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Issue 94 * STARFLEET: The International Star Trek Fan Association * August/September 1999 USPS

017-671

IC '99!!

Linda Kloempken and PJ Trotter hide their faces asGreg Trotter looks on during the "Great Salad

Caper" (see centerfold for full story!)[picture by Dennis "Onions" Gray]

Chase Masterson, SpecialGuest of Honor at Starfleet's

International Conference(Aug. 6-8, 1999; Charlotte,

NC)[picture by Joan Pierce]

Mike Smith and PJ Trotter giving out promotions during the Saturday morning session. Seen in picture l-r: MikeSmith, PJ Trotter, Tom Monaghan, Robert Westfall (in rear with red beret), and Tony Rowley

[picture by Wendy Fillmore]

Jeannette Maddoxand Sue Hampton,former Commander

and Vice Com-mander,

STARFLEET[picture by Wendy

Fillmore]

[Cake picture submitted by Bob Vosseller]

New address for CQ submissions - end of page 3 Web Awards - page 6 Academy Awards - page 8 STARFLEET Awards - page 12 STARFLEET Promotions - page 13

STARFLEET merchandise on sale now online at http://www.sfi.org/quartermaster/

• Communiqué • Issue 94

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Commander, STARFLEETMichael D Smith200 Hiawatha Blvd.Oakland, NJ [email protected]

Chief of StaffTony RowleyPO Box 272Upper Darby, PA [email protected]

Internal AuditorPosition [email protected]

TreasurerCher SchleighP.O. Box 93West Point, PA [email protected]

Inspector GeneralRobert Westfall13214 West 62nd TerraceBox 138Shawnee, KS [email protected]

Director, PersonnelMark Vinson1047 Cottonwood TrBenbrook, TX 76126

Director, PromotionsPJ Trotter528 OttawaLeavenworth, KS [email protected]

Awards DepartmentSteve Strasser2323 N Woodlawn #310Wichita, KS [email protected]

Recruiting ServicesRon Fell331-D W. Main St.Lexington, SC [email protected]

Constitutional CommitteeCoordinatorKurt Roithinger1209 SE 89thPortland, OR [email protected]

STARFLEET CSRRobbie Lewis, Editor5394 N Street NEMagnolia, Ohio [email protected]

Vice Commander

Vice Commander, STARFLEETCharles FreasPO Box 8942Amarillo, TX [email protected]

Chief of StaffDonna Friesen12037 Viers Mill Road, #301Wheaton, Maryland [email protected]

International CharitiesCoordinatorAmy Alexander111 Oak Street, Apt FBoone, NC [email protected]

Ronald McDonald HouseCharities (can tabs)Lorrie Nelson4219 E Cheltenham AvPhiladelphia, PA [email protected]

Stampede ProgramLynn EvansPO Box 100Highland Springs, VA 23075-0100

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OCP - R1,2,3,4,10,17Becky Thane5818 Stream Pond CourtCentreville, VA [email protected]://members.aol.com/BeckyThane/OCP.html

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FDC ProgramDustin Williamsc/o USS Quanah ParkerP.O. Box 94353Lubbock TX [email protected]

Capt. Dallas Vinson176 Co Rd. 606Hanceville, Al. [email protected]

FDC Chaplains/CounselorsDennis RayburnP. O. Box 61Puryear, TN [email protected]

Operations

Chief of OperationsLes RickardPO Box 22Lexington, NC [email protected]

Chief of Staff, Vessel RegistryTom Monaghan1341 Maplewood AvenueNorfolk, VA [email protected]

Senior Vice ChiefMatt Myers3419 Pleasant Ridge RoadState Road, NC [email protected]

Vice Chief - EastJ.C. Cohen108 Ferris PlaceIthaca NY [email protected]

Vice Chief - WestAndrea Haag7312 PinehurstDearborn, MI [email protected]

Vice Chief - InternationalChris Wallace9301 Avondale Rd NE#D2022Redmond, WA [email protected]

Armed Services ProgramBarbara Paul110 Napier AveWarner Robins, GA [email protected]

Correspondence ChaptersMichelle FanelliPO Box 591874Houston, TX [email protected]

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Communique STARFLEET

Table of ContentsIC ‘99!....................................................................................................... ......1STARFLEET Directory..............................................................................2-3From The Top................................................................................................4CompOps.......................................................................................................4Second Thoughts.................................................................................... ......4FLEET Operations.................................................................................. ......5Hailing Frequencies............................................................................... ......63rd Annual Web Awards...................................................................... ......6ShOC........................................................................................................ ......7Communique Corner......................................................................................7Academy News...................................................................................... ......8Academy Awards.........................................................................................8Academy Application.............................................................................9-10STARFLEET International Awards.............................................. ...........12STARFLEET International Application....................................... ...........12STARFLEET Promotions................................................................ ...........13Request for Manuals (ShOC/START/MOM)........................................13Institute of Military Studies at IC ‘99........................................... ...........13NEW - Department of Graphic Design........................................ ...........14OTS.................................................................................................... ...........14Wall of Honor.................................................................................. ...........15DTS.................................................................................................... ...........15Outback Incident/The Great Salad Caper (centerfold)............. ......16-17OPERATION: EAGLE News......................................................... ...........18USS Charleston for Ronald McDonald House............................. ...........19USS Morning Star report............................................................................19USS Shiloh supports Ronald McDonald House.......................... ...........19USS Normandy launches!...........................................................................20Upcoming Conventions................................................................. ......21-22National Transplant Assistance Fund.......................................... ...........22Star Trek Fans (editorial)...........................................................................23VoRCON Review............................................................................ ......24-25Star Trek Experience Review....................................................................26De Kelley Memorial Fund (reminder).....................................................26Lost Footage (of Gene Roddenberry series)................................ ...........27Are you ready for NYE2000?!?.................................................................27Warped Reactions (editorial)................................................................ ....28Julian Fleming Fund Raiser at Shore Leave................................ ...........29Talaxian Trade Show...................................................................... ...........30IC ‘99 Photos.................................................................................... ...........31IC 2000 - Burlington, VT............................................................................32

Please send directory updates to [email protected] or to the postal address shown below.

Aug/Sept 1999 •

Contact InformationDirector, Graphic DesignKristi Fell122 Fox Run LaneColumbia, SC 29210 [email protected]

Shuttle Operations

Chief of Shuttle OperationsDennis Gray3014 Kromer AvenueEverett, WA [email protected]

Sr. Vice Chief, Shuttle OperationsDenine Malotte528 OttawaLeavenworth, KS [email protected]: [email protected]

Vice Chief, Shuttle OperationsTom Rutledge9805 NE 116 St., Ste. 7105Kirkland, WA 98034

Staff AssistantWilliam Bassett2652 W Hampden AveEnglewood, CO [email protected]

Computer Operations

Membership ProcessingPO Box 96Greenbelt, MD 20768-0096FAX: 419-793-7976

Chief of Computer OperationsJesse Smith5126 Niagara PlaceCollege Park, MD [email protected]

Vice Chief - Membership ServicesTeri Smith5126 Niagara PlaceCollege Park, MD [email protected]

Aide to the ChiefMark H. Anbinder1063 Warren Rd. #6Ithaca, NY [email protected]

Chapter Roster RequestsBlair Learn11604 King's Arrow CourtGermantown, MD [email protected]

Membership Packet DistributionRoy Sesler805 Post Ave.Chesapeake, VA [email protected]

Staff ConsultantSal Lizard49 Vine StreetNorthfield, VT [email protected]

AcademyCommandantMarlene Miller461 Harmony LaneCampbell, OH [email protected]

Vice Commandant (Admin)Tom Restivo1218 Stillmeadow Place #1DFrederick, MD [email protected]

Vice Commandant (Online)Joe Podesta643 Richmond CourtRamsey, NJ [email protected]

Region CoordinatorsRegion OneCarolyn DonnerP.O. Box 158Hammersville, OH [email protected]

Region TwoPete Mohney1105 Oak Creek TrailBirmingham, AL [email protected]

Region ThreeBrad PensePO Box 1756Coppell, TX [email protected]

Region FourEd NowlinPO Box 494781Redding, CA [email protected]

Region FiveKurt Roithinger1209 SE 89thPortland, OR [email protected]

Region SixDavid Kloempken5636 Sheridan Ave S.Minneapolis, MN [email protected]

Region SevenBob Vosseller202 8th AveOrtley Beach, NJ [email protected]

Region NineJurgen Puype403, ZwijnaardsesteenwegB-9000 [email protected]

Region TenPaul M Reid1050 Beverley PlaceVictoria, BC V8S 3Z8, [email protected]

Region ElevenJennifer YatesPO Box 103Harbord, NSW [email protected]

Region TwelveWade Hoover805 Mechanic #4Emporia KS [email protected]

Region ThirteenRichard Smith49997 Downing Ct.Shelby, MI [email protected]

Region FifteenJoe Ruttar22 Marine AveClinton, CT [email protected]

Region SeventeenKeira Russell-Strong888 W 180 SouthOrem, UT [email protected]

SFMC

Commandant, STARFLEETMarine CorpsBrian Davis2237 S GlendaleWitchita, KS 67218

Deputy Commandant of theSTARFLEET Marine CorpsLes RickardP.O. Box 22Lexington, NC [email protected]

Existing Fan Club ProgramDennis RayburnP. O. Box 61Puryear, TN [email protected]

Chapter Assistance ProgramPeter Lutz62 Columbia St.Swampscott, MA [email protected]

Online OperationsDavid McCabe2 Saint Teresa DriveCharleston, SC [email protected]

CommunicationsChief of CommunicationsGordon Goldberg330 Haven Ave, 3CNew York, NY [email protected]

Sr Vice Chief, Net ServicesAllyson DyarPO Box 941Kirkland, WA [email protected]

Vice Chief, CommuniqueWendy Fillmore72 Dickens RoadNorth Brunswick, NJ [email protected]

Vice Chief, Stellar VisionsTodd Brugmans91 Hillcrest RoadWarren, NJ [email protected]

Vice Chief, Web ConsultantsEd NowlinPO Box 494781Redding, CA [email protected]

Director, Diplomatic CorpsJeffrey Higdon1019 N. Court Street #2Rockford, IL [email protected], or,[email protected]

Int’l Translation CorpsAndrea Haag, Director7312 PinehurstDearborn, MI [email protected]

Int’l Translation CorpsMartin Lessem, Deputy [email protected]

Commanding Officer,FORCES COMMANDWade OlsonRt. 3 Box 626Madison, FL [email protected]

Commanding Officer,SUPPORT COMMANDSuzanne Davis2237 S GlendaleWitchita, KS [email protected]

Commanding Officer,TRAINING COMMANDKevin McNulty3820 McFarlane DriveTallahassee, FL [email protected]

Sergeant Major of theSTARFLEET Marine CorpsScott Grant116 Durgin RoadBennington, NH [email protected]

SFMC WEBMASTERJohn “Kiwi” Kane4314-C2 Commonwealth Ave.Charlotte, NC [email protected]

GRAPHICS ARTISTMichael McGowan16 Hedge DriveSpringfield, IL [email protected]

SFMC NEWSLETTER EDITOR“Attention On Deck”Alex Trevino, Jr815 East DrexelSan Antonio, TX [email protected]

PLEASE NOTE NEW ADDRESS FOR NEWCQ EDITOR, MANDI HERRMANN. Pleasesend any directory entry corrections for futureissues via e-mail to [email protected], or via postalmail to Communiqué, 9908 Berrywood Drive,Ladson, SC 29456. Please do not count onCommuniqué staff discovering new addresseselsewhere. We’re very clever, and sometimesseem clairvoyant, but the Amazing Randy de-bunked our apparent psychic abilities last week.Sorry.

CQ Deadlines

The deadline for each issue of theSTARFLEET Communiqué newsletter is the15th of the month prior to the first monthof the cover date. For example, the dead-line for Issue 93, the June/July issue, wasJuly 15th, 1999. Please get material in ontime, to expedite the production of thenewsletter!

CQ#95 Deadline:September 15th, 1999

CQ#96 Deadline:November 15th, 1999


Second Thoughts...Admiral Charles Freas, Vice Commander, STARFLEET

From the Top...Fleet Admiral Michael D. Smith, Commander, STARFLEET

CompOps...Rear Admiral Jesse Smith, Chief, Computer Operations

Wow.

That was the word to describe my feel-ings during the opening ceremonies for the1999 STARFLEET International Conference.There was truly a packed house this year inCharlotte, NC as STARFLEET celebrated 25years of Trek Fandom. Co-Chairmen MattMyers and Marlon Ragsdale put on quite ashow for us this year, and I thank them againfor the wonderful time we all had down inCharlotte. Next year’s IC team, headed byCindi DiMidio up in Region 15 have theirwork cut out for them to try and top 1999,but I’m sure that we’ll have just as much funin Burlington, VT (Home of Ben and Jerry’sIce Cream!!!) as we did in Charlotte.

Special thanks go to Chase Masterson,our guest of honor at the IC this year, and tothe personal band of the Commander,STARFLEET: Angry Red Planet, led by FleetCaptain Kurt Pfieffer of the USS Cydonia inRegion 12 as well as to everyone who at-tended and helped raise $2100 for Caringfor Babies with Aids, donated 24 pints ofblood to the local Red Cross Chapter, andhelped fund a full STARFLEET Scholarshipover the course of the IC weekend.

As we move into the fall season, I hopethat our chapters across the organizationwill continue to help support STARFLEET’s

Scholarship funds as you have consistentlyall year long. In addition, as we move to-wards the end of the year, don’t forget toparticipate in the various holiday events andcharities, such as Marine Corps’ Toys forTots and the many local food and clothingdrives that go on during the Yuletide sea-son.

I’m leaving this article a bit short thistime around, as I’m sure there are manywonderful reports about the IC and the hap-penings there. So, keep turning those pagesand we’ll see you in sixty!

Regards,Mike

Greetings to the finest of the Fleet! Ihope that everyone had fun atSTARFLEET’s 25th anniversary Interna-tional Convention. So much fun that ev-eryone is already making their plans to at-tend the next one in Burlington, Vermont,over the September, 2000, Labor Day week-end. I know that I am! Fall in Vermont ...cool days, the changing of the seasons, glo-rious gold and red foliage, ... YES! Maryand I took our honeymoon in New En-gland, and I can’t wait to take two weeksoff and go back! If you don’t know thedetails about our next IC, check outwww.sfi.org/ic2000.

I was reading a story recently, thinkingabout recruiting for STARFLEET and whyI like being around Fleeters (evenKlingons!). The story reads, in part, “‘whatsurprises you most about mankind?’ Godanswered: ‘That they are too easily bored

of the joy of being children and are in a rushto grow up, but then long to be childrenagain.’” That kinda sums up us humans,doesn’t it? Going to the IC, to Regional con-ventions, and to local Fleet events gives usa great chance to act like kids again. Andwhat’s wrong with that? Nothing. That’spart of the reason why we joined up in thefirst place ... because it looked like fun!

Another part of the story, about lessonswe should learn in life, reads: “To learn thatwhat is most valuable is not what they havein their lives, but whom they have in theirlives.” That’s another reason why we joinedFleet, and why I remain a member. Becausethe principals and ideas which Fleet standsfor enriches our lives, giving us a sense ofbeing part of a greater whole, of a truly in-ternational community. That’s another rea-son to recruit your friends into Fleet.

Another lesson the story teaches is “thattwo people can look at the same thing, andsee it totally differently.” Differences ofopinion can be a good thing. Think howboring life would be if we all agreed abouteverything. Fleeters respect the diversityof sight mankind has been given. We valueother viewpoints, believing that there is in-herent value in infinite diversity and infi-nite combinations. If you do too, thenyou’ve found your element.

As we travel our journey together, weshould remember these lessons. Go to ev-ery Fleet event you can. Be active. Gatherothers to share the journey with you. Re-cruit new members to your chapters andinto the Fleet, and let’s all have fun to-gether. That’s what STARFLEET is allabout. Live long, and prosper!

Fleet AdmiralMichael D.

Smith, on stageat the 1999

InternationalConference[picture by

WendyFillmore]

Wow! That was the word that most ev-eryone I talked to used to sum up the entireInternational Conference although someused two words “Wow, twice.” I’m surethat there will be plenty of stories this issue,so I am not going to add too much, but I dowant to touch on a few upcoming changesthat affect membership processing and Iwant to send out my share of thank yous tothose that were most helpful over the week-end.

The IC committee did a fantastic job anddeserves all the kudos that they got and willget in the future. It was a fantastic weekendfilled with fun, friends, and food, what morecould anyone want?

Over the course of the weekend, severalpeople gave their assistance and deserve aspecial thank you. Jack Hopkins did an out-standing job as the ECAB coordinator andwas gracious enough to ensure that I wasable to get copies of a proposal that was togo before the AB the next day. Thank youJack! Secondly, a special thank you to DeeSmith who was kind enough to take mearound town when needed and was alwaysthere to make me laugh. You made myweekend and I’m glad to have gotten achance to know you better <hiss>.

Other thanks go to the Match Game pan-elists (JC, Robert Westfall, Scott Akers, andthe other end of the table, sorry, I don’t thinkI ever got your names). The Match Game

was the funniest thing that I saw that week-end, I was glad to be a part of it, and lookforward to doing it next year! And of course,my traveling companions who made the tripthat much better, Dixie, Leslie, Mark, JC andTony. I enjoyed the hours of conversationsthat occurred while we were stuck togetherfor seven hours.

At the International Conference, I an-nounced that Membership Processing nowhas a fax number. 419-793-7976 can be usedto fax credit card applications, addresschanges, roster updates or any other busi-ness that you may need to conduct with us.

I also touched on the fact that we needyour address changes! The Communiquéis now being mailed second class. As a re-sult, STARFLEET receives address correc-tions, which cost fifty cents each. The lastissue we received over 80 corrections. Inaddition to costing the fleet money, it de-lays you, or may prevent you from receiv-ing a CQ issue. When you move, PLEASEbe sure to let us know.

During the course of the ECAB meetings,a proposal was brought before the board toput a more defining limit on family mem-berships. The constitution currently limitsfamily memberships to those that live in thesame geographic area and are related byblood or similar bond. In the past this hasgenerally been interpreted to allowing mem-bers living in the same household who re-quest a reasonable amount of members ontheir membership. However, to preventabuse, the EC and the AB felt that a reason-able limit would need to be placed in writ-ing.

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R-L: Vice Chief of Computer Operations Teri Smithand Chief of Computer Operations Jesse Smith

outside the hotel due to the “fire drill” during thebanquet [picture by Wendy Fillmore]

Executive Committee Pages

Aug/Sept 1999 •

Fleet Operations...Major General Les Rickard, Chief, STARFLEET Operations


Greetings once again from the office ofthe Ops Chief. As usual this article will beshort and sweet. In this article are a coupleof important things. One of which is the an-nouncement of the new District Vice Chief,International. Another is the process bywhich I will be addressing the chapters thatare still showing as below membershipstrength. So lets get started.

DISTRICT VICE CHIEF, INTERNA-TIONAL

Well, I received a large number of appli-cations for this opening. I truly wish I couldhave asked more than one of you to servebut that isn’t possible. So let me introducethe newest member of TEAM OPS, RAdmChris Wallace. Chris has served in fleet formany years in varying capacities. Chris wasthe founder of what now serves as DTS.

Chris will be contacting all internationalchapters shortly with his contact informa-tion and a welcome. But so that you have itnow here it available below is the completelisting of all current DVCs :

DVC EastRegions 1, 2, 7, 15Cmdr JC Cohen108 Ferris St.Ithaca, NY [email protected] *OR*[email protected]

DVC WestRegions 3, 4, 5, 6, 12, 17FCapt Andrea Haag7312 PinehurstDearborn, MI [email protected] *OR*[email protected]

DVC InternationalRegions 9, 10, 11, 13RAdm Chris Wallace9301 Avondale Rd NE#D2022Redmond, WA [email protected] *OR*[email protected]

CHAPTER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

I have been in contact with Pete Lutz, Di-rector of CAP. Pete has informed me thatparticipation in the Chapter Assistance Pro-gram is still not quite up to par. CAP is de-signed to assist those chapters that want helpin staying afloat within Fleet while takingsteps to regain their membership numbers.

It is not a requirement of those chaptersthat are below numbers to participate. How-

ever, if the chapter chooses not to partici-pate then that could result in a more rapiddecommissioning process. Decommission-ing a chapter is truly my saddest duty, butunfortunately I am required to perform thatfunction if a chapter does not meet the chap-ter maintainance requirements.

I will be sending out letters to all chap-ters who have not responded to CAP. In thisletter there will be a list of all unassignedmembers that STARFLEET is aware of sothat you may look against your rolls andmake adjustments accordingly. Along withthis will be a form letter for you to answer afew questions and return to the Director ofCAP. If Operations does not receive a timelyresponse (within 30 days) from this letter thechapter will then be sent a final “Stand By”Letter advising them they will be decommis-sioned in 30 days.

As I said before I truly dislike this partof my job but I have to play fair and every-one has to abide by the same rules. Lets worktogether to keep all of our chapters active!

LEAVING DRYDOCK

Below is a list of Chapters that have beencommissioned since the beginning of 1999and its Command Crew.

