Ship's Log: March Meeting Minutes

First I would like to give a BIG shout out to everyone who set up and manned the USS Bonaventure table at the Stellar Con Convention. It was one of the best tables there! We had many convention goers stop by and ask about our organization. Unfortunately the hotel is going to charge for the table next year and it is undecided what our plans will be.

Chuck led the March 14th meeting.

In attendance at the March meeting: Scott M., Scott G., Chuck, Eric, James, Catherine, Elaine, Janine, Chris, Stephanie, Diane, Gordon, Charles the Klingon, unknown person because I can't read my hand writing (sorry!). Our guests were Mike, Dalhia (not sure about spelling) and Mary

UPCOMING MEETINGS:

The next meeting will be April 11 maybe at the Kernersville Library.

There will be a Department Heads meeting at Joe Muggs/Books-A-Million, Greensboro, 2pm at Guilford College and Bryan Blvd on April 25.

The May 2 meeting will be at Stratford St Krispy Kreme Donuts in Winston Salem.

May 8- is the ST: Movie Premiere activities both at the High Point Palladium and the Burlington Alamance Crossing. The times will be after work Friday and Saturday. Please let Philip or Scott know which one you will be attending.

June Annual Anniversary Meeting will be indoors this time. Do you want to check out meeting at a breakout room at (Radisson) Hotel High Point? Or other place?

July- Do we want a cookout again? Where?

IC2009- August. It will be at the Airport Marriott. We will man our table and help registration Thursday night through Saturday afternoon. Then Bonaventure meeting 2pm Saturday. Do we want cafe, meeting room if available or hotel room? Remember banquets Friday and Saturday nights.

Other News:

Mike updated us about the uniforms. He will be using velcro not buttons. The uniforms will be made from smallest to largest. Eric showed off part of the costume. If you need other items you can check out the Roddenberrystore.com (spelling may be wrong). Eric has the receipt book. The last amount is due upon receipt of the uniform.

Sorry- Scott this message didn't get posted in time. But Scott M. needed submissions for our newsletter by yesterday. You may still be able to submit items. Email Scott for the details. He is looking for 20 year retrospective items and fan art.

Scott is putting together group promotional posters promoting people joining Star Fleet to be displayed at upcoming events.

Dan Johnson and other USS Bonaventure members like Scott Gibson entertained the convention goers at several panels. There was standing room only at the ST:The New Movie panel!

Communication Log: Win a "free" Star Wars Encyclopedia

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The prize is valued from $75.00 to $125.00 depending on where you buy it!!!!

Ship's Log: Dec Meeting Minutes

The Dec 6th Christmas Party was held at Diane and Gordon's home. Everyone had a fun time! In attendance at the December meeting: Diane, Gordon, Chris, Eric, Rene, Rene G., Jill, Cat, Karen, Kurt, Phillip, Scott, Chuck, Elaine, Rachel, and Richard.

The food was excellent! We "feasted" on Chick filet chicken strips, homemade chocolate cake and apple pie, pin wheels, oreos, candy, nuts and much more. There was even warm cider to take off the chill. (It snowed for several minutes around 5pm!)

Captain Phillip discussed several agenda items:

Time is running out to reorder Bonaventure stuff, please let Phillip know if you are interested. See prices in the previous November 9th blog.

January 17 will be the next meeting. We will meet at Borders in Greensboro on the corner of High Point and Holden to car pool to Burlington. The January Meeting will be at Heroes Haven, which is right besides Mayberry's.

Continue working on roleplaying and ship designs.

We watched the Star Trek Trailer 2 (the one with old Spock in it) and critiqued it and what we think of the rumors about the upcoming movie. There were varying opinions. Most people were going to keep an open mind when they saw the movie.

We played Star Trek Santa or Dirty Ferengi depending on how politically correct you are. All the gifts were placed in the middle of the room and we drew numbers to see who would go first. Some gifts were stolen often like the Star Wars Yoda toy, the Hallmark Star Trek Communicator and the Next Generation Comic books. I'm looking forward to reading the book about Roddenberry I stole called "Star Trek Creator". Everyone had a good time, maybe people would like to comment on who they think best displayed Ferengi behavior. Of course, we ordered by our Captain to steal so we all have an excuse.... Eric requested more Star Trek instead of Star Wars toys for next year's Christmas party.

