Spoilers Una Chin-Riley Character Thread

[Ar-Pharazon]

DC Comics did 9 "Star Trek Annuals" from 1984 to 1994.

There was another series of comics "Star Trek Annuals" from 1970-1981 (World & Whitman?)

 

[yenny]

The book was real, I use to own it. I likely wrote down the wrong title down. The title was Star Trek The official fan club magazine Annual. Star Trek Communicator might still have it. It likely will have to be re-publish if they still have it, likely they do.

 

[Donald G]

The book was real, I use to own it. I likely wrote down the wrong title down. The title was Star Trek The official fan club magazine Annual. Star Trek Communicator might still have it. It likely will have to be re-publish if they still have it, likely they do.

Thanks, yenny.

Unfortunately, Memory Alpha doesn't have pictures of the covers of the Official Fan Club Magazine going back to 1981 - MA's cover pictures start with the May, 1982 issue - and the numbering scheme they're using doesn't indicate which issue was classified as an annual.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Actually, Una Chen-Riley back story was publish in one of the first Star Trek paperback in 1981. The Title was the paperback Star Trek Fan Club Annual something. The same book had the story of the rise of the Klingon empire, the Romulan war, back Story of Sarek and Amanda and other short stories I can't remember.
In the back story of Una Chen- Riley, she was the oldest child and she was name Una, meaning number one. They were descendants of Augments that left Earth near the end of the Eugenics War, they name the planet they found after a ancient kingdom on Earth. Una wanted to join Star Fleet, but her people didn't want her to. So she join Star Fleet anyway without her people knowing about it. And she kept the secret of her people from Star Fleet until now. Una back story was written by Gene Roddenbarry himself.
Una home planet was mention in several Star Trek Books.

The back story of Sarek and Amanda is a story of when they first meet. Amanda was marry to someone else, Amanda and her first husband had a Daughter. She was offer a teacher job on Vulcan. Her husband told her no, not to take the job, cause he was a member of the Anti- alien group. She take the job anyway and he had the school blown up with her and their daughter in the school. Sarek was part of the rescue team, he was the one that found Amanda and her daughter. After that she file for a divorce from her husband. Their daughter name was Elisabeth. Amanda had no choice but let her daughter live with her parents cause of the visiting rights of her first husband. The back story of Sarek and Amanda was written by the same guy whom wrote Journey To Babel.

Maybe from this series from Bantam?

Una back story was written by Gene Roddenbarry himself.

The only backstory for Number One written by Roddenberry I'm aware of is the short character description from his original outline/proposal.

 

[yenny]

I may have find the Star Trek books I'm was referring to. It's The Best of Trek edit by Walter Irwin. It's either 2 or 3 or 4. One of them should what I've mention on the first page of this thread. You can find them and read them at Goodread. The only thing is whether if I've remember correctly.

 

[Nerys Myk]

I may have find the Star Trek books I'm was referring to. It's The Best of Trek edit by Walter Irwin. It's either 2 or 3 or 4. One of them should what I've mention on the first page of this thread. You can find them and read them at Goodread. The only thing is whether if I've remember correctly.

Wasn't that mostly fanfic and fanzine articles? Non-licensed stuff.

 

[Donald G]

I may have find the Star Trek books I'm was referring to. It's The Best of Trek edit by Walter Irwin. It's either 2 or 3 or 4. One of them should what I've mention on the first page of this thread. You can find them and read them at Goodread. The only thing is whether if I've remember correctly.

I read those collections when they came out and have reread them for several years later. There's nothing in those volumes matching your memories of Number One's backstory and certainly nothing written by Gene Roddenberry, nor do I remember anything matching your memories of the Sarek/Amanda backstory written by Dorothy Fontana about a daughter named Elisabeth.

I do remember one Best of Trek writer being fond of the idea that Number One was Christine Chapel's much older sister and gave her the name Arianna.

No article or essay in the Best of Trek collections was written by anyone connected with the production of Star Trek. Anything that appeared in those pages was pure fan speculation and largely a product of individual fans' imaginations.

I'm not trying to be a jerk about this, and I'm sorry if I'm coming across as such.

