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UPCOMING
EVENTS
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Friday-Sunday, June 8-10: Sci-Fi
Summer Con
• Saturday,
June 16: STARFLEET Academy
& Star Trek Gaming
• Saturday, July 7: Away
Mission to The Amazing Spider-Man
• Sunday, July 8: Trekkiepalooza!
SAVE
THE DATE: DETAILS TO BE ANNOUNCED
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Saturday, July 21: Away Mission
to The Dark Knight Rises
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Monday, July 23: Star
Trek: TNG 25th Anniversary Event
NEWS
& ANNOUNCEMENTS
• The TrekTrax Atlanta 2012
Postmortem Report
• Personnel Records
• Library Computer
• Recent Chapter Event Photos
SIDEBAR
• May Birthdays
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Member Reenlistments
• May Membership Renewals
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About the Republic
• For More Information
• USS Republic Online
• Our Member Benefits Program
Partners
• USS Republic &
USS Atlanta Crew Rosters
• Photos from TrekTrax
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UPCOMING
EVENTS
Sci-Fi
Summer Con
Friday-Sunday,
June 8-10, 2012
Crowne Plaza Atlanta Perimeter Galleria
6345 Powers Ferry Road NW, Atlanta GA 30339
(770) 955-1700 |
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in its twelfth year, Sci-Fi Summer Con is for fans, friends
and anyone interested in science fiction, fantasy, horror
and comics. The Republic has had an official
presence at this convention for the last several years, including
our 20th anniversary celebration four years ago and our very
own Captain Eric L. Watts being named Fan Guest of
Honor two years ago. Sci-Fi Summer Con is Atlanta's
only annual convention devoted exclusively to all forms of
science fiction and fantasy.
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Capt Eric L. Watts, USS Atlanta CO Adm Mike
Henigan, ENS3 Eddie Hines, ENS1 Zannetta Law Tucker,
Ens Richard Tucker and Ens Karen Neal
at the Republic's recruitment table at last
year's Sci-Fi Summer Con.
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Sci-Fi
Summer Con has not announced any Star Trek-related
guests for this year's convention, but the guest list does
include actors James Jarrett,
Michael Koske, Ted Parker and Danny Riker;
artists Jon Adelung, Ralph Cruz, Kerry Maffeo
and Lysa "Zen" Shin; authors Christina
Barber, Chris Berman and Emilie Bush; musical
guests Go, Robo! Go!, June Five, New York
Disco Villains, Sass Parilla the Singing Gorilla
and Witness the Apotheosis; voice actors Bob Carter
and September Day Carter; comics writer/artist and
screenwriter Bob Burden; author/artist/editor/science
tutor/dancer Marina Sergeyeva Buryak; game designer/writer
Jamie Chambers; actress/model/producer Ondie Daniel;
independent film director Eric Vence Green; belly dancer/instructor
Kira Lang; paranormal specialists Ernie Nichols,
Shawn Sellers and members of Norcross Paranormal;
puppeteer/costume character performer & builder/actor S.
Fox; film fanatic Giles Shepherd; and actor/writer
Robin Spriggs.
As has become a six-year tradition, the USS Republic
will once again have an official presence at Sci-Fi Summer
Con which will include a fan table and possibly even a room
party. Please contact
the Captain if you're interested in helping with either
one.
Preregistration is closed. Sci-Fi Summer Con memberships
for persons age 13 and up are $35 at the door. For
more information about Sci-Fi Summer Con's guests, programming
events, hotel and memberships, please visit their web
site.
SCI-FI
SUMMER CON WEB SITE |
STARFLEET
Academy Test Session & Star Trek Gaming Day
A joint event with the USS Atlanta
3:00
- 9:00 p.m., Saturday, June 16, 2012
Hosted by and in the home of Capt Bernadette Ackley
4111 Kings Highway, Douglasville GA 30135-3765
RSVP: Adm Mike Henigan by email
or (404) 688-2882 |
 STARFLEET
Academy can be FUN!
Have you ever wanted to take your STARFLEET Academy Officers
Training School (OTS) and/or Officers Command College (OCC)
exams, but were too apprehensive or just had to have that
extra little nudge to do it? Well, we are here to help...
AND have fun while doing it!
Join the USS Republic and the USS Atlanta on
Saturday afternoon, June 16, from 3:00 to 9:00 p.m. for this
NO-COST event: a STARFLEET Academy Test Session and Star
Trek Gaming Day! We will have at least one
computer set up (more if we can get more laptops) for you
to get your OTS and OCC tests done and submitted electronically.
