My uncle, his Trekness
I would kill or die for a new Star Trek series. I've been stuck in TOS for so long, the episode of TNG I just watched seemed disturbingly scientific.
Anyway, real reason for this post: In search of my Fire Red game (desperate to fill the Sinnoh side of my pokedex - I have 196 on the Nat. Dex and 140/151 on the Kanto Dex - which will be 144 when I beat Red and Zapdos gets her electric butt into mah ultra ball - bitch just will NOT get in D:<), I raided our garage and found a plastic bag with some magazines in and "Star Trek Convention" on the side.
Naturally I squeed and ran back into the house, asking my father who in our family was such a Trekkie that they dared grace a convention (something I will never do), and my dad told me that my uncle, who is 25 or something, was such a Trekkie back in the day, and still kinda is.
Now, back before the new movie, I hadn't watched a damn episode of TOS, and my uncle, to me, was all about the DS9. But these magazines in the bag were clearly TOS. And, apparently, my uncle was a MAJOR TOS fan, and my small child "I like Voyager" brain filtered this out. I am now currently raiding a few boxes for the possible!communicator that my dad half-remembers.
Anyway, the magazines are these. Does anyone know a site where I can judge whether they're worth anything? I mean, he must have bought them for a reason, but he's bumming in Italy, so I can't ask him. But it's like a little pre-internet history lesson...
Firstly, the little leaflet in the bag advertises the convention: 9 May - 6 September 1998 in Portsmouth (wow, classy). Inside the little leaflet, my uncle has:
DS9 Shiny bookmark
USS Voyager card with details on the back and LCARS number 0001
USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D card with same detail on the back
USS Enterprise Official Bridge Pass (D) which looks like the pass for the convention, although he didn't sign it.
Space Station VISA, with a number (which might be his credit card, so I won't put it here), also not signed.
So pretty ;____; My pokemon card collecting childhood is satisfied. There's also a sciency-nerdy advertisement booklet with warhammer, computer games, etc, [not pictured] which is kind of irrelevant. But, more importantly, the magazines!
All issues of "Star Trek Communicator"
Number 107 (30th Anniversary Issue/Interview with Nimoy)
Number 119 (New Dax [DS9] Issue)
Number 120 (Star Trek Insurrection Issue)
Number 121 (Borg Queen/Roxann Dawson had her baby issue)
Number 122 (Pre-end of DS9 Issue)
Number 123 (End of DS9 Issue)
Number 124 (DeForest Memorial Issue ;_____;)
Apart from lovely pictures, all the prices are in dollars, so I'm tempted to say that they aren't special for any reason apart from being in the UK. But, you know, it's so geeky to find this shit in my garage. I always consider myself a new wave Trek fan, despite loving VOY and DS9, because I don't think I fit the profile of an actual fan. Their standards are too high. FAR too high.
Also, I write porn of the characters.
My uncle is a bit ashamed of his Star Trekkyness, and I can understand it. I mean, fandom has acceptance, and is mostly anonymous, but 1998? That would have been so awkward for him, especially since he would have been... eleven? Twelve? Oh, my poor uncle. I must hug him when he next surfaces for money and laundry.
And ask him where this damn communicator is...
Anyway, real reason for this post: In search of my Fire Red game (desperate to fill the Sinnoh side of my pokedex - I have 196 on the Nat. Dex and 140/151 on the Kanto Dex - which will be 144 when I beat Red and Zapdos gets her electric butt into mah ultra ball - bitch just will NOT get in D:<), I raided our garage and found a plastic bag with some magazines in and "Star Trek Convention" on the side.
Naturally I squeed and ran back into the house, asking my father who in our family was such a Trekkie that they dared grace a convention (something I will never do), and my dad told me that my uncle, who is 25 or something, was such a Trekkie back in the day, and still kinda is.
Now, back before the new movie, I hadn't watched a damn episode of TOS, and my uncle, to me, was all about the DS9. But these magazines in the bag were clearly TOS. And, apparently, my uncle was a MAJOR TOS fan, and my small child "I like Voyager" brain filtered this out. I am now currently raiding a few boxes for the possible!communicator that my dad half-remembers.
Anyway, the magazines are these. Does anyone know a site where I can judge whether they're worth anything? I mean, he must have bought them for a reason, but he's bumming in Italy, so I can't ask him. But it's like a little pre-internet history lesson...
Firstly, the little leaflet in the bag advertises the convention: 9 May - 6 September 1998 in Portsmouth (wow, classy). Inside the little leaflet, my uncle has:
DS9 Shiny bookmark
USS Voyager card with details on the back and LCARS number 0001
USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D card with same detail on the back
USS Enterprise Official Bridge Pass (D) which looks like the pass for the convention, although he didn't sign it.
Space Station VISA, with a number (which might be his credit card, so I won't put it here), also not signed.
So pretty ;____; My pokemon card collecting childhood is satisfied. There's also a sciency-nerdy advertisement booklet with warhammer, computer games, etc, [not pictured] which is kind of irrelevant. But, more importantly, the magazines!
All issues of "Star Trek Communicator"
Number 107 (30th Anniversary Issue/Interview with Nimoy)
Number 119 (New Dax [DS9] Issue)
Number 120 (Star Trek Insurrection Issue)
Number 121 (Borg Queen/Roxann Dawson had her baby issue)
Number 122 (Pre-end of DS9 Issue)
Number 123 (End of DS9 Issue)
Number 124 (DeForest Memorial Issue ;_____;)
Apart from lovely pictures, all the prices are in dollars, so I'm tempted to say that they aren't special for any reason apart from being in the UK. But, you know, it's so geeky to find this shit in my garage. I always consider myself a new wave Trek fan, despite loving VOY and DS9, because I don't think I fit the profile of an actual fan. Their standards are too high. FAR too high.
Also, I write porn of the characters.
My uncle is a bit ashamed of his Star Trekkyness, and I can understand it. I mean, fandom has acceptance, and is mostly anonymous, but 1998? That would have been so awkward for him, especially since he would have been... eleven? Twelve? Oh, my poor uncle. I must hug him when he next surfaces for money and laundry.
And ask him where this damn communicator is...