Orion
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Orion was an action-adventure Star Trek fanzine first published in May 1985 by Randall Landers.
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| Fandoms | Star Trek |
| Editor | Randall Landers |
| Publication Date | May 1985 to July 1996 |
| Type | fanfic |
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[edit] Introduction
After 21 issues of Stardate, Editor-in-Chief Randall Landers was forced to change the name of his fanzine from Stardate to Orion under threat of legal action from FASA, a Star Trek licensee. (The first issue of Orion was Orion 22.) Like Stardate, Orion was meant to be an action-adventure oriented fanzine, but featuring articles, reviews, trivia, artwork as well as the occasional romance, alternate-universe or hurt-comfort piece. The zine ceased publication as a result of a marketing decision (readers were increasingly reticent to purchase a latter fanzine issue without having purchased earlier issues). The publication which replaced Orion was Antares.
Many of the stories originally published in Orion became a part of the established canon of the Orion Universe.
From 1997 until 2008, Antares has published 17 issues, and still maintains an annual publication schedule with new issues released every spring.
[edit] Publication history
Orion 22
TOS anthology
Randall Landers, editor
May 1985
Orion 23
TOS anthology
Randall Landers, editor
December 1985
Orion 24
TOS anthology
Randall Landers, editor
March 1987
Orion 25
TOS anthology
Randall Landers, editor
September 1987
Orion 26
TOS anthology
Randall Landers, editor
March 1988
Orion 27
TOS anthology
Randall Landers, editor
August 1988
Orion 28
TOS anthology
Randall Landers, editor
July 1989
Orion 29
TOS anthology
Randall Landers, editor
February 1990
Orion 30
TOS anthology
Randall Landers, editor
September 1990
Orion 31
TOS anthology
Randall Landers, editor
March 1992
Orion 32
TOS anthology
Randall Landers, editor
October 1992
Orion 33
TOS anthology
Randall Landers, editor
July 1993
Orion 34
TOS anthology
Randall Landers, editor
July 1994
Orion 35
TOS anthology
Randall Landers, editor
June 1995
Orion 36
TOS anthology
Randall Landers, editor
July 1996
[edit] Fan Reaction
Fans have written plenty of letters-of-comments to Orion since its inception, overwhelmingly positive and very supportive. These letters can be found on-line on Randy Landers' ORION PRESS website.