USS GUADALCANAL NCC-6021Kodiak Class BattleshipMGN Loujaue McPherson,Commanding OfficerSGM Nathan B. Champine,Executive OfficerCommissioned February 1, 1999

USS LEGEND NCC-75019Sovereign Class CruiserCapt Patrick Maes, Commanding OfficerCdr David Adams, Executive OfficerCommissioned February 1, 1999

USS BANTING NCC-17220Banting Class CruiserCapt Bernard Guindard,Commanding OfficerLt Dave Blaser, Executive OfficerCommissioned February 1, 1999

USS INTREPID NCC-74655Intrepid Class CruiserCapt Robert Schneider,Commanding OfficerLCdr Robert Sliney, Executive OfficerCommissioned March 7, 1999

USS LIGHTYEAR NCC-74217Defiant Class EscortCapt Pat Teachout, Commanding OfficerLCdr Helen Monath, Executive OfficerCommissioned March 7, 1999

USS PANTHER CITY NCC-63543Akira Class BattlecruiserComm Mark Vincent,Commanding OfficerLCdr Cherie Vinson, Executive OfficerCommissioned March 7, 1999

USS NORMANDY NCC-36000Normandy Class SupercarrierMGen Les Rickard, Commanding OfficerVAdm Tom Monaghan,Executive OfficerCommissioned April 17, 1999

USS BELGICA NCC-72301Peacekeeper ClassLarge Exploratory CruiserCapt Jeroen Vantroyen,Commanding OfficerCdr Steve Haelterman, Executive OfficerCommissioned May 5, 1999

USS SEQUOYAH NCC-2043Excelsior Class Heavy CruiserFCapt Jeremy Trent,Commanding OfficerCdr Nathan Head, Executive OfficerCommissioned May 19, 1999

USS PROTECTOR NCC-75023Sovereign Class CruiserCapt Vanessa Taylor,Commanding OfficerCdr Sarah Craig, Executive OfficerCommissioned May 19, 1999

USS ULTIMATUM NCC-10534Ambassador Class Heavy CruiserCapt John R. Watson,Commanding OfficerCdr Wayne Killough, Executive OfficerCommissioned June 28, 1999

USS ORBIT JET NCC-75024Sovereign Class CruiserCapt Jeffrey K Salamon,Commanding OfficerMajor Robyn Winans, Executive OfficerCommissioned June 29, 1999

USS RAVEN NCC-1162Akyazi Class Perimeter Action ShipCapt Trisha Rohal, Commanding OfficerLCdr Chuck Dobbins, Executive OfficerCommissioned July 10, 1999

USS EARHART NCC-26199Ambassador Class Heavy CruiserCapt. Glenda Bruner,Commanding OfficerLCdr Pat Siga, Executive OfficerCommissioned August 8, 1999

USS ASGARD NCC-72402Capital Class Heavy Space Control ShipCapt Darlene Harper,Commanding OfficerFCapt Cynthia Walker, Executive OfficerCommissioned August 8, 1999

USS STARLORD NCC-74225Defiant Class EscortFCapt Joe Podesta, Commanding OfficerFAdm Micheal D. Smith,Executive OfficerCommissioned August 8, 1999

The new kids on the block as of this re-port are: Ultimatum, Orbit Jet, Raven,Earhart, Asgard and Starlord. The last threewere being commissioned prior to this re-port being written.

Welcome aboard to all of these newChapters. May the winds be at your back!

FINAL WORDS

Well the final words are going to be shortas usual. I would like to thank everyone whoattended the recent 1999 STARFLEET Inter-national Conference. It was a long road forsome of us to get that show put on for you.As the Internal Program Chair I can attestto many sleepless nights leading up to Au-gust 6th 1999. But I can say that I wouldn’ttrade that eighteen months of hard work foranything.

To see the cheers and smiles from thecrowd when we made that grand entranceFriday night I knew that our hard workwasn’t for nothing. To see the same smilesand, yes, some tears on Sunday when we allhad to leave also told me that we had puton a good show and everyone had been leftwith some good memories of a great IC.

From myself, as well as the entire IC99Committee, I thank you all for attending andam glad that everyone had a great time.Here’s looking forward to seeing you allnext year in Vermont!

That’s it for this little article. Take careand Semper Fidelis.

Hailing frequencies...Vice Admiral Gordon Goldberg, Chief, STARFLEET Communications



During the discussion, the issue of thecost of memberships was raised. Severalkey points were made that lead to a restruc-turing of membership fees, which will takeplace at the beginning of next year. Fore-most, membership fees have not been raisedin at least 8 years. During that time, the costof postage has risen almost every year. Sec-ondly, the costs have not been distributedequally among the membership. Smallermemberships of one and two members havebeen carrying most of the financial burden.

The AB approved AB 99-04, which willrestructure membership rates. Single, twomember and three member membershipswill remain the same, however, ever mem-ber after three will cost an extra three dol-lars and there will be a cap of six memberson a family membership. These new rates

will go into effect with all membershipsmailed after January 1, 2000. Membersshould feel free to renew before then at theold membership rates.

With the even distribution of member-ship costs, the EC and AB will be lookingfor ways to improve your membership ma-terials. We are hopeful that this will lead tothe return of small gifts to the membershippackets and raise other ideas to improveyour memberships.

In addition to the rate restructuring, thegroup also encouraged CompOps to allowmembers the ability to decline some of themembership materials (the handbook andconstitution). The membership applicationwill be altered to allow renewing membersto check a box that will indicate to the pro-

cessing team that they do not want to re-ceive another copy of the handbook. Newmembers will always receive a completepacket, even if they check the box. Likewise,any time the membership handbook or con-stitution is updated, all members, new orrenewing, will be sent a copy when they re-new.

In closing, I want to add two more spe-cial thanks. First, thanks to Teri, who waspromoted to Fleet Captain during the gen-eral session. You have made ComputerOperations the success it is. Secondly, to theExecutive Committee for keeping Teri’s pro-motion a secret; she was extremely surprisedby it. That’s all I have for this issue, but thereare some planned changes in the works, sobe sure to check the CompOps article nextissue for an update!

CompOps...- Continued from page 5 -

Hailing Frequencies Open! Okay — soI’m back from the International Conference— what a blast! WOW!!! The IC99 staffdid a phenomenal job, Chase Mastersonwas awesome, the banquetwas amazing and... and...I’m exhausted. Which isalways a good sign —there was justsooooooooooo much todo! It was great seeing oldfriends and meeting somany new people and put-ting faces and voices tonames I’ve known for solong. Sven and I are al-ready looking forward tonext year’s IC — I hope tosee even more of you there!

I’m pleased to announce the appoint-ment of Kristi Fell as Director of the Officeof Graphic Design. You’ll hear more aboutthis office from Kristi herself, but their pri-mary purpose is to create professionallogos for chapters, regions, departments,and other divisions and sub-divisions ofSTARFLEET. She’s looking for other tal-ented graphic artists to join the staff, so ifyou or someone you know is qualified andinterested, please let her know!

Kristi can be reached by email [email protected] or by postal mail at:

Kristi Fell122 Fox Run LaneColumbia, SC 29210 USA

The 1999 STARFLEET NewsletterAwards for 1998 publications were an-nounced at the International Conference.

We had over forty submissions, and theywere all so wonderful that we had a reallydifficult time narrowing down the winners,and ended up giving out more “honorable

mentions” than ever be-fore. Please join me in con-gratulating our award re-cipients:

OUTSTANDING COVER

The Short Circuit —USS Maat, Region 1

Honorable Mention:

Vigilance —USS Kensington, Region 5

OUTSTANDING GRAPHICS

Vigilance — USS Kensington, Region 5

Honorable Mention:

The Forecast — USS Stormbringer,Region 4

Angels Flight — USS Angeles, Region 4

Subspace Static — USS Wernher von Braun,Region 2

OUTSTANDING PRESENTATION

The Short Circuit — USS Maat, Region 1

Honorable Mention:

Sails Unfurled — USS Tanagra, Region 7

On the Horizon — USS Horizon, Region12

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NEWSLETTER OF THE YEAR


Yes, for those of you who have beenkeeping track, this is the third consecutiveyear that the Maat’s newsletter has wonNewsletter of the Year, despite some veryimpressive competition. I’d like to con-gratulate and thank everyone who submit-ted entries!

If you have any comments or ideas onhow the Communications Division can fur-ther serve your chapter or the fleet, pleasefeel free to contact me by email [email protected], or by postal mail at 330 Ha-ven Avenue, Apartment 3C, New YorkCity, NY 10033-5333 USA.

In service to the fleet,Gordon L. GoldbergChief of Communications, STARFLEET

The Third Annual Web Awards werepresented by Commodore Ed Nowlin onSaturday evening at the 1999 InternationalConference.

The Awards went to:

Chapter Web Site of the Year:USS Atlas, NCC-75013Regional Web Site of the Year: Region 3Fun Site of the Year: Team TestosteroneInformation Site of the Year:International Conference 1999

The three judges each awarded their ownAward of Excellence to:

ISS Lexington, NCC-1703-C (Region 7)Region 12STARFLEET Enema.

Last year’s winners were not eligible fora web award prize this year, therefore, theychose their own Best Web Site of the Year:

The Winner’s Choice:USS Cydonia, NCC-74687 (Region 12).

The Best Website of the Year went to:USS Atlas, NCC-75013 (Region 12).

To view the awardees, please link to theSTARFLEET Web Page:

http://www.sfi.org or the back up page:http://www.halcyon.com/dyar/starfleet/starfleet.htmland link to the dedicated Web Awards Page:http://www.sfi.org/html/webawards.html

The judges were: Vice Admiral AllysonM.W. Dyar, Senior Vice Chief of Commu-nications/NetServices and Space StationNexus; Commodore Ed Nowlin Director,the Office of Web Consultants, Region 4RC, and Cascade Station and Major JohnAdcock of Region 2.

If you have any questions, please don’thesitate to ask me at [email protected].

ThirdAnnualWebAwards

Vice Adm. Allyson DyarSenior Vice Chief

Communications/etServices

Aug/Sept 1999 •

ShOC Waves! Rear Admiral Dennis Gray, Chief, Shuttle Operations

CommuniquéCorner

Greetings!

This is the last time I’ll be doing the lay-out for the Communiqué. The time spentover the past 17 months has been well worthit. It has been a great pleasure to serve themembership in this capacity and I only hopethat you’ve enjoyed the Communiques I’veput together as much as I’ve enjoyed put-ting them together.

I’d like to take a moment to thank a fewpeople; Mike Smith and Gordon Goldberg,for having faith in my abilities; my husbandBob for encouraging me to do the job; MarkAnbinder for jumping in with both feetwhen I was on maternity leave; TamaraCopple for handling all of the remailings;Mike Shappe and Kris Harrah for helpingas Assistant Editors when they could; morerecently, Jenna Duerr for taking on the roleof Assistant Editor; and last, but not least,Teri Smith in CompOps for helping with allthe folks who wanted to know where theirCQ’s are.

Commodore Wendy FillmoreVice Chief/Communications; Communiqué

Executive Committe Pages

It’s also worth noting that we have awonderful printing company and mailinghouse taking care of the post-productionwork once I’ve finished the layout. Thankyou! [Please note (for the sake of the neweditor, whomever that may be) that the Lay-out Editor for the Communique has no con-trol over the printers or the mailers - bothtasks are completed by outside companies.]

At right is a picture of the Communiquéstaff as at the 1999 International Conference.From left to right: Jenna Duerr, MarkAnbinder, Wendy Fillmore, and TamaraCopple (Gordon Goldberg, Chief of Opera-tions, is pictured on the opposite page).

Again, thank you for allowing me toserve in this capacity. Once my two sonsare grown enough, I hope to be able to re-turn to a more active role in the Fleet. Untilthen, Live Long and Prosper, Boldly GoWhere No One Has Gone Before, and

Geez, the IC has been over for only 6 daysat this point, and already it feels like an eter-nity. What a blast! Members there fromvirtually every corner of the country, and atleast two continents. The IC is always anincredibly fun, informative, and rewardingexperience. Aww hell, it was a BLAST! <G>

I arrived there early - my flight arrivedin Charlotte at 8:30 in the morning on the5th of August (Thursday). I was met by JackHopkins & Laura Hensely. Theycame across me as I was making myway up the concourse to retrieve mybags. They took me back to the ho-tel, dumped my luggage off, and thenwe all went out and had a great breakfast atthe nearby Shoneys (gotta love that break-fast buffet!). The rest of the day was prima-rily spent greeting old friends as they ar-rived, or hanging out in the pool (ShOCWAVES!), <G> etc.

Friday was spent, for the most part, inthe AB meetings (oh, fun.). Gotta get thatbusiness out of the way first, dontcha know!Later on came the opening ceremonies (AllI can say is - TERRIFIC job, gang!). The roomlooked outstanding. I got a chance to so-cialize and visit with a lot of old friends, andmade some new ones as well. This alone isjust about one of the best parts of an IC.

Saturday. Well, Saturday. What a L-O-N-G day. The general session at 9am.Youreally get an idea for how many people helpcome together to make this organization run,when you actually see them all together,announced into the room, one-by-one. Iadmit, I had a unique perspective on this.You see, I was having extreme knee prob-lems all weekend. And it was particularlyintense Saturday morning. Therefore, theIC staff, and in particular, Jack Hopkins,

helped me get on stage before theassembled staff, RC’s, and CO’sentered the room. I got to watcheach one as the entered from therear, march forward, and take

their place in the hall. It was a delight, tosee each person as they walked in, and tosee the grin that was plastered on the faceof each and every single one. <G> Gottalove it, Starfleet! <G>

The rest of the general session wentpretty much as planned. To be sure, thereare no doubt lots of reviews elsewhere inthis issue. The RC’s did the roll call for theirrespective regions, the EC members gave re-ports on their departments, promotionswere handed out, people, programs, and ac-complishments all recognized. It was spe-cial for me to see former fleet admiral, andvice fleet admiral Jeanette Maddox and Sue

Hampton in attendance. You see, they werejust taking the helm of this great organiza-tion between 11-12 years ago, when I firstjoined. I had previously had the pleasure ofmeeting them both at the IC held 8 years ago,in Maryland. Great to see them both hereagain, on the occasion of Starfleet’s 25thAnniversary!

I had the pleasure to meet some folk I’vecorresponded with, but not met before, dur-ing the afternoon on Saturday, at the ShOCpanel (I still want to strangle the program-ming chair for scheduling it against theMatch Game event! Grrrr!), and at the liveIRC event. Both were interesting in theirown way... <G>

Saturday evening was just as unique.The banquet (spiced very nicely by the firealarm. Our CS, as a volunteer firefighterhimself, took command of the moment,shepherding everyone out, making sure theywere all safe, etc. Thanks, Mikey! <G>), theawards ceremonies (congrats to all the win-ners!) and the dance all made for quite aninteresting, and fun filled evening. Kudosto the IC ’99 staff for a job well done!

Sunday’s always seem to be one of themost depressing time at an IC. Folk are leav-ing all through the course of the day, the clos-ing ceremonies occur, and many good-bye’sexchanged. All part of the experience,though. :) Later in the afternoon, a groupof us who were staying Sunday night, didpartake of the hotel’s pool for some R&R. :)That and the 5' deep hot tub helped manypeople relax after the hectic weekend. <G>

Sunday night. Oh boy. Sunday night.Well, about 20 of us all went to dinner Sun-day evening at an Outback Steakhouse. Theonly thing I can say to that is; 1 dinner saladput 20 or so sober (mostly), normally ma-ture adults, in near hysterics for almost 2hours. Had to be there. <GGG> Ask meabout it sometime!

Well, I’m going to keep this short. Theabove is a very abbreviated version ofevents through the weekend. But I do havea few quick announcements first:

1) The START manual is completed. Ifyou’d like a copy, there is a nominal charge,as it does cost me to copy, and mail them.That charge will be $3.00. Look for an-nouncements in your regional newsletters,and online, as to payment methods. At thistime, I’m still working that out with HQ.By the time you read this, there should beonline versions in .pdf, and hopefully .txtformats available for download, at nocharge. Look for announcements online asto where those will be available.

2) The MOM manual is being workedon as we speak. Rear Admiral Jonathan‘Gumby’ Simmons, Capt. Sanford ‘Sandy’Berenberg, and FCapt. Robin Pillow arejointly working on that. I expect thatshould be in release by Thanksgiving. :)

3) Reminder - Effective immediately,*all* VRR fees are now $10.00. The increasefor a newly launched shuttle will cover theinclusion of the START manual, and theRecruiting manuals in the launch packets.My thanks again to my staff who did a ter-rific job this year getting the START manualfinished, and in publication. They are with-out a doubt, the heart and soul of the ShOCDept. :) Thanks, guys!

Because of time constraints, I did nothave the time to include the new shuttlelaunches and commissionings here this is-sue. Look for an up-to-date listing next is-sue! Promise! That’s about it. I gotta wrapthis up, and send it off, or I might have aCQ editor on my doorstep when I gethome, with a frying pan in her hands! <G>

Thanks again, everyone! See you nextissue!

Rear Admiral Dennis “Onions” Gray!


STARFLEET Academy...Vice Admiral Marlene J. Miller, Commandant, STARFLEET Academy

Academy Pages

With this issue of the Communiqué, theDean’s List is back! Each month, in theirmonthly report to the Academy Comman-dant, each Director logs the names of stu-dents who have achieved Honors in theirschools. The primary prerequisite for theDean’s List is a score of at least 100%.

Without further ado, here is the Dean’sList from April - August, 1999:

College of Computer History -VAdm Sharon Ann Clark, Director Alan Cohen

College of Federated Studies -Rear Admiral Isaac Turner, Ass’t Director Susan Goodwin Edith Padgett John Eaton Debra Kern Cathy Edgington Larry Goldman

Counselor’s College -RAdm Helen Pawlowski, Director Wendy Cozine Maud Freifelder

Flag Officer’s School -RAdm Helen Pawlowski, Director Ruth Green Glenda Bruner Gary Stewart, Jr. Jack Eaton Chris Wallace Tamara Copple Larry Goldman Joseph Hoolihan Kris Williams Lorrie Nelson Kimberly Brooks Willis Burhans Janet Shephard Keira Russell-Strong Jason Perry James Monroe David Klingman

College of History -Cmdr George Clark, Director Larry Goldman

School of Language / School of Music -RAdm Sherry Anne Newell, Director Nancy Lynch

Officer’s Training School -ADM Peg Pellerin, Director Curtis Bellman Nancy Bonica David Pesec

Starfleet Academy College of Medicine -Capt. Wayne Killough, Jr., Director Larry Goldman Allyson Dyar J.P. Ladyhawk Charles Via Steve Turner

Security School -Comm Gregory Staylor, Director Bernadette Samples Clayton Fallis Darlene Harper Gerald Perkin Peter Yohe James Cozine Susan Goodwin Dale Thompson Michelle Barratt Boyd Jackson Maud Freifelder Barbara Buffington

FCapt, er, Commodore Tom Restivo, ICSpeech:

On behalf of Commandant MarleneMiller, fellow Vice-Commandant JoePodesta, the Deans of the Institutes, and theDirectors of the Schools, I bring greetingsfrom STARFLEET Academy, the ScholasticDivision of the organization.

We’ve gone through many changes thispast year. In retrospect, we’ve had a com-plete changeover in top brass. Last Novem-ber, Carolyn Donner stepped down as ViceCommandant, and a few months later,Mandi Herrmann stepped down as Com-mandant. We’ve been very grateful to havetheir services for the benefit the Academy,and we express our gratitude.

We’ve been so lucky to have MarleneMiller step right up, first as Vice Comman-dant, then as Commandant. In addition,with the growth of the Academy, we nowhave two Vice Commandants for the firsttime in Fleet History.

James Monroe James Gallops Steven Durrette James Graham Valerie Ball Alex Trevino, Jr. Frisco Sullivan

College of Survival Studies -Comm Carol Thompson, Director Larry Goldman

College of Trade and Commerce -Capt Tammy Willcox, Director Ian Johnsson James Monroe

Vulcan Academy of Science -VAdm Marlene Miller, Director Mandy Halleman Larry Goldman Linda Oakley Boyd Jackson Edward Sinyard Alice Strange Parker Gabriel Mark Lindsay James Monroe

Congratulations to all of the Dean’s Listhonorees!

Academy Awards, IC �99 Style...Commodore Tom Restivo, Assistant Commandant

Tom Restivo is Vice Commandant/Ad-ministration for STARFLEET Academy.(Thats me) My responsibilities are to workas a conduit for School Directors/Students,and be Marlene’s Guy Friday for paperworkissues.

Joe Podesta is Vice Commandant/Elec-tronic Services for STARFLEET Academy.As FAdm Mike Smith put it, the Academyis about education and participation, and bybringing the Academy more into the onlineworld, we can increase the level of partici-pation that the Academy has throughoutSTARFLEET. The primary goal is to getSTARFLEET Academy courses on-line forthe convenience of the membership.

To accomplish this and several otherprojects, we will be putting together threeunits, each with specific responsibilities. Thethree units are; Web Maintenance, to workwith Webmaster Greg Staylor in updatinginformation on the website; Web Develop-ment, for creating any new areas of thewebsite or making any radical changes to

its appearance and function; and On-lineDocumentation and Database, which will bein charge of ensuring that the Hall ofRecords and Hall of Honors are correct andup to date as well as making sure than anyof the downloadable documents are currentand correct. Right now, Joe chairs a taskforce of twelve members. Once the new Fleetserver is online, he expects the first coursesto be offered very shortly.

At this time, we want to announce an ad-dition to the staff at SFA HQ. The duties ofthe Special Assistant in general are totroubleshoot problems in the Academy andto develop ad hoc resolutions, working withthe Commandant and the Vice Comman-dants with ongoing projects. Ever since I gotbumped up, first as Deputy Vice Comman-dant and then Vice Commandant, the posi-tion of Special Assistant has been vacated –until now.

I am pleased to announce the appoint-ment of RAdm Mandi Herrmann to the

position of Special Assistant to the Comman-dant.

