We were at zero altitude before we started this magazine.  I won't even tell you what it was like because I don't want to bother you.  Generally we felt we should emerge just a bit and that is what we have done.  You know that it took over ten years to get a man on the Moon, and the going here has been just as slow.  Our magazine was wobbling in space, but at last we have established a stable orbit.

     What are the signs that we have been successful at this? I have told you we've achieved a stable orbit and a cruising altitude, and I don't need to say why I consider this accomplished.  I am just talking, you know.  That's what my editorial consists of, just talk.

     But you know what I think this cruising altitude means to me because I have chosen to represent us in this issue as Captain Kirk and his crew, the original Trekkers.  I have never wanted to wear a Star Trek outfit, but I respect the show and feel like they are similar to us or vice versa in being able to say, “The initial leg of our journey has been accomplished.”  Of course, the apotheosis of our “boldly going where no man has gone before” was achieved in STAR WARS when they all fell into the garbage disposal system of the Death Star.  We know that sort of thing is what's ahead.  But it will have to wait for the next issue for us to represent ourselves as the Star Wars band, because we're in stable orbit, what I'm telling you about, and have not commenced any conflict.  When the ship that is our netzine starts getting hit, that's when a new and maturing attitude will start to show here. True and hearty men and women that have the Force and what-all climb out of the garbage, sullen and dismal but with a more realistic attitude, and unscummed.

     Thus we pursue our relentless odyssey, taking us to worlds unknown, but shapen in the art of fiction, made manifest by the crafter's tools.  We are apple-deaf pioneers with home art, students of Miskatonic University, with something a little bit different to say.  Sure, we forge ahead—we make as if to see the future.

     What do I think that future will be like?  Well, the government is showing more soul than it has been, and I think they may support the arts more, which would be quite innovative.  I do believe their next step will be to bring an end to war.  Eventually, we'll all get to heaven by using our own means.  The human race, once condemned as being “miserably mean” “manunkind”, will be vindicated and arise in a new innocence.

     It can't happen?  Everything has to happen at least once.  After all, we've been doing it the other way for a long time, and there's always a desire to go for something that's new.

     Here we be, taking our steps into the future.