I’m still thinking…
From what I remember, ST fan fiction in the 70’s was mostly written by female fans, and often had plots where Kirk and/or Spock rescue and fall madly in love with a female who looks remarkably like the author. Also, there were those books that went heavily into the ‘alpha male’ thing. I forget what they were called, but they were hugely popular among fans, and I think they served the function of soft-core porn for female fans.
Don’t recall any man-on-alien action, though.
First slash written by Gerry Downs, of Anchorage (however you spell it) Alaska, sometime in the 70’s.
Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath’s The Price of the Pheonix (1977) was drowning in that alpha-male crap, though it did feature that female Romulan commander from The Enterprise Incident, which almost made it halfway moderately remotely readable.
Don’t rush me!!
There is a website called ‘The Foresmutters Project’ that documents the very early days of Trek slash, including a bibliography and some of the stories available to read. Don’t have the link at the moment, but it should turn up on Google. There actually is serious academic interest in the subject, believe it or not.
Did anyone else take a look at the thread title and think, “Star Trek Muyo!”? And imagine the adventures of the starship Ryo-oh-ki?
No?
Just me?
Okay. slinks away
That’s the one! Actually, there was a trilogy of those, wasn’t there? “The Fate of the Phoenix”, and some other one. Maybe, “The Tailor of the Phoenix”, or “The Torn Shirt of the Phoenix” or something.
Yes, and they were all unreadable.
Sondra Marshak and Myrna Culbreath were hacks, plain and simple.
Not exactly slash, but National Lampoon published a pornographic Star Trek story by Chris Miller in 1971.
What will they give us… a new series with story arcs focused on the “Temporal War on Terror”? Perhaps they should just turn it over to Coto?
I got it!! 
Me and the Orgone
No wait!! :eek:
That was by Orson Bean! :smack:
Going to have to call for a cite on this because I don’t want any more B&B Trek.
As far as I knew Braga was working on a non Trek SF show called Threshold. I’m not sure why he named his new show after the worst episode of Voyager but it’s Braga so there you go… here’s some details from TrekToday.
I haven’t read anything about what Berman is up to but I don’t think Trek will hit him in the ass on his way out the door.
First, I have to make the point that I think that Card is a 1st class SF and Fantasy author (there is a distinct difference in his SF and Fantasy offerings - Lost Boys is Horror so a third Genre) His Ender’s Game series is incredible and well worth the read for those not familiar with his work.
But I think he is overly optomistic about the death of the ST world as most SF writers have been over the last 30 years - why? Because for all the schmaltz there are ideals in the Star Trek Universe that appeal to people and Space Western or not, one of the things that Card overlooked about the original series was that behind the fistfights, the pointy ears and the skirts, ST was, in each episode about ideas. Sometimes they were not deep.
Sometimes they were silly. But ideas they were. Spock communicating with the wounded Horta. What happens to the course of time if you prevent a famous social worker from dying at her appointed time? How do you impact a civilization if you overwhelm it with new technology - The Prime Directive stating that you MUST not.
The ST universe portrays an earth where most of earth’s social problems, poverty, energy, pollution, crime are solved. The problems to be faced are out there and we go out boldly to embrace them. It is the very spirit of Americanism and so it is bound to return.
Enterprise was interesting but ultimately a mistake. Star Fleet Academy might have been a better idea. A prequil with Jean Luc as a cadet if you wanted to go back in time a little. But now that has been done. A few years will pass and I think demand will grow again and a new ST will emerge. Perhaps it will take a decade, but I think now. ST is just too big a moneymaker for Paramount, et al.
But I think that as the technology for showing hard SF on TV has gotten much less expensive in the last few years, and this will continue with the new Apple and other new systems on the market, you will see even better higher quality special effects and even more sophisticated science as the audience readies for it.
In the mean time, hard core audiences have had the fun of seeing Shatner play brilliant oddball Denny Crane on The Firm and its sucessor Boston Public. Shatner is not Nimoy, but after seeing those performances I think one would have to agree that Shatner does have Charisma. Lots of Charisma. He just has so much fun at what he does, you never quite know what is going on in there anymore.
Peter
I presume you mean Boston Legal, unless Shatner got hired to teach high school and Principal Harper is getting on his case for shooting a phaser in class. 
“Is that a phaser I see before me?” is much better in its original Klingon.
BTW, I think Cliffy said it best for all of us.
I’d watch it. It would be an improvement over the recent offerings.
While writing the post I was distracted by several Images of Ms. Ryan as 7 of 9 who appears in much less form-fitting outfits in Boston Public.
She by the way achieved some notoriety in my home State of Illinois when the details of her sealed divorce documents with Senatorial Candidate Jack Ryan came out.
She came out smelling like a rose and he wound up smelling like an ex-candidate.
Coninued ST casting and costuming trends are part of the show’s long term sucess.
Peter
Braga is listed nowhere in the production or creative crew for that, if it’s even legitimate. (THANK OG!)