A review by jarrahpenguin
The Best of Trek: From the Magazine for Star Trek Fans by Walter Irwin

5.0

These collection of essays that featured in the 1970s fanzine Trek are so fascinating, and this volume had a few pieces that were unexpectedly spicy! A few essays weren't really of interest to me, like explorations of the science behind communication in Trek, or musings on the time travel questions presented by the existence of the Preservers, but I'm glad that people were exploring this stuff in such detail, just as Star Trek fans do today. One of the highlights for me was a piece contemplating the status of women in the Federation, and the contradictions between Starfleet's stated egalitarian values and how women were actually depicted on screen - the same kind of stuff we look into on our podcast, Women at Warp. So cool to see more evidence of those conversations happening early in the fandom.