Help will be available from several longtime STARFLEET
members to get you over that sticky question or phrase that
is just slipping your mind.  But
wait! There's more! While people are testing,
there will also be a Star Trek Movie Marathon going
on, some serious Star Trek gaming (we have lots and
lots and lots of Star Trek games!) and... oh! Did
we say FOOD?
Please Note: Capt
Eric L. Watts' third two-year term as Commanding Officer
of the USS Republic
will end on December 31, 2012. All Republic
members in good standing will be asked in November to cast
their vote for the candidate they want to lead and administrate
this chapter for the next two years. Candidates
for the position must be a member in good standing of STARFLEET
International, must have taken and passed OTS and OCC, and
must be at least 18 years of age. This event will
be a perfect opportunity for anyone who wants to run for CO
to take the required OTS and OCC exams, if they have not already
done so. In accordance with the Republic's
Rank
Assignment & Promotions Policy, members who take and
pass both courses receive an automatic promotion to Lieutenant,
Junior Grade (Lt. JG).
STARFLEET Academy is a special collection of correspondence
courses available to every STARFLEET member. Not interested
in taking the OTS or OCC exam? That's okay! 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. Come out for this event and
we'll help you find one or more courses that are more to your
liking. It's fun, it's educational, it's entertaining!
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contact USS Atlanta CO Adm Mike
Henigan with any questions or to let us know you are
coming and then food will be discussed and decided upon. We
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Away
Mission to The Amazing Spider-Man
Saturday Afternoon, July 7, 2012
Regal Hollywood 24 @ North I-85
3265 NE Expressway Access Rd
Chamblee GA 30341
(770) 936-8235 |
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you demanded it... save the date and plan for a late
afternoon showing with matinee pricing! Exact time
to be announced next issue, on Facebook
and in our YahooGroups
forum.
The Amazing Spider-Man is the story of Peter Parker,
an outcast high schooler who was abandoned by his parents
as a boy, leaving him to be raised by his Uncle Ben and Aunt
May. Like most teenagers, Peter is trying to figure
out who he is and how he got to be the person he is today.
Peter is also finding his way with his first high school
crush, Gwen Stacy, and together, they struggle with love,
commitment and secrets. As Peter discovers a mysterious
briefcase that belonged to his father, he begins a quest to
understand his parents' disappearance, leading him directly
to Oscorp and the lab of Dr. Curt Connors, his father's former
partner. As Spider-Man is set on a collision course
with Connors' alter-ego, The Lizard, Peter will make life-altering
choices to use his powers and shape his destiny to become
a hero.
This film opens in the United States on Tuesday, July 3, four
days before the date of this "away mission," and
you may have numerous opportunities to see it sometime during
the first four days of its release, most notably the July
4 holiday. However, because the majority of our
members work on weekdays and celebrate Independence Day with
their families, the Republic is waiting until Saturday,
July 7, to launch our "away mission." We hope
you'll resist the urge to see the movie before July 7 and
will instead plan to see this highly anticipated reboot of
the Spider-Man film franchise with your friends and
fellow crewmembers aboard the Republic. Showtimes
have not yet been announced, but plan to join us late Saturday
afternoon, July 7, for matinee pricing. An exact
showtime and plans for an after-movie dinner will be announced
next issue.
WATCH
THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN MOVIE TRAILER HERE |
Trekkiepalooza!
A
fundraising event for TrekTrax Atlanta
3:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m., Sunday, July 8, 2012
The Other Bar, a.k.a. The Tucker Saloon
3766 Lawrenceville Highway, Tucker GA 30084 |
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BANDS! STAR TREK VIDEOS! COSTUMES! RAFFLES!
TRIVIA QUIZ! TREKKIES VS. STORMTROOPERS COMPETITION!
SILENT AUCTION! STAR TREK GAMES! CELEBRITY
AUTOGRAPHS! SOUVENIR T-SHIRTS! FOOD AND DRINK
SPECIALS! ROMULAN ALE, KLINGON BLOODWINE AND SAURIAN
BRANDY SHOOTERS! AND WHATEVER ELSE WE CAN THINK OF
BETWEEN NOW AND THEN!
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Makes
plans now to join us for a wild and crazy fundraising event
to benefit TrekTrax Atlanta! We're just now putting
the details together, but we're planning to make this all-day
event a spectacular sci-fi occasion that won't soon be forgotten!
More details next issue! Please contact
the Captain if you'd like to help with the planning,
preparations and production of this first-ever Trekkie extravaganza!
