THE WRIGHT STUFF Vol XVI w No 2 The Official Newsletter of the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk w NCC-1659 Mar / Apr 2005 C O N T E N T S A VIEW FROM THE CATBIRD SEAT ................................3 J.R. Fisher MEDICAL REPORT ...............................................3 Amy DeJongh SECURITY REPORT ...............................................4 Spring Brooks COMPUTER OPERATIONS REPORT .................................4 John Troan Volume 16 - Number 2 RINGS OF SATURN IMAGE ........................................5 NASA / JPL is a publication of the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, the UPCOMING EVENTS ..............................................6 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 Shuttle Discovery on Pad 39B after roll out from the Vehicle Assembly Building; photo from NASA/KSC. A View From the Catbird Seat By J.R. Fisher Spring is rushing by experience the other events at the We mentioned earlier in the year at an alarming pace! fairgrounds during the course of the the possibility of having a ship Mother's Day is day. If you wish to bring your own reunion in October when we celebrate upon us and food and drink in a small cooler, the fifteenth anniversary of our summer is just please do so; otherwise, there are a commissioning. We are looking for a around the corner. lot of food vendors out there. facility to use that could We are sending Since no one has expressed an accommodate a large number of out this newsletter because of the interest in going to Con-Carolina the people as well as provide some "time sensitive" nature of our yard first weekend in June, we will have activities (volleyball, swimming, etc.) sale at the state fairgrounds on May our meeting that day at the Fisher If you have any ideas, please let me 14th. Hopefully, everyone is saving home and it will be a cookout with us know. items for this event and will show up providing hot dogs and burgers and We wish to remind each of you to that morning with said items to spend all of you bring appropriate side stay current with your Starfleet the day trying to sell same. If you do dishes, drinks, desserts, etc. membership and that if you have not not know how to get to the We have been contacted by paid your '05 Kitty Hawk dues of fairgrounds, you can come to my UNC-TV to do another 30-day festival $24.00, they are now due. house by 7:00 a.m. and follow us over in June; if you wish to participate as a We hope to see everyone at the there. Please have sunscreen and a group, please let us know as soon as giant yard sale on the 14th (don't hat, etc. and please pre-price your possible so we can schedule it with forget to bring a folding table) and items in a manner to make them. remember that the proceeds will go to change-making a minimum. You will We are up for some day trips in Raleigh Battered Women's Center. need some change and we will pool the next two months before it Until then, remember that you do the funds at the end of the day. becomes too hot; so if you want to have "The Wright Stuff" and you do Obviously, we do not all need to suggest a short day trip to something make a difference. be there all day, so everyone should close by, send it to me or John Troan Esse Quam Videri expect to be able to wander off and and let's get it on the schedule. Medical Report By Amy DeJongh May 14th – Yard Sale Information Anything left over will be donated to 2. Signs (who we are, what our charity. charity is, etc.) – For all of you Date and Time – May 14th, 9 am creative people out there, here’s a job 4. People to sell it!! (And set up to 5 pm (time of sale – set up and made just for you! clean up before and after) and clean up…) Please email me with your availability on the 14th and 3. Stuff to Sell!!!!! - We will Where – NC State Fairgrounds how long you are willing to work. I begin setting up for the sale at 6 am Flea Market would like to have at least 3 people on the 14th. All items must be there on hand at all times, and the more Why – All proceeds to benefit by 8 am at the latest. people we have means the less the charity (I believe we decided on the All items must be marked with Battered Women’s Shelter) rest have to work. We can also do a a price. If it is not marked, rotating schedule (for example - work What we need – management (i.e. JR) has the for 2 hours, off for 1). We need authority to sell the item for any price. people there as early as 6 am (so we 1. Tables for merchandise – if Also, please make note if the price of can get a good spot) and as late as you have a table that we can use, any item is not negotiable. 5:30 or 6 pm (the faster we clean up, please bring it to the fairgrounds Our goal is to sell every item we the faster we get out of there!) between 6 and 7am on the day of the have in order to make as much PLEASE, PLEASE sign up as sale. Also, please send me an email money for the Shelter as we can. If soon as possible. We need as many ([email protected]) so I know how you would like any of your items back crewmembers as we can get to make many tables we will have. if they do not sell, then you must pick this fundraiser successful. them up at 5 pm the day of the sale. Thanks!!!! THE WRIGHT STUFF PAGE 3 MAR / APR 2005 Security Report Comp Ops Report By Spring Brooks By John Troan the show, and it is a different kind of First, here's the caption for the Producers Defend Enterprise End episode," he said. "But there were no cover photo: serious complaints. And none of the Space Shuttle Discovery Star Trek: Enterprise producers actors have seen the episode, so they approaches the Rotating and Brannon Braga and Rick Berman told can't be dissatisfied with how it turned Fixed Service Structures on SCI FI Wire that they understood the out." Star Trek: Enterprise ends its Launch Pad 39B after roll out recent disparaging comments made four-season run May 13 on UPN at 9 from the Vehicle Assembly by cast members about the final p.m. ET/PT. Building. First motion began at episode, but stood by their execution 2:04 p.m. EDT April 6, and the of the series finale. "You have to DATA on a new show? Shuttle was hard down on the remember, under normal pad at 1:16 a.m. EDT April 7. circumstances, most people probably Brannon Braga confirmed to SCI The Shuttle sits atop the Mobile would have thought this was a very FI Wire that his first post-Star Trek: Launcher Platform and is cool episode, because it has a great Enterprise project will be Threshold, a transported by the concept driving it," Braga said in a genre pilot for CBS that centers on a Crawler-Transporter underneath. conference call with reporters. "But possible alien invasion. Braga Launch of Discovery on its when it's the final episode of a series, co-executive the script and is Return to Flight mission, emotions are running very high." co-executive producing with David STS-114, is targeted for May 15 The most vocal objection came Goyer (Blade: Trinity), who is also with a launch window that from cast member Jolene Blalock, directing. "It's all from the point of extends to June 3. During its who plays T'Pol on the show. "I don't view of a woman who works at a think 12-day mission, Discovery's know where to begin with that one," tank as a contingency analyst," Braga seven-member crew will test new she recently said of the finale. "The said in an interview while promoting hardware and techniques to final episode is ... appalling." the May 13 series finale of Enterprise. improve Shuttle safety, as well The episode, titled "These Are the "Basically, it theorizes about what-ifs, as deliver supplies to the Voyages," features Star Trek: The and alien invasion is something that International Space Station.