Mary Ellen Curtin
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Mary Ellen Curtin is a member of the Star Trek fan fiction community and fan historian.
Mary Ellen Curtin says on alt.startrek.creative.moderated on Dec 9 2002:
Katherine Langley has done great work looking for the first use
of the word "slash" (as opposed to the virgule, "/"). We have found very,
very few uses before "Night Tonight Spock" quit publication in 1985. By
1990 it starts to show up on Usenet -- before that I can find only a few
discussions of K/S in the googlegroups archive. Still in 1990 the FAQ for
rec.arts.startrek had the following definition:
K/S = Generally refers to the "liberal" writing style of some of the
less-accepted Trek books