Donations of products, goods and/or services from members
and friends of the Republic, as well as local businesses,
to give away as contest and/or raffle prizes are needed! Thank
you! |
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NEWS
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The
TrekTrax Atlanta 2012 Postmortem Report |
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The
second annual TrekTrax Atlanta (TXA), the Star Trek
convention hosted by the USS Republic, was held April
20-22, 2012, at the Holiday Inn Atlanta Perimeter in Chamblee.
Our three main guests were David Orange (best
known as the "Sleepy Klingon" in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered
Country), Morgan Gendel (author of the Star
Trek: The Next Generation episodes "The Inner Light" [for
which he won the Hugo Award] and "Starship Mine" and the Star
Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes "The Passenger" and "Armageddon
Game"), and Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen (author, publisher,
psychologist, Klingon language expert and founder of the Klingon
Language Institute). More than two dozen additional
guests can be found listed on both the TXA web
site and Wikipedia
page, and several additional people served as programming
participants.
Over the course of the three-day convention, TrekTrax Atlanta
presented over 60 different events on three concurrent tracks
of programming: one dedicated to the Star Trek universe
in general, another devoted to the Klingon Empire in particular,
and a third designed specifically for costuming and makeup.
Special events included a VIP champagne reception, a
"Trekkies Got Talent!" talent show, a Star Trek Universe
costume contest, performances by three live bands, a Klingon
wedding, a "Klingon Ballet" and of course, the 13th annual
Miss Klingon Empire Beauty Pageant. TXA also hosted
a 24-hour gaming room, a 24-hour video room, a dealers room
and a con suite.
Just like our first convention in 2011, TrekTrax Atlanta 2012
was an operational success. All departments, programming
tracks and major events ran smoothly, on time and as planned
(with the possible exception of Opening Ceremonies, which
suffered a last-minute audio/visual technical failure, but
which was mostly salvaged due to the Herculean efforts of
Matt Steinberg). And, just like last year, nearly
everyone who attended said they had a great time and promised
to come back next year. But, also like last year, attendance
was disappointing, living up to our young reputation as "the
best-run convention that nobody attended."
Last year, TrekTrax Atlanta attendance numbered 25 guests,
45 staff volunteers and 187 paid memberships for a total attendance
of 257 persons. This number was considerably lower than
we had hoped for, and in the days and weeks following last
year's convention, we concluded that there were three main
reasons for this: 1) TXA was a first-year convention that,
despite all our marketing efforts, not enough people had heard
about; 2) TXA was held the same weekend as Con Nooga in Chattanooga,
which many people had already made plans to attend; and 3)
TXA was held the weekend immediately prior to AnachroCon,
which, again, many people had already made plans to attend.
With this in mind, we moved the 2012 convention to April
to avoid conflicts with Con Nooga, AnachroCon and, to the
best of our knowledge, any other fan convention in the Southeast.
(We didn't find out about JordanCon until long after
we'd signed contracts with the hotel and our guests, and GnomeCon
didn't announce their dates until after we did.) To
help promote this year's convention, we secured the endorsement
of the Klingon
Assault Group
(KAG) International as the "National Klingon Konvention,"
made promotional appearances at ChattaCon, Con Nooga and AnachroCon,
increased our email marketing campaign and social networking
presence, offered membership discounts to members of STARFLEET
International
(SFI) and KAG, and distributed flyers and business card-sized
marketing cards anywhere and everywhere we could, including
all 30+ SFI chapters in Region
2
(Georgia, Florida, Alabama and Mississippi).
Despite all these efforts, TrekTrax Atlanta 2012 attendance
numbered 33 guests, 45 staff volunteers and 162 paid memberships
for a total paid attendance of 240 persons. This number
represents a 6.6% decrease from last year... a downtrend
that no one was expecting and one which, unfortunately, leaves
the future of the convention in question. The reason(s)
for the decrease can only be speculated, but our best guess
at this point is that the cancellation of our previously announced
celebrity guests, Todd Bryant and Spice Williams,
due to weak preregistration numbers, which left us with no
well-known media guests, caused many people who may have been
planning to purchase an at-the-door membership to change those
plans.
Challenges lie ahead
 The
general consensus of the attending membership at this year's
Closing Ceremonies was overwhelmingly in favor of moving forward
with a third-year convention. Unfortunately, this year's
disappointing attendance has resulted in the convention being
significantly in debt, which makes a 2013 convention a very
difficult prospect. We want to keep going, and
we know that you want us to keep going, but we have
to pay our bills before we can make any commitments, book
any guests, sign any contracts or announce any dates. To
that end, we are already planning our first TXA fundraiser,
Trekkiepalooza, for July (see details above). In
addition, we are going to get an early start on soliciting
financial support from corporate sponsors. IF we can
raise enough funds over the next several months to pay off
our debts, and IF we still have enough time after doing so
to plan a convention for 2013, it will very likely be a scaled-down
event, probably with no celebrity guests, possibly reducing
the number of programming tracks and special events, and possibly
even finding a different venue that is smaller, less expensive
and more appropriate for a convention the size that ours is
trending to be.
