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U.S.S. CHESAPEAKE 15 Fifteenth Anniversary Publication of the U.S.S. Chesapeake Star Trek and Science-Fiction Club June, 2006 Star Trek animated adventures beam to DVD -- finally! You say your Star Trek DVD collection is November 21. There is no word yet on nearly complete? All you need is the animated whether the set will include any extras, but it episodes? Well, your time is at hand! will feature all 22 episodes of the series. After years of speculation, it finally looks A production of animation house Filma- like the animated adventures featuring Kirk, tion, Star Trek: The Animated Series aired Spock, McCoy and the rest of the original cast between 1973 and 1974. Most of the original Star Trek: The may soon be released. cast and characters were featured in the series, Animated Series is “As silly as the uniforms may seem on which was overseen by Gene Roddenberry. expected to be avail- able in DVD stores that art, it's all been used before,” noted Dorothy Fontana was an associate producer on November 21. David Lambert, who posted artwork of the and story editor, and script writers included VHS and LaserDisc editions of the animated Larry Niven and Walter Koenig. Star Trek show for comparison with the new Box art for the release can be found on the cover art. TVShowsOnDVD website. “As to the design of the ship, it’s a new While visiting Jerusalem, William graphic inserted into this composition.” Shatner (who played Captain Kirk in Classic Lambert felt it would have been a better idea Trek) reiterated his hope that helping Israeli to use the image of the ship from the Laser- and Palestinian children with therapeutic Disc cover art, but added: “It really doesn’t horse riding will lead to dialogue toward matter WHAT the box art looks like. Trek- peace, reported TrekToday.com. kies everywhere (myself included) should be “We know that the use of a horse in their dancing around the room because the series therapy takes them beyond their handicapped is FINALLY coming to DVD!” body, their injured body, and into another According to the website TVShowsOn area of health,” Shatner told the CanadaEast. DVD.com, Star Trek: The Animated Series com website. could be released in November. He hopes to raise $10 million along with Although no public announcement has the Jewish National Fund for riding programs been made yet by Paramount Home Enter- in Israel, and said that Jordanians and Egyp- tainment, TVShowsOnDVD’s David Lambert tians as well as Palestinians and Israelis will be IN THIS ISSUE: said the site has heard from industry sources invited to participate in sending disabled Art Credits 3 Club Members that DVD retailers have heard a street date of children to ride. Insert front Coming Events 6 Captain’s Log 2 Talk about Shore Leave 28 at the next meeting! Directions to Meeting The June meeting of the U.S.S. Chesa- fellow club members are up to and the latest Insert front Holodictation 6 peake Star Trek and Science-Fiction Club will news regarding Star Trek and other science- Meeting Minutes be held on Saturday, June 17, at the Hard fiction television shows and movies. Insert back Times Cafe located in College Park, Maryland. Do you need to get directions to be able to Rantings 5 Reflections 4 We’ll gather at 5:00 p.m. for dinner, fol- travel to the June meeting? Then you should Science Trek 3 lowed by our club meeting, which will begin be sure to check out the insert that you can no later than 7:00 p.m. We’ll talk about the download to your computer from our online upcoming Shore Leave 28 convention, what Yahoo! Group. Volume 15, Issue 6 CAPTAIN’S LOG: Wine, women and Scotty Getting back to my 40th anniversary look the Greek god Apollo during “Who Mourns at the original crew of the starship Enterprise, for Adonais?” I’m reminded yet again of something that has The chief engineer took a season to heal helped make Star Trek into an international up, and he finally tried to get lucky in love phenomenon. with Lieutenant Mira Romaine. Just his luck, When I started watching Trek back in the she got taken over by noncorporal aliens 1970s, I noticed that the show’s characters called “The Lights of Zetar.” were a diverse group, but they had at least one Is it any wonder Scotty stuck to his tech- thing in common: a passion for their roles in nical journals during the movies? boldly going where no man had gone before. Of course, mentioning Mister Scott’s It’s easy to see that drive in each of the Big technical journals brings me to a defining Three, but I was interested to see it extend