 

[dupersuper]

Amanda and her first husband had a Daughter. She was offer a teacher job on Vulcan. Her husband told her no, not to take the job, cause he was a member of the Anti- alien group. She take the job anyway and he had the school blown up with her and their daughter in the school. Sarek was part of the rescue team, he was the one that found Amanda and her daughter. After that she file for a divorce from her husband. Their daughter name was Elisabeth. Amanda had no choice but let her daughter live with her parents cause of the visiting rights of her first husband. The back story of Sarek and Amanda was written by the same guy whom wrote Journey To Babel.

Yet another Spock sibling!

 

[yenny]

The Best of Trek mostly were interviews with actors, actress, producers, director and other that made Star Trek, as well as short stories.
Never the less, they took those fan created stories and put them in Star Trek The Final Frontier, Star Trek Enterprise, Star Discovery and Star Trek Strange New World.
It would be up to the creators and writers of Star Trek Strange New Worlds if they wanted to bring in Spock haft sister. Spock only would have seen her only when his parents, Sarek and Amanda had business on Earth. Which means he knows little about her.

 

[Tuskin38]

You're just making shit up.

 

[FredH]

The Best of Trek mostly were interviews with actors, actress, producers, director and other that made Star Trek, as well as short stories.
Never the less, they took those fan created stories and put them in Star Trek The Final Frontier, Star Trek Enterprise, Star Discovery and Star Trek Strange New World.
It would be up to the creators and writers of Star Trek Strange New Worlds if they wanted to bring in Spock haft sister. Spock only would have seen her only when his parents, Sarek and Amanda had business on Earth. Which means he knows little about her.

None of this is true. The Best of Trek books did not have stories beyond the occasional parody, and did not run interviews. It ran essays written by fans, usually amateur “literary criticism” or personal essays about this or that aspect of Trek, and much “speculative nonfiction” solving various continuity mysteries, usually in ways that were certainly never adopted by canon.

 

[yenny]

You're just making shit up.

I'm not making it up, you and others can believe me or not. I just wish I've never had lost the book itself and still own it. So I would been able know the real title, publisher, writers and editors of the book. All I've know that I bought the book at a book store in the Williams center in downtown Tulsa OK.
Unless someone else still own the same book, most likely some one that isn't a member of Trekbbs, cause someone on here would told me either I've remember incorrectly or not, instead of writing, You're making shit up. Otherwise the book is lost to Star Trek, and history and no one will know I'm telling the truth except me, cause the book no longer exist.

 

[Jedi Marso]

Maybe from this series from Bantam?

I remember those books. I had two or three of them during the late 70's /early 80's. Like a lot of other stuff from that time, I wish like hell I'd held on to them. I remember the stories being so / so, but the cover art was fuggin' awesome. Some of the latter often found its way into those 70's art books like Space Wars, Worlds, and Weapons, and so on.

 

[Tuskin38]

Otherwise the book is lost to Star Trek, and history and no one will know I'm telling the truth except me, cause the book no longer exist.

How convenient for you.

 

[Jack Wolfe]

I'm not making it up, you and others can believe me or not. I just wish I've never had lost the book itself and still own it. So I would been able know the real title, publisher, writers and editors of the book. All I've know that I bought the book at a book store in the Williams center in downtown Tulsa OK.
Unless someone else still own the same book, most likely some one that isn't a member of Trekbbs, cause someone on here would told me either I've remember incorrectly or not, instead of writing, You're making shit up. Otherwise the book is lost to Star Trek, and history and no one will know I'm telling the truth except me, cause the book no longer exist.

Even if it exists, it's apocrypha. Inauthentic fan fiction. Unsanctioned, unsolicited musings in a fanzine. It won't have any bearing on the past or future of Star Trek.

It obviously matters to you. Great. But it's nowhere near as important as you're making it out to be.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

I didn't know she was an Illyrian. I thought it was a bit of an odd way to develop the character... But now I'm reading that it's a bit of a deep cut?

Very cool.

 

[Donald G]

The Best of Trek mostly were interviews with actors, actress, producers, director and other that made Star Trek, as well as short stories.
Never the less, they took those fan created stories and put them in Star Trek The Final Frontier, Star Trek Enterprise, Star Discovery and Star Trek Strange New World.
It would be up to the creators and writers of Star Trek Strange New Worlds if they wanted to bring in Spock haft sister. Spock only would have seen her only when his parents, Sarek and Amanda had business on Earth. Which means he knows little about her.

There was one interview each with Walter Koenig and Grace Lee Whitney in the first Best of Trek volume and coverage of a convention speech by George Takei elsewhere in that same volume. IIRC, there was also an essay by Russell Bates, who wrote "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth" for TAS, but I think that he had a recurring column running under the title of "99 Character Universe" in the magazine format zine, TREK.

