Contact (Star Trek: TOS zine)

Contact is a gen (though often fairly nominally) Star Trek: TOS anthology published by Nancy Kippax and Bev Volker and known for a large amount of hurt/comfort stories, especially in the earlier issues.
Issue 4 contains the infamous story The Rack which presents a worst-case scenario for Kirk and Spock.
A sister zine is Contact Christmas.
==Much Content is Now Online==
* Issue #1
* Issue #2
* Issue #3
* Issue #4
* Issue #5-6
==About==
The artwork was much beloved by readers, prompting one fan to write to her friend, decades later: 
==An Editor's View: The K/S Relationship==
In June 1976, one of the editors of the zine was bothered by what she felt to be some fans' inability to see the K/S in her zines the way in which she implied: 
 
==An Editor's View: Hurt/Comfort==
From A 2007 Interview with Nancy Kippax: 
==Awards==
The editors of Contact won the TrekStar Award for 'Best Editor' in 1982.
In 1982, Nancy and Contact also were nominated for a FanQ award and she submitted the following zine description to The Annual Fan Q Awards Nominations Booklet: 
==The First Flyer==
To view the first flyer, handwritten by Bev, see: The Original Flier.
==The Zine's Goal==
==The Ann Crispin Connection==
From Steven H. Wilson, from an essay about A.C. Crispin, a Star Trek tie-in author, who had recently passed away: 
==Works Inspired By==
In the 1980s, an filk group featured the fanzine in their series of Zine Melodies:
: CONTACT
: (sung to the tune of "People Will Say We're In Love")
: Don't bind my wounds for me,
: Don't clutch me close to you,
: Don't call me tenderly...
: People will say we're in love.
==More About Contact==
* Nancy Kippax/Reminisce With Me/Making Contact
* Nancy Kippax/Reminisce With Me/Producing a Fanzine in the Before-Time
* Introducing: ContactZine.com, Bev Volker's son-in-law tells of his exposure to "Contact" and of his plans to scan these zines and post them, posted October 10, 2012
* The Contact eArchive -- A Work in Progress, content scans
* Cover Gallery
* The Road to K/S: The Hurt/Comfort Zine Contact
==Related Zines==
* The Complete Rack is a companion zine. 
* Contact Christmas, with two issues, is a sister zine.
* In 1976, the editors published a standalone novel called "Contact Presents The Mirage"
* There is at least one collected issue, called "Contact Collected": see below on this page
==Issue 1==
Contact 1 was published in December 1975 and contains 68 pages.
Some content is online here.
In 2007, Nancy Kippax wrote about this first issue: 
* Editor's Page (3)
* Not of That Feather by Nancy Kippax (How far will Spock go to save the life of his injured Captain?) (4)
* The Better Way, poem by Beverly Volker (18)
* In a Pig's Eye by Beverly Volker (19) (an unsent letter from the Chief Medical Officer to First Officer of the Enterprise)
* The Silent Connection by Nancy Kippax (Who is sabotaging the Enterprise, and why? Spock suspects Jim Kirk) (21)
* Writer's Contest Announcement (33)
* Amok Time, poem by Beverly Volker (34)
* Understanding, poem by Beverly Volker (34)
* Eulogy by Nancy Kippax (the editor says it is "haunting, chilling... you may hate it, but you'll never forget it." Author's Note: "Don't panic! 'Eulogy' was written as an experiment in the genre known to all fans as the "What If ..." story. We all saw, in "The Tholian Web." Spock's reaction to Kirk's death, and I began wondering about the reverse. Hence, 'Eulogy.' However, this by no means indicates that the author wishes Spock dead any more than the Creators wished Kirk dead in 'The Tholian Web'! I have no desire to abort the relationship!") (35)
* Star Trek Song Sheet by Beverly Volker (38)
* Crossword Puzzle (39)
* Word Find by Kevin O'Brien (40)
* The Truth, poem by Beverly Volker (41)
* De Profundis by Connie Faddis (Editor's Note: "We were just about to complete this zine, when we received the following story. As we read it with a mixture of 'pain and delight,' we wondered what to do with it. We had planned to use it in our next issue as we felt it might be a bit much in the same copy as 'Eulogy' and we didn't want to present 'Contact' as morbid. And yet, we found it to be such a poignant and powerful vignette, so typical of our theme, that we felt compelled to share it with our readers. Thus we made our decision to include it at this time. Many thanks to Connie and to Carol Frisbie for thinking of us.") (42)
* Commend Decision, poem by Beverly Volker (47)
* Phase II: Part One: The Invitation - novella by Beverly Volker (deals with the future of the future of the Enterprise crew) (48)
* Trivia Test (66)
* Answer Page (68)
File:contact1art1.jpg|art from issue #1, uncredited
File:contact1art2.jpg|art from issue #1, uncredited
File:contact1art3.jpg|art from issue #1, uncredited
File:contact1art4.jpg|art from issue #1, uncredited
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1==
==Issue 2==
Contact 2 was published in May 1976, 119 pages. It contains 5 illustrations by Leslie Fish, Trinette Kern, Nancy Kippax, Signe Landon, Deborah Lichtel, Barbara Miner (back cover), Russ Volker (front cover).