Even with all these changes from the top,the Academy still goes on, and that is a tre-mendous credit to the Directors and theirrespective staffs who make the Academywhat it is, and I congratulate them for theirefforts. I would like to thank the following:

Helen Pawlowski at Flag Officers SchoolDonna Tucker at College of FederationStudies (COFS)George Clark at College of HistorySherry Anne Newell at School of LanguageStudiesBrian Dougherty at School of EngineeringWayne Lee Killough at College of Medi-cine (SACOM)Jeff Salamon at STARFLEET Officers RadioSchool (SORS)Tammy Willcox at College Of Trade & Com-merce (COTAC)

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Aug/Sept 1999 •

Current as of 9909.07

STARFLEET ACADEMY - COLLEGE APPLICATION FORMThe Scholastic Division of STARFLEET: The International Star Trek Fan Association, Inc.

VAdm. Marlene Miller - Commandant , 461 Harmony Lane, Campbell, OH 44405([email protected]) <[email protected]>

Comm. Tom Restivo - Vice Commandant - Adminstration, 1218 Stillmeadow Place, #1D, Frederick, MD 21703([email protected]) <[email protected]>

FCapt. Joe Podesta, Jr. - Vice Commandant - Electronic Services, 643 Richmond Court, Ramsey, NJ 07446 ([email protected]) <[email protected]>

Send your application directly to the school you wish to attend.

All checks or money orders must be made out to “STARFLEET - ACADEMY FUND” — DO NOT SEND CASH.

STARFLEET VOUCHERS and RED SFA VOUCHERS ACCEPTED

TYPE or CLEARLY PRINT all information and send application to the program you selected below:

NAME:

ADDRESS:

CITY STATE/PROV: ZIP/POSTAL CODE:

E-MAIL: SCC# :

INSTITUTE OF LEADERSHIP -Dean - Adm. Peg Pellerin

q OFFICER’S TRAINING SCHOOL (OTS)- $2.00, SASE, 2 Loose 33 cent Stamps(You must pass this course to take OCC.)Adm. Peg Pellerin, RR #3, Box 5460, Winslow, ME 04901-9534 - [email protected] <[email protected]>

-or- AUSTRALIAN CAMPUS ONLYCmdr. Elizabeth Worth, 12 Perrin Ave., Plumpton, NSW, Australia [email protected]

q OFFICER’S COMMAND COLLEGE (OCC)- $4.00, SASE, 3 Loose 33 cent Stamps(COPY of OTS diploma required when applying for this school - Do NOT sendoriginal OTS certificate!)Capt. Jim Cushing, P. O. Box 11584,Memphis, TN 38111-0584 - [email protected] [email protected]

-or- AUSTRALIAN CAMPUS ONLYFleet Captain Alan Yates,PO Box 103, Harbord NSW, Australia 2096,- [email protected]

q FLAG OFFICER SCHOOL (FOS)- $5.00 for first course- $2.00 each for the second and third course(Copy of OCC diploma required when applying for this school - Do NOT send original OCC certificate!)Comm Helen Pawlowski, PO Box 22225,St. Louis, MO 63116-2225 - no email

-or- AUSTRALIAN CAMPUS ONLYFleet Captain Alan Yates,PO Box 103, Harbord NSW, Australia 2096,- [email protected]

q CADET SCHOOL (CS) - Prices TBDCapt. Ben C. Redding, 2917 Heritage WaySevierville, TN [email protected]

INSTITUTE OF ARTS -Dean - RAdm. Sherry Anne Newell

q COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATIONS (COC)Add 2 Loose 33 cent StampsNewsletter Design - $4.00 + StampsInterspecies Communications - $3.00 + stampsCmdr Michael Anderson218 W 8th St. Apt 9Erie, PA 16501 - [email protected]

q COLLEGE of FEDERATION STUDIES (COFS)- $1.00, SASE, 3 Loose 33 cent Stamps per courseCapt. Donna Tucker, 7066 Goodner Mtn Rd.,Pinson, AL 35126 - [email protected] <[email protected] [email protected]>

q COLLEGE of HISTORY (COH)- $2.00, SASE, 2 Loose 33 cent Stamps per courseCmdr George K. Clark Jr., 8100 Lichen Dr.,Citrus Heights, CA 95621- no email

q SCHOOL of LANGUAGE STUDIES (SOLS)- $2.00, SASE, 2 Loose 33 cent Stamps per courseRAdm. Sherry Anne Newell, 5 NW 40th,

Lawton, OK 73505 - [email protected] <[email protected]>

q SCHOOL of LITERATURE (SOL)- $2.00, SASE, 2 Loose 33 cent Stamps per course; free if taken electronicallyBGR Jill Rayburn, PO Box 61,

Puryear, TN 38251- [email protected] <[email protected]>

q SCHOOL of MUSIC (SOM)- $2.00, SASE, 2 Loose 33 cent Stamps per courseRAdm. Sherry Anne Newell, 5 NW 40th,

Lawton, OK 73505 - [email protected] [email protected]

q SCHOOL of TREKNOLOGY (SOT)- $2.00, SASE, 2 Loose 33 cent Stamps per courseCmdr. Alice Strange, 1294 George Crowe Rd.,Odenville, AL [email protected]

Academy Pages


Current as of 9909.07

STARFLEET ACADEMY - COLLEGE APPLICATION FORMThe Scholastic Division of STARFLEET: The International Star Trek Fan Association, Inc.

VAdm. Marlene Miller - Commandant , 461 Harmony Lane, Campbell, OH 44405([email protected]) <[email protected]>

Comm. Tom Restivo - Vice Commandant - Adminstration, 1218 Stillmeadow Place, #1D, Frederick, MD 21703([email protected]) <[email protected]>

FCapt. Joe Podesta, Jr. - Vice Commandant - Electronic Services, 643 Richmond Court, Ramsey, NJ 07446 ([email protected]) <[email protected]>

Send your application directly to the school you wish to attend.

All checks or money orders must be made out to “STARFLEET - ACADEMY FUND” — DO NOT SEND CASH.

STARFLEET VOUCHERS and RED SFA VOUCHERS ACCEPTED

TYPE or CLEARLY PRINT all information and send application to the program you selected below:

NAME:

ADDRESS:

CITY STATE/PROV: ZIP/POSTAL CODE:

E-MAIL: SCC# :

INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYDean - VAdm. Sharon Ann Clark

q VULCAN ACADEMY of SCIENCE (VAS)- $2.00, SASE, 2 Loose 33 cent Stamps per courseVAdm. Marlene Miller, 461 Harmony Lane,Campbell, OH 44405 - [email protected] <[email protected]>

q COLLEGE of COMPUTER HISTORY (COCH)- Free, SASE, 2 Loose 33 cent Stamps per courseVAdm Sharon Ann Clark, P.O. Box 603,Kirkland , WA 98083-0603 - [email protected] <[email protected]>

q SCHOOL of ENGINEERING (SOE)- $2.00, SASE, 2 Loose 33 cent StampsCapt. Brian Dougherty, 408 Carlyle EastBelleville, IL 62221 - [email protected] <[email protected]>

q COLLEGE of MEDICINE (SACOM)- $3.00, SASE, 2 Loose 33 cent Stamps per courseCapt. Wayne Lee Killough, Jr, 1538 MC 2061,Yellville, AR 72687- [email protected]<[email protected]>

q STARFLEET OFFICERS RADIO SCHOOL (SORS)- SASE, 3 Loose 33 cent Stamps per courseCapt. Jeff Salamon, 59 Collin Circle,Princeton, TX 75407-8975 - [email protected] <[email protected]>

q COLLEGE OF TRADE & COMMERCE (COTAC)- Basic COTAC - $2.00 + LSASE & 2 loose 33 cent stamps- COTAC Shuttle Treasury - $3.00, LSASE, 2 Loose 33 cent stampsCapt Tammy Willcox, 4121 Stillwood CourtVirginia Beach, VA 23456 - [email protected] [email protected]

q COUNSELORS COLLEGE (SCC)- Six Courses, $3.00 per courseComm Helen Pawlowski, PO Box 22225,St. Louis, MO 63116-2225 - no email

q ACROCADEMY (ACRO)- $4.00 per coursec/o Brian Young, 5418 Linderwood Ave,

St. Louis, MO 63109 - [email protected] <[email protected]>

INSTITUTE OF MILITARY STUDIESDean - FCapt Greg Staylor

q SECURITY SCHOOL (SFASS)- $2.00, 3 Loose 33 cent Stamps for each courseFCapt. Gregory Staylor, P.O.Box 9796,Chesapeake, VA 23321-9796 - [email protected]<[email protected]>

q COLLEGE of SURVIVAL STUDIES (COSS)- $3.00, 2 Loose 33 cent Stamps per course(Stamps from US members only)Comm. Carol Thompson, P.O. Box 135,Ester, AK 99725 - [email protected] <[email protected]>

q SCHOOL OF STRATEGY AND TACTICS (SOST)- $3.00 Per Course and 3 loose 33 cent stamps for Course Manual w/1st Course.Capt.Sanford Berenberg, 59 Sunrise Park Road,New Hampton, NY 10958 - [email protected] <[email protected]>

q COLLEGE of STARSHIP OPERATIONS (COSO)- $2.00, SASECapt. James W. Lee, 214 Jamestown Dr., Spring Lake, NC 28390 - [email protected]<[email protected]>

q KLINGON WARRIOR ACADEMY (KWA)- $3.00 + 3 loose 33 cent stamps for 1st 2 Courses- $4.00 + 3 loose 33 cent stamps for 3rd Course

LtJG Deb Kern, 2525 Enterprise, Alamogordo, NM 88310 - [email protected]<[email protected]>

Academy Pages

Aug/Sep 1999 •

Greg Staylor at Security School (SFASS)Carol Thompson at College of SurvivalStudies (COSS)James Lee at College of Starship Operations(COSO)Sharon Ann Clark at College of ComputerHistory (COCH)Marlene Miller at Vulcan Science Academy(VAS)

I would like to give give special noticeand commendation to two Directors whoseschools, by their very nature, are critical tothe growth and success of this organizationas a whole. I’d like to recognize them fortheir contribution and efforts working withSTARFLEET Operations. The Academythanks Peg Pellerin at OTS and Jim Cushingat OCC.

In addition we’ve had nine schools thathave either reopened or been added sincelast year. We congratulate and welcome thefollowing schools:

Cadet School (CS) - Ben C. Redding.College Of Communications (COC) -Michael AndersonSchool of Literature (SOL) - Jill RayburnSchool of Music (SOM) - Sherry AnneNewellCounselors College (SCC) - HelenPawlowskiAcrocademy (ACRO) - Brian Young andMike WilkersonSchool Of Strategy and Tactics (SOST) -Sanford BerenbergKlingon Warrior Academy (KWA) - DebKernSchool Of Treknology (SOT) – Alice Strange

For many years, the Academy has oper-ated a limited program in Region 11 to serveour Australian Fleet members. Much appre-ciation and commendation goes to RC Jen-nifer Yates, her father Alan Yates, Sr. andElizabeth Worth.

I am very pleased to announce an expan-sion of the program and the official open-ing of the Australian Campus, to be coordi-nated by Alan Yates:

The following schools are open:

Cadet School - (CS) College of Communications - (COC) School of Language Studies - (SOLS) School of Literature - (SOL) Vulcan Academy of Science - (VAS) School of Engineering - (SOE) College of Medicine - (SACOM) Starfleet Officers Radio School -(SORAS) Counsellors School - (SCC) Acroacademy - (ACRO) College of Survival Studies - (COSS) School of Strategy & Tactics - (SOST) School of Music - (SOM)Alan hears that the Klingon Warrior

Academy will shortly be starting up and hehave officers lining up for that School.

Please note the Australian Campus/SFAemail address: [email protected].

Snail mail to: P.O. Box 103 Harbord NSW2096 Australia.

Alan: My thanks to all the Directors. Wewill do our best to maintain the high stan-dards of SFA. With only 42 members in Re-gion XI there will not be too much activityto start with but everything has to have abeginning. Any suggestions to help the AC/SFA to be of service will be readily acceptedand appreciated.

The Academy is very eager to establishother campuses to serve the members inCanada and Europe as well.

Please send all donations forSTARFLEET Scholarships to:

Starfleet Scholarship Campaign 999908 Berrywood DriveLadson, SC 29456

Please make checks payable toSTARFLEET.

Sue Hampton is looking to start accept-ing scholarship requests. These scholarshipsare $500 and are awarded to STARFLEETmembers in good standing who are further-ing their education in the real-world. If youare interested in applying for one of thesescholarships, please contact Sue Hamptonat [email protected] or [email protected],or write for information at 116 Creston Dr.Greensboro, NC 27406.

Finally, I would like to thank you, themembers of STARFLEET for your sugges-tions, comments, and participation in theAcademy. Mar, Joe, and I can administer theAcademy, and the Directors can offer thecourses, but the success of SFA is due to theparticipation of the students — and wethank you for your support.

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This year at IC99 in Charlotte, I had thedistinct pleasure of giving out the AcademyAwards (and there were no changes of cos-tume or big glitzy dance numbers). Onceagain, SFA recognized the Best of The Bestin each school with the Red Squad Awards.The best student was recognized as RedSquad Leader. In addition, the School of theYear and the Director of the Year were rec-ognized.

Without further adieu....

INSTITUTE OF LEADERSHIP - Dean -Adm. Peg PellerinOfficers Training School Nancy Bonica — USS Athena, Region 1Curtis D. Bellman — USS Ohio, Region 1

Officers Command College Susan Jones — USS Aeon, Region 1 Barbara Buffington — USS Ohio, Region 1Glenda Werner — USS Peacekeeper, R- 4Teri Smith — USS Tanagra, Region 7Flag Officers SchoolJanet Shepherd — USS Alioth, Region 17Keira Russell-Strong — USS Alioth, Reg. 17

INSTITUTE OF ARTS - Dean -RAdm. Sherry Anne NewellCollege of HistoryLarry Goldman — USS Rhyanna, Region 3Michael Boatright — USS Star League, R-1Karen J. Watson — USS Ultimatum, R-12School of LiteratureAmy Alexander — USS Hawkeye, Region 1Kim Rochelle — USS Hawkeye, Region 1Dana Miller — USS Phoenix, Region 12School of MusicNancy Lynch — USS Mir , Region 17School of Language StudiesSteve Turner — Cascade Station, Region 4(Note: Steve Turner has completed ALLTEN courses. The last 8 levels were designedespecially for him because he wanted moretests!)Larry W. Jones — USS Morning Star, R-12Karen Watson — USS Ultimatum, R-12

INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Dean -VAdm. Sharon Ann ClarkVulcan Science AcademyLinda Oakley — USS Bennu, Region 1Larry Goldman — USS Rhyanna, R-3College of Computer HistorySteve Turner — Cascade Station, Region 4Alan Cohen — USS Lexington, Region 7Larry Goldman — USS Rhyanna, Region 3Karen J. Watson — USS Ultimatum, R-12Cathy Edgington — USS West Virginia, R-1STARFLEET Academy College of Medi-cineAllyson Dyar — Space Station Nexus, R-5Anne Miller — USS Nomad, Region 12Larry Goldman — USS Rhyanna, Region 3College of Trade and CommerceSteve Turner — Cascade Station, Region 4Ian Johnsson — USS Alaric, Region 1Gary Telecsan — USS Maat, Region 1Julie Tanski — USS Maat, Region 1Counselors CollegeWendy Cozine — USS Trident, Region 2Maud Freifelder — USS Triumph, Region 2Donna Marie Mominee — USS Tycho, R-1

INSTITUTE OF MILITARY STUDIESDean, FCapt Greg StaylorSecurity SchoolBarbara Buffington — USS Ohio, Region 1Larry Goldman — USS Rhyanna, Region 3Wayne Killough. — USS Ultimatum, R-12College of Survival StudiesLarry Goldman — USS Rhyanna, Region 3(He completed the entire Mapping Survivalseries, with Honors)Klingon Warrior AcademyNancy Lynch — USS Mir, Region 17 (100 %on both the Klingon Warrior Initiate Courseand the Journeyman course)

Red Squad Member of the YearLarry Goldman - USS Rhyanna, R-3

School of the YearCollege of Computer History

Director of the YearHelen Pawlowski

Congratulations, one and all!

IC Academy Chair Tammy Willcox re-ports that the IC Academy was a huge suc-cess !! “Officers Radio School gave out twofree tests; Trade and Commerce gave outtwo free tests; Klingon Warrior Academysold 4 courses which totaled $12.00; Secu-rity School sold 14 courses which totaled$28.00; Strategy and Tactics sold 13 courseswhich totaled $39.00; Cadet Academy sold2 courses which totaled $6.00; College ofLiterature sold 7 courses which totaled$14.00; for a total of $99 plus $52 worth ofvouchers, for a grand total of $149.00. I’dlike to thank the directors who attended orsent their tests, I think we did a great jobeveryone! PS - the stats do not include thetests that the directors traded amongst them-selves <G> “

And I’d like to echo Tammy’s “thanks”to Tammy herself... for stepping up anddoing an excellent job organizing and run-ning the IC Academy.

Thank you, to all the other Directors whomade the IC Academy a huge success:

Greg StaylorJill RayburnSandy BerenbergDeb KernBen Redding

And to Jeff Salamon for getting his ex-ams to Tammy so SORS could be repre-sented.

And yet another “Thank You” to TomRestivo for chairing the Academy Panel andhaving the Applications “at hand”.

Then there’s one for Mandi Herrmannfor being Academy’s proxy since I (Marlene)couldn’t make it.

And last, but not least, I’d like to thankthe other Academy Directors for holdingdown the fort. We couldn’t be with you inperson, but we were there in spirit.

Wow! Whatta crew !!!

Onward to another 25 Starfleet Years !

And at IC, there was much Maggieness.And she is real.

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Ladies and Gentlemen. Here are thewinners and finalists of the STARFLEET In-ternational Awards presented at IC ’99.Please join me in congratulating all the fi-nalists as well as the winners. Any winnersnot at IC, your plaques were picked up byeither the RC for your region or by the se-lected representative. And now, the awards:

Helping Hands Award:Finalists were Beverly Reynolds and BarbaraPaulWinner - Beverly Reynolds - Region 4

Scholastic Achievement Award:Finalists were Beth Steidle, Alice Strange,and Jason PhippsWinner - Beth Steidle - Region 7

Cadet of the Year:Dean Rodgers from Region 7 was the unani-mous selectee

Enlisted Officer of the Year:Finalists were Gracie Schmidt and PatYoungWinner - Gracie Schmidt - Region 7

Shuttle of the Year:Finalists were Shuttle Stormbringer, ShuttleAtlas and Shuttle RavenWinner - Shuttle Stormbringer - Region 4

Officer of the Year:Finalists were Kurt Roithinger, Teri Smith,Richard Hewitt and Steve TurnerWinner - Kurt Roithinger - Region 5

Ship of the Year:Finalists were USS Triumph, USS Tanagra,USS Athena, and USS ConstarWinner - USS Athena - Region 1

Member of the Year:Mark Anbinder from Region 7 was theunanimous selectee.

This concludes this announcment.Watch for an in depth article in an upcom-ing Communiqué!

FCapt. Steve StrasserSFI Awards Director

STARFLEETInternational Awards

Mark Anbinder, STARFLEET Member of the Year[picture by Joan Pierce]

Alex Rosenzweig, first recipient of a life-time membership awarded to someone

not previously the Fleet Admiral[picture by Joan Pierce]

Aug/Sept 1999 •

FLEET News

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Amy Alexander Commander CaptainWilliam “Biff” Basset Commander CaptainDavid Klingman Commander CaptainKristi Fell Commander CaptainDavid J. Rose P-99-47 Captain Fleet CaptainJerry Tien P-99-48 Captain Fleet CaptainBea Hart P-99-49 Captain Fleet CaptainKurt E. Pfeiffer P-99-50 Captain Fleet CaptainDonna Jean Noddin P-99-52 Captain Fleet CaptainTeri Smith P-99-57 Captain Fleet CaptainMichael A. Figueroa P-99-58 Captain Fleet CaptainBen C. Redding P-99-59 Captain Fleet CaptainLaura Hensley P-99-69 Captain Fleet CaptainMichael J. Stratton P-99-74 Captain Fleet CaptainJennifer Rosbury P-99-76 Captain Fleet CaptainEd Nowlin P-99-53 Fleet Captain CommodoreMatt Myers P-99-54 Fleet Captain CommodoreTom Restivo P-99-55 Fleet Captain CommodoreMark Anbinder P-99-56 Fleet Captain CommodoreCarol Thompson P-99-62 Fleet Captain CommodoreAlan Yates P-99-66 Fleet Captain CommodoreGregory A. Staylor P-99-67 Fleet Captain CommodoreRichard W. Hewitt P-99-68 Fleet Captain CommodoreJonathan Simmons P-99-51 Commodore Rear AdmiralJoseph Ruttar P-99-60 Commodore Rear AdmiralHelen Pawlowski P-99-64 Commodore Rear AdmiralIsaac Turner P-99-65 Commodore Rear AdmiralRon Fell P-99-70 Commodore Rear AdmiralSharon Ann Clark P-99-63 Rear Admiral Vice AdmiralChris Wallace P-99-72 Rear Admiral Vice AdmiralLes Rickard P-99-71 Major General Lt.GeneralScott A. Akers P-99-73 Major General Lt.General

(Capt) PJ TrotterXO USS Nomad Region 12Director of Promotions STARFLEETIC2001 Chairman, One Crazy Bovine

STARFLEETPromotions

Captain PJ TrotterDirector of Promotions, STARFLEET

Greetings STARFLEET members! Myname is Biff Bassett and I am the Staff Assis-tant to Dennis Gray, our present ShOC(Shuttle Operations Command) Director,and I am asking for any and all of the previ-ous STARFLEET/Regional Shuttle/ShOC/START/MOM manuals that you can spareto send to me. I am doing this primarily togain a historical view of how ShOC got it’sstart and to gain information so that I maybetter assist Dennis and make his job a littleeasier. I’m also hoping to help those aspir-ing people who wish to start chapters, whenDennis or the Vice Chiefs are unavailable.

