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Issue 95 * STARFLEET: The International Star Trek Fan Association * Oct/Nov 1999 USPS 017-671 10 Years of Watkins Glen Weekends By Fleet Admiral Michael D. Smith and Commodore Mark H. Anbinder
Back before USSAccord was USS Accord, STARFLEET members Mike regions are represented in Central New Yorkon these lovely autumn weekends. “Uncle Mikey” Shappe and Captain Jon Lane coordinated a visit by USSAvenger’s The next WGW has already been set for the first weekend of October 2000, and Delta Shift to the Watkins Glen State Park.Ascenic gorge is one of the main attrac- everyone’s welcome! Keep an eye on theAccord web site at tions of Watkins Glen State Park, and over the intervening years it has become a very http://www.ussaccord.org/ as details develop, and plan your pilgrimage now for the large event, with over 70 folks from coast to coast in attendance over each of the fall foliage,Accord’s trademark great food, and a relaxing weekend of fun. past few years.
Saturday morning consists of breakfast (for those who want to get up early) down the hill atAndy’s 3rd St Cafe, and then rallying up in the parking lot of Community Corners. From there, the caravan to the Glen begins, followed by lunch at the nearby Burger King. It’s always amusing to see the BK employees’eyes go wide when we invade their establishment with 70 or more folks.
After lunch, we meet at “The Rock” at the base of the Gorge Trail. Accord CO Mark Anbinder always has a few words of wisdom for us, and then we all head up the trail. The Gorge itself has been in the New York State Park System since 1924, when it was bought from journalist Morvalden Ellis. The Gorge Trail is 1.5 miles long, and has a few different offshoots from the main trail.
At the trail summit, we rest and recover at the Comfort Station, and doAccord’s traditional group round-table introductions. After that, we walk back down the gorge (or take the available shuttle) and return to Ithaca to clean up for dinner. Watkins Glen State Park is an amazing gorge with breath-taking waterfalls and incredible rock formations. Billy Bob Jack’s Steakhouse provides dinner, and up until this year we crowded More Watkins Glen Weekend Photos Inside! into BBJ’s establishment. This year, however, BBJ rented the main pavilion at Stewart Park, which was a great place to sit down, eat good food, and enjoy the company of our many friends. The elbow room was a welcome change! This year we had the special honor of awarding longtime STARFLEET member Uncle Mikey with his fourth pip, and seeing an entertaining video produced by the Region 15 team that’s hosting the 2000 International Conference.After dinner, we invade the Purity Ice Cream store for ice cream, and then break up and go various places for the evening.
Sunday we meet at the Ramada Inn for brunch and goodbyes for those who have long drives or planes to catch.
Watkins Glen is always a fun weekend, and a great chance to catch up with friends you only get to see once a year.Another longtime ‘Fleet member, the afore- mentioned Jon Lane, always manages to make it back from California to the Glen hikes; he’s the only out-of-town attendee to have made it to each and every Glen hike so far.
As the word spreads, Watkins Glen Weekend has attracted Fleet folks from more and farther-away chapters, and it’s always a treat to see how many chapters and
New deadlines for CQ submissions - end of page 3 Membership Rate Restructuring - page 5 Starfleet Scholarship Program - page 8 Page 2 • Communiqué • Issue 95 STARFLEET merchandise on sale now online at http://www.sf i.org/quartermaster/ Table of Contents Watkins Glen Weekend 99...... 1 DirDirectoryectory of of STARFLEET Directory...... 2-3 From The Top...... 4 Second Thoughts...... 4 Commander PO Box 8942 Operations FLEET Operations...... 5 Amarillo, TX 79114-8942 Hailing Frequencies...... 6 Commander, STARFLEET [email protected] Chief of Operations Membership Rate Changes...... 6 Michael D Smith Les Rickard CompOps...... 6-7 200 Hiawatha Blvd. Chief of Staff PO Box 22 ShOC...... 7 Oakland, NJ 07436-3643 Donna Friesen Lexington, NC 27293-0022 International Starfleet Academy News ...... 7 [email protected] 12037 Viers Mill Road, #301 [email protected] Academy Profile...... 8 Wheaton, Maryland 20906 Academy Institute of Arts...... 8 Chief of Staff [email protected] Chief of Staff, Vessel Registry Scholarship Program ...... 8 Tony Rowley Tom Monaghan Academy Application...... 9-10 PO Box 272 International Charities 1341 Maplewood Avenue Shuttle Jubilee at Trek Exhibit ...... 11 Upper Darby, PA 19082 Coordinator Norfolk, VA 23503 Operation:Eagle 1999 Holiday Campaign...... 11 [email protected] Amy Alexander [email protected] Watkins Glen Weekend Photos ...... 12 111 Oak Street, Apt F IC 2000 - Burlington, Vermont...... 13 Treasurer Boone, NC 28607 Senior Vice Chief Academy News & Dean’s List...... 14-15 Robert Maceluch [email protected] Matt Myers Address Changes -- How to Report Them...... 15 P.O. 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Greetings, STARFLEET! Here we are in the new millennium right!” party and new Commander, STARFLEET. The examine the failures in order to learn again, rapidly approaching the end of celebration New Years Eve Weekend election of a new Commander, from them and apply the lessons learned another successful year of fun, friendship 2000. You can contact Wendy for more STARFLEET inevitably brings winds of in the New Year. and fandom, our 25th year. As always, info at [email protected]. change to the organization. A new CS STARFLEET is evolving, growing and brings new ideas and different ways of Take care out there, and we’ll see changing, and I think we have all been As we move into the Year 2000, doing things to our organization; and while you in sixty! successful in our fandom endeavors. STARFLEET does have a serious issue to some change is always good, drastic address. The Smith/Freas Administration change is a danger to STARFLEET now I’m pleased to welcome Chris Wallace will be entering into its fourth year of that STARFLEET has had a consistent onto the Smith/Freas team; Chris will be service to STARFLEET, and as mandated track record with a system that has, for taking over the duties of Editor-in-Chief of by our organization’s Constitution, I will be the most part, worked out very well. So, the Communiqué with issue 96. I’d like to standing down as President of the organi- folks start thinking now what you’ll want in thank Mandi Herrmann for her service to zation. I have to honestly say that I utter a new CS and STARFLEET administra- STARFLEET by producing CQ95, but those words with a large part of relief and tion. Keep abreast of current events, and differences of opinion led her to issue her an honest bit of sadness. Relief in that make sure that you’re informed when it Fleet Admiral Michael D. resignation after the issue was put to bed. after 4 years of volunteering almost all of comes to next year’s elections. This is Smith, on stage my spare time and energy into your organization, and is the one time that at the 1999 you truly have a voice in administration of International That being said, I know we need to STARFLEET, I’ll be able to really take a Conference send a world of thanks to our outgoing break. Sadness in that I’ll honestly miss the organization. [picture by Editor, Wendy Fillmore. Wendy has the job, since while it has had its share of Wendy Fillmore] worked very hard for STARFLEET during stress and anguish, I’ve honestly had a Finally, as we move forward towards her tenure in the Communications depart- great deal of fun doing it. I think what our yet another holiday season and time of ment and the product she delivered shows! team has achieved over the course of our reflection and introspection, I hope that Wendy, I’m sure I speak of all of tenure at the helm of STARFLEET has each of you will take some time to reflect STARFLEET when I wish you all the best been truly remarkable, and I’m proud to on the successes and failures of the past in the future. I know we’ll be seeing have been a part of that effort. year. Enjoy the successes that you have Wendy remain active, as she is the coordi- This brings me to the need to address a had over the course of the year, and nator for the “Smith/Freas Dead-Dog/Ring serious issue. That issue is the hiring of a
SecondSecond Thoughts... Thoughts... Admiral Charles Freas,Vice Commander, STARFLEET
Greetings! I’m hopeful this subspace discourse, of course, about the Klingon vibrant new life, and strange new civiliza- Engineering, Medical, Operations, Science, transmission finds you sentient and sapient Warrior Academy (KWA), where you can tions. Boldly go where many have gone Security, and Shuttle Operations Command, (a.k.a. as “alive and well,” as the denizens learn about medicine (about which I was before! Tell ‘em Chuck sent ya (that and and for Special Services. Due to insufficient of Sol III say). As some may surmise, I’m till now unaware that Klingons cared; I .50 credits will get you a cup of java – or demand or for personal reasons, some of just back from a solitary sojourn to Vulcan, would have suggested the alternative perhaps, “Earl Grey, extra hot!”)! these programs have been mothballed. Want where I toured the Vulcan Academy of STARFLEET College of Medicine), to revive one of these? See a need for a Sciences with thoughts of enrolling in government (such as they have; perhaps Turning to another subject, quarterly new one? Or need help any of these areas? mind-expanding tutelage. There is most the STARFLEET College of History?) reports have been coming in from the Fleet Contact the Director of the FDC Program, excellent instruction available there, for a and, of course, ship command (now there’s Division Chiefs Programs. For those, I Fleet Captain Dustin Williams mere pittance in STARFLEET credits. I a truly worthy Klingon doctrine). Or, for thank each of you. Need to get your ([email protected]), or my hard-working and speak, of course, of the ‘ologies – Anthro- you softer Feddie types, there’s the quarterly report in? Do it the easy way ... under-appreciated Chief of Staff, Fleet pology, Bacteriology, Biochemistry, Ceta- STARFLEET Officer Training School, go to http://www.mindspring.com/ Captain Donna Friesen (VCS- ceans Cryobiology, Ecology, Embryology, Officer Command College, and Flag ~tiggerr7/fdcrport.html and just fill in the [email protected]). They have all the skinny on Exobiology, Ichthyology, Mammalogy, Officer’s School. But back to the KWA, blanks! the FDC Program! Microbiology, Ornithology, Paleontology, peruse it! There you’ll have the opportu- and Zoology, and the non-‘ologies – nity to learn about truly famous Klingon Friends, Romans, Countrypersons! Be Finally, thanks to the MOST excellent Genetics, Botany,Anatomy, Philosophy, warriors, worthy of renown even in the aware that Fleet has many programs work of R5 RC Kurt Roithinger, Team Metaphysics, Horticulture, and Lapidary. Delta Quadrant. Oh, and have you read offering help to your space stations, ships, Nexus and many others, look for an an- Ah, ‘tis but the barest sampling of the Will Shakespeare in the original Klingon? shuttles, and away teams. At one time or nouncement in the next few months about a hearty fare found there. That, you just gotta see! another we had, or still have, programs in series of new Fleet publications that will Aerospace, for Cadets and Chaplains and blow your socks off! More I dare not say, Or, if such pedagogy peaks not your Still lost in this space? Alas, what else is Counselors, in Command, Communica- for others truly deserve all the credit. And interests, alternate dogma is available in there to say but ... go straight (do not stop tions, and Computer Operations, relating to with that teasing tidbit, I say Adieu! Live such diverse fare as Klingon customs and at Go! Seek ye the 200 credits elsewhere) the Department of Technical Services and long, and prosper! culture, weapons, language and history. I to http://www.sfi-sfa.com. Seek out the Advanced Starship Design Bureau, in Oct/Nov 1999 • Page 5 Executive Committee Pages FFleetleet Oper Operaationstions...... Lt. General Les Rickard, Chief, STARFLEET Operations Greetings once again from Operations DVC’s. These duties are housekeeping HQ. As usual this will be short and sweet items that they are better equipped to take USS LIGHTYEAR NCC-74217 USS STARLORD NCC-74225 so we can move on to other things in this care as they are the “front Line” as it Defiant Class Escort Defiant Class Escort Capt Pat Teachout, Commanding Officer FCapt Joe Podesta, Commanding Officer issue of the