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UPCOMING
EVENTS
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Saturday, September 19: STARFLEET
Bowling Challenge
NEWS
& ANNOUNCEMENTS
• John & Bjo
Trimble to be Guests of Honor for Treklanta 2016
• Rick
Sternbach to judge Star Trek Fan Film Awards
• Personnel Records
• Library Computer
• Recent Chapter Event Photos
SIDEBAR
• Belated June Birthdays
• Welcome
Aboard!
• May
Member Reenlistments
• September Membership
Renewals
• About the
Republic
• For More Information
• USS Republic Online
• Crew Roster
• Editorial from TrekMovie.com
— Do We Still
Really Need Star Trek
Conventions? |
UPCOMING
EVENTS
Tenth
Annual STARFLEET Bowling Challenge
6:30 p.m. Saturday, September 19, 2015
Midtown
Bowl
1936 Piedmont Circle, Atlanta GA 30324
(404) 874-5703 || www.midtownbowl.com
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The
2014 Bowling Challenge was a lot of fun for all
who attended. Seated: Tina Louise Jones,
Christopher M. Jones, Ens Alan High, ENS1 I. Claire
Willis. Standing: ENS1 Sue Lin Lange,
ENS1 "Wolfy," Ens Kevin M. Fry, CO FCapt
Eric L. Watts, ENS1 Todd Dissinger, Bunny Ai.
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Join
the USS Republic for our Tenth Annual STARFLEET
Bowling Challenge! We once again challenge the
Klingon
Assault Group and the Georgia
501st to this longstanding annual event... we'll
see who shows up to meet us in the alley!
The game fee is $20.00 per person for two hours
of bowling and includes shoe rental. CASH
ONLY, PLEASE, and please pay the Republic, who
has already paid for the lane rental. We have
rented two lanes for two hours which accommodate up to
six players each. Please
RSVP if you plan to attend so we can add lanes if necessary. Please
arrive no later than 6:30 p.m. to pay for play, get your
shoes and choose your ball. First ball rolls promptly
at 7:00 p.m., so please arrive early and be ready to roll
(literally) at 7:00 p.m. Midtown
Bowl's food grill offers a broad range of menu
items and adult beverages are available at the full-service
bar.
The now-legendary
2007 Bowling Challenge was a huge media event
with lots of TV cameras and all the challenges since then
have been just as much fun, if perhaps not as well-attended.
Plan to wear your best Star Trek costume
or your USS Republic sport shirt or chapter t-shirt
for this fun-filled family-friendly event!
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NEWS
& ANNOUNCEMENTS
Treklanta
announces John & Bjo Trimble as Guests of Honor for 2016 |
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 Treklanta
is absolutely thrilled to announce that
our first two confirmed Guests of Honor for our 2016 convention
are John & Bjo Trimble!
John & Bjo are legendary figures in the history of science
fiction fandom in general and Star Trek in particular.
It is a statement of fact that you and I would not be
Star Trek fans today had it not been for these two
extraordinary individuals, who led the campaign to save Star
Trek from cancellation in 1968.
Bjo Trimble helped revive a flagging Los Angeles Science Fiction
Society in the late 1950s. In 1958, she put together
the "WorldCon Futuristic Fashion Show" at Solacon, the 1958
16th World Science Fiction Convention. She ran one again
in 1966 at Tricon, the 24th WorldCon, incidentally giving
fandom a glimpse of three early Star Trek costumes.
She started and directed "Project Art Show," the first
modern convention art show, in 1960. The success of
Project Art Show led to art shows becoming a profitable part
of most conventions, large and small.
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Trimbles' most famous cause was the successful "Save Star
Trek" campaign, which is credited with allowing the original
series to run for a third primetime season rather than being
canceled after only two, which in turn allowed it to be offered
into syndication, where it quickly found worldwide popularity.
They also ran the campaign to have the first of NASA's
space shuttles named Enterprise.  Her
efforts earned her an uncredited role as a crew member in
Star Trek: The Motion Picture, along with a contingent
of other members of fandom who were allowed to serve as extras
in full costume, portraying crew members (both human and alien)
in the Recreation Deck scene (at the time, the largest number
of persons ever appearing in a single Star Trek scene).
Her other film credits include makeup design for Flesh
Gordon and a role as Ma Cant, a satirical version of Superman's
Martha Kent, in a film short called Superbman: The Other
Movie.
 Bjo
Trimble authored the first encyclopedic collection of data
for Star Trek, the Star Trek Concordance, which
contains cross-referenced details on every character, setting,
event and device in every episode of the original Star
Trek, its animated incarnation and, in later editions
of the book, the Star Trek films. According to
Richard Arnold, the Concordance was used as a primary
source of official canon by writers of the Star Trek
universe when he first started working at Paramount.
