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June Swimsuit Issue

Swimsuits from Around the Galaxy

And Beyond

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From the Bridge

May the Summer be with you!

The Summertime Porfolio

Somewhere in the galaxy it’s Summertime. And with that event, the urge by beings

everywhere to go to the beach, seek warm temperatures, and wear as little clothes as possible.

Come with us now as we travel to the far flung corners of our known space to witness of this yearly

passage. Enjoy

USS Silver Fox - June Swimsuit Issue (Volume 3 Number 5) © copyright 2012 by Jeff Wilcox E-

mail : catseye257@yahoo.com. The USS Silver Fox is the New York chapter of the Starfleet

Command, Star Trek and science fiction/fantasy fan organization (www.sfc.org). Copies of this

newsletter can be had for the asking or the “usual” (letter of comment, art, news, fanzine/newsletter

exchange, etc.)

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Depending on what planet

or world you explore, will

determine whether bright

colors, subdued, or just

plain dark is the latest style

of that particular culture.

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On the world Sci 50, a “retro” look is now

popular. Sociologies can’t account for the

trend, but there doesn’t seem to be any

argument from the male part of the

populous.

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And from the planet

Organa, the local beach

fashion favors imitation

of the royal princess.

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And on the moon of

Anderson’s planet,

purple hair and silver

cloths seem to be the

fashion (though how

they get a chance to

swim on a planetary

moon is beyond me).

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No—we don‘t have any idea on what these are either.

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And now, something for the Ladies

This outfit is just right for the hot, steamy jungle planet. In which case, the people find a nice dip in

the giant water falls a great way to finish up a hard day’s work.

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Meanwhile, the planet

Mars is lovely this time of

year. Alien monsters to

fight, mostly naked

princesses to rescue, and

then the River of No

Return to wash off the

Martian dust.

Thor and the Green Lantern would agree.

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And, to finish up, what better than a picture of our own Captain Kirk, who plays a game of

“Wack a Brain” before heading out to the beach.

Thanks folks! Be sure to join us next year for

more thrills and adventure with the fashion of

swimsuits!

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www.startreknewvoyages.com – that independent film maker that creates Star Trek’s New

Voyages has a new episode – the Child. This seventh episode came out this last April 5th

, so some

of the readers here might not have seen it yet. The story writing isn’t quite as polished as in

previous episodes in the series, but it is still amazing the amount of professional production that’s

put into the show. In which case, these productions wouldn’t be called amateur, but maybe “semi-

pro”? Check it out in any case.

Side note: One thing that was noticed is that this episode features a couple characters that

were originally supposed to appear during the proposed Star Trek’s second series on TV. As some

of the older Trek will mention, Star Trek was supposed to return to the TV screen back in the

1970s – called Star Trek: Phase 2. Paramount Pictures was gearing up towards making a “fourth”

TV network (back then the major networks were just NBC, CBS, and ABC), and a new version of

Star Trek was lead off Paramount’s prime time night slot. That project was eventually dropped

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because the idea at that time was too new and the country’s independent TV stations didn’t put

enough of their support into it. So the remainder of that Star Trek project turned into Star Trek:

the Motion Picture. The upshot of all this is that the new TV series had new characters added to

the show already large cast.

Khon was a Vulcan that joined the crew and worked in the Science section under Spock.

He was a full blooded Vulcan, as opposed to Spock’s half-Vulcan half-human heritage, and so

presented a unique chance to see the Vulcan point of view in contrast to Earth humans (he was the

first of this type of character to appear). Another character was Ilia, a Deltan. In the above New

Voyages episode we see Zhon (Khon was part of ST: The Motion Picture, so the producers here

had to change the Vulcan’s name just a little) and DeSel (taking Ilia’s place here). And with these

additions to the storylines, the New Voyages series has been retitled Star Trek: Phase 2. The

website URL stays the same though.

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Battlestar Galactica Club – Colonial Ministry of Defense

[Jeff here: In exploring the fan activity in my area I have not only stuck with those fan groups or

individuals with an interest in Star Trek, but also all general and media SF/F. Case in point is the

Battlestar Galactica clubs. Below is an email from BG fan James Austin who lives in the western

New York state city of Buffalo (some 35 miles away) and the XO of Battlestar Hades chapter. I am

currently checking out the CMoD(like ours, it has about 300 members) and will present news on

the club in future issues.]