Communiqué. were with the chapters. What will be LCdr Helen Monath, Executive Officer FAdm Michael D. Smith, Executive Officer taking place is that the DVC’s will be Commissioned March 7, 1999 Commissioned August 8, 1999 sending out all Reminder Letters and Stand CHANGES IN OPERATIONS STAFF By Letters and cc’ing them to Ops HQ. USS PANTHERCITYNCC-63543 USS ARIES NCC-71806 Once we reach the Decommissioning Akira Class Battlecruiser Sovereign Class Heavy Cruiser I recently announced the addition of Process that will still be handled in house Comm Mark Vincent, Commanding Officer Capt. MichaelAWilson, Commanding Officer Chris Wallace as the new DVC Interna- at Ops HQ. This will allow for a more LCdr Cherie Vinson, Executive Officer Cdr Brian Griffin, Executive Officer tional. However, there is a need to adjust direct or hands on duty for the DVC’s. If Commissioned March 7, 1999 Commissioned August 31, 1999 the assignments within the District Vice there are ever any problems or disputes Chiefs. As of the November reporting concerning any correspondence contact USS NORMANDY NCC-36000 USS ARES NCC-26291 Normandy Class Supercarrier Triumph Class Research Cruiser period (Due by December 5th, 1999) DVC the Chief of STARFLEET Operations for MGen Les Rickard, Commanding Officer Capt. Paul Fest, Commanding Officer further information. What will this mean? West and DVC International Vice Chief’s VAdmTom Monaghan, Executive Officer Maj. Robert W. Langer Jr., Executive Officer will be exchanging hats. FCapt Andrea Well, where there may have a less than Commissioned April 17, 1999 Commissioned September 8, 1999 Haag will assume the role of DVC voracious attempt to maintain reporting International and Vadm Chris Wallace will and membership numbers in the first year USS BELGICA NCC-72301 USS CENTURION NCC-74801 take her post as DVC West. Below are of this administration that will change. The Peacekeeper Class Large Exploratory Cruiser Yeager Class Scout the updated DVC assignments and the DVC’s will have a direct handle on who Capt Jeroen Vantroyen, Commanding Officer Col.Aaron Murphy, Commanding Officer regions they are responsible for. isn’t reporting and will be making reports Cdr Steve Haelterman, Executive Officer LCDR Kris Phifer, Executive Officer to Ops HQ as well as sending letters to the Commissioned May 5, 1999 Commissioned September 12, 1999 DVC East chapters having the problems. Membership USS SEQUOYAHNCC-2043 The new kids on the block as of this report Regions 1, 2, 7, 15 issues will continue to be handled through Excelsior Class Heavy Cruiser are ARES, ARIES and CENTURION. Cmdr JC Cohen the CAP program. But assistance from the FCapt Jeremy Trent, Commanding Officer Welcome aboard to all of these new 108 Ferris St. DVC will be there as well if requested. Cdr Nathan Head, Executive Officer Chapters. May the winds be at your back! Ithaca, NY 14850 We are called TEAM Ops and that’s what Commissioned May 19, 1999 [email protected] *OR* we all are...A TEAM. We are working to Well that about covers it for this month. [email protected] make your enjoyment of the STARFLEET USS PROTECTOR NCC-75023 and Star Trek experience as easy as Sovereign Class Cruiser See everyone next Communiqué. DVC West possible. Capt VanessaTaylor, Commanding Officer Regions 3, 4, 5, 6, 12, 17 Cdr Sarah Craig, Executive Officer RAdm Chris Wallace LEAVING DRYDOCK Commissioned May 19, 1999 9301 Avondale Rd NE#D2022 USS ULTIMATUMNCC-10534 Below is a list of Chapters that have been Redmond, WA98052-3352 Ambassador Class Heavy Cruiser [email protected] *OR* commissioned since the beginning of 1999 Capt John R. Watson, Commanding Officer [email protected] and its Command Crew. Cdr Wayne Killough, Executive Officer Commissioned June 28, 1999 DVC International USS GUADALCANAL NCC-6021 Regions 9, 10, 11, 13 Kodiak Class Battleship USS ORBIT JET NCC-75024 FCapt Andrea Haag MGN Loujaue McPherson, Commanding Sovereign Class Cruiser Officer 7312 Pinehurst Capt Jeffrey K Salamon, Commanding Officer SGM Nathan B. Champine, Executive Officer Dearborn, MI 48126 Major Robyn Winans, Executive Officer Commissioned February 1, 1999 Commissioned June 29, 1999 [email protected] *OR* [email protected] USS LEGEND NCC-75019 USS RAVENNCC-1162 Sovereign Class Cruiser Akyazi Class Perimeter Action Ship Please keep in mind that when you Capt Patrick Maes, Commanding Officer Capt Trisha Rohal, Commanding Officer report to Ops you also have to report to Cdr David Adams, Executive Officer LCdr Chuck Dobbins, Executive Officer Regional Command which is your RC or Commissioned February 1, 1999 Commissioned July 10, 1999 their designee. The only other reporting USS BANTING NCC-17220 (clockwise from top left: Vice Ops Chief Matt requirement is for Correy Chapters, they USS EARHART NCC-26199 Myers, Amy Alexander, Ops Chief Les Rickard, Banting Class Cruiser are expected to report to the Correy Ambassador Class Heavy Cruiser and Dee Smith) Capt Bernard Guindard, Commanding Officer Director as well. Capt. Glenda Bruner, Commanding Officer Lt Dave Blaser, Executive Officer LCdr Pat Siga, Executive Officer Commissioned February 1, 1999 Commissioned August 8, 1999
CHANGES IN OPERATIONS PROCE- USS INTREPID NCC-74655 USS ASGARD NCC-72402 DURE Intrepid Class Cruiser Capital Class Heavy Space Control Ship Capt Robert Schneider, Commanding Officer Capt Darlene Harper, Commanding Officer Within the next few weeks I will be LCdr Robert Sliney, Executive Officer FCapt Cynthia Walker, Executive Officer transferring some of the duties I do to the Commissioned March 7, 1999 Commissioned August 8, 1999 Page 6 • Communiqué • Issue 95 Executive Committee Pages HailingHailing frequencies...frequencies... CompopsCompops Vice Admiral Gordon Goldberg, Chief, STARFLEET Communications Rear Admiral Jesse Smith Chief, Computer Operations Hailing Frequencies Open! I’m going to Mandi Herrmann further serve your chapter or the fleet, keep this article brief, but I’d like to start 9908 Berrywood Drive please feel free to contact me by email at off by announcing the appointment of Ladson, SC 29456 USA [email protected], or by postal mail at 330 Turnover among volunteer positions in Mandi Herrmann as my newest Vice- Haven Avenue, Apartment 3C, New York fan clubs, particularly Starfleet, is a Chief and Editor of the Communiqué. The Keep in mind that submissions to the City, NY 10033-5333 USA. common thing, and Computer Operations decision was very difficult, with quite a Communiqué should be sent to the full is no exception. Over the last three years, few very qualified candidates applying, Communiqué staff address at [email protected]. In service to the fleet, this office has had a number of members and I’d like to thank all of them for taking pass through its halls the time to apply. Mandi and I have I’d also like to thank Wendy Fillmore for Gordon L. Goldberg as staffers and it’s never easy to say spoken on this, and it is our hope that all her hard work as outgoing Communiqué Chief of Communications, STARFLEET good-bye to any of them. So it is with some of these wonderfully talented and editor and as Vice-Chief of Communica- sadness that I say good-bye to another committed people will be taking other tions, and wish her much joy in her role as member who has had a profound impact positions on the Communiqué staff. Mandi full-time mommy. We’re going to miss on the way we do business in our depart- can be reached by email to you! ment. Roy Sesler, who has [email protected] or worked with Computer Operations for [email protected], or by postal If you have any comments or ideas on almost two years as our packet mailer, has mail to: how the Communications Division can been facing constraints on his time imposed by his personal life and came to the conclusion that he could not longer continue his position. Roy, we will all miss your dedicated service.
MembershipMembership Rate Rate Changes Changes Each time we’ve faced a member leaving or changing roles in Computer Fleet Admiral Michael D. Smith, Commander, STARFLEET Operations, we’ve looked for way to improve the processes and duties pre- In accordance with Admiralty Board less than $16 (US). tion of close proximity, only one copy of formed by our staff and turn out loss into Resolution 99-04, the Admiralty Board AM-2: Membership for a Family of Two; each issue of the Communiqué is issued to a gain for the membership. voted to restructure memberships as per fee of no less than $23 (US). such members. It is assumed that people With Roy’s departure, we will be recom- the table outlined below. In addition, this AM-3: Membership for a Family of Three; who are covered under Family Member- bining the processing of membership with resolution also caps the maximum number fee of no less than $26 (US). ships are in fact blood relations or sharing packet distribution. This will eliminate the of members on one Family membership at AM-4: Membership for a Family of Four; in a similar bond. While in some instances small delay between membership process- 6 persons per family membership. fee of no less than $29 (US). it has been known that extended families ing and packet mailing which will further AM-5: Membership for a Family of Five; of seven or more members live together in speed our delivery of membership materi- INDIVIDUAL AND FAMILY MEM- fee of no less than $32 (US). a shared dwelling space, these cases still als. However, with any re-organization, BERSHIPS AM-6: Membership for a Family of Six ; remain the exception to the rule. Family there is always a small delay while things As of 1 January 2000, STARFLEET: fee of no less than $35 (US). Memberships in STARFLEET will be are moved and set up. Roy completed The International Star Trek Fan Associa- limited to no more that six members per what packets he could and has boxed up tion, Inc., has the following membership Residents of all countries outside of membership. If a family truly does have the membership material for transport classes and criteria: Canada, Mexico, and the United States: more than six people living in the same to the membership processing office. home, we encourage them to buy two or While we wait for this material to arrive, Residents of the United States: IN-1: Individual Membership; fee of no more Family Memberships in we will be unable to mail out packets, but less than $20 (US). STARFLEET and thus share the re- do not anticipate falling behind. In fact, by US-1: Individual Membership; fee of no IN-2: Membership for a Family of Two; sources provided more liberally. the time this Communiqué reaches you, less than $15 (US). fee of no less than $27 (US). the new system should be in place and US-2: Membership for a Family of Two; IN-3: Membership for a Family of Three; working to speed membership along. fee of no less than $22 (US). fee of no less than $30 (US). US-3: Membership for a Family of Three; IN-4: Membership for a Family of Four; As I mentioned, turnover is a common fee of no less than $25 (US). fee of no less than $33 (US). occurrence, so much so, in fact, that Roy US-4: Membership for a Family of Four; IN-5: Membership for a Family of Five; is not the only member of the team that is fee of no less than $28 (US). fee of no less than $36 (US). leaving. For just over two years, I have US-5: Membership for a Family of Five; IN-6: Membership for a Family of Six; fee had the pleasure of working with a fee of no less than $31 (US). of no less than $39 (US). fantastic team and being part of one of US-6: Membership for a Family of Six; Starfleet’s best membership processing fee of no less than $34 (US). Family Memberships are designed for groups, unfortunately, as with all good individuals who share a residence or have things, it must eventually come to an end. Residents of Canada or Mexico: some form of close geographic proximity. Effective November 13, 1999, I will be Family Memberships entitle individuals to leaving my post as Chief of Computer AM-1: Individual Membership; fee of no all the rights and privileges of Individual Membership, but because of the presump- (continued on next page) Oct/Nov 1999 • Page 7 Executive Committe Pages
ShOCShOC WWaavves!es! Rear Admiral Dennis Gray, Chief, Shuttle Operations
Ya know, you just seem to finish one you will need to have Adobe Acrobat work as well on the START manual. My in operation before the end of next year. article, send it off to the CQ staff for Exchange or Reader version 4.0 to view thanks to both Gumby, and my Denine for Again, I’d be happy to accept any input publication, and they turn round and tell the file properly. If you have that, and still all the hard work they put into it. The y’all have. you your next one is overdue.
