Just over fifty years ago, Paula Smith, the editor of a Star Trek fanzine, published a parody short story featuring Mary Sue, “the youngest lieutenant in the fleet – only fifteen and a half years old”, thus giving the world of fantasy fiction and science fiction the term “Mary Sue”. Given that the original Mary Sue was fifteen and a half, and fifty years have passed, this means that Mary Sue would technically now, at the age of sixty-five, be eligible for retirement in a l
