Orion Press

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Orion Press
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OwnerRandall Landers
Websitewww.orionpressfanzines.com
Alexa rank10,631,448 (December 2019)[1]
CommercialNo
Launched1979; 45 years ago (1979)

Orion Press is a fanzine press run by Randall Landers and has been a publisher of Star Trek fan fiction from 1979 until 2015. Orion Press began as Stardate Press in 1979, and published 21 issues of the fanzine Stardate until a dispute with a Paramount Pictures licensee forced a name change to Orion and Orion Press which published an additional 15 fanzines (Orion 22 - 36).

Stardate was a general interest fanzine with an emphasis on action-adventure, especially Klingon culture, and also published a number of non-fiction and fictitious articles, trivia, cartoons, and other things of interest to the average Star Trek fans. In addition to Stardate/Orion, Orion Press also published hundreds of other fanzines including Delta Quadrant (a Star Trek: Voyager-oriented fanzine), Idylls (a relationship-oriented fanzine), Involution (a Jean-Luc Picard-oriented fanzine), Number One (a Riker-oriented fanzine), Outpost (a Star Trek: Deep Space Nine-oriented fanzine), and many other titles, including novellas and even an Orion Press Lexicon.

Orion Press maintains its Classic Trek fan fiction on-line, along with articles, a look at episode origins, unseen elements from Star Trek episodes (i.e. deleted scenes), interviews with Star Trek writers and crew, starships, and uniforms.

Orion Press ceased printing its publications in 2013 when Randall Landers sold the print shop he owned. Since that time, Landers has produced more than 75 Star Trek fan films as Potemkin Pictures.

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