- CompOps - continued from page 6 Int’l Academy Notes... Operations to accept the role as Region available for them, just as Sal was for me. Starfleet Academy News Services Seven’s new Coordinator. I assure you, Sal, Mike, thanks for the opportunity to however, that I will not be slipping quietly serve. into the night. I still plan to lend my FROM: Adm. Peg Pellerin versie beschikbaar. Deze kan per e-mail assistance to Computer Operations and Onward, Dean of the Institute of Leadership worden aangevraagd bij hope to continue many of the projects that OTS Director [email protected] I have begun. Jesse M Smith II, RAdm Chief, Starfleet Computer Operations As you all know or should know, Starfleet of per post: My staff and I have talked at length is global. It has taken some time, but we Jeroen Vantroyen about my departure and everything has are finding key people to handle some of Muilaardstraat 120 been made ready. My Vice-Chiefs and the the Starfleet Academy courses in different B-9000 Gent Commander, Starfleet have known for parts of the world to accommodate our over a year that my departure would most members. TRANSLATORS NEEDED likely occur this fall and have been work- ing to ensure that there would be no Region 11 has the Australian campus The Academy is presently looking for disruption in service when the time came. which handles several academy courses individuals or groups who will We all are infinitely aware of the critical and now I’m proud to announce that the translate Academy courses and Starfleet nature of the duties of the office of Region 9 has a contact point for OTS. documents into languages besides Computer Operations and have ensured English. that the team is prepared to shine under Hopefully, in time, more Academy courses new leadership. will be able to handled as well. Our contact in Capt. Jeroen Vantroyen, Commanding Please contact Academy Commandant, Marlene Miller at: 461 Harmony Lane, As I prepare to move from the spotlight of the USS Belgica out of Belgium. Capt. Campbell, Ohio 44405-1212, USA or via Computer Operations, I want each of you Vantroyen has translated OTS into Dutch. e-mail at: [email protected] or to know that it has been a great pleasure [email protected] to work with each of you. I wish the new Voor al diegenen die al lang het OTS- Chief of Computer Operations my condo- examen wilden volgen, maar dit niet konden door een te gebrekkige kennis van lences and congratulations and plan to be VChief of CompOps Teri Smith & Chief of CompOps Jesse Smith het Engels, is er nu ook een Nederlandse Page 8 • Communiqué • Issue 95 Academy Pages AcademyAcademy Profile Profile SFSFA:A: Institute Institute of of ArArtsts Sharon Ann Clark, STARFLEET Academy Sherry Anne Newell, STARFLEET Academy For those of you who have expressed an Diplomacy and how to get along with diffi- Greetings, all! on the ways in which language has helped interest, here’s a short introduction to Helen cult people; Grief and how to cope with sev- to shape the various incarnations of Star Pawlowski as told to Academy Dean Sharon eral forms it may take; Jealousy and its effect; I am RAdm Sherry Anne Newell, Dean of Trek. Ann Clark. Including a few words on the two and Stress and how to manage it. In the works the Institute of Arts and Director of the School Starfleet Academy schools for which she is is a course on Alzheimer’s Disease and how of Language Studies and the School of Mu- SOL, under the Directorship of BGR Jill the Director: Flag Officer’s School and the to cope with it, either as a care giver or as a sic, SFA. The Institute of Arts is made up of Rayburn, offers Basic Literary Terms, with a Counselor’s College. victim. six Schools, College of Communications new course, Review Writing, probably ready (COC), College of Federation Studies (COFS), by the time you read this. BGR Rayburn’s FOS, Flag Officer’s School, is designed to About my bio — I’ve been a Star Trek fan College of History (COH), School of Lan- course offers the added advantage of being instruct the student in the organizational since it first appeared on our black and white guage Studies (SOLS), School of Literature FREE if taken online. function of the Fleet in Configuration. The TV in 1966. I’ve created the unofficial club (SOL) and the School of Music (SOM). structure changes with each administration “POT” (pterodactyls of Trek) and am (along SOM, the other School under my Director- as new sub-departments are created to fill with Sherry Newell) one of the sole members. COC, under the Directorship of Michael ship, explores the ways in which music, both the existing needs. The second course, Lead- I have three children, three grandchildren and Anderson, offers three levels each in two ar- instrumental and vocal, enhances our Star ership, is designed to explain the qualities a 3-year-old great grand-daughter. [In July], I eas: Communications, focusing on newslet- Trek experience. that should be incorporated into the devel- returned from a month long visit to Canada ter skills from formats to graphics, and opment of the person aspiring to command to visit Fleet members in British Columbia. I Interspecies Interaction, concentrating on Some of the schools in the Institute of Arts status. The final course, Command, asks that had intended to extend my trip to Fairbanks, various nonverbal communication tech- are much more heavily Trek-oriented than the student present a solution to a problem Alaska to visit [fellow Academy Director] niques. others (e.g. COH and the Bachelors levels of that might be encountered and to outline the Carol Thompson but after driving 2100 miles, SOLS and SOM). Some focus on “real-world” steps taken toward that problem’s resolution. I thought that was far enough. I had a chance COFS, under the Directorship of Capt. concepts (e.g. COC and SOL). Regardless of Originally, this school was to provide a pro- to hug three different Mounties, visited two Donna Tucker, offers six courses, Introduc- their focus, all the Schools offer a challeng- file by which the Executive Committee could pods of whales off the coast of Victoria, and tion to Federation studies, History of the UFP ing and rewarding experience for the Starfleet evaluate prospective candidates for promo- was in on the finish of the International Bath I and 2, and Voyages of the USS Enterprise I, member, whether Active Duty or Associate. tion to flag rank. Tub race in Nanaimo, BC. Saw Mt. Rushmore 2, and 3. And, even though only one of the Schools and Devil’s Tower as I passed through South offers a free course, all are VERY reasonably The other school, SCC or Ship’s Dakota and stopped for coffee and a dough- COH, under the Directorship of Cmdr. priced. Where else can you have so much Counselor’s Course, is a general guideline nut at the famous Wall Drug store. I have a George K. Clark, Jr., offers courses at two lev- fun for so few credits? And won’t your quar- (not to be a license to practice psychiatry!) to degree in education and a master’s in Com- els exploring the tapestry made up of the In- ters look impressive with all those certificates which the student may refer when unusual munication. I write poetry, prose, plays and terrelationships of people and the events that hanging on the walls? conditions occur. The order in which the musicals — just finished a Trek musical in- shape their lives in the universe created by courses are recommended are: Listening, an volving Quark and Guinan in rival bars. I Gene Roddenberry. overview of how to listen to someone with a cook, enjoy crafts, movies and people. Other problem and, by doing so, allow the person than that, I am, as Marlene Miller says, “Older SOLS, which is one of two Schools under to solve that problem. In no particular order ‘n dirt”! my Directorship, offers ten levels focusing after that, Anger, and its causes and control; StarfleetStarfleet Scholarship Scholarship Program... Program... Admiral Sue Hampton, Scholarship Program Director
Like a bad penny that keeps coming back college! True, SOME folks get these concept!). or the dinosaur that rises out of the past, wonderful all expenses paid scholar- I am still around and again trying to ships to Notre Dame and UNC and As the program just reopened there give away money. I know there are lot- UCLA. The rest of us are scrimping and will be a short application period for a tery programs in some states and now piecing together funds to attend local few scholarships that will run from even on the internet but this is better! colleges, universities and community now until Dec. 15, 1999. Awards will It may not be millions of dollars and it college programs. be made by Jan. 15, 2000. The next ap- takes more time then simply picking plication period will be from Jan. 1, some numbers on a computer screen Here’s the official scoop: Any active 2000 until May 1, 2000. Those schol- but it is worth the time and effort. STARFLEET member is eligible for a arships will be awarded in July 2000 STARFLEET Scholarship. The Scholar- for classes in fall of 2000. So what the heck am I talking ships are awarded in amounts of $500. about? I am reintroducing the Members can be attending community How do I apply? Well since you STARFLEET Scholarship Program. colleges, most technical schools, junior asked…request an application by writing This program awards scholarship colleges, four-year colleges and univer- to Sue Hampton, 116 Creston St. Greens- money to active STARFLEET members sities or graduate school. Members must boro, NC 27406 or [email protected] . to assist them in attending college pro- fill out an application, write two short or [email protected] I will send an essays, have three letters of recommen- application by postal system (so be sure Former Commander, Starfleet Jeannette Maddox grams. This is not for STARFLEET (left) and Former Vice Commander, Starfleet Sue Academy programs, this is for real-life, dation, school transcripts and accep- and include that kind of address). Hampton (right) at IC 99 are recognized for the full semester, lots of homework, last tance letter to college. No financial in- years of service they gave leading Starfleet. Sue Hampton is currently the Director of the Starfleet minute assignment, expensive textbook formation is requested (Isn’t that a nice Scholarship Program. Oct/Nov 1999 • Page 9 Academy Pages
Current as of 9909.07 STARFLEET ACADEMY - COLLEGE APPLICATION FORM The Scholastic Division of STARFLEET: The International Star Trek Fan Association, Inc. VAdm. Marlene Miller - Commandant , 461 Harmony Lane, Campbell, OH 44405 ([email protected])
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 INSTITUTE OF ARTS - Dean - RAdm. Sherry Anne Newell OFFICER’S TRAINING SCHOOL (OTS) - $2.00, SASE, 2 Loose 33 cent Stamps COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATIONS (COC) (You must pass this course to take OCC.) Add 2 Loose 33 cent Stamps Adm. Peg Pellerin, RR #3, Box 5460, Newsletter Design - $4.00 + Stamps Winslow, ME 04901-9534 - [email protected]
Current as of 9909.07 STARFLEET ACADEMY - COLLEGE APPLICATION FORM The Scholastic Division of STARFLEET: The International Star Trek Fan Association, Inc. VAdm. Marlene Miller - Commandant , 461 Harmony Lane, Campbell, OH 44405 ([email protected])
All checks or money orders must be made out to “STARFLEET - ACADEMY FUND” — DO NOT SEND CASH.
STARFLEET VOUCHERS and RED SFAVOUCHERS 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# :
St. Louis, MO 63109 - [email protected]
VULCAN ACADEMY of SCIENCE (VAS) SECURITY SCHOOL (SFASS) - $2.00, SASE, 2 Loose 33 cent Stamps per course - $2.00, 3 Loose 33 cent Stamps for each course VAdm. Marlene Miller, 461 Harmony Lane, FCapt. Gregory Staylor, P.O.Box 9796, Campbell, OH 44405 - [email protected]
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 stamps Capt Tammy Willcox, 4121 Stillwood Court Virginia Beach, VA 23456 - [email protected] [email protected]
COUNSELORS COLLEGE (SCC) - Six Courses, $3.00 per course Comm Helen Pawlowski, PO Box 22225, St. Louis, MO 63116-2225 - no email
ACROCADEMY (ACRO) - $4.00 per course c/o Brian Young, 5418 Linderwood Ave, Oct/Nov 1999 • Page 11 Around the Fleet Shuttle Jubilee Attends Opening of Trek Exhibit... Ralph F. Planthold, Executive Officer, Shuttle Jubilee
The October 1 Galactic Evening ents were spending 10 minutes hands on at Saturday, the official opening day of the memory I have of Saturday has to be that of preview of the STAR TREK: Federation those same stations, really hooked on the exhibit, the crowds were decidedly smaller, Jo Bannister in her Klingon warrior outfit, Science exhibit at the Gulf Coast experience and, I contend, on the Star no doubt due to the fact that BayFest ’99 talking to a group of kids from a local youth Exploreum in downtown Mobile opened Trek fantasy. For them, this wasn’t just was busy attracting only 90,000 of them. center as they were waiting to enter the ex- with greetings (in Klingon, then in English) something to do to kill a Friday evening. That didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of our hibit. One boy in particular was just wa-a- by Jo Bannister, Captain of the USS This was a chance to touch Star Trek,to crew nor of our guests, officers and crew ay too cool to be interested in the exhibit or Okatoma, as well as by members of imagine that they were aboard the Enter- of no fewer than five Region 2 starships, in the Klingon standing in front of him trying several other races (in English). The gala prise! Am I allowing my own emotions on three from Mississippi (all listed alphabeti- to talk to him. Every time Jo tipped the kid’s was a rousing success, according to this subject to carry me away? So what! cally: USS Haise, USS Odyssey, USS baseball cap up to see his face, he’d pull it several hundred people who skipped the You’re reading this because you feel Okatoma) and two from Florida (USS right back down over his eyes. When he opening evening of BayFest ’99 to attend. exactly that same way. But keep in mind Continuum, USS Khai Tam). finally decided she wasn’t going away, he Of course, there are those cynics who will that I’d already seen this exhibit in Denver made the mistake of trying to ignore her by say that was due to the free admission, 4 years ago, so I could afford the luxury of The Mississippi chapters have invited all just looking away. She definitely got his at- free food, and free soft drinks; but the eats observing the other patrons this time. Shuttle Jubilee and USS Continuum tention when she told him, “Look a Klingon and drinks were gone within an hour of the crewmembers to attend Babel ’99 on Satur- warrior in the eye when you talk to one!” opening, and the people stayed. I believe it My CO and I spent a good stretch of day, October 16 as their guests. Babel is an She’s impressive. was the exhibit itself that drew the people time talking with a couple of local radio annual uniformed gathering of those chap- in, then blew them away! The freebies DJs, WABB-FM’s Morning Guys, Darrin ters for fellowship, food, and fun. They re- Last weekend, we all finally had a chance were merely icing on the cake. Stone and Jay Hastings. While they were ally want to encourage our regular and fre- to put faces to the names we’d only seen there in part because their station was a quent interaction with them, building on what bandied about in e-mails, to see some won- The average attention span of the children sponsor of the exhibit, it also turns out that we’ve started at the Exploreum. It starts at derful people who were our friends before there hovered somewhere in the vicinity of Darrin is this major sci-fi and Trek trivia 6:30 p.m., at the Hattiesburg Garden Cen- we’d ever even met, due to the bonds we 10 seconds, before they would flit off to buff. So we’ve been invited to appear on ter, Palmetto Street at Gordon’s Creek, in shared in common. the next station; but that’s to be expected. their show one morning the week before Hattiesburg, MS. What impressed me was that their teenage the November 13-14 Nichelle Nichols siblings, their parents, and their grandpar- UhuraCon at the Exploreum. Without a doubt, though, the most vivid Operation Eagle 1999 Holiday Campaign... Bill Herrmann, Director Operation: Eagle
Greeting OPERATION:EAGLEVolunteers! United States Marine Corps stationed in and French Force D’Action Rapide Des Forces cigar box would do just fine for the Troops The 1999 Yuletide Campaign is threefold in near the Former Republic of Yugoslavia Francaises. stationed in Kosovo or Macedonia. objective. We will be seeking to attain volun- teer mail-cards, letters, and care-packages for For Land Forces: Holiday cards and letters and care packages Some of my OPERATION:EAGLE volunteers the upcoming Yuletide holiday season for the are a welcome addition at mail call whether it is record local radio broadcasts and send them to following: ANYSERVICEMEMBER onboard ship, on land in a base camp, or at an a ship overseas in their care packages. Imagine OPERATIONSIN THE FRY Air Force base in a foreign country. Many of getting a taste of America while sailing in the Members of the United States Navy “Silent APO AE 09397-0001 our GI’s are away from home for the first time. Persian Gulf or in the Mediterranean Sea! Service”- the Officers and Crews of the Fleet Anyone who has served in the military will Ballistic Missile Submarines and Attack Navy and Marine Corps personnel aboard attest that mail call while overseas is a very Trust your instincts and use good judge- Submarines. ship: important time. OPERATION:EAGLEexists to ment and help OPERATION:EAGLE during the reach that GI who gets no mail. Your thought- 1999 Yuletide Campaign reach out overseas to The Following Nuclear Submarines are ANYSERVICEMEMBER fulness and care and concern can help “make a the troops! Who knows? Your card or letter or designated to receive Volunteermail from the OPERATIONSIN THE FRY difference” to a lonely GI overseas. care package may be the turning point in OPERATION:EAGLE VolunteerNetwork : APO AE 09398-0001 helping to lift the morale and spirit of a lonely Some new volunteers have asked about care service member !!! You might just gain a new USS PROVIDENCE SSN-719 FPO AE 09582- Please help make the 1999 Yuletide Cam- packages and what goes in them? Well, they friend and pen pal! 2399 paign a successful endeavor as we reach out to like to receive sports pages, audio and video USS LOS ANGELES SSN-688 FPO AP 96671- the Troops overseas during the upcoming cassettes, hard candy, books, comic books, For more information, please email 2368 holiday season. As everyone knows by now, toiletries, etc. Cookies especially are popular. In [email protected] or write: USS L. MENDEL RIVERS SSN- 686 FPO AE OPERATION:EAGLE has been supporting fact, during the 1st OPERATION:EAGLE 09586-2366 troops overseas and their families over 16 Project, “Letters to Lebanon,” so many cookies Operation:Eagle USS HENRY M JACKSON SSBN- 730 FPOAP years now seeking to bring the USA closer to arrived to the Marines and Navy in Beirut that 9908 Berrywood Drive 96698-2105 the American citizens who serve in the uniform the Marines handed out boxes of cookies to Ladson, SC 29456 USS TENNESSEE SSBN- 734 FPO AA 34093- of their nation. OPERATION:EAGLE is a year- the children and orphans in and around Beirut 2117 round project and reaches out to every branch during Christmas week. My best rule of thumb Please include a SASE for a quick response. of the Department of Defense, as well as to about what goes in a care package is to ask Members of the United States Army, United members of Allied and NATO nations Armed what I would like to receive in a care package Thanks for being a volunteer with States Navy, United States Air Force and Forces including the British Ministry of from the States if I were the GI opening the box. OPERATION:EAGLE.Thanks for caring! Defense Royal Navy and Royal Marines and It need not be a mega-box. A simple shoebox or Happy holidays! Page 12 • Communiqué • Issue 95 Watkins Glen Weekend 1999
1991: The second annual Watkins Glen weekend was attended by 14 members of the U.S.S Avenger. How times have changed!
