VOLUME 11 NUMBER 1 FEBRUARY, 2000 THE WRIGHT STUFF THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER OF THE U.S.S. KITTY HAWK NCC 1659 A VIEW FROM THE CATBIRD SEAT By J.R. Fisher MOST IMPORTANT!! We additional person (max: 2) is an 24 is in High Point this weekend. agreed to do the PBS Telethon on the additional $10.00 per person. We There are cons in Durham, Saturday nights of February 19th need to know who is going, when, Raleigh, and Charlotte this year, at and March 18th, 6 p.m. until 11:30 and whom you will room with, or do least six and maybe more. We will p.m., both nights. We signed up 27 you need a room to yourself. Please give you more info as it becomes people for the February shift, but tell me at PBS Telethon and available. Of course, there are have already had four people cancel absolutely no later than the March always the long distance cons in out. If you did sign up, please be meeting. The agreed upon date is Atlanta and Baltimore that are sure and come and if you have not April 7, 8, and 9, 2000. frequented by our crew. Come to the signed up, please come anyway; call The next thing to bring to your meetings and pair up with those who me to let me know to expect you. If attention is a reminder about your will be going this year. Always more you are coming and have a friend or dues. Kitty Hawk dues for 2000 are fun when there are more people, family member you can bring who is $24.00 per family and are currently cheaper too. willing to help us, please let me due. Please pay these by the March At our January meeting, we know and get them on board. Every meeting. STARFLEET dues are traditionally announce our selection year we have a number of people who staggered according to the number of of the “crewperson of the year” cannot make it for various reasons persons in a family and have been award. This honor goes to the and we come up a few short. This extended according to the new member of the crew who best year we scheduled more people than membership/renewal sheet I received demonstrates, by deeds, the slots, but now we are already below last week. See me for detail or new philosophy of Star Trek and the our quota; so suck it up and come out sheet. We are requiring that all U.S.S. Kitty Hawk. For her tireless and help! members of the Kitty Hawk be active efforts and contributions to Vulkon Now, we have a similar STARFLEET members as well. last January, this year’s “crewman of situation with helping at the N.C. At the holiday/anniversary the year” is Janet Williams. Her Food Bank. A good number of people party in December, we listed our certificate was awarded at the indicated that they would help this accomplishments over the last 10 January meeting and she was last Saturday morning but only two years, since our shuttle was promoted to Master Chief Petty of us showed up. Please be launched. Most outstanding among Officer; pending her completion of responsible! If you volunteer to do those deeds were the amount on O.T.S., she will be elevated to Lt.j.g. something and can’t, just call me or money we helped PBS and Duke Congratulations, Janet! the responsible person for the event raise by way of their respective On to the same old things. The and tell them you cannot be there. telethons and our own donations of Duke jar is still pretty light and June That way we don’t look foolish nor do money and time. These are ongoing will be here before you know it. We we worry that something has events that we hope we can help fuel have a good number of books that happened to you while trying to get by getting back to doing the have been donated by members to be to us. The work is not difficult, but Artsplosure events in the spring and sold/auctioned with the proceeds the building is neither heated nor air New Years. Please set aside some of going to the Duke jar. It is a win-win conditioned except by mother nature. your time to help us raise the funds deal. Come to the meetings and get This is our new community work we donate to charity. And don’t some new reading material and help project, please pitch in and help. forget to bring those crushed the Duke jar. The other really important aluminum cans to our meetings, as In October, we will celebrate thing that needs to be addressed we start on reskinning another 747. our tenth anniversary of our quickly is our pending trip to This year is going to be a busy commissioning. (Sounds like a good Washington, D.C. to visit the various one for conventions and conferences excuse for another dinner party to museums. I contacted the Quality in Raleigh. At the next meeting we me.) If we start now, we could put on Hotel at Courthouse Plaza in hope to have the head of Trinoc-Con, a real show for ourselves. Let me Arlington, VA., which is where we Rick McGee, come and speak to us hear your ideas, after all, you’ve got stayed last time, and got the rates: 2 about their event and see where we the Wright Stuff. Come, work hard, queen size beds with exterior hall, can fit into their scheme of things. have fun with friends. $109.95/night; 2 queen size beds with There are several other events which interior hall, 119.95/night. This is a we will probably be interested in double occupancy rate; each within the state. 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THERE’S TRIBBLE IN THE COLLECTIVE By Jeff Cohn Part VII: Cardassians, Tribbles, wonderful pets. “Excuse me Sir, here exceptionally deep gravity well, and Borg, Oh My! are more status reports requiring rivaling that of a small neutron star. your attention.” “Thank you The Transwarp fields generated by Captain's log Stardate Ensign.” Lawrence sighed. If the the Borg Cubes made took advantage 49245.10. The graviton wake Borg, the Dominion, or the tribbles of this; the fleet returned to emitted by the Triborg fleet has don’t get us, the paperwork will. Unimatrix 005 in half the time it remained steady, and after some would take without the added boost. initial… difficulty, crew and ship are ---------------{*}--------------- Captured ship in tow, the fleet proceeding at optimal performance. approached the primary command At the current rate of speed, we are One of the peculiarities of Borg center. Powerful tractor beams one standard day from Cardassian transwarp technology was that emanated from a node at the base of space. Unfortunately, we’ve lost linear distance did not always the structure. They grabbed the contact with the Class II probe left to directly correlate with the time tribble’s ship as it was released by follow the Borg. We have no way of needed to reach a destination. the Cubes, and brought it into a knowing whether the Borg will Federation warp drive utilized synchronous orbit. assimilate or destroy the ship they matter-antimatter reactions to create captured. It is likely, of course, to be a subspace “bubble”, thereby The Borg Queen smiled as she the former. producing a “shortcut” through observed the arrival. With a normal space through which thought, she ordered the infected “Communications with the starships could travel more or less vessel brought into a holding area tribbles remain intact Sir.” Ensign directly. Borg technology made use where specialist Drones could board Brett looked up from his panel and of subspace as did all spacefaring her and commence the assimilation continued his report. All sections cultures; however, it improved upon of the wayward ship and any report systems at nominal or better.” it by taking advantage of one of the remaining crew.