Dec 30 2008
New York Times Article About Joan Winston (Star Trek “Superfan”)
The New York Times has a nice article on Joan Winston, a Star Trek “superfan” who recently passed away at the age of 77. She was one of the early Star Trek convention organizers, and we all owe her a debt of gratitude for her contribution to fandom and conventions as a whole.
I encourage you take a look at the original obituary (here), and the NYT article posted a few days ago (here).
A quick excerpt:
“But there’s another way of looking at such fans: as extremely active media consumers. And there’s another way of looking at the Trek convention culture Winston helped create: as like-minded individuals gathering to connect over a shared taste. In other words, Winston’s world was a template for what is now widely seen as the mainstream-media-consumer paradigm of the 21st century.”