Bjo Trimble received the Big Heart Award in 1964 and (in her
persona of Flavia Beatrice Carmigniani) the Society for Creative
Anachronism's Order of the Laurel, an art award. Bjo
and John are also members of the SCA's Order of the Pelican
for service. (She and John were Baron and Baroness of
the SCA's Barony of the Angels [the Los Angeles Chapter of
the SCA] from September 2008 until January 2012.) She
also received the International Costumers Guild's Lifetime
Achievement award.
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Bjo
Trimble and Captain Eric
at the 1995 Dragon*Con
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Bjo was
Guest of Honor at 1995's Dragon*Con, the 6th North American
Science Fiction Convention, as well as at many other science
fiction and Star Trek conventions around the world.
Bjo and John Trimble were also the Fan Guests of Honor
at the 60th WorldCon, ConJosé.
The
Trimbles live in Southern California.
Don't miss this extraordinary opportunity to meet John & Bjo
Trimble. Treklanta 2016 will be held next April 15-17
at the DoubleTree by Hilton Atlanta Northlake hotel in Tucker,
Georgia. Visit the Treklanta
web site to
purchase your membership and book your hotel room today! |
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Rick
Sternbach to judge Independent Star Trek Fan Film
Awards
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 Treklanta
is delighted to announced that Mr. Rick Sternbach has
joined our panel of judges for the 2015 Independent Star
Trek Fan Film Awards.
Mr. Sternbach is an illustrator with a long history in the
Star Trek franchise. He designed control panel
layouts and signage for the USS Enterprise for Star
Trek: The Motion Picture, created the animated asteroid
wormhole sequence and helped source material from NASA/JPL
that was used in the design of V'Ger. In 1987, he began
work on Star Trek: The Next Generation, helping to
define the look of the 24th century that would be used throughout
The Next Generation and the series that followed it:
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager.
Props such as phasers, tricorders, PADDs and the communicator
badge were all based on his designs. Mr. Sternbach was
also responsible for a number of starship designs, including
the Cardassian Galor class starships, the Klingon Vor'cha
and Negh'Var class starships, and Federation starships such
as the Prometheus class, the Dauntless, the Nova class and
the USS Voyager.
As a fan of the original Star Trek series and of the
space program, Mr. Sternbach served as a technical advisor
on these series, advising the writers on technical matters
and developing a number of concepts to add realism to the
Star Trek universe, such as the structural integrity
field and the inertial damper. To this end, he and Michael
Okuda produced a technical manual for each series that was
made available along with the series bible to any prospective
scriptwriters to familiarize them with the concepts behind
the series' technology. In 1991, Pocket Books published
an updated, illustrated version of The Next Generation
Technical Manual and then, seven years later, The Deep
Space Nine Technical Manual.
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leaving Paramount following the Star Trek: Voyager
finale in 2001, Mr. Sternbach returned to Star Trek
in 2002, when he produced control panel designs and signage
for the Enterprise-E and Romulan starships in Star
Trek: Nemesis.
The Independent Star Trek Fan Film Awards Ceremony
will be held on Sunday, April 17, 2016, at Treklanta. Please
visit the Treklanta
web site for information on memberships, hotel
rooms, guests and the many other events and activities that
will be held at the convention. |
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Personnel
Records
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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! |
Library
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Joan
M. Winston
(June 19, 1931-September 11, 2008), also known as Joanie Winston,
was one of a group of people known as "The Committee" who
organized the first Star Trek convention in January
1972. She is also the author of the 1977 reference book
The Making of the Trek Conventions.
Winston earned the love of Star Trek fans everywhere
by helping to orchestrate an afterlife for the series beyond
the television set, initially by organizing conventions and
persuading stars from the series to attend, and later by appearing
at the conventions as a star in her own right, a superfan
whose undying devotion inspired awe among Star Trek
devotees.
Winston gives details of her work with the original convention,
as well as her visit to the set as the last episode, "Turnabout
Intruder," was being filmed, in the book Star Trek Lives!,
which she co-wrote with Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Sondra
Marshak. She has also been interviewed by William Shatner
in order to contribute to Get a Life!, and can be seen
in the documentary Trekkies 2.
Winston continued to attend and speak at Star Trek
conventions until 2006, making her last appearance at Shore
Leave in Baltimore, Maryland. By 2008, suffering from
Alzheimer's disease, Winston was placed in an assisted living
facility in Manhattan, New York. She died there in her
sleep on September 11, 2008 at the age of 77. |
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Recent
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Sci-Fi
Summer Con || June 12-14,
2015
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Saturday
at Sci-Fi Summer Con
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Sci-Fi
Summer Con's "lounge"
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Sci-Fi
Summer Con dealer room, from the front and from the back
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Sci-Fi
Summer Con gaming room
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Independent
films panel
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Above
left and right: Voice acting and voiceover work
panel with The Amazing Bob Carter™.