In addition to gaining information fromthese manuals, I am putting together a His-torical Archive of sorts that can be accessedby the future ShOC Directors and other in-terested parties. I will also be communicat-ing with the present STARFLEET HistorianScott Akers to make this a part ofSTARFLEET’s history archives as well.

I will reimburse any and all mailing ex-penses to those of you who can find and mailme those manuals that I have mentionedabove, so please *look* in those closet cor-ners, attics, storage spaces, and/or boxes ofSTARFLEET stuff for any of these manualsthat you can spare!

Now, what is my address you ask? Hereyou go! It is:

Biff Bassett2652 W. Hampden Ave.Englewood, CO 80110

You can send e-mail to me as well at:[email protected]

Thanks ahead of time for any and all helpthat you may give me in this matter and toall of you out there, have as much fun asyou possibly can! I want to thank you foryour time and patience and I now return youto your reading enjoyment of this CQ.

Requesting EarlySTARFLEETShuttle/ShOC/START/MOM

Captain Biff BassettStaff Assistant - ShOC

The Institute of Military Studies had agood showing at IC99. With the School ofStrategy and Tactics, Klingon Warrior Acad-emy and the Security School present and ac-counted for, the IMS was well representedwith three of its five schools in attendance.We should start by thanking the numerousSFI members who took time out of a verybusy schedule at the IC to drop by the SFApanel room. We deeply appreciate the greatresponse of the members who asked ques-tions, made suggestions and offered com-ments as they visited the SFA room on Sat-urday afternoon. Over thirty courses weretaken by members from the three IMSschools represented at IC99. As Dean of theInstitute of Military Studies, it was great tomeet the other Directors face to face and seethe harmony and professionalism that existin the Academy Staff. I also wish to thankthe Directors of the College of Survival Stud-ies and College of Starship Operations fortheir hard work through the last year andhope to meet them in person sometime inthe future.

The Institute of Military Studies is work-ing on a few projects which will be an-nounced at a later date, but I would like toremind the membership of a few things inclosing. First, many of the IMS schools havebeen reopened recently. With the new Di-rectors came new courses and although thename of some of the courses are the same asthose you may have taken in the past, thecourses have different content. Please con-sider taking these courses even if you havepreviously passed courses with the samename. The Directors worked very hard atputting together these courses for the mem-bership.

Secondly, a challenge to the rankingmembers of SFI. The Academy is a great partof SFI and as members achieve higher ranks,they often take fewer courses from the Acad-emy. The Academy courses offer a vastwealth of information and enjoyment tomember of all ranks. From the newest En-sign to the Fleet Admiral, every member canlearn and have fun taking the SFA courses.So, my challenge to the ranks of Captain andabove, take a few courses over the next yearand promote the Academy to the manymembers of your Ships who look up to you.If they see you take courses at the Academy,they also will want to and we will gain amore informed and involved membership.

Commodore Greg Staylor, Dean

Institute ofMilitaryStudies atIC99

FAdm. Mike Smith in front of one of the firetrucksthat answered the fire alarm during our banquet

Saturday night [picture by Dennis Gray]

FAdm. Mike Smith receives firefighter gear fromformer FAdm. Jeannette Maddox and former Vice

Commander, STARFLEET Sue Hampton[picture by Tamara Copple]

“Saladman” created by Todd Brugmans during thebanquet (left behind during fire emergency)



FLEET News

Greetings All,

For those of you who do not alreadyknow me, I am Captain Kristi Fell. I haverecently been appointed Director of thenewly reopened Graphic Design Depart-ment of Starfleet.

By way of qualifications I am by gift,training, and trade, a graphic design artist.I hold a two year degree in Commercial Art& Graphic Design from Shelton State Col-lege, and am currently employed by Ameri-can Sign Shops in Lexington, SC.

I have been a STARFLEET member forfour years, in which time I have held the po-sitions of Shuttle CO of the Shuttle EmeraldStar in Region 2, Recruiting Staff Adjutant,and Assistant Director of Recruiting. I cur-rently hold the offices of Quartermaster of1st BDE, OIC 177th MSG - The Valkyries -“We Deliver,” and am also the Chief of Op-erations aboard the Shuttle Vindicator inRegion 1.

It is my intention that this departmentshall provide a long needed service toStarfleet members. We will provide profes-sional quality logos. Many ships, due to lackof available talent, time, and/or financialrestraint, may not have a ship logo to repre-sent them. This department is here to helpcorrect this. We are also at the disposal ofshuttles, shuttle-to-be groups, departments,Marine units, and any other sub-departmentof STARFLEET.

We are here to provide assistance in thedesign of a logo to represent who you are,to identify your group. The design of a logoshould reflect the essence of the group it ismeant to represent. We are here to help tomake the ideas of your chapter, department,or MSG, into reality.

Your logo is often the first thing thatpeople see of your group. You use it on ban-ners, business cards, letterhead, T-shirts,hats, and many other things. It should trulyreflect the heart of your group, let peopleknow who you are and what you stand for.

Your logo sets you apart, makes you vis-ible and gets you noticed. If the logo ispoorly done, or if you lack one then a valu-able recruiting tool has been lost. People,within Starfleet and without, look at yourship logo as a representation of you. A logoof PROFESSIONAL quality says a lot aboutyour ship.

If you are one of the lucky groups, andyou have a talented, gifted artist aboard -PLEASE let me know. I am just starting andalready I have many requests for work. I

have one other officer and am acceptingapplications for more. Regional location isNOT an issue. I may have several officers inone region, artistic talent is rarely alone. Theofficers I select will not be part of the RE-GIONAL staff, unless that RC chooses to soappoint them. All Graphic Design Officersreport to me. A monthly report is a RE-QUIREMENT of these posts. Please E-mailme your application if you are interested injoining this department. Send your E-mailwith a description of your qualifications,both in and out of STARFLEET as well asan example of your work. My E-mail [email protected].

If you are interested in having work donehere are the details. First send me an E-mailof what you have in mind, and we will gofrom there. All requests for work should gothrough me, as it is only myself and oneother officer at the moment. :-) We will thendiscuss specifics of your design. IF you re-quire a hard copy, such as disk, paper copy,or color separations, there is a $10.00 fee.This fee will cover postage and the cost ofthe materials. The remainder of the fee willbe divided thus - 10% to the Region in whichthe ship, shuttle, MSG, or department is lo-cated, and the rest will be divided equallybetween Starfleet’s general fund, and thisdepartment. If you only require an E-mailversion then a donation is REQUESTED, notrequired. This donation would be dividedthe same way. Half of the fee, if any, is re-quested when a design outline is settled on,the rest prior to the mailing of hard copies.The donation will be requested at the sametime. The same applies to reworking exist-ing logos.

For those of you who may have a logo,there is a little trade secret I’m going to letin you in on. Is your logo a raster or vectorimage? It does make a difference. If you havea logo that a member of your group has de-signed, and you take it to a local sign shopto have a banner made, and they tell youthey’ll have to charge you for computer timeto do “clean-up,” then what you have is araster image. This is fine for print material,letterhead and such, but it is not much useto a sign shop. They end up spendingHOURS converting these images to vectorso that their machines will know how to cutthis.

A quick lesson in sign making - for thosewho do not already know. The banners thatcome from most, if not all, sign shops aredone with vinyl. This vinyl is cut from rollsof material. In order to cut your logo, themachine needs a mathematical line to fol-low. A vector is a mathematical line, a ras-ter is much like a pixel, it’s a dot or box ofcolor that makes up the image. The machine

sees each raster as a separate piece. Can youimagine what your logo would look like ifit was cut from a raster image? That is wayit takes “clean-up” time to prepare a logoyou thought was just fine.

Another problem you may or may notrun into, is that in converting the image itmay not come out exactly as you designedit. This happens once in a while. In chang-ing your image from raster to vector linesmust be smoothed out, points and cornersharpened. If the artist is not a Trek fan, orfleet member, they may sharpen the edgestoo much or round the wrong corner. Wecan provide images in a vector form so thatyou can go to a sign shop with much betterchances of getting what you have in mind.

The Graphic Design Department ofSTARFLEET will hold NO copyright on anylogo designed by it. Each logo will belong,solely, to the chapter, unit, or departmentwhich it is designed for.

If there are and questions, comments, orrequests, please feel free to contact me.

Captain Kristi Fell122 Fox Run LaneColumbia, SC [email protected]

Department of Graphic Design,

STARFLEETCaptain Kristi Fell

Director of Graphic Design

Officer’s Training School, the beginningfrontier. That’s right, it is the beginning forleadership in our real world of STARFLEET.This course is a prerequisite to becoming aCommanding or Executive Officer of aShuttle. It is also a prerequisite to Officer’sCommand College and the Command levelof the College of Chapter Development.

Officer’s Training School assists thestudent in better understanding the work-ings of the real world of STARFLEET. Thestudent must read through the STARFLEETMembership Handbook in order to findmost of the answers asked in the exam.When the student has completed OTS, it isthe hope of this director that he/she willknow what actually makes this InternationalStar Trek club tick. Several students haveactually come back to me, after completingthe exam, stating that they didn’t know howorganized it was until they read throughtheir handbook. All members get the hand-book, but it is mostly the OTS students whoactually read it from cover to cover.

I’m proud to say, that when I became di-rector, back in May of 1991, OTS had becomethe first STARFLEET Academy course to begiven directly out of the country. Australiawas the first to have a liaison for OTS, andnow they have their own campus. I enjoyseeing applications come in from all over theworld. I recently received an applicationfrom Iceland and am working with a chap-ter in Europe in getting several of their crewto take OTS.

What has come in handy since I beganmy directorship, is the use of email. I canactually reach out and touch someone,somewhere. Rather than taking the weekor two to get an exam to someone across theglobe, they can receive it within seconds.

OTS is made up of 10 questions and twoessays. The student has 10 weeks to com-plete it, however, I do grant extensions foranyone who has a real life, with a real fam-ily and a real job, and just find that 10 weeksisn’t enough time. Believe it or not, I toohave a real life, real family, and a real job,so I totally understand what you all are go-ing through.

So, start your adventure into being allthat you can be as an officer, but don’t juststop there. Try as many Academy coursesas your life lets you. You’ll never regret thatyou did.

Hope to hear from most of you soon!

OTSAdm. Peg Pellerin

OTS Director

Ron Fell, Kristi Fell’s husband, sings with ChaseMasterson during the Saturday night banquet


Aug/Sept 1999 •

In the first major development for the De-partment of Technical Services in severalyears, a brand-new office is being created,and we’re looking for interested members tobe part of it.

Many members have collected the vari-ous technical manuals and blueprints pro-duced over the years by both Paramount lic-ensees (like Bantam, Ballantine, and PocketBooks) and fans operating on their own. Afew of you might even remember some of theproducts from years back from theSTARFLEETt Corps of Engineers. With theCorps having ceased producing publications,and with the amount of material from the lic-ensees quite limited, STARFLEET has not hada place for fans to see their ideas in print orin other media. The Office of Technical Pub-lications (OTP) aims to change that.

OTP is envisioned as a part of theSTARFLEET Department of Technical Ser-vices (DTS) responsible for the publication,in electronic and/or hardcopy form, of infor-mation regarding the various scientific andtechnical aspects of the Star Trek Universe.This could take the form of newsletters/magazines, blueprint packages, manuals,webpages, and any other media that the de-signers think is a good idea. OTP and theadministration of DTS will work to makethese materials available for sale toSTARFLEET members and anyone else whomight be interested.

The members who become a part of theOTP will work with the other branches ofDTS (the Office of Technical Information andthe Advanced Starship Design Bureau) toensure that the new materials are consistentwith the rest of the Star Trek Universe, as wellas to enable new ideas and contributions tothe Star Trek Universe to see distribution ona wider scale. By keeping things consistent,the new products can be seen as a valuablepart of the whole Trek Universe, rather thanadding to the confusion.

There are lots of possibilities for things todo. Here are just a few:

1] Creating schematic artwork: Assistingchapters in producing full schematics of theirships or stations; Completing multiple viewsof ships for which we only have one or two;Creating speculative drawings for shipswe’ve heard about but never seen.

2] Publication of one or more newsletters ormagazines emphasizing the science and tech-nology of Star Trek.

3] Blueprints and Technical Manuals – De-velopment and release of blueprints or tech-nical manuals on topics of interest to Star Trekfans.

DTS TO OPEN OFFICE OF

TECHNICAL PUBLICATIONS4] Website – Development and maintenanceof informational/entertainment webpageson Star Trek technical/scientific topics.

As I said, lots of ideas. Now, I don’t wantto reinvent the wheel here. I’m really not in-terested in doing again what’s been donebefore. However, with a universe as big asStar Trek’s, there’s a lot that has yet to bedone, and with the creativity and skills ofSTARFLEET’s members, brought togetherthrough OTP, I bet we can make a differ-ence.

Now, here’s where you come in, gentlereaders. (Bet you figured we were gettingto this, didn’t you?) All the stuff I just men-tioned doesn’t just magically appear. Weneed people to make it happen. In short,my friends, OTP needs a staff.

The first position that needs to be filledis the Director, Office of Technical Publi-cations. This should be someone who is fa-miliar with both graphic design and publi-cations (layout and formatting), as well ashaving at least a basic understanding of howa website should be put together. Familiar-ity with getting materials printed and dis-tributed is also helpful. The Office Directorshould be really well-organized, too, be-cause there might be multiple projects un-derway, once this really gets rolling. In ad-dition to all that, the OTP Director shouldbe familiar with, and honestly enjoy, the StarTrek Universe in all its many forms, from“Classic Trek” all the way up to “Voyager”.(If you only enjoy one little piece of it, over-seeing projects in other areas might provedifficult for you, so keep that in mind.) Afamiliarity with the publications of techni-cal fandom over the years will also help alot (part of that “not reinventing the wheel”stuff I mentioned before).

Once the Director is chosen, that personand I will be seeking to staff the OTP. Evenif you’re not interested in being the Direc-tor, but would like to be a part of OTP, don’thesitate to let me know. If we know thereare interested people, and who you are, rightfrom the start, it’ll get things rolling a lotquicker.

Now, here are some of the skills we’ll belooking for in the OTP staff. If one or moreof these things sound like something you cando, and you’re interested in the technical andscientific parts of Star Trek, then OTP couldhave a place for you. Skills include:

1] Desktop Publishing – Document Layoutand Design. We’re going to need flexible andcreative minds.

2] Web Design – For Possible OTP Website;On-Line Versions of OTP Documentation

3] Writing and Editing – We’re going to needtop-notch writers and editors to make surethat what we produce is readable and makessense. If you can put words together reallywell, and/or help others do so, OTP maybe just what you’re looking for.

4] Star Trek Universe – Understanding ofScience, Engineering, and Technology in alleras of Star Trek. (As with other parts ofDTS, those with knowledge of or interest inonly one era of Star Trek history need notapply. You can have a specialty, of course(mine’s “Classic Trek”, for example), butyou need to understand the other parts, too.)

5] Star Trek Universe – Awareness and fa-miliarity with both pro and fan-created StarTrek science and technical material. (Wewon’t waste time worrying about what’s“canon”; by definition, everything we’ll cre-ate is “non-canon”, and we’ll be respectinga lot of equally non-canon source material.)

If things go really well, we might evenconsider working with other fans and fangroups that are interested in the same kindof thing (e.g., the former Galactic EngineersConcordance, Mastercom Data Center, Fed-eration Frontiers, et al.). This would be agreat means of both developing the StarTrek Universe and enhancing the publicimage of Starfleet as interested in the sup-port of Star Trek and its fandom. If thingsgo even better than that, maybe somethingwe’ll create will find its way into a futureStar Trek production. But let’s not get toofar ahead of ourselves.

If you’re interested in being part of thisnew Office within DTS, please get in touchwith me. To apply for a position, send me aresume with both your STARFLEET back-ground, your Star Trek interests and back-ground, and any real-life experience andskills you have that can support what we’llbe doing with OTP. You can reach me byU.S. Mail at:

ADM Alex Rosenzweig, DirectorDepartment of Technical Services, STARFLEET980 Linwood PlaceNorth Brunswick, NJ 08902-2267E-mail:: [email protected] or [email protected]

I’ll be looking forward to hearing fromyou. I hope that many of you might sharesome of your interest in Star Trek with usand help out with OTP. We have a prettyambitious set of ideas, but I think that wecan also have a lot of fun bringing some ofthis vision to life. Won’t you join me?

Adm. Alex Rosenzweig, DirectorDepartment of Technical Services

Greetings SFI & SFMC Chapters, Units,and Members!

This is a General Fleetwide Communi-cations Message.

Have You ever Served in the ArmedForces of your Country? In time of War orPeace ?

Do you have a member of your familywho has served in the Armed Forces? Per-haps in either World War II, Korea, Viet-nam, Beirut, the Persian Gulf War,Grenada, Panama, Somalia, or OPERA-TION ALLIED FORCE ? Were theywounded in battle? Did they give their livesin the Supreme Sacrifice? Are they listedas either Missing -in-Action or did theyServe as a Prisoner-of-War?

We would like to Honor those who haveServed in the Military Armed Forces of theUnited States of America, the United King-dom, Australia, Canada, and wherever elsethat SFI & SFMC exists. We would like torecognize and pay tribute to those whohave served.

In an Outstanding Volunteer Project, in-stituted by members of the STARFLEETMarine Corps and STARFLEET Interna-tional, the construction of -The Wall ofHonor- is underway.

We would appreciate the privilege andHonor of adding and including the namesof yourself, your Family members, orFriends who have Served in the MilitaryArmed Forces to -The Wall of Honor.

If You would like to participate in -TheWall of Honor- Project send the Names andthe Country and Branch of the ArmedForces to :

The Wall-of-Honor Project9908 Berrywood Drive, Ladson, SC 29456E-mail : [email protected]

Thank You Very Much.

The Wallof Honor

Bill HerrmannDirector, Operation Eagle

MandiHerrmann, Bill

Herrmann’sdaughter,

dances withFAdm. Mike

Smith after theSaturday night

banquet.[picture by

MandiHerrmann]

FLEET News


The Outback Incident!!

It was a dark and stormy night... it re-ally was. A ‘few’ of us leftovers from IC99decided to go to dinner on Sunday night.Eighteen of us piled into four vehicles, andwe were off... little did we (or I) realize, thata crime was going to be committed!

We arrived at the OutBack without in-cident... it was RAdm. Tony Rowley whoalmost had the incident going in search ofan ATM. When he told us of driving downthe wrong side of a divided street, I knewthere’d be trouble.

It started out so innocently, everyone or-dering drinks and appetizers. Then dinnerswith our salad orders were next. But, asTony watched everyone else eat their salad,he began wondering, “Where is mine?”When the dinner orders started arriving, hespoke, “ I haven’t received my salad yet.”We all looked around. Everyone else hadgotten their’s. Then, I spotted the bowl atthe end of the table. It was sitting next toCaptain PJ Trotter, RAdmiral LindaKloempkin and (I gasped), my wife, FleetCaptain Michelle Johnson! The bowl wassitting up on four croutons, stripped downto the lettuce and dressing. There had beena crime committed! Who was responsible?I began scanning around the table and look-ing at everyone’s faces, noting who mighthave red faces, now that we had realizedwhat had happened to Tony’s salad.

“Ok, nobody move. I’m going to beginan investigation into Tony’s salad beingstripped.” I looked at the end of the table,then around to the round table that hadbeen butted up against ours, peering intothe eyes of each individual at the table.

Linda looked up at me and asked, “Whyyou?” “That’s easy,” I replied. “I knowI’m innocent, I hate tomatoes, onions andcucumbers. Michelle can vouch for me onthat.” I’d always said the only good tomatowas ketchup. After everyone agreed on mystatement, I began my investigation of thecrime scene. First, we sealed off the areawith crime scene tape... (see pictures). Next,I began taking pictures of the crime sceneand the surrounding areas. I would havedusted for fingerprints, but with this group,

hands had been everywhere. The next step,questioning everyone I believed to be a sus-pect. Not everyone would be a suspect atthis table, there were a few who had nothingto do with it. I figured I would eliminatethem first.

My first suspect was Nick the waiter.With a name like Nick, I figured I’d cover allmy bases. “I delivered the dang salad. Nofurther comments,” was all I got out of him,as he went crazy trying to divide up the to-tal bill. I talked to the hapless victim, Tony,second. The only thing I could get out of himwas this look of shock and suprise as he satthere, looking at his stripped salad, fork andknife in his hand. He was suffering fromshock and being, well, Tony... I determinedthat it was time to move on.

Commodore Wendy Fillmore was next.“I’m not much of a salad eater, as you cansee,” she said, patting a tummy already fullof chicken alfredo. “I certainly wouldn’t betaking someone else’s salad!”

Ok, three down... (hey, I was innocent, re-member?) and fifteen to go. Next was Cap-tain John Harris. “Ok John, what’s yourstatement?” John looked at me nervouslyand said, “I had the caesar salad. I prefercaesar salad.” That made sense. John satclose to me and I do remember him eatingone and only one salad. I never saw any ex-tras on his salad. He immediately went backto building a starship out of the extra coast-ers on the table...

I figured I’d ask Commander ToddBrugmans what he was up to at the time ofthe stripping.

“The traces of dressing were on the facesof all the guilty persons... except me,” hestated. “ I volunteer to be your sketch art-ist.”