to moment for the character, which for me took many other crew members, particularly the place during “The Trouble With Tribbles.” vessel’s chief engineer. I have to give writer David Gerrold credit. Certainly, Montgomery Scott’s primary In that episode, he took the main characters of passion was for his ship, and make no mistake Star Trek, boiled them down to their essences about it: He definitely considered the Enter- and made them hilarious! That wasn’t an easy prise HIS ship. task, especially for a drama series in the 1960s. That guy in the captain’s chair? He was Add Scotty’s love for his ship to his affec- just the driver. It was Scotty who knew every tion for alcohol, mix in a few surly Klingons, bolt and circuit in the starship, and he also and you have the bar fight from “Tribbles,” knew just what the vessel was capable of. when the chief engineer was dispatched to Copyright 2006 U.S.S. Chesapeake But a strength of the character was that he Deep Space Station K-7 to keep the peace NCC-9102, a was much more than a brilliant engineer and between the crews of the Enterprise and a not-for-profit organization. even a great commander, aspects I’ve dis- Klingon battle cruiser. We all know how well All rights reserved, cussed at length in previous columns. that turned out! including Scotty was very much like the actor who The scene in which the Klingons hurl reproducing parts of this document. brought him to life – Jimmy Doohan – in that insults at the crew was a howl from start to he played many roles aboard the NCC 1701. finish. “We’re big enough to take a few Check out our club For example: insults,” Mister Scott told Chekov when the website: www. usschesapeake.org Hard-drinking barfly: Forget that synthetic ensign wanted to respond to comparisons of stuff in The Next Generation. Mister Scott was his captain with a Denebian slime devil. The opinions fond of the real thing, and I’m not talking But then, the ridicule turned to the Enter- expressed in this publication do not about Coca-Cola. prise, which was deemed worthy of hauling necessarily represent That aspect of his personality got him in garbage. those of the trouble during “Wolf in the Fold,” when Jack “Don’t ya think ya should … rephrase entire club. the Ripper set up the chief engineer to take the that?” Scotty asked, visibly angry. “Star Trek,” fall for his actions during one of the scariest “Yer right. I should,” the Klingon replied. “Star Trek: The Next Trek episodes ever. “The Enterprise should be hauled away AS Generation,” “Star Trek: Deep Space On the other hand, the drive to imbibe garbage!” Nine,” “Star Trek: came in handy when the Kelvans hijacked the Engulfed with rage, Mister Scott slowly Voyager,” and “Star Trek: Enterprise,” Enterprise in “By Any Other Name.” While stood up and knocked his tormentor into next as well as the terms Kirk was duking it out with one of the invad- week. The comedy of that scene was only “starship” and ers and McCoy was “stimulating” another, matched by the conversation in which the “starship Enterprise,” are registered Scotty did what no one on the E-D could: He sheepish engineer later explained the punch to trademarks of drank his opponent under the table! his befuddled captain. Paramount Pictures Head-over-heels romantic: While the ship Rare is the show that can handle comedy Corporation. All rights reserved. was always Mister Scott’s first love, his eye as well as space battles, but Star Trek and its Absolutely no occasionally wandered to crew members of beloved chief engineer did both deftly, one of infringement on the fairer sex. The results were always explosive. the things the Enterprise’s “miracle worker” these rights is intended. Scotty got a crush on Lieutenant Carolyn did so well that we’re still talking about it 40 Palamas and what happened? He wound up years later! COMSTAR, page 2 on the receiving end of a lightning bolt from Captain Randy Hall SCIENCE TREK: Nanometers, miles and parsecs -- oh, my! Perhaps you recall the Rams-Titan Super Earth (1799) to 1,650,763.73 times the wave- Bowl XXXIV. Mike Dyson tackles an out- length of light from Krypton-86 (1960) to the stretched Kevin Dyson one yard shy of the end distance light travels in 1/299,792,458 seconds zone as the game ends. Rams win, 23-16. One (1983). The actual length changed little, just yard, 36 inches, 0.0000000000000000967 light the definition for precision and repeatability of years. the measure. It’s been a long time since we’ve talked Inches, yards and meters are fine for distances.

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