One thing is certain: We can't do this without you.
We need your support now, we'll need your continuing
support in the months ahead and, if we find ourselves able
to plan for a third-year convention in 2013, we'll definitely
need your support then. Next year will mark the
25th anniversary of the USS Republic's original commissioning
and we'd very much like to make TXA the home of that celebration.
If you are willing, able and ready to start now
to help us make TrekTrax Atlanta 2013 a reality, please contact
the Convention
Chairman. Potential investors, corporate sponsors,
financial backers, venture capitalists and anyone else who
might be interested in supporting the convention is encouraged
to do the same. In the meantime, donations to TrekTrax
Atlanta can be made via PayPal by visiting the TXA web
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Personnel
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 Capt
Matthew D. Ebeling has launched a brand new company
called Advanced CPR Instruction (ACPRI), which
provides certified training in cardiopulmonary resuscitation
(CPR) and first aid. Capt Ebeling received
medical training from the United States Army, is a professional
emergency medical technician (EMT) and has been teaching
CPR and first aid for more than a decade. ACPRI
offers CPR and first aid training to groups of 10 or
more. For more information about ACPRI and
the services offered, please visit its web
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Recent
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Spring
Dinner & Business Meeting || April
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ENS3
Richard Tucker, ENS1 Zannetta Law Tucker, Baby Zarena
Nova Tucker and USS Republic CO Capt Eric
L. Watts at Stevi B's Pizza near Northlake Mall.
Not pictured: ENS2 Glenn Albertini, ENS2
K'La Albertini, ENS1 Nelson Barnhouse, ENS2 Russell
J. Broomfield, ENS3 Barry Bynum, Cmdr David Churvis,
Capt Michael Cowart, ENS3 Ken Cribbs, CDT2 Karl
Dissinger, ENS1 Todd Dissinger, ENS1 Hal Doby, Capt
Matthew D. Ebeling, Ens Rob Gilliam, ENS3 Tasheka
Gipson, Ens James P. Gronski, Ens Leslie C. Gronski,
ENS3 Tracey S. Harwell, ENS3 Eddie Hines, ENS1 Eric
Lange, ENS1 Sue Lin Lange, Cmdr Masibindi Miller,
Ens Karen Neal, ENS1 Mark A. Ozanick, ENS1 Elisa
Roper, Ens Elizabeth Scott, ENS1 Michael Shipley,
ENS2 Wil Sims, Cmdr Dave Slaughter, ENS2 Marilyn
Teague, ENS3 Robert Teague, ENS1 Jeff Trew, CRMN1
Jenilee Trew, ENS1 Joanne Trew, ENS1 Julianne Trew,
ENS2 Chris White, ENS Leslie Williamson, ENS1 "Wolfy."
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MAY
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Wednesday, May 2
Capt Michael Cowart
Saturday, May 5
ENS3 Barry Bynum
Tuesday, May 8
ENS2 Glenn Albertini
Thursday, May 17
Cmdr David A. Slaughter
Friday, May 25
ENS1 Julianne Trew
Wednesday, May 30
ENS3 Richard Tucker
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MEMBER
REENLISTMENTS
These members renewed their SFI and chapter
dues in April
ENS2 Wilford B. ("Will") Sims
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MAY
MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS
These members' SFI and chapter dues expire in May
Cmdr Masibindi Miller
ENS1 Elisa Roper
ENS1 Jeff Trew
CRMN1 Jenilee Trew
ENS1 Joanne Trew
ENS1 Julianne Trew
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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 June 3, 2012, the Republic crew includes 35
members who are active members of STARFLEET in good
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Republic plans and coordinates an active schedule
of events for its members, frequently partnering with other
local science fiction groups in the Atlanta area for joint
activities, but does not hold meetings on a consistently
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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 a personalized laminated membership card which entitles
the member to discounts and rebates on products and services
offered by our Member Benefits Program Partners. Additional
information on Republic membership and how to join
and reenlist is on our award-winning web site.
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CREW
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Commanding
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Captain
Eric L. Watts |
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Executive
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Commander
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Commanding
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Admiral
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The
Republiqué Volume
I, Number 50, May 2012.
Published monthly by and Copyright © 2012 USS Republic
NCC-1371.
Captain Eric L. Watts, Editor.
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