Jenny Elson

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Name:	Jenny Elson
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Type:	writer, publisher
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Jenny Elson was an influential Star Trek: TOS fan.

She was a publisher, writer, and fan club founder.

from All Our Yesterdays, James Doohan and Jenny Elson, copied from an unknown newspaper along with the caption: "James Doohan talking with Jenny Elson, president of Leicester Star Trek Action Group."

She founded the publisher T.J. Publications. Jenny Elson was the Star Trek Welcommittee's contact in Britain.

Jenny is the founder/organizer of The Star Trek Action Group, J.D.I.F.C., James Doohan International Fan Club, and Hosato (official fan club of George Takei). She was president of the first and second British Star Trek conventions.

Elson was married to Terry Elson.

Elson passed away in 2024.

Meta

• Spartiate Spock (about the possibility that "Vulcan culture influenced the growth of Sparta in ancient Greece") (1973)
• It's the Difference that Counts (about the Enterprise's lack of diversity) (1973)
• Was Sickbay a Blooper? (implausibility of the Enterprise's medical facilities) (1973)
• The Inter-Relationships of Enterprise Crew Members (analysis of the Kirk-Spock, Kirk-McCoy, McCoy-Kirk, Spock-Kirk relationships, includes some light discussion of The Premise almost two full years before Diane Marchant said essentially the same thing in the response to her story, A Fragment Out of Time and the essay Pandora's Box... Again.) (1973)
• Watch Your Language (the American English spoken in Star Trek) (1974)
• Memories of STAG and Star Trek Fandom by Jenny and Terry Elson (1991)

Zines

Zines Elson published, printed, or contributed material to:

• 70 Orphicus
• The Alternate Factor
• The Angry Sunset
• Beta Niobe
• Beta Niobe Revisited
• Captain's Log
• The Dante Connection and Nor the Stars Shall Shine
• Enterprise Log Entries
• The Fenel Stones
• Gemini: the Flame and the Fire
• The Halls of the King
• House of Flame
• Kal-Isu-Wan
• McCoy
• Murasaki Journal
• Never and Always with Lighter Shades
• Noel
• One Last Wish Fulfilled & A Promise Kept
• The Possessed
• Remix
• Romulan Exchange
• The Search and Reflections
• Slave City & Noel

• Space-Time Continuum
• Starcluster
• Star Trek Action Group
• The Stars are Lonely
• Telemetry
• Tetrumbriant
• Trilogy
• Warp Factor
• When the Sun Shines
• Worlds Apart

Fan Comments

Just heard the sad news that Jenny Elson has died after a long illness. Jenny and her husband Terry organised a Star Trek club in 1973 and held the UK's first Star Trek minicon and weekend con in 1974. I got into Trek fandom through a letter in the Radio Times by the late Audrey Baker, so when I heard about the Elsons' Star Trek Action Group and plans for conventions and fanzines I was absolutely up for it. I met some of my best friends through sharing my love for the show through Trek fandom. Rest in peace, Jenny, as you voyage to new horizons.