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Hailing Frequencies August 2015 CENTER SEAT Greetings from the bridge. Congratulations on making it through the summer heat of August! For many of us it has been a rather brutal summer. As we enter September I have ordered the environmental controls set so there is just the briefest hint of fall in the air for the morning shift. We continue to perform well, this month, we held our crew briefing and enjoyed a movie “Tomorrow- land” as our fun activity. As cooler weather approaches our chapter usually began to travel at a higher warp we have several large scale activities on the horizon. Dragon Con, several meetings and fun activities, such as planning for Star Treks Fifty Year event, building our float for the annual Christmas parade, our annual gift wrap for charity at Barnes and Noble and the Food Drive in conjunction with the opening of the new Star Wars Movie. There are also new opportunities that I will cover under Regional news. You are a great crew and it is a privilege to represent you Carnell Fleet level news: Our Fleet Level project (The Trimble Project: to have the chapters submit question to John and Bjo about their role in saving the series and their work with the show and fandom) has exceeded its deadline with very few chap- ters responding. This was a great project and it is not over yet. We did run into problems getting this project out of space dock at the very start. STARFLEET was slowed down tremendously by injuries to our Commander, also the main source of communicating to the fleet the Communique had fallen behind. This combined with so many other things fighting for the attention of our membership one can see the project stalling. Note: The Trimble Project is not over though: Admiral Krell is working with Linda Smith a published author to see how this project can continue in another format. Please do not see this as a failure, The Trimble’s are deeply loved by the Star Trek & STARFLEET Community and re- spect that the show and by proxy we as an organization would not exist without their efforts. Second item: Electronic Communique (E- membership ) versus higher dues at the STAR- FLEET level: At the International Conference the subject of the issues with the STAR- FLEET Communique came up: (Please remember this is done by volunteers) mainly the cost to the organization of the printed and mailed CQ. With many members switching to the cheaper e-membership (ten dollars versus twenty) the cost of forty thousand dollars a year for the paper version is no longer sustainable for the Fleet without raising the cost for paper memberships. I will keep you updated as this issue progresses. Chapter Participation opportunities: Dessert Party (Crew has approved) Note T-Shirt Image is a proposal not Final CO is hosting two games and could use the crews help in de- veloping these and hosting! R1 Video Contest Is this something we want to do again? What are some concepts? We are please to announce the return of the R1 Video Contest for Summit 2016! We’d love to see what your crew can do. Just to broaden everyone’s chances, we’ve added some new categories and awards: Short Film: Time limit 15 minutes- This would be scripted entries, mini-movies, documentaries, etc. (Examples: The Exandables; Destination Bigfoot Hunters Quest) Dance/Music Video: Time limit ~5 minutes- Make a music or dance video such as “Heimdal Style” or “Let’s Do the Heimwarp”! Lip-synching allowed! Note: Some songs may run over 5 minutes in length, but all attempts should be made to stay in that range due to time constraints. Advertisement or Commercial: Time limit 1 minute- this allows your crew to peddle their favorite product, preview their movie or whatever you can do in a minute! Examples of this would be some of the great “channel-surfing” segments in the USS Star League’s video from Summit 2014. Rules have been emailed to the crew: We will discuss at our next Crew Briefing! With school starting please watch out for school buses and children waiting on the side of the roads. COOKING WITH NEELIX Boston Cream Pie Poke Cake A u t h o r : J a r e n INGREDIENTS 1 box yellow cake mix plus ingredients to make cake 1 3.5 oz. instant vanilla pudding mix 2 cups milk 1 14 oz. can sweetened condensed milk F r o s t i n g 1½ sticks butter, softened ¾ cup cocoa powder ½ cup boiling water 1 tsp vanilla 5 cups powdered sugar INSTRUCTIONS Bake cake according to box mix directions in a 13 x 9 pan. While cake is in the oven, mix pudding mix with 2 cups of milk. Whisk until combined and let sit for 2 minutes or until thickened. Whisk again for a few seconds. Whisk in sweetened condensed milk. MIXTURE WILL BE THINNER THAN