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THE ANVIL USS HEPHAESTUS NCC - 2004 ALWAYS ONWARD A MEMBER OF STARFLEET INTERNATIONAL December 2003 Kellie Waymire (Elizabeth Cutler from Enterprise) 1968-2003 USS HEPHAESTUS THE ANVIL SUBSCRIPTIONS to the Anvil are available for $10.00 The Anvil, Issue 157, Is the month- WEB LINKS per year. Canadian subscription rate is $12.00 per ly newsletter of the USS Starfleet year. Individual issues may be purchased by sending Hephaestus, NCC-2004, of www.sfl.org your address and two unaffixed first class postage Starfleet, The International Star stamps to Pete Mohney, 1105 Oak Creek Trail, Trek Fan Association. All terms Birmingham, AL 35215. Back issues to January 1997 Region2 and phrases from Star Trek are are available for $1.25 per issue. The deadline for http://www.region2.org contributions to The next Anvil is Tuesday Feb. 18th. owned by Paramount Pictures Corporation, a devision of Submissions should be sent electronically to USS Hephaestus [email protected], or on disk to Dennis Evans, Paramount Communications and ncc2004.sfi.org 365 Belcher Dr., Midfield Al. 35228, in DOS, Word all rights are reserved. Perfect or Word format. www.shakeree.org/ncc2004 HEPHAESTUS is the Greek name for the Roman god of the forge, Editor Pete Mohney Vulcan. Birmingham has the world’s largest iron statue, that of the Layout, Graphics and Publishing Dennis Evans Roman god, Vulcan. We named our Starfleet chapter the Medical Reporting Neil Yawn Hephaestus to give us ties to our city and to Star Trek, which has Communication Reporting Dennis Evans Treasury Reporting Pete Mohney had its own Vulcan since 1966. Hephaestus forged armor and weapons for the gods. We create our own “armor and weapons” here, in our newsletter, so it is called THE ANVIL. TABLE OF CONTENTS HEPHAESTUS Enterprise News Captains Announcements 1 Air Schedule 8 XO Briefing 2 Future Episodes 8 Communications Report 2 In Memory Of Kellie Waymire 9 Science Report 3 Interview: Mike Sussman 10 Away Team Schedule 3 Scott Bakult: Season Two Slump UPN's Fault 14 Meeting Minutes 4 Dominic Keating Reveals Next Step In Xindi Arc 14 Birthday's 4 Blueskins Are Back! 15 Treasury Report 4 Command Structure 5 Star Trek News Starfleet Renewal Reminders 6 Critics Hot And Cold On Patrick Stewart's Caretaker 15 Fun & Games Voyater Season One DVD to include Genevieve Bujold Footage 16 Comics 6 Wordsearch 7 USS HEPHAESTUS THE ANVIL DBQUBJOT BOOPVODFNFOUT by Rear Admiral Pete Mohney Greetings! including a trip to Vulcan and the McWane center, First of all, I’d like to thank those people who two Star Trek guests, and fun and educational events showed up for the Halloween party. I’d also like to all weekend. We’re also looking for a person to be a thank those people who were nice enough to tell me staff head, of our Transportation department. This they weren’t coming. If you weren’t there, you person would be responsible for organizing trans- missed a fun time! I think I made an error in hosting portation of our guests who will be flying in or driving the party on Halloween; this worked great a few in on bus lines, getting them to the hotel and back to years ago, when nearly 25 people showed up, but their terminal. If you’re interested, please contact this year the crowd was way smaller. We won’t be me. holding our parties on the holiday date any more; You’ve no doubt noticed that the club treasury is enough said on that subject. very healthy, due to a bunch of renewals and a very On the subject of later holiday events, next up is the successful garage sale. Because of this, I’m going to Christmas party – which will be on the thirteenth of waive the ‘donation jar’ at our social meetings for the December, well ahead of the holiday. We hope to near future – so no need to worry about chipping in see a lot of you then, and please feel free to bring for the food or drinks, as long as the treasury is look- family and guests. There will be lots of food, games, ing anywhere near this good. We’ll also continue to a door prize or two, and plenty of fun. have small prizes for our games, at either the business or social meeting each month. By the time you read this, we’ll have done our annual ‘Christmas for Kids’ event, with the Trussville Fire Department. There will be a detailed report on See you soon! that in the next issue. Pete We’re also on the ‘downhill side’ of the calendar for the Region Two Summit, which will be in early March of 2004. This is the biggest event in the region each year for Starfleet, and I believe probably the best regional