Anyone know what became of this? And by association, Star Station Aurora and Mastercom Data Center? Were these all projects of Todd Guenther's? Yes, even after all this time, I'm still learning about fandom... There's a lot out there.
--Jonah
Posted by Akula (Member # 319) on :
Well, after the great purge by paramount, he disapeared until recently when he had a www.mastercomdatacenter.com this site was never updated and has since disapeared.
Posted by Akula (Member # 319) on :
Also Jackills site recently got updated.
Posted by Masao (Member # 232) on :
I used to be a member of the GEC. It was run by a fellow named Roy Firestone in Oregon. The fanzine "Logbook" (printed on paper and distributed physically by the US Postal Service!!!) started in the early 90s and ran until about 3 years ago. I was a member for the last 2 years or so. My early museum articles first appeared there. Other members included Alex Rosenzweig, Mark Wilson, David Mueller, Mike Rupprecht, and Eric Kristiensen (Jackill). As far as I know Todd Guenther wasn't a member. The GEC was killed by the Internet.
Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :
quote:Originally posted by Akula: Also Jackills site recently got updated.
Just been there. Still has nothing. It's been like that for over a year or so. He only "updated" by saying he's still around and still too busy to work on this little side project and the website.
Posted by NeghVar (Member # 62) on :
As I recall Roy's wife got really sick...hence he stopped doing anything for the GEC...
Later! Art
Posted by Peregrinus (Member # 504) on :
Boy I hate when reality screws up a perfectly good fantasy life...
All right. Specifically, I'm looking for the material that my researches have led me to GEC to find -- in this case, the further development of the Belknap family. I have Ships of the Star Fleet, Starfleet Prototype, and Starship Design, and I thought all that there was on the Belknap family was in those books, but now I've found out about an Excel class and an Impervious class, and further listings of the Ascension-class Dreadnoughts -- all supposedly from GEC.
It's embarassing every time I have a gap in my Treknical fandom collection pointed out, so give a guy a hand, huh?
--Jonah
P.S. So what's Todd's current status? He did work with Rick on the Enterprise-D blueprints, after all...
[ March 26, 2002, 14:12: Message edited by: Peregrinus ]
Posted by Masao (Member # 232) on :
P: I have a few years' worth of GEC Logbooks. I'll see what I can find.
Todd Guenther has a site here: http://www.mastercomdata.com/ His email is [email protected] is you want to contact him directly (I never have). He also runs a printing business in MA (http://www.businesswest.com/guide01_adagencies.html). He posted to a Blood, Sweat & Tears message board as recently as November '01, so he's apparently alive.
Posted by Treknophyle (Member # 509) on :
When I wrote 'Prototype' & 'Starship Design', the Belknap had already preceeded me. It also preceeded 'Ships of the Star Fleet'. I believe it was originally brought out in a small magazine publication by Todd - but the title escapes me. I've got it somewhere in my cellar/archives.
The design intriged me - since the upper section of the dorsal made adding a third nacelle easy and esthetically pleasing.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
The magazine was "Starship Design," Dave. You did "Starfleet Dynamics," remember? (I know..old age & all that.)
I remember when I picked up SD at a con. I was so excited. I fooled myself into thinking it was a real magazine that came out every month published by fandom. Imagine my sadness when I found out the truth.
Chris Wallace did an updated-for-2378 version of SOTSF & posted it online. I can't remember the URL, but I did grab the 5 PDF files if anybody wants.
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
There is a site where Wallace, Rosenzweig and others have created dozens of Adobe PDFs is he style of either SotSF or Prototype.. i printed them out at school (96 pages, and look at the lab monitors turn pale! bawahahahah) and stapled them together, commenting to people around that stuff like that used to cost loads of ducket at conventions. ill try and find the site.. the internet has made it way too easy to publish though, there are enough mistakes or inconsistencies to make it not as fn as back when Franz Joseph and SotSF had their own self contained, internally consistent (except for NCC 1017) Star Trek universe.
their flagship publication on that site is called Dockyard Review, shuold be easy to find in a search engine, i dont have the URL at my fingertips
Posted by Hunter (Member # 611) on :
the url is web page and is presnetly up to volume 5
Posted by thesonofodin (Member # 1025) on :
Has anyone been able to find any of the old GEC publications?
Posted by Dukhat (Member # 341) on :
Since no one’s posted here for 18 years, I’d say the answer is “no.”
Posted by Capt. Kaiser (Member # 10511) on :
I hope someone does scan them and put them on google drive
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