April, 1980 NEWSLETTER No. 40 President, Janet Quarton, 15 Letter Daill, Cairnbaan, Lochgilphead, Argyll" Scotland. Vice President, Sheila Clark, 6 Craigmill Cottages, Strathmartine, by Dundee, Scotland. Committee, Beth Hallam, Flat 3, 36 Clapham Road; Bedford, England: Sylvia Billings, 49 Southampton Road,Far Cotton, Northampton,NN4 9EA, England. Valerie Piacentini, 20 Ardrossan Road, Saltcoats, Ayrshire, Scotland. Honorary JViembers: Gene Roddenberry, ~jajel Barrett, Hilliam Shatner, De Forest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Susan Sackett, Grace 1,00 \4hitnoy, Impert Evans, Sonni Cooper, Anne Jl'JcCaffroy, Anne Page, Bjo Trimble. , DUES U.K. & Eiro - £2.50 U;K. currency Europe - £4.50 airmail, £3.50 surface U.S.A. - t13.00 or £5.50 airmail, t8.50 or £3.50 surface. Australia & Japan - £6.00 airmail; £3.50 surface. The' U.S. dollar rate includes a one dollar bank clearing charge. Surface mail outside Europe can take a minimum of 2 - 3 months. Hi folks, As you can see it is newsletter time again, although this one has turned out to be more like a book. We had hoped to keep tho lengtp down a bit but we had a lot on'merchan­ dise to tell you and also a lot of comments on the movie. We decided to print as many comments as 1'10 could in this newsletter rather than spread them out bot1'leen a fe1'l nowsletters incase you got rather fed up reading them. At this point we don't plan to print any more movie comments as we think just about everything has been said, but if you feel y'qu really 1'Iant to make a comment on something Which is said about the movie in this n81;sletter send your comment to Sheila and we will consider printing it. Hhile on the subject of movie comments:rreaffirm what I said in the last newsletter about the movie. ,James Pauley dis%~ees with me which is his .right, but it is also my right to have my own opinion. ,I still say, that Shatner's acting was brilliant and that I liked the relationship as shorin between the characters even though it was subtie at times. I would have liked more relationship, but then I am a relationship fan. I know that Sheila and Valar;Le agreE with ma and judging by the results of the questionntl.:i:rE)stthe majori ty of you do as Ha11. \'ie have received' about 440 completed 'luestionnaires lihich isn't,too bad. I can't give you the exact' nwnber as I've still a couple to collect from Sheila. \10 plan to print the results of the questionnaires in the n8xt nowsletter, it was impossible to get ,them all 1'Iorked out in time for this one. Jviymother has been doing the first section of the form as well as a fe1'l of the movie qUGstions and sho. is pretty we11 up-to-date. One thing 1 can tell you is that Kirk, and, [,:pock are battling it out neck and neck to get the most votes a,s your favourite' character but \'ii11iam Shatner is well out in ,front as your favourite actor. tfJost of you enjoyed- tho ,ni'ovie and thought that it Has sti11 STAR TRgK and Gene's novel Has very popular.. The most anyone has seen' the movie seems to be 18 times. ' 1 must say that the way 1 judge a film 'is' by how' many times I 1'Iant to see it. STAR WARS bored me the second time ,round; I saH SUPERI~AN, 4 times in one Ifoek and ,1 'm I;ai ting for a video of it; I've only seen ST-T!'iP 7 times so far but that was s<ijley becal\se I didn't have the opportunity to'see it more often. I hope to see it every night 1'Ihen, it comGS to Lochgilphead and if you kneH w,hata dump our cinema ,HaS you rlOuld realise how much I must like the movie. ' A parsonal message to Kelly Dormes; ,I've rec8iv8d your story Kelloy and I'm hanging on to it till I can let Sheila S80 it. bhe Ni11 get back to you on it. 2 We usually get worried about the weather at the end of January and keep the newsletter short just in case but it is this time that we have been caught. Sheila just couldn'tg()t~he;t:e at thc weekend because of the snm;. She even had to dig a path through 4 inches of snow on Saturday morning to get her nowsletter ston:lils dOvln to the post office. It was just l"eky that we were both Hell