event in Starfleet. See me or Danny for fly- ers, and make your hotel reservations as soon as possible. As you probably all know by now, in addition to my duties as your chapter commanding officer, I’m the chairman of the Starfleet International Conference 2004, which will be held at the Birmingham Marriott March 12-14, 2004 on July 29 through August 1, next year. We’ve Holiday Inn Gulfport planned a full weekend of activities for all ages, Gulfport, MS 1 USS HEPHAESTUS THE ANVIL Greetings all! months prior to that, there were several more people that came by to check us out. The number one thing you can Let me take a moment and thank everyone who called do to help with recruiting for this chapter is to show up to and/or checked on me during my bout with sickness last meetings so new recruits can get a good idea what the month. Out of the entire month of October, I only managed chapter as a whole is like! to get to work about seven days, which is not a good thing. Incidentally, this also saves the chapter money, since The short of it is, we’ve identified the problem and we’re we can hand you your Anvils, instead of having to mail on a proper course of treatment for it now. I’ll be on this them. Mark and Pam are excluded from this!! round of medication through the end of November, so if I’m still a little sluggish at times, you’ll know why! The Christmas party is coming up on December 13, and I’d like to see our typical Christmas turnout. I’ve Promotions haven’t been moving along much recently, already heard from two other Starfleet chapters that plan and I’d like to see a few folks who have been stagnant for to attend, so we’re likely to have as big a crowd as ever! a while get back into the thick of things so we can move Don’t miss this one! forward with higher promotions for you. The main thing you can do is take and complete the Officer’s Training I’m sure Dennis would love to see more people submit- School (OTS) and the Officer’s Command College (OCC) ting book reviews, movie reviews, news, or even cookie courses. While these aren’t mandatory for lower promo- recipes for the Anvil. The more stuff that is submitted, the tions, they are required to move to the higher ranks, and I easier his job becomes! can guarantee you that Starfleet will not approve anyone to a rank above Commander without both of these cours- Overall, I’d just like to encourage people to participate es. in any way possible. Come to meetings, come to parties, or just send something to the Anvil. There is no level of We’ve had a lot of visitors recently at gatherings. In the participation too small! last month, we’ve had two visitors to the Business meeting, and one visitor to the Matrix movie viewing. In the two See you next month! those submissions ready and in to me. Remember to send them to [email protected]. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season and I hope to see you all at the upcoming Hephaestus Greetings, Christmas Party. Just wanted to take a minute to remind everyone that the deadline for submissions for the next Anvil is Dec, 9th. Like this month that is a week earlier and will allow me to Dennis get it out during the holiday rush. Please take a small bit of your holiday time and get 2 USS HEPHAESTUS THE ANVIL TDJFODF CO, RDC ~ Science, FDC Science, and those whom request a copy of the newsletter that have e-mail will recieve SFQPSU an issue. I will not be mailing amy newsletters! Anyone wanting to be included in this list may e-mail me with BY CAPTAIN NEIL YAWN the RE: Exploration List. There will be a change in the format of the R2 Science Capt. Neil Yawn Newsletter EXPLORATION. The change is that the Region 2 RDC Science newsletter will be in e-mail form only as of the Dec. issue. [email protected] Due to the cost of mail and that of the large number of returned mail, I will be e-mailing the newsletter only. Each All times, dates and locations are subject to change. Please contact Pete Mohney or any other command officer before attending meetings if you haven’t been in touch recently. December 1 business meeting December 2 Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (tent.) December 6/7 Christmas for Kids, at Wal-Mart? Dec 13 Christmas party January 5 business meeting January 16 social meeting February 2 business meeting February 20 social meeting March 1 business meeting, Barnes and Noble, Riverchase March 12-14 Region 2 Summit, Gulfport, Mississippi March 19 social meeting, Mohneys’ house 3 USS HEPHAESTUS THE ANVIL Halloween party.

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