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UPCOMING
EVENTS
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Sat., Dec. 16: USS Republic
Holiday Party & Potluck Dinner
NEWS
& ANNOUNCEMENTS
• Ensign Kathy Graham Wynn
named 2016 Member of the Year
• Personnel Records
• Library Computer
• Recent Chapter Event Photos
SIDEBAR
• Welcome Aboard!
• Membership Reenlistments
• Membership Expirations
• January Membership Renewals
• About the Republic
• For More Information
• USS Republic Online
• Crew Roster
• News from TrekMovie.com
— Patrick
Stewart says "maybe" to returning to Star Trek |
UPCOMING
EVENTS
USS
Republic Holiday Party & Potluck Dinner
7:00 p.m., Saturday, December 16, 2017
Challenges
Games and Comics
North DeKalb Mall, Westside Entrance
2050 Lawrenceville Hwy, Decatur GA 30033
(678) 973-0410 |
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one of the most important occasions of the year! Plan
to attend the USS Republic's annual Holiday Party &
Potluck Dinner on Saturday, December 16, once again hosted
by Challenges Games & Comics in North DeKalb Mall in Decatur!
All members and friends of the USS Republic are
cordially invited to attend! |
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Members
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Party
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Our Annual Holiday Potluck Dinner
Commodore Eric L. Watts will once again be cooking
a turkey for all to enjoy, so please bring your own favorite
side dish or dessert to help make this a holiday feast! The
Republic will also be providing a selection of adult
libations, but feel free to BYOB and enjoy yourselves responsibly.
Please plan to come for an evening of fun, festivity
and friendship!
Member of the Year Award
Around 9:00 or so, Captain Eric will present the
USS Republic's Member of the Year award to someone
whose service to the chapter in 2017 deserves special recognition.
Please plan to attend, bring a couple of friends and
a side dish or two, and spend an evening with your friends
and shipmates aboard the USS Republic!
Future of the Chapter
The USS Republic will be celebrating its
30th anniversary next May and we'll celebrating it at Treklanta,
also in May. We'd like to hold a reunion of as many
past and present Republic members as possible for at
least a group photo and possibly even a fancy dinner. We'll
need lots of help to pull this off so if you'd like to participate,
please plan to attend the Holiday Party to get things started.
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USS
Republic Members of the Year, 2007-2016
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ANY PHOTO TO ENLARGE
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2007
Member of the Year
ENS1 Zannetta Law Tucker
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2008
Member of the Year
ENS1 Hal Doby
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2009
Member of the Year
ENS1 Joanne Trew
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2010
Member of the Year
ENS1 Sue Lin Lange
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2011
Member of the Year
ENS3 Barry Bynum
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2012
Member of the Year
FCapt Eric L. Watts
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2013
Member of the Year
Adm Mike Henigan
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2014
Member of the Year
Adm Kelly S. Hilliard
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2015
Members of the Year
Lts. JG Tiffany & Lee Johnson
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2016
Member of the Year
ENS3 Kathy Graham Wynn (Peck)
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NEWS
& ANNOUNCEMENTS
Ensign
Kathy Graham Wynn (Peck) named 2016 Member of the Year |
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Commodore
Eric L. Watts presents the 2016 Member of the Year
award to Ensign Kathy Graham Wynn (Peck).
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The
USS Republic is pleased to announce that Ensign Kathy
Graham Wynn (Peck) has been named as its 2016 Member of
the Year. Republic CO Comm Eric L. Watts
presented Ensign Wynn with a personalized award plaque at
our 2016 Holiday Party last December.
Ensign Wynn and her then-fiancé Ensign Ryan Peck worked
for several months behind the scenes for Treklanta, contacting
large companies with a corporate presence in Atlanta in an
attempt to secure one or more sponsors in the convention's
Corporate Sponsorship Program. Unfortunately, Ensigns
Wynn and Peck were unable to finalize any sponsors, but the
perseverance and tenacity they demonstrated in their efforts
are worthy of recognition.
Ensign Wynn joined the USS Republic in January 2016.
Ensign Peck did not join the Republic until November;
otherwise, the award would have been presented to them both.
