THE WRIGHT STUFF Vol XVIII w No 2 The Official Newsletter of the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk w NCC-1659 Mar / Apr 2007 C O N T E N T S A VIEW FROM THE CATBIRD SEAT ................................3 J.R. Fisher SCIENCE REPORT ................................................3 Elaine Pischke VOYAGER - LEGACY ..............................................4 Brad McDonald COMPUTER OPERATIONS REPORT .................................9 John Troan Volume 18 - Number 2 UPCOMING EVENTS .............................................10 is a publication of the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, the Raleigh, N.C., chapter of STARFLEET, an international STAR TREK 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. 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IMAGE - Featured Front Page Image of the planet Jupiter's moon, Io, as seen by the New Horizons spacecraft. A plume from a huge volcanic eruption can be seen at the north pole of the moon. NASA/JHUAPL A View From the Catbird Seat Science Report By J.R. Fisher By Elaine Pischke It is a sad time as I our course. If you are simply not First came stealth bombers. write this, as it is interested in any of this, please also Now comes… invisibility cloaks? less than a week let me know so that we can disband Engineers at Perdue since the mass the ship and spend our time in a University have come up with a murders at Virginia more productive manner. workable design for an invisibility Tech. The loss of We have an excellent cloak. According to Professor so many innocent opportunity in the form of Vladamir Shalaev, the design is people is always a tragedy, but Trinoc-con, the first weekend in totally consistent with the laws of more so when they are young. I August. People have not physics. The materials needed, only knew one of the victims, and volunteered to do panels, demon- only casually; but the effect is strations, etc. That only leaves primarily tiny needles that would enormous. Please keep the victims participation at the security, warm be arranged to bend light around and their families in your thoughts body, and recruiting table for our an object, are already used in and prayers for as long as you crew. A few former members are nanotechnology. It will take 2-3 remember this event. And please taking on several panels and I will years to build a working prototype, also pray for the young man who do one or more myself. and preliminary models will only committed this horrible act and for I may also become the chair for be able to block out one his family as well. Doing so will help the art committee, if I get the wavelength of light. Still, that the healing process for everyone assistance I have been promised. would have military applications, touched by this event. Most of that work will be before the such as shielding soldiers or This past meeting was as low a con so I can do double duty at other equipment from night vision turnout as I have ever seen and I jobs as needed. goggles or laser designators. hope it is not an indication of our There is a general lack of Shielding the entire frequency future. There has been very little volunteering throughout the con range of the visible spectrum is interest in going to conventions, world, which can only have a theoretically possible, but much less helping to put one on. I negative effect in future years. More according to Shalaev, “will be a am at a loss to discern why this is. and more of the workload is being big technical challenge”. Yes, there are family considerations done by fewer and fewer people. of all sorts, job related excuses (I This will lead to burnout in less than In other science news, know this is only a hobby!), and three years. New people have to astronomers recently announced many more reasons for not step into jobs and learn them and the discovery of a planet referred participating in our activities; but I then produce. If not, then there will to as “Earthlike”. Gliese 581 C is think you are missing the reason for be no more cons or at least a lot a planet 20 light-years