As he said this, I heard some snickeringfrom the corner where the salad had beenfound. I glanced over and whispering be-tween the two of them were PJ and Linda. Ifigured that I would question them last.Something didn’t seem right and I wantedto see if they would say something incrimi-nating, whether against themselves, oragainst the true guilty parties. And I firmlybelieved that there had to have been morethan one involved. There was too much onthose salads for just one person.

As Todd began sketching the crime sceneand Tony, I decided to talk to all of the sus-pects from Region 6. There was somethingabout that group that I was trying to remem-ber, but I couldn’t quite place it yet. Com-mander Jessica Lindenfelser gave the usualanswer from someone who lives in Region6. “Dinning on the final frontier... Region6... come for the food, stay for the Summit!”I figured that she was probably innocent aswell. She had been sitting next to John andhad been very outgoing during dinner. Ofcourse, she did mention food... nah, I waslooking for the quiet ones.

Commodore Peggy Kennedy stated that,“I didn’t do it and besides, it was an acci-dent.” Hmmmm, could she be...? No, notPeggy, she sat next to me and besides, shehad that sharp steak knife next to her. Toaccuse her of a crime could be hazardous tomy health! Commodore Mike Urvand gaveme a note that read ‘the innocent but all-see-ing bystander’. Another clue! Mike sat nextto Linda... the truth might out itself! But Ialso realized, Mike was the VRC for Region6... to trust or not to trust... hey, if you metMike, you’d wonder too!

Commander Cynthia Henry was inno-cent. “I had the soup. I never saw the salad.”Yes, that was true. She had sat across fromme and I had only seen her eat the soup.

Another suspect crossed off the list. Admi-ral David Kloempkin was another story.“Who, me? I was too busy eating to notice.Besides, it was found down at the other endof the table.” RC’s, they’re all alike... “who,me?” is the typical response I get fromthem... On to the next suspect.

“Sure, I could have taken it... but if I did,would I still be here for the investigation? “was the response from Fleet Captain AndreaV. Haag. “Why is everyone looking at me?Ok, I was the closest suspect to the missingsalad, but I wouldn’t stick around if I hadeaten it.”

I was beginning to believe that severalR6 members were responsible. Boy, where’sthe IG when you need him? I decided toquestion a higher authority next, skippingmy last suspect from Region 6, Linda, andgoing to... Admiral Alex Rosenzweig. “Theoverlapping and often confusing testimonysuggest a conspiracy. I wonder how manypeople are really the culprits...” Duh... I al-ready suspected that. So much for consult-ing a higher authority.

I was running out of suspects and only afew more to speak to. Commander JoanPierce finally was the first to admit some-thing. “I thought it was Dennis’s salad—sorry Tony. But, I wasn’t alone.” I lookedover at Rear Admiral Dennis Gray. This isone person I hadn’t considered. Before Icould say anything, Dennis cracked.“ALLRIGHT! I admit it! I ate the damn on-ions! ARRRRGH! Please, take me away!ARRRRRRRGH!”

I figured that the pressure of dealing withthe EC/AB was too much on him and hehad finally gone over the edge. But, whathappened to the tomatoes and the rest of thecroutons?

Fleet Captain Greg Trotter was next onmy list. “You did not see us strip the salad.You saw the waiter serve it, and I... wasnever here.” Aha! He assisted in the strip-ping, but he did say us!!!! The plot was thin-ning, I mean thickening!

It was time to talk to the main suspects!

Michelle’s statement was short andsweet. “ I take the fifth. Jack Daniels wouldbe good. Hooyah!” Ok, she stayed a littletoo long at the Marine party the night be-fore, but I knew she had something to dowith it.

Ok, last two... Linda and PJ.

“On advice of our lawyers, we declineto answer any statements at this time.”Stonewalled!

I knew they were guilty as well, but howcould I prove it? What was I forgetting?

I reviewed the statements... Joan andDennis admitted guilt, the salad was foundat the end of the table, David had extra crou-

[l-r, back row: Adm. David “The Fence” Kloempken,Capt. John “Ceaser” Harris. Front row: RAdm. Linda“Tomatoes” Kloempken, FCapt. Andrea “I’ll Eat TheEvidence” Haag (picture submitted by RAdm.Dennis “Onions” Gray, barely visible to the left)]

[l-r, back row: FCapt. Andrea Haag, Capt. Joan “WhoMe?”Pierce, FCapt. Greg “I Was Never Here” Trotter,Lt. Todd “More Beer” Brugmans (hiding behind sign).Center: Capt. PJ “Cheesy” Trotter, Comm. Wendy“Ace Reporter” Fillmore, Comm. Cynthia “Soup”Henry. Front row: RAdm. Tony “What the heckhappened to my salad?” Rowley; FCapt. Carl “Sleuth”Johnson (picture from Dennis Gray)]

[l-r, back row: FCapt. Greg Trotter, Lt. ToddBrugmans, Comm. Mike “Innocent Bystander”Urvand. Front row: Wendy Fillmore, Comm. Cynthia“Soup” Henry, Adm. Alex “I’ll Build Him A BetterOne” Rosenzweig, Comm. Peggy “The Knife”Kennedy, PO1C Jessica “The Rookie” Lindenfelser.(picture from Dennis Gray)]Not pictured: Chelle Johnson

The OutBack Incident(aka, The Usual STARFLEET

Suspects)FCapt. Carl F. Johnson

CO, USS Nomad

Aug/Sept 1999 •

The Great Salad Caper!!

What you are about to read is the truth.Well, mostly the truth. As well as I can re-member it; things were a little strange thatnight. My family tells me things are oftenstrange with my friends. My friends tell methings are often strange in my family. Sowhat’s a girl to do?

It started out innocently enough. That is,as innocently as any evening can when youtake 18 ‘Fleet members from six regions atthe end of the International Conference, pilethem into four vehicles, and take them any-where for dinner. One thing’s certain: They’llnever forget us at the Outback Steakhouse inCharlotte, North Carolina.

Our ring leaders had called ahead so therestaurant was expecting us. We arrivedslightly later than the “normal” dinner hourand went right to our tables; a long line witha round tacked on one side. We arrangedourselves comfortably and started discuss-ing likes, dislikes, bloomin’ onions, and vari-ous other topics. I was tucked into the cor-ner of the long table between Capt. PJ Trot-ter (Promotions Coordinator) and FCapt.Chelle Johnson. Nick came around to takethe beverage orders. We told him separatechecks all the way around since the couplesweren’t necessarily sitting together.

Pretty soon we were ordering dinners.Most everybody was to get a salad. Severalpeople ordered appetizers; although nobloomin’ onions where I was sitting. PJ or-dered her salad with honey mustard dress-ing on the side and no tomatoes. My prefer-ence was the tangy tomato dressing and allthe usual fixin’s. It took a bit to rustle upthat much lettuce but soon enough Nick anda helper were back with the salads. Thehelper offered up a salad with honey mus-tard dressing while standing in the cornerbetween the long table and the round. PJpromptly claimed the salad remarking to theeffect that she was the only one who typi-cally ordered that dressing. She was disap-pointed the dressing wasn’t on the side andthere were tomatoes. She also began pick-ing off the croutons. Meanwhile, I was re-moving the onions from my salad. (Yes, Ilike bloomin’ onions; I just don’t want themraw on my salad.) Salad distribution contin-ued up and down the table. And, lo and be-hold!, there was ANOTHER salad withhoney mustard dressing — this time on theside. PJ and the rest of us thought there must

have been a mistake, but no one claimedthe extra salad. PJ set the original one outin front of us and began eating the new one.

By now we had a plate with severalcroutons and the onions from three salads.Now, I know Adm. David Kloempken (R/6 Coordinator) likes croutons. He stealsthem from my salads on a regular basis. :)So I picked up one of the abandoned crou-tons and tossed it down the table to him. Itsort of bounced off FCapt. Carl Johnson(CO, USS Nomad) and landed on the floor.A second toss was successfully fielded. Toavoid injury, we passed the plate of crou-tons and onions around the table to David.But the onions never got that far — VAdm.Dennis Gray (Chief of ShOC) interceptedand claimed them all. The unclaimed saladwas looking sort of sad sitting there ig-nored. And, although bits had been re-moved, cheese and some other tidbits werestill displayed on the bed of lettuce. So Idecided to take the cheese. And I believeChelle Johnson took the cucumbers. Thelettuce looked kind of pathetic sitting therein it’s honey mustard pool.

About this time, from the far end of thetable, an uproar ensued. (Well, it was heardover the general insanity of a Fleet Feeding

Frenzy, so I’ll call it an uproar.) It seemsthat RAdm Tony Rowley had just realizedhe never got his salad. Now you have tounderstand that pretty much everybody elsewas reaching the bottom of their salad at thispoint. It didn’t take long to figure out — youguessed it! — the spare salad on our end ofthe table was Tony’s!

With much laughter and joking, the re-mains were passed down to Tony, who’sremark was “What happened to my salad?”Todd Brugmans (Stellar Visions editor)grabbed a coaster and sketched Tony look-ing in puzzlement at his salad bowl whichwas pictured up on cinder blocks — like astripped car in a ghetto.

Things got strange after that. The crou-ton tossed earlier on was retrieved from thefloor and declared evidence. Nick theWaiter was asked for a statement. Tonybrought in police tape (I don’t want to know)from his vehicle and he and Carl Johnsonmarked off the crime scene. PJ Trotter and Iwere accused of the crime of salad-knapping? Or salad-stripping? I just wantto say, for the record, “We’re innocent! Wewere victims of circumstantial evidence.”

Next time, I’m ordering the soup.

[Tony Rowley reads the inscription inthe empty box, written by ToddBrugmans: “Tony’s Leftover Salad”[picture by Joan Pierce]

Dinner at the OutbackSteakhouse withSTARFLEET(a.k.a. The Great SaladCaper) RAdm Linda Kloempken

CO, USS Czar’ak/Chief of Staff, Region 6Dennis “Onions” Gray and Nick, the Waiter

[picture by Joan Pierce]

Artwork drawn by Todd Brugmans

Below: Photographic evidence of actual strippedsalad [picture by Peggy Kennedy]

Above: the lone crouton[picture by Peggy Kennedy]

tons... wait! That was it! David had beenpassed extra croutons and tomatoes by hiswife, PJ and Michelle! Linda threw extraones down to David as well, one had landedin my lap and I had knocked it to the floor!Was it still there? I bent down, retrievedthe evidence, still intact and proceeded toclose the case.

The salad had arrived, but Tony neverrealized that it had been delivered to the op-posite end of the table. Those at the otherend of the table hadn’t realized that Tonynever received his salad, and proceeded tostrip it down to the framework!

After laying out the above scenario, theguilty ones stepped forward. Linda ‘Toma-toes’ Kloempkin, PJ ‘Cheesy’ Trotter, Chelle‘Phantom’ Johnson and Dennis ‘Onions’Gray all admitted to their guilt and werepromptly sent to Rura Penthe. Even today,you can hear them singing this song...

(done to a blue’s rift)“tony’s salad was stripped”duh, duh, duh, duh,the croutons were ripped,duh, duh, duh, duhno tomatoes were seen,duh, duh, duh, duhall that’s left is green...doo, duh, doo, duh, dooand it’s so hard,(it’s so hard)keeping my hands off Tony’s salad,I’ve got the saaaalaaaad stripping

blues...”

I’ve had some weird cases in my day, butthis one beats them all. Ah well, on to thenext case... what’s that sharp feeling in myback? Peggy and her steak knife...YAAAAHHHHGGGHHHGGHHGH!!!!

(Author’s note: The above work is partly fic-tion. Most of what I reported did happen, but Ifigured I’d spice it up a bit. Join us next year,who knows what could happen. Hey, Burlingtongang, reserve us a table at the Outback, wouldya?)


FLEET News

OperationEagleNews

Bill HerrmannUSS Rutledge

Bill Herrmann on stage at IC’99 with Steve Strasserbehind the podium, presenting these letters to the

STARFLEET membership. [picture by WendyFillmore]

Aug/Sept 1999 •

From: USS Charleston NCC-71813PO Box 60674North Charleston, SC 29418-0674

Dear Editor:

On June 12, 1999 the crew of the USSCharleston gave a luncheon for the 15 fami-lies of the Ronald McDonald House. Hereis the menu and photo of some of the crewmembers that participated in the luncheon.From left to right is Victor Swindell, J.D.Graham, Edith Padgett, Mark Easterbrook,and James Graham.

The Ronald McDonald House is onlyone of many charities we support here inCharleston. Unfortunately only 10 fami-lies could make it to the luncheon, the oth-ers were still at the hospital with their fam-ily members so we fixed plates for themlater. Between the donations of food and

USS Charleston hostsluncheon for RonaldMcDonald House

money from the crew, the public, and PigleyWigley, everyone had a great time. Nobodywent away hungry. The staff of the RonaldMcDonald House had such a good time theyinvited us to their alumni picnic later thisyear. Thank you for your time.

James GrahamChief of SecurityUSS Charleston

Star Trek Menu for SD: 12 June 1999 12:00Hours

1. Bajoran Bird2. Romulan Rice3. Klingon Korn4. Betazoid Beans5. Pakled Potato Salad6. Denebian Dressing7. Sargan Salad8. Risa Rolls9. Vulcan Tea

James Graham, Chief of SecurityUSS Charleston

In an e-mail dated 9908.23 RAdm. PatSpillers (R3) relayed the sad news of thedeath of one of the members of the USS Bexarfrom breast cancer. In this same post RAdm.Spillers indicated that the Bexar would beadding Pink Ribbon Pins to their uniforms,honoring a request from the family. My re-turn message indicated that the MorningStar would add these also. At our crewmeeting 9909.1‘2 our Comms Chief re-minded me that these are available fromAvon for a very modest cost, only $2 plustax (small size, with a larger available for$3, I believe). In a post to R3 and R12 thefollowing day, I indicated our hope thatmany STARFLEET Officers, especiallyCMO’s, might wish to add this ribbon also.

USS Morning Starsupports USS Bexarin their loss

RADM Sherry Anne Newell, CMO CO, USS Morning Star

True, there are many kinds of cancer, butall have in common that they are no re-specter of age or condition, and most causegreat pain and suffering, not only for thevictims but for their families as well. I sim-ply wanted to share this information forthose who might wish to join us in thissimple way of helping to increase awarenessof the silent killer and of the steps that canbe taken to identify its presence very earlyon, while there is still hope of life-savingintervention. Thank you, RAdm. Spillers,for your request.

RADM Sherry Anne Newell, CMO CO, USS Morning Star, NCC 4126 Osler Class Hospital Transport

On October 26, 1998, the crew of the USSShiloh, Rockford, Illinois, almost suffered theloss of one its members. Almost...

Commander Christopher Higdon, son ofCaptain Jeff and Commander KarenHigdon, was involved in an accident dur-ing his 1st Hour PE Class at Guilford HighSchool. By the end of the day it was deter-mined that Chris had lacerated his liver, thattwo of the three blood vessels that suppliedblood for filtration were also torn. Bloodwas filling the upper part of his abdominalcavity.

Chris was airlifted from Rockford Me-morial Hospital to the University of Wiscon-sin Medical Center in Madison, Wisconsin,where Chris was a patient for two weeks,four days of that was in the ICU unit. Itwasn’t until the seventh day that doctorslearned that bile from the liver had beencollecting from the laceration and was caus-ing Chris a great amount of pain. The doc-

tors inserted a catheter and a bag to collectthe bile. This caused Chris and the Higdonsto stay in Madison a week longer than thedoctor’s intended.

During this time the Higdons, includingtheir daughter, Emily, stayed at the RonaldMcDonald House just a block away from thehospital. The comfort of being with Chrisand having some of the luxuries of homehelped as the family stayed away from theirfamily, friends and crewmates in a strangetown.

At a minimal cost, the Ronald McDonaldHouse Charities supplied access to neededthings that would not be available at somehotels. A laundry room with soaps andbleaches were available. A full kitchen fullystocked with accessible storage space forprivate food items were made available toeach family.

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The Ronald McDonaldHouse and whySTARFLEET needs tosupport it... Captain Jeff Higdon, CO

USS Shiloh

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Also access was granted to other partsof the house, such as a living room, a ‘fam-ily’ room, and a game room, which was es-pecially convenient for the children. TheRMHC also provided beeper services to thefamilies in case they were somewhere elseduring an emergency or if family showedup at the RMHC. Also a local long distancecompany and AT&T supplied long distancephone cards so the family could call familyto keep them apprised of the situation in-volving the loved one.

During the time there, the Higdonslearned of the Tabs of Charity program. Theprogram was started an as easy way forpeople to help the RMHC in fund raising.Tabs from pop can tops would be broughtto either the RMH or one of several collec-tion points at the McDonald’s restaurants(currently Rockford area McDonalds do notsupply such collection points). There wasan over-riding reason for this - tabs fromsoda cans tops were less ‘messy’ than thewhole can. Collection would then be madeeasier.

On July 16, the Higdons, including a fullyrecovered Chris, delivered over 35.5 poundsof tabs to the RMH-Madison in the name ofthe USS Shiloh and STARFLEET!

There are other ways for YOU to helpthe RMHC. Thousands of dollars have ac-tually collected and donated to the RMHC.Also donations of items such as toiletries,first aid supplied and foodstuff is welcomed.In addition organizations, such as churchesand public service groups, supply a homecooked meal when ever possible.

You can also help when you go toMcDonalds. Most McDonalds now have aplace you can deposit loose change into.This helps the RMHC fund raising effortsas well.

A big part of the RMHC is volunteerism.It takes dozens of volunteers for each RMH

to keep it clean and stable. During their stayin Madison, the Higdons made friends withstudents from the local High Schools as wellas the University of Wisconsin, parents andfriends who live in the area or of formerpatients, and older folks who feel that help-ing the RMH is something worth wild!

The USS Shiloh decided to make theRMHC-Madison a public service project bycollecting tabs from the friend, family andco-workers of the crew. This was monthsbefore STARFLEET initiated the RonaldMcDonald House Charities Program, whichthe crew vigorously supports.

What can you do to help? You can col-lect tabs and take them to your local RMHC.If you are unable to do this, collect the cansand take them to your recycling center. Thensend the money either to the closest RMHCor to the STARFLEET RMHC Program. Per-haps you want to send the tabs to anotherchapter of STARFLEET. The USS Shiloh isoffering to be the reception center for anytabs you wish to send.

You can learn more about theSTARFLEET Ronald McDonald HouseCharities Program by going to their officialWebsite at http://members.xoom.com/lo1nelson/. You can pay a visit to theRMHC-Madison by going to their Websiteat http://www.rmhmadison.org/ or youmay write them at:

Ronald McDonald House Charities-Madison

232-4460 Marshall CourtMadison, Wisconsin 53705(608) 232-4660

PS - Chris is doing fine and seems to befully recovered a year after the accident!

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Picture attached is Shiloh Crew delivers35.5 lbs. of Soda Can Tabs to the RMH-Madi-son. L-R; Captain Jeff Higdon, CommanderChris Higdon, Cadet Emily Higdon

USS Shiloh and the RonaldMcDonald House (- cont.)

It’s June 6th, 2310, and to commemoratethe anniversary of the allied “D-Day” inva-sion that turned the tide of World War II,STARFLEET has commissioned its latestvessel, USS Normandy. The vessel bearingregistry NCC-36000 is the class ship for theFleet’s daunting new group of supercarriers.Normandy will be carrying a full suite of ves-sels, and will serve as the base of operationsfor the STARFLEET Marine Corps’s VMFA-169th “Blacksheep” squadron.

In attendance at the commissioning cel-ebration were commanding officer MajorGeneral Les Rickard, outgoing executiveofficer Vice Admiral Tom Monaghan, andSergeant Major Deidre Smith, of USSNormandy, as well as Rear Admiral JesseSmith and Captain Teri Smith of USSTanagra, Captain Mary Kane and Lieuten-ant Colonel John Kane of USS Hornet, Com-mander Donna Monaghan of USS Maat,

USS Normandy Launches!Comm. Mark Anbinder, USS Accord

Fleet Captain Matt Meyers and CommanderAmy Alexander of USS Hawkeye, Fleet Cap-tain Mark H. Anbinder and Captain J.C.Cohen of USS Accord, and Les’s brother,Robert “Chuck” Rickard.

Missing in action were Fleet AdmiralMichael D. Smith, the Commander,STARFLEET, whose plans to attend werefoiled when his shuttle was intercepted byFerengi, and Commodore Jack Hopkins andhis wife Becky, who were held up by a 24-hour temporal rift.

Following the commissioning dinner,most of those present adjourned to the local“Putt-Putt” miniature golf course. Thegroup proved successfully that STARFLEETExecutive Committee members can playminiature golf without sustaining seriousinjury! Captain Cohen was the top scorer at41, just shy of par.