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Captain
Eric with artist extraordinaire Dimitri Walker
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Captain
Eric with The Amazing Bob Carter™
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BELATED
JUNE BIRTHDAYS
Sunday, June 7
ENS1 Michael Shipley
Saturday, June 13
Ens Alan High
Monday, June 22
ENS3 Karen Neal
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WELCOME
ABOARD!
1 New Member in May!
Ens Jeff Jansen
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MEMBER
REENLISTMENTS
These members renewed their SFI and chapter
dues in May. Thank you!
ENS1 Richard Tucker
ENS1 Zannetta Law Tucker
CDT4 Zarena Nova Tucker
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SEPTEMBER
MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS
These members' dues expire(d) in September.
Please renew now!
ENS1 Russell J. Broomfield
Ens Kevin M. Fry
Ens Alan High
ENS3 Karen Neal
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ABOUT
THE REPUBLIC
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The
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 September 14, 2015, the Republic crew includes 39
members who are active members of STARFLEET in good
standing.
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The
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. STARFLEET
dues for one person are $20 for a "Standard Membership"
or $10 for an "E-Membership" and chapter dues are $10
per person for either membership option. A
combined payment for all dues is collected by the Republic
(family discounts are available with certain conditions
and restrictions). Additional information about
the two STARFLEET membership options, amounts due for
additional family members, payment options and payment
instructions is on the "How to Join" page of our award-winning
web site.
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MEMBERSHIP
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CREW
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AS OF SEPTEMBER 14, 2015
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EDITORIAL
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| Do
We Still Really Need Star Trek Conventions? |
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By
Jared Whitley
July 29, 2015
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we at TrekMovie are preparing to deploy to Las Vegas for
the largest annual Star Trek convention in the world,
I am forced to pause and ask... do we really need conventions
just for ourselves any more? Just because we always
did it, just because we started fandom and cosplay, do we
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I am reminded of when the Federation President said, "Let
us redefine progress to mean that just because we can do
a thing, it does not necessarily mean we must do that thing." |
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no one had gone to fan conventions before Star Trek,
boldly or otherwise, everybody does now. The recently
concluded San Diego Comic-Con drowns not just geekdom but
everyone with a deluge of material, while similar gatherings
have sprung up everywhere. There are so many fans
gathering to share their costumes and nerdy t-shirts, it
feels like that scene in First Contact where Data
says the Earth has a "population of nine billion... all
Borg." |
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myself, in the last year, I was able to see Leonard Nimoy
at the Salt Lake City Comic Con and William Shatner at the
Washington, DC, Awesome Con. So do I really need
to go to a Star Trek convention when I could go somewhere
else and see folks in Starfleet uniforms and Final Fantasy
costumes and Deadpool cosplaying as Gandalf? |
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I
wasn't sure about this question in 2014, when I went to
my first STLV, so I asked some friends I made there: Marina
Molnar, Justin Molnar and Crystal House, who all made
the trek (sorry) from Southern California to Nevada for
the con. They answered me with an overwhelming "Yes."
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like the fandom. That's what I love about coming to
these," said Marina, dressed up like a flapper from "A
Piece of the Action." "It's like a big family
reunion. Vegas Con is like coming home." |
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brother Justin (with a matching zoot suit) continued, "Star
Trek has always been a tightly knit community. You
see people you met previous years. Everyone shares
something very intimate. I wouldn't want to dilute
it from the Trekdom to general fandom." |
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agree with that, but only kind of. I mean, if this
girl shows up again in Vegas this year, I think we should
let her in. |
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the big stars of the franchise, like Shatner or Patrick
Stewart, will be widely accessible to the broader fan community,
a dedicated Trek convention is the best place to
rub elbows with someone like Vaughn Armstrong or Mark Allen
Shepherd. |
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celebrity who's only known for a supporting role on Star
Trek is a huge celebrity here, but may not get as much
attention at Comicon," Crystal said. |
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all the money generated by Star Wars and comic book
movies, Star Trek cons are also a great way to remind
The Powers That Be that Trek fans put their latinum
where their mouth is. |
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Trek cons brought the franchise back. The studio
realized the huge fan interest because of the cons," said
Crystal, whose love of Star Trek inspired her to
pursue a career as a film/TV editor. "There's so much
more of a purpose to these conventions." |
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when the popularity of comic cons wanes, I suspect that
Trek cons will still be going—if not at warp
speed—at least at a strong full impulse. |
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still super relevant. Star Trek lasts forever,"
Marina said. "I love that people dress up everywhere
now, but we started this shit." |
| The
2015 Creation Entertainment Star Trek convention
runs from August 6 to 9 in the Rio Suites hotel in Las Vegas,
Nevada. Learn more about it here. And look for
TrekMovie's guide to STLV coming up later this week! |
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