Diane and Gordon organized a Christmas card signing for our troops. Thank you Diane and Gordon for organizing that event and inviting us to your home.

Dan will send an email about the group getting together next weekend to watch The Day the Earth Stood Still.

It started to snow around 5:00 and I left at that time because I had a long shuttle ride home.

If you took pictures at the party please email them to me so I can post them.

Ship's Log: November Meeting Minutes

Captain Phillip presided over the November 8th meeting at the Natural Science Center in Greensboro. The crew had a wonderful time at the Science Center. Stephanie was gave us a special tour of the inside animals (tortoise, spiders (Stephanie had rescued a Mexican fireleg tarantula and had donated it to the center), bugs, vampire bats (small but scary- they had bowls of bovine blood in the cage). We also had fun seeing the outside animals, tigers, South American wolves,an anteater, and other cute animals.

In attendance were: Scott, Chuck, Eric, Richard, Elaine, Gordon, Diane, Chris- with his two sons, Kip and Lane, Phillip, Rachel, Dan, Jill, Rene, and a call in "hello" from James. We had two guests attend Rene and Amanda. Special guide: Stephanie!

The December Meeting will be on the first Saturday, December 6th. It will be our Christmas party meeting at Diane and Gordon's House starting at 2:00 p.m. Dan will send directions and there will be a car pool to their house.

We will be playing Star Trek Santa or the politically incorrect name of Dirty Ferengi. Each person should bring a gift from the $0 to $5 range. It may be handmade, Dollar Store, or a regift from last year. Please do not feel you can not attend if you do not have a gift. Extra gifts will be brought so everyone can play the point is to have fun! The Captain said there needed to be more stealing of prizes this year.

Snack food- we have some people already bringing food so please bring drinks, chips and desserts. Check with Dan or Diane for anything special to bring.

The ship will be taking prepaid orders for Bonaventure stuff at the Christmas party. Please bring cash and order form. Please add tax to the following prices:
$08.00 Bonaventure t-shirt
$12.00 Bonaventure cap
$15.00 Bonaventure sweatshirt
$15.00 Bonaventure briefcase
$18.00 Bonaventure polo shirt
$20.00 Bonaventure gear bag
$22.00 Bonaventure hoodie

The January 17th meeting will be on the 3rd Saturday in January. It is currently scheduled for Heroes Haven in Burlington. If you want a Monster Maroon uniform ready for the IDC come ready to be fitted and the first installment of $25.00. We will be car pooling again and meeting at Borders.

Next Department Head Meeting will be in February. February's regular meeting is yet to be decided.

The March Meeting will coincide with Stellar Con, which is the 2nd weekend in March. We will meet in the hotel lobby so if you do not wish to attend the convention you will not have to pay. Richard encouraged us to have a Star Trek panel. The crew would receive a 10% discount if 10 or more pay with one check.

Contact Dan if you wish to be in one of the Christmas parades in ST uniform:
Saturday, November 22 Burlington 9:00am
Friday, December 5 Mebane 5:00pm
Saturday, December 6 Graham 9:00am
Saturday, December 13 Gibsonville 2:00pm

Charity Events:
Eric gave a shout out for the Triad Health Winter 3 mile Walk on December 7th in Greensbor that is raising money to find a cure for Aids/HIV

Dan gave a shout out for the crew to help with Urban Ministries Food Drive. He would like the crew to set up at a Food Lion and ask for food and contributions for this charity.

Quantum of Solace Group Times:
James Bond rules! The group will be meeting at the following times and places to see the movie:

Saturday at the High Point Palladium for the 4:55 showing
Sunday at the High Point Palladium for the 2:20 showing.

Come early tickets are sure to sell out fast! They are already preselling them at theatres.

Poll Results
The favorite Star Trek series poll ended in a tie with 2 votes for the Original series, 2 votes for Next Gen and 1 vote for Enterprise.

The favorite Dr. Who poll ended with Eccleston winning with 2 votes and a past doctor receiving 1 vote. I know many people said that David was their favorite doctor but they didn't vote so Chris won! Yea!

