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Otherwords is a zine focusing on David Gerrold, a Star Trek script writer and sf novelist. For similar zines of this era, see List of Star Trek TOS Zines Published While the Show Was Still On the Air.
- Gerrold and Tribbles
- Gerrold and Fandom: Sometimes Complicated
- Works
- A Piece of The Action and A Retraction
- Gallery: Gerrold in Fanworks and at Fan Gatherings
- Meta
- Personal Websites
- External Sources
Gerrold wrote the script for one of the most popular Star Trek: TOS episodes, "The Trouble With Tribbles." Gerrold himself had a complicated relationship with tribbles. In 1969, Gerrold wrote: "... there are too many fans who have not realized that Star Trek is a broken promise, a vision of things that will never be. These are the rabid little trek...
Gerrold is known as the writer of the extremely popular Star Trek: TOS episode 'The Trouble with Tribbles," for his frequent convention appearances, for his marketing of toy tribbles, for his "dulcet voice selling original xeroxed scripts boom over the whining PA system" [at conventions], for what many fans felt to be controversial and offensive re...
Star Who?
Gerrold is the author of Star Who?, a 1974 fanwork published in the zine Beta Lyrae. It is a parody in script form and uses a bit of fan casting. The topic of Star Trek: TOS and Gene Roddenberry's creative mind and editing style using current political and celebrity figures. It is illustrated by Karen Flanery. The fan casting: 1. Captain Kirk = the actor Bela Lugosi as the character Dracula 2. Scotty = the politician Richard Nixon 3. Chekov = the actor Peter Lorre 4. Sulu = Mr. Jinks, a carto...
The Cloud Minders
Gerrold is credited with co-writing the original story from which Margaret Armen adapted the TOS episode "The Cloud Minders". According to the Internet Movie Database, he "conceived the original story on which this episode was based, an outline called 'Castle in the Sky'. He was deeply disappointed with the final script."
Blood and Fire
In 1987, Gerrold wrote a script for Star Trek: TNG which included two gay characters and touched upon the topic of homosexuality and AIDS. It was called "Blood and Fire".The script was turned down, and Gerrold left his job at Star Trek shortly after. In 1989, Gerrold sold copies of the script to raise money for AIDS-related charity. With Gerrold's permission, Carlos Pedraza rewrote "Blood and Fire" as a two-part episode for the fan series Star Trek: New Voyages (renamed Star Trek: Phase II)....
In 1974, A Piece of the Actionreferred to him as "his usual obnoxious but likable self." They printed a retraction in the next issue:
a fan's cartoon from Rigel #1, Phil Avram: "We dedicate this page to David Gerrold, who was always looking for the potty..."from the 1987 Equicon program book, artist is likely William Rotslerdetail from a 1973 con report for Starcon, artist is Bjo Trimblea cartoon by Kelly Freas, one of the guests of honor at Starcon—it portrays another guest of honor, David Gerrold, and is signed by both men. "This is an Auction - You're really supposed to bid AGA...Interviews
1. David Gerrold Answers Your Questions(1969) 2. David Gerrold Indepth(1973) 3. 2-5YM Interview with David Gerrold(1974) 4. Third Annual Emory Science Fiction and Fantasy Symposium Interview with Robert Bloch and David Gerrold(1983) 5. DraftTrek Interview with David Gerrold(1985)g 6. Trek Writer David Gerrold Looks Back(2011)
Essays
1. The Awful Offal(1969) 2. Pride & Prejudice, David Gerrold, from Starlog#43 (Trekkies, Trekkers, being a guest at cons) (February 1981) 3. David Gerrold's 1984 UFP Con Report(1984) 4. Open Letter to K/S Fandom by David Gerrold(1984) 5. Somebody asked me again what I thought about K/S fans(2013) 6. Star Trek was about social justice from day one(2015) 7. Just for the record, I always assumed Sulu was gay. That was a lot more fun than assuming Kirk and Spock were lovers.; (an essay on Gerrold...
Columns in "Starlog"
Gerrold was the author of a long-running series of columns in Starlog between April 1977 and June 1983. These columns generated many heated, strong opinions from fans in the magazine's letter column. After June 1983, Gerrold wrote many other articles that were not part of a regular column. Starlog is archived here. State of the Art:(April 1977-July 1979) 1. example: #4first “State of the Art” column (April 1977) 2. example: #7(about becoming the author of the novelization of Battle for the Pl...
David Gerrold Fan Club, no. 1 (August 1969)., Oversize document box: 2, Folder: 27. Willis E. McNelly Science Fiction Collection: Fanzine Samples, SC-2019-09. CSUF University Archives & Special Collections.
The War Against the Chtorr. Gerrold is the author of the War Against the Chtorr series of books, about an invasion of Earth by mysterious aliens: A Matter for Men (1983), A Day for Damnation (1985), A Rage for Revenge (1989), and A Season for Slaughter (1993).
Jul 17, 2015 · And, finally, most intimidating of all, I talked to David Gerrold (who scripted “ The Trouble with Tribbles ,” the most beloved of all TOS episodes; he later wrote a book of the same name on its making, and a pioneering reference work, The World of Star Trek, as well as two TAS adventures).
Jul 24, 2014 · But despite that, it was the most ambitious series in American television, because it invited the audience to think about ideas. At its best, classic Trek was a faint intimation of what real science fiction could be — the books, the stories, the sense of wonder — but at least it aspired …. Read More.
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Gerrold has never been one to shy away from speaking openly about his experience trying to do just that, specifically with Star Trek. “Gene Roddenberry promised a room full of 3,000 fans that we’d have gay characters on TNG,” he told me.