Some content is online here.
* Editor's Page (4)
* The Third Wheel by Connie Faddis (6) (A classic McCoy story. The doctor suffers the grief and loneliness of being the third wheel in the relationship with Kirk and Spock until a near fatal accident shows him the depth of their caring.) (reprinted in Interphase #4 and Computer Playback #2)
* The Two Sides of One, poem by Gerry Downes (13)
* The Quest, poem by Beverly Volker (14)
* Ode to a Friend, poem by Joanne Bennett (14)
* An Act of Love by Nancy Kippax (16)
* Vision from Orion, poem by Beverly Volker (36)
* Without the Gardener's Craft by Kathleen Penland [a responsefic to Connie Faddis's story, "Gardener's Craft" from Energize!) (37)
* McCoy's Song, song by Beverly Volker (42)
* Ballad, song by Signe Landon (43)
* Denevan Orbit by Johanna Cantor (44)
* You Do Not Belong, poem by Pete Kaup (58)
* Contest Winners (there were 19 entries, 2 winners) 
** Death is Only a Parting by Amy Falkowitz (60)
** The Logic of Change by Jean Lorrah (62) (reprinted in Parted from Me and Other Stories)
* The Logical Choice by Beverly Volker (65)
* Kert Rats: A Star Trek Fable by Nancy Kippax (72)
* The Answer, poem by Beverly Volker (77)
* Nightmare Ending (the first part is by Catherine McCommon, the ending by Diane Steiner)
* Phase II, part 2: Tarra by Beverly Volker and Nancy Kippax (84)
* ads (117)
* Trivia Answers (118)
 
File:contact2art1.jpg|art from issue #2, Deborah Lichtel
File:contact2art2.jpg|art from issue #2, Leslie Fish -- "Some of the other illustrations, by Leslie Fish, have a really weird, distinctive woodcut-ish style that's pretty cool." from Classic Zines: Contact #2 (Star Trek: TOS), intrigueing, December 20, 2014
File:contact2art3.jpg|art from issue #2, Nancy Kippax
File:contact2art4.jpg|art from issue #2, Russ Volker
File:contact2art7.jpg|art from issue #2, Signe Landon
File:contact2art5.jpg|art from issue #2, Russ Volker
File:contact2art6.jpg|art from issue #2, Trinette Kern -- "The most gorgeous piece of art in the zine is a inkbrush portrait of McCoy by Trinette Kern. It's really, really just beautiful, wonderfully done with nothing clunky or uncertain about it, and catches that distinctive way his eyebrows go just perfectly." from Classic Zines: Contact #2 (Star Trek: TOS), intrigueing, December 20, 2014
File:contact2art8.jpg|music from issue #2, Beverly Volker
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2==
==Issue 3==
 
Contact 3 was published in March 1977 and contains 157 pages and a cover by Pat Stall. Art by Kathy Carlson, Gerry Downes, Mary Anne Emerson, Connie Faddis, Leslie Fish, Bruce Harris, Alice Jones, Virginia Jacobson, Judd, Signe Landon, Robert Lovett, Barbara Minor, Jeanne Powers, Carol Shuttleworth, Pat Stall, Russ Volker, Joni Wagner.
From the edtiorial: "This issue explores how the Enterprise affects the relationship between Kirk and Spock."
"Contact 3" is online here.
From page 3: 
Consider the infinite joy
Of seeing vast horizons
New worlds, uncharted.
To reach with mutual understanding
Alien races from far-flung
Corners of the universe--
Touch with love.
