Orion Archives: 2293-2294 The Final Hiatus

Orion Archives: 2293-2294 The Final Hiatus is a gen and het Star Trek: TOS anthology that reprints content published in previous Orion Press zines in particular from Orion. Some of the later issues also reprint online fanfic. The early issues are numbered, later on the titles are organized by the fictional timeframe the zine takes place in (many Orion Press zines take place in a vaguely shared universe at least as far as the basic chronology of the Trek universe is concered. Their website offers timelines and such that the zines adhere to). Issues are still being released as of 2009, and there are also re-releases of older Orion Archives issues. A full list is available at the Orion Press website.
Orion Archives: 2293-2294 The Final Hiatus 1 contains 328 pages and artwork by Rick Endres, Randall Landers, Julie Nosal and Zaquia Tarhuntassa.
Summary from the flyer: "These stories are set following Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country and through the beginning of Star Trek: Generations. Captain James T. Kirk has retired and left Starfleet. Captain Spock is now serving with the diplomatic corps. Captain Scott is approaching retirement and is working in the Starfleet Corps of Engineers on refinements to Exceslior-class starship warp drives. Doctor Leonard H. McCoy has retired to Serenidad to practce some ol' country medicine. Meanwhile, Commander Penda Nyota Uhura has returned to Starfleet Academy as an instructor. Commander Pavel Andreivich Chekov is serving with Starfleet Public Relations. Captain Hikaru Sulu continues to serve as master of the Excelsior, and Commander Janice Rand is serving as his executive officer. And yet while their interests and careers have diverged, they still remain a family."
* Waiting on Serenidad written by Rob Morris (The year is 2293. The place: Serenidad, the planet with the single greatest dilithium reserves in the Federation. It has repelled Klingon invaders time and time again, earning its reigning monarch, Princess Teresa de la Vega Morales Ruiz-Mendoza McCoy, the admiration of her planet’s millions of inhabitants. It is to this beautiful planet, settled by Spanish settlers from early in the 22nd century, that Peter Kirk has decided to go. Unfortunately, while there, the events which become Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country transpire, and the troubled nephew of Captain Kirk, the young wife of Doctor Leonard McCoy, her half-Klingon son, and a security officer booted out of the Academy by James T. Kirk himself, find themselves spiraling toward what seems to be an inevitable disaster. Note: Sexual situations.)
* The Unforgiving Moment written by Rob Morris (Doctor McCoy must come to grips with what has happened on Serenidad, and with Teresa and Peter Kirk.)
* The Good Fight written by Rob Morris (The marriage of his friends brings some introspection to Peter Kirk on his forthcoming marriage to Calita Iberez.)
* A Change of Heart written by Jim Ausfahl (Montgomery Scott has his lack of faith challenged by a book left to him by his deceased grandmother...)
* Incident written by Rob Morris (Demora Sulu recounts how Lieutenant Peter Kirk instructed a fateful class at Starfleet Academy.)
* Children of Haole written by Donna S. Frelick (A sequel to The Mindsweeper. James T. Kirk, Spock and McCoy seek to find Kate Logan who’s been kidnapped and held by Orion slavers on an alien world.)
==The Orion Archives:== 
Note: Though it has a different title format, Hyperion 2296-2323 may also fit into this series 
* Orion Archives: 2229-2265 The Beginnings
* Orion Archives: 2266-2270 The First Mission
* Orion Archives: 2270-2272 The First Hiatus
* Orion Archives: 2272-2275 The Second Mission
* Orion Archives: 2275-2283 The Second Hiatus
* Orion Archives: 2275-2283 U.S.S Reliant
* Orion Archives: 2283-2284 Interludes
* Orion Archives: 2284-2323 Captain Sulu
* Orion Archives: 2285-2293 The Third Mission
* Orion Archives: 2292-2323 U.S.S. Chosin
* Orion Archives: 2293-2294 The Final Hiatus
* Orion Archives: 2294-2323 Chekov's Enterprise
* Orion Archives: 2294-2400 The Adventures Continue
* Orion Archives: 2295 The Sixth Fleet
* Orion Archives: 2296-2323 Project Potemkin
==References==
Category:Star Trek TOS Gen and Het Anthology Zines
Category:2008 Zines