ahead with our nil stencils for once or I'm not sure what we would have done. As it was with a number of phone calls I managed to complete my stencils ready to tie in with Sheila's. It has meant that three stencils have had to be stuck tOgether, one part typed by Sheila and the rest my me. I'm writing this Monday night (24th) and so far I've printed most of my section but I've not even read Sheila's so I'll actually have something to read this time after I print it. I'm, keeping" my fingens orossed that I get it all printed by Thursday night as we are plapni,ng to go to Saltcoats, to Valerie.'s at tho Heekend,to get it collated and ready to post. Then we can get it posted next Heek before ALBACON.' . ,Sheila, Valerie and ,I are of course all going to ALBACON and if it is anything like FAIRCON in should be fun. We will be showing films and probably videos of STAR TREK as well. , At this stage I dCfn'tknow how many. They have askod for them all but somehow I 'can't see'us, fitting 'in 64 episodes of STAR TREK at a SF Con. I have also been told that &~ATH is being shOHn as part of the main programme which should give some of you a chance to see it for the first time. , We will have a table at the con so VIe hope those of you Vlho go Vlill look us up. ' Foreign members will notice, VIe have had to put the dues up. Sorry about that but there VIas a large increase in postage rates and wo just oouldn't absorb it. We are offering surface mail dues for those of you Vlho Hant-:', to keep getting tho newsletters but don't mind if they arrive a couple of ,months late. To give you an idea of the postage rates these are the ones for this newsletter; U.K. 16tp, I<,1.)rope Air 65p, USA Air 8eh, Australia/ Japan Air 96p, Surface rate (al], countries) 36p. I admit this is the largestt neVlsletterwe have put out but even at 100gms it is 6oh-tt.o the USA and 70p to Australia. A rumour seems to be going round that the BBe have banned "Patterns Of lcorce".' I can't think how it started as going by the order the BBC have shown the episodes in before it Wasa't evon due to be screened in the last run. I had a lottor from Caroline Maokersey recently and she said on,e member had written to her telling her she Has banning "Patterns Of Force". She said", "It VIas news to mo." Unfortunately it seems as If i'is. Nackersey wen't be answering any STAR TREK mail in future. This is What she says, "STAR TREK is one of the many series for Which I am responsible. I havea:!.Hays in tho past endeavoured to answer personally letters from fans, of serhls who write to 'me but I can only allocate a eertain proportion of my time to this. The massive inundation from STAR TREK fans is now taking a disproportionate amount of time. In future I shall pass all STlill TREK co=espondenco to tho BBC's Programme Co=espondence Unit 1;ho normally deal with such querios from the vimling public." ' It is a pity ~1s. MaGKorsey won ',t be anm;ering any more of our mail as she has alVlays tried to answer querie's. lt also explains ',;hy some of you have been getting cards from the BBC. Ms. llJackm:'sey also said in her letter, "Tho whole question of the rejected episodes is currently under revieVl and no decision has yet been taken." Those of you who ordered copies of WILLIAliI SHATNER - LIVIG should have received your copies by nOH. I think they started arriving las't: Neek. Sheila has sent out the ones she received direot. ' The photOt,'I'aphs from the last order haven't, boen s'ent' out yet. A lot of them were printed in revorse and they have had to be redone. ~'ie hope theY1;ill come back the right Vlay this time. VI e won't have the next nevrsletter out till after the U.F.P. Con in ~Jay so we are hoping to seo a lot of you there. Don't hesitate to 'come up and speak to us if you see us - we won't bite your head off. Vie will of courso have a ,table there so bring plenty of money. The deadline for' anything for the next neWSletter is Nay 16th. If things arrivG late we do. try to fit them in but we maKe no promises. Once'that particular section is typed ~hat 1.S it.