OLUME 3 NUMBER 1 FEBRUARY, 1992 THE WRIGHT STUFF THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE U.S.S. KITTY HAWK NCC 1659 CONVENTIONS PRO OR CON THE WRIGHT STUFF VOLUME 3 CONTENTS NUMBER I A VIEW FROM THE CATBIRD SEAT FIRST OFFICER'S LOG 2 SECOND OFFICER'S LOG 2 CHIEF ENGINEER'S LOG 2 JUST ANOTHER DAY IN PARADISE' 3 THE AIR AND SPACE FORAY 3 WRIGHT ERIN GO BRAGH 4 DOIN' THE CON THING AGAIN 4 STUFF 10-FORWARD SPECIALS 4 VOLUME 3 NO. 1 AWAY TEAM REPORT 5 is a publication of the U.S.S. Kitty LOVE IS 5 Hawk, the Raleigh, N.C. chapter of STARFLEET, an international STAR CLASSIFIED!!!! TOP SECRET 5 TREK fan organization. This publication is provided free of charge, to TRIVIA TEST 5 all chapter members in good standing. Subscriptions for non-members are $8.00 per year (six issues). Please address all correspondence to CATBIRD Publications, 5017 Glen Forest Dr., Raleigh, N.C. 27612. This publication is a non-profit enterprise and is not meant to infringe upon any copyright or trademark held by Paramount Pictures, CREDITS Gulf & Western, or any other holder of STARTREK copyrights or trademarks. PUBLISHER J. R. FISHER Unless otherwise noted, ENTIRE EDITOR JANE FISHER CONTENTS ARE COPYRIGHT 1992 ASSISTANTS AND CONTRIBUTERS LYNETTE CROWLEY CATBIRD Publications/THE WRIGHT J.R. FISHER STUFF. Nothing in whole or in part JEFF HABRYCH may be used without the written PAT HEINSKE permission of the publisher. THE DEBORAH HERNDON WRIGHT STUFF assumes all material CAREY MUSE submitted for publication is gratis. The LARRY PISCHKE publisher and editors reserve the right to LIZ READ edit all submissions. ELAINE ROYAL TERESA TUEL 6 F .11E7 4:44.010. TOOL BOX: Dramen 386/25; Hewlett Packard LaserJet III; Logitech Scanman Plus; WordPerfect; Logitech Ansel Image Editing Software. 473.1SWI, A VIEW FROM THE CATBIRD S SEAT By J. R. Fisher If you haven't already heard, FAN because it will make it easier to do, have an idea for an activity we haven't OUT has been cancelled! NO MORE! which it will; but because then we will thought of, speak up. This is an GONE! all have fun. opportunity for everyone on the ship to Such is the life of conventions. If you This is one of the few major cities in learn something and have a good time. have been attending cons for 10 or more the east to not have a Star Trek Enough on that for now. years, then you have probably noticed a convention done by fandom. We can I would remind you that you need to great deal of change in their flavor. change that. By starting small and check your Communique for the This will vary according to the type of growing at a steady pace, we can expiration date on your STARFLEET con ( science fiction, Star Trek, gaming, become a good con, a fun con, and a membership. Also, it will be March fantasy, etc.), where it is located and if popular con. Trek is not going away. when you read this, so it is time to pay it is a professional con or a fan con. Those of us on the Kitty Hawk may drift your dues on the Kitty Hawk. We Which brings us to our topic. away from all of this over the coming haven't mentioned them before now We have a Creation Con here in years. But we will be replaced by new because everyone seems to be spent out Raleigh on March 15th. Our people discovering what you and I from Christmas. Hopefully everyone has participation is limited to a recruiting already know about Trek. recovered by now, but if you find table and maybe a couple of security Whether we do a con in part or yourself still in a bind, please contact me people. The cost at the door will be independently, we do need to get the privately and we will see if arrangements $16.00. If you want a table in the message of Trek back to the people in can be made; otherwise, we assume you dealers' room, one table is $225.00. All this area. They have been burned don't wish to maintain your membership. this for a six hour con in which you will repeatedly by the conventions and that Our dues are $24.00 per year with new hear the guest speak, get an autograph has hurt the image of all organized and members joining later than January (maybe), see some bloopers, get the unorganized Star Trek fans. We need to getting a prorated fee. If you have been latest Trek news, and spend your money show these people that we are not money attending meetings, you are exercising a with the dealers or