Assignment: Star Trek

You may be looking for the Star Trek: TOS zine, Assignment: Enterprise.
Assignment: Star Trek is a Star Trek: TOS anthology of fiction, reviews, articles, art, con info, puzzles and news. 
One flyer said it came out eight times a year and that each issue had ten or more pages.
The last issue was in spring 1977, and the editor said the zine was going to morph into a new zine called Eye of the Beholder.
The editor was about 14 years old when the first issue was published. 
==Issue 1==
Assignment: Star Trek 1 was published in 1975.
==Issue 2==
Assignment: Star Trek 2 was published in 1975.
==Issue 3==
Assignment: Star Trek 3 was published in 1975.
*Niece or Not, It Happened (Part 1) P. Burnett
==Issue 4==
Assignment: Star Trek 4 was published in 1975.
* Niece or Not, It Happened (Part 2) P. Burnett
* Niece or Not, It Happened (Part 3) P. Burnett
==Issue 5==
Assignment: Star Trek 5 was published in 1975.
==Issue 6==
Assignment: Star Trek 6 was published in July/August 1975 and contains 6 pages. 
* AST Looks at Animated Star Trek (2)
* The Editor's Wish (what would readers like to see in this zine?) (3)
* Niece or Not, It Happened (conclusion), fiction by Paul G. Burnett (3)
* Ask the Enterprise's Computer
* Star Trek... The Fans (some excerpts from The World of Star Trek by David Gerrold) (5)
* Subspace Chatter, some news blurbs (5)
* Star Trek News Brief
* The Decidus III Encounter (part 1), fiction by Paul G. Burnett (6)
==Issue 7==
Assignment: Star Trek 7 was published in 1975.
* The Decidus III Encounter (Part 2) P. Burnett
==Issue 8==
Assignment: Star Trek 8 was published in 1975.
* The Decidus III Encounter (Part 3) P. Burnett 
* Depredation of War (Part 1) P. Burnett
==Issue 9==
Assignment: Star Trek 9
* Depredation of War (Part 2) P. Burnett
==Issue 10==
Assignment: Star Trek 10
* Depredation of War (Part 3) P. Burnett
==Issue 11==
Assignment: Star Trek 11 was published in May 1976. 
* Space:1999 (review) P. Burnett 
* "Dawning of an Admiral" by P. Burnett (continuing story)
* fditorials
* art by Tony Hardy
* latest news
* features
* con info
* reviews
* trivia quiz
==Issue 12==
Assignment: Star Trek 12 was published in June 1976 and contains 8 pages. The front cover is by Tony Hardy.
The editor wrote: "AST is now listed in the Star Trek Welcommittee Directory. It is not up to date, and my name is spelled wrong, but at least it is there."
* Romulans, article by Paul G. Burnett (1)
* The Dawning of an Admiral: Survival (chapter 31), fiction by Paul G. Burnett (2)
* Star Trek Trivia (3)
* Louisville Scene: What's Happening in Louisville Now, con report for DerbyCon by Steve Estes (4)
* Transcript ("edited to save space") of an Interview with James Doohan on the radio station WAKY, interviewer was Tom Dooley (7) 
* a review of Star Trek: The New Voyages #1, see that page (5)
* a review of Alan Dean Foster's "Log Six" (6)
* Star Trek con announcements (6)
* The Dawning of an Admiral: Survival (chapter 31), fiction by Paul G. Burnett (7)
* What's Trekkin' and Subspace Chatter, news and product blurbs (9)
* an article about the Space: 1999 books (#1-#6) (10)
==Reactions and Reviews: Issue 12==
==Issue 13==
Assignment: Star Trek 13 was published in July/August 1976 and contains 10 pages. The front cover is by Steve Estes.
From the article about Star Trek Animated: 
From the comments by Burnett about Space: 1999: 
 
* Animated Star Trek, article by Paul G. Burnett (1) 
* The Dawning of An Admiral: Survival (chapter 33-34) P. Burnett (2)
* Editor's Thoughts (observations, one of which was a proposal for a Star Trek restaurant: "A STAR TREK night club would be set up in some large city. The place would have live entertainment, elaborate Enterprise furniture, models of ships etc. and waitresses(green women, women from "Spook's Brain" in the costumes,etc. fair out huh!). The rest would probably be like any other night club.") (6)
* Space:1999 (review) by P. Burnett 
* review of Star Trek Log Seven (7)
*some con blurbs (8)
* What's Trekkin', news (includes "Nichelle Nichols is the model figure for Mardee Haskell, the heroine of a new gothic novel for the Ballantine series of Zodiac Gothics, tentatively titled "The Drum and the Darkness," by Marion Zimmer Bradely, author of such well-known books as those in the Darkover series.") (9)
 
* Space:1999 ("more news on the second season) by Paul G. Burnett (11)
==Issue 14/15==
Assignment: Star Trek 14 was published in September/October 1976 and contains 18 pages. 
While not labeled as such, the editor calls it a double issue.
The editor mentions he is 15½ years old. 
From one of the articles: 
Regarding Star Trek Animated: 
* Star Trektennial Articles
** The Star Trek Phenomenon, article by Steve Estes (2)
** Can Star Trek Survive Without a Movie? by Steve Estes (3)
* con report by Paul G. Burnett for [[OmniCon #1, see that page (4)
* Star Trek II Info: Shatner Signs!!!!! English Writers Brought In!!!!! (5)
* The Editor's Thoughts (4)
* a short note that a fan named Shelley Block has many drawerfic stories to share that Block had been writing for five years; these stories star Joanna McCoy (Dr. McCoy's daughter) (7)
* Joanna, Joanna, original song lyrics with chords, by Shelley Block (7)
* Star Trek News: What's Trekkin' (8)
* Con Info, report for OmniCon, see that page (9)
* Dawning of an Admiral: Survival (chapters 35-36), fiction by Paul G. Burnett (10)
* review of Spock: Messiah!, see that page (14)
* review of Alan Dean Foster's Log 8 (14)
* Space: 1999 News and the Latest from the Sci-Fi Scene (16)
==Issue 16==
==Issue 17==
Assignment: Star Trek 17 was published in 'First Quarter 1977' as Volume 3 No.4 Issue #17. It contains 30 pages, which is three times larger than previous issues. The front cover art and single interior illo (portrait of Spock) are by Steve Estes.
The editor apologizes for the zine being late. 
The editor wrote that he stated in the last issue that the zine would become bi-monthly and contain 20 pages an issue, but instead he decided to make this zine into a new one called Eye of the Beholder (which would begin at issue #18): 
Regarding "Dawning of an Admiral": 
* The Editor's Thoughts by Paul G. Burnett (2)
* Dawning of an Admiral, conclusion ('6th story in series "For the Loss of Eres II...") (fiction) by Steve Estes (3)
* AST Profile: Kzinti (11)
* AST Review (11)
* AST Fiction: Yesterday's Remembered Sorrows by Steve Estes (12)
* Space: 1999 and Sci-Fi News (23)
* What's Trekkin' -- Star Trek news (25)
* AST Editorial: How Long Can the Debate Continue? (focus is the feud between Star Trek and Space: 1999 fans.) (27)
* Late Reviews: very short, mostly of pro books (28)
==References==
Category:Star Trek TOS Zines
Category:Non-fiction Zines