Hello Jeff,

Nice to hear from you. Just want to bring you up to speed on some things and see if you'd still like to

be part of some BSG fandom.

I am no longer with the CDF. Most of the Angel Styron crew followed my lead and left with other ex

CDF members to form a new BSG fan group called the Colonial Ministry of Defense. It is fan friendly

where all the members have a voice in what goes on with the group. There are several chapters or

battlestars assigned to one of 12 Colonial Fleets. I currently serve as Executive Officer on the

Battlestar Hades BS-77 Flagship of the Tauron Fleet. We also are the home chapter of our current

CMoD Organization President so we are Flagship of The Fleet as well.

There are chapters all over the US and Canada. We are a fun group but we are involved in serious

issues like helping charities by donating time and money. Think of us as the Colonial version of

Starfleet.

If you would like to know more about our group, go to this website:

http://www.colonialministryofdefense.org/forum/index.php . You can also find us on facebook as the

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Colonial Ministry of Defense and in yahoo groups as well.

If you like what you see, feel free to join up. You can be a Colonial Fleet Officer or enlisted person,

Colonial Marine Officer or enlisted person or a Civilian. If you join as a Colonial Officer, you can be a

Viper or Raptor pilot or serve in Engineering, Medical, OPS or Bridge Officer positions. If you choose to

be a pilot you will be asked to give a callsign for your persona. You will be assigned to a battlestar

chapter nearest you unless you request a specific chapter.

I hope you look into our group and find a chapter near you to interact with. Regardless of location, we

all pretty much talk to each other. I live in North Carolina but am XO of the Hades which is based in

New Jersey.

Thanks again for writing and I hope to hear from you again. Let's keep fandom growing strong and

fun!

James "Swashbuckler" Austin

Lieutenant Colonel

Executive Officer, Battlestar Hades BS-77

Flagship Tauron Fleet

Flagship Colonial Ministry of Defense (CMoD)

Blackbird Stealthviper Pilot

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In Another Galaxy Weekend

(www.museumofplay.org) Rochester National Museum of Play

Saturday & Sunday, April 28 & 29

In Another Galaxy Weekend

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Become part of the saga as actors from the 501st Legion (Vader’s Fist) and Rebel Legion

stroll through the museum in full Star Wars regalia to mingle with guests and pose for pictures.

See robots built by the R2-D2 Builders Club and FIRST Robotics Team #578 from Fairport High

School. Play vintage Star Wars video games and see Star Wars artifacts from the museum’s

collections. Try out cool science gadgets, get a temporary tattoo, and pose for pictures in the

dress-up area. This program is not sponsored or endorsed by Lucasfilm Ltd. Included with

general museum admission fees.

[Jeff here: The 501st

Legion, Rebel Legion, and R2-D2 Builders are both Star Wars

clubs/organizations that specialize in wear SW costumes to wear to conventions and other

Lucasfilm Ltd. legal events (like the above Museum of Play event). And the Rochester National

Museum of Play is a very hands-on interactive environment that I and my family has had a chance

to experience(some years ago). Sorry I missed this event.]

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Steampunk Worlds Fair (http://steampunkworldsfair.com)

On May 18th

to 20th

the steampunk convention known as the Steampunk Worlds Fair

happened in Piscataway, New Jersey. The website for the event is above, that will provide more

information than this poor article could. And since no one here had a chance to go (something

about it requiring money to attend), it is hoped that some good reader here who did attend this

event might write us a convention report and tell us how it all went.

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Starship Size Comparisons (www.merzo.net)

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This website offers a size comparison for a variety of starships from the major media

science fiction universes. How does Star Trek’s USS Enterprise compare in size to Star Wars

Millennium Falcon? And how does the Millennium Falcon compare in size to a Babylon5 Vorlon

transport? These questions and more are answered by this website, with a fair amount of ship

schematics art to demonstrate the author’s point. Check it out.

