Tal Shaya #3     Ed. Cheree Townsend Cargill & Laura Virgil, Garland TX. August 1976, 56p.

Issue features silly tribble cartoons, and nicely done art spoofs of Spock as The Thinker and Kirk as David - and a nice cartoon of Bones scratching his back with a medical rattle.

"How Long the Night, How Bright the Stars" (p. 8-25) / Cheryl Rice

[Diamonds & Rust series, Chapter 2.]
Superspy Chantal Caberfae is recovering in Sickbay from a knee injury and a life-threatening reaction to a painkiller. She holds court, telling stories, until Kirk arrives and scares everybody off. McCoy, disturbed by Kirk's recent displays of foul temper, manipulates Kirk and Chantal into therapeutic conversation with one another. Not a lot of point to this one, but then, there doesn't have to be. The writing and characterization, as always, is good, though still waxing eloquent over figures and wardrobes.

 

"A Touch of Love" (p. 28-36) / Jacqueline Bielowicz

Despite McCoy's insistence that Spock is brain-dead after an encounter with the mind-sifter, Chapel demands to accompany Spock to a hospital on Vulcan, and convinces a telepathic healer to keep trying for contact, which ultimately succeeds in recovering his mind from its retreat. A little sappy, but an okay read.

 

"What the Well-Dressed Alien Is Wearing" (p. 38-44) / Linda Cappel

Portfolio of fashion designs. High-schooly.

 

"Wind" (p. 46-47) / Cheree Cargill

Eve Childress has had enough of Rigel & Ben, and makes plans to escape with her son.

 

"I'm Not Dead Yet" (p. 51-53) / Johanna Cantor

McCoy is suffering and hiding his xenopolycythemia symptoms, while his lab crew is working on some mysterious experiment - which, of course, turns out to be the cure, revealed at a party for him. Nice little vignette.