Bjo Trimble

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Bjo Trimble
Born
Betty Jo Conway
Holdenville, Oklahoma, U.S.[1]
Occupation(s)Writer, small business co-owner

Betty JoAnne Trimble (née Conway; born August 15, 1933), known as Bjo (/ˈbiːdʒoʊ/, BEE-joh),[2] is an American science fiction fan and writer, initially entering fandom in the early 1950s.

Introduction to fandom

Trimble's introduction to

science fiction fanzines. Trimble says that she met future husband John Griffin Trimble under Forrest J Ackerman's piano, where several fans had taken refuge during a particularly crowded party. "John was in the Air Force, so he and I traded Stupid Office Stories and discovered we liked each other a lot."[1]

Fan activities

Trimble helped revive a flagging

Los Angeles Science Fiction Society (LASFS) in the late 1950s.[citation needed] In 1958, she put together the "Worldcon Futuristic Fashion Show" at Solacon, the 1958 16th World Science Fiction Convention. She ran once again in 1966 at Tricon, the 24th Worldcon, incidentally giving fandom a glimpse of three early Star Trek costumes. Trimble started and directed "Project Art Show", the first modern convention art show, in 1960. The success of Project Art Show led to art shows becoming a profitable part of most conventions, large and small.[3][4]

The Trimbles were part of the successful "Save Star Trek" campaign, generally credited with allowing the series to run for a third season rather than being canceled after two.

Martha Kent, in a film short called Superbman: The Other Movie. [citation needed
]

Trimble contributed to the first encyclopedic collection of data for Star Trek, the

Citadel Press in 1995. According to former Trek archivist Richard Arnold, the Concordance was used as a primary source of official canon by writers of the Star Trek Universe when he first started working at Paramount.[9]
In 1982, Trimble published a memoir of her experiences in Star Trek fandom entitled On the Good Ship Enterprise: My 15 Years with Star Trek.

In 1974, Trimble was among the first group of winners of the

DragonCon, the 6th North American Science Fiction Convention, as well as at many other science fiction and Star Trek conventions around the world. Bjo and John Trimble were the Fan Guests of Honor at the 60th Worldcon, ConJosé.[3]

The Trimbles, who owned and operated the business Griffin Dyeworks & Fiber Arts until 2015,[11] lived in Southern California.[12] In April 2024, it was announced John had died.

Notes

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Bjo Trimble: The Woman Who Saved Star Trek - Part 1". StarTrek.com. August 31, 2011. Archived from the original on September 13, 2011. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
  2. ^
    OCLC 901190328. Archived from the original
    (PDF) on May 16, 2005.
  3. ^ a b "Guest of Honor - Fans - John & Bjo Trimble". Fan History Project - Archive of ConJosé website. August 29, 2002. Archived from the original on September 21, 2004. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
  4. OCLC 421833302
    .
  5. ^ "Enterprise: The First Space Shuttle". Mental Floss. July 5, 2011. Archived from the original on March 17, 2015. Retrieved February 21, 2017. Star Trek fan Bjo Trimble already had experience in mobilizing trekkers; she had spearheaded a fan campaign to save the original Star Trek series from cancellation in 1967. That effort stretched the show's run into a third year. Trimble organized Star Trek fans in a new campaign to name the first space shuttle Enterprise instead of Constitution. The White House received somewhere between 10,000 and 40,000 letters urging the name change (although some estimates go as high as 200,000).
  6. ^ "Bjo Trimble: The Woman Who Saved Star Trek - Part 2". StarTrek.com. September 1, 2011. Archived from the original on October 8, 2011. Retrieved February 21, 2017.
  7. OCLC 939685133
    .
  8. OCLC 31707514
    .
  9. ^ Timothy W. Lynch (1991). "Richard Arnold: The Interview, part 1". Newsgroup: rec.arts.startrek. Retrieved 2009-09-21.
  10. ^ International Costumers' Guild (1992). "Bjo and John Trimble: 1992 Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient". Retrieved 2023-08-03.
  11. ^ "About Us – Griffin Dyeworks & Fiber Arts".
  12. ^ Trimble, Bjo. "About Griffin Dyeworks & Fiber Arts" bjotrimble blog

Further reading

External links
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