I realized, while shaving yesterday, that it was ten years ago, this very week, that I discovered online Star Trek<\/i> fandom.<\/p>\n
And it was a very narrow part of fandom that I found.<\/p>\n
It was Star Trek<\/i> novels fandom. On the old Pocket Books Bulletin Board.<\/p>\n
A bunch of people I “met” ten years ago this week. Jim McCain. Alex Rosenzweig. David Henderson. Corey Tacker. Bob Manojlovich. John “JJ” Ordover. Within a year, people like Baerbel, and Gillian, and authors like Susan Shwartz. And in April ’98 I picked up a novelization of a FOX television movie called Gargantua<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Ten years. Star Trek<\/i> fandom.<\/p>\n
Things change in ten years. Things change a lot<\/i> in ten years.<\/p>\n
Raise a glass. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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