This week's poll is for your favorite James Bond actor. Vote!

Communication Log: Dr. Who Leaving Series

Bad news for Dr. Who fans- Tennant is leaving!

"He will appear in a Christmas special and four hour-long episodes to be aired in 2009 and early 2010. But he said Wednesday that when the series returns for a full season in 2010, "it won't be with me."

Read the entire article "Say what? Tennant Leaving Dr. Who" at MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27454802/

Take the poll, which Dr. Who is your favorite! If you choose the "past doctor" option add a comment to this post to say which one is your favorite! Everyone should vote!

Ship's Log: USS Bonaventure mentioned in Starfleet Communique several times!

USS Bonaventure was mentioned several times in the Star Fleet Communicator!

1. Our 20th Anniversary Picnic was featured in the article "USS Bonaventure Celebrates Twenty Years as a Starfleet Chapter" with several color pictures. Also take a look at "Creator of Brewster Rockit Made Honorary member of the USS Bonaventure". You can read both of Dan Johnson's articles submitted by Charles Rizzo on page 7 or see images here. Thanks Dan for giving this blog a shout out!

2. In the "What an IC!" article on page 22 and 23, the USS Bonaventure hosting of the next IC is mentioned in the last paragraph, "But now I'm thinking about signing up for IC'09 in Greensboro, North Carolina in August!"


3. On page 25 in the article "Starfleet Takes the Cake" a picture of our out of this world decorated cake with the USS Bonaventure on it is displayed.

There are many other interesting articles in this issue of Starfleet Communique. I enjoyed reading the article "My New Feelings about Star Trek X1" on page 20. I can't wait for the movie! Please take a moment to complete the poll as to which Star Trek series is your favorite! I just learned how to put a poll on my blog. There was only room for four choices so if ST: Voyager is your favorite show you can start a write in campaign in the comments section. Everyone should vote!

Ship's Log: Great Conventions! Monster Con and Paper Heroes

USS Bonaventure had fun and successful recruitment drives at both Monster Con (Oct 4 & 5) and Paper Heroes Con (Oct 17, 18, 19).

Monster Con in Concord allowed free entry if you were in uniform. So the majority of the USS Bonaventure crew where dressed in their Star Fleet uniforms. Hopefully the crew member who took the group photo will send it to me so I can post it.

Paper Heroes Con in Burlington was a weekend of fun! See the photo of Eric and Chris representing the USS Bonaventure.

Dan will be submitting his interview he did with Robert Harris and William Jones (two guests at the convention) about their working with Scott Bakula when he was here in North Carolina shooting the USA made for television movie Above Suspicion.

More pictures from Paper Heroes Con and Monster Con will appear in the Communique.

Ship's Log: September Meeting - Response Needed for Uniforms

Captain Phillip presided over the September USS Bonaventure Meeting at the Burlington Mayberry's. We all enjoyed various delicious ice cream treats!

Then we visited the Heroes Haven Comic Book store next store. The group was treated to a fashion show by Scott Gibson as he modeled the latest in Federation Uniforms.

The group has a great opportunity to obtain wonderful maroon uniforms at a special group rate. It so good we can't publish it on the Internet.

Please contact Dan, Phillip, or any department head that was in attendance to get the pricing information and to let them know if you would like to purchase one.

In attendance were both Scotts, Bill, Dan, Catherine, Elaine, Chris, Eric, Diane, Gordon, Phillip, Chuck and one new member Kevin and one possible new member Brad. Welcome Kevin and Brad to our meeting!

Reorder USS Bonaventure items! Now is the time to let Phillip know if you would like to order or reorder any items with the USS Bonaventure logo such as shirts, hats, brief case or patches.

What department do you want to be in? This is your chance to give input on how your corner of the ship will look. Examples are Medical also called biological sciences, Science, Engineering, Marines, Communications etc.

Materials needed by September 27 for the Anniversary Issue of our Newsletter! Use your creativity, draw pictures, tell stories, write reports or reviews. We need your input! Please remember to bring your used cans because we are using our recycling as a means to get money. Of course, money donations are also welcome.

The new Star Trek movie was discussed!

