Interphase (Star Trek: TOS zine)

If you are looking for the calendar that is a supplement to this zine, see Interphase (calendar). You might be looking for the Interphase newsletter published by S.T.A.R. San Diego or the Blake's 7 zine, Interface.
Interphase is a gen Star Trek: TOS edited by Connie Faddis. 
It was one of the first zines to feature art in color and was extremely influential in its quality, style, and format. Many fans consider Interphase the best gen fanzine of all time Boldly Writing, by Joan Marie Verba, pg 24 and it is often mentioned for its high quality art reproduction and printing quality. Many fans praised it for the silk screened covers and for its impressive list of contributors, most of which were the big name fans of the time. 
The first issue included a special calendar supplement by Gayle F, the first time her art appeared on the fannish horizon.
 
The zine series was so good, however, that some fans felt the bar had been set too high, something that led to increased expectations, as well as an increased cost in zines.
==Original Announcement==
==Some Comments on its Beginning==
In 1977, "Interphase's" creator, Connie Faddis, said: 
From Faddis in 2017: 
In 2017, Rebecca Oroukin said: 
== Interphase and How It Signaled the Beginning of an Impatience with Mimeo ==
Interphase set a high bar and set up fannish expectation for what could be created. 
A fan writes about the difference in cost between sf and media zines: 
Another fan writes in Interstat that perhaps the bar Interphase set is now too high: 
==General Reviews and Reactions==
===1976===
===1977===
===1979===
===1984===
===2008===
===2016===
=="Remote Control" and One Origin of Kraith==
While earlier stories in the Kraith Universe had been published in issues of T-Negative, the very first story, written in 1968, saw its print debut in Interphase. It was in script form and titled "Remote Control."
From the author's introduction in Interphase: 
See more at Remote Control.
== About the Calendar: Gayle F's Debut==
The Special Calendar Supplement that came with issue #3 was many fans' first exposure to Gayle F's work: 
==Photocopied Re-Issues==
From Connie Faddis: 
Less than a year later, permission was given to Lori Chapek-Carleton to photocopy issues of this zine to sell. In Warped Space #21, Chapek-Carleton writes: 
The reprints of issue #1, photocopied, were advertised in The Halkan Council #24 in April 1977 for $6.23/first class.
In 1983, there was another push to do "authorized reprints" (format unclear) of at least the first issue of "Interphase." In Universal Translator, there was an ad from Ingrid Cross of Odyssey Press: 
==Issue 1==
Interphase 1 was published in July 1975 and has 99 pages. The front cover is by Connie Faddis, and the back cover is by Gee Moaven. The zine contains four stories and an art portfolio. Art by Deborah Collin, Connie Faddis, Amy Falkowitz, Phil Foglio, Elizabeth Marshall, Kathi Maynard, Diane McClaugherty, Gee Moaven.
 
From the editorial -- regarding production: 
From the editor -- regarding the story "Bones' Vision": 
*Theragin Derivative, editorial (2)
*Uhura's Dilemma" by Diane McClaugherty (4)
*Three Haiku for the Enterprise by Carrie Brennen (4)
*Yesterday, a poem by Rebecca Baggett (5)
*Bones' Vision by Eileen Roy (Kraith universe) (6)
*Elizabeth Marshall's Sehlat art (26)
*The Hunted and the Hunters by Anna Mary Hall (28) (reprinted in Archives #2)
*Moon, poem by Beth Robertson (40)
*Kirk Fantasia (Faddis encouraged authors to write stories about the art, a practice that became a fairly popular activity in fanzines for years afterwards. Interpretations by Ruth Berman, Carrie Brennan, Anna Mary Hall, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, and Shirley Maiewski) (41)
