The Fates The Official Newsletter of the Shuttle Nemesis Vol 1 Issue 2 FaRSCAPE earned this year's Saturn Award for Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series, and se- ries star Ben Browder, who received the Saturn Award for Best Actor on Television. The Starfleet Academy. Some are hard, others are The Velvet Glove easy if you know Trek. OTS is all in the handbook you get for joining Starfleet. I have taked the Com- Greetings crew. August 10th, a bunch of us puter History course and a few of the Vulcan have decided to go to Wright Patterson Airforce Academy course. All where fun to take. I encourge Base Museum in Dayton, Ohio. If you are inter- all to try them out. It is not all Trek and it does in- ested in going with your friends to the museum crease your knowledge. let us know. We will be meeting at 7 A.M. in I will be soon working on the Nemesis’ web page. the front main entrance to Rolling Acres Mall. If you have or want something for your department We will be leaving about 7:15. on the web site, let me know and we will put it out This issue is done with the theme of Far- on the site for you. scape. Information, pictures, and things are Well, that is it for this time. Three months down geared towards Farscape. In the future I will be towards being a ship. Then we can play phaser tag doing this for other shows and movies. Let me with other ships. know which ones you would like to see done. In the coming months, the Nemesis’ handbook Fcapt Ruth Green will be done. It has been decided and will be in CO, Shuttle Nemesis 1896/01 the handbook, that if you are the head of a de- [email protected] partment on the shuttle/ship, that you send in an Shuttle Motto: The word is NO. We are therefore article for the newsletter at least every other month. This also helps others on the ship to know what you are doing with your department and not just holding the department head title and not playing along. (Special circumstances and sickness are exempt per CO or XO with notice). How much you want to be involved is up to you. If you do not want to do much or do Front cover any reporting then do not take a head of depart- (l. to r.) Rebecca Riggs, 33; Raelee Hill, 29; Claudia Black, ment position. If you want to do role playing and 29; Tammy Macintosh, 32; Gigi Edgley, 24 want to do something with your membership, we have plenty of departments without some- one in the head position or if it is filled there are THE FATES is the Official newsletter of the Shut- tle Nemesis, NCC 1896/01 which is a chapter of positions under them that are opened. You can Starfleet International the Star Trek Fan Club. This also post to any of the lists. ussohi- is a Fan publication intended solely to inform and [email protected] is our business list. amuse Starfleet members and not to infringe on the [email protected] is our role - copyrights held by Paramount. Contributors retain playing list. all the rights to their work. Opinions of the We have just mailed this month $3,268.68 in individuals do not necessarily reflect those of the OCP coupons over to the Navel base in Sasebo, Shuttle Nemesis Japan. Report articles should be submitted to Shuttle Nemesis Congratulations to Tina Bellman. She P.O. Box 13075 passed her OTS (Officer Training School) test. Akron, Ohio 44334 You can do it by mail or by on-line now. Any- [email protected] one passing OTS will automaticly be promoted to Ensign. If you want to start working you way up in rank of the enlisted members, take and First View been done and forwarded to Ruth for review. After her review graphics and minor details will Long month. I have not died as some be added. may have thought, just been having some im- Until next time take care and best wishes to plants removed. Welcome Aboard to Claudia all. Gildenmerster. Glad to have you. Never have to many Klingons. Curtis Bellman Next congratulations to Tina Bellman on her XO shuttle Nemesis recent promotion to the rank of Ensign, and for “Captain Kirk’s chair from the starship Enterprise is passing the Officer Training School course. This being auctioned on eBay, and the bidding starts at course is “FREE” (and free is good) if taken on $80,000. Which is ridiculous, because for $8,000 Wil- line. You will need Adobe Acrobat to download liam Shatner will show up at your house. Conan O’Brien, of NBC’s Late Night. the manual or you can use the Starfleet mem- ber’s handbook you received with your mem- bership packet. It takes at the very most an hour and a half to complete the course. But most of all it’s very easy. To take the course go to www.sfi. org then take the link to the academy. I for one am looking forward to the trip to Wright Patterson Airforce base and flight mu- seum in August. We will have at least one guest from out of state that I know of coming to join us. John “Kiwi” Kane. I first met Kiwi at the R-1 fall conference, a nicer mate you would never meet. Kiwi came from New Zealand to become a citizen of the U.S. He is married and now lives in North Carolina. Being a Klingon it is only natural that he is a Starfleet Marine. His ship is the Reprisal, our mother ship. Next order of business is to answer a ques- tion that had been asked of me. “Why did we get a shuttle and not anything larger?” Well I tried but when Wade caught me in the process of reading the Captains yacht he put his foot down and said no. Can you blame him? I guess that’s why they call it a Captains yacht. There is an election coming up for the Com- mander of Starfleet every member gets a vote. Starfleet should be sending a card for each mem- ber. You simply fill it out and mail it back in. A rough draft of the ship handbook has Page 3 COMPARATIVE COMMANDER ANALYSIS QUESTION #1: Your first officer of 20 years and trusted friend seemingly dies to save your vessel. You later dis- cover that he is, in fact, alive, and being regenerated on a distant planet in a forbidden zone. Going after him will wind up costing you your rank, your vessel, and possibly a family member as well. What do you do? CAPTAIN KIRK "I'd go after Spock, no question - who else in Starfleet is willing to put up with me? My ever-loyal bridge crew would be more than willing to help me steal my old ship and sabotage any pursuers, and we'd somehow manage to outwit any opposition we'd encounter, from a single Klingon ship right on up to...hell, right on up to the planet exploding! If Starfleet gets angry, I'd just find a way to save the universe again, and they'd be so grateful they'd pardon me." CAPTAIN PICARD "I'd try all the normal, diplomatic channels, of course. If that failed, I'd send Worf and Data in a shuttlecraft to effect a rescue, while I monitored from the safety of the ENTERPRISE. If worst came to worst, Num- ber One is replaceable - Commander Shelby's much better looking than Will, any day." COMMANDER SISKO "I'd sympathize with Major Kira's plight, and do all I could trough the proper diplomatic channels. Failing in that, what more can I do except radio in to Bajor for a replacement? I'm used to women being whisked out of my life, you know, and no way am I going to let Jake-O get killed just to save some Bajoran fanatic who was living on borrowed time anyway." CAPTAIN JANEWAY "The same as Captain Kirk, but I'd take my full crew, dammit! They knew the risks when they signed aboard!" Q "What a ridiculous question. If he died I'd simply bring him back to life and transport him home, simple as that." QUESTION #2: While disguised on a surveillance mission of a primitive culture, your advanced, alien nature is ex- posed, and the inhabitants start worshipping you as a god. Their entire societal development threatens to take a backward turn, plunging them into the dark ages. To prove them wrong you must be willing to be shot with an ar- row to show you can die. What do you do? CAPTAIN KIRK "Get shot? Are you out of your mind? If the damage has already been done, take advantage of it, man! Let me tell you, I'd ask for LOTS of virgin sacrifices, if you know what I mean, heh heh. If Starfleet found out, I'd have Spock muddle their computers or something, or else I'd just save the universe again so they'd forgive me." CAPTAIN PICARD "I'd sit down and explain to them in every possible manner that I am not what they think I am. If Eventually, though, I would trust in Beverly to get that damn arrow out of my chest - assuming Will wasn't available as a better target." COMMANDER SISKO "I'd try every possible diplomatic alternative.