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Photo by Riccardo Bonuccelli (above is an Italian cosplay group)

Game of Thrones, Part 2

HBO cable network has started the second season of episodes based on George

R.R.Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire novels. The first season encompasses the first novel Game of

Thrones, while the second season comes from the second novel A Clash of Kings. For those of us

who haven’t had a chance to compare the novel version with the filmed TV version there are a

number of Internet websites that helps fill in the gaps between the two.

Game of Thrones website:

www.gameofthrones.tv

http://game-of-thrones.the-fan-site.com

www.fanforum.com/f364/

http://godsofart.com/game-of-thrones-fan-art

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Finally

An Idea for an Original Cast Star Trek Movie – For those of you that were here late issue, I

mentioned my opinions about the proposed “Academy Days” Star Trek movie that was supposed

to be filmed in the 1980s (the same idea that became the current version of the new Star Trek).

Star Trek 4: the Way Home was also mentioned; and this time I’d like to forward my opinion of

an idea I had for Star Trek 5.

To recap, Star Trek 4 had the original crew without the USS Enterprise (the refitted

Enterprise had been crashed towards the end of ST3: In Search of Spock). So what they did have

was the Klingon “bird of prey” scout ship that they took from the bad guy Klingons. At the

beginning of ST 4 Doctor McCoy renames the scout ship the HMS Bounty (named after the

sailing ship in the novel Mutiny on the Bounty). Now right there I would have changed the

starship’s name to the Starship Phoenix -- as in the idea that the starship was originally a Klingon

war ship but it was raised from the ashes to become a starship for Good. Okay, onward --

throughout the film they used this Klingon starship for their adventures and it served them well.

And at the end of the film, the Klingon ship is crashed into San Francisco bay, the whales are

released into the ocean, and the whales help us stave off the alien threat that started at the

beginning of ST 4 . The result of all that adventuring was that the Federation and Starfleet were

grateful for Kirk and Co. saving their butts again, and as such, awarded them a brand new starship

– the USS Enterprise A. And so, Kirk and Co. become “Star Trek” again (got to have the

complete concept there with the original crew aboard the USS Enterprise, otherwise it just

wouldn’t be the same Star Trek, would it?), and can go on to new adventures. Ta Daa!!

Here’s my idea on what happened – the producers of the ST movies should’ve kept the

Klingon bird of prey as The Starship. Star Trek 4 was a nice change of pace for the movie back

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then, complete with the original cast playing around in that smaller ship. The original series (TV

and theatrical films) had the cruiser size Enterprise which contained a large compliment of

crewmembers. However, when the stories are laid out, most of the action stayed around the bridge

crew. They had all those people to make the starship work, but the action remained around those

core characters. My thought was that the storylines didn’t need all that many bodies lying around

just to make the starship seem full. And ST 4 showed that Star Trek could’ve continued on

without the larger starship; they would’ve been quite comfortable in that smaller scout ship.

Star Trek 5 could’ve started out with the Crew on the S.S. Phoenix. Did Kirk and Co.

really have to be a part of Starfleet anymore, even if all was forgiven for what happened in ST 3?

They could’ve just upheld the principles of the Federation and Starfleet and just done some jobs

for them on the side. And they could’ve gone off and had a number of adventure movies after that

without any problems. I like that idea.

Side note: In the early 1990s I was a part of a Trek club called the USS Konkordium – D.

This club was a correspondence-type club that did a good deal of role-playing as its activity. And,

even though it was an independent club (not a chapter of a national organization), it was starting to

get little spinoff groups. I really enjoyed the interaction that was happening with the club, so I

considered starting my own spinoff group….Yep, you guessed it – the Starship Phoenix (ST: the

Next Generation and the theatrical movies after that showed that Klingon starship was popular with

the audience too). My role-playing back story for the group was that a salvage company pulled out

that Klingon scout ship out of San Francisco bay, got it cleaned up and useable, and I ended up

using it for my private use. That is, my crew and I travel off into space and have a few adventures. I

like that idea too (it’s just too bad the Konkordium – D didn’t last long enough for me to start my

group there).