If you take pictures at our meetings please email them to me ewitkowski@randolph.k12.nc.us so I can post them on my blog.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Renaissance Fair- September 20 in Burlington, NC. Sponsored by Heroes Haven and it will be in their parking lot.

Monster Con- October 4 & 5 in Concord, NC
The USS Bonaventure will be setting up a table and our very own writer, Dan Johnson will be a guest at the event.

The October 11th meeting will be at Leah's house, which is close to where the August meeting was off Lexington Street. Dan will be sending directions closer to the meeting. We will be having a "left over" anniversary cookout. There were plenty of hot dogs, hamburgers and buns left over from our June picnic. Dan will be sending out an email to see what everyone would like to bring to the cookout. The time will be 1:00ish for people helping with the cooking and 2:00 for others.

Paper Heroes Con- October 17 -19 in Burlington, NC
The USS Bonaventure will be setting up a table and Dan Johnson will be a guest at the event.

Halloween Party? Does anyone have ideas for a Halloween get together? Please email Dan or Philip if you have any suggestions.

The November 8th meeting will be at the Science Center at 2:00 p.m.

The December 6th Christmas Party/Meeting will be at Diane's and Gordon's home. We will be playing the Dirty Ferengi game. Everyone brings a small gift (at the $5.00) range. The first person picks a gift. Then each person after the first person can "steal" a gift from someone else or open a new gift. It is great fun!

Ship's Log- Friday & Saturday Clone War Movie Times

(Hi Everyone, I'm reposting Eric's message in case you are not on the email list. Happy Viewing! Elaine :) )

Hello, all! If I've missed anyone, I apologize. If I've included anyone who isn't interested...well, that's what you get for coming to the cookout and signing the contact list.

If any of you are interested and have the time (and money), we're getting a group up to see Star Wars: The Clone Wars this Friday, 15 August at the Palladium Cinemas at Wendover and Penny Road in High Point. The showtime we're planning is 19:15 (7:15 PM for those of you who don't like the 24 hour clock). I just checked movietickets.com, and you can get tickets online if you don't mind the surcharge (I think it's $1 per ticket). Or if you prefer, just drop by the box office. I'm not sure how hot this is going to be, but I would suggest getting advanced tickets just in case. Prices for evening shows should be $9 for adults. If you think this is too much (and I might agree for some shows), we're also planning a Saturday afternoon matinee. If you're interested, let me know so I can send out a showtime.

So if you want to join us and catch the show, we'll be meeting at the theater around 18:30 (OK, 6:30 PM). And yes, I'm taking off work that day. So this may be your only chance to see me out of my native environment during the week.

Hope to see you all there!

Eric

Ship's Log- August Meeting and 8-16-08 Clone Wars movie

Captain Phillip presided over the August Bonaventure meeting at the Mad Platter.

In attendance were Scott Gibson, Catherine, Diane, Ruby, Chris, Eric, Phillip, Rachel, Chuck, Dan, Gordon, Elaine, and Lea.

Also in attendance was new member Scott Melrose was welcomed. Commander Melrose is an Command intelligence officer. Previous posts are the USS Jamestown 1864D and MAAT 1794A.

Everyone had fun painting at the Mad Platter. Chris did a very detailed Enterprise painting on a tile.

The ship celebrated Diane's birthday with a Darth Vader cupcake cake and numerous well wishes and gifts.

Afterwards Chris, Elaine, Gordon, Diane, and Catherine went to see Mummy 3. It was a good movie but not as good as the original.

Upcoming Events:

Saturday, August 16th at the 4 Seasons Theatre the group will be seeing Star Wars Clone Wars at the time closest between 3:00 and 3:30

September's meeting will be at Burlington's Hero's Haven Comic Book Store. Many members will be meeting at Borders on Holden and High Point Rd to car pool to the meeting.

October's meeting will be at Lea's house and will be a cookout with all of the leftovers from the 20th anniversary picnic.

Ship's Log: June's 20th Anniversary Picnic/Meeting

The USS Bonaventure celebrated it's 20th Anniversary with a wonderful picnic for its June meeting. There was plenty of food, fun and friendship!