Chris Smith of the Shuttle Tarmanglion attempts the infamous 49er Challenge—49 onces (three pounds!) of steak from Billy Bob Jack’s restaurant in Ithaca, N.Y. Hearty souls are given one hour to complete Watkins Glen the meal (which includes two side dishes). Although Chris didn’t defeat the meat this time, two other Starfleet members have, in the last decade, triumphed...and each has his name on a plaque at Weekend 99 Billy Bob Jack’s to prove it.
1999: The tenth annual Watkins Glen weekend saw 84 humans and 3 canines take the awe-inspiring trek up the gorge on a beautiful autumn day.
PHOTOS PROVIDED BY JONATHAN LANE Oct/Nov 1999 • Page 13 IC 2000 - Burlington, Vermont Page 14 • Communiqué • Issue 95 Academy Pages STSTARFLEETARFLEET Academy Academy...... Vice Admiral Marlene J. Miller, Commandant, STARFLEET Academy
COLLEGE OF TRADE AND COM- Tami Flowers Anthony J. Goretski, Jr Ralph F. Planthold Chris Cascio Andrew Gossett MERCE (COTAC) NEWS DeWayne LaFrain Amy E. Turner Nancy Bonica Nathan Head Sonny Wright Jennifer Stevland R. Bruce Tandy Martin Bonica William Purvine Dale Thompson Joe Hinson COTAC Director, Tammy Willcox and Renee White Albert J. Yaboni John H. Morton Mark Storsina Patricia Sigg James Crowley the Academy faculty and staff are pleased Denby A. Potts David A. Benfell Lisa Marie Batista David J. Pesec Rebecca Gibson Roy Green to welcome...... <<
Valerie Anderson Meg Roach Acrocademy (ACRO) College of Starship Operations Larry Goldman -3 3* Brian Young, Director (COSO) College of Federation Studies Mandy Halleman -2 (1 *) Capt James W. Lee, Director (COFS) Ron Bouley No Graduates Reported Capt Donna Tucker, Director James Monroe - 4 (2 *) Maud Freifelder Teresa Holler * INSTITUTE OF MILITARY STUD- Frisco Sullivan - 3 Ellen Attaway Boyd Jackson * Mark Lindsay * IES Kristi Schultz Edith Padgett - 20 (12 *) Amile Wilson Randall Abbott Comm Greg Staylor, Dean Michael Browne Susan Goodwin - 6 (3 *) David Adams Paul Jones * Boyd Jackson Debra Kern - 6 (5 *) Edward Sinyard * Parker Gabriel * Security School (SFASS) Erich Schwendtke Boyd Jackson - 4 Michael Walker * Comm Greg Staylor, Director James Monroe Larry Goldman - 2 (2 *) Linda Oakley - 3 (3 *) James Gallops John F. Eaton * William Beard Wayne Killough - 2 Jeff Clifford * Larry Goldman Michael Boatright Sean Meyer Alice Strange * David Danner * Virginia Keister Edith Padgett - 2 (2 *) Klingon Warrior Academy (KWA) Cathy Edgington * School of Engineering (SOE) Jill Rayburn - 4 (4 *) Deb Kern, Director Capt Brian Dougherty, Director William Powell - 3 (1 *) College of History (COH) Frank Waxman * James W. Monroe * Cmde George K. Clark, Director No Graduates Reported Christina Pelloni - 3 ( 3 *) Edith Padgett * Alex Trevino, Jr * Nancy Lynch * Kristi R. Schultz College of Medicine (SACOM) Beth Wingo - 3 (2 *) Cathy Edgington Capt Wayne Killough, Jr, Director Frisco Sullivan Michael Boatright James Monroe - 2 (2 *) Moving? Change of Boyd Jackson James W. Monroe Kristie Garber Nancy Via * James Graham Paul Jones Penny Wallace Barbara Buffington -3(3*) Address Procedures... Jack Eaton Lewis McQuack Andrew Gosset David Lynch If you are moving anytime soon Larry Goldman Jan Marie Babin Jurgen Puype Steven Durette - 2 (2 * ) School of Literature (SOL) Nancy Via Meg Roach James Gallops * or if you have recently moved, you BGR Jill Rayburn, Director Boyd Jackson Cindy Buxlon James Graham - 2 (2 *) probably have had to notify about James Crowley Trina Anderson Valerie Ball - 2 12 dozen people of your recent Nancy Lynch * James Anglin Belva Hall - 2 address change. Don’t forget to James Whatley Allyson Dyar - 5 (1 *) Clayton Fallis * include Starfleet when changing Amy Alexander * J.P. Ladyhawk * Gary Hollifield - 2 Bernadette Samples -3(1*) your address. Our offices need to Robert Mulvey Janice Topoleski Peter Yohe * know your correct address in order Steve Turner - 3 (3 *) School of Treknology (SOT) James Graham to send mailings, Communique’s, Doree Lifely - 2 (1 *) Cmdr Alice Strange, Director Gerald Perkin * and membership materials. Kris Williams - 5 Sharon Mersfelder Darlene Harper - 3 ( 3*) Valerie Anderson - 5 (2 *) Anne Miller - 5 (1 *) Edith Padgett Dale Thompson * So, just who do you notify? Barney Cole * Karen Watson - 2 Larry Goldman * James Cozine - 2 (2 *) Paul Jones Charles Via - 3 (2 *) Sandra Lee Burr Mike Perry - 2 Well, for starters, you only need to Susan Goodwin - 2 (2 *) notify one office. Hopefully, that’ll INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY Starfleet Officers Radio School (SORS) Tricia Kettwig make it easier for you. You will RAdm Sharon Ann Clark, Dean Capt. Jeff Salamon, Director Michelle Barratt * need to notify Computer Opera- Boyd Jackson * tions that your address has College of Computer History No Graduates Reported Maud Freifelder * changed. You can do this by email (COCH) or by postal mail. Email College of Trade & Commerce Vice Adm Sharon Ann Clark, Director College of Survival Studies (COSS) [email protected] or send it by (COTAC) Comm Carol Thompson, Director Capt Tammy Willcox, Director postal mail (with SASE if you need Cathy Edgington - 2 a response) to: Edith L. Padgett James Graham Ian Johnson * Boyd Jackson Boyd Jackson Membership Processing James Monroe Larry Goldman Larry Goldman - 2 PO Box 96 Alan Cohen Greenbelt, MD 20768-0096 Susan Goodwin Counselor’s College (SCC) School of Strategy & Tactics (SOST) FAX: 419-793-7976 RAdm Helen Pawlowski, Director Capt Sanford Berenberg, Director Vulcan Academy of Science (VAS) You do not need to let the CQ Boyd Jackson VAdm Marlene Miller, Director Joseph Kancel * staff know of your address change. Leilani Purvine - 6 (1 *) Andrew Gossett Tina Walker - 2 (1* ) The CompOps staff prints labels Walter Ewing * Woody Carlson * for the Communique’, so the pro- Donna Hammond * Donna Marie Mominee * - 2 (2 *) Barbara Paul cess is as simple as letting Com- Lori Kinnery * Darcy Wendy Cozine * Elenore Claassen Richtsmeier Maud Freifelder - 2 (1 *) puter Operations know of the change. Page 16 • Communiqué • Issue 95 Starfleet Academy Profiles Starfleet Academy: The Institute of Technology...
Will include a Chapter Treasury Course, Ad- THE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY The College of Trade and Commerce is proud before. It will also be of great help to any- vanced COTAC trivia, and a master of to announce its latest course, the Shuttle Trea- one that has never managed a checking COTAC Course. A diverse group of programs for learn- sury Course. This course is designed to assist account. ing about science, engineering, medicine, the new shuttle CO/treasurer in handling the Honor grads will be recognized. ham radio, trade and commerce, coun- chapter’s treasury. It will take you step-by- Shuttle Treasury Course Tuition: $3.00, seling, acronyms and computers. step through the treasury process. This is not plus five loose 33-cent stamps. Unfortu- Basic COTAC is a trivia test that is based on a typical trivia type test; it is almost completely nately, this course is not available via e- various Trade and Commerce references in The College of Trade and Commerceis practical application. You will have to fill out mail at this time due to the extensive forms the world of Trek. designed to facilitate a better understand- checks, enter your data into a ledger, calculate required to complete it. Preparations are ing of the various ways Trade and Com- future expenses, do a budget, etc. Not only underway to make it on-line capable. For Basic COTAC Course Tuition: $2.00, merce affect the world of Trek, individual does the course involve tracking your money, more information contact: LSASE, 2 loose 33-cent stamps. This Course chapters, and even real life. Each of the it gives you guidelines on how to help plan Tammy Willcox is available by e-mail request to the Director. tests that are or will be available will focus fundraisers. This course is a must for any of- 4121 Stillwood Court on one of these topics. Future courses ficer that has never handled a group treasury Virginia Beach, VA23456 [email protected] Or [email protected]
Director of the College of Trade and Com- StarfleetStarfleet Academy Academy - - College College merce - Captain Tammy Willcox Tammy has been a member of Starfleet FCapt. Donna L. Tucker and the USS MAATfor six years. Shortly ofof Federation Federation Studies Studies Director, CoFS after joining the MAAT, she was appointed Chief of Operations. She held that posi- tion for approximately six months before When I first began working with the are given when requested. Extensions may being appointed Chief of Special Services, CoFS, I had no idea it would be at first so be requested by mail, the phone, or via E- swer should be a minimum of a page long. a position that she still holds. In addition, much work (all that had to be quickly done) mail at [email protected]. Just a note: Tammy is Editor-in-Chief of the USS and so much fun. Right after I took over anyone who takes all 20 tests at one time is Course #1 - Covers history & law of the MAAT’s award winning newsletter, The the College, I had to completely rewrite ev- automatically granted extensions. UFP and Starfleet Short Circuit. erything. I did not want the College to have Course #2 - Covers history & law of the to close, so over the next week, the areas Just so you will know a little about each UFP and Starfleet Tammy has held several regional and fleet of study were changed and so were the area of study, the following paragraphs tell Course #3 - Thesis question concerning origi- positions in the past including Regional courses. you about each area and the courses con- nal series episode. Relief Fund Coordinator, RDC of Special tained in that area. I hope this answers any Course #4 - Thesis question concerning Star Services/Quartermaster, Acting RDC of At this time, CoFS has three areas of questions that you may have, but if you would trek: The Next Gen. episode. Communications, ARDC of Communica- study: History of the U.S.S. Enterprise (6 like to ask any questions contact me at the Course #5 - Thesis question concerning Star tions, and FDC of Special Services/Quar- courses), History of Federation Law (6 above address. Trek: Deep Space Nine episode. termaster. Currently Tammy is one of the courses), and Special Federation Studies (8 Course #6 - Thesis question concerning Star new Treasurers for Region One in addi- courses). Each student receives a certifi- “History of the U.S.S. Enterprise” has Trek: Voyager episode. tion to her duties as Director of COTAC. cate for completing each course. When all 6 courses that cover each Enterprise used courses in any one area of study are com- by Starfleet. A special note on this course is “Special Federation Studies” covers Tammy is married to Fleet Captain Blair pleted, the student receives a doctorate in that the test covers only the Enterprise Star Trek animated episodes, DS9, and Voy- Willcox, Jr., CO of the USS MAAT. She that area. Any student that completes all Stated. ager questions. It also has thesis questions. has three children, Jessica Poole (15), courses in all three areas of study is given a The subject to base your thesis on is stated Robert Lambert (12) and Elizabeth Lam- special certificate, granting them a doctor- Course #1-covers the Enterprise NCC-1701 on the test and the answer should be at least bert (10), all of who are active on the ate in Federation Studies. I give commen- Course #2- covers the Enterprise NCC- a page long. MAAT. In ‘real’life she works as a DBA/ dations to any student that scores perfect 1701A Technology Support Specialist for a local on any of the courses. Course #3 - covers the Enterprise NCC- Course #1 - questions on the animated Star consulting firm. 1701B Trek episodes. The courses cost $1.00 per course + 3 Course#4 - covers the Enterprise NCC- Course #2 - questions on Star Trek: Deep The Vulcan Academy of Science is de- loose 32 cent stamps. You can take the 1701C Space Nine signed to answer questions you may have courses through the mail or via E-mail. Send Course #5 - covers the Enterprise NCC- Course #3 - questions on Star Trek: Voy- about a particular science that has piqued your request to: Donna Tucker, 7066 1701D ager your interest enough to learn more about Goodner Mtn. Rd., Pinson, Alabama 35126. Course #6 - covers the Enterprise NCC- Course #4 - Thesis question about Original it. VAS offers degrees in 14 major sci- State in your request that you would like to 1701E series ences and 37 electives from many of the take the courses over the Internet and I will Course #5 - Thesis question about ST: TNG sciences that exist in our world today. To send your test(s) that way or I will send “The History of Federation Law”isa Course #6 - Thesis question about ST:DS9 add that bit of thrilling science fiction, I’ve them in the mail to you. You may take more different area. It covers laws in the United Course #7 - Thesis question about thrown in Star Trek trivia that relates to than one test at a time. Some students have Federation of Planets and Starfleet Law. This ST:Voyager the sciences VAS offers. The “Trek” trivia taken all the tests at one time. You have ten area contains some thesis questions. The epi- Course #8 - Thesis question about the United is based on The Original Series and the weeks to complete the work but extensions sode to use is stated on the test and the an- Federation of Planets. first five movies. A course in Logic gives Oct/Nov 1999 • Page 17 Take an Academy Course Today! Starfleet Academy: The Institute of Technology...
