There’s a New Starship on Earth - Literally! CDR Doug Hogan • Shuttle Maverick, R3 Other than your architecture, is there anything that makes your restaurant special? This is a fun destination. We offer a wide variety of food but we also offer lots of activities to do. Along with miniature golf, we’ve got one of the best 129 gaming systems around. JULY 2005/ I noticed your X-Box wall. AUGUST 2005 We’ve got multiple fl at-screen X-Box systems, arcade games, and the ability to project the games on the outside of the dome, resulting in a unique gaming experience! We also have astronomy lectures and even a puppet show for the little ones. We realize our customers’ interests are varied so we try to have something for just about everyone. The proposed complex has educational features. How important is that to the overall design of the Pegasus? It’s very important. We want to offer a place to challenge kids’ creativity. Kids need to be able to “think outside the box” and not get bogged down in just learning how to do a certain kind of academic test. We want to help expand their imagination, so yes, the concept of education is very important to us. Have you had contact with Sci-Fi fans? Andy Gee and his wife, Janne, have gone “…where kinds of entrees available, from pizzas to hot and We’ve had lots of coverage in the local media no one has gone before.” They’ve gone into the cold subs, to wraps, to salads. We can offer when we opened last winter and we’ve had some restaurant business in their very own starship! customers a wider variety of dishes on our menu, interesting e-mails from our website. We’ve had The Starship Pegasus is a space-themed restaurant along with different kinds of fun activities. people travel from some pretty far away places located just south of Dallas on I-35, in Italy, Texas. to come see us. We’ve also been in contact I’ve been watching their business grow via their Do you plan on Pegasus being a franchise? with Eugene Roddenberry about his upcoming internet site (http://www.starshippegasus.com) We’re looking into that. There is a company that movie ‘Trek Nation.’ Of course, we’d love to see and recently stopped by with my daughter to is interested in the concept that we’ve been talking more fans stop in, especially if they’re going to interview them for the Communiqué. Over a lunch to and our future is wide open! We’re looking the STARFLEET International Conference. We’re of meatball subs and huge wrap sandwiches, the forward to the second phase of our project, which probably right on the way. Gees were kind enough to visit with us, Janne in is building the adjoining space complex, featuring a person, Andy via phone. museum, technology and robotics displays, lecture Is there anything you’d like to say to the hall, and a space camp, all in domed buildings Communiqué readers? How long has the Starship Pegasus resembling planets. Come on in! View the website and drop us a line. Restaurant been open? We opened the week before Christmas and have Who came up with the idea for the design? How can people contact the Starship been working hard to continue to add things to Andy has always been interested in architecture Pegasus? eat, see, and do. Our most recent addition is the and monolithic domes. He took his skills in Our website is: Lunar miniature golf course right outside, and of real estate and combined the architecture and http://www.starshippegasus.com course, our menu is always being updated. We’ve engineering and came up with Starship Pegasus. and our address is: got a really good recipe for chicken fi ngers that Starship Pegasus we’re going to work into a new dish coming out Does the shape of the building help in the 100 Kinfolk Lane next week called ‘Alien fi ngers.’ costs of the construction? Italy, Texas, 76651. The domed shape not only helps keep heating and Our phone number is (972) 483-7755. I’ve been watching the growth of the cooling down, but the initial construction costs are Pegasus on the internet. Were there any less and it is cheaper to maintain in the long run. We’re open 11-9 on Monday through Saturday. problems you had getting set up? The shape is incredibly tornado resistant and really Trek on down to see us! One of our challenges is competition. In our opens up the space available inside. We’re just area there are a couple of new restaurants that down the road from the Monolithic Dome Institute More pictures on page 3! have opened up but one of our strengths is our (http://www.monolithic.com) where they offer fl exibility. If our customers ask for a certain dish, workshops and conferences to people from all we’ll look into it and see what we can do about over the world. adding it to the menu. We have lots of different SSTARFLEETTARFLEET SSTARFLEETTARFLEET 112929 112929 STARFLEET Communiqué CONTENTS Volume I, No. 129 Published by: USS HAISE CELEBRATES 10 YEARS! 3 STARFLEET, The International STARSHIP PEGASUS PICS 3 USS STAR RUNNER... 4 Star Trek Fan Association, Inc. 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Crew of the USS Alioth/NCC-72383, Region 17 (Taken May 13, 2005 by RADM Keira Strong) 2 JUNE/JULY 2005 - ISSUE 129 • STARFLEET COMMUNIQUÉ STARSHIP PEGASUS Top left: The front of Starship Pegasus Center left: The dining room Bottom left: Mini golf course Top right: Workstations Center right: Aliens welcome visitors to the restaurant. Bottom right: Model of what the expansion is planned to look like. USS HAISE CELEBRATES 10 YEARS! CAPT Lucy Ferron, CO • USS Haise, R2 The crew of the USS Haise, NCC-74664, ship’s logo screened on top. A special gathered for a celebratory dinner in honor congratulatory message from Apollo 13 of the tenth anniversary of the ship on astronaut Fred Haise was sent to the April 26, 2005.