Captain Phillip welcomed over 50 people at the event. We had visitors from the USS Kitty Hawk, SF3, and Greensboro/SciFi Fantasy Fans

Door Prizes

The following prizes were given away: t-shirts, patches, comic books, audio books, dvds, an authentic ST call sheet, and the grand prize was the entire season of the animated Star Trek, the series were the USS Bonaventure received its name.

History of USS Bonaventure
Look under the tab "about the Bonaventure" for more information.

Awards

Disclaimer: I was so busy clapping that I wasn't able to write all of the awards details down. Please let me know the exact title of your awards and I will add the details. You may leave a comment on the blog or email me at ewitkowski@randolph.k12.nc.us

The Ship received a regional Communications Award.
Crew members receiving awards are:
Jill (service),
Rene (service/promotion to Captain),
Stephanie (service),
James (service),
Tony (service/librarian),
Eric (service, engineering)
Elaine (blog),
Gordon (service, blood donation),
Diane (service/blood donation),
Rachel (service- putting up with Phillip's friends :) ),
Anjanette (service- putting up with Scott's friends),
Lea (service/Regional Let Me Help award),
Kayla (Victory Junction),
Les (Service in Iraq),
Dan (service/communications),
Scott (service/advice),
Chuck (service)

Tim Rickard, creator of the comic, Brewster Rockit was made a honorary member of the USS Bonaventure

Upcoming Meetings in 2008 (usually the 2nd Saturday of every month at 2:00)

July 12 Mariott Hotel, at the PTI airport, Greensboro, NC 2:30 The Star Fleet International Conference 2009 meeting will be hosted there.

August 9 Mad Platter, 1514 N Main St, High Point, NC 27262 2:00

September 13 Ice Cream Social 2:00

October 11 Cookout 2:00

November 8 Science Center, Theater, Zoo, Greensboro 2:00

December 6 Christmas Party

Ship's Log: May Meeting Minutes

Bonaventure's May meeting was held at Putt-Putt Golf after a lunch at Cook Out.

In attendance was Phillip, Richard, Janine, Chuck, Les, Katherine, Chris, Scott, Dana, Renee, Jill, Eric, and Elaine . Captain Phillip led the meeting.

The R1RC nomination was discussed. Les mentioned that he was running for a position and listed the names of other people who were also running.

IC 2009 will be in August at the Marriott Hotel at the airport. Bonaventure will be hosting.

The next order of business was the Bonaventure apparel reorder. We had an informal fashion show displaying the t-shirt, hat, and polo shirts with the ship's logo on them. T-shirts were $8.00 and the polos ranged from $12.00 up to around $21.00

The BIG news of the day was the planning for the Anniversary Party:

• on June 14th at Gibson Park


• Directions once you get to Gibson Park is to drive around 1 to 2 miles once you turn into the entrance. The street deadends into a bath house. Shelter 2 is on the right and there will be a giant Bonaventure Banner hanging over the shelter.


• The fun starts at 2:00 for guests and runs until around 6:00.


• Department Heads need to arrive at 1:00 to begin preparations.


• The grill will start at 1:30


• Door prizes will start at 2:00. The door prizes will be spaced out through out the entire event. T-shirts, patches, dvds and other goodies will be given away.


• Door prize donations are welcome and encouraged!


• A big thank you to Dan for creating the invitations and Diane for sending the invitations to all of the ships in N.C. and to some neigboring States. A good showing of over 50 guests is expecting.


• Everyone must RSVP by June 6th so the proper amount of food can be purchased. You can send an email to ussbonaventure@mindspring.com or go to our new web site at http://www.ussbonaventurencc102.org/ for the physical address to rsvp.


• Because of the number of people expected to attend it is BYOC- bring your own chair and any extra lawn chairs that you may have.


• The cake adventure was discussed. Phillip has been battling secret alien agents who want to throw a road block in front of us having a decorated cake. Little did our foe know that you don't want to challenge the Bonaventure crew with the Prime +1 directive, which is eating and having fun. Phillip will be continuing the battle soon. Donations for the cake(s) are welcome.


• Phillip has the list of food that Bonaventure members volunteered to bring in case you forget what you volunteered to bring.