the VAS that Vulcan touch. All students are passed the Basic Doctorate. Finally, you must Tuition: SASE, 3 loose 33-cent stamps per Kirkland WA98083-0603 required to complete the Logic course, and show proof of actual CPR, First Aid, First course. upon completion, will be assigned a Vulcan Responder, etc. training when applying to the Course Tuition: Free, SASE, 2 loose 33-cent name. Students who score 100% are inducted Field Medic Section. Starfleet Officers Radio School consists of stamps into the Vulcan Legion of Honor and may 2 courses of study. The First course is a “upgrade” their standing in the Legion with Tuition: $3, SASE, 2 loose 33-cent stamps. 13-question test based on radio communi- Topics cover computers from their Terran each score of 100% in each VAS program cations or forms of radio communications. beginnings to Star Trek: Voyager. There are they complete. SACOM works closely with Helen The student has 10 weeks to complete the three degrees: Bachelor (History - mundane), Pawlowski, Director of the STARFLEET course with the standard extensions avail- Masters (Modern - Star Trek), and Doctoral Tuition: $2 per course, SASE and 2 loose Counselor’s College. You may apply to that able. (Artificial Vs. Organic Intelligence – mun- 33-cent stamps. college via Helen or myself. dane and Star Trek). Reference materials The Second course is that for becoming an used are encyclopedias, Star Trek episodes VAdm Marlene Miller, who has been direc- If you have any questions or comments, please Amateur Radio Operator or Ham Opera- and movies, certain Star Trek Books, and tor of the Vulcan Academy of Science since feel free to contact me at tor. There is a preliminary course to get computer textbooks. There are also a few 1989, has been a Starfleet member since mid [email protected]. started. If the student does not have and questions for you to think about. The cost is 1977 and has spent most of her Starfleet Amateur Radio License then this will be a SASE per degree. career with the Academy as director of PO Box 359 the course to start with. If the student al- SACOM (1985-89), SFA-AA (1986-1991) Lead Hill AR 72644-0359 ready has a License, then I will assist the Each degree is in 2 (two) parts: exam and and now as commandant. Marlene is a student in obtaining his / her next level of project. The exam must be passed to con- member of the USS Renegade, Region 1. Just to introduce myself, my name is Cmdr. accomplishment. The outside costs for this tinue on to the project. 10 weeks allowed Wayne Lee Killough, Jr. As far as Fleet is will be dependent on where the student is for each part. 461 Harmony Lane concerned, I am the Director of SACOM, in their training. This is a 26-week course Campbell OH 44405-1212 the Region 12 Awards Director, the Missouri and is renewable. Member of Starfleet since 1985, Academy Sector REACTS officer, and the Executive Director since 1987, currently on the USS SACOM (STARFLEET Academy Col- Officer of the USS Ultimatum, NCC-10534. Cmdr. Salamon is a member of the USS Pendragon. Iinterests include dancing, lege of Medicine) is an integration of both I am a 22-year-old computer programmer Orbit Jet in Region 3 things British and Scottish, and mystery. real-life and trek-related medicine. SACOM currently living in Harrison, Arkansas. I am combines medical conditions, procedures, also a professional female impersonator (go- Counselors College practices, treatments, etc. from the 19th, ing by the name of Robyn Hunter), perform- RAdm Helen Pawlowski, Director 20th, 23rd, and 24th centuries. With it’s ing for over 7 years in numerous states (spe- PO Box 22225 CQ Articles wide-range of knowledge, SACOM is a must cializing in impersonating Stevie Nicks of St. Louis MO 63116-2225 for the medically interested Fleet member. Fleetwood Mac fame). I have been in Fleet Currently, SACOM is divided into four sec- since March 1996 starting my career as the Tuition is $3.00 per course Needed tions: the Basic Doctorate, the Certification CO of the newly launched Shuttle Anasazi in Section, the Specialty Section, and the Field Region 3 (currently the USS Babylon out of Six courses are offered: Listening, Jeal- The Communique’ Staff wants your ar- ticles for future issues of this award-wor- Medic Section. The Basic Doctorate is your Monroe, LA). When not working or on stage ousy, Stress, Anger, Grief and Diplomacy. (in whatever state I am having to travel to Alzheimers and others are planned for the thy newsletter! Has your chapter taken general medical exam. Upon completion of part in an interesting and unique activity? that weekend), I enjoy spending time with my future. the Basic Doctorate, you will be honored with Been to any good conventions lately? Read the title of ‘STARFLEET Medical Doctor’ friends, going out and partying, and spending any good books lately? Played any really - the only way to hold this title. The Certifi- quality time with my lover, Sasha. RAdm. Pawlowski is a Station Troubadour cool computer games? cation Section consists of a Counselor’s member, Region 12, and is newly pro- Certification Exam, a Pharmacology Certi- School of Engineering (SOE) moted. If you have, how about send in a review fication Exam, and a Physical Therapy Cer- Captain Brian Dougherty, Director or an article or pictures of puzzles of what- tification Exam. The Specialty Section con- 408 Carlyle East Acrocademy ever you might want to see printed in the sists of 16 specialty exams (AIDS/STD, Belleville, IL 62221 Brian Young, Director Communique’. Letters to the Editor are wel- come as well. This newsletters is YOUR Audiology, Betazoid Telepathy, Cardiology, 5418 Lindenwood Ave Course Tuition: $2.00, SASE, 2 loose 33-cent St. Louis MO 63109 newsletter. It’s for the membership of Chiropractic, Dentistry, Emergency Medi- Starfleet, and we’re willing to print just stamps cine, Endocrinology, Geriatrics, Hematology, about anything you send us. Obstetrics, Ophthalmology, Psychiatry/Psy- Tuition: $4.00 per course chology, Radiology, Surgery, and Xenobiol- Four courses available, Basic Engineering If you want to see your name in print, ogy). The Field Medic Section consists of a (must be taken first), Advanced Engineering, Learn about acronyms in various profes- send us an article. We’re interested in pro- Basic Health Exam, a First Aid Exam, and a Basic Support Services Technology and Ad- sions, including law enforcement, medicine, filing different chapters and members in CPR Exam. This section is modeled after vanced Support Services Technology. educational interpretations, and even Starfleet. Please remember, however, that the American Red Cross Manuals and train- Starfleet. this is a family publication, so let’s try to ing. Captain Dougherty is a member of Station keep our submissions appropriate for all Troubadour in Region 12. Mr. Young is a member of the USS Atlas age groups! in Region 12. You may take up to two exams at one time Submissions are accepted via email at Starfleet Officers Radio School (SORS) through SACOM. There are, however, cer- [email protected] or postal mail to the address tain stipulations to this. First, you may not Commander Jeff Salamon, Director College of Computer History listed on page 3. Be sure to include a SASE take another SACOM exam while taking the 59 Collin Circle (COCH) if you need information or pictures re- Basic Doctorate. Next, you may not take Princeton, TX 75407-8975 Vice Admiral Sharon Ann Clark, Director turned to you. any Specialty Section exam until you have PO Box 603 Page 18 • Communiqué • Issue 95 FLEET News USSUSS ChallengChallengerer NeedsNeeds Y Yourour T Teeth...eeth... Captain Brian P. Smith, CEO, USS Challenger
Good Afternoon Friends, Family, and Mem- Public Health Program (RPHP), and both cer is simple yet very sad. Once the Stron- parents of the child will be notified. If the bers of Region7&STARFLEET, are non-profit independent research organi- tium-90 is in the blood stream of a human, it program collects enough teeth, and their find- zations. Baldwin served as the moderator for is in the bloodstream for life. It can be con- ings are correct, they will have enough evi- I apologize in advance for the bandwidth that a panel of scientists and doctors from STAR tracted through anything that you eat, drink dence to approach the federal government this post will take up. However, this is a very or breathe since it is all around us. About 8- important message that concerns a project that and RPHP, who discussed the concerns of a on shutting down these nuclear plants. 9 weeks after the parents the USS Challenger will be starting in partner- link between nuclear radiation contamination ship with actor Alec Baldwin (The Hunt for Red and cancer clusters currently found in the conceive, the fetus starts to form tooth ducts In 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed a October, The Juror) Long Island, NY and Ocean County, NJ ar- and the bones that it will need for later life. resolution to ban above ground testing of eas. In the process of forming the teeth and nuclear weapons, because of a similar study On this past Tuesday evening, I was as- bones, the fetus takes calcium from the done that found very high levels of Strontium- signed to cover a news story at Ocean According to the scientists, these cancer clus- mother. The Strontium-90 is so similar in 90 in children’s teeth. Scientists from the County College for The Coastal Leader- ters are caused by nuclear radiation emitted chemical composition to calcium, that the RPHP are currently finding levels of Stron- Review. This is an Ocean County, NJ based from the five nuclear power plants in the fetus’ body confuses the Strontium-90 for it tium-90 that almost match the levels that newspaper that Bob Vosseller and I do area. Brookhaven National Laboratories, and includes it and the calcium in the chemi- were present in 1963 that prompted Presi- freelance reporting for. The guest speaker Shorum Nuclear Power Plant, and Millstone cal makeup of the bones and teeth. Once dent Kennedy to sign this and moderator for the evening was actor Nuclear Power Plant are located on Long the baby is born, the Strontium-90 immedi- resolution. Alec Baldwin. Island, Oyster Creek is located in Lacey ately goes to work on creating cancer de- Township, New Jersey, and there is one in posits causing the children to die by roughly Through the USS Challenger, I have decided Mr. Baldwin was not there to talk about a Salem, Delaware. the age of 10. to spearhead a drive to collect baby teeth new movie or anything like that. He was from all over Region 7, since our region is there however, to portray the part of con- The radiation that is emitted from these The RPHP has started a program called the area that is most severely affected by cerned parent. As some of you may, or may nuclear power plants is in the form of a man “The Tooth Fairy Project.” This program this very serious problem. If you have any not know,Alec lives on Long Island with his made radioactive isotope called Strontium- serves to collect baby teeth that have al- concern about your family and those of your actress wife, Kim Bassinger and his four- 90. This isotope is suspected to be respon- ready been removed from children by natu- friends and future families, I urge you to send year old daughter. sible for a very rare form of childhood can- ral loss and analyze them for levels of Stron- me your teeth! cer known as Rhabdomyosarcoma, as well tium-90. They seek these teeth from resi- Baldwin is a spokesman for the Long Island as several other forms of cancer. dents of areas that are close to these nuclear If you are interested in sending your teeth based “Standing for Truth About Radiation” power facilities. If the teeth are found to and would like more information about what (STAR) and for the NY based Radiation and The way that the children contract this can- have significant levels of Strontium-90, the the program is all about and what informa- tion we need with the teeth for the study, I have set up a special Email address to field submitted by Chuck Freas, Vice Commander, all inquiries. Please send your inquiries to: SpockSpock vs. vs. Q Q Starfleet [email protected] . SPOCK VS. Q is a truly electrifying NEWYORK—(ENTERTAINMENTWIRE)— The event is based on the one-of-a-kind audio- In advance, I would like to thank you all for only program STAR TREK: SPOCK VS. Q audiobook, and the live event with Leonard taking the time to read this very serious mes- Nov. 16, 1999—Simon & SchusterAudio Nimoy and John de Lancie at Star Trek: The (Simon & Schuster Audio, November 1999), sage that currently affects our generation and today announced an unprecedented meeting Experience is bound to be the most dynamic of the minds between two of Star Trek(R)’s produced by Alien