
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