ST-Phile

ST-Phile is a Star Trek: TOS fanzine that contains non-fiction essays about the original show. 
It is the second Star Trek fanzine ever published. (Spockanalia is the first.) Copies of ST-Phile are very rare and the last reprints were made in the 1980s from crumbling mimeograph stencils.
For similar zines of this era, see List of Star Trek TOS Zines Published While the Show Was Still On the Air.
 
==Reprints Almost Twenty Years Apart==
The editorials in the 1976 reprints go into great detail about the attitudes toward science fiction, Star Trek, mainstream audiences, and the changes in attitudes over time.
==Issue 1== 
ST-Phile 1 (archived here) was published in January 1968 and contains 49 pages. The art is by Juanita Coulson, Doug Lovenstein, John D. Berry, Margaret Dominick, Devra Langsam, Charles Rein and Bjo Trimble.
The table of contents and editorial from the May 1976 reprint is here.
Note from the third, and last, printing of issue #1 in May 1976: 
* The Original Star Trek Idea as Submitted to NBC by G. Roddenberry (a version of the ST Writers' Guide) includes: "The Captain's Yeoman. Except for problems in naval parlance, J.M. Colt would be called a yeo-woman. With a strip-queen figure even a uniform cannot hide, 'Colt' serves as Captain's secretary, reporter, bookkeeper and with surprising efficiency. She undoubtedly dreams of serving Robert April with equal efficiency in more personal departments." (3)
* Star Trek: 66-'67 Season by Kay Anderson and the Editors (9)
* Star Trek Structure by Ruth Berman (10)
* What Price Knowledge by Bob Vardeman (15)
* Romanticlerihews by Shirley Meech (17)
* A Preliminary Study on Vulcan Cultural Evolution by S.M. Hereford (article) (19)
* Extrapolation by Margaret Dominick (22)
* Star Trek Material Medica by Kay Anderson (23)
* One Ship's Family by Juanita Coulson et al (28)
* What We Did on Our Visit to Desilu by Bjo Trimble and John Trimble (visit to the set: "A trip thru deepest Star Trek territory without camera but with sketchbook and enthusiasm.") (33)
* And One... More... Time by Bjo Trimble (41)
 
File:Stphile1art1.jpg|from issue #1, Juanita Coulson
File:Stphile1art2.jpg|from issue #1, Juanita Coulson
File:Stphile1art3.jpg|from issue #1, Doug Lovenstein
File:Stphile1art4.jpg|from issue #1, Bjo Trimble: "Oh, Harlan. And here's where we file Harlan's letters..." From a fan in 2013: "Illustration from an article entitled “What We Did on Our Visit To Desilu,” by the legendary Bjo Trimble. She was a bigger fan of Star Trek from the beginning than you’ll ever be of anything..." (October 4, 2013) 
File:Stphile1art5.jpg|from issue #1
File:Stphile1art6.jpg|from issue #1 by Charles Rein
File:Stphile1art7.jpg|from issue #1
File:Stphile1art8.jpg|from issue #1 Margaret Dominick
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1==
==Issue 2==
ST-Phile 2 archived here was published in November 1968 and contains 44 pages. There may not be a back cover. Art is by Alicia Austin, Mary Ann Cappa, Juanita Coulson, Margaret Dominick, Carol Lee, Gary Mason, and Rosalind Oberdieck. 
The table of contents and the editorial for the May 1976 reprint is here.
From the editorial in issue #2 (original publication date, November 1968): 
From the publisher in issue #2 (reprint, May 1976): 
* Star Trek: '67-'68 Season by Juanita Coulson (3)
* What I Did On My Lunch Hour by Ruth Berman (visit to the set) (4)
* Liberalism in Outer Space by E.A. Oddstad (political structure of the Federation, how member worlds might be affected) (7)
* The Trouble with Star Trek, a poem by Emily Mullen (11)
* When You Were Five Years Old, a poem by Shirley Meech (12) (reprinted in The Despatch #20)
* The Secret Censors by Gary Mason (an account of how Australian television censored the show) (13)
* Improbability of Vulcan Cyclic Patterns, or Why Put Off Till Next Year What You Could Be Doing Tonight? by Emily Mullen (refuting idea that pon farr occurs only once every seven years) (23)
* We're Getting the Message, Sir, a poem by Shirley Meech (26)
* Where It's At by K. Anderson (also in Inside Star Trek #10, #11) (28)
* The Unity of 'Operation:Annihilate' by Jean Lorrah (answer to Ruth Berman's discussion of the rapidly changing moods in that story in issue 1) (35)
* Subtle Threads Among the Stars by J.K. Colander (41)
File:Stphile2art1.jpg|from issue #2
File:Stphile2art2.jpg|from issue #2, Alicia Austin and Shirley Meech
File:Stphile2art3.jpg|from issue #2, Juanita Coulson
File:Stphile2art4.jpg|from issue #2, Carol Lee
File:Stphile2art5.jpg|from issue #2
File:Stphile2art6.jpg|from issue #2, Margaret Dominick
==References==
Category:Star Trek TOS Non-fiction Zines
Category:1968 Zines