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UPCOMING
EVENTS
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
Saturday, July 21: Away Mission
to The Dark Knight Rises
Monday, July 23: Star
Trek: TNG 25th Anniversary Event
Saturday,
August 4: Night at the (Tellus Science) Museum
NEWS
& ANNOUNCEMENTS
Membership numbers up;
participation numbers down. Hello?
Personnel Records
Library Computer
Recent Chapter Event Photos
SIDEBAR
June Birthdays
Welcome Aboard!
Member
Reenlistments
June
Membership Renewals
About the Republic
For More Information
USS Republic Online
Our Member Benefits Program
Partners
USS Republic &
USS Atlanta Crew Rosters
News
from TrekMovie.com
Remembering
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan |
UPCOMING
EVENTS
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 |
IMPORTANT! We
need a minimum of 5 people to RSVP "Yes, I will be there!"
before 12:00 noon on Friday, June 15, in order to make this
event worthwhile. Otherwise, this event will be
cancelled. Please RSVP to USS Atlanta CO
Adm Mike Henigan via email
as soon as possible. Thank you!
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!
Please
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
would like you to join us for this fun afternoon!
MAP
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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 |
Because
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 |
LIVE
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
still 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! |
Away
Mission to The Dark Knight Rises
Saturday Afternoon, July 21, 2012
Regal Hollywood 24 @ North I-85
3265 NE Expressway Access Rd
Chamblee GA 30341
(770) 936-8235 |
WATCH
THE DARK NIGHT RISES MOVIE TRAILER HERE
ADDITIONAL DETAILS NEXT ISSUE |
Away
Mission to Star Trek: The Next Generation 25th Anniversary
Event
7:00 p.m., Monday, July 23, 2012
Regal Hollywood 24 @ North I-85
3265 NE Expressway Access Rd
Chamblee GA 30341
(770) 936-8235 |
PRELIMINARY
DETAILS HERE
ADDITIONAL DETAILS NEXT ISSUE |
Away
Mission to Night at the Museum
6:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Saturday, August 4, 2012
Tellus Science Museum
100 Tellus Drive, Cartersville GA 30120
(770) 386-0576 |
VISIT
THE TELLUS SCIENCE MUSEUM WEB SITE HERE
ADDITIONAL DETAILS NEXT ISSUE |
NEWS
& ANNOUNCEMENTS
Important! Membership
numbers up; participation numbers down. Hello? |
THE
GOOD NEWS
The USS Republic's crew roster currently stands
at 39 members, making us the largest chapter in Region 2 (a
ranking we've actually held for some time now). The
USS DaVinci from Columbus comes in second with 33 members,
followed by the USS Haise of Jackson, Mississippi,
with 31.
THE BAD NEWS
Member participation in chapter events seems to have taken
a dive over the last few months and frankly, your hard-working
Commanding Officer has no idea why. Five members
came to our Christmas Party last December. Three
members came to our Valentine's Day Lonely Hearts Dinner in
February and our Spring Dinner & Business Meeting in April. Worst
of all, only two members showed up for the St. Patrick's Day
Parade in March. Only two. Really?
WHERE IS EVERYBODY?
It doesn't make any sense whatsoever that the largest
chapter in Region 2 should be having such dismal attendance
at our chapter events. It's also frustrating to
your Commanding Officer to plan event after event after event
and the majority of our members don't bother to show up for
any of them. Certainly, geography plays a small
part of the problem: nine of our 39 members live out of state,
while another half-dozen live outside the metro Atlanta area. Even
so, that leaves 24 members in the metro Atlanta area who aren't
attending our events.
The USS Republic cannot survive without the active
participation of its members. If you don't come
out for our events, the Captain will stop planning them. If
the Captain stops planning them, membership will collapse
and the chapter will ceast to exist. Contact
the Captain and let him know if there are certain
types of events you look forward to attending and if there
are certain other types of events you avoid. Let
him know if you prefer certain days of the week and/or times
of day for chapter events. Let him know if there
are certain parts of town you prefer and/or avoid. Also
let him know if there is a certain price point for "away
missions" that dictate whether or not you can attend
(i.e., restaurants, movies, local attractions, etc.). The
bottom line here is this: Let us know what it is you want
to do as a member of the USS Republic, and we'll do
everything we can to plan exactly that. |
Personnel
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Congratulations
to Ens Karen Neal, who received a grade of HONORS
for the STARFLEET Marine Corps Academy exam XR-11: "The
Romulan Government: The Romulan People and the Tal'Shiar"
from the School of Romulan Xenostudies, completed on
June 6, 2012. |
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Congratulations
to Ens Karen Neal, who received a grade of HONORS
for the STARFLEET Marine Corps Academy exam XV-11: "Vulcan
Culture and Military" from the School of Vulcan
Xenostudies, completed on June 6, 2012. |
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! |
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Library
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Recent
Chapter Event Photos
CLICK ANY PHOTO TO ENLARGE |
TimeGate || May
25-27, 2012
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Adm
Kelly Hilliard (USS Atlanta), Adm Mike Henigan
(CO, USS Atlanta), Cmdr Dave Slaughter (USS
Republic), "Moxie Magnus," ENS1 Todd Dissinger
(USS Republic), ENS3 Chris Seckinger (USS
Republic) and Capt Eric L. Watts (CO, USS
Republic) at TimeGate 2012 in Chamblee, Georgia.