*Voyager, poem by Beth Robertson (47)
*Untitled Poem by Janice Scott (48)
*Tricorder Song, poem by Ruth Berman (48)
*So Be It, poem by Beth Robertson (49)
*Remote Control by Jacqueline Lichtenberg (Screenplay intended for the original series in 1968. Author notes that this was the progenitor of her Kraith series.) (50)
*Plomeek Soup, fanzine reviews by Beth Robertson (94) (One Trek Mind #2, Energize!, Rigel #1, Showcase #2, see those pages)
*Three Haiku for a Vulcan by Carrie Brennenn (96)
* Amok Time, poem by Rebecca Baggett (97)
*T'Pring to T'Pau (poem) by Ruth Berman (97)
*Acknowledgments and Errata (98)
File:Interphase1inside1.jpg|inside art from issue #1, Connie Faddis
File:Interphase1inside2.jpg|inside art from issue #1, Kathi Maynard
File:Interphase1inside3.jpg|inside art from issue #1, Kathi Maynard, for "Bones' Vision"
File:Interphase1inside4.jpg|inside art from issue #1, Connie Faddis, accompanying prose: "Dying Inside" by Shirley Maiewski
File:Interphase1inside5.jpg|foldout portfolio from issue #1, Connie Faddis, accompanying prose: "The Grooves of Change" by Ruth Berman
File:Interphase1inside6.jpg|inside art from issue #1, Connie Faddis, accompanying prose: "Succubus" by Carrie Brennan
File:Interphase1inside7.jpg|inside art from issue #1, Connie Faddis, also the cover of Grup #4
File:Interphase1inside11.jpg|foldout portfolio from issue #1, Connie Faddis, accompanying prose: "Antelope Rider" by Anna Mary Hall
File:Interphase1inside12.jpg|from issue #1, Rebecca Baggett (poem), Amy Falkowitz (art)
File:Interphase1inside13.jpg|from issue #1, Ruth Berman (poem), Connie Faddis (art)
File:Interphase1inside14.jpg|from issue #1, Gee Moaven
File:Interphase1inside15.jpg|from issue #1, D.L. Collin
File:Interphase1-15.jpg|from issue #1, Kathi Maynard
File:Interphase1-16.jpg|from issue #1, Kathi Maynard
File:Interphase1-17.jpg|from issue #1, Connie Faddis, for "The Hunter and the Hunters"
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1===
 
==Issue 2==
Interphase 2 was published in November 1975 and has 123 pages. It has art by Debbie Collin, Connie Faddis, Signe Landon, Elizabeth Marshall, Kathi Maynard, Monica Miller, Gee Moaven, Gennie Summers, and Anji Valenza. Monica Miller did the front cover, Connie Faddis did the inside front cover, and Gee Moaven did the back cover.
From the editorial: 
*Theragin Derivative (editorial) (2)
* Ni Var: Two Shore Leaves by Ruth Berman (6)
*Pre-Reform Vulcan Costumes (art) by Monica Miller (7)
*It's Their Fault by Signe Landon (poem) (13)
*Kirk's Challenge by Eileen Roy (parts 1 and 2) (14)
* Cartoons by Debbie Collin (40) (full-page art pieces really: Chekov's Wheel Lecture and Sulu as Robin Hood) (40)
*Respondents by Ruth Berman (poem) (42)
*What Henoch Did by Paula Smith [reprinted in Menagerie #9] (52)
*Creatures of the Vulcan Forge (art) by Elizabeth Marshall (57)
*That Left Unspoken by Barbara Letson (61)
*Commander by Ruth Berman (poem) (64)
* Uhura three adjectives (poem) by L.V. Vargas (65)
*Helmsman (poem) by L.V. Fargas (65)
*Christine Chapel: in singular (poem) by L.V. Fargas (65)
*Spock Fantasia, art by Signe Landon, prose and poetry interpretations: (67)
**Bequest by Paula Smith (69)
**Vermin by Eileen Roy (72)
**Event by Claire Gabriel (74)
**The Given One by D.T. Steiner (75)
*Elizabeth: Lyrical by Beth Robertson (poem) (80)
*Cartoon by Debbie Collin (82)
*Trial by Ordeal by Connie R. Faddis (reprinted in Computer Playback #5) (84)
* Cartoon by Debbie Collin (113)
*Interpretations of the art from the cover of issue #1, poetry and prose:
**Untitled by Eileen Roy (114)
**A Marvel in the Darkness by C.R. Meredith (114)
** The World Well Lost by D.T. Steiner (115)
**Untitled by L.V. Fargas (115)
*Spock Portfolio, art by Signe Landon
