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#5 (1978)   #6 (1979)      #10 (1981)     #13 (1982)    

In a Different Reality #5
Ed. Marguerite Krause, Intragalactic Underground Press, Urbana IL, September 1978, 55p.

"Sweet Sorrow" (p. 3-8) / Diana Walter

Spock, promoted to the Constellation II, makes his farewells to Scott, McCoy & Kirk.

"McCoy On: The Party" (p. 12-14) / Marguerite Krause

McCoy's musings on the ship Christmas party.

"Runaway" (p. 15-24) / Marcia Sales & Marguerite Krause

No ST characters, but Starfleet appears in this story of a boy running off from his colony farm to join a gang of space pirates.

"The Coming of Stiber" (p. 26-51) / Marguerite Krause

Spock is married to Marcia/T'Marse Saken, a Vulcan-Human hybrid with leanings to her human side. The story details their sudden need to take leave in their cabin during Spock's pon farr, McCoy's struggle with the ramifications of the resulting pregnancy, an attack that leaves Kirk incapacitated, Marcia injured, and Spock in charge, having to rescue a bunch of ambassadors willy-nilly. Spock, T'Marse and Baby Stiber (named for Jim - Tiberius) go off to set up an exploratory scientific vessel which will be staffed by compatible families, a little space utopia.

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In a Different Reality #6
Ed. Marguerite Krause, Intragalactic Underground Press, Urbana IL, March 1979, 58p.

"Four Interludes" (p. 3, 9, 29, 57) / Marguerite Krause

Nicely written musings of... 1. Kirk, talking to his ceiling about his delayed reassignment and turning the captaincy over to Sulu; 2. Spock, on his and T'Marse's new and very human-like son Leonard; 3. McCoy, taping to Joanna about Commodore Kirk's success commanding his dreadnought and fleet and Spock's domestic happiness; and 4. Vignette in which Spock's sons Stiber and Leonard want to take home a dragon.

"Oh, Noah" (p. 5-7) / Dave Witzany

Fun little sci-fi spoof of the Noah story in which Gahd is an alien bureaucrat under orders from the Privy Council to get rid of humanity.

"A Ship Divided" (p. 10-27) / Diana Walter & Penny Watkins

[shows small-type title "Warp Factor II" - reprint? or subtitle?]
The ixed Human/Vulcan crewof Excelsior, under Captain T'Lana, is experiencing heightened racial tensions devolving into gang warfare in the corridors. Some excellent writing of sundry confrontations before it is revealed to be the result of leaking gas tanks in sickbay.

"When I Die, Before I Wake" (p. 30-56) / J. Richard Laredo

Starts out as a very nice mystery when the Enterprise encounters itself -- lifeless from an encounter with a second Doomsday Machine, all hands dead. The resolution involves a cyborg alien using Kirk's corpse's mind to activate a "machine" Kirk which is made of stuff powerful enough to take out the Doomsday device. From there it gets ever more complicated and metaphysical.

 

In a Different Reality #10
Ed. Marguerite Krause, Intragalactic Underground Press, St. Louis Park, MN, 1981, 72p.

"Hear the Small One’s Thunder" (p. 5-7) / J. Richard Laredo

Non-ST fantasy

"Preliminary" (p. 9-11) / Charlotte Davis

Stonn / T’Pring story - T’Pring is now Stonn’s chattel.

"Montage" (p. 12-18) / Cheryl Petterson & Susan Sizemore

The first of a series of connected, rather charming and witty, Mary Sue stories in this issue. Ruth Valley, an Antari with empathic healing powers, a computer rating equal to Spock’s, a daddy high up in the Fleet, astonishing work efficiency, and a complete disregard for authority, is assigned to the Enterprise after doing her cadet stint there. This plotless story pretty much just sets the scene. She becomes Sulu’s lover, calls Kirk ‘Bwana,’ beats Spock at chess, and establishes a hostile relationship with McCoy.

* "My Friend, the Witch Doctor" (p. 20-31) / Cheryl Petterson & Susan Sizemore

The best of this set. Amidst witty little scenes following Ruth’s foibles, idiosyncrasies and love affairs, hostilities between McCoy and Ruth escalate (with McCoy even being so petty as to deny her coffee) until an epidemic on the ship forces them to acknowledge each other’s expertise and cooperate. Ruth realizes that she cannot cure, only heal; McCoy ends up calling her “Ruthie” and all is well.

"A Time-Honored Tradition" (p. 32) / Susan Sizemore

Vignette - the wake for Ruth’s roommate, killed downplanet by some carnivore.

"It’s Not Nice To Fool Mother Nature" (p. 33-60) / Cheryl Petterson

The inevitable Mary Sue/pon farr combo, but cleverly told. Ruth’s new roomie is Jilla Majiir, Indiian, but recently widowed from her Vulcan husband Selar. Selar had treated her genetically to help her become Vulcan; unfortunately this sends her into pon farr with no husband, but bound by strict Indiian custom not to remarry. At this point the story degenerates into silly romp as Ruth takes charge, forcing Spock to help Jilla in her extremity -- for four days, just as the ship is caught in some field. McCoy eventually comes up with an antidote (with the help of his test rabbits Jimboy and Ruth). A fed-up Kirk insists that Ruth act as lure to Spock while they retrieve Jilla. Ruth gets her comeuppance when Spock attacks her, and Kirk and McCoy decline to rescue her. McCoy’s antidote makes Jilla fall in love with Sulu for a week, but she gets better and goes back to being married to the dead Selar.

"Wild Goose Chase" (p. 60-69) / Cheryl Petterson

The Mary Sue romp descends straight into farce. Jilla and Ruth are kidnapped, drugged, decorated up and sold as sultry pets, while angry Daddy Ambassador sends Enterprise chasing after them.

POEM: "McCoy's Lament" (p. 19) / Cheryl Newsome

McCoy’s trials, complete with cute illos.

"Gemini Tale" (p. 4-30) / Marguerite Krause

[Sequel to "Growing Up" in IADR #7]
[Sequel to this story is "A Time For Every Purpose" in IADR #8]
In this series, Spock is bonded to Vulcan Marcia/T'Marse, with whom he has sons Stiber and Leonard and daughter T'Cim. Spock's family, another Vulcan family, some Andorians and some Humans are all flying the ship Na'Guryam under Spock's command, taking sundry contract jobs.
In this episode, Spock is stranded on a planet with two Andorian brothers and a party of hostile civilian humans after his passenger ship crashes. The Na'Guryam is prevented from coming to the rescue, though T'Marse can sense Spock's difficulties, by theft of their warp drive among other problems. With pon farr coming on, Spock goes off to die. Just in time, the Betelgeuse arrives with Kirk and McCoy aboard, beams T'Marse and engineer Wetzel Thomas (who, as a human, can stand to be around her in these trying times) aboard and whisks them off to save Spock. The rescue results in a pair of telepathic twins 15 months later. About a year before Spock's next Time is due, he receives a telepathic distress call from Kirk... leading to the next installment.

"Recognition" (p. 32-37) / Charlotte Davis

Continuation of the Stonn/T'Pring saga.

"The Man in the Mirror" (p. 40-48) / David C. Petterson

Non-ST fantasy. Man does battle with his doppelganger, only to find that his wife's doppelganger has replaced her.

"T'was the Nightingale" (p. 52-58) / Cheryl Petterson

Sulu and Jilla have been in love for 8 months, but Jilla refuses to consummate the relationship because of her culture's insistence on faithfulness to her dead husband. With a little help from some song lyrics, Sulu convinces her to "go on as three."