Pentathlon

Pentathlon is a Star Trek: TOS zine resource.
Each issue contains short blurbs written by the editor/s, ordering information for zines, some letters of comment, and operated as an information clearing house to connect zine producers and zine buyers.
The first issue published by Susan Wolfe and Cecily Horton in 1970. It contained 35 pages and was more of a full-fledged zine than later issues. It also contained a list of 42 titles of Star Trek: TOS zines that were available/had been available at the time (1970).
The second and third issues were published by D.E. Dabbs, and they were quite brief.
The plan was for "Pentathlon" to be purchased either as a single issue for twenty cents, or a five issue subscription for $1.00. In the third issue, Dabbs stated that she was accepting orders only through issue #8, but it is possible that the third issue was the last one.
From Dabbs in issue #2: 
This zine had an X-rated, explicit het fiction sort-of sister zine sometimes referred to as "Pentathlon, Androxenophile", but was actually titled Faunch.
==Issue 1==
Pentathlon 1 was published in very late 1970 and contains 35 pages.
On the title page: "By the same people who put out Faunch."
Its editors, Susan Wolfe and Cecily Horton, described it as "specializing in fanzine reviews, ST of course)." This issue also contains one story.
The editors thank "two anonymous friends who loaned me their collections to study. And their old memories of those forgotten days of yesteryear when all the universe of the Federation and Vulcan was new. Those days when fields were green and Star Trek was on the brink of reality."
According to Boldly Writing, it was the first of many attempts to produce and sustain an all-or mostly-fanzine review publication." Some listings only gave addresses, others added one-line descriptions, and others contained one-paragraph summaries and reviews. The listed forty-two fanzines as being in print.
This issue contains a list of forty-two fanzines in print at the time.
* You're the Captain's Woman Until the Captain Says You're Not, fiction by Marj Hogue (2)
* Poem by Cecily Horton (16)
* A Romulan Fancy, poem by Sara Fensterer (16)
* A Preliminary Listing of Star Trek Fanzines and a Few Off-the-Cuff Remarks About Them by Susan Wolfe (20)
* Spock's Inner Thoughts by Ellie Ockert (30)
* T'Pring by Mildred Torgerson (31)
* Commentary on Humanity's View of Vulcan by Sam and Susan Wolfe (32)
* Editorials by Cecily Horton (33)
* Surok - T'Prave, translated by Cecily Horton (34)
* A Susitoiral by Susan Wolfe (35)
* art by Claire Mason (front cover), P.D. Dido, and Susan Wolfe (most of it)
==Issue 2==
Pentathlon 2 was published in October 1974 and contains 4 pages.
From the zine: 
* a short review of Alternate Universe 4, see that page
* a short review of Beta Lyrae, see that page
* a short review of Showcase #1, see that page
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2===
==Issue 3==
Pentathlon 3 contains 8 pages. November 8, 1974 is the date on the front cover, but it appears it was not sent to fans until March 1975.
From the zine: 
* review of Menagerie #1 and #4, see that page
* review of Berengaria #1, #2, and #3, see that page
* review of Sol #3, see that page
* review of Sub-Space #2, see that page
* review of The Halkan Council #4, see that page
* review of The Babelian Council #5, see that page
* review of The Clipper Trade Ship #4, see that page
* review of The Independent Entity #1, see that page
* review of Triskelion #5, see that page
* review of Introduction to Star Trek Fanzines, see that page
==Zines Listed in Issue #1, All Known Star Trek Zines Supposedly Published in 1970 or Before==
Note: two of the "zines" are actually articles within other zines. And one title, "Menagerie," appears to refer to two separate zines.
For a similar list of which there is some overlap, see: List of Star Trek TOS Zines Published While the Show Was Still On the Air.
* Anti-Matter
* Bone Diggers by Barbi Marczak
* The Captain's Log
* Deck 6
* Dimension 8 by Ellie Ockert
* Don't You Just Love Leonard Nimoy?
* Fascinating... But Filthy
* Faunch
* The Film Clipper
* The Enterprise Papers by Ellen Anne Pearce and Linda Brevelle
* Eridani Triad
* Galileo 7
* Galileo 7
* Hailing Signal
* Impulse
* Inside Star Trek
* Kevas and Trillium
* LNAF (this may be LNAF Bulletin or Leonard Nimoy Association of Fans Yearbook)
* LNSTFCCF
* "Menagerie" which could refer to either or both Menagerie, edited by J. Wedien or Menagerie, edited by Linda Stanley
* "Tomorrow is Yesterday" by J. Wedien or Wedeen (appears to be a single article/story in Menagerie)
* Retrospect 
* Pastaklan Vesla
* Plak-Tow
* Requiem for Star Trek
* Sand Treks
* Spockanalia
* Spock's Scribes
* Spock Underground
* Star Date
* Star-Fleet Communications by Craig Highberger, started in 1968 as part of the Star Trek National Fan Club
* Star Trek Concordance
* Star Trek Gab
* ST-Phile
* ST Review by Craig Highberger
* Theragin by Robin Root out of Minneapolis
* T-Negative
* Transmission from Star Fleet by Sylvia Stanczyk
* Triskelion
* The Voyages
* Vulcanalia
* Warp 9
* Where No Fan Has Gone Before
==References==
Category:Star Trek TOS Non-fiction Zines
Category:Resource Zines
Category:1970s Zines