Trekzine

English

Etymology

From Trek +‎ zine.

Noun

Trekzine (plural Trekzines)

1. (dated, fandom slang) A Star Trek fanzine.
   • 1975, Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Sondra Marshak, Joan Winston, Star Trek Lives!, page 86:

     The aloofness and emotional control of Vulcans has driven many of Star Trek's female viewers crazy, for the almost-stated first principle of the Vulcan Love Story of the Trekzines is to break into the inner emotional nature of the outwardly calm Vulcan.

   • 1981, Walter Irwin, G. B. Love, editors, The Best of Trek: From the Magazine for Star Trek, page 75:

     You are the only Trekzine of your kind, and besides that, you are of consistently high quality and classy, both in format and execution.

   • 1997 October 29, Judygran, “Re: Fanfic, Writing 'n' Stuff (Re: Slash writers (long)(reply is long too!)”, in alt.startrek.creative‎^[1] (Usenet):

     The early Trekzine publishers like Devra Langsam, editor of the aforementioned Spockanalia and later of Masiform D, used mimeo, often with astonishingly good results.