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Vol XIV w No 5 The Official Newsletter of the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk w NCC-1659 September 2003 C O N T E N T S

A VIEW FROM THE CATBIRD SEAT ...... 3 J.R. Fisher MEDICAL REPORT ...... 3 Amy DeJongh COMPUTER OPERATIONS REPORT ...... 4 John Troan ENGINEERING REPORT ...... 4 Brad McDonald

Volume 14 - Number 5 MAP TO PISCHKES' ...... 5 is a publication of the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, the UPCOMING EVENTS ...... 6 Raleigh, N.C., chapter of , an international fan organization. This publication is provided free of charge to all chapter members in good standing. Subscriptions for non-members are $12.00 per year (six issues). Please address all corres- pondence to CATBIRD Publications, 5017 Glen Forest Dr., Raleigh, N.C. 27612. This publication is a non-profit and is not meant to infringe upon any copyright or trademark held by Paramount Pictures, Gulf & Western, or any other holder of STAR TREK copyrights or trademarks. Unless otherwise noted, ENTIRE CONTENTS ARE COPYRIGHT Ó 2003 CATBIRD Publications, THE WRIGHT STUFF. Nothing in whole or in part may be used without the written permission of the publisher. THE WRIGHT STUFF assumes all material submitted for publication is gratis. The publisher and editors reserve the right to edit all submissions.

Publisher ...... J.R. Fisher Editors ...... Jane Fisher John Troan TOOL BOX: Pentium IV-2.0GHz; HP LaserJet 1200 & DeskJet 722C; Lotus WordPro; Adobe Acrobat. IMAGES - Title Banner Wright Flyer from NASA/Ames PAO photo archive; U.S.S. Kitty Hawk (USN CV-63) from navicp.navy.mil; Constitution class cruiser from gwu.edu/~rljones/khawk. IMAGE - Featured Front Page Jeff Cohn took this image of Mars from his home in Durham on the evening of its closest approach to Earth, August 27, 2003. A View From the Catbird Seat By J.R. Fisher

Welcome back to tour and tasting. They have offer. If you are interested in doing duty on board the enlarged their facilities and have a telethons, make some inquiries as to U.S.S. Kitty Hawk. greater selection of wines for tasting. others on T.V. and let us know if any We wish more of A trip to Kinston seems to be in of them need our help. you could have the offering with a visit to the Enterprise is back! I'll say! Sex, made it to the Confederate ram "Neuse". Both the language and violence; not your September meeting original ship (in sad shape) and a full parents' Star Trek! Seriously folks, and cookout; try to make the next size replica are there for those of us not a bad beginning. A lot of new meeting which is October 4th. with a love of history. A return to races and a new story arc that will Our fall schedule is starting to the U.S.S. North Carolina in probably last at least one year, if not come together and we hope Wilmington might be a good idea. more. everyone can make at least one of With the events in Kitty Hawk in The Pischke's have volunteered the events. Meg Hale is going to set December putting so much pressure to host our Halloween party / up a list of times to go to the State on everyone at an already busy time November meeting on Saturday, Fair in October. Check your of year, we moved our anniversary November 1 at 4:00 p.m. As usual, calendars to see what day or dinner to January 17th at the Kanki there will be food, so contact Elaine evening would work best for you or at Crabtree. This also helped them to see what you can bring for the your family. We usually try to pick a as far as their scheduling goes as event. weekend (since there are two) time well. We can handle up to 36 As we write this, we are looking so if the first one gets rained out, we people and already have for hurricane Isabel to make landfall have a fall back date. Bring your commitments from 18 members and on our coast. Hopefully none of us choices to the October meeting. family. So let us know soon. or our families will be harmed. If For those of you wondering what circumstances merit, Jane and I will Region I fall conference is in happened to the Duke radio-thon: go down to take care of our mothers. Charleston, September 26 - 28. they seem to have lost our request Otherwise, we hope to see everyone October is a good month to go for our time slot and when contacted on October 4. and to do things. A visit to the by Amy, said that the only time slots Esse Quam Videri winery off I-40 has been suggested. available were during the week and We went last year and enjoyed the 6 a.m. Sunday. We passed on the Medical Report By Amy DeJongh