Voices will continue to plague future generations if (www.alienvoices.com), in which the characters and intriguing debate since Nixon vs. most beloved stars, Leonard Nimoy and John Kennedy. something is not done to stop it. de Lancie. go head-to-head over whether the Earth-and humanity-is worth saving from an asteroid. The confrontation is spellbinding and often SPOCK VS. Q is now available from booksell- Thank you all and please send me your teeth! On Friday, November 19th, at 6pm PST live ers everywhere! :) from Star Trek: The Experience(R) at the Las hilarious, Nimoy and de Lancie formed Alien Vegas Hilton, Leonard Nimoy and John de Voicesin 1996, along with writer-producer Nat Segaloff. EachAlien Voicesprogram has an all- Simon & Schuster, the publishing operation Respectfully Submitted, Lancie as Spock and Q will re-create an of Viacom Inc. (NYSE:VIA, VIA.B), is a global excerpt from the stars’new audiobook STAR star cast, riveting new performances, original music, and stereophonic soundscapes. leader in the field of general interest publish- Brian P. Smith TREK: SPOCK VS. Q (an inter-galactic debate) ing, dedicated to providing the best in fiction along with a question and answer session in ”Working on the Alien Voices audiobooks has and nonfiction for consumers of all ages, front of a live audience. The discussion will across all printed and multi-media formats. Its Freelance Reporter, The Coastal Leader- also be simulcast on TV Guide Online. been a refreshing and challenging experience, Review we’re looking forward to presenting SPOCK VS. divisions include Simon & Schuster Trade Publishing, Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster Freelance Reporter, The New Egypt Press This Debate of the Millennium will be hosted Q to a live audience,” commented Leonard Nimoy. Children’s Publishing, Simon & Schuster in Quark’s Bar and Restaurant at 6PM (PST). New Media, Simon & Schuster Online, Simon ********************************************************************** An autograph session and fan reception with & Schuster U.K., and Simon & Schuster Leonard Nimoy and John de Lancie will John de Lancie said, “Traditionally, Alien Australia. For more information about Simon Captain Brian P. Smith immediately follow their performance of Voices has focused on re-creating the classics- from HG Wells to Jules Verne to Sir Arthur & Schuster Audio, visit our website at CEO, USS CHALLENGER, NCC-1676-D SPOCK VS. Q. Fans that cannot make it to http://www.SimonSaysAudio.com. Vegas can log on to the live Earthcam Conan Doyle-so we are particularly excited Deputy Chief Of Staff, Region 7, about SPOCK VS. Q. Debating the future STARFLEET powered webcast on TV Guide Online at STAR TREK and Related Materials(TM), (R), www.tvguide.com to participate. of the Earth in character helps put the current Member, STARFLEETAcademy Electronic millennium craze into perspective!” and (c) 1999 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved. Services, ODDU Unit Oct/Nov 1999 • Page 19 From Around the Fleet HolidaHolidayPyPoemoem to to R Rememberemember Our Our T Trroopsoops Major Gary “Tiny” Hollifield, SFMC
ONE LOOK AT MY WATCH, Hello fellow Fleeters! I know the following I REALIZED THE FAMILIES THATI SAW AND I KNEW HE WAS RIGHT. snippet has been posted to the many listservers THIS NIGHT, ”MERRY CHRISTMAS MY FRIEND, over the past few months, and I realize the OWED THEIR LIVES TO THESE SOLDIERS AND TO ALLA GOOD NIGHT.” holidays are upon us. However, we do owe our WHO WERE WILLING TO FIGHT. lives to the United States Military, both past, Now to those people who took the few minutes to read present, and future. So take a few moments and SOON ROUND THE WORLD, this, I thank you. I didn’t write this and I am unsure of read this. When you do, think of our military THE CHILDREN WOULD PLAY, the author. This little poem says so much that I was men and women and all they have sacrificed so AND GROWNUPS WOULD CELEBRATE touched when I read it. I know many W.W.II veterans, that we may be allowed to live as we live today. ABRIGHT CHRISTMAS DAY. and my grandfather was in the service. All I have to say is God BlessAll Service Men and Women throughout TWASTHE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS, THEY ALL ENJOYED FREEDOM the United States. I thank you for my freedom! HE LIVED ALL ALONE, EACH MONTH OF THE YEAR, IN A ONE BEDROOM HOUSE BECAUSE OF THE SOLDIERS, Deepest sincerity, MADE OF PLASTER AND STONE. LIKE THE ONE LYING HERE. Major Gary “Tiny” Hollifield, SFMC OIC 161st MEU, SpecOps, The War Eagles I HAD COME DOWN THE CHIMNEY I COULDN’T HELP WONDER 5th BN/ 1st BDE WITH PRESENTS TO GIVE, HOW MANY LAYALONE, AND TO SEE JUST WHO ON A COLD CHRISTMAS EVE IN THIS HOME DID LIVE. IN A LAND FAR FROM HOME.
I LOOKED ALLABOUT, THE VERYTHOUGHT A STRANGE SIGHT I DID SEE, BROUGHT A TEAR TO MY EYE, SCIENCESCIENCE NO TINSEL, NO PRESENTS, I DROPPED TO MY KNEES NOT EVEN A TREE. AND STARTED TO CRY. TIDBITSTIDBITS NO STOCKING BY MANTLE, THE SOLDIERAWAKENED David E. Klingman, DMD, R1 Sci- AND I HEARD A ROUGH VOICE, JUST BOOTS FILLED WITH SAND, ences ON THE WALLHUNG PICTURES ”SANTADON’T CRY, OF FAR DISTANT LANDS. THIS LIFE IS MY CHOICE; NASA Space Science News for November 15, 1999 SpaceScience.com — With the Leonids meteor WITH MEDALS AND BADGES, I FIGHT FOR FREEDOM, shower just around the corner,Science@NASAis AWARDS OF ALL KINDS, I DON’T ASK FOR MORE, launching a sister site to handle some of the heavy web A SOBER THOUGHT MY LIFE IS FOR MY GOD, traffic, http://SpaceScience.com. SpaceScience.com CAME THROUGH MY MIND. MY COUNTRY, MY CORPS.” will carry all the usual Science@NASA headline stories plus some new features: a Space Weather FOR THIS HOUSE WAS DIFFERENT, THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER Corner, daily sunspot numbers, the Space Calendar, IT WAS DARKAND DREARY, AND DRIFTED TO SLEEP, and a section devoted to hands-on science related to I FOUND THE HOME OF A SOLDIER, I COULDN’T CONTROL IT, breaking news.VISIT http://www.SpaceScience.com ONCE I COULD SEE CLEARLY. I CONTINUED TO WEEP. Glossary of Weather and Climate by Ira Geer and THE SOLDIER LAYSLEEPING, I KEPT WATCH FOR HOURS, published by theAMS. See: http://www.ametsoc.org/ SILENT,ALONE, SO SILENT AND STILL AMS/pubs/books/books.html For an excellent, CURLED UP ON THE FLOOR AND WE BOTH SHIVERED comprehensive weather glossary, go to: IN THIS ONE BEDROOM HOME. FROM THE COLD NIGHT’S CHILL. http://weather.utande.co.zw/Glossary/a.htm
THE FACE WAS SO GENTLE, I DIDN’T WANTTO LEAVE China has launched an un-manned space capsule in a THE ROOM IN SUCH DISORDER, ON THATCOLD, DARK, NIGHT, test of what Chinese officials say will be a Manned NOT HOW I PICTURED THIS GUARDIAN OF HONOR spaceflight early in the next century. Read the full story AUNITED STATES SOLDIER. SO WILLING TO FIGHT. on the Spaceer.com web site: http://www.spacer.com/spacecast/news/china- WAS THIS THE HERO THEN THE SOLDIER ROLLED OVER, 99o.html OF WHOM I’D JUST READ? WITH A VOICE SOFT AND PURE, CURLED UP ON A PONCHO, WHISPERED, “CARRY ON SANTA, THE FLOOR FOR A BED? IT’S CHRISTMAS DAY,ALL IS SECURE.” Page 20 • Communiqué • Issue 95 Items for Sale! Gold Latinum Accepted! TTalaxianalaxian T Trradeade Show Show
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Are you ready for NYE2000?!? Wendy Fillmore, Party Chair Greetings! century/millenium begins with the administration at the helm of 12/31/2000 in order to bring in the year that ends with the 1, just as STARFLEET: The International Star new millenium right! Whereas, as I’m sure you’re all the the counting began... well, in Trek Fan Association; aware (especially since Gordon the beginning. Hence, the new Who: All of you! Goldberg did such a great job of millenium actually starts on 1/1/ Therefore, let it be known that What: Smith/Freas Dead Dog Party explaining it in an earlier issue of 2001; and, the organization known as Where: Somewhere in NJ/Philly the CQ), there was no year 0; the STARFLEET is hereby invited to area counting started with the Year 1, so Whereas, this particular date party hearty on both Saturday When: 12/30/2000 & 12/31/2000 each seet of 10 or 100 or 1000 year also marks the first day of a new night, 12/30/2000, in celebration of Why? Since when do we need a ENDS with the year 0 on the end. administration, heralding the finish the completion of the Smith/Freas reason to party? The beginning of the new decade/ of four years of the Smith/Freas years, as well as New Year’s Eve, Oct/Nov 99 • Page 21 Convention News UpcomingUpcoming Conventions Conventions Compiled by Corporal Captain Blair Learn
December 31 – January 2 Intercon Millennium, June Wilkinson, Dick Durock, Ben Chapman, February 18-20 Radcon 3, Pasco, Wash- March 31-April 2 Sakura Con 2000, Columbia, Maryland; Info: Intercon, PO Box David Prowse, Hank Garrett ington; Info: 2527 W. Kennewick Ave. #162, Tukwila, Washington; Info: PO Box 44976, 196, Merrifield, VA 22116-0196 Ph: 703- Kennewick, WA 99336 Ph: 509-967-3248 Tacoma, WA98444 Ph: 253-535-2395 http:/ 912-9877 http://www.ilfinfo.org/intercon/ February 11-13 Katsucon, Arlington, Vir- http://www.owt.com/radcon/ Guests:Elissa /sakuracon.org/ Guests:Doug Smith, Tristan imille/index.html ginia; Info: 4140 Eby Drive, Dumfries, VA Mitchell, James Ernest, Steve Barnes, Steve MacAvery, Tiffany Grant 22026 Guests: Ryo Ramiya, Tomoko Saito, Perry, Don DeBrandt January 7-9 Gafilk 2000, College Park, Roseri Rikki, Tavisha Wolfgarth, Mark March 31-April 2 ReConnaissance, Georgia; Info: 2175 Lenox Rd., #B-5, At- Rogers, Newton Ewell, Scott Fraizer, Steve February 25-27 Potlatch 9, Seattle, Wash- Bergen, Norway; Info: ReConnaissance, PO lanta, GA 30324 Ph: 404-321-2112 http:// Bennett, Colleen Doran, Lea Hernandez, Kuni ington; Info: PO Box 31848, Seattle, WA, Box 1195, N-5001 Bergen, Norway; UK: www.geocities.com/Area51/Station/1192/ Kimura, Steve Pearl, Jeff Thompson, Fred 98103-1848 http://www.galaxy-7.net/squib/ Fiona Anderson, 129 Colgrave Road, gafilk.htm Guests:Margaret Middleton, Walt Perry corflatch/potltch9.html Stratford, London E15 1EA, UK Baric February 12-13 Slanted Fedora - February 25-27 Confluence 1900, Pitts- April 7-9 I-Con 19, Long Island, New York; January 21-23 ConFusion 19100, Warren, Champaign, Champaign, Illinois; Info: Slanted burgh, Pennsylvania; Info: P.O. Box 3681, Info: PO Box 550, Stony Brook, NY 11790- Michigan; Info: P.O. Box 8284, AnnArbor, Fedora Entertainment, 11916 W. 109th Street Pittsburgh, PA15230-3681 Ph: 412-344-0456 0550 Ph: (516) 632-6045 http:// MI 48107 Ph: 313-487-8743 http:// Suite #125, Overland Park, KS 66210 Ph: http://trfn.clpgh.org/parsec/conflu/ www.iconsf.org/ Guests:Richard www.stilyagi.org/cons/confusion.html 913-327-TREK(8735) http:// Guests:James Morrow, Tim Esaias, Alexis Chevolleau, Leni Parker, Dr. Demento, Dr. Guests:Maureen F. McHugh, Frank Hayes, www.sfedora.com/newpage1.htm A. Gilliland, Lee Gilliland, Pete Grubbs, Seti Eric Raymond, Dennis Tabaczewski, Erik Michael Kandel, William H. Keith, Jr, Mary Kauppi February 18-20 Gallifrey 2000, Van Nuys, Soon Lee, Barton Paul Levinson, Joe April 8-9 Celebrity Autograph Collector’s California; Info: PO Box 3021, N. Hollywood, Mayhew, Charles Oberndorf, Tamora Pierce show, Hollywood, California; Info: Post Of- January 21-23 Celebrity Autograph CA 91609 Ph: 818-752-3756 http:// fice Box 5040, Spring Hill, Florida 34611 Ph: Collector’s show, Hollywood, California; www.gallifreyone.com/ Guests:Peter March 3-5 Corflu 2000, Seattle, Washing- 352-683-5110 http:// Info: Post Office Box 5040, Spring Hill, Davison, Peter Woodward, Carrie Dobro, ton; Info: P.O. Box 31848 Seattle, WA www.hollywoodcollectorshow.com/ Florida 34611 Ph: 352-683-5110 http:// Fiona Avery, Terrance Dicks, Philip Segal, 98103-1848 http://www.galaxy-7.net/squib/ www.hollywoodcollectorshow.com/ Stephen Cole, Justin Richards, Gary Russell, corflatch/corflu2k.html April 20-23 Norwescon 23, Seatac, Wash- Guests:Gabe Kaplan, Kathleen Nolan, Rex Jason Haigh-Ellery, Kate Orman, Paul Magrs, ington; Info: PO Box 68547, Seattle WA Reason, Don Durant, Robert Clary, Rich- Dave Stone, Jonathan Blum, Paul Cornell, March 4-5 Celebrity Autograph Collector’s 98168-0547 Ph: 206-270-7850 http:// ard Kiel, Diane McBain Keith Topping, Mike Tucker, Jon de Burgh show, San Francisco, California; Info: Post www.norwescon.org/ Guests:David Brin, Miller, David McIntee, J. Michael Straczynski, Office Box 5040, Spring Hill, Florida 34611 Gregory Benford, Barclay Shaw, John and January 27-30 Capricon XX, Arlington John DeChancie, Frank Kelly Freas, Bjo Ph: 352-683-5110 http:// Bjo Trimble Park, Illinois; Info: PO Box 60085, Chicago, Trimble, Jonathan West,Adam Mojo Lebowitz, www.hollywoodcollectorshow.com/ IL 60660 http://www.capricon.org/ Glenn Campbell Guests:Cammie King, Patrick Curtis, John