at an auction. grabbing profiteers with a dog and pony privilege for which you are expected to The con in December was roundly show. But that we see a future that is pay. Please make checks payable to criticized for not having any bright and desirable and more U.S.S. Kitty Hawk and we would like entertainment other than bloopers, our importantly obtainable. Obtainable, if them before the end of March. auction, our beloved fleet admiral doing we start now to fashion that world we If you attend M.O.C., we may be trivia, and the opportunity to spend your want for our descendants, by changing launching a shuttle there with Steve Cox money: These same complaints were in one person at a time until the whole as the C.O. great evidence at the con in January of world sees the dream. Please be on time for the P.B.S. '91, and at the Creation Con last spring. Now, I know that all of the above telethon and if you have not signed up I Our question is: Do you want to sounds mighty pompous and supercilious am sure we could use you and it is continue our limited participation in and maybe it is considering our meager always a lot of fun. these professional cons (sorry, I don't efforts thus far. We could devote most It has been suggested by the N.C. think they were professionally done, just of our time and energy this year to this Department of Transportation that we totally profit motivated) or do we want endeavor and it may well fall on its face have a highway clean-up on or about to 1) stay away from them as a group; as far as public response and monies April 4th, O.K.? or 2) become major players in these cons raised for charities. But we will have by providing the entertainment for some done something, and we will have had sort of compensation? Do we want to do fun doing it. a con ourselves? These are questions to After all, isn't that why we meet as a the crew as a crew. It is not group? Surely, all of you are not my STARFLEET's position, the Kitty fan club who come to these meetings just Hawk's position, or my position to ever to hear me talk. Not everyone is going say to you that you as an individual to want to do the same things and that is should or should not support someone the way it should be. If there is else's convention. But if we choose to something you want to participate in, but do a con as a ship then every one of us maybe not direct it, volunteer yourself to needs to get behind it 100 %. Not the person who is directing it. If you THE WRIGHT STUFF PAGE 1 FEBRUARY, 1992 FIRST OFFICER'S LOG By Teresa Tuel Star Trek is coming to the National Air 5:30 P.M. daily. For more information area. Good, comfortable walking shoes and Space Museum of the Smithsonian call (9 A.M. - 5 P.M. daily) (202) 357- are a must for this trip. Institute, Washington, D.C. The exhibit 2700. STAMPEDE will open February 28, 1992, and run to It takes approximately 5 hours to drive We are still collecting postage stamps September, 1992. The exhibit examines from Durham, N.C. to Washington for charity. Please leave a 1/2 - 1 inch in retrospect the historical, political, (traveling with traffic which may be border around the stamps. I am social, and cultural issues and themes of doing warp 7-8). The exhibit is free, collecting and sorting the stamps for the the 1960's that were incorporated into leaving the major cost to be food. I ship. We have collected over 500 the weekly shows. Free admission. The would suggest a packed breakfast/lunch stamps already. Thank you for all the museums are open from 10:00 A.M. to and have dinner outside of the D.C. donations. SECOND OFFICER'S LOG By Carey Muse First of all I would like to join Captain Choice. They have done this before never seen. Again, the release date on Fisher and First Officer Tuel in thanking with the GODFATHER PART III which this is in March. If you are that much a everyone for coming out and being a was a director's cut and it showed new fan of Star Trek you will probably want part of Trek-A-Rama. We may scenes from the GODFATHER. They to buy it. experience some fallout because of the will be continuing this in March with I would like to extend my convention, but I think on the whole two directors, one of which I have congratulations to Pat Heinske on his everybody who worked the convention forgotten, but the other one will be recent award and promotion.