STARFLEET Communiqué Issue Number 158, April/May 2010 A newsletter publication provided for members of STARFLEET, The International Star Trek Fan Association, Inc. table of contents Join the Election Discussion Online // Around the Fleet 3 STARFLEET Communiqué What Makes STARFLEET So Great? by FADM Sal Lizard 4 Number 158 My First Impression of Sal Lizard by John Barrett 4 The Second Banana Report by VADM Dave Blaser 5 Publisher: Jonathan Lane Operations Report by RADM Jerry Tien 6 Editor-in-Chief: Prasith Kim-Aun, DMD Computer Operations Report by FADM Sal Lizard 6 Content Editor: Jonathan Lane Layout: Prasith Kim-Aun, DMD What Would Kirk Do? by RADM Jonathan Lane 7 Front Cover: Photo supplied by Dorothy C. Fontana Newsletter Contest - Announcement and Rules by MGN Dennis Rayburn 9 Design and Layout by Jonathan Lane Report from the Chief Financial Officer by COMM Michael Stein 10 Proof Readers: Jon Lane and Gary Hollifield, Jr. Academy News by ADM Peg Pellerin 11 Shakedown Operations Report by RADM Warren Price 12 Published by: The OTI and ASDB Staff Position Openings by ADM Alex Rosenzweig 12 STARFLEET, International Conference 2010 - Is Almost Here! by VADM Greg Trotter 13 The International Star Trek Fan Association, Inc. The Chaplain’s Chat by COMM Russell Ruhland and CMDR Dixie Savander 14 PO Box 291 North Hampton, NH 03862 Star Trek: Grissom by Clive Saunders 15 Ask “Deep Trek” - #010 by CAPT George Flanik 15 Send submissions via e-mail to STARFLEET Quartermaster Featured Items at qm.sfi.org by ADM Pete Mohney 16 [email protected] Meet the Guest Judge for the 2010 STARFLEET Short Story Contest by VADM Dave Blaser 17 ...or any written papers to the address above. Short Story Contest Rules by Gary Hollifield 18 Music Review: Vitamin String Quartet Tribute to Star Trek 19 Postmaster, please send address corrections to: USS Riverside Lobo Flight Crew Helps Celebrate Kirk’s -218th Birthday by CMDR JM Olson 20 Bran Stimpson Klingon on Ice? by CMDR JM Olson 23 STARFLEET Member Services Member Artwork - Gary Anderson 24 1120 Magnolia Street Member Artwork - Jeff Redmond and James Tingley 25 Denver CO 80220 STARFLEET Membership Retention // Whatever Happened to Region 16? by RADM David B. Pitts 26 Star Trek and All Related Marks and Logos are Trademarks of CBS STARFLEET Academy - The Fun Place to Be by ADM Peg Pellerin 27 Studios, Inc. All rights reserved. Shore Leave 32 (Advertisement) 28 The STARFLEET Communiqué is a publication of the Communications The USS McNair’s Lil’ Dragon by FCPT Pamela Michaud 29 Department of STARFLEET, The International Star Trek Fan Winners in Galron’s Sweepstakes by LTJG Steven Rodriguez 29 Association, Inc. It is intended for the private use of our members. International Conference 2011 - Speeding Towards IC 2011 by COMM Jeff Victor 30 STARFLEET holds no claims to any trademarks, copyrights, or STARFLEET Short Story Contest Winner (4th Place): “A Chance to Win” by ENS Lea Helper 31 properties held by CBS Studios nor Paramount Pictures. All content from Star Trek including still images and character names is the Have You Thanked the Chapter That Recruited You Lately? by CMDR Michael Weldon Lewis 36 property of Paramount Pictures Corporation and CBS Studios, Inc. Polka King of the USS Lagrange by CAPT Nancy Milford 37 and no infringement is intended. STARFLEET The International Star Attention on Deck! by MGN John Roberts // Report from the CO FINCOM by MGN Linda Olson 38 Trek Fan Association, Inc. operates as a non-profit fan club and is committed to promoting Star Trek. Report from the CO INFOCOM by MGN Sean Niemeyer 39 Report from the CO TRACOM by COL Bruce O’Brian 39 The contents of this publication are Copyright © 2009 STARLEET, Report from the Sergeant Major, SFMC by MGSGT Jerome A. Stoddard 40 The International Star Trek Fan Association, Inc. and/or the original authors. All rights reserved. No portion of this document may be Prigal: A Monthly Question & Answer Session from the Enlisted Point of View copied or republished in any way or form without the written consent by PVT Prigal 40 of the Office of the Chief of Communications, STARFLEET. The SFMC Jumpers by 2LT James C. Jones II 41 Exclusive: First Look at the Star Trek Uniform Replicas by Anovos by MGN Larry Neigut 42 (USPS 017-671) Entered as periodical matter at the Post Office of Tecumseh, Oklahoma, under the act of March 8, 1879. The Pet Fleet? Really? Yes, Really! by CAPT Marie Anderson 43 Communiqué is published bi-monthly by STARFLEET, The Flag Officer Promotions; Individual Awards by ADM Linda Kloempken 44 International Star Trek Fan Association, Inc.; PO Box 291, North Save the Enterprise by RADM Jonathan Lane 45 