*Plomeek Soup (reviews: see those articles: Menagerie #6 and #7/8, Delta Triad #1, Grup #4, The Halkan Council, Furaha #1 and #2, ) (116)
*Acknowledgments and Next Ish (127)
File:Interphase2art1.jpg|from issue #2, from "Mindmelds," Connie Faddis
File:Interphase2art2.jpg|from issue #2, D.L. Collin
File:Interphase2art3.jpg|from issue #2, Pre-Reform Vulcan costuming, Monica Miller
File:Interphase2art4.jpg|from issue #2, from "Trial by Ordeal," Kathi Maynard
File:Interphase2art5.jpg|from issue #2, from "Fantasia: Spock," Signe Landon
File:Interphase2art6.jpg|from issue #2, from "The Left Unspoken," Gee Moaven
File:Interphase2art7.jpg|from issue #2, from "Kirk's Challenge," Connie Faddis
File:Interphase2art8.jpg|from issue #2, from the portfolio of Vulcan wildlife, Elizabeth Marshall
File:Interphase2-1.jpg|from issue #2, Pre-Reform Vulcan costuming, Monica Miller
File:Interphase2-2.jpg|from issue #2, poem by Signe Landon, illo by Connie Faddis
File:Interphase2-3.jpg|from issue #2, from "Kirk's Challenge," Connie Faddis
File:Interphase2-4.jpg|from issue #2, from "Kirk's Challenge," Connie Faddis
File:Interphase2-5.jpg|from issue #2, Connie Faddis
File:Interphase2-6.jpg|from issue #2, Connie Faddis
File:Interphase2-7.jpg|from issue #2, Connie Faddis
File:Interphase2-8.jpg|from issue #2, Signe Landon
File:Interphase2-9.jpg|from issue #2, Signe Landon
File:Interphase2-10.jpg|from issue #2, Signe Landon
File:Interphase2-11.jpg|from issue #2, D.L. Collin
File:Interphase2-12.jpg|from issue #2, from "Trial by Ordeal," Kathi Maynard
File:Interphase2-14.jpg|from issue #2, from "Trial by Ordeal," Kathi Maynard
File:Interphase2-15.jpg|from issue #2, from "Trial by Ordeal," Kathi Maynard
File:Interphase2-16.jpg|from issue #2, from "Trial by Ordeal," Kathi Maynard
File:Interphase2-17.jpg|from issue #2, D.L. Collin
File:Interphase2-18.jpg|from issue #2, Signe Landon
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 2===
==Issue 3==
Interphase 3 was published in August 1976 and had 161 pages. It is McCoy-centric. Title on cover, "!Interphase." It included a calendar by Gayle F. The cost was $4.30 for book rate, $5.82 for first class.
From the editorial: 
 
*art by Gordon Carleton, Debbie Collin, Connie Faddis, Amy Falkowitz, Signe Landon, Elizabeth Marshall, Diane McClaugherty, Monica Miller, Gee Moaven, Marty Siegrist, and Laura Virgil.
*this issue included a supplement: calendar. Its title: Interphase Presents Adventures on the Fictional Plane in Which the Enterprise Visits the World of Literature by Gayle F. (September 1976 through March 1977).
* Theragin Derivative (editorial) (2)
*The Thought of a Man by Paula Smith (McCoy endangers his own life trying to keep Scotty alive after their shuttle has crashed and Scotty has been exposed to a lethal dose of radiation.) (6)
*Alternate Universe 4: The Writing, The Content by Virginia Tilley & Anna Mary Hall (article, explanation of the Alternate Universe 4 series) (16)
*The Place of Men-Made-Stone by Connie Faddis (Spock joins an anthropological landing party on a desert planet in hopes of a bit of R & R and ends up experiencing an episode from the planet’s past in which the indigenous Ummir drive the lizard-like Kivari to destruction for having enslaved them - creating the rock formations in the valley.)(22) (reprinted in Computer Playback #2) (PDF available online with publisher and author permission)
*Four Voices on Four Themes, poetry by L.V. Fargas (32) 
*A Trio of Ancient Vulcan Myths by Monica Miller (story for art folio) (41)
*The Tin Man by Paula Block (50) (part of this is printed in Minara Nova, along with a single illo by Connie Faddis) (McCoy returns from Minara with all physical wounds repaired but with a heightened empathy that could mean not only the end of his medical career, but a life of isolation if no solution is found.)