• If you plan to walk the trails, please remember that the trails do NOT circle back to the Shelter. (Sounds like a Romulan plot to me)


• Bring your aluminum cans! Dan is recycling the cans to pay for a print copy of our AAWFO newsletter. Dan also needs submissions, and/or pictures for AAWFO by the end of May so it can be distributed at the picnic.
• Official Awards both at the Fleet level and the Ship level will be given out at the picnic.

Think about what charity or charities you would like the USS Bonaventure to support in the upcoming year.

Richard gave a Stellar Con 2009 update. It will be at the Radisson hotel on March 13 - March 15. During Stellar Con 2008 the USS Bonaventure's Chuck and Scott beat KAG in the checkers challenge. We also beat KAG in the charity auction challenge.

UPCOMING CONVENTIONS

• Amimazement is in Durham on May 23-25 http://www.animazement.org/
• Concarolinas is in Charlotte on May 30-June 1 http://www.concarolinas.org/

CURRENT AND UPCOMING MOVIES

• Iron Man received wonderful reviews from the crew
• Speed Racer was not seen because of poor word of mouth and bad reviews. Please post comments about this movie if you go see it.
• Indiana Jones will be seen by the crew on Sunday afternoon, May 25th

Zombie Con in Greensboro this Saturday 3-29-08

Just a quick note about Zombie Con this Saturday 3-29-08.

Jericho's Series Finale- Too Close to Reality?

I really liked Jericho and was happy when it was renewed and was sad when it was cancelled again. It was very suspenseful and had great acting. Could it be that it hit too close to home? They had a mercenary group called Raven wood which mirrored activities that the real life Black water "security forces" were accused of. Look at the different real life responses to disasters such as 9-11 or Katrina. Do we really know how our government would handle multiple disasters at once? It was a show that made you think while you were enjoying the storyline.

Communication Log: Music- Star Trek- Bon Jovi Concert

This is a reverse trivia question. I am looking for the episode and I will give you the question. I do NOT know the answer and would love for you to share your expertise with me. Which Star Trek episodes featured Spock performing musically. I remember one where he was using a guitar-like instrument and there was a group of hippies. I remember another one where he was singing to Lt. Uhuru or Nurse Chapel? It was when some aliens had control of their minds and/or bodies. I also remembered a third episode but I'm real hazy on the details.

Would Spock have approved of the Bon Jovi Concert?
My sister and I had a great time at the Bon Jovi concert. We went to the coliseum early around 5:30 to try to buy tickets from scalpers. We were thinking that once the concert started the ticket prices would go down. We decided to check the box office to see what they had left. Apparently a corporation had reserved a row of seats and had just released them. We were able to sit very close to the stage (109 AA- we were three rows up in the first elevated row) and we were able to get the tickets for only 80.00 each. My sister started crying because she was so happy. It was her birthday and she couldn't think of a better gift than great seats at the concert. We had never sat that close during a concert. Bon Jovi was incredible. I don't know how the man gets his energy. He was bouncing all over the stage and the music was awesome. The opening act, Chris Daughtry, was very good too. We parked on Chapman street so we were able to get out quickly. I can't believe 22,000 people were at the concert. I didn't get home until after midnight and didn't get to bed until 1am. I am so tired today but I'm glad I went. Did anyone else go?

Ship's Log: March Meeting 3-15-08

Bonaventure's March Meeting was held at Stellarcon in the lobby of the Radisson Hotel.

The Bonaventure fan table so steady traffic all day. Our new banner was above our table and we showed fan films, remastered Star Trek episodes

The group also ran an ad in the Stellarcon program inviting people to our 20th Anniversary Celebration Picnic at Gibson Park in Jamestown, NC (see link for map). Gibson Park is off Wendover, near Palladium Theatres. The entrance is beside the Deep River Pet Hospital. The picnic will be on June 14th at 2:00 pm.

Also in the ad was our new web site at http://www.ussbonaventurencc102.org/

Attending the meeting was Phillip, Scott, Eric, Elaine, Chris, Dan, Jennifer, Wendell, Robert, Tony, Chuck and several Klingons from KAG

Phillip talked about the new banner, new logo, and new ship design (1st ship of the new Emissary Class Heavy Cruiser design). He explained how the logo and design were a combination of future technology and the traditional look.