from our our existence. less of them. solar system and thought to be First, we are bound together by Any group's dynamics is but a small, rocky, not too hot, not too the ideals of Star Trek and the microcosm of life. Think about it. cold, possibly able to support life, entertainment the shows, books, The next meeting is May 5 at and no more than 10 times as etc., have brought us over the years, four p.m. at the Fisher home. We massive as the Earth, but big i.e. we are fans. Second, we try to will cook hot dogs, if you will bring enough so it’s atmosphere doesn’t bring that energy together and focus the side dishes, chips, soda, desert, drift off. The surface temperature it in our community to do some etc. must be capable of maintaining good. Local cons are a way of doing Do you have the Wright Stuff? water in liquid form. We assume both; having fun and helping Esse Quam Videri any kind of life would require charities. water. We may never know if Perhaps the fault is all mine; I Gliese 581 C supports alien life have missed your point, not listened to what it is you want to do or where forms. But it could. the group wants to go. If this is the case, please tell me or any of the department heads so that we can make the necessary adjustments to THE WRIGHT STUFF PAGE 3 MAR / APR 2007 VOYAGER - "Legacy" By Brad McDonald This one made it all the way to CAPITOL CITY OUTSKIRTS radiation becomes a Paramount for review! I don't know PUBLIC HOUSE problem? why it wasn't used, but that's show CITY PARK PARIS OBELISK business! Hope you enjoy it. Less than an hour, Captain. CAPITOL CITY FESTIVAL -- Brad Then we must leave. CAPITOL CITY ALLEY STAR TREK: VOYAGER JANEWAY "Legacy" PRONUNCIATION GUIDE Very well. Commander, lets TAPARA ta - PAR - uh keep a close watch on those Written by Brad McDonald TLAN tee - LAN radiation levels, in case NACARAE na - CAR - ee there's a change. CAST T'KA tay - KAH She's about to walk away from Kim's JANEWAY TAPARA NLEN nuh - LIN CHAKOTAY SARN station when the young officer speaks excitedly. TUVOK TLAN TEASER PARIS NLEN FADE IN: KIM KIM T'KA #1 I've got them! One-one-two, EXT. - SPACE - NEBULA AND SEVEN SURVIVOR #1 mark five. About one hundred VOYAGER (OPTICAL} DOCTOR SURVIVOR #2 thousand kilometers. They SURVISOR #3 Voyager is moving slowly through the aren't moving. CREWPERSON'S VOICE cloud PARIS Non-speakinq That close and we couldn't INT. - VOYAGER - THREE SHOT N.D. VOYAGER SECURITY pick them up? Were they N.D. NEO VULCAN KIM is working at his station with cloaked? ADMINISTRATOR JANEWAY and CHAKOTAY lookinq TUVOK N.D. NEO VULCAN GUARDS over his shoulder, absorbed in Kim's Not at all. Merely the results N.D. NEO VULCAN CITIZENS findings. N.D. NEO VULCAN LADIES of the nebula's highly charged N.D. NEO VULCAN MILITARY JANEWAY particles, the highly N.D. NEO VULCAN SURVIVORS Getting a better fix on that elevated-- signal, Mister Kim? SETS JANEWAY INTERIORS KIM (interrupting, amused) VOYAGER (working) Never mind, we get the BRIDGE Still trying to pinpoint the general idea. How close can TRANSPORTER ROOM exact location, but it does you get us to that ship, Mister MESS HAL read as a distress call. Paris? CORRIDOR CHAKOTAY PARIS JANEWAY'S READY ROOM Are you having any better Two to three kilometers, MAIN BRIEFING ROOM luck, Mister Tuvok? Captain. Under these SURVIVOR'S SHIP conditions I wouldn't like to BRIDGE BRIDGE - WIDE ANGLE get much closer, too many ENGINEERING surprises. PUBLIC HOUSE TUVOK is concentrating on his station DINING ROOM panel. JANEWAY I agree, engage. OBELISK TUVOK VAULT ROOM (working) INT. VOYAGER - BRIDGE - ANGLE SIDE ROOM #4 I am using an overlapping ON VIEWER (OPTICAL) TAPRA'S OFFICE (B.G. ONLY) pattern search rather than EXTERIORS luck, Commander. Either the Another ship is barely visible due to VOYAGER signal is very distant or very static. SURVIVOR'S SHIP weak, perhaps both. NEO VULCAN HOME WORLD CHAKOTAY NEBULA JANEWAY Can we use the transporters? NEO VULCAN CAPITOL CITY How much longer can we remain in this area before THE WRIGHT STUFF PAGE 4 MAR / APR 2007 TUVOK KIM JANEWAY Not recommended.