* Then to Piece the Broken Chain by Nancy Kippax & Beverly Volker. Illustrations by Alice Jones (1)
* Flower in the Desert, a poem by April Valentine (23)
* Abyss by Jeanne Powers (24) (Get'em. Kirk and Spock are dying; Kirk is yanked back, leaving McCoy to have to tell him about Spock.)
* The First Step by Susan Dorsey (McCoy detects trouble between Kirk and Spock; as it turns out, Spock has determined to resign (condemning himself to death in his next pon farr) because of a not-yet-complete bond forming between himself and Kirk, rather than put him through what he perceives as degradation. Kirk convinces him otherwise.) (27)
* Corundum, poem by Jane Aumerle (39)
* Nothing Gold Can Stay by April Valentine (40)
* To Jim, poem by Trinette Kern (54)
* Feu D’Amitie by Nancy Kippax (56) (On an early mission, Kirk and Spock cement their friendship as they are pinned down on a deathly hot planet, waiting for Enterprise to recover them.)
* Beginnings, poem by Beverly Volker (61)
* When the Time Comes by Beverly Volker (62)
* Not Yet Time by Beverly Volker. (Companion piece to the previous story. Both stories offer a view of how Spock might react to Kirk's impending death, and how he would face the reality that there is no hope. McCoy is onto a lead towards a cure for Kirk, but they don’t tell him, afraid of building false hope. Kirk attempts suicide so that Spock won’t have to kill him - then Spock awakes, realizes what is going on, and rushes to tell Kirk about the potential therapy. Kirk puts his knife away.) (This story has a sequel by another author in Mahko Root #1.) (69)
* Writing Contest (Issue #2) Results:
** The Test by Sheila Clark (77)
** The Stars Go Down by Cheryl Rice (From the Zinedex: "(Writing Contest) Kirk and Spock declare their lo... er, friendship as they wait to die, having sabotaged an alien spaceship to prevent a fleet from invading our universe.") (80)
** Untitled by Pat Stall
* New Contest announced (83)
* The Meld, poem by Beverly Volker (84)
* Born of the Sun by Johanna Cantor (85)
* The Enterprise, poem by April Valentine (96)
* Tone of Reflection, poem by Pete Kaup (97)
* On Companionship, poem by Trinette Kern (97)
* The Spider’s Web by Susan K. James (98) (Kirk and Spock are experimental subjects to advanced aliens in, respectively, sensory and logic deprivation; to the experimenters’ surprise, they manage to assist one another to recovery.)
* The Enterprise Song, with music by Bev Volker & Kathy Burns (106) (filk)
* Difference is a Virtue by Marion Dougall [reprinted from Log Entries (UK) #?] (108) (Kirk's mind has been injured by a psychic weapon. McCoy with his emotion, affection, and humor joins with Spock to heal their Captain.)
* Phase II, Chapter 3: The Reunion by Beverly Volker & Nancy Kippax (117)
* You’re My Home, Enterprise (Country Roads) by April Valentine (filk)
This zine has extensive art. This is a sample.
File:contact3art1.jpg| from issue #3, Virginia Jacobson
File:contact3art2.jpg| from issue #3, Alice Jones
File:contact3art3.jpg| from issue #3, Russ Volker
File:contact3art4.jpg| from issue #3, Pat Stall
File:contact3art5.jpg| from issue #3, Gerry Downes
File:contact3art6.jpg| from issue #3, Judd
File:contact3art7.jpg| from issue #3, Mary Anne Jacobson
File:contact3art8.jpg| from issue #3, Carol Shuttleworth
File:contact3art9.jpg| from issue #3, Bob Lovett
File:contact3art10.jpg| from issue #3, Joni Wagner
File:contact3art11.jpg| from issue #3, Connie Faddis
File:contact3art12.jpg| from issue #3, Signe Landon
File:contact3art14.jpg| from issue #3, Leslie Fish
File:contact3art13.jpg| from issue #3, Pat Stall: adolescent daughter of Spock and T'Pania (from "Phase II")
File:contact3art15.jpg| from issue #3, Alice Jones: Captain Stack, the son of Spock and Tarra St. John (from "Phase II")
File:contact3art17.jpg| from issue #3, Alice Jones
File:contact3art19.jpg| from issue #3, Alice Jones
File:contact3art20.jpg| from issue #3, Pat Stall
File:contact3art21.jpg| from issue #3, Pat Stall
File:contact3art22.jpg| from issue #3, Pat Stall
File:contact3art23.jpg| from issue #3, Pat Stall
File:contact3art24.jpg| from issue #3, Pat Stall
 
File:contact3art18.jpg| from issue #3, Pat Stall: "The Fat Old Fool Illo" (from "Phase II") -- "For Contact III, we asked our highly skilled resident artist, Pat Stall, to illo the third installment, "The Reunion", even though we knew she hated the series. She hated it because we had taken her "darling boys" and aged them fifteen years. To get back at us for this unpardonable sin, she drew an illustration of Kirk and Spock as she figured they would look 15 years hence. Spock didn't change much, given his Vulcan heritage. But Kirk – well, in her own words, he was a "fat old fool", and the illo became known as "the fat old fool illo". Actually, viewing it today, he doesn't look that bad, double chin, pot belly and all! We printed it, with much protestation on our part, and threats by Pat to pull all her illos if we yanked it. But when we reprinted that issue, the illo had mysteriously gone missing!" -- Nancy Kippax's comments at Reminisce With Me/The Late '70s 
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 3==
 
This same review is expanded upon here:
==Issue 4==
Contact 4 was published in September 1977 and contains 174 pages. 
