THE WRIGHT STUFF Vol XXII No 4 The Official Newsletter of the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk NCC-1659 Jul / Aug 2011 C O N T E N T S A VIEW FROM THE CATBIRD SEAT ................................3 J.R. Fisher ENLISTED AYE, AYE .............................................3 Babs Freeman COMPUTER OPERATIONS REPORT .................................4 John Troan VOYAGER - HOMECOMING .............................................4 Brad McDonald UPCOMING EVENTS ..............................................8 Volume 22 - Number 4 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 to all chapter members in good standing. Please address all correspondence to CATBIRD Publications, 5017 Glen Forest Dr., Raleigh, N.C. 27612. 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A View From the Catbird Seat By J.R. Fisher Apologies to all we made will not be recovered summer, nor Dragon*con. I did for the lateness and plans for doing new ones see some of the parade on the of my report. My are less likely to be made. news this morning. I hope summer has However, if Mr. McDonald is some of you did better. been spent willing to share some of his We have the 21st recovering from scripts and the crew is anniversary of our an injury and most recently interested, we could have commissioning coming up on riding out a hurricane with my readings at some of our October 7th. Do we want to mother who refused to leave meetings or special sessions. party! Let us hear from you. her home. This was followed Let us know if you are by the necessary cleanup. interested. Esse Quam Videri Mr. Anthony Dowling has Personally, I have not made transferred to a Corrie chapter, ANY of the usual conventions I so I fear that the audio tapes would have attended over the Enlisted Aye, Aye By Babs Freeman Last time, I wrote about did my Saturday afternoon movies so I figure I’ll start jog in the rain and wind. that way again. I think I’ve For what it’s worth, the seen about six this rain wasn’t as bad as the summer. The best theater wind. There was no real one had to be the new danger as thunder and Planet of the Apes movie. hurricanes as Californians lightning are rare in I highly recommend it. are towards earthquakes but hurricanes. Mostly, I had to Somebody had told me to found their comments to us dodge goose poop over an watch The Italian Job as on internet blogs kinda area on the track I use which Cooper Minis are used as get unappealing. I read one that I had hoped the rain flushed away cars and that was said “Welcome to our world” away as it had been there a supposed to be funny. Well, and another that said during my jog two days that part was funny but I also something about it not being before. liked the casting. With the a big deal. I hope all my Kitty Hawk last of the Harry Potter films It was a big deal to us as buddies sailed through both done, I feel a bit free again it is pretty uncommon on the natural events safely and and am tempted to quote east coast but more without incident. See ya Martin Luther King Jr. importantly, the geographical soon. But enough about movies, length it was felt surpasses let’s talk about the obvious those localized quakes in Where do planets go thing, like how Mother Nature CA. So phooey on them and after high school? works. First, we experience thank heavens, nobody was an eastern earthquake and hurt. To universities. then Hurricane Irene hits us. As to the hurricane, jaded I am as jaded towards ex-sailor that I am, I actually THE WRIGHT STUFF PAGE 3 JUL / AUG 2011 VOYAGER - "Homecoming" Comp Ops Report By Brad McDonald By John Troan ACT THREE NEELIX With the delayed assembling FADE IN: It's not much busier then, of this edition of the newsletter, I either. EXT. SAN FRANCISCO - was able to include a round up FISHERMAN'S WHARF - EARLY Janeway suddenly realizes the of several recent NASA news EVENING problem. items -- Janeway is walking the street, JANEWAY y As shown on the front cover, looking at the signs above the Business is... slow? NASA has released the shops. She stops at one marked Neelix is now very subdued and latest rocket design being Neelix's Nook and enters. quiet. planned. The Orion capsule from the now-defunct INT. NEELIX'S NOOK NEELIX That's putting it mildly. If Constellation program will A richly appointed restaurant with business doesn't pick up still be used, but this new only two N.D. PATRONS. NEELIX soon, I'll loose everything. Space Launch System is spots Janeway and rushes to intended to be even bigger greet her. JANEWAY than the Saturn V from the Everything? What about NEELIX your ship? Apollo program. (http://go. Captain! It's so good to see nasa.gov/newlaunchsystem) you! Sit down, please. NEELIX What can I get for you? I had to sell it to get this y The Lunar Reconnaissance place. Orbiter (LRO) recently got Janeway is pleasantly surprised at some very sharp images of all the attention and takes a seat. JANEWAY the Apollo 12, 14, and 17 I see. Couldn't you have JANEWAY landing sites. It even shows chosen a less expensive How about some Talaxian location? the paths taken by the rovers pudding surprise? and the astronauts' feet. NEELIX Neelix looks disappointed. (http://www.nasa.gov/lro) A very helpful man told me NEELIX that the three most y The Kepler mission now has Really? It's not even on the important things about the first confirmed planet menu. But I could make starting a business on orbiting a binary star system. you some. Earth were 'location, In a tip of the hat to Star location, location.' I must Wars, the planet has been JANEWAY have got one of them Don't go to any trouble. dubbed "Tatooine" because wrong. Just whatever you have the of the two suns shown in the most of. Janeway feels sorry for her old movie. (http://www.nasa. friend. gov/kepler) Neelix is not his usually bubbly self. JANEWAY y The Dawn mission team Can I help in any way? released a video showing a NEELIX flyover across the surface of Actually, I have a lot of just He's grateful, but his pride keeps about everything. Things him from accepting. the asteroid Vesta. (http:// have been a bit slow. dawn.jpl.nasa.gov) NEELIX Janeway looks around the Thank you, but I'll manage y There's a new site that restaurant. somehow. You're so busy allows people to explore the now and Starfleet needs solar system from any JANEWAY you for their current crisis. vantage point. (http:// Well, I guess it's just a bit solarsystem.nasa.gov/eyes) early for dinner. THE WRIGHT STUFF PAGE 4 JUL / AUG 2011 She feels helpless and is very JANEWAY He stops a short distance from the sympathetic. Come! other side of the fence, noticing her rank and points to it. Tuvok enters and waits at her JANEWAY desk. She looks up at him and CHAKOTAY Neelix, I had no idea it puts the reports to one side. Coming up in the world? would turn out like this. We came 70,000 light years, JANEWAY She's embarrassed. made it through all sorts of I have some good news for JANEWAY hazards and life you. Got 'kicked' upstairs. threatening situations... just TUVOK Where's B'Elanna? to -- Indeed. I could use some. He becomes bitter and sarcastic. NEELIX JANEWAY (interrupting) CHAKOTAY You have another It's okay. My time with you She was transferred volunteer, me. I'm going to on Voyager was some of yesterday. Starfleet's way visit Chakotay. When I the best years of my life. I of ensuring against return, I'll put the finishing was important, a part of a conspiracies and escapes. touches on an alternate group of people who plan. Until then, you have She is visibly disappointed by the needed me and called me the Conn. Better recheck news. a friend. You and your the weapon's inventory, I crew became a real JANEWAY show us short on photon substitute for the family I Are any of the others here? torpedoes. lost on Talaxia. That was CHAKOTAY enough for me and I thank Tuvok is about to protest but she A few. I'm not sure where. you. cuts him off. They change our work Janeway is genuinely touched and JANEWAY assignments daily.