[clockwise from top left: Matt Myers, AmyAlexander, Les Rickard and Dee Smith]

[Donna Monaghan, Mark Anbinder, and Teri Smith] [Jesse and Teri Smith (of CompOps fame)]

[USS Normandy logo]

Photos provided by Mark Anbinder

Chapter News

Aug/Sept 1999 •

September 24-26 Nan Desu Kon III,Lakewood, Colorado; Info: Nan Desu Kon,1552 Monroe St, Denver CO, 80206-1850http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Garden/8493/Nandesukon.html

September 24-26 Contact 17, Evansville,Indiana; Info: P.O. Box 3894, Evansville, IN47737 http://members.aol.com/contactsf/home.html Guests:Bill & Phyllis Breuer

September 24-27 Cogcon 7 , Rolla,Missouri; Info: GEAR, PO Box 1939, RollaMO 65402 Ph: (573)341-5932http://www.rollanet.org/~cogcon/

September 25-26 Hypotheticon: 1999,Glasgow, United Kingdom, Scotland; Info:Hypotheticon: 1999, Flat O/2, 11 CleghornStreet, Glasgow, G22 5RNh t t p : / / m e m b e r s . t r i p o d . c o m /~Hypotheticon1999/Guests:Michael Sheard

October 1-3 ConiFur Northwest, Fife,Washington; Info: Conifur NorthWest, 2406SW 308TH PL, Federal Way, WA 98023http://www.conifur.org/Guests:Jimmy Chin

October 1-3 Archon 23, Collinsville,Illinois; Info: Archon 23, PO Box 8387, St.Louis, MO 63132-8387Ph: 314-326-3026 http://www.stlf.org/archon/23/index.html Guests:Ray VanTilburg, Jim Bakke, Donna Bakke, JohnBrooks, Susan & Jeff Stringer, Vic Milán,Foresst J Ackerman

October 1-3 Viable Paradise III, Martha’sVineyard, Massachusetts; Info: Martha’sVineyard Science Fiction Association, POBox 3404, Oak Bluffs, MA 02557http://www.tiac.net/users/rmontor/paradise/ Guests:Joe Haldeman, RickBerry, Ted & Bonnie Atwood, James D.Macdonald, Debra Doyle

October 1-3 Con*Cept ‘99, Montreal,Quebec, Canada; Info: Con*Cept ’99, POBox 405, Station H, Montréal, QB CanadaH3G 2L1 Ph: 514-381-4162http://AFM.infinit.net/concept/ Guests:Norbert Spenher, Candas JaneDorsey, Larry Stewart

October 1-3 Congenial 10, Racine,Wisconsin; Info: PO Box 542911, Chicago,IL 60654http://www.congenial.org/ Guests:Howard Harrison, Bob Berlien,Kathy Routliffe, Samantha Star Straf

Upcoming ConventionsCompiled by Blair Learn

October 8-10 Conclave 24, Lansing,Michigan; Info: PO Box 2915, Ann Arbor, MI48106 Ph: 313-454-1554http://www.conclavesf.org/ Guests:JamesHogan, Erin McKee, Marian Skupski, Bill andBrenda Sutton, Sarah Zettel, Steve Piziks,Andrea Dale, Michael Longcor, L. WarrenDouglas, Leo A. Frankowski

October 8-10 First Contact 6, Milwaukee,Wisconsin; Info: PO Box 510781, MilwaukeeWI 53202 Ph: 414-527-1771 http://hometown.aol .com/arimmr/page/IGuests:Tom Savini, Steve Gregory, DavidHerrmann, Rebekah Groat

October 8-10 Context XII, Columbus, Ohio;Info: Context, FANACO, PO Box 163391,Columbus, OH 43216 Ph: 614-878-6824http://www.contextcon.com/Guests:RobertJ. Sawyer, Michael J. Walsh, Catherine Asaro,Joan Slonszewski, Carolyn Clink

October 8-10 Farpoint ‘99, Hunt Valley,Maryland; Info: Farpoint, 6099 Hunt ClubRoad, Elkridge, MD 21075http://www.bcpl.lib.md.us/~wilsonr/Guests:Peter Jurasik, James Darren, RobertColbert, Mary Kay Adams, Alan Bean, HowieWeinstein, Marc Okrand, Tim DeHaas, LolitaFatjo, Inge Heyer, Dr. Yoji Kondo, ParadoxPlayhouse (Comedy Troupe), Misfit ToyProductions (Comedy Troupe), Luna-C(Comedy Troupe),

October 8-10 Necronomicon 1999, Tampa,Florida; Info: P.O. Box 2076, Riverview, FL33568 http://www.stonehill.org/Guests:Joan D. Vinge, Jennifer Roberson

October 8-10 Gaylaxicon 1999, Arlington,Virginia; Info: Gaylaxicon 1999, c/o LambdaSci-Fi, PO Box 656, Washington, DC 20044Ph: 202-232-3141http://www.lambdasf.org/gaylaxicon1999/Guests:Diane Duane, Nancy Janda

October 8-10 Anime Weekend Atlanta,Atlanta, Georgia; Info: Anime WeekendAtlanta, PO Box 13544, Atlanta, GA 30324-0544 Ph: 404-364-9773http://www.anime.net/~awa/Guests:Amy Howard, Tim Eldred, SteveBennett, Kuni Kimura, Bruce Lewis, NeilNadelman, Carl Gustav Horn

October 9-10 Octocon 10, Dun Laoghaire,Ireland; Info: Octocon, c/o 43 Eglinton Road,Donnybrook, Dublin 4, Ireland Ph: +353 1-260-5204 Guests:Robert Rankin

October 10-13 Cult TV: Breakaway 1999,Shropshire, United Kingdom; Info: Cult TV,PO Box 1701, Peterborough, PE7 1ER, UK Ph:+01733-205009 http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/2042/

October 10-13 Masque 7, West Midlands,United Kingdom; Info: Masque, c/o A.L.Cash, 130 Hamstead Hall Rd., HandsworthWood, Birmingham B20 1JB, WestMidlands, UKhttp://www.ireadh.demon.co.uk/cguk/masque7.html

October 15-17 Icon 24, Coralville, Iowa; Info:PO Box 525, Iowa City, IA 52244-0525http://www.mindbridge.org/icon/ Guests:Peter S. Beagle, Bill Johnson, CharlesPiehl, Rusty Hevelin

October 15-17 Darkcon 6, Oklahoma City,Oklahoma; Info: 4345 N Lincoln Blvd,Oklahoma City, OK USA 73105Ph: 1 (800) 741-2741http://members.tripod.com/~darkcon/

October 15-17 Upsala 1999, Uppsala,Sweden; Info: Postal Giro 629 49 57-4, Kruse,Sweden http://sfweb.dang.se/ Guests:Lars-Olov Strandberg

October 15-17 Canvention 19/Inconsequntial II, Fredericton, NewBrunswick, Canada; Info: c/o Brian A.Davis, 45 Charm Ct., Fredericton, NB E3B7J6; Canada Ph: 506-459-5758 Guests:TanyaHuff

October 17-18 JohnCon Lite ‘99, Baltimore,Maryland; Info: c/o SAC, 3505 N. CharlesSt, Baltimore, MD 21218http://www.jhu.edu/~johncon/lite/ Guests:Steve Jackson

October 17-19 Albacon ‘99, Schenectady,New York; Info: Albacon ’99, PO Box 2085,Albany, NY 12220-0085http://www.albacon.org/Guests:Hal Clement, Vincent Di Fate, SethBreidbart

October 17-19 InCon ‘99, Spokane,Washington; Info: InCon, PO Box 9112,Spokane, WA 99209-9112Guests:Chalres de Lint, Margaret Organ-Kea

October 22-24 Arcana 1999, St. Paul,Minnesota; Info: Arcana 1999, PO Box 8036,Lake Street Station, Minneapolis, MN 55408-8036 Ph: 612-825-9353http://www.inergy.com/JBROWER/Guests:Ramsey Campbell

October 22-24 TusCon, Tuscon, Arizona;Info: PO Box 26822, Tucson AZ 85726 Ph:520-881-3709http://www.azstarnet.com/~basfa/Guests:Laurell K. Hamilton, Lee Seed, EdBryant

October 22-24 Tus-con 26, Tucson, Arizona;Info: PO Box 26822, Tucson AZ 85726http://www.azstarnet.com/~basfa/Guests:Ed Bryant

October 23-24 Sci-Fi Expo and Toyshow,Plano, Texas; Info: PO Box 941111, Plano Tx75094-1111 Ph: 972-578-0213 (10am to 6pmCST) http://www.scifiexpo.com/ Guests:Silas Carson, Jerome Blake, EthanPhillips

October 23-24 ConVergence, Bristol, UnitedKingdom; Info: 46 Brins Close, StokeGifford, Bristol, England, BS34 8XU http://members.xoom.com/con_vergence/Guests:Warwick Davis, Jacqueline Pearce,Michael Sheard, Jeremy Bulloch, LionelFanthorpe

October 29-31 Ohio Valley Filk Fest,Dublin, Ohio; Info: Ohio Valley Filk Fest, POBox 20125-0125, Columbus, OH 43220 Ph:614-851-0936 http://www.inkspot.com/ovff/ Guests:Tom Smith, LeslieLarkins,Kathleen Sloan, Mary Miller

October 29-31 Terracon 2, Fife, Washington;Info: Terracon, PO Box 11816, Olympia, WA98508-1816 Ph: 206-528-2908 (10 am-10 pm)ht tp ://nu.sea t t l e -bandwidth .org/~terracon/ Guests:Dave Duncan, PaulRiddell

October 29-31 Ditto 12, Minneapolis,Minnesota; Info: Ditto 12, c/o Karen Cooper,101 E. Minnehaha Pky., Minneapolis, MN55419 Ph: 612-823-1497

October 29-31 Friscon 7, San Francisco, CA;Info: P.O. Box 2228, Danville, CA 94526http://www.plasticcow.com/friscon/

October 29-31 HubCon III, Lubbock, Texas;Info: HubCon III, PO Box 94353, Lubbock,TX 79493-4353 Ph: 806-789-1501 http://www.hubcon.org/ Guests:Eric Kristiansen

October 29-31 Con*Stellation XVIII,Huntsville, Alabama; Info: P.O. Box 4857,Huntsville AL 35815-4857http://www.hsv.t is .net/~constell/constell/ Guests:David Weber, Allen Steele,Darryl Elliott, Tom &Anita Feller

October 29-31 Vulkon, Cleveland, Ohio;Info: Vulkon, PO BOX 821673, South Florida,FL 33082-1673 Ph: 954-441-TREKhttp://www.vulkon.com/ Guests:JamesDarren, Jeff Conaway

October 30-31 STARFLEET Region 5Summit, Boise, Idaho; Info: Diana Hoff, 126W. Washington Ave, Meridian, ID 83642

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October 30-31 Boise Sci-Fi Expo, Boise,Ohio; Info: Diana Hoff, 126 W. WashingtonAve, Meridian, ID 83642

November 4-7 25th World FantasyConvention, Providence, Rhode Island;Info: World Fantasy Convention, c/o MCFI,PO Box 1010, Framingham, MA 01701http://world.std.com/~sbarsky/mcfi/wfc/ Guests:Patricia A. Mckillip, Charles deLint, Robert Silverberg, Leo & Diane Dillon,R. Delany, John M. Ford

November 5-7 United Fan Con IX,Springfield, Massachusetts; Info: United FanCon IX, 500 Monroe Turnpike, Monroe, CT06468 Ph: 781-986-TREKhttp://members.xoom.com/unitedfancon/Guests:Robert Picardo, Sarah Sutton

November 5-7 Praxis 99, Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania; Info: PO Box 18076,Pittsburgh, PA 15236-0076 Ph: 877-4-PRAXIShttp://welcome.to/PraxisFoundation/Guests:Richard Chevolleau, Paula Crist, BillFoy, Carl Talliaferro, Andrew Hassfurther

November 5-7 Eclecticon, Newark, NewJersey; Info: 9-11 Ayres Court, Bayonne, NJ07002-3510ht tp ://members .ao l . com/natpe1/eclecticon.htm

November 5-7 Tropicon 18, Ft. Lauderdale,Florida; Info: Tropicon 18, c/o SFSFS, POBox 70143, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33307-0143http://scifi.squawk.com/tropicon.htmlGuests:Mike Resnick

November 5-7 Primedia, Toronto, Ontario;Info: P.O. Box 21146, RPO Meadowvale,Mississauga, ON, Canada L5N 6A2Ph: 905-820-3844 http://www.interlog.com/~kcozens/primedia/

November 5-7 Novacon 29, Birmingham,United Kingdom; Info: Carol Morton, 14Park St., Lye, Stourbridge, West Midlands,DY9 8SS Ph: +01384 825 386http://www.cooky.demon.co.uk/n28/

November 6 MassCon GamingConvention, Worcester, Massachusetts;Info: PO Box 403, North Chelmsford, MA01863-0403 Ph: 978-251-9321 http://www.totalcon.com/masscon/I

November 11-14 ShaunCon XVII,Overland Park, Kansas; Info: P.O. Box 7457,Kansas City, MO 64116-0157 Ph:816.455.5020 http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/RPGKC/shaun.html

November 12-14 Philcon ‘99, Philadelphia,Pennsylvania; Info: PO Box 8303, 30th StreetStation, Philadelphia, PA 19101Ph: 215-975-4004 http://www.philcon.org/Guests:Katherine Kurtz, Jill Bauman

November 12-14 U-Con 1999, Ann Arbor,Michigan; Info: PO Box 4491, Ann Arbor, MI48106-4491 Ph:734-930-6363http://www.deathstar.org/~ucon/Guests:James Ernest

November 12-14 Vulkon, Orlando, Florida;Info: Vulkon, PO BOX 821673, South Florida,FL 33082-1673 Ph: 954-441-TREKhttp://www.vulkon.com/Guests:Andreas Katsulas

November 12-14 OryCon 21, Portland,Oregon; Info: OryCon 21, PO Box 5703,Portland, OR 97228-5703Ph: 503-232-6506 http://www.orycon.org/Guests:Nene Thomas, Nicola Griffith,Warren Lapine & Angela Kessler, CharlesSheffield

November 12-14 Windycon XXVI,Schaumburg, Illinois; Info: PO Box 184,Palatine, IL 60078-0184Guests:Kristine Kathryn Rusch, DeanWesley Smith, Steven Vincent Johnson,Marty Greenberg, Ellen Datlow, ChazBoston Baden, Christian Ready

November 19-21 Exoticon 2, Metairie,Louisiana; Info: PO Box 9431, Bridge City,LA 70096 Ph: 504-436-3378http://home.earthlink.net/~rfontenot/exoticon.html Guests:Tom Savini, JamesHong, Todd Fischer, Bill Randolph, Spider& Jeanne Robinson, Paul T. Riddell, CarlLundgren, Rob Prior, Mandy Leigh,Adrienne Cornin, Debbie Dutch, Andy J.Forest, Chris Morrow, Dawn Marie, AmySnyder

November 19-21 Earthgate 99, Lexington,Kentucky; Info: PO Box 4353 Oak Ridge, TN37831 Ph: 423-482-2552 http://earthgate.net/ Guests:Richard Biggs, KariWhurer, Denise Cosby, June Chadwick,Richard Hatch, Lowell Cunningham, CarlLundgren, Lighthawk, Jon St. Germain

November 26-28 LosCon XXVI, Burbank,California; Info: LosCon XXVI, c/o LASFS,11513 Burbank Blvd., North Hollywood, CA91601 Ph: 818-760-9234 http://www.lasfs.org/loscon26/ Guests:ConnieWillis, Alex Ross, Joe Siclari,

November 26-28 Chambanacon 29,Champaign, Illinois; Info: PO Box 2908Springfield, IL 62708-2908 Ph: 513-651-0427http://www.ussursus.org/chambanacon/

November 26-28 ConCat 11, Knoxville,Tennessee; Info: ConCat 11, 316 E. ScottAve., Knoxville, TN 37917 Ph: 423-637-6564h t t p : / / w w w . v i c . c o m / ~ c h l o i e a /ConCat.html Guests:Neil Gaiman, LisaSnelling, Webb Clan

November 27-28 Mid-Ohio-Con,Columbus, Ohio; Info: P.O. Box 3831,Mansfield, OH 44907 http://www.wfcomics . com/midohiocon/Guests:Dawn Wells, Lou Ferrigno, MarkGoddard, Glori-Anne Gilbert, GerardChristopher, Robert Krimmer, Terry Austin,Dick Ayers, Scott Beaderstadt, Brian MichaelBendis, John Byrne, Janet Heatherington,Tony Isabella, Bob Ingersoll, Paul Jenkins,Bill Knapp, Dav

December 2-5 Nordcon 13, Gdansk, Poland;Info: Gdanski Klub Fantastyki, Box 76, 80-325 Gdansk 37, Poland Ph: +48-58-531073http://www.gkf.3miasto.pl/

December 10-12 SMOFcon 17, NewOrleans, Louisiana; Info: SMOFcon 17, POBox 61363, Sunnyvale, CA 94088-1363

If there’s a convention in your area you’dlike to see listed, please send the con’s name,dates, location, and contact information toBlair Learn at 11604 King’s Arrow CT,Germantown, MD 20876 or [email protected]. Please allow atleast two months time between your sub-mission and the convention’s date.

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Subject:: Fund-raising campaign to benefitKaya Shepherd-Poppick and the NTAF(National Transplant Assistance Fund).

I received a phone call tonight from alocal civic group asking for a donation — itwas a good cause, but I declined for thisyear. On the other hand, I wrote a check toanother organization for a donation inmemory of a man I did not even know sim-ply because I was present when he died andI could sympathize with his family. Withall the solicitations we receive, sometimesthe best litmus test is whether it touchesyour heart. This is what happened to mewhen I heard about the plight of Kaya Shep-herd-Poppick. I hope reading this will touchsome other hearts too.

Kaya will not even be a year old untilNovember and already she has been fight-ing for her life. She was born without all ofher intestines intact. Because of this, she ishaving to be fed intravenously directly intoher heart. This process is in turn destroy-ing her liver, so she is on the waiting list tohave both her intestine and liver replaced.

I first heard about Kaya at DragonConfrom actor Peter Jurasik, who played theCentauri Ambassador, Londo Mollari, onBabylon Five. Mr. Jurasik told the audiencethat he had had some personal experiencewith organ donation and that Kaya’s fam-ily were personal friends. So, when the situ-ation with her developed, he went aroundto the homes of his former B5 castmates andcollected autographed items to auction offat the various conventions he was attend-ing. You could tell he was very sincere inhis efforts to help this child. It was also ob-vious that he had no question of the legiti-macy of the NTAF which is the fund chan-neling the donations received.

What Is NTAF?

National Transplant Assistance Fund(NTAF), established in 1983, is a private,non-profit (501(c)3) organization which of-fers modest medical assistance grants to eli-gible candidates to help offset immediatetreatment related costs for organ trans-plants. NTAF also counsels patients regard-ing the location and cost of transplant cen-ters, other possible sources of financial as-sistance and fundraising opportunitieswithin their communities. The organizationacts as trustee for locally raised funds andassures fiscal accountability and appropri-ate distribution of those funds for medicallyassociated expenses. In the past 14 years,NTAF has assisted over 2,700 patients inevery state, and the need for services is in-

Photo: Peter Jurasik (“Ambassador Londo Mollari,Babylon Five) auctioning an autographed photo at

Vulkon in St. Petersburg, Florida, July 24, 1999[photo by Robin Walker]

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creasing. This is most evident in the recentdecision by the Board of Directors to ex-pand its area of service beyond heart andlung patients to those in need of other or-gans.

Who does NTAF help and how?

NTAF’s services are available for anypatient in need of an organ transplant. Thefinancial burden placed on the families oftransplant patients is staggering and evenwith health insurance, they too often learnthat various factors in individual cases mayjeopardize or limit their coverage. In ad-dition, there are many “hidden “ costs:transportation to and from transplant cen-ters and physicians, hotels, food – before,during and after the actual transplant sur-gery for family members, especially if thesurgery must be done in another city orstate. These expenses can strain thefamily’s budget.

The NTAF not only helps families raisefunds but also helps plan and sustain afund-raising campaign and helps the fam-ily plan a budget to deal with these addi-tional expenses. The funds are held in anaccount in each patient’s name. Familiessubmit requests for withdrawals for reim-bursement or direct payment of bills. In-voices are required for documentation andall pre-and post- transplant expenses areallowable. Unlike typical insurance reim-bursement, payments are made weekly asrequired.

Donations to the NTAF are tax deduct-ible to the extent that the law allows. Theorganization can also assist the family insecuring corporate matching gifts, publicand private grant money, and governmentassistance. In addition, the NTAF contrib-utes a one-time $1,000 assistance grant once$1,000 has been gathered through thefamily’s fund-raising efforts. The NTAFhas a certified public accountant on staffand is independently audited annually.

In addition to financial assistance, theNTAF can help its families find resourcesfor emotional support and educational ma-terials. They are associated with 25 re-gional assistance centers and can serve asa liaison between the patient and the trans-plant center. They are listed as a resourceon the information websites of severaltransplant hospitals. The NTAF is also aneducational resource for physicians, nurses,and other healthcare professionals.

Why participate in the campaign to helpKaya?

I saw Mr. Jurasik again last month at aVulkon in Florida, where he and James

Darren were the headline guests. Speakingto both the gathering and to me privately, hewas very gracious in his appreciation for thesupport and generosity of our community ofscience fiction fans, especially when he wasat a primarily Star Trek event.

No, I do not know this little girl person-ally, and I would not presume to know whatwould make her any more deserving thanany other transplant patient.

Her website describes her as a sweet,good-natured child who loves to babble andhas learned to smile. At 9 months, she al-ready likes books and enjoys playing withher toys and napping. I do know kids verymuch like her, except that they were bornwith all of their organs healthy and intact.

Working in a hospital, I know enough ofhospital finances to understand some of whymedical care is so expensive and that thereare no quick, easy solutions to the problem.I also know people who dedicate their liveseveryday to caring for their patients. I’vetalked to transplant recipients from Tennes-see Donor Services and have heard theirhumble gratitude. On several occasions, I’vebeen in the OR and have watched a heartbeating.

Any donation to NTAF, no matter theamount, would be welcomed and appreci-ated. But what made Kaya special to me waswhen Mr. Jurasik said her Granddad was his“very best friend in the world,” and I knowabout FRIENDSHIP!

How can you help?