Cover: Russ Volker; back cover: Andrew Williams. Other art in this issue is by Alice Jones, Pat Stall, Signe Landon, Leslie Fish, Merle Decker and others.
From the editorial: 
* Back Where He Belongs, poem by Crystal Ann Taylor (1)
* The Only Other Thing by Ginna LaCroix (Kirk must kill an old friend from Tarsus IV who has become a rebel.) (2)
* The Challenge, poem by Nancy Kippax (18)
* Born of Ashes by April Valentine (19)
* Moving, poem by Pete Kaup (73)
* Interlude, poem by Bev Volker (74)
* The Writing Contest Winners:
** Situation Help by Karen Moody (77)
** The Sadists by Sheila Clark (79)
** The End Result by Shirley S. Maiewski (80)
* New Contest Announced (82)
* The Changeling, poem by April Valentine (83)
* Sun God and Shadow, poem by Amy Falkowitz (84)
* The Hunger in the Mountain by Jennifer Weston. Illos by Leslie Fish (Kirk and Spock are stranded on a supposedly uninhabited planet and Spock is attacked by a large, swift, slime-moldy telepathic creature seeking to absorb him. Kirk joins in the mental battle to rescue him.) (86)
* The Nature of Love, poem by April Valentine (103)
* R'Vamo, poem by Susan K. James (105)
* The Real Thing by Sharon Schildknecht & April Valentine (106)
* Revelations, poem by Bev Volker (111)
* Sensory Perception, poem by Carolyn Venino (113)
* The Rack by J. Emily Vance. [Sequel:"All the King’s Horses, All the King’s Men" in Farthest Star #2.] Illustrations by Alice Jones (114)
File:contact4art1.jpg| from issue #4, Alice Jones
File:contact4art2.jpg| from issue #4, Leslie Fish
File:contact4art3.jpg| from issue #4, Signe Landon
File:contact4art4.jpg| from issue #4, Judd
File:contact4art5.jpg| from issue #4, Kathy Carlson
File:contact4art6.jpg| from issue #4, Pat Stall
File:contact4art7.jpg| from issue #4, Merle Decker. In 2012, one reviewer noted: "Look at the detailed background...such an artistic piece....love it..."Denise Dion's May 25, 2012 post to the K/S Zine Friends Facebook Group, quoted with permission.
File:contact4art9.jpg| from issue #4, Pat Stall
File:contact4art10.jpg| from issue #4, Pat Stall
File:contact4art11.jpg| from issue #4, Pat Stall
File:contact4art12.jpg| from issue #4, Pat Stall
File:contact4art13.jpg| from issue #4, Pat Stall
File:contact4art14.jpg| from issue #4, Pat Stall
File:Contact4art8.jpg| from issue #4, Andrew Williams 
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 4==
 
 
==Issue 5/6==
Contact 5/6 was published in September 1979 and contains 206 pages (144 of which is Home is the Hunter). This issue required an age statement, stating "No, there is no K/S sex in Contact, but there is some explicit violence and graphic descriptions."
It contains a foldout front cover by Pat Stall. Cartoons by Linda White. Interior art by S. Gingras, Liz Wright, Evallou Richardson, Bev Volker, Gayle F, Alice Jones, Kathy Carlson, Laurie Huff, Leslie Fish, L. Frim, Russ Volker, Nan Lewis, Mike Verina, Pat Stall.