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JUNE
BIRTHDAYS
Thursday, June 7
ENS1 Michael Shipley
Friday, June 22
ENS Karen Neal
Thursday, June 28
ENS3 Rob Gilliam
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WELCOME
ABOARD!
1 New Member in May!
ENS Elizabeth Scott
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MEMBER
REENLISTMENTS
These members renewed their SFI and chapter
dues in May
ENS1 Lea Hepler
ENS2 Marilyn Teague
ENS3 Robert Teague
ENS2 Chris White
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JUNE
MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS
These members' SFI and chapter dues expire in June
ENS2 Russell J. Broomfield
Ens Karen Neal
Cmdr David A. Slaughter
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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 June 13, 2012, the Republic crew includes 39
members who are active members of STARFLEET in good
standing. |
The
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
fixed date each month. |
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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Brian Ackley
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Cheris
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Remembering
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan---30 Years Later |
By
Dayton Ward
June 4, 2012
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Still
considered by most to be the best film of the franchise,
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was released on June
4, 1982. Star Trek novelist Dayton Ward remembers
what were surely, the best of times from three decades ago...
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"Surely,
the best of times." |
Summer,
1982: After the commercial and critical oddity that was
1979's Star Trek: The Motion Picture, those of us
who were all into the Trek were worried what this
sequel might bring. Would it be like the first movie
(which was boring as all Hell compared to Kirk drop-kicking
and karate-chopping a big green lizard), or the TV series
we still loved? The TV commercials certainly seemed
to imply the latter, with lots of phasers firing and starships
blowing the shit out of each other, William Shatner snarling
into the camera and Ricardo Montalban flexing his pecs at
us. This movie definitely looked like it was going
to kick things up a notch. Or three. |
Though
it doesn't seem to happen a lot these days, on this occasion,
the trailers got it right. |
30
years after its release, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
remains the choice of many fans as being among the best---if
not the best---of the Star Trek theatrical
films. Pretty much every movie that's come since is
compared to Khan, usually with respect to each successive
sequel's choice of villain. Kruge, Sybok, Chang, Soran,
Ru'Afo, Shinzon, or Nero? None of those pansies hold
a candle to Khan Noonien Singh, the genetically-engineered
mighty man who came to the Final Frontier by way of a 20th
century sleeper ship way back in the classic first season
Star Trek episode "Space Seed." |
Khan
and his crew, marooned by Kirk on the remote plant Ceti
Alpha V at the end of that episode, are left to their own
devices, but a planetary catastrophe soon after their arrival
forced them into a constant struggle for simple survival.
By the time the USS Reliant arrives, commanded
by Captain Clark Terrell and with former Enterprise
crewman Pavel Chekov serving as its first officer, Khan's
pretty much gone 'round the bend. Seizing control
of the Reliant by means of one of those cool movie
critters that turn people into obedient zombies, Khan sets
off to unleash BLOODY VENGEANCE on the man responsible for
his downfall: James T. Kirk. |
Oh,
it's on now. |
Directed
by Nicholas Meyer from a story by veteran TV producer Harve
Bennett and Jack B. Sowards (who also wrote the original
screenplay, which Meyer then rewrote... in 12 days), Star
Trek II hits almost every right note and avoids the
pitfalls which tripped up its theatrical predecessor. The
humor as well as the friendships and camaraderie shared
by Kirk and his crew---all but absent from the first film---are
here to lend perfect balance to the drama and tension driving
most of the story. Even the color palette is warmer
this time around, from the red paint on the Enterprise
doors to the crew uniforms, which now look more like something
of a natural progression from those of the original series. |
Ricardo
Montalban, reprising his role from "Space Seed," pulls out
all the stops as the maniacal Khan, obsessed with avenging
himself upon Kirk. Strong efforts from supporting
actors Bibi Besch, Merritt Butrick, Paul Winfield and Kirstie
Alley in her first film role, round out a solid performance
by the main cast (wild-eyed "KHAAAAAN!" bit from William
Shatner notwithstanding). Though some footage of the
Enterprise is lifted from Star Trek: The Motion
Picture, there are plenty of new space scenes to satisfy
the Trekkie tech heads among us. James Horner's
musical score, shifting with ease between quiet contemplation
and rousing action, is a bow tying up the whole sweet package. |
If
this film had failed, it arguably could've been the death
knell for Kirk and the Enterprise gang. Instead,
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was a critical and
commercial success, bringing with it a fresh new energy
to what we now call "the Star Trek franchise." It
paved the way for future sequels and the eventual television
spin-offs, along with merchandising and other licensing
ventures that continue to this day. |
"I
feel young." |
Shit,
I feel old. |
Happy
30th Birthday, Star Trek II. |
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Commanding
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Captain
Eric L. Watts |
Executive
Officer, USS Republic
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Commander
Dave Churvis |
Commanding
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Admiral
W. Michael Henigan |
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The
Republiqué Volume
I, Number 51, June 2012.
Published monthly by and Copyright © 2012 USS Republic
NCC-1371.
Captain Eric L. Watts, Editor.
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