First, you yourself can send a donationto the NTAF. Secondly, you can collectmoney on your ship either through straightdonations or from an auction. I know thatsome ships in STARFLEET have alreadybeen collecting for her. Thirdly, you can passthis information on to your friends. If youare donating to Kaya’s fund, please write“Kaya Shepherd-Poppick” in the memo areaof the check. You might mention that youare donating as a STARFLEET member,which will help put our name out in the pub-lic. Donation checks can be mailed to: NTAF,6 Bryn Mawr Avenue, P.O. Box 258, BrynMawr, PA 19010. You may also donate us-ing your credit card by calling the NTAF. Thephone number is: 1-800-642-8399. Finallyyou can learn more about the NTAF via theirwebsite at: http://www.transplantfund.org.Thank you for your generosity.

Robin S. Walker6609 Dick Ford LaneKnoxville, TN 37920(423)577-5128

the National Transplant Assistance Fund

The first part of this article asks “How biga Star Trek Fan are you?” and “Who are StarTrek Fans?” The second part is “What I Like”as a Star Trek fan.

How big a Star Trek fan are you? Do youlike the Original series? Do you like The NextGeneration? Do you like Deep Space Nine?Do you like Voyager? Do you collect StarTrek collectibles? Do you collect figurines,plates, cards, videos, books, mugs, orna-ments, models, tee shirts, software, games,etc.? Do you write Star Trek stories? Do youdream Star Trek? Do you have a mixed col-lection? Do you have a specialized collection?Do you like to go to conventions?

If you answered yes to anyone of thesequestions than you are a Star Trek fan. Howbig a Star Trek fan are you? Well I guess thatdepends on the individual person. It also de-pends on how a person looks at you. WouldI be a bigger Star Trek fan if I had more col-lectibles than the next person? Maybe thenext person feels he or she is bigger becauseof how they feel regarding Star Trek. Is it afeeling? Is it a Love? Is it the future? Is it theway each of us views Star Trek?

There are many types of Star Trek fans.There are those that will show it everydayby the way they dress and talk. There areothers that are a little more laid back. Thereare those that will talk about Star Trek whenit is mentioned. These people will be moreactive in Star Trek clubs. They will have alittle more active role, more ideas and moreinterest. Than you have the Star Trek fansthat like Star Trek, but are not interested inshowing it by the way they talk, dress andact. They will say they are Star Trek fans butnot interested in joining a Star Trek club.They have anywhere from occasional StarTrek knowledge by watching TV or moviesto actually collecting Star Trek memorabilia.They would prefer to keep it to themselvesand not be a part of a club for whatever rea-son. Is this bad? NO! Because we all like thesame thing, STAR TREK, and the majorityof these people will go out and watch themovies or the shows. These people are anintegral part of the Star Trek universe to keepthe dream of Star Trek alive. So if you arethe casual viewer, have the biggest collec-tion in the world, or think that you are thebiggest Star Trek fan, you are not alone. Any-one who likes Star Trek can’t be any bigger afan than the next person. We are all in thistogether.

What kind of a Star Trek fan am I? Let’stalk about the TV series first. When the origi-nal series first aired, I didn’t watch it much.Being a teenager at the time I had otherthings on my mind (girls?). I really grew tolove Star Trek when the original series cameout in syndication. I sat by the TV andwatched every episode. After that, the mov-ies came out and I watched them. I was morefascinated in the special effects and wasthrilled with how they improved in themovies. When the Next Generation aired, Icouldn’t get hooked to it. I believe one rea-son was that the TV reception was so pooron the over-the-air channel that it came on.When it was showed on other stations and Ibought a satellite dish, I had to watch re-runs to catch up (and I am still catching up).When Deep Space Nine aired, I just couldn’tget into a show that had a space station withaliens. I just couldn’t believe in aliens on aspace station. I have watched more DS9 epi-sodes the last two years that the first four. Ihave been a Voyager fan from the beginningand to me it is more like the Original series.I have to say, now that I have been watch-ing TOS on the Sci-Fi channel, that TOS isthe best series.

What do I collect? Well, a little of every-thing. Mostly magazines, posters, somecards and video tapes. I guess you might saythat my collecting interest would have to bevideos. What do I have you ask? All of themovies and all of the episodes of The Origi-nal Series. I am collecting The Next Genera-tion and have half of them. I have about 14episodes of Voyager and will start to collectDS9 after the first of the year. With all thevideos I will be able to catch up on TNG andDS9. Also, there are collectable sets such asthe Q set, Borg sets, etc., that I will be pur-chasing in the near future. I have special vid-eos like the “Star Trek 25 Anniversary,”“The 25th year Mission” and “Journey’sEnd, the saga of Star Trek the Next Genera-tion.” So that’s the extent of my collection.

I am sure there are others that have morethan I, but I will get there. This article is inmy opinion only. Any comments can be sentto me via e-mail at [email protected] orsnail mail at Warren Price 315 Highway 220Cedar Grove TN. 38321.

STAR TREKFAN(S) Warren Price

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On the surface, Voice of the Resistancelooks like a once in a lifetime opportunity.The stars slated to attend included every-one who has ever been a part of Babylon 5either in front or behind the camera. While Ispent over a week on the west coast visitingfriends and doing the tourist routine, I spentthe weekend of October 16-18, 1998 attend-ing VORcon in Pomona, California, whichis east of LA by about 50 miles. Let’s startwith the complaints so I can end on a goodnote.

Immediately upon arriving, I had to waitin line for two hours to get my reserved tick-ets because their computers were down. Ihad bought the most expensive Gray Coun-cil package. For my $200 I was suppose toget a reserved seat in the block of seats near-est the stage and priority in the autographlines. What I got for my registration was apoor quality postcard size schedule of eventson one side with an autograph checklist onthe back. The 20 page glossy VORcon maga-zine had to be bought separately (for $15 asI recall) and then only the outer cover wasin full color. The rest of the magazine wasblack and white, though the pictures of theactors out of character was a nice change ofpace. Charging separately for everythingwas the prevailing philosophy of the entireconvention.

Nothing was labeled with signs, whichcreated great confusion. The reserved seatsweren’t even numbered, so people begansitting wherever they felt as the conventionprogressed, including yours truly. Further-more, the huge buildings of the Fairplex hadabsolutely no acoustics at all. I also hate toadmit that the view on one of the overheadprojections screens was often better thanlooking at the stage, even with my videocamera’s incredible zoom feature.

Anyway, enough complaining for now,on to a review of the convention itself. I ar-rived around 11 a.m. Friday when the doorsopened. As I was getting out of my car to goin, I thought I recognized someone talkingto the parking lot gate guards as they drovein. While I’m not for certain as I didn’t wantto make a fool of myself by asking, I believeit was Bill Mumy, who plays Lennier.

Opening Ceremonies began severalhours late due to equipment problems. TheSupreme Commander of the Visitors, in hisred uniform and dark sunglasses, was theMC. Each of the Babylon 5 stars were pre-sented one at a time. They’d talk for a minuteor so, (usually gushing about how happythey were to be there or how this was theirfirst time) and then run off the stage. When

Voice of the ResistanceConvention (VORCON) Review

FCAPT Richard L. Trulsonthey were all finished, they all came out onstage at once, which was a remarkable siteto behold.

The stars that were there included BruceBoxleitner (Sheridan), Mira Furlan (Delenn),Jerry Doyle (Garibaldi), Richard Biggs(Franklin), Pat Tallman (Lyta), Jason Carter(Marcus), Claudia Christian (Ivanova),Michael O’Hare (Sinclair), Andreas Katsulas(G’Kar), Peter Jurasik (Londo), Bill Mumy(Lennier), Jeff Conaway (Zack), StephenFurst (Vir), Walter Koenig (Chekov, I meanBester), Jeffrey Willerth (Kosh), WayneAlexander (Lorien), Ed Wasser (Morden),Robin Atkin Downs (Byron), Tim Choate(Zathras), Josh Cox (Corwin), Julie CaitlinBrown (first Na’Toth), Johnny Sekka (Dr.Kyle), Denise Gentile (Lise Hampton), MarieMarshall (Dodger), Maggie Egan (ISN An-chor), Blair Baron (first Carolyn Sikes), Ri-chard Gant (MacDougan), TuckerSmallwood (Endawi), and WorthamKrimmer (Kartagia).

The only major stars NOT there wereTracy Scoggins (Captain Lockley), and theperformers who played Keffer and TaliaWinters. Also, Babylon 5’s creator, J. MichaelStraczynski, was conspicuously absent aswell.

The evening’s individual presentationsbegan with Doyle. In a bit of comedy,Conaway showed up on stage carrying a boxof goodies in slave service to Doyle, whichgot a lot of laughs. In a later turn of events,Doyle showed up during Conaway’s pre-sentation, sweeping the stage with a push-broom. Unfortunately, I don’t remembermuch of the presentations since I didn’t takenotes. However, I do remember Doyle’s pre-sentation being a bit on the adult sidethough. I’d also have to recommend a simi-lar parental advisory for Carter, as he likesto sing dirty limericks.

Another presentation that night was bythe Be Five group. Furlan, Christian,Katsulas, Jurasik, and Mumy threw togethera singing group since they would occasion-ally jam together after hours on the set. Ithink Mumy, who co-wrote and sings, is themain instigator of this foray into music.While the sample song they played for uswas OK, I still think actors should stay awayfrom the microphone. Remember WilliamShatner, Leonard Nimoy, Brent Spiner, andthe Sunspots singing careers for enough rea-son. The Be Five album is aptly titled “Try-ing To Forget” in my opinion.

Also during this presentation, Christiancomplained about a headache, so Katsulasbegan to massage her shoulders andtemples. Well, as the presentation pro-gressed, you could visibly see how relaxedshe was getting. Of course, this eventuallyled into some jokes about why don’t theyget a room. Even the other stars were begin-ning to comment on how they were gonnaneed a cigarette after watching this.

The entire convention was held in twoof the Fairplex hangers. In half of one wasthe seating for the presentations. The otherhalf was taken up by dealers selling mer-chandise. They ranged from the small inde-pendent dealers to the national productioncompanies, which was a high point of theconvention as it allowed everyone to buyfrom the entire range of merchandise. Theonly thing they couldn’t do was sell picturesof the stars, since that was being done bythe stars themselves. The second buildingwas used for autograph signing, the B5customizable card game tournaments, andthe Galaxy Ball.

Throughout the evening I wandered be-tween the dealers area and the presentation.It wasn’t until nightfall that I ventured overto the second building to get in the auto-

graph line. The line stretchedforever, and looped around onthe inside of the huge hanger.Nothing was explained withsigns nor could we tell who wewere in line for.

However, something inter-esting did happen while I waswaiting in line outside. I no-ticed a gentleman chatting withthe fans and it turned out to beRobert Beltran (Chakotay). Ofcourse, my opinion of himwasn’t very high given the ap-

pearance he made in Atlanta a couple yearsago. However, in this informal setting, heseemed nice enough to improve my opin-ion of him. I didn’t get to chat much otherthan to say hello.

Since I was juggling a lot of junk, I offerthe following tips for other con attendees:A simple Trapper Portfolio folder will holdpictures nicely and protect them at the sametime. A full fledged backpack will hold ev-erything, including camera, money, a bookto read, and more. And if you have a poster,a tube will store it securely though the roll-ing affect is very annoying when having itsigned.

As I waited for hours in line, several ofthe stars started to leave. Some of them weregracious enough to come down the line andsign their autographs for free without check-ing their name off the list. When I finally gotnear the autograph tables, I discovered whythe line was taking so long: It was a singleline that wound everyone through to get allthe stars’ autographs. Therefore, if you justwanted one person, you had to wait to getthrough all of them.

Further delays were caused by the num-ber of autographs people were getting. Typi-cally, a black and white 8x10 picture wouldcost $5 and a color one would cost $10.Sometimes personalization or other itemswould cost more. However, Katsulas wascharging an outrageous $30 per color photo.Even though most if not all of these proceedsfrom autographs were going to charity, itstill hurt to have to pay that much for anautograph.

The plus side to this was that people wereable to get almost as many autographs asthey wanted. Anyone who had a Gray Coun-cil ticket was allowed to get one autographfor free, thankfully. Like most people, I usedthe freebie to get a poster signed by every-one, and then paid for individual auto-graphs.

My day wound down around 10 p.m.when I left. Unfortunately, I had an hour anda half drive or so to a friend’s house yet sinceI canceled my room reservation with theHilton on the Fairplex grounds. I wasn’tabout to pay over $100 a night for a roomby myself. No one on the Fleet or B5 mail-ing lists wanted to split the costs with me,nor let me stay with them.

I returned around noon on Saturday.Alexander (Lorien), Furlan (Delenn),and Boxleitner (Sheridan) at VORcon.

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Since I was busy grabbing autographs, Ididn’t bother to attend the benefit auctionhosted by Alexander as the “Inquisitor”.(The auction benefited the Penny LaneFoundation, which is a child abuse andsupport program favored by Tallman.)They changed the autograph format todaydue to fan feedback. This time, the starswere scattered about the building at vari-ous locations. That way, the lines for indi-vidual stars were shorter. While I appreci-ate this, I dislike the way it sometimesblocked the pathways in the dealers area.This wasn’t as bad as it is in some cons sincethe Fairplex hanger is so spacious.

Saturday’s presentation highlights in-clude the one done by Katsulas and Jurasik.Their chemistry is just as great off-screenas it is onscreen. Tallman’s young son wasvery distracting during her and Willerth’spresentation. Of course, you could tell sheloved him very much. Christian and Cox

had on display a really humorous pictureof Ivanova kissing a very confused Corwin.

Another presentation was made byBoxleitner, Furlan, and Alexander. I wasenthralled by the grace and determinationof Furlan. She was very pregnant andlooked to be in her third trimester, thoughI don’t know for certain. Yet, she contin-ued to answer the questions and seemedto even enjoy herself. Boxleitner, on theother hand, seemed completely bored witheverything as if he wanted to be anywherebut there. He even filed his nails in bore-dom on stage while others were talking. Iwaited for hours afterwards to getBoxleitner and Furlan’s autograph. I thenmanaged to get O’Hare’s autograph andseveral of the bit players fairly quickly be-cause of everyone else wanting to get to theother stars.

However, the one autograph I was gladto get was of Christian. She’s a fabulouslady and a hilarious cut-up. There didn’tseem to be any bitterness with the rest ofthe cast since her departure, as it seemedshe was one of the gang throughout theentire weekend. She did make some barbedcomments during her presentation though.And for the guys, you may want to attenda con with her due to one particular postershe autographs: She’s in this revealinglysmall outfit holding two short swordscrossed over her chest for cover.

The evening was concluded with the Gal-axy Ball. I wish I could have gone, but bythen I had already spent most of my plannedbudget. It was hosted by Robert Beltran(Chakotay) of Star Trek: Voyager. They had alive band, music, dancing, catered banquet,and a charity auction. In addition to theBabylon 5 stars in attendance, several fromVoyager were there as well including RobertDuncan McNeill (Paris) and Tim Russ(Tuvok).

Other stars and people from behind thescenes were in attendance this weekend aswell. These included Stephen Austin, GregFunk, Fionagh Cush, Mojo, Ron Thornton,Robert Trebor, Gil Gerard, Erin Gray (theprevious two of Buck Rogers fame?), EricPierpoint, Maria Scarabelli (the previous twoof Mr. and Mrs. George Francisco of AlienNation TV show), Richard Herd, AndrewPrime Larry Ditillio, Peter David (B5 and Trekbook and script author), Peter Louis, TimTomerson, John Flinn III, David Eagle, andMark Allen Shepard (Morn of Deep SpaceNine).

Sunday was a fairly slow day comparedto the previous two days. In addition to theusual presentations, one of the most unusualand anticipated moments occurred with theshowing of Babylon Park. Take our favoritespace epic Babylon 5 and skewer it with thelewd humor of South Park. I kid you not.

This was followed by the B5 Girls presen-tation. Furlan, Gentile, and Marshall were theonly ones available today. However, a rathersuspicious sounding voice was heard fromthe audience asking them what they thoughtof Christian. It turned out to be Christian,herself, asking the question to play a prankon her fellow cast mates. The audience roaredwith laugher and then with applause asChristian joined the others. Like I said, she’squite the fun-lover and rabble-rouser.

The next presentation was by the B5 Boys.Of course, when there are over a dozen ofthem on stage at once, you can imagine howrowdy it can get. They were cutting up and

having a wonderful time. At one point, onegirl asked for a kiss from Katsulas, whogladly obliged. Of course, the kiss was verypassionate and lasted for a long time. Thecrowd roared while the other stars just sortof rolled their eyes.

The Closing Ceremony was the finalevent on Sunday. They did an impromptuauction to raise a little more money, thoughI didn’t bid on anything again. However, Idid enter a raffle earlier. I nearly had a heartattack when they called out my raffle ticketnumber. I won an autographed script fromepisode #516, “Darkness Ascending.” Writ-ten by J. Michael Straczynski, the script ac-tually belonged to Richard Biggs. I can’tmake out all of the dozen or so signatures,but among the obvious ones includeBoxleitner, Carter, Katsulas, Mumy, andConaway. This was probably the most won-derful thing to ever happen to me person-ally at any convention.

As I was heading out the door, I also re-ceived another surprise. Earlier in the day, Idropped by the booth for the upcomingBabylon 5 3D Starfury fighter game simula-tion. In addition to picking up a few free-bies like a poster, I filled out a survey. Onthe way out, I glanced at a makeshift posterthey had put on display. Under the interest-ing title of “winners,” my name was listed!When I checked into it and proved who Iwas, I was able to pick out the life-size card-board stand-up of a B5 character. After somedecision making, I settled for Londo sincemy favorite character, G’Kar, had alreadybeen claimed.

By the time I left, I had tripled my auto-graph collection with signatures from mostof the stars. My big trophy was a group sign-ing (14 total) of a poster, which depicts theWhite Star circling the season four cast. I alsomanaged to get 22 individual autographs,most of them on 8x10 character photos.Many of those are also personalized to me.

Overall, I had a fabulous time. However,I don’t believe I’m being overly harsh whenI say that this was the worst run convention

I’ve ever attended. After all, I do have someyard stick to measure this large of a conven-tion by, namely Star Trek 30: One Weekendon Earth organized by Paramount in Hunts-ville, AL in 1996. While I’m not for certain, Ithink Evolution Conventions, who wereresponsible for organizing this con, are agroup of semi-professional con promotersfrom England. While I’m sure this type ofundertaking is a tremendous effort, theyshouldn’t have taken it on if they weren’table to deliver on their product.

Evolution should be praised for gather-ing such a large number of stars for such anevent. As far as I know, everyone shouldhave been able to get at least one autograph,even if they had to wait in line for hours.The stars themselves were absolutely fabu-lous. Most of them were very personable,kind, and generous throughout the entireweekend. I’ve heard from several sourcesthat some of them were not paid for theirappearance as they were contracted. This isunforgivable in my opinion, though not sur-prising because I’d estimate they only soldabout 30% of the tickets they had plannedon.

Don’t get me wrong, I had a wonderfultime. However, if I knew then what I knownow, I could have had even more fun andsaved a lot of money. I could have gotten acheaper seat and still have gotten as manyautographs for all the good the Gray Coun-cil ticket did me. I don’t even think I hadthat much of a priority anyway given mosteveryone else had the same ticket.

One of the more interesting aspects ofthis con was the lack of a lot going on si-multaneously. Basically, you could eithergame, shop in the dealers area, or watch theprogramming on stage. Even Star Trek 30,which I feel is the best comparison to thiscon, had more going on at once. And whenyou compare it to the dozens of program-ming tracks and simultaneous events atDragon*Con, you can see the approach isquite different. From a programming per-spective, it allows most everyone to see mosteverything. I personally found this enjoy-able, as I didn’t feel I was missing anything.On the other hand, some would say for theprice they paid, they should have got awhole lot more.

So in summary, the organization of Voiceof the Resistance was absolutely horrible.However, the stars themselves were abso-lutely wonderful. And when you look at itfrom the grand perspective of the big pic-ture, I had a very wonderful time and woulddo it again. Eventually, a more detailed ar-ticle will appear on the USS Wernher vonBraun web site (http://www.OmniFacets.com/wvb/ ). Please feelfree to visit to learn more about the von Braunand to download more VORcon pictures.My personal web site is at http://www.OmniFacets.com/richard/ or I can bereached at [email protected].

Peter Jurasik (Londo) and Andreas Katsulas(G’Kar) at VORcon. [picture by Rich Trulson]

The telepaths at VORcon: Tallman (Lyta), Koenig (Chekov, I mean Bester) andDownes (Remember Byron!). [picture by Rich Trulson]

Convention Review


In October of 1998, I had the opportu-nity to go to the mother of all Babylon 5 con-ventions. I figured while I was flying out tothe west coast, I might has well take a littleside trip up to Vegas in the rental car. Thatway, I could partake in the Star Trek Experi-ence.

I arrived on a Monday night and tried tofind a cheap hotel nearby the Hilton. Since Ididn’t want to pay for parking or a cab, Idecided to walk there, which turned out tobe a mistake. I won’t bore you with the de-tails, as that torment was reserved for mycrew in the Fifth Anniversary Edition of ouraward winning Subspace Static newsletter.But in general, I walked until I thought I’ddrop, and I still didn’t make it to the hotel. Igave up and had fun at the other casinos.

When I woke up the next day, I drove tothe Hilton, which took forever to find sinceit isn’t located on any of the main casinostrips. Once there, the Star Trek Experiencewas worth the wait. The ride costs about $15or so and lasts about 30 minutes. While thefollowing relates some of the details, I don’tthink it will spoil it for anyone though.

You start off preparing to enter a ride,but after the lights flicker off, explosionssound, and a gust of wind later; the lightscome on to reveal you standing on the trans-porter pad of the Enterprise-D. They man-age to do a wonderful job of making youthink you’ve been transported from the ho-tel.