*Interpretations by Paula Block, Ingrid Cross, Carol Frisbie & Kathy Penland of art by Connie Faddis (84)
*McCoy Fantasia by Paula Block, Ingrid Cross, Carol Frisbie, and Kathy Penland (art portfolio) (87)
*To Slay or Not To Slay: Why We Write Get ‘Em Stories - And Love ‘Em by Becca Oroukin & Connie Faddis (article) (98)
*Kirk's Challenge, Pt. 3: Home is the Hunter by Eileen Roy (Kraith Universe) (106)
*Thy Glory Like a Shooting Star by Ingrid Cross (McCoy death vignette, his life linked to a shooting star.) [Reprinted in Odyssey #1 and Vault of Tomorrow #2] (143)
* Creative Responses by The Readers (145)
*Plomeek Soup, reviews of Menagerie #9, The Night of the Twin Moons, Delta Triad #2, Rigel 32, Spectrum v.4 n.2., Berengaria #6 and #7, see those pages)
File:Interphase3art1.jpg|from issue #3, Connie Faddis
File:Interphase3art2.jpg|from issue #3, Connie Faddis
File:Interphase3art5.jpg|from issue #3, Marty Siegrist
File:Interphase3art3.jpg|from issue #3, Connie Faddis
File:Interphase3art4.jpg|from issue #3, Gordon Carleton
File:Interphase3art6.jpg|from issue #3, Connie Faddis
File:Interphase3art7.jpg|from issue #3, Gordon Carleton: "Fandom took an immediate fancy to the imbecilic Mr. Gumby and began incorporating his characteristics into various stories and illos, no matter how inappropriate. Artist Gordon Carleton once dressed the entire Mego crew of the Enterprise in gumby atire, which inspired the infamous final illo of my story "The Tinman" -- from Paula Block in Syndizine #3 (1982)
File:Interphase3art8.jpg|from issue #3, Laura Virgil, "Kiss me, you fool."
File:Interphase3inside1.jpg|from issue #3, Monica Miller
File:Interphase3inside2.jpg|from issue #3, Gee Moaven (art) and poem on one page, the poem is inspired by the back cover of Interphase #2
File:Interphase3inside3.jpg|from issue #3, Connie Faddis
File:Interphase3inside4.jpg|from issue #3, D.L. Collin
File:Interphase3-1.jpg|from issue #3, Connie Faddis
File:Interphase3-2.jpg|from issue #3, Connie Faddis
File:Interphase3-3.jpg|from issue #3, Connie Faddis
File:Interphase3-4.jpg|from issue #3, Monica Miller
File:Interphase3-5.jpg|from issue #3, Connie Faddis
File:Interphase3-6.jpg|from issue #3, Connie Faddis
File:Interphase3-7.jpg|from issue #3, Connie Faddis
File:Interphase3-8.jpg|from issue #3, Connie Faddis
File:Interphase3-9.jpg|from issue #3, Connie Faddis
File:Interphase3-10.jpg|from issue #3, Connie Faddis
File:Interphase3-11.jpg|from issue #3, Connie Faddis
===Reactions and Reviews: Issue 3===
==Issue 4==
Interphase 4 was published in May 1977 and has 202 pages. Original cost was $6/in person, $8.46/first class. 
Art: front cover: Gayle F; back cover: Gee Moaven. Other art is by Susan Armstrong, Gordon Carleton, Debbie Collin, Mary Ann Emerson, Connie Faddis, Heather Firth, Signe Landon, Elizabeth Marshall, Martynn, Monica Miller, Marty Siegrist, Laura Virgil and Carol Walske.
As a supplement included was the calendar by Gayle F, Interphase Presents Star Trek Goes to the Movies (May to November 1977). 