Ensigns Wynn and Peck were united in holy matrimony at Treklanta
this past April and she moved to Nashville, Tennessee, to
join him there shortly thereafter. As residents of Tennessee,
the Pecks are no longer attempting to recruit sponsors in
the Atlanta area. That (Those) position(s) remain(s)
vacant and need to be filled. Anyone with experience
soliciting corporate sponsorships is encouraged to contact
the Captain and volunteer for this critically important
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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! |
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Library
Computer
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For
those of you who don't get the joke:
On December 12, 2017, former U.S. Attorney Doug Jones defeated
former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore in
a special election to fill the U.S. Senate seat of former
senator Jeff Sessions, who resigned to serve as U.S. Attorney
General.
The character of Lt. Saru from Star
Trek: Discovery (above) is played by an actor also named
Doug Jones. The two men are not related.
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Recent
Chapter Event Photos
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Away
Mission to Star Trek Beyond || July
22, 2016
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Movie Tavern Northlake Festival || Tucker,
Georgia
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Eddie Hines, Jeanetta Holmes and CO Comm Eric L. Watts after
an opening-day screening of Star
Trek Beyond
at the Movie Tavern Northlake Festival cinema in Tucker.
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WELCOME
ABOARD!
3 New Members
in September 2016!
Ens Shannon Patricia Kennedy Ens Jennifer Foley
Ens Victor Valentin, Jr.
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MEMBER
REENLISTMENTS
These members renewed their SFI and chapter
dues in September 2016. Thank you!
ENS1 Tasheka Gipson
ENS3 Christopher M. Jones
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MEMBERSHIP
EXPIRATIONS
These members' dues expired in 2017
and have not been renewed. Please rejoin now!
ENS1 Leslie C. Gronski
ENS1 James P. Gronski
Ens James King
ENS1 Mark A. Ozanick
ENS1 Marilyn Teague
ENS1 Eddie Hines
Adm Michael Henigan
Adm Kelly S. Hilliard
ENS3 Charles Brent Chapman
Ens Shannon Patricia Kennedy
Ens Kevin Cochran
ENS3 Christopher M. Jones
ENS1 Julianne Trew
ENS1 Jenilee Trew
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JANUARY
MEMBERSHIP RENEWALS
These members' dues will expire in January
2018. Please renew now!
ENS1 Hal Doby
Capt Matthew D. Ebeling
Ens Ray Tesi
ENS2 Tina Louise Jones
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NOW
UPDATED WITH
NEW, LOWER RATES!
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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 December 16, 2017, the Republic crew includes 31
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
membership dues are $5 for one person and Republic
chapter dues are $10 ($15 total). The Republic
collects a single combined dues payment for both groups
and remits the STARFLEET portion to them on the Republic
member's behalf. STARFLEET offers family discounts
for additional members as shown below. Additional
information about membership options, amounts due for
additional family members, payment options and instructions
for other forms of payment is on the "How to Join" page
of our award-winning web site.
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MEMBERSHIP
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$12
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$30
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$42
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4
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$14
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$40
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$54
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PAYPAL FEES APPLY
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FOR
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USS
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CREW
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Crmn
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CDT3
Zarena Nova Tucker
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NEWS
from
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| Patrick
Stewart says "maybe" to idea of returning to Star
Trek |
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By Matt Wright
December 5, 2017
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with Variety about the movie Logan, the interviewer
couldn’t help but ask about Stewart’s other big franchise
role, Captain Picard. Initially reluctant to
say “Yes” to returning to the role of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
again, the Star Trek: The Next Generation star did
talk about one possibility that would get him to put on
the uniform one last time. |
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lord. I cannot think of another instance in which that might
happen. My feeling is I hung up the space suit and
left all that behind a long time ago. Maybe if someone
came up with a brilliant idea, I’d do it. One thing
that might interest me would be to bring all the existing
casts of Star Trek from the last 50 years together
for one big story. |
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isn’t the first time we’ve heard TNG-era alums talk about
a big team-up movie being something of interest. TrekMovie
spoke to Brannon Braga earlier this fall and he expressed
a somewhat similar idea, with Captain Picard leading a best
of the 24th century team: |
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know what I would do. I would take the specialty characters,
like Seven of Nine, Data, the holographic Doctor and others
and create a brain trust of characters who are up against
some kind of really bad situation where they need the most
brilliant that Starfleet has to offer. Maybe create
another character or two and put them on a fucking ship
so you get a little from each and put some cameos in there
while you are at it. I always thought that would
make a cool movie. |
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