Jacqueline Lichtenberg

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Jacqueline Lichtenberg was a professional author and a member of the Star Trek fan fiction community. She has been involved in fandom since at least 1969

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[edit] General biography

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[edit] Timeline

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  • In 1969, Jacqueline began the Kraith series of interconnected Star Trek stories, some of the earliest Star Trek fan-fiction produced. These early stories appeared in the fanzine T Negative.[1] Also not slash fiction, some look at the Kraith stories as pre-cursors to slash with the close mental/telepathic bond between Kirk and Spock, the hurt/comfort and later BDSM themes.
  • At about the same time, in the late 1960s, Jacqueline began working on the Sime~Gen Universe stories with Jean Lorrah. These would become a popular series of professionally published science fiction novels and would generate their own fandom and fan-fiction.[2]
  • In 1972, Jacqueline started the Star Trek Welcommittee, a group that offered a central information exchange for Star Trek fans looking for information on conventions, fanzines, fan clubs, and news about the continued fandom for the series. Shirley Maiewski took over chairmanship of the Welcommittee in 1977.[Bacon-Smith, Camille. Enterprising Women Television Fandom and the Creation of Popular Myth. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania P, 1992.]
  • Star Trek Lives!, edited and written by Jacqueline Lichtenberg, Sondra Marshak and Joan Winston, was published in 1975. This book contained a chapter at the end of the book which examines Star Trek fan fiction and the Kirk/Spock relationship in fan fiction. This book is important because that last chapter helped formed a lot of the modern thought on Slash communities. Scholars still cite this source today.

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[edit] Fandoms

[edit] The science fiction - Star Trek fan rift: Jacqueline Lichtenberg's role

The relationship between Star Trek fen and the general science fiction community had been growing more acrimonious for several years preceeding 1974. There were several reasons for the schism. One involved the repeated attempts by Star Trek fans to have one of their fanzines win a Hugo award. They finally succeeded in getting a fanzine nominated in 1974 when Laura Basta and Jacqueline Lichtenberg were both nominated for best fanzine writer based solely on their Star Trek fan fiction zine material. The science fiction community did not think highly of Star Trek, finding it of an inferior quality, and were afraid that Star Trek would overshadow and marginalize other science fiction being produced at the time. The community was also upset about the amount of Star Trek fen who had invaded their fan space at WorldCon. These factors would set up the great schism and separation that happened later.

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