From the editorial: 
Connie, probably in response to some fannish grumblings in letterzines and elsewhere about the cost of this zine ($6/in person, $8.46/first class), included a detailed breakdown of her costs, see image. She closed with: 
*Theragin Derivative (editorial) (2)
*First Contact by Claire Gabriel (reprinted in Quartet Plus Two) (6)
*Uhura Fantasia, art portfolio by Gee Moaven, interpretations by Mary Lou Dodge, Leslie Fish, Winston Howlett, Virginia Walker. (17)
*Mudd's Bequest by Alice Thompson (Christine takes the last of the Venus drug, with startling effects on her bosom and the command crew.) (26)
*Of Priests, Captains, Vulcans and Ship Surgeons, poem by Paula Block (interpretation of Interphase #3 cover, McCoy in sleep or death. McCoy musing on those who sleep alone.) (28)
*Gone With the (Solar) Wind, poem by Kathleen Penland (interpretation of Interphase #3 cover) (29)
*An Article of Faith by April Pentland (Mevran Al-Azar has committed the sacrilege of stealing from the ElIysians their Temple of Tendra-Galing. When the Enterprise captures the lady pirate along with the temple, McCoy finds himself strangely drawn to her. When Kirk is injured it is Mevran who uses the power of the temple to help McCoy save his life.) (32)
*The Alien Muse (art and poetry folio) by Martynn (54)
*Nu Ormenel Poetry Portfolio by Fern Marder (59) ("A collection of Ormenel poetry — 'Aroi Rakiehul' an introduction to the language; 'Reflections,' a look at the Federation through Kang's eyes; 'Challenge,' Kor's thoughts during the Organian incident; 'The Legend of Kerrekurasarm,' an epic poem about the Firebird and the Huntress of the Kilingarlan." from a description from a timeline printed in Threshold, see Nu Ormenel) 
*Star Trash: The Controllian Grid by Gordon Carleton (70)
*Kirk's Challenge, Pts. 4 & 5 by Eileen Roy (Kraith Universe) (80)
*The Ballad of Doc McCoy: A Shoot-'Em Up by Paula Smith (104)
*Crew Fantasia, art by Connie Faddis, responses by Anna Mary Hall (Sulu); Paula Smith (Janice Rand); Johanna Cantor (Chekov); Jean Lorrah (Chapel); Ruth Berman (Scotty) (107)
*Breeding Ground by Monica Miller (119)
*The Final Frontier: An Ethnography of Star Trek Fandom by James DiCostanzo. Article. (paper submitted to anthropology class, a very early example of an acafan getting it somewhat right, but mostly wrong.) (140)
*A Portfolio of Vulcan Scenes by Mary Ann Emerson (146)
*Equity by Joyce Yasner (154)
*Creative Responses by the readers (174)
*Third Wheel by Connie Faddis [revised and reprinted from Contact #2] (180) (reprinted in Computer Playback #2)
*Plomeek Soup, reviews of The Other Side of Paradise #2, Full Moon Rising, Fantasia #1, Fesarius #1, Obsc'zine #1, Stardate: Unknown #2, Masiform D #5, Contact #3, Metamorphosis #2, Independent Entity #3, Alpha Continuum #2, see those pages (187)
*an ad for the first issue of Scuttlebutt
The amount of art in this issue, as with previous issues of Interphase, is truly vast. Below is a sample of various artists and styles. 
File:Interphase4art1.jpg|art from issue #4, Marty Siegrist
File:Interphase4art7.jpg|art from issue #4, Gee Moaven
File:Interphase4art3.jpg|art from issue #4, Connie Faddis
File:Interphase4art4.jpg|art from issue #4, Gee Moaven
File:Interphase4art5.jpg|art from issue #4, Mary Ann Emerson
File:Interphase4art6.jpg|art from issue #4, Martynn
File:Interphase4art2.jpg|art from issue #4, Susan Armstrong
File:Interphase4art8.jpg|art from issue #4, Martynn
File:Interphase4artone.jpg|art from issue #4, Carol Walske
File:Interphase4arttwo.jpg|art from issue #4, Gordon Carleton -- "One of Gordon's wonderful comic-style episode spoofs, this one of "The Tholian Web." Lovely little throw-away lines, like Kirk's "I had a whole zine to myself..." from Karen Halliday's Zinedex 
File:Interphase4artthree.jpg|art from issue #4, Marty Siegrist
File:Interphase4artfour.jpg|art from issue #4, D.L. Collin
File:Interphase4artfive.jpg|art from issue #4, Connie Faddis
File:Interphase4artsix.jpg|art from issue #4, Monica Miller, for "Breeding Ground"
File:Interphase4artseven.jpg|art from issue #4, Heather Firth
File:Interphase4arteight.jpg|art from issue #4, Mary Ann Emerson
File:Connie Faddis Interphase Sulu the valiant.jpg|Connie Faddis for "Ride the Sweet Wind"
File:Interphase4-15.jpg|from issue #4, Gee Moaven
File:Interphase4-16.jpg|from issue #4, Gordon Carleton
File:Interphase4-17.jpg|from issue #4, Martynn
File:Interphase4-18.jpg|from issue #4, foldout by Martynn
File:Interphase4-19.jpg|from issue #4, Connie Faddis for "Kirk's Challenge"
File:Interphase4-20.jpg|from issue #4, Connie Faddis
File:Interphase4-21.jpg|from issue #4, Monica Miller, for "Breeding Ground"
=== Reactions and Reviews: Issue 4===
==References==
 
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