The Lucky Sevens The Official Newsletter of the 7th Brigade Starfleet Marine Corps A Division of STARFLEET The International Star Trek Fan Association Volume 4 Issue 1 Page1 January 2006 The Lucky Sevens The Official Newsletter of the 7th Brigade, SFMC In This Issue: 7th Brigade Command Staff • Brigade Command Staff Reports 7th Brigade OIC MGen Larry Niegut • Brigade Support Staff Reports [email protected] • Battalion OIC Reports • 2005 Was SCI FI's Best Yet 7th Brigade DOIC General Tony Rowley • A Future For Futurama? [email protected] • DC Superhero Stamps Coming • Kirk To Return In Mirror Trek? 7th Brigade Aide de Camp Brigadier James Pepe • Pirates 3 Will Shoot In Summer [email protected] • Potter Outsells All In 2005 • Potter Scam Targets Fans 7th Brigade Sergeant Major Vacant • Potter V Seeks Its Lovegood • SCI FI To Air New Doctor Who • SCI FI To Air Night Stalker 7th Brigade Support Staff • Stewart: Too Old For More Trek? 7th Brigade Communications Director • Trek Rumors Denied Brigadier Joseph C Dorffner Jr [email protected] • WB Nets Its Aquaman • Whedon: No More Firefly 7th Brigade Electronic Services Officer Colonel Sean Neimeyer • Conventions in Region Seven [email protected] Assistant Editor - “The Lucky Sevens” Lt Colonel Keith J Keppley [email protected] The Lucky Sevens is published electronically six 7th Brigade Quartermaster (6) times per calendar year, during odd-numbered MGen Martin Lessem months. All submissions regarding the 7th Brigade are [email protected] welcome, and may be submitted to the 7th Brigade Com- munications Director electronically at [email protected] (please put “Newsletter Sub- mission” in the subject line of your e-mail). Deadlines are normally the 20th of even-numbered months. Opinion articles do not necessarily represent the Battalion OICs views of The Lucky Sevens or the 7th Brigade Com- OIC 1st Battalion (DE) OIC 2nd Battalion (DC) mand Staff. Vacant BGen Shirley Weaver Star Trek and related names and titles are trade- [email protected] marks of Paramount Pictures, a Viacom company. Any artwork is copyrighted by their artists. The use of any OIC 3rd Battalion (MD) OIC 4th Battalion (NJ) Brigadier Joseph C Dorffner Jr Colonel Mike Stein said items is not intended to portray a claim of ownership. [email protected] [email protected] The Lucky Sevens is copyright ©2004 by the 7th Bri- gade, Starfleet Marine Corps, a division of STARFLEET, OIC 5th Battalion (NY) OIC 6th Battalion (PA) the International Star Trek Fan Association. Brigadier Kyle Wolf Colonel Jonathan Slavin [email protected] [email protected] Page2 January 2006 The Lucky Sevens The Official Newsletter of the 7th Brigade, SFMC gade have formed a team and will be there. Brigade Command Staff Reports 4th Battalion OIC Report Brigade OIC’s Report Colonel Mike Stein BGen Larry Niegut Greetings everyone, I hope everyone had a No report received. safe and Happy Holiday Season. A couple of weeks ago my CO came across an outstanding Brigade DOIC’s Report paintball game that is to be held in June Gen Tony Rowley 2006. This has the makings of an exciting full sce- No report received. nario game, which is entitled NJ Nam! "The Fall of Saigon." Brigade Sergeant Major’s Report I encourage everyone to please check this Vacant out further at http://www.pyropaintball.org. I fully understand paintball isn't for everyone for various reasons. However, this does look like it might be a Brigade Support Staff fun way for everyone to have a good time to- gether. I know there are a lot of people in the 4th Reports BN as well in the other BNs that make up the 7th Brigade Communication Director’s Report BDE that do play paintball. Also, available for Brigadier Joseph C Dorffner Jr those so inclined is a helicopter insert behind en- The deadline for submissions for the next emy lines. Yes, there planning to have a real heli- issue of “Lucky Sevens” is 20 February 2006. copter at this event! For the helicopter insert, there are a limited number of seats available. Meal tick- Brigade Electronic Services Officer ets are also available. Colonel Sean Neimeyer Let's see if the 7th BDE STARFLEET Ma- No report received. rines, can make a difference and win this game. For more information about this exciting Brigade Quartermaster scenario game, check out the web site above and BGen Martin Lessem call (856) 933-2884. No report received. 5th Battalion OIC Report Battalion OIC Reports Brigadier Kyle Wolf No report received. 1st Battalion OIC Report Vacant 6th Battalion OIC Report Colonel Jonathan Slavin 2nd Battalion OIC Report No report received. BGen Shirley Weaver No report received. 