PUDDING. THIS IS OKAY SINCE YOU WILL LET IT SET UP IN THE REFRIGERATOR. Remove cake from oven and poke several holes with the handle of a wooden spoon. Pour pudding mixture all over cake filling all the holes and letting it completely cover the cake. Let it sit until cooled (about 1 hour). Make frosting by adding softened butter to a large mixing bowl. Add cocoa powder. Carefully pour in boiling water. Add vanilla and beat for about 1 minute or until combined. Gradually add in powdered sugar beating after every few cups added. Beat until smooth. Frost cake and refrigerate until ready to serve. BEST REFRIGERATED OVERNIGHT. NOTES: *Pudding mixture will be thin, and that is okay. This will allow the cake to real- ly soak in the mixture. It will also thicken as the cake refrigerates. Cover your air conditioner: If you can’t remove your window unit, consider covering it both inside and out. Besides protecting your air-conditioning unit, these September Birthday’s covers also help keep cold air from entering your home through the space around the air-conditioner and can be 8th Lucille Skipper a great way to lower utility bills. 29th Carnell Eubanks Pluto team name features after Dr Who and Star Trek By Paul Sutherland on July 29, 2015 3:40 pm / 5 Comments NASA’S New Horizons team have named newly discovered landmarks on Pluto’s largest moon in honour of scifi shows including Doctor Who and Star Trek. Four images from New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) were combined with colour data from the Ralph instrument to create this enhanced colour global view of Pluto, with the TARDIS then added. Pluto Image Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI A large dark region on the moon, Charon, has been dubbed Gallifrey Macula, after the Doc- tor’s fictional home planet. And a neighbouring rift is now called Tardis Chasma by the team that sent their robotic probe flying past Pluto on 14 July. A large plain on Charon has been labelled Vulcan Planum, and craters within it given the names Kirk, Spock, Sulu and Uhura, from Star Trek. Other craters on Charon are now called Skywalker, (Leia) Organa and Vader after leading characters in Star Wars, while another has the name Ripley, from Alien. Darth Vader’s crater is suitably darker than the others. Others to be honoured include Stanley Kubrick, who made the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey, and Douglas Adams, who wrote The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Cont. next page On Pluto itself, several features have been named after important spacecraft, including two hills now known as Challenger Colles and Columbia Colles in memory of the two space shuttles that were destroyed in flight, killing 14 astronauts. A large crater is now dubbed Burney after 11-year-old English girl Venetia Burney who sug- gested Pluto for the distant world when it was first spotted in 1930. A mountain range is be- ing called Hillary Montes, in honour of Sir Edmund Hillary, who led the first expedition to the summit of Everest in 1952. The New Horizons team had earlier announced they were calling another range of mountains after his Nepalese sherpa, Tenzing Norgay. The new names were some of the most popular choices in a public campaign organised by NASA, in conjunction with the International Astronomical Union. The IAU, which officially regulates astronomical names, must now ratify the decisions. Now read how one astronomer announced a major cosmic discovery by writing a Doctor Who story! end 'Star Trek' Actress Nichelle Nichols to Take Part in NASA Mission By MICHAEL ROTHMANAugust 4, 2015 10:45 AMGood Morning America 'Star Trek' Actress Nichelle Nichols to Take Part in NASA Mission (ABC News) "Star Trek" icon Nichelle Nichols revealed Monday during a Reddit AMA that she will be involved in an up- coming NASA mission. "In September, I’m traveling on a NASA SOFIA flight, a second generation Airborn Observatory, which I am honored to have been invited too," she told fans before her "Ask Me Anything" began. SOFIA stands for Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, where Nichols will be part of the crew in the aircraft that will study Earth's atmosphere, among other things, from the sky. Read: 'Star Trek' Star Nichelle Nichols Suffers Mild Stroke The sad part was Nichols won't be heading into space. "SOFIA does not, sadly, fly into space. It's an airborne observatory, a massive telescope mounted inside a 747 flying as high as is possible. I was on a similar flight, the first airborn observatory, back in 1977. It's an amaz- ing experience, you get a totally different perspective than from earth," she wrote.
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