Originally included in this volume was the novella "Home Is The Hunter" which soon became available separately as Contact #6. Contact #5 was then republished with 144 pages (minus 'Home Is The Hunter').
This issue also contains the song, "Future Lost/Home Again," later republished in Starsong.
File:Contact5outercover.jpg| the cover issue #5/6 as it appears when the zine is closed: "Perhaps their most striking, memorable cover to date graced this double issue of Contact, numbered 5/6. Like the more expensive paperbacks of the time, this issue had a double cover. The first layer depicts Kirk in blue monochrome in his classic uniform, sitting amidst rubble, while a golden-haloed visage Spock looks down on him. They are together, but isolated. The Spock image is, in fact, from the next layer, revealed by a circular die-cut in the upper cover." , comments by Steven H. Wilson, he of the "House of Contact," November 17, 2015 
File:contact5-6outercover.jpg| the outer cover of issue #5/6
File:Contact5innercover.jpg| inner cover issue #5/6: "Turning that first leaf over reveals... Kirk and Spock are reunited in a burst of gold (blue and gold were, of course, Contact’s official colors, based on the shirt worn by Kirk and Spock in the original series.) They’re in their new, Motion Picture uniforms, albeit in a pose they never assumed in that film or any other. It’s an ambitious cover design for an ambitious issue..." , comments by Steven H. Wilson, he of the "House of Contact," November 17, 2015 
File:contactfive6.jpg|another version of the outer cover of issue #5/6, this one has an inner cover that is blue; this is most likely an unauthorized photocopy
File:Contact56backcover.jpg| back cover issue #5/6, Michael Verina, sold as original art in Star Trek Portfolio Illustrations
* And of the Stars, poem by Bev Volker (1)
* Woe to Him Who is Alone by Linda White (2)
* Home/Home, poem by Jimmye Galli (30)
* Ode to a Newborn Son/Beginnings/Two, poems by Theresa Wright (32)
* And Now Silence by Teri White (35)
* Worlds Apart, poem by Pete Kaup (40)
* The Enchanted by April Valentine (42)
* The Man Beside You, poem by C.F. Woolford (68)
* Double Image, poem by Ellen L. Kobrin (70)
* In Your Place by Crystal Taylor (72)
* Coming Home, poem by Della Van Hise (97)
* Fire and Ice by Sandra Gent & Virginia Green (99)
* In Between the Dark and the Light, poem (107)
* Shadowrider by Susan K. James (108)
* Vulcan Lies by Shirley Passman (129)
* Separate Ways, poem by April Valentine (130)
* But Up to Now by Ginna LaCroix (132) (also in Trek Encore #2)
* The Source, poem by Bev Volker (144)
* Lookin' In, poem by Crystal Taylor (146)
* Song Trilogy by Bev Volker and Carolyn Venino (148)
* After the Flame by Sibyl Hancock (150)
* AFter the Challenge by April Valentine (153)
* Sorrow's End, poem by Jimmye Galli (156)
* Fires of Yesterday, poem by Susan K. James (157)
* Thou More Than a Brother by Theresa Wright (158)
* Earth and Moon, poem by April Valentine (175)
* Breathing Space by Carol Frisbie & Susan K. James (176)
* And You Were There, poem by Sarah Leibold (180)
* Watch in the Night by Sibyl Hancock (181)
* To Fly Again, poem by Pete Kaup (203)
* Continuum, poem by Bev Volker (204)
* Contact's Favorite Things by Nancy J. Kippax (206)
 File:contact5-6art1.jpg| from issue #5/6, Gayle F 
 File:contact5-6art2.jpg| from issue #5/6, Gayle F 
File:contact5-6art3.jpg| from issue #5/6, Pat Stall
File:contact5-6art4.jpg| from issue #5/6, Evallou Richardson
File:contact5-6art5.jpg| from issue #5/6, Kathy Carlson
File:contact5-6art6.jpg| from issue #5/6, Mike Verina
File:contact5-6art14.jpg| from issue #5/6, Mike Verina
File:contact5-6art15.jpg| from issue #5/6, Mike Verina
File:contact5-6art7.jpg| from issue #5/6, Laurie Huff
File:contact5-6art8.jpg| from issue #5/6, Frim and Gringras
File:contact5-6art9.jpg| from issue #5/6, Leslie Fish
File:contact5-6art10.jpg| from issue #5/6, L. Frim and Sonia Gringras
File:contact5-6art13.jpg| from issue #5/6, Alice Jones
File:contact5-6art11.jpg| from issue #5/6, Frim and Gringras
File:contact5-6art12.jpg| from issue #5/6, Nan Lewis
File:contact5-6art17.jpg| from issue #5/6, Kathy Carlson
File:contact5-6art16.jpg| from issue #5/6, Sonia Gringas
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 5==
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 5/6==
==Issue 6==
Contact 6 was published in 1979 and contains 137 pages. It is a novel called, "Home is the Hunter" by Bev Volker and Nancy Kippax. 