With Hurricane Isabel leaving our not recommended for children under Ÿ your list of emergency phone midst and a few weeks of hurricane age 12) numbers season left, now if the perfect time to Ÿ extra prescription medications (if the Ÿ blanket (stored nearby) create, update, or restock your personal family is going on vacation or if a first aid kit. Basic contents should be – disaster is imminent.) Choose containers for your kits that Ÿ first-aid manual Ÿ tweezers are roomy, durable, easy to carry, and simple to open. Plastic tackle boxes or Ÿ sterile gauze sharp scissors Ÿ containers for storing art supplies are adhesive tape Ÿ Ÿ safety pins ideal, since they are lightweight, have Ÿ adhesive bandages in several sizes Ÿ disposable instant cold packs handles, and offer a lot of space. Ÿ elastic bandage Ÿ calamine lotion After you have stocked your first aid Ÿ antiseptic wipes kits, be certain to read the entire first aid Ÿ alcohol wipes or ethyl alcohol manual so you'll understand how to use Ÿ soap Ÿ thermometer the contents of your kits. (If your children Ÿ antibiotic cream (triple-antibiotic Ÿ plastic gloves (at least 2 pairs) are old enough to understand, review ointment) with them as well.) Store first-aid kits in Ÿ flashlight and extra batteries Ÿ antiseptic solution (like hydrogen places that are out of children's reach Ÿ mouthpiece for administering CPR peroxide) but easily accessible for adults. And (can be obtained from your local Red lastly, check the kits regularly. Replace Ÿ hydrocortisone cream (1%) Cross) missing items or those that may have Ÿ acetaminophen and aspirin (aspirin is become outdated.

