Star Trek Original Series (TOS) Annotated Fanzine Index - Beyond Orion
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Beyond Orion     #1 (Jan 1977) - #2 (Jul 1977) - ?

#1 (1977)     #2 (1977)    

Beyond Orion #1 Ed.: Carol Hunterton, Jersey City, NJ; Jan. 1977, 104p.
"Beyond Orion" (p.3-68) / Lee Jaecks
Spock returns home to spend time with Amanda, who is dying of lymphoma.
"The Jelly Donut Memorandum" (p.71-76) / Lee Jaecks & Carolyn Venino
“Amok Time” spoof, with Spock obsessing about jelly donuts.
"Computer Readout" (p.77)
Trek jokes (the sound of punching a Vulcan on the nose? “T’Pau”)
"No Greater Monument" (p.83-94) / Lee Jaecks
Enterprise is called to retrieve Pike’s body from Talos; the Talosians, with no pets to care for anymore, commit mass suicide by causing Sulu to fire main phasers at them.
"Mid-Summer" (p.96-102) / Carolyn Venino
This one made no sense to me. Spock, ill, is running, trying to elude capture by Starfleet. Note says this story is an “interlude” in “Summer’s End, Pt. II” by D.T. Steiner in Metamorphosis #2.

Beyond Orion #2 Ed.: Carol Hunterton, Jersey City, NJ; July 1977, 104p.
* "Without Pomp or Circumstance" (p.3-18) / Leslye Lilker
Sahaj Series. Spock turns his panic-stricken son over to Sarek and Amanda to raise.
"Aftermath" (p.21-22) / Toni Cardinal
Vignette of Spock mourning Chapel's death.
"All that Glitters" (p.24-45) / Roberta Rogow & Carolyn Venino
Captain Koloth plots revenge for the gift of tribbles, infiltrating Enterprise with gifts of his own which make the crew belligerent. Best bit is Uhura telling Kirk what he can do with his hailing frequencies.
"Imitation of Life" (p.51) / Carol Hunterton
Vignette of Kirk in a dream world, insane after witnessing Spock's death.
"The Seventh Year" (p. 52-55) / Carolyn Venino
Sarek and Amanda. It's Time... no, not that Time. Cute.
"The Doleful Ballad" (p. 56-61) / Roberta Rogow
Entertaining filk of Tom Lehrer's "The Irish Ballad." Illustrated by Stephen Gray.
Reprinted from Tetrumbriant
"Descent" (p.62-68) / Martha J. Bonds
Kirk watches over Spock, who is recovering from torture suffered to save Kirk. Standard H/C.
"A Traveler Between" (p. 76-79) / Bev Volker
Kirk muses on Edith's sacrifice.
"The Last Uncharted World" (p. 81) / Mariann Hornlein
Vignette. Kirk and Spock head off to explore the afterlife together.
"And So To Bed" (p. 82) / Carol Hunterton
Vignette. A new take on McCoy's divorce - and drinking, tracing them to impotence.
"The Guardian Knot" (p. 92-102) / Jean L. Stevenson
Events of "Yesteryear" - and the return to "our" timeline - from Sarek's pov. Interesting premise, well-written.