I also think Bates' collaborator, David Wise, was quoted in an essay in a later volume.

The essays in the Best of Trek collections generally did not include short stories. They did include parodies from time to time, usually written by Kiel Stuart. If you push your definition, I guess that you could include the speculative history in BoT vol. 2 of the Eugenics Wars told in chronological timeline form which matched very little that was told onscreen and was spun whole cloth from the fanwriter's imagination, another speculative biographical sketch of Jim Kirk (which I quite liked at the time), and another speculative future history of the Fall of the Federation.

After Volume Two, those kinds of more immersive fictional speculative articles mostly faded away, to be replaced by the types of amateur literary criticism, personal essays, and speculative nonfiction of the type FredH describes. [Volumes One, Two, Three, and Six were my favorite collections of those books, BTW. My copies of the books still exist after three cross-country moves, but they're long buried in boxes in my garage and largely inaccessible at the moment.]

But, again, I have no memories of any of those essays postulating a backstory for Number One involving genetically engineered augments, nor one involving Amanda's putative first husband and a daughter named Elisabeth. [I will grant the possibility that the latter may exist, but not the former.]

You're overselling the importance of an unlicensed collection of fan essays and claiming that they had more legitimacy and influence on modern Trek than the evidence suggests.

 

[yenny]

There was one interview each with Walter Koenig and Grace Lee Whitney in the first Best of Trek volume and coverage of a convention speech by George Takei elsewhere in that same volume. IIRC, there was also an essay by Russell Bates, who wrote "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth" for TAS, but I think that he had a recurring column running under the title of "99 Character Universe" in the magazine format zine, TREK.

I also think Bates' collaborator, David Wise, was quoted in an essay in a later volume.

The essays in the Best of Trek collections generally did not include short stories. They did include parodies from time to time, usually written by Kiel Stuart. If you push your definition, I guess that you could include the speculative history in BoT vol. 2 of the Eugenics Wars told in chronological timeline form which matched very little that was told onscreen and was spun whole cloth from the fanwriter's imagination, another speculative biographical sketch of Jim Kirk (which I quite liked at the time), and another speculative future history of the Fall of the Federation.

After Volume Two, those kinds of more immersive fictional speculative articles mostly faded away, to be replaced by the types of amateur literary criticism, personal essays, and speculative nonfiction of the type FredH describes. [Volumes One, Two, Three, and Six were my favorite collections of those books, BTW. My copies of the books still exist after three cross-country moves, but they're long buried in boxes in my garage and largely inaccessible at the moment.]

But, again, I have no memories of any of those essays postulating a backstory for Number One involving genetically engineered augments, nor one involving Amanda's putative first husband and a daughter named Elisabeth. [I will grant the possibility that the latter may exist, but not the former.]

You're overselling the importance of an unlicensed collection of fan essays and claiming that they had more legitimacy and influence on modern Trek than the evidence suggests.

I'm not sure that stories I've remember were in the best of trek. If you do find those stories, it will be in the one that had how the Romulan war was fought and how Kahless united the Klingons home world. That it was a desert planet name Kling.
I did seen a story, I think in issue 3, title The life and Career of Spock. This one does mention Amanda being a teacher, But does not mention she had a husband or a daughter before she and Sarek meet, Or even the school she was teaching at being blown up by a anti-alien. group.
I think I've read a article in a star trek fan magazine. Of a star trek writer being ask, where he get his ideals and inspiration from in writing great star trek stories. He answer from the fans themself.
So if a fan wrote a parody of Number One being from a world of where it inhabitants were a genetic enhance race, they going write that in for that character.
So Una was born as a genetic enhance baby from a genetic enhance parent on a planet with genetic enhance people that live on it.

 

[FredH]

I remember those books. I had two or three of them during the late 70's /early 80's. Like a lot of other stuff from that time, I wish like hell I'd held on to them. I remember the stories being so / so, but the cover art was fuggin' awesome. Some of the latter often found its way into those 70's art books like Space Wars, Worlds, and Weapons, and so on.

There were only two, alas; I wish there had been more.

 

[Bornin1980something]

It was mention in the back story, not just her having special genetic abilities, her race had those special genetic abilities as well. Like super smart, fast and strong.

Looks like they've found their Alara.