It was originally published in Contact 5/6 as part of that double issue, but was quickly republished as a stand-alone zine. The art and cover is by Merle Decker.
This zine won a 1988 "Federation Class of Excellence" Surak Award.
"Aftermath," 1984 original music by April Valentine, was inspired by this story. It was printed in The Complete Omicron Ceti III Lyric Book.
You can read "Contact" #6 here.
Summary from a distributor Lionheart Distribution: 
Summary from Gilda F: 
Excerpt:
File:homeisthehunter1.jpg|from issue #6, Merle Decker
File:homeisthehunter2.jpg|from issue #6, Merle Decker
File:homeisthehunter3.jpg|from issue #6, Merle Decker
File:homeisthehunter4.jpg|from issue #6, Merle Decker
File:homeisthehunter5.jpg|from issue #6, Merle Decker
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 6==
==Issue 7==
Contact 7 was published in September 1981 and contains 300 pages.
The cover is by Sonia Grigras. The interior art is by Suzan Lovett, Laurie Huff, Merle Decker, Stephanie Hawks, Nan Lewis, Russ Volker, Gloria-Ann Rovelstad, Chris Grahl, and Lydia Moon. 
From the editorial: 
* Images by Ginna LaCroix (also in Trek Encore #3) (1)
* Answered Call, poem by April Valentine (58)
* The Sleeper in the Valley, poem by Susan K. James (60
* The Bell Tolls for Thee, poem by Terri Sylvester (63)
* See So Clearly, poem by Crystal Ann Tayor (64)
* The Tavern by Susie Gordon (65)
* Star Fever, poem by Kari Masoner (79)
* The Light in the Darkness, poem by Kathryn Moore (81)
* Sonnet Number One, poem by Barbara Stoey (82)
* Wait For the Morning by Marion McChesney ("Spock persuades a very unwilling McCoy to withhold from Kirk that the Captain has a malignant brain tumor for which there is no treatment. When Spock dies in an accident protecting Kirk, McCoy reveals the truth to the Captain and is told with great bitterness that Kirk wants the doctor out of his life forever. McCoy leaves, but it is not long before both men realize their need for each other.") (83)
* Kirk, composition and calligrapy by Jude Jackson (131)
* Comfort, poem by April Valentine (133)
* Sleeping Beauty, poem by Bev Volker (134)
* Merlin's Touch, poem by Bev Volker (135)
* Facets of Love, poem by Terri Sylvester (136)
* Souls Entertwined, poem by Kathryn Moore (138)
* The Center of the Circle by April Valentine (139)
* Universal Delight, poem by Kari Masoner (169)
* The Changeling, poem by Cynthia Drake (170
* The Answer Lies Elsewhere, poem by Barbara Storey (175)
* A Different Drummer (Novella length) by Beverly Volker and Nancy Kippax (176)
* Someone to Need, poem by Renee Diane Volker (293)
* Celestial Lure, poem by Suzanne Elmore (296)
File:contact7art1.jpg| from issue #7, Stefanie Hawks
File:contact7art2.jpg| from issue #7, Laurie Huff
File:contact7art9.jpg| from issue #7, Suzan Lovett
File:contact7art10.jpg| from issue #7, Suzan Lovett
File:contact7art3.jpg| from issue #7, Suzan Lovett
File:contact7art12.jpg| from issue #7, Chris Grahl
File:contact7art4.jpg| from issue #7, Chris Grahl
File:contact7art5.jpg| from issue #7, Nan Lewis
File:contact7art6.jpg| from issue #7, Gloria-Ann Rovelstad
File:contact7art7.jpg| from issue #7, Lydia Moon
File:contact7art8.jpg| from issue #7, Merle Decker
File:contact7art11.jpg| from issue #7, Gloria-Ann Rovelstad
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 7==
==Issue 8==
Contact 8 was published July 1982 and contains 244 pages.