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To keep this issue to an even number Hello! This month has been a real had lots of extras, including three of pages, my column will be a little roller coaster ride, and adding to this documentaries on production and the shorter than normal, especially with the feeling is the approach of Isabel as I sinking of the Titanic. Enterprise episode information included finish this report. It’s a perfect ending to a Of major concern, is the recent power at the bottom. wild month, hope Isabel spares you and failure throughout the northeast. A special note on this month's feature yours any major trouble. According to the engineering associations photo. In previous months, I've My nine-to-five work aside, the home and professional organizations in our scavenged through NASA's photo front jobs continue. So far it’s been minor country, it’s just a symptom of many archives to find the target of choice for the repairs and paint jobs, but next is the things that need working on. For front cover. This month, Jeff Cohn -- one upstairs bathroom. I gave it a facelift instance, the overall investment in energy of our members -- sent a photo that he about 15 years ago, now it’s time for a transmission was $2 billion in 2000, down took. After some minor editing to remove major makeover. Should be lots of fun, from $5 billion in 1975, yet demand has the excess black from around the edges, not as bad as a kitchen, but a challenge, increased steadily. More important Mars filled up the front very nicely. none the less. though, this just a tip of the iceberg. As noted on the back page, the final Speaking of fun, I’m currently Nearly every facet of our infrastructure three seasons of Deep Space Nine will be recovering from surgery. Nothing needs attention, even more so since this released the first Tuesday of the next serious, mind you, just correcting an alarm was sounded over ten years ago. three months. The Star Trek V special ongoing problem that’s been bothering The great interstate highway system was edition DVD is also due out in October. me for the last 20 years or so. (No, not started when I was just a kid, now It (All dates are from Amazon.com.) my face, that’s a 50 year problem!) Any needs repair and some serious work. It’s Upcoming Enterprise episodes, as way, by next meeting I should be 100%. estimated that $1.6 trillion is needed over listed on StarTrek.com: On the technology front, the big news a 5 year period to get the job done. A concerns the current round of lawsuits 6-cent a gallon national tax has been Air Date Episode over song sharing via the Internet. Since proposed to help pay for the work which Sep 24 Extinction revenues in CD sales continue their includes water treatment and transport, Their ongoing quest for leads downward slide, corporate bigwigs feel sewage treatment and transport, bridges, everyone must be stealing the music dams, tunnels, roads and other the Enterprise crew to a tropical alien instead of buying it. While there is a structures. Boy talk about job security, world where Archer, Reed and Hoshi certain amount of borrowing and sharing construction projects for the next ten are exposed to a highly contagious going on, I think the real problem is years! virus that transforms their bodies and elsewhere. In a recent poll, 70% of all Ford now offers a PZEV (Partial Zero minds into those of the long extinct age groups stated that CD’s were Emissions Vehicle). It’s a special version alien inhabitants of the planet. overpriced. Also, there seems to be a of their Focus model, but at now real lack of anything worth buying and, additional charge. Ford execs are eating Oct 01 overlooked by the record companies is a the additional costs in hopes the car will The NX-01 gets closer to a showdown large secondary market. Sure you can catch on. It’s not a fancy hybrid, just with the Xindi when Captain Archer pay full price for a CD, but just wait until good old Yankee ingenuity. It’s an honest takes on an enigmatic passenger: a someone gets tire of it and buy it at a effort by U.S. auto makers to show the beautiful slave named Rajiin. second hand store. CD’s are nearly “other guys” they still know how to get immortal and a used one sounds just as things done. It’s on a par with foreign Oct 08 Impulse good as a new one. There were a few PZEV’s, costs $13,385 to $14,915 and it’s When Enterprise responds to a distress test cases last year, just to test the made in the USA. (For all the foreign car call from a ship stranded in the system, now, with those successes snobs in our midst, J.D. Power himself behind them, the music industry is going drives a Ford, so there!) Delphic Expanse, Archer and his all out. So beware. Best advice is to get NASA update, it now looks like it’s boarding team are attacked by insane rid of all music file sharing software and going to be way into next year before zombie-like Vulcans. all copies and put the whole thing behind shuttle flights can resume. Originally, you. NASA was hoping for action this winter, Oct 15 Exile On DVD, the second installment of now spring or summer launches look A powerful telepath makes contact with the Ring trilogy is available in both doubtful. It seems there is a lot more Hoshi and offers to help Enterprise find standard two-disc format and a deluxe involved than just in-flight repair kits and the Xindi ... for a price. four disc set. Sleeping Beauty, Disney’s prevention of falling foam. Word is, a classic from 1959 has been released in a major overhaul of the way NASA operates Oct 22 The Shipment deluxe edition with lots of behind the is being looked at, by the people that hold Archer, Reed and Major Hayes scenes extras. A personal favorite of the purse strings, namely Congress. infiltrate a Xindi-Sloth industrial mine is the 1953 Titanic. Yes it’s black That’s all for now. J.R. and I have colony to learn more about the weapon and white, but this is where Cameron got our fingers crossed, hoping Isabel will of mass destruction that will be used his rich girl meets poor boy on a doomed leave the many plans for First Flight against Earth. liner story. It’s more faithful to what really Centennial alone. See you later, long live happened and holds up well. The DVD and prosper.

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THE WRIGHT STUFF PAGE 5 SEPTEMBER 2003 Upcoming Events Sep. 26 - 28 SFI Region 1 Conference (Charleston, SC) Oct. 4 4 p.m. Ship Meeting, Fisher Home 7 Deep Space Nine (Season 5) DVDs Released 14 Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (Special Edition) DVD Released Nov. 1 4 p.m. Ship Meeing and Halloween Party, Pischke Home 4 Deep Space Nine (Season 6) DVDs Released 22 - 23 November Wright Stuff to be published Dec. 2 Deep Space Nine (Season 7) DVDs Released 6 4 p.m. Ship Meeting, Fisher Home

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