THE MAKING OF THE TREK CONVENTIONS, OR HOW TO THROW A PARTY FOR 12,000 OF YOUR MOST INTIMATE FRIENDS by Joan Winston. Published by Doubleday & Company, Garden City, New York, 1977. Ex-library book with usual stamps & markings. Good hardcover in good dust jacket in library mylar wrapper. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text. 8vo, illustrated, 252 pages. Written by Joan Winston, one of the small group of fans known as “The Committee” who organized the original Star Trek convention in New York in 1972, this book is a firsthand insider chronicle of how a single-subject television convention was invented almost by accident. Winston was able to secure Roddenberry&#######x27;s attendance at the first convention, and she also arranged for tapes of episodes, a blooper reel, and a truck of space memorabilia from NASA, details that make this less a fan memoir than a working record of how modern media fandom organized itself for the first time. The book matters because it documents a genuine turning point in popular culture: the moment television fandom moved from scattered letter-writing campaigns and mimeographed zines into organized, ticketed public gathering. The very first con, in 1972, expected a few hundred people and wound up hosting 3000 rabid fans eager to hear Gene Roddenberry and Isaac Asimov, proof that television audiences could organize with the seriousness of any subculture. For researchers of media fandom, convention culture, and the prehistory of contemporary fan conventions, Winston&#######x27;s account, expanded from her own chapter in the earlier Star Trek Lives! Remains a primary source written by someone who was literally in the room. Interest in this material has grown considerably as fan studies has matured into a recognized academic field, with scholars increasingly tracing the origins of organized convention culture, cosplay, and fan community-building back to the small circle of women, Winston prominent among them, who built the template in the early 1970s. As one of only two book-length firsthand accounts of the earliest Star Trek conventions, alongside Star Trek Lives! This title holds a distinct place in the collecting of early media-fandom ephemera, feminist popular-culture history, and twentieth-century broadcast history archives.