Color cover by Merle Decker. Art by Sonia Gingras, Suzan Lovett, Laurie Huff, Stefanie Hawks, Chris Grahl, Gail Bennett, Merle Decker, Nan Lewis, Maureen B, Christine Myers, Dorothy Laoang, and Lydia Moon.
"This issue is fondly dedicated to the Baltimore Group of fans for their untiring and unending support and devotion to CONTACT from to editors very luck to have such friends. This one's for you -- Marion, Margaret, Terri, Suzanne, Bonnie, Carolyn, Joan and Cheryl."
From page 3:
: Come and seek a lonely spot
: On some uncharted plane
: Never let it be forgot
: That we've come home again.
: And when it seems that all is lost
: Cling to this hope, what ere the cost
: That true love conquers pain.
This issue is based on the idea of keeping Spock alive for Kirk, originally published between the second and third Star Trek movies. A wide mix of poetry, art for every story and stories. Classic Trek.
* Journey of a Thousand Steps by Terri Sylvester (p. 1-34)
* Sandcastles by Merle Decker (p. 38-41)
* The Cost by Susie Gordon (p. 43-52)
* Empty Lives by Nancy Kippax (p. 55-63)
* What We Would Choose by Crystal Ann Taylor (p. 66-119)
* Journeyman by Carol A. Frisbie & Susan K. James (p. 123-133)
* The Outsider by Ginna LaCroix (p. 136-144) (also in Trek Encore #2)
* A Matter of Perspective by Beverly Volker (p. 145-155)
* Cornerstone by Elaine W. (p. 160-164)
* The Starless Years by (novella) April Valentine (p. 168-240)
File:contact8art1.jpg| from issue #8, Christine Myers
File:contact8art2.jpg| from issue #8, Dorothy Laoang
File:contact8art3.jpg| from issue #8, Sonia Gingras
File:contact8art4.jpg| from issue #8, Merle Decker
File:contact8art5.jpg| from issue #8, Stefanie Hawks
File:contact8art6.jpg| from issue #8, Chris Grahl
File:contact8art7.jpg| from issue #8, Gail Bennett
File:contact8art8.jpg| from issue #8, Suzan Lovett
File:contact8art9.jpg| from issue #8, Laurie Huff
File:contact8art10.jpg| from issue #8, Nan Lewis
File:contact8art11.jpg| from issue #8, Suzan Lovett 
File:contact8art12.jpg| from issue #8, Lydia Moon
File:contact8art13.jpg| from issue #8, Maureen B.
File:contact8art14.jpg| from issue #8, Maureen B.
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 8==
==Contact Collected==
Contact Collected 1 was published in May 1985. It contains 150 pages of content from the first two issues of "Contact."
* Not of That Feather (1)
* In a Pig's Eye (20)
* Understanding, poem (21)
* Amok Time, poem (22)
* The Silent Connection (23)
* The Truth, poem (40)
* Eulogy (40)
* Command Decision, poem (44)
* De Profundis (45)
The zine appears to start the numbering all over again:
* An Act of Love, story by Nancy Kippax, art by Leslie Fish (1)
* Ode to a Friend, poem by Joanne Bennett (20)
* Nightmare Ending, story by D.T. Steiner and C. McCommon, art by Signe Landon (21)
* Nivar, The Two Sides of One, poem by Gerry Downes, art by Russ Volker (27)
* Vision from Orion, poem by Bev Volker (28)
* The Third Wheel, story by Connie Faddis, art by Trinette Kern (29)
* Ballad, song by Signe Landon (36)
* Kert Rats, story by Nancy Kippax (37)
* The Quest, poem by Bev Volker (43)
* Writing Contest: The Winners (44)
** Death is Only a Parting by Amy Falkowitz (45)
** You Do Not Belong, poem by Pete Kaup (53)
* Without the Gardener's Craft, story by Kathleen Penland, art by D. Lichtel (54)
* The Logical Choice, story by Beverly Volker, art by Nancy Kippax (59)
* Denevan Orbit, story by Johanna Cantor, art by Signe Landon (65)
* The Answer, poem by Bev Volker (78)
==Meta==
* Remembering Contact: Sandra Zier Teitler – Editor of Mind Meld; archive link
* Remembering A.C. Crispin; archive link (September 10, 2013) </ref>
* , comments by Steven H. Wilson, he of the "House of Contact," November 17, 2015
==Notes==
==References==
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