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UPCOMING
EVENTS
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Friday, May 17: Star Trek Into
Darkness Premiere, Chamblee
• Sat.,
May 18: Star Trek Into Darkness Premiere, Alpharetta
• Friday-Sunday, May 24-26:
TimeGate
NEWS
& ANNOUNCEMENTS
• Message from the Chairman
of TrekTrax Atlanta
• See an advance screening
of Star Trek Into Darkness for free!
• Personnel Records
• Library Computer
SIDEBAR
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March Birthdays
• February-May
Membership Renewals
• About
the Republic
• For More Information
• USS Republic Online
• Crew Roster
• News from TrekMovie.com
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Roberto
Orci & Alex Kurtzman Reveal How Fans Influenced Into
Darkness
+ Talk Next Movie & More |
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Lindelof
Talks When Into
Darkness
Villain Was Chosen + Chance of Abrams Directing Next
Trek |
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UPCOMING
EVENTS
Star Trek Into Darkness
Premiere
Friday, May 17, 2013
Regal Cinemas Hollywood
Stadium 24
3265 Northeast Expressway Access
Chamblee GA 30341
(770) 936-9468 |
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Members
and friends of the Republic at the Star
Trek (2009) movie premiere at the Regal Cinemas
in Chamblee, Georgia, on May 10, 2009
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The USS
Republic will have an official presence at the Star
Trek Into Darkness premiere on Friday, May 18, at the
Regal Cinemas Hollywood Stadium 24 in Chamblee, but as of
press time, few other details have been confirmed. The
Republic is currently in talks with Regal Cinemas management
to finalize additional details, which will be announced next
weekend. We anticipate these details to be essentially
identical to our presence at this theater for the previous
Star Trek movie premiere in 2009, when we set up a
display table in the lobby and handed out promotional materials
about the chapter. Every member of the Republic
who put in two hours at that table was given a free pass to
see the movie that evening. We hope to work out
the same deal again for this premiere. We'll let
you know as soon as all details have been finalized. If
you can come out, help us promote the chapter and watch the
movie with us for free, please contact
the Captain so we can let management know how many
of us to expect on Friday, May 17. We had a great
time when we did this in 2009, so come on out and have a great
time with us again!
REGAL
CINEMAS HOLLYWOOD STADIUM 24 WEB SITE |
Star
Trek Into Darkness Premiere
Saturday, May 18, 2013
Studio Movie Grill
2880 Holcomb Bridge Rd
Alpharetta GA 30022
(770) 992-8411 |
Be one
of the first 15 members of the USS Republic to come
to the Studio Movie Grill in Alpharetta on Saturday
afternoon, May 18, to help promote the chapter and see Star
Trek Into Darkness that evening for free!
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Members
and friends of the Republic at the Star
Trek (2009) movie premiere at the Regal Cinemas
in Chamblee, Georgia, on May 8, 2009
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The Studio
Movie Grill will be providing us with a table for handouts
and giveaways and in return, has asked for as many of us as
possible to show up in Star Trek costume or in chapter-branded
shirts or t-shirts. They have offered us up to
15 free tickets for a screening of the movie that evening. These
tickets will be offered to the first 15 Republic members
in good standing (i.e., membership dues are current) who arrive
before 5:00 p.m. If less than 15 members in good
standing attend, the remainder will be offered to former members
or non-members in Star Trek costume. Management
will set aside a section in the theater where we can sit together.
Studio Movie Grill is the pioneer of the in-theater dining
concept, offering up first-run movies and alternate programming
alongside an American Grill menu and full service bar. This
will be the Republic's first chapter event at their
Alpharetta location and will be an ideal occasion to promote
the Republic in that area. If you can come
out, help us promote the chapter and watch the movie with
us for free, please contact
the Captain so we can let management know how many
of us to expect on Saturday, May 18.
STUDIO
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TimeGate
Friday-Sunday,
May 24-26, 2013
Holiday Inn Atlanta Perimeter
4386 Chamblee-Dunwoody Road, Atlanta GA 30341
(770) 457-6363
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"TimeGate
is an annual science fiction/fantasy convention that focuses
on Doctor Who and Stargate but also includes
programming on a wide range of other sci-fi/fantasy interests.
So if you're into Stargate SG-1, Doctor
Who, Stargate Atlantis, Torchwood, The
Sarah Jane Adventures or Stargate Universe, this
is the convention for you! But if not, we'll also
have Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica, literary,
costuming, horror and comics programming, too, along with
many other topics. In 2013, we celebrate the 50th
Anniversary of Doctor Who, a unique achievement in
the world of television science fiction/fantasy."