2005 Was SCI FI's Best Yet Sci-Fi Wire 3rd Battalion OIC Report 12:00 AM, 29-DECEMBER-05 Brigadier Joseph C Dorffner Jr The year 2005 was SCI FI Channel's high- The 10th annual Polar Bear Plunge is com- est-rated and most-watched year to date, the net- ing up on the 28th of January at Sandy Point State work announced. SCI FI ended the year with its Park in Annapolis, MD. Members of the 7th Bri- highest average viewership ever in key demo- Page3 January 2006 The Lucky Sevens The Official Newsletter of the 7th Brigade, SFMC graphics and its highest household rating ever DC Superhero Stamps Coming (1.03) in prime time. For the fourth year in a row, Sci-Fi Wire SCI FI averaged more than 1 million viewers in 12:00 AM, 07-DECEMBER-05 prime time. The channel also delivered a 1.0 The United States Postal Service an- household average rating in 2005, marking the nounced that it will issue a series of stamps featur- third straight year SCI FI has maintained a 1.0 rat- ing 10 DC Comics superheroes next summer, the ing in prime time. first such stamps ever issued by the service. The Now distributed to 85 million homes, SCI FI DC Comics stamps will feature the classic super- scored with viewers in nearly every key demo- heroes Aquaman, Batman, The Flash, Green Ar- graphic, ranking within the top 10 of all basic cable row, Green Lantern, Hawkman, Plastic Man, Su- networks for ratings among adults aged 25-54, pergirl, Superman and Wonder Woman, the USPS men 25-54, adults 18-49, men 18-49 and women said. 25-54. The channel also ranked 10th for household The stamps will be sold in sheets of 20; half ratings among all measured, non-news, non- of each sheet will feature portraits of the charac- sports, ad-supported basic cable nets in prime ters, while the others will reproduce classic covers time. SCI FI continues to attract younger viewers, of the heroes' comics. with 2005 marking the channel's fifth straight year The featured covers will include Plastic Man of growth among adults 18-34. number four, from the summer of 1946; Batman number one, spring 1940; The Brave and the Bold A Future For Futurama? number 36, featuring Hawkman, June-July 1961; Sci-Fi Wire Green Lantern number four, January-February 12:00 AM, 04-JANUARY-06 1961; The Flash number 111, February-March Talks have begun at 20th Century Fox TV to 1960; Wonder Woman number 22 (second series), revive the animated TV show Futurama, much in November 1988; Aquaman number five, October the same way Family Guy found new life after can- 1989; The Daring New Adventures of Supergirl cellation, Variety reported. number one, November 1982; Superman number The studio is in early discussions to put Fu- 11, July-August 1941; and Green Arrow number turama back in production and create a limited 15, September 2002. number of episodes of the Emmy Award-winning show, although it's too soon to tell where those epi- Kirk To Return In Mirror Trek? sodes might end up. A representative for 20th Cen- Sci-Fi Wire tury Fox TV declined comment to Variety. 12:00 AM, 14-DECEMBER-05 The final original episode of Futurama aired The Canmag.com Web site reported a ru- on Fox in August 2003. Since then, the show has mor that William Shatner is one of the former Star found new life and fans via DVD releases and re- Trek captains who would appear in a proposed peatedly high-rated airings on the Cartoon Net- new Trek movie set in the "mirror" universe. Citing work. an anonymous source, the site reported that a Before Futurama comes back into being, script is floating around for a proposed new movie however, Fox first must secure deals with the that would bring together Shatner's Capt. James T. show's production team, as well as voice stars Billy Kirk, Patrick Stewart's Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and West (Fry), Katey Sagal (Leela) and John Di- possibly Scott Bakula's Capt. Jonathan Archer. Maggio (Bender). The movie would be a prequel film set in the evil Meanwhile, new Futurama stories have ap- parallel universe first introduced in the original Star peared in comics published by co-creator Matt Gro- Trek episode "Mirror, Mirror" and last seen in the ening's Bongo Comics imprint. Star Trek: Enterprise two-part episode "In a Mirror, Page4 January 2006 The Lucky Sevens The Official Newsletter of the 7th Brigade, SFMC Darkly." ing popularity as the fifth-highest U.S. seller of the Shatner was rumored to be up for a guest year. His earlier novel Angels & Demons took role in the last season of Enterprise, which ended eighth place. in May, but never appeared. The site reported that Christopher Paolini's fantasy novel Eldest the proposed film might incorporate elements of came in 10th.