April 20-24 SwanCon 25, Ascot, Australia Guests:Larry Niven, Chris Luchini, Joseph Clark Gable, Tony Anselmo, Traci Lords (WA); Info: GPO Box G429, Perth, 6892 Stockman February 18-20 Boskone 37, Framingham, http://www.swancon.iinet.net.au/ Massachusetts; Info: PO Box 809, March 17-19 Lepracon 2000, Wenatchee, Guests:Connie Willis, Robin Hobb, Ian January 28-30 Supercon VII, Rochester, Framingham, MA 01701-0809 Ph: 617-625- Washington; Info: PMB #353, 2527 W. Nichols Minnesota; Info: PO Box 14355, Dinkytown 2311 http://www.nesfa.org/boskone/ Kennewick Ave., Kennewick Wa 99336 Ph: Station, Minneapolis, MN 55414-0355 http:/ Guests:Michael Swanwick, Rick Berry, Pe- 509-943-6873 http://users.owt.com/kevins/ April 20-23 Imagine Con 2000, Virginia /come.to/supercon/ ter Weston, Jordin Kare lepracon.htm Guests:Elizabeth Ann Beach, Virginia; Info: 1118 Willow Avenue, Scarborough, Betty Bigelow, Norma & Chesapeake, VA 23325 http:// February 4-6 SheVaCon VIII, Roanoke, February 18-20 Ad Astra 20, Toronto, Edgar Barrett-Lincoln www.imaginecon.com/ Guests:Ray Park, Virginia; Info: PO Box 416, Verona, VA Ontario; Info: PO Box 7276, Station A, Larry Elmore, Ed Kramer, Terrence Masson, 24482-0416 Ph: 540-886-2154 http:// Toronto, ON Canada M5W 1X9 http:// March 24-26 Lunacon 2000, Rye Brook, David Wilson, Punkie Larsen, Bill Fawcett, www.shevacon.com/ Guests:Tad Williams, terra.phys.yorku.ca/~white/adastra/ New York; Info: Lunacon 2000, PO Box Jody Lynn Nye, K’Rahja DevnoH, JulieAnn Tina “Nene” Thomas, Steve Miller, Sharon Guests:Nancy Kress, Charles Sheffield 3566, New York, NY 10008-3566 http:// Parks, Michael Fox, Countess Vladimira, Lee, Dave Arneson, Rikk Jacobs www.lunacon.org/ Guests:George Alec Candy Clark, Herb Jefferson Jr, Manon February 18-20 Stellarcon 24, High Point, Effinger, Stu Shiffman, Lisa Snellings, Bar- Kelley, Lilith Stabs, Anne Lockhart, Tom February 4-6 Pacificon 2000, Portland, North Carolina; Info: Box 4, Elliott Univer- bara Hambly Savini, Ric Frane, Brinke Stevens, R Wayt Oregon; Info: 8152 SW Hall Blvd. #413, sity Center, UNCG, Greensboro, NC 27412 Smith, Sandy Lynne, Bernie Wrightson, H.R. Beaverton, OR 97008 Ph: 336-334-3159 http://www.uncg.edu/ March 24-26 Willycon 2000, Wayne, Ne- Jacobs, Roxanne Michaels, James Hong, student.groups/sf3/stellarcon.htm braska; Info: Wayne State College SF & Richard Hatch, Dawn Marie, Todd Fischer, February 5-6 Celebrity Autograph Guests:Timothy Zahn, Aaron Allston, Fantasy Club, c/o Conn Library, Wayne, NE Paul Cashman Collector’s show, Houston, Texas; Info: Cheralyn Lambeth, Michael A. Stackpole, Bill 68787 Post Office Box 5040, Spring Hill, Florida Fawcett, Jen McCollom, William R. If there’s a convention in your area you’d like to 34611 Ph: 352-683-5110 http:// Forstchen, James Roberts, John Grigni, Simon March 24-26 Millennicon - 1, Kings Island, see listed, please send the con’s name, dates, www.hollywoodcollectorshow.com/ Guests: Hawke, Charles Keegan, Ann Melrose, Scott Ohio; Info: 143 Schloss Ln., Dayton, OH location, and contact information to Blair Learn Astronaut Walt Cunningham, Astronaut Nicholson, Jody Lynn Nye, Julie Anne Parks, 45418 Ph: 513-933-0452 http:// at 11604 King’s Arrow CT, Germantown, MD 20876 or to [email protected]. Please al- Alan Bean, Astronaut Ed Mitchell, Debra Mark Rainey, Joel Rosenberg, Allen Wold www.millennicon.org/ Guests:Connie Willis low a minimum of three months time between Paget, Herb Jefferson, Jr., Deanna Lund, your submission and the convention’s date. Page 22 • Communiqué • Issue 95 Upcoming Video Game Simon & Schuster Interactive Announces Its Second Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Submitted by Chuck Freas, Game “Dominion Wars” Vice Commander, Starfleet
NEWYORK—(ENTERTAINMENTWIRE)— Space Nine television series, in which the subsidiary of Viacom, Inc. Star Viacom Inc. is one of the world’s largest Nov. 17, 1999— Federation and its Klingon allies battled for Trek(TM), (R) and (c) 1999 Para- entertainment companies and a leading control of the Alpha Quadrant against the mount Pictures. All Rights Reserved. force in nearly every segment of the Coming in Fall 2000 for the PC, Domin- Cardassians and the invading Dominion Star Trek and all related marks are international media marketplace. The ion Wars will be a Real Time Alliance. The game is designed so that trademarks of Paramount Pictures. operations of Viacom include MTV players will experience every photon blast Networks, Paramount Pictures, Para- Strategy, Space Combat Game and phaser strike as they campaign through Simon & Schuster Interactive mount Television, Spelling Television, this epic struggle. (www.ssinteractive.com) is the con- Paramount Parks, Showtime Networks, Simon & Schuster Interactive today sumer software publishing unit of Simon & Schuster, 19 television stations, announced its plans for its second Star The player assumes control of a fleet of up to Simon & Schuster, Inc. Based in New and international theatrical exhibition Trek: Deep Space Nine(TM) game. Due six starships while providing an unprec- York, S&SI is the Codie Award operations. Viacom also owns approxi- to ship in Fall 2000 for the PC, “Domin- edented level of control over each ship for a winning publisher of the best-selling mately 80 percent of Blockbuster, as well ion Wars” will be a real -time strategy space combat game. Each mission is de- “DouglasAdams Starship Titanic” as half-interests in the Comedy Central game, focusing on tactical space combat. signed with multiple objectives, thus chal- adventure, the best-selling parody cable channel, the UPN television network Dominion Wars will be developed by Los lenging the player to come up with unique “DeerAvenger,” the award-winning and UCI, an international theatrical Angeles-based Gizmo Games, headed by strategies for victory. Game interface and Richard Scarry children’s software line exhibition chain. National Amusements, veteran game developer Gary Wagner. player controls are designed for maximum and Star Trek(TM) entertainment / Inc., a closely held corporation which ease-of-use and flexibility so as to facilitate reference titles. operates approximately 1,300 motion Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Dominion creative tactical thinking in an action setting. picture screens in the U.S., the U.K. and Wars will allow gamers simultaneous Gizmo Games is a division of Gizmo South America, is the parent company of control of up to six different ships from Ken Gordon of Simon & Schuster Interac- Industries, a Los Angeles-based Viacom. any of four different races - Federation, tive will serve as Executive Producer for games developer. Established in 1997, Klingon, Cardassian and Jem ‘Hadar in DOMINION WARS. He is also the Execu- the company and its team have Viacom Consumer Products merchandises real time combat. Players will be able to tive Producer for S&SI’s other DS9 game previously worked on titles such as properties on behalf of Paramount Pic- recruit a range of different ships and “THE FALLEN.” Ken is delighted to be Dark Reign(TM) and Mech tures, Paramount Television and Viacom captains through the use of a point system working with Gizmo Games and with the Warrior(TM). Wagner and his team Productions as well as third-party proper- and engage in both single and multi-player direction the game is taking. “In approaching come with numerous years of experi- ties. Viacom Consumer Products, a unit of battles. the DS9 license, we realized that the Domin- ence in the gaming industry. For more Viacom Entertainment Group, is a subsid- ion Wars story had the potential to be a great information on the Company, visit iary of Viacom Inc. Dominion Wars is being built using the tactical space combat game. With Gizmo, we www.gizmogames.com. QUANTUM(TM) engine, developed by feel we have the perfect team to make CONTACT: technology partner Mass Media, Inc., Dominion Wars an engaging game for both Simon & Schuster, the publishing based in Moorpark, Calif. The fans and gamers alike. Dominion Wars is operation of Viacom Inc., is a global Peter Binazeski QUANTUM(TM) engine represents the going to be a huge title for us next Christ- leader in the field of general interest state-of-the-art in real-time graphics for mas.” publishing, dedicated to providing the Simon & Schuster Interactive PC gaming, incorporating sophisticated best in fiction and nonfiction for artificial intelligence (AI) functionality. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Dominion consumers of all ages, across all 212 / 632-3544 Wars is scheduled to release in Fall of 2000 printed and multimedia formats. Its ”As long-time gamers and Star Trek fans, for the PC (Windows 98/95). divisions include Simon & Schuster e-mail: we here at Gizmo are very excited to Trade Publishing, Pocket Books, [email protected] have the opportunity to contribute another Star Trek and its marks, copyrights and Simon & Schuster Children’s Publish- great game to Simon & Schuster’s trademarks are the sole property of the ing, Simon & Schuster New Media, ongoing line-up of Star Trek products,” Viacom Consumer Products which licenses Simon & Schuster Online, Simon & said Gary Wagner, president of Gizmo and merchandises properties on behalf of Schuster U.K., and Simon & Schuster Games. Paramount Pictures, Paramount Television Australia. For more information about and Viacom Productions as well as third- Simon & Schuster, visit our website at Dominion Wars takes its title and story party properties. Viacom Consumer Prod- www.simonsays.com. line from the last few seasons of the Deep ucts, a unit of Viacom Consumer Group, is a Oct/Nov 1999 • Page 23 Science News More Science News From the Region One Sciences Report
GALILEO PROBE RESULTSSUGGEST explain the new observations of planetary collaborative campaign will measure ozone and ozone, water vapor and other trace gases in the JUPITER HADANANCIENT, CHILLYPAST systems around other stars, in which such other atmospheric gases using satellites, Arctic upper troposphere and stratosphere. close-in giant planets are relatively common.” airplanes, heavy-lift and small balloons, and NASA’s Langley Research Center, Hampton, Jupiter’s history may be much older and ”These new Galileo probe results provide new ground-based instruments. From November VA, manages the SAGE III project. Project colder than previously believed, according to insights into how planets form in the solar 1999 through March 2000, researchers will scientists will be based above the Arctic Circle newly released findings from the descent system and around other stars,” said Galileo examine the processes that control ozone at the airport in Kiruna, Sweden. “Arena probe of NASA’s Galileo spacecraft published project scientist Dr. Torrence Johnson of amounts during the Arctic winter at mid to high Arctica,” a large hangar especially built for in the Nov. 18 edition of the journal Nature. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, latitudes. ”The combined campaign will provide research, will house the aircraft and many of the ”This new information might shake up our CA. an immense new body of information about the scientific instruments. Balloons will be launched view of how the solar system formed,” said Arctic stratosphere,” said program scientist Dr. from Esrange, a balloon and rocket launch Dr. Tobias Owen, astronomy professor at the ”Measuring the composition of Jupiter’s Michael Kurylo, NASA Headquarters, Wash- facility near Kiruna. Wintertime conditions can Institute for Astronomy of the University of atmosphere was a primary scientific objective of ington, DC. “Our understanding of the Earth’s be very severe, with temperatures falling below Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, and a scientist on the probe, because we knew it could change our ozone will be greatly enhanced by this re- 50 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. theGalileo probe neutral mass spectrometer understanding of Jupiter’s formation and search.” instrument team. When Galileo arrived at evolution,” said Galileo probe project scientist The NASA-sponsored SAGE III Ozone Loss Jupiter on Dec. 7, 1995, and dropped a probe Dr. Richard Young of NASAAmes Research The Earth’s ozone layer protects life below from and Validation Experiment (SOLVE) is being into the atmosphere of the huge, gaseous Center, Moffett Field, CA. “These latest probe the harmful ultraviolet radiation coming from conducted jointly with theEuropean Commis- planet, the mass spectrometer measured the results have done exactly that, and the measure- the Sun. This radiation can damage DNA sion-sponsored Third European Stratospheric chemical composition of Jupiter’s atmosphere. ments are the sort that could only have been molecules, thereby leading to the formation of Experiment on Ozone (THESEO 2000). The spectrometer detected in Jupiter’s obtained by in-situ measurements from an skin cancers. Very low levels of ozone were More information (including a list of participat- atmosphere higher than expected concentra- entry probe.” observed over the Arctic in several winters ing institutions) can be found at: tions of argon, krypton and xenon, three during the 1990s, raising concerns that an (SOLVE) — http://cloud1.arc.nasa.gov/solve/ chemical elements called noble gases because Owen’s co-authors on the Nature article are: Arctic ozone hole might be forming. index.html and (THESEO 2000) — http:// they are very independent and don’t combine Drs. Paul Mahaffy and Hasso Niemann of Recent modeling work has suggested that www.ozone-sec.ch.cam.ac.uk with other chemicals. Tiny traces of these NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, greenhouse gas warming might lead to larger- gases are found in Earth’s atmosphere, Greenbelt, MD; Drs. Sushil Atreya and Thomas than-expected Arctic ozone losses in the future Journalists will be invited to the main field and argon is sometimes used like neon in Donahue of the University of Michigan, Ann and also may delay the expected recovery staging area in Kiruna, Sweden, for a “media advertising signs. Arbor, MI; Dr. Akiva Bar-Nun of the University of the ozone layer globally. For the first time, day” in late January 2000, when most of the of Tel Aviv, Israel; and Dr. Imke de Pater of the measurements of stratospheric composition science teams will be on hand. A newsroom will The discovery of these gases in such high University of California, Berkeley, CA.Al- over the Arctic will be made using a large suite be established near the airport during this quantities at Jupiter raises questions about though the data were collected by the Galileo of instruments aboard several European peak period, and journalists will be escorted into how they got there. “In order to catch these probe in December 1995, careful and thorough aircraft, as well as on NASA’s DC-8 and ER-2, the research area to meet with operational and gases, Jupiter had to trap them physically by analysis was necessary in Earth laboratories to based at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research scientific personnel. condensation or freezing,” Owen said. This verify the findings. Center, Edwards, CA. Balloons, carrying process, he said, requires extremely cold payloads ranging from several pounds to Hale-Bopp may have a satellite temperatures of about -240 degrees Celsius When it dropped 156 kilometers (97 miles) several thousand pounds and ground-based http://explorezone.com/archives/99_11/ (-400 degrees Fahrenheit), colder than the through Jupiter’s atmosphere, the Galileo probe instruments will also take atmospheric read- 23_hale_bopp.htm surface of Pluto, the planet farthest from the relayed data back to the main Galileo spacecraft ings. 11/23: The suggestion that comet Hale-Bopp Sun. Planetesimals (small objects orbiting the more than 209,215 kilometers (130,000 miles) might have a satelliteorbiting its nucleus, based Sun) in the Kuiper Belt beyond Pluto would overhead for storage and transmission to ”Handling all the hardware and coordinating on Hubble Space Telescope images, has be this cold, but Jupiter is more than six times Earth. The probe descended deeper into the the personnel, aircraft, balloons, and ground resurfaced amid doubts. Reporting in the current closer to the Sun and thus is much warmer. atmosphere than expected, but was finally observations involved in the campaign is an issue of Earth, Moon, and Planets, Zdenek For this reason, Jupiter could not have been overcome by Jupiter’s high temperatures and immense challenge,” said project manager Sekanina of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory writes the site where the three noble gases were pressures. Michael Craig of NASA’s Ames Research about a satellite detected by applying theoreti- originally trapped. Center, Moffett Field, CA. More than 350 cal modeling to Hubble telescope images. But The Galileo spacecraft, meanwhile, has been scientists, technicians and support workers are the scientist who supplied the images, and who ”This raises some intriguing possibilities,” orbiting Jupiter and its moons for nearly four involved in the experiment. More than 15 years has also studied them, disagrees with the new Owen said. “One explanation suggests that years, beaming back to Earth thousands of ago, scientists detected an “Ozone Hole” over findings. Jupiter was formed out in the area around the pictures and a wealth of scientific data. Its two- the South Pole that has reappeared each year Kuiper Belt and dragged inward to its present year, primary mission ended in December during the Southern Hemisphere winter and GYRO FAILURE STOPS HUBBLE’S SCIENCE location. Another possibility is that the 1997, but it was followed by the current, two- spring. Researchers from around the world WORK solar nebula, a huge cloud of gas and dust year extended mission. The Galileo Project is recognized more than a decade ago that The Hubble Space Telescope lost one of its from which our solar system formed, was managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the ozone depletion is caused primarily by man- three remaining gyroscope pointing devices on much colder than scientists believe,” he said. Pasadena, CA; the Galileo atmospheric probe is made chlorine and bromine compounds. The Saturday, bringing the observatory scientific ”A third hypothesis proposes that the solid managed by NASA Ames Research Center, chlorine compounds have been produced for work to a sudden halt until astronauts can make materials that brought these noble gases to Moffett Field, CA. Further information and use as refrigerants, aerosol sprays, solvents repairs on a shuttlemission next month. The Jupiter began forming in the original huge, images about the Galileo mission to Jupiter are and foam blowing agents, while bromine- telescope is not in any immediate danger, but interstellar cloud of gas and dust even before available on the Internet at: containing halons have been used in fire is unable to point itself for scientific observa- it collapsed to form the solar nebula. That http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo extinguishing. Man-made production of tions. A full report will appear on our Breaking would make these icy materials older and more chlorofluorocarbons ceased in 1996 in devel- News page shortly. primitive than we had expected,” he said. ”If INTERNATIONALSCIENCETEAMTO oped countries under the terms of the Montreal FULL STORY: http://www.astronomynow.com/ either of the last two hypotheses proves to be EXAMINEARCTICOZONE Protocol and its Amendments. Scientists also breaking.html correct, it would suggest that giant planets NASA scientists are joining researchers from will take measurements that will be useful in can form closer to their stars than current Europe, Russia, Canada and Japan to mount the validating data from an instrument called SAGE theories predict,” Owen said. “This could help largest field-measurement campaign ever to III aboard the Russian Meteor-3 satellite. Once assess ozone amounts and changes in the the spacecraft is launched, SAGE III will Arctic upper atmosphere this winter. This measure the vertical structure of aerosols, THE FINAL WORD TThehe F Finalinal W Worord...d...
RAdm. Mandi Herrmann, Vice Chief of Communications/Communique’
Greetings! Well, this is my first issue of to speak when it comes to Fleet service. have wonderful parents and relatives who my life is. I’m not trying to make anyone the STARFLEET Communiqué. Yes, I am Yes, that does make me certifiably crazy! love me. I have friends I’ve known most jealous. I just want you to sit back and entirely insane for taking on this task. I’d During this time of the year, I can’t of my life who genuinely care for me, who think of five things for which you can give like to thank Gordon for having the faith help but reflect on all the things for which make me laugh, who let me cry, and who thanks. Most of us are very blessed. and confidence in me to select me for this I can give thanks. Americans generally will offer advice or admonition if needed. There are too many things we take for position. Let me give you a little back- celebrate Thanksgiving in November, and Oh, and I have two wonderful dogs who granted in this life. Now, I know there are ground on myself just in case you’ve our Canadian neighbors to the North provide amusement and comfort anytime I those in this organization who are hurting, forgotten who I am during my brief ab- celebrate it in October. I was just re- need it. And of course, I have a great who are struggling, and who aren’t as sence from action. I’ve been in ‘Fleet for cently in a car accident (a lady in an SUV group of friends in a wild and crazy, but fortunate as others of us may be. And for 9.5 years. I’m currently Commanding plowed into the back of my red Mustang). caring group called STARFLEET. that, as we head into the holiday season, Officer of the USS Rutledge in Region Nobody was hurt, however, but my car And then, I have my health (this time we need to remember three very important One. I’ve been part of the Smith/Freas did receive quite a bit of damage. Too last year I was recovering from knee words that so many of us learned from administration since the beginning. I many people tend to look on the negative surgery, so I’m thankful to be walking this watching a classic Trek episode: “Let Me started out as Vice Chief of CompOps for side of things and would just focus on the time this year), faith in God, food to eat, a Help.” Take care and see you in sixty! Membership Processing. Then, I served as damage. However, I try to maintain a climate-controlled house to live in, a warm Academy Commandant through March of positive outlook and thank God that my bed at night, running water, and working this year. However, the software company fiancé and I in my car and the lady and phone service. I have full-time employ- I work for promoted me, and I took a her daughter in the SUV were not injured. ment at a great company and actually position traveling the US as a software Sure it’ll be a hassle tangling with insur- enjoy my work. I have a working auto- trainer. During that time I did get to meet ance companies and body shops, but in mobile (albeit a banged-up one). And, I many of you in various locations around the the end, I still have my health. even have a fairly reliable Internet service United States. Well, my life is ever chang- I’m also thankful for my family and provider. And I’m sure that’s just the tip ing so it seems, and I then got transferred loved ones in my life. Some of you may of all the things I have to be thankful for. to another department at work, so I’m no have heard by now, but I just recently Now, why did I just babble on to you longer traveling on a regular basis. I’m became engaged to a really great guy and about all the things I have to be thankful now able to get a “piece of the action” so will be getting married July of 2000. I for? I’m not trying to rub it in how good USS RutledgeFour Year Anniversary Party RAdm. Mandi Herrmann, Commanding Officer, USS Rutledge The USS Rutledge celebrated her fourth Everyone had a great time and we’re birthday in October, and as any good looking forward to the next four years! Starfleet chapter would do, they threw a party. Other than the Rutledge members in attendance, the SS Lewis B. Puller Bill Herrmann and Mike Smith look at the certificate for Bill’s showed up in force, as well as Region One promotion to Commodore. Senior Captain (NC/SC) Marlon Ragsdale. Meanwhile, Billy Powell, Security Chief of the Puller (far left) and On hand was a special guest who we all David Horner, XO of the Rutledge know loves to travel to attend any fleet (far right) enjoy the party. party: FAdm Mike Smith. The party started out in traditional fashion… eating! We grilled out hamburgers, hotdogs, and served up a variety of desserts (mmm…. cheesecake) and plenty of side dishes. The evening’s biggest surprise was when FAdm Mike Smith presented Bill Herrmann with a promotion to Commo- dore. Bill was the first CO of the Rutledge and currently serves as her Ops Officer as well as Director of Operation:Eagle. Everyone there knew Just in case you forgot who he was... about the promotion except for Bill. It was He’s Mike Smith. probably one of the best-kept secrets in Mike Smith practices his “service” to the members this part of Region One! After eating, we of Starfleet by taking charge of the grill and making sure everyone’s food was properly all watched game one of the World Series prepared. (go Yankees) and played Sci-fi charades.