Comments on: Convention Pioneer Joan Winston Has Passed Away

By: Karen L. MacLeod

Karen L. MacLeod — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:32:05 +0000

Please note that the image used on this Trek Movie site is NOT Joan Winston by consensus of her many friends and STAR TREK LIVES, co-author Jacqueline Lichtenberg.

A website has been made in Joan’s honor since this past April, and we welcome contributions to it. If the Trek Movie site owners want a photo of Joan, because what you posted is NOT her, I will be glad to provide it.

http://www.simegen.com/joan.html

Karen L. MacLeod
Freelance Editor — Joan’s friend for more than 20 years

By: PromoBoy

PromoBoy — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:40:15 +0000

To paraphrase Captain Kirk….
“As much to the crew of the Enterprise, I owe you my thanks.”

Rest in peace, Joan. Your passion and devotion saved Star Trek —
changed lives– and made history.

By: stelpavlou

stelpavlou — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 04:39:23 +0000

I’m very sad to hear this. She encouraged me to write back in the early 1990s. She read an old, long since lost manuscript of mine, and called me up. We spent hours on the phone talking about Trek for a number of weeks. I’m sad I never got to meet her in person.

By: Jacqueline Lichtenberg

Jacqueline Lichtenberg — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:17:54 +0000

I could NOT read all these lovely comments without crying my head off!

I’ve posted to Joanie’s NTTimes Guestbook on
http://www.legacy.com/NYTIMES/DeathNotices.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=117338745

I hope everyone will sign in at that Guestbook.

And of course I’ve posted to the simegen.com site where the eulogy delivered at the funeral by Anne Pinzow is posted, quoting a lot of people.

Jacqueline Lichtenberg
Co-Author of Star Trek Lives!
http://www.slantedconcept.com

By: ksmsscu

ksmsscu — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:28:07 +0000

My condolences to the Winston family. I met this gracious, caring, funny lady at the first con in NYC in ‘71. She and a few others boldly went where no fan had gone before. Gae gazint, through the Guardian and into the Multiverse, Joan — You’re not really gone as long as we remember you.

By: Mr. Bob Dobalina

Mr. Bob Dobalina — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:04:03 +0000

A heartfelt “thank you” for all she has done. Star Trek Lives was the very first Trek book I ever owned and I devoured it when I first got it from cover to cover. While Trek can go on forever in different incarnations, it will never see the likes of dedicated fans like Joan Winston again. My prayers are with her family, may she rest in peace.

By: simonkey

simonkey — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:30:39 +0000

from such examples mr JJ should pay attention…………
R.I.P

By: Midge Baker

Midge Baker — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 11:55:50 +0000

Memorial tributes to Joanie Winston can be read and posted on the Sime~Gen website, co-owned by her co-author, Jacqueline Lichtenberg. We at Sime~Gen invite you to visit:

http://www.simegen.com/sgfandom/rimonslibrary/cz/cz24/JoanWinston.html

By: DrFate

DrFate — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:40:52 +0000

We owe much to the original generation of fans, best personified in Joannie Winston.

I fully expect that in historical terms Trek’s notable impact won’t be the show itself as much as the cultural phenomena and possibilities it engendered. The true legacy of Star Trek will be the empowerment of fandom.

The fact that you can find the word Trekkie in the dictionary is owed as much to Joannie Winston as Gene Roddenberry.

By: MrAtoz

MrAtoz — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:32:01 +0000

so true #25 ^
so sad…..
bye bye Joan….
thank you