Hampton, NH 03862. STARFLEET International Membership Application 46 Staff of STARFLEET International 47 The submission deadline for CQ #159 will have passed by Win 2 Passes to COMIC-CON 2010 by Roddenberry.com (Advertisement) 48 the time this issue gets into members’ hands. The deadline for submissions for CQ #160 will be July 15, 2010. Page 2 Join the Election Discussion Online The 2010 STARFLEET General Election gets underway on June 1. Over the years, one of the key vehicles for communications with the candidates and general discussion of the election has been, and continues to be, the Official Election List. We am pleased to announce that the 2010 Election list will be open for business effective June 1st. This list will be, as always, intended for questions and answers between the candidates and members of STARFLEET. Discussion of the election is also permitted on the list. To sign up for the election list, please visit the website below: http://lists.sfi.org/listinfo.cgi/election2010-sfi.org Vice-Chief of Communications, MGEN Dennis Rayburn, has been assigned the task of being the Moderator and one of the three list administrators. The other two administrators are Chief of Communications RADM Jonathan Lane, and STARFLEET Inspector General Wade Hoover. The list will be operated in a family-friendly format. So please keep the language clean with that in mind. The list is restricted to election business only; any other topics will be requested to be moved elsewhere. Dennis Rayburn will be very actively moderating the list this year. An escalating series of moderation actions—from warning to temporary suspension to full moderation—will be taken for members who exhibit disruptive behavior deemed to be violating the list rules (which will be e-mailed monthly to all list subscribers). Moderation decisions can be appealed to Jon Lane and Wade Hoover, but their decisions become final after that. Let’s make this an informative, dynamic, but most of all civil election season, folks. Choosing the leaders for this club is a responsibility that all of us members share equally. Be involved. AROUND THE FLEET Region 7 EVENT Lt. Colonel Anne Zecca displays a special certificate that was presented by Region two members to the corporate headquarters of Life South Blood Center in Gainesville, Florida. At the Region 2 Summit, STARFLEET members were involved in a Blood Drive and collected seven units (pints) of blood. Afterward, they presented this Certificate of Appreciation to the director of the blood center, Mr. Kenneth Story. The blood drive was held at the Holiday Day Inn in Columbus, Georgia. Vice Admiral Freddy Heller of the host chapter USS DaVinci was the promoter of the event. Also at the event was Colonel Joe Gallagher, Starfleet Medical, who held a CPR class. Photo supplied by Oliver Savander, Sr., Region two Medical Director. Region 2 Medical Page 3 Name: Sal Lizard Rank: Fleet Admiral Position: Commander, Starfleet 1504-07-17 Ship: USS Hood NCC-1707 Region: 15, New Hampshire (USA) Commander, STARFLEET What Makes STARFLEET So Great? Hello STARFLEET, down his window to check on me. For some reason, Sincerely, it felt all right, and I told him what happened. He I think I will start my article with a letter that was recently said his name was Jeff, and not to worry, he would Stacy Lambricht sent to me as the commander of STARFLEET. The letter make sure to get me back on the road and back to follows: my hotel. As he pulled away to shine his headlight on my flat tire, I noticed his license plate—STARTREK. Naturally, I began to search my mind as to whom she might Dear Mr. Lizard: He changed my tire and came up to the window, and be referring. But then I realized that it could be any number talked me through programming the GPS unit. After of members of STARFLEET—not all of which are named My name is Stacy. I am a consultant for a large doing that, I asked him how much I owed him, and “Jeff”. In my years as a member of STARFLEET, I’ve met international company. As I sit here in my hotel room, he said nothing. He was just glad to help. I asked many “Jeffs”—members who will take a little time out of their I keep thinking of a recent encounter I had with one of about his license plate, and he told me the trouble he day to help others. As a matter of fact, that “Can I help you?” your members. went through to get it, and that he was a member of attitude towards strangers and friends in need has been your organization. When I got to my client’s office in evident throughout my 18-year observation of STARFLEET I was in Buffalo, just after a typical (so I was told) Bedford, we looked you up, and here I am, writing you members.