As of press time, there are no confirmed guests with a professional
Star Trek credential, and their "Otherworlds"
programming schedule has not yet been posted online. We'll
keep an eye on both and let you know next issue of any Star
Trek-specific additions to either. In the meantime,
the USS Republic will once again have an official
presence at TimeGate, which may include a fan table and/or
a room party, depending on the willingness of you, the membership,
to help with either or both. Please contact
the Captain if you're interested in helping with
either one.
TimeGate memberships for persons age 13 and up are $45 until
May 5 and are $60 at the door. For more information
about TimeGate's guests, programming events, hotel and memberships,
please visit their web
site.
TIMEGATE
WEB SITE
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NEWS
& ANNOUNCEMENTS
Message
from the Chairman of TrekTrax Atlanta |
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On behalf
of all our directors and volunteer staff, I would like to
personally thank all of our guests and attendees for helping
to make TrekTrax Atlanta 2013 an enjoyable weekend
for everyone there. Many of our attending members
have been posting photos from the weekend on Facebook and
I hope you've had a chance to see them. Many thanks
to everyone who has shared their photos with us and I encourage
anyone else with photos to share to do the same.
 Highlights
from this year's convention include our highly entertaining
Guest of Honor, Manu Intiraymi, who charmed everyone
with tales of his time on Star Trek: Voyager and
previews of his upcoming work; the Miss Klingon Empire Beauty
Pageant, featuring five honorable and worthy contestants
vying for this year's crown; and making a bit of Star
Trek fan film history with cast and crew members from
no less than four different fan film productions (Project:
Potemkin, Star Trek: Reliant, Star Trek: Valkyrie
and Star Trek: Phase II) collaborating on the newest
Project: Potemkin vignette "Closing Time," filmed
on location Friday night and a "rough cut" of which was
premiered on Sunday and is already online. The final
cut will be posted online when complete.
Another round of applause goes to our other Guests of Honor,
Keith R. A. DeCandido, Emmett Plant, Dr. Lawrence
M. Schoen and Ken Feinberg, all of whom were
terrific guests. A huge thank you to all these fine
gentlemen!
And of course, we want to thank everyone who attended this
year's convention for your ongoing support. We do
this FOR you and couldn't do it WITHOUT you!
TrekTrax Atlanta will return in 2014, bigger and better
than ever before. In the meantime, a detailed post-mortem
report and lots of photos will be published next issue.
Eric L. Watts
Chairman, TrekTrax Atlanta
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| See
an advance screening of Star Trek Into Darkness for
free! |
 By
special arrangement with Allied Integrated Marketing of Atlanta
and Paramount Pictures, the USS Republic is able to
offer a pair of tickets to an advance screening of Star
Trek Into Darkness to any member in good standing who
is willing and able to attend the screening in full Star
Trek costume. To be clear, chapter t-shirts
or sport shirts or other types of street clothes, such as
t-shirts with a Star Trek image on them, will not
qualify you for these tickets. You can wear a Starfleet
uniform from any series or film, or dress up as any recognizable
Star Trek alien (Klingon, Vulcan, Andorian, Orion slave
girl, etc.), but you must be in full costume.
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Members
and friends of the Republic at the costume-required
Star Trek (2009) IMAX movie premiere in Kennesaw,
Georgia, on May 6, 2009
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This advance
screening will be held at an evening showtime sometime during
the week of May 13 at an Atlanta-area theater. The
exact time, date and location has not yet been determined
but will be known very soon. (A similar costume-required
advance screening for 2009's Star Trek was held on
the Wednesday prior to the official release date.) Ticketholders
will be asked to sign a release form at the screening and
agree to be photographed in costume, and will be seated together
in a section reserved especially for them.
If your membership dues are current and you are willing and
able to attend this advance screening, probably on Wednesday,
May 15, in full Star Trek costume, contact
the Captain for further information. |
| Personnel
Records |
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Congratulations
to Lt JG Robert
Simon, who:
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received
a grade of HONORS for the STARFLEET Academy
course "Officers Command College"
from the IOLS Officer's Command College, completed
on March 31, 2013; and |
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received
a grade of HONORS for the STARFLEET Academy
course "FXB101 - Plants in Star Trek"
from the IOAS School of XenoBotany, completed
on April 4, 2013; and
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received
a grade of HONORS for the STARFLEET Academy
course "VOC-101 - Geography & Physiology"
from the IOAS Vulcan Orientation College, completed
on April 12, 2013; and |
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received
a grade of HONORS for the STARFLEET Academy
course "VOC-201 - Analysis of Vulcans"
from the IOAS Vulcan Orientation College, completed
on May 2, 2013. |
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 STARFLEET
Academy is a special collection of correspondence courses
available to every STARFLEET member. Over 60 Academy
Colleges offer courses spanning all aspects of Star
Trek and science fiction; some courses even cover
non-sci-fi real world topics. Each college offers
dozens of different courses at varying levels of challenge
from super-easy to really hard. In total, there
are nearly 1,000 different courses available. Take
a course today!