Department Heads: Reports need to go to Dan by the end of the month. Each department should keep on working on how you want your department to look. Each department may have a different logo for their department.

New less expensive patches were located, the only catch is that 100 has to be ordered. 3 inch patches are $3.00 and 3 1/2 inch patches are $3.40.

Hats and Shirts were given out. Royal Blue was used in the hats and part of the logo because navy blue was too dark.

Upcoming Events:

April Meeting: On April 12th we will meet at Shoney's (I-40 & Hwy 68) at 2:00, get there before 2:00 if you want the breakfast buffet.

Zombie Con: On March 29th at the Clarion Hotel off 40. Admission is $5.00

May Meeting: On May 10th at the Cookout on North Main St besides the Putt Putt. At 2:00 we will eat lunch at Cookout and then we walk next door and play Putt Putt.

ConCarolinas: On May 30th - June 1st. Picardo had to cancel because he is now a regular on StarGate: Atlantis.

June Meeting: 20th Anniversary celebration picnic at Gibson Park in Jamestown, NC. See opening of minutes for map link and directions.

September Meeting: Mayberry Day

Kela and other Klingons came by for the challenge checkers match.

"I'll be back" but I won't be watching

I can't remember a more boring season finale than tonight's Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles. Now that the strike is over I predict that the show will not last long. What do you think?

Previous ST Trivia Question:We all know the prime directive but what is general order 15?
Answer: "No flag officer shall beam into a hazardous area without armed escort." Quoted by Saavik before Kirk beamed onton the Regula 1 space station.

Ferengi Rule of Acquisition 6
Never allow family to stand in the way of opportunity

Homeland Security issues alert to be on the look out for possible "alien" rabbit

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's Chuck with a pre-Easter greeting for us! Aren't we glad that Scott had his iphone ready this for not-of-this-world action.

Last Blog's ST Trivia Question:
Which famous actor played the night shift communications officer on the Excelsior in ST4?

Answer:
Christian Slater. His mom, Mary Jo Slater, was casting director on the film.

Today's ST Trivia Question:
We all know the prime directive but what is general order 15?

In honor of Chuck- today's Ferengi Rule of Acquistion is Rule 7:
Keep your ears open!

Ship's Log: Pics and SW Magazine Winners

Which device is absolutely necessary for a prepared Star Fleet Officer to have? Forget about the tricorder, who needs a sonic screwdriver, when you have a iphone with a camera ability!

Thank you Scott for sending the pictures of the February meeting. They are great. Everyone looks like they are having a wonderful time.

Last month I had a contest for making comments on this site. The winners of a Star Wars Magazine are James Austin, Tony and Lt. Uhura (please let me know who you are in this universe). The SW magazines will be at the USS Bonaventure table at the Stellar Con convention. If you do not want the magazine let me know and I will let the next runners up have them.

ST Trivia Answer from the last post:

Which famous drummer was a fishlike Antedean Ambassador in Next Gen episode "Manhunt"?

Answer:

Mick Fleetwood from Fleetwood Mac was the Fish Guest on Next Gen

Today's ST Trivia Question:

Which famous actor played the night shift communications officer on the Excelsior in ST4?

All trivia questions and answers are coming from the SFX book- The Ultimate SF & Fantasy Trivia Book Volume 2

Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #3:

Never pay more for an acquisition than you have to.

The surprise picture from Chuck deserves its own blog! So you will have to wait for tomorrow to see it!

Communication Log: Must Read Update on ST:The Tour

If you are looking for the inside scoop on ST:The Tour you must read this article, To Boldly Go Where You've Gone Before and start saving up your money. To star in your favorite ST episode and get the dvd will cost $40.00. They blue screen you in and you read from a script. Also available is a motion postcard of you being transported, price unknown. This article has 5 pages of details and it sounds like the most out of this world experience. I can't wait, Scotty beam me there now!

ST Trivia:
Which famous drummer was a fishlike Antedean Ambassador in Next Gen episode "Manhunt"? Find out tomorrow and get to view the pictures from the February meeting.

Ferengi Rule of Acquistion 1: Once you have their money, you never give it back.