You’re led from there to the bridge,where everything is explained: A group ofrenegade Klingons is attempting to altertime by killing Picard’s ancestor, which isapparently one of the tour group members.The Enterprise intercepted their temporaltransport and are going to attempt to return

us to our own time. We’re then led througha turbolift to the shuttle bay, where we boarda shuttle. I happened to manage to end upon the very front row!

The shuttle ride was awesome. You’re ina flight simulator that takes you into battlewith a shuttle. The special effects are incred-ible. The experience is even better than amovie because of the interactivity of theshuttle ride. We even end up flying over LasVegas at night time. I won’t give away theending though!

After the ride, you’re able to exploresome of the gift shops. They have every Trekcollectible imaginable, though it wasn’t ascomplete as the Star Trek 30: One Weekend

The Star Trek ExperienceFCAPT Richard L. Trulson

A huge model of the USS Enterprise, NCC 1701 refit, hangs above theentrance to the Star Trek Experience atthe Las Vegas Hilton. It looks as if it’s leaving spacedock. [Picture by Rich Trulson]

The Cosmic Casino’s architecture is done in theDeep Space Nine Promenade style. [Picture by Rich

Trulson]

On Earth Spencer shop. They did have ev-erything from action figures to FranklinMint pewter replicas. They also had Quark’sBar and Grill, where I ate lunch. The foodwas excellent, but a bit on the expensive side.I got a souvenir glass with my mixed drink.I also got a quarter compressed into the im-age of the USS Voyager.

Before you go into the experience, theyhave a Trek museum. They have all kinds of

Phaser rifle, uniform, and other museum items at theStar Trek Experience. [picture by Rich Trulson]

props and costumes on display. Further-more, they have a timeline of the entire Trekhistory along the walkway for you to read.Above you are these huge, lit replicas of theEnterprise-A and D, Voyager, and a KlingonBird of Prey. These are gorgeous! Through-out the museum are various dioramas anddisplays (Klingons, the Borg, etc.), some ofwhich are interactive. I wish I had more timeto spend, but like in LA, I was on a whirl-wind tour of Vegas.

Even the hotel’s Cosmic Casino is doneup along Deep Space Nine’s promenade de-cor style. Unlike most slots where you canspin the wheels by pulling a lever or press-ing a button, these slots had a special lightor motion sensor to activate them. Waveyour hand through the sensor, and thewheels are spun! However, I got harassedby the security guards when I tried to filmthe casino architecture. Film and video areallowed in the museum, though not in theride itself.

All in all, I wouldn’t plan a trip to Vegasfor just the Star Trek experience. However, Iwould definitely plan on going to the Expe-rience if I were going to Vegas though. Nowif only they’d hold a STARFLEET Interna-tional Conference there. Eventually, a moredetailed article will appear on the USSWernher von Braun web site ( http://www.OmniFacets.com/wvb/ ). Please feelfree to visit to learn more about the von Braunand to download more pictures. My per-sonal web site is at http://www.OmniFacets.com/richard/ or I can bereached at [email protected].

FYI, the following article is from the Oc-tober, 1999 issue of “Star Trek the Maga-zine” (Fabbri Publishing). I plan to donatein memory of my mother, who died in 1982from colon cancer.

MEMORIAL FUND

Following DeForest Kelley’s death inJune, Dr. Jacques van Dam, one of the phy-sicians who treated him, is establishing a fel-lowship at Harvard Medical School that willresearch cancer of the colon.

While Dr. van Dam was treating De, heapproached him with the idea of establish-ing a fellowship that would be used prima-rily to educate the brightest and best stu-dents in the study and research of gas-trointestinal oncology, specializing in thetype of tumor that eventually claimed De’slife. Such tumors are difficult to diagnoseand treat because there is so little knownabout them and very little research is beingdone. De was delighted with the idea.

The plan is for the Fellowship to be es-tablished at Harvard Medical School; it willbe funded primarily by private contribu-tions and the fans. Harvard Medical Schoolwill provide one half of the sum needed.The other half, $500,000, will have to beraised. The interest from the principle sumwould then be used, in perpetuity, for thefellows.

If you want to make a contribution,please contact:

Harvard Medical School for theDeForest Kelley Fellowship Fundc/o Mr. Timothy WelchHarvard Medical School25 Shattuck St. Room 306ABoston, MA 02115

Larry W. Jones

MemorialFund

Jurgen Puype andBob Vosseller at

IC ‘99[picture submitedby Bob Vosseller]

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Aug/Sept 1999 •

Lost Footage of G. RoddenberryGenesis #2; Ark#2; Jascon of Star Com-mand; Space AcademyWhat does it mean?

A long, long time ago, us Trekker’sknew a unique individual – Mr.Roddenberry, who’d given us Star Trek.

Did you know Mr. Rodenberry wrotethree great movies about the future afterdisastrous holocausts? #1 – Strange NewWorld, #2 - Pax, and #3 - Genesis 2.

Genesis 2 - The actor Alex Cord play’sthe character Dillon Hunt who was buriedalive in a sleep chamber for 154 years afterfault-quake, and awakened in the year 2133by a team of rescuers. He was then giveninto the care of a spy inside of the Pax com-munity.

Lieria-ah is a Tranien woman who mis-leads him to try and take advantage of hisold Earth knowledge. Outside of old Phoe-nix City (known as Tra-Rannah), in orderto save his friend’s from Pax, he decides toexchange his knowledge of Old Earthnuclear power plants. In doing so Dillondiscovers an old missile site.

Here is where 15 to 20 minutes is miss-ing… showing men on horse back escort-ing a long, white, six-wheeled transportpulling a long flat bed trailer carrying a warhead. He then plots to destroy the war headsilos to prevent future wars.

The movie aired three times on televi-sion. I do remember that someone had theidea of using the six-wheeled transport ve-hicle (built by the Brubaker group) for aSaturday morning TV show. At the sametime I’ve been told that someone paid a lotof money just to have all rights to the ve-hicle, now named Ark II, and for the 15-20minutes of the missing footage; never to beseen again? I hope not.

Lost Footage...The one thing that hits hard core with me

is the concept version of transportation fromland to space (Ark II to Space Academy toJascon of Star Command). I even found outthat Syd Meade might have inspired the de-sign of the mini van on pages 64-67 in hissteel culture futurist book Sentinel II.

I know there are others out there who arejust like myself, wanting the Ark II for pri-vate transport. Right now because of G.Roddenberry I’ve been inspired to design theArk III, a concept model for the next genera-tion. However, I need more research scratchmaterial (blue prints/photos, videos, andmore). With everyone’s help I hope to geteveryone’s new-found hope, and maybe, Ms.Roddenberry might release or remake Gen-esis II using Ark II or my Ark III.

The things that inspire us and havebrought us to where we are today must neverbe forgotten so that we may improve uponthe old and present day and time, and dreamof even greater things to come, for the greatergood of woman and mankind and yes… alsofor us sci-fi buffs.

1950’s Tom Corbett – Space Cadet in-spired 1977’s Space Academy that in turninspired 1978’s Jascon of Star Command.Genesis II inspired 1978’s Ark II.

If anyone has what I am looking for letme know because I have other friends whoasked for a lot of the same things. Also ofspecial interest is the Buck Rogers TV Show,specifically blue prints and photos of theHawk fighter ship.

J.L. Phoenix – AKA Space Doc135 Park Ave. W., #204Denver, CO [email protected] orVulcan Embassy Resource Officer:[email protected]

J.L. Phoenix

Ron Fell’s “shuttle” at IC ‘99[picture by Bob Vosseller]

The official IC ‘99 “shuttle”[picture by Bob Vosseller]

Region 7 Command StaffL-R: Captain Sanford Berenberg, Office of Shuttle

Services; Penny Croak, Chief of Staff; Cher Schleigh,Quartermaster; Bob Vosseller, RC; and Brian Smith,

Deputy Chief of Staff[picture by Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo]

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Are you readyfor NYE2000?!?

Wendy FillmoreParty ChairGreetings!

WHEREAS, as I’m sure you’re all aware (es-pecially since Gordon Goldberg did such agreat job of explaining it in an earlier issueof the CQ), there was no Year 0; the count-ing started with the Year 1, so each set of 10or 100 or 1000 years ENDS with the year withthe 0 on the end. The beginning of the newdecade/century/millenium begins with theyear that ends with the 1, just as the count-ing began... well, in the beginning. Hence,the new millenium actually starts on 1/1/2001; and,

WHEREAS, this particular date also marksthe first day of a new administration, her-alding the finish of four years of the Smith/Freas administration at the helm ofSTARFLEET: The International Star TrekFan Association;

Therefore, let it be known that the organi-zation known as STARFLEET: The Interna-tional Star Trek Fan Association is herebyinvited to PARTY HEARTY on both Satur-day night, 12/30/2000, in celebration of thecompletion of the Smith/Freas years, as wellas New Year’s Eve, 12/31/2000 in order tobring in the new millenium right!!!

WHO: All of you!WHAT: Smith/Freas Dead Dog Party,

and New Year�s Eve PartyWHERE: Somewhere in the New Jersey/

Philadelphia areaWHEN: 12/30/2000 & 12/31/2000WHY: Since when do we need a

reason to party?or, alternately

Why not? <GRIN>

Show your support...

We’re celebrating the end of an era: thesecond millennium and the Smith/Freas ad-ministration. Show your support by buyinga line in the “official” program book of theNew Year’s Eve 2000 party. Boosters are$5.00 each for 2 lines (15 words max). Makechecks payable to STARFLEET-NYE2K;send the check and your words of sentimentto New Years Eve 2000; c/o Leslie Ryan; 37-11 Harley Drive; Worcester, MA 01606.

Also available: “Are you ready fornYe2K?” buttons. $1 each; limited supply.Please send check or money order payableto STARFLEET-NYE2K to: NYE2000, 72Dickens Road, North Brunswick, NJ 08902

For more info you can also contact us [email protected] or join us on-line in IRC:#nye2000


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From the Desk of the Chief EngineerPhysics, The Current Frontier

Space, The Final Frontier. A catchyphrase, but what does it mean? Websterdefines Frontier as a region that marks thepoint of farthest settlement in a territory, andan undeveloped field for research or discov-ery. So, it seems that as we progress into eachFrontier, we push the newer frontiers far-ther and farther out. Also, in order to get tothis Final Frontier, we have had to conquer,settle, and move on from the frontiers es-tablished by previous generations.

“You are at the helm of the starship De-fiant (NCC-1764), currently in orbit aroundthe planet Iconia, near the Neutral Zone.Your mission: to rendezvous with a nearbysupply vessel at the other end of this solarsystem in order to pick up components torepair faulty transporter primary energiz-ing coils. There is no need to achieve warpspeeds; you direct the impulse drive to beset at full power for leisurely half-light-speed travel, which should bring you to yourdestination in a few hours, giving you timeto bring the captain’s log up to date. How-ever, as you begin to pull out of orbit, youfeel an intense pressure in your chest. Yourhands are leaden, and you are glued to yourseat. Your mouth is fixed in an evil-lookinggrimace, your eyes feel like they are aboutto burst out of their sockets, and the bloodflowing through your body refuses to riseto your head. Slowly, you lose conscious-ness . . . and within minutes you die. “Whathappened? It is not the first signs of spatial“interphase” drift, which will later over-whelm the ship, or an attack from a previ-ously cloaked Romulan vessel. Rather, youhave fallen prey to something far more pow-erful.

The ingenious writers of Star Trek, onwhom you depend, have not yet inventedinertial dampers, which they will introducesometime later in the series. You have beendefeated by nothing more exotic than IsaacNewton’s laws of motion—the very first

things one can forget about high schoolphysics.”

So, it seems that before beginning ourTrek to the Stars, we must first pass througha few frontiers of our own. This is thepremise of an extremely informative andenjoyable book called “The Physics of StarTrek” by Dr. Lawrence M. Krauss. By usingexamples from the various TV shows andmovies, he talks about what is plausible inStar Trek Science, how we might get there,as well as a few errors made by the writers.At the same time, he educates his readers,painlessly, about physics in general. I hadthe pleasure of interviewing Dr. Krauss, re-cently, and here is what he has to say.

WR: Which recent discovery or currentstudy in the world of physics do you thinkis the most important, and how do you thinkit will affect mankind?

LMK: Well, from a philosophical per-spective, I think the recent evidence that theUniverse is accelerating will, if confirmed,have profound ramifications for our under-standing of the future, and for our under-standing of the origins of the Universe. Thiswill have no practical effects perhaps, butwill affect our understanding of our placein the Universe. On a more practical plane,I think the recent work in quantum comput-ing, which I discuss in my most recent book(“Beyond Star Trek”), may have dramaticimplications for artificial intelligence.

WR: Have you seen the latest Star Trekmovie, Insurrection, and if so, what wasyour opinion?

LMK: Haven’t seen it yet. I was invitedto a premiere at Paramount, but couldn’tmake it. The plot sounds like one of the Clas-sic series episodes, though.

WR: Out of all the physics in Star Trekyou covered in your book, which do you feelwe are closest to making a reality, and whichdo you feel is important that we work on?

LMK: I think holography, medical imag-ing, and artificial intelligence are all areaswhere there will be great strides, and wherestar trek may not be that far off the mark.Warp Drive, and transporting are, on theother hand, not realistic.

WR: What inspired you to study physicsand make it your career?

LMK: I am interested in knowing whythe universe is the way it is, and what is pos-sible out there, not unlike the mission of theEnterprise.. :)

WR: Even nonscientists, like me, havespotted errors in the science of Star Trek. Youlisted a few blunders in your book. Whatmistake has made you actually burst outlaughing or caused the largest reaction fromyou?

LMK: Well, Voyager has had many lu-dicrous mistakes.. I think the silliest was theepisode where they broke the “infinite speedbarrier” and then devolved backwards...

WR: Would you be interested in work-ing with the Star Trek production crew as aconsultant?

LMK: No, I would be more interested inappearing as an extra. :)

WR: Wouldn’t we all. :)

I appreciate Dr. Krauss taking the timeto talk to me. It has been very interesting. Ihighly recommend “The Physics of Trek”and “Beyond Star Trek” (which uses otherSF movies and TV shows as examples) foranyone who wants to know more about theway the universe works and why. Bothbooks are fun reading, and painlessly edu-cational.

We’ll continue our exploration of theseFinal Frontiers in upcoming issues of Prior-ity Channel One. Until then, MaximumWarp, Steady as She goes, Sensors at FullRange. Boldly go.

Warped ReactionsLTJG Nick Greene CEO

FAdm. MikeSmith and

Dan Hislop atIC ‘99

[picture fromDan Hislop]

USS Maat crew,winner of the 1998

Newsletter of the Year(among other wins;you’ll need to look

them up. Theyobviously got 4. <G>) ,

pictured from left toright: Captain TammyWillcox, Fleet CaptainBlair Willcox, Captain

Donna Monaghan,Commander Scott

Hunter

[picture from JoanPierce]

Alex Rosenzweig (DTS Coordinator, USS Avenger)Joan Pierce (R1 Communications Staff, USS Questar)

and Dennis Gray (ShOC director, USS Lexington)all strike dangerous poses with sharp implements

during the Great Salad Caper atThe Outback on Sunday night after IC’99

[picture by Joan Pierce]

The Tanagra Triplets, as purchased by Sal Lizard atthe yeoman auction (IC’99): Leslie Sargento, Dixie

Jack (ne: Lance), and Teri Smith[picture by Joan Pierce]

The personal band of the Commander, STARFLEET:Angry Red Planet, led by Fleet Captain Kurt Pfiefferof the USS Cydonia in Region 12 performing at IC’99


Matt Myers, IC’99 Co-Chair, cuts his surprisebirthday cake as Amy Alexander (standing) and Liz

Woolf (sitting) look on.[picture by Wendy Fillmore]

Aug/Sept 1999 •

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Julian Fleming Fund RaiserAt Shore Leave this year, Sashi German was told that if she could raise over $1000 for the Julian Fleming Fund, she could shave off Mark Anbinder’sbeard and mustache. Here’s what happened...

Sashi checks out thegrowth to be removed from

Mark’s face

Sashi works on raising the necessary funds...

Down to a goatee!

Just the mustache left now...

Clean-shaven Mark, courtesyof Sashi German!

All pictures courtesy of Leslie Pearson,USS Avenger


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Talaxian Trade ShowMembers Wanted

Members wanted: Any STARFLEET mem-ber that would like to help to start a Ma-rine/Ranger unit in Region Three. It willbe a correspondence only unit but can be aninternet/correspondence unit in time. It willbe a dues-free unit. Must be fully trainedSTARFLEET Marine or Ranger Officer anda paid/active duty STARFLEET member.This will be role playing via fictional mis-sion reports. For a copy of fictional missionreports send a S.A.S.E. to Captain Ronald J.Ryder, 2325 Thomas Wayne St., Vidor. TX77662

Adrift? The USS Tanagra is waiting withArms wide for new members! Members inand around Montgomery county or thoseinterested in being correspondence mem-bers should contact Jesse Smith 5126Niagara Place, College Park, MD 20740.

ATTN Green Blooded Star Trek fans! TheRSE (Romulan Star Empire) International islooking for you! Cross over to the other sideof the Neutral Zone by beaming to our website at http://www.rsempire.org, or senda SASE to RSE International, PO Box 207,Pluckemin, NJ 07978.

ATTN Green Blooded Star Trek fans! TheRSE (Romulan Star Empire) International islooking for you! Cross over to the other sideof the Neutral Zone by beaming to our website at http://www.rsempire.org, or senda SASE to RSE International, PO Box 207,Pluckemin, NJ 07978.

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For Sale: Seven RCQ Selecta Vision Videodiscs. Five of them have two full classic StarTrek episodes on each side of the disc. Theother two have the Star Trek: The MotionPicture on them. I am asking $8 each forthem plus the cost of mailing them. Con-tact Captain Ronald J. Ryder XO/303/M.S.G/S.F.M.C., 2325 Thomas Wayne St.,Vidor, Texas, 77662-8595 or call me at 409-769-2231 after 7:00 p.m.

Personals

S/W/fleet member looking for Asian, Na-tive American, or Irish descent female fleetmember, who lives in Oklahoma.my e-mail address:[email protected]

Wanted: a sweet lady Star Fleet marine ornaval officer. Pen Pal living in Region 3 thatenjoys writing stories about missions inspace and also enjoys going to Astroworld.Also enjoy going to the State Fairs and mak-ing up mission stories about them. Some-one who would like to walk along the beachand use that in a SciFi story line. Short waveradio enthusiast as well. I enjoy taking BibleStudy courses and courses from both the StarFleet Academy and the Star Fleet MarineAcademy. Fan of Xfiles, Battle StarGalactica, Lost In Space and the new showCrusade. So if you enjoy all or part of thesethings then we may just have something incommon so please send a picture of your-self with your first letter to me: CaptainRonald J. Ryder, XO/303 MSG 2/3 SFMC,2325 Thomas Wayne St., Vidor, Texas,77662-8595.

Notices

We’re celebrating the end of an era: the sec-ond millennium and the Smith/Freas ad-ministration. Show your support by buy-ing a line in the “official” program book ofthe New Year’s Eve 2000 party. Boosters are$5.00 each for 2 lines (15 words max). Makechecks payable to STARFLEET; send thecheck and your words of sentiment to NewYears Eve 2000; c/o Leslie Ryan; 37-11Harley Drive; Worcester, MA 01606.

Also available: Support buttons which read:“Are You Ready for nYe2K?” $1 each.Please send check or money order made outto STARFLEET to: Wendy Fillmore, 72Dickens Road, North Brunswick, NJ 08902

Free ads to STARFLEET members. 80word maximum on any classified ad. First40 words are free to STARFLEET members.There is a 25 cent per word charge for eachadditional word. Phone numbers, e-mailaddresses, chapter names, and Regionnames count as one word each.

Please include your SCC number and ex-piration date as proof of STARFLEET mem-bership, and your telephone number forverification, when submitting an ad. Maxi-mum of two ads per member per issue.

Classified advertising rate for non-mem-bers is $1 per word. Make check or moneyorder payable to STARFLEET and send withyour ad to: Communiqué Classifieds, 72Dickens Road, North Brunswick, NJ 08902.Ads for STARFLEET members up to 40words may be submitted electronically [email protected]. Please use the subject line “CQAd.”

If you would like your ad to appear inthe next issue, whether or not it appearshere, please submit it immediately.

John Harris presents a copy of the story heco-wrote featuring the character of Lyta to

Chase Masterson at IC’99[photo by Tamara Copple]

Party table! L-R (back):Randy Bisig, John Kane,

Mary Kane, TamaraCopple, Matt CoppleL-R (front) Mr & Mrs

Dennis Rayburn, JennaDuerr

Aug/Sept 1999 •

Around The Fleet

Adm. Alex Rosenzweig holds Kiran Maldonado,son of Carlos and Heidi Maldonado of the USS

Avenger. Picture taken during USS Avenger 14thanniversary party where Alex stepped down as CO

and Carlos stepped up.[photo by Rahadyan Sastrowardoyo]

Kimi Brooks and Ed Nowlin at IC’99 [photo by KeiraRussell-Strong]

William “Biff” Bassett is promoted to Captain atIC’99 [photo by Keira Russell-Strong]

Ron Fell, IC’99 Master of CeremoniesExtraordinnaire! [picture by Wendy Fillmore]

Left: Kimi Brooks with FAdm. Mike SmithRight: FAdm. Mike Smith with yours truly, Wendy

Fillmore[pictures by Wendy Fillmore]

Joan Pierce and Alex Rosenzweig dressed up for anight out on the town. [picture by Wendy Fillmore]

IC 2000!!

Welcome to the Hotel Sheraton Burlington, VermontHost Hotel for IC 2000

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