Something special going on in your life? Submit
your Personnel Record for publication in the
next issue of The Republiqué! |
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BELATED
MARCH BIRTHDAYS
Saturday, March 9
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Saturday, March
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FEBRUARY-MAY
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Please renew now!
Cmdr David Churvis
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Adm Michael Henigan
Adm Kelly S. Hilliard
Ens JG Roderick Jennings
ENS1 Wilford B. ("Wil") Sims
Michael Smith
ENS2 Marilyn Teague
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ABOUT
THE REPUBLIC
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USS Republic NCC-1371 was originally commissioned
as a chapter of STARFLEET International on May 14, 1988,
at the Dixie-Trek convention in Atlanta, Georgia. As
of May 4, 2013, the Republic crew includes 44
members who are active members of STARFLEET in good
standing. |
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Republic plans and coordinates an active schedule
of events for its members, but does not hold meetings on
a consistently fixed date each month. |
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Because
the USS Republic is a duly commissioned chapter
of STARFLEET International and is bound and governed by
its Constitution and By-Laws, membership in STARFLEET
is a prerequisite for membership in the Republic. Combined
annual dues for both groups are $25 per person and is
collected by the chapter (family discounts are available
with certain conditions and restrictions). Membership
in the Republic includes access to our YahooGroups
message board, voting privileges in chapter elections
and additional privileges that occasionally become available.
Additional information on Republic membership
and how to join or reenlist is on our award-winning web
site.
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NEWS
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Orci & Alex Kurtzman Reveal How Fans Influenced Into
Darkness + Talk Next Movie & More |
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By
Anthony Pascale
May 4, 2013
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| TrekMovie.com
spoke with Star Trek Into Darkness co-writers Alex
Kurtzman and Roberto Orci at the white carpet premiere in
London. We talked about secrecy, how fans influenced
the movie, the next Trek and more. Here are
some highlights: |
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on desire for secrecy: |
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is so rare nowadays to walk into a movie and be genuinely
surprised by what was happening. When we were kids,
you would wait four hours in line with no idea of what was
coming and there was such joy to that and it feels that
that experience is gone for filmgoers these days and we
wanted to preserve that. |
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on how fan reaction to Star Trek 2009 affected the
story for Star Trek Into Darkness: |
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the first movie, a lot of fans said, "Oh my gosh, Kirk
became captain so fast!" And he went from
cadet to captain, and even though he saved the world, too
fast. And so in [Into Darkness] we take that
criticism very much into heart. Literally, Christopher
Pike tells Kirk, "Some people think you got here too
fast and maybe you weren’t ready for the chair." And
it is actually part of the story of the movie and that was
a result of fan input. |
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On Paramount’s plans for the next Star Trek movie: |
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are firm about having a movie out by the 50th anniversary
[in 2016] and we are all trying to see if we can all make
it work together. |
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favorite scenes translated from their script to the actual
movie, Alex said his was with the Klingons, Bob said his
favorite was with the Enterprise rising out of the
water, noting: |
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like the Enterprise rising out of the ocean...
that was an idea that Alex pitched and the minute he pitched
it, I was like, "It is going to piss off some fans
but I love it, it is going to be great!"
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Lindelof
Talks When Into Darkness Villain Was Chosen + Chance
of Abrams Directing Next Trek |
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By
Anthony Pascale
May 4, 2013
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| TrekMovie.com
spoke with writer/producer Damon Lindelof at the London
premiere of Star Trek Into Darkness. Here are
some highlights: |
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challenging—rebooting Star Trek in 2009 vs.
following up what was seen as big success: |
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think they were equal challenges. I remember
being terrified in both instances and then meditating on
the same way of dealing with that terror, which was: My
job is not to be intimidated by the success of everything
that came before. My job is to job is to help J. J.
tell the best story that he can. And when I put my
head down and focused on what was ahead of me instead of
what was behind me, I was able to do it. |
| Lindelof
on how early on they chose what direction to go in for Into
Darkness: |
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had conversations during the first movie and right after
the first movie came out about "OK, we are going to
do that thing we talked about, right?" "Yes,
we are going to do it." |
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possibility of J. J. Abrams directing next Star Trek
movie in time for 2016 anniversary: |
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think we have to fundamentally accept that J. J. is not
going to direct this [next Star Trek] movie, although
I wouldn’t rule anything out. And if Star Wars
is indeed coming out in the summer of 2015, unless the cloning
technology that I am not fully aware of exists, it is going
to be tough. |
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finding a new director to continue on after two films with
such a unique style: |
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J. is such a unique talent that finding someone who does
what he does is next to impossible. So I think what
step one is: Find someone who has a passion for Trek
and a passion for these two movies and a vision for what
comes next. |
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