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IKV ASTRIS NEWS |
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| New IKV Astris Logo |
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| By Lt. jg Qat'Iy tai-K'olSoh'hn, CO |
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| With help from the honorable Lt. Koris tai-DuraS of the IKO Qactoq'tIS, a new logo has been created for the IKV Astris.� He also helped set up the websites for the IKV Astris and for the Wild Frontier Quadrant.� These sites can be found at www.geocities.com/ikvastrisusa and www.geocities.com/wildfrontierquadrant.� Koris has been a major help, teaching me how to maintain these web sites.� Here is the new logo below. |
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An impressive design, I must say! |
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| Klingon invasion of the Adelfia Restaurant took place on May 8, 2004 |
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| By Lt. jg Qat'Iy tai-K'olSoh'hn |
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| The IKV Astris crew gathered for a lunch meeting on May 8, 2004.� Two new members came to join in the fun.� Bob Chin and Scott " DIronwI' " Grant are our newest crew.� Also attending were TomaS, LySa, Skyman, and Mertel.� |
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| Several excellent ideas were presented.� DIronwI' suggested that I set up a Yahoo! newsgroup for the ship and for the quadrant.� The newsgroup has already been successfully implemented.� Our events planner, Mertel, has already added our events planning forms to the files section.� The Yahoo group can be seen at groups.yahoo.com/group/ikvastrisusa. |
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| Recruiting ideas were also discussed.� Bob Chin, one of two IXL members, suggested a good place for me to get business cards made up so that I can distribute them to interested prospective members.� They have already been ordered, and I am looking forward to getting them!� I also distributed recruitment flyers to everyone. |
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| Food was collected for the Community Survival Center.� $6.00 worth of food was collected.� Thank you to everyone who contributed.� Other ideas for charitable events were discussed.� These included a 'Blood Feud' and a Six Flags Star Trek Day.� DIronwI' and TomaS provided those ideas.� Those events will need to be planned well in advance to get the publicity needed for those events to succeed. |
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| Social activities proposed included attending a Ren Faire event, paintball and a joint mission with the USS Anubis. |
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| Having a treasury was also discussed.� Money would come from a donation jar and leftover money when we have our lunch meetings.� The funds will be used for ship operations including paper supplies and for a social event yet to be planned. |
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| A wonderful lunch was enjoyed by all!! Our next meeting will be June 12, 2004 at 1 pm at Adelfia Restaurant. |
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| A tribute to Shirley Maiewski by Doug Mayo "Doqloch" |
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| A Star Trek Guardian Lost |
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| Earlier this week, Star Trek lost one of its guardians, Shirley Maiewski of Hatfield, MA passed away on April 13th 2004.� Star Trek fans around the world have much to thank Shirley for.� She answered the call from Star Trek?s creator Gene Roddenberry in 1968, when Desilu Studios wanted to pull the plug on Star Trek.� She was part of one of the biggest letter writing campaigns by fans of the show, to the then powers to be of the studio. |
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| Over a million letters flooded in from ordinary fans from across the world.� The result was Star Trek was saved, if only for a season more.� The larger message of that successful campaign was not lost, fans near and far knew there were many who shared a fondness for Roddenberry?s vision. �From that fandom it brought 10 movies, 4 additional TV series and countless books still being published monthly. |
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| As a 9 year old boy, I too wrote a letter to the studio asking them to save Star Trek, because it did make a difference in my life.� It gave me hope and a vision that life could be better, something I had wished for daily as a child born with Cerebral Palsy.� Over the next couple of years I wrote several more letters in support of the show, and one of the letters I received back pointed me the direction of the Star Trek Welcommittee (STW), Shirley was the Chairman. |
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| The Star Trek Welcommittee was a central information service which could answer all questions about Star Trek.� The Welcommittee was not a club to join, nor a social group, rather a collection of fans, scattered throughout the world, who are willing ready, and able to answer any questions about Star Trek ? from trivia to information on clubs, fanzines, conventions, how to make your own costumes, and so forth. |
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| I became a member of the Welcommittee team answering Star Trek questions from fans all over the world, in the early 90's.� Every couple of months, I would receive from Shirley a packet of letters from fans needing to be answered.� I would delve into my extensive Star Trek collection to seek the answers to the questions asked.� The information age and the Internet took its toll on the Welcommittee in the late 90's, and it closed up shop. |
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| As is always, life moved on.� In 2001, I rejoined Starfleet International, and in 2003 started my own chapter/ship in Northampton, MA, called the U.S.S. Nelson.� One of my crew had heard through the grapevine that Shirley had not been feeling well lately and a call had gone out for fans of Star Trek to write Shirley and help bolster her spirits. |
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| I wrote Shirley that same day, and told her I remembered the work she did to save Star Trek and to keep it alive till other fans picked up the torch she had lit those many years ago.� She wrote back to me asking questions about the Nelson, and spoke about the fun we had at the Welcommittee.� She said in the letter, "I think we (the Welcommittee) were responsible for keeping Star Trek alive for a long time!"� When I wrote her back, I said, most assuredly that the Welcommittee played a large part in saving and keeping alive Star Trek for fans to come. |
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| On April 6th, the Nelson crew, unanimously voted to make Shirley and Honorary crewmember of the Nelson, and I sent out a certificate signifying that vote.� I was awaiting Shirley's response when I read in the newspaper of her untimely death.� I immediately had 2 thoughts, 1 was of a grateful 9 year old boy so many years ago, who learned he was not alone, and the other was the thought she conveyed to me in her last letter to me, that the Welcommittee had made a difference.� Of that I have no doubt.� May thoughts of what Shirley had accomplished "Live Long and Prosper". |
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| Sincerely, |
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| Douglas Mayo |
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| Captain |
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| U.S.S. Nelson NCC-74804 |
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| Model Rocketry Day May 15, 2004 |
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| Joint mission with the USS Nelson |
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| Doqloch and I put together a model rocket Klingon battlecruiser over the two weeks leading up to the big day.� We painted both the IKV Astris and USS Nelson names on the rocket and dubbed it the "IKV Praxis" because we thought that it would suffer the same fate as the moon orbiting Qo?noS.� |
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| We headed down to Baltic, Connecticut for the event, which was held at Valerie and Joe Ruttar's farm.� Two other IKV Astris members attended.� Mertel and TomaS came to represent both the IKV Astris and the USS Endeavor.� The model rocketry day was a Starfleet International Region 15 event.� We also enjoyed a wonderful cookout of hamburgers, hot dogs, munchies, and BEvERages. |
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| Our launch was successful.� The IKV Praxis survived the launch with repairable 'battle damage'.� It flew up about 100 feet in a parabola flightpath and landed not far from the launch site. |
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| Best of all, when the awards were given for various categories of rockets, we received a trophy for 'Best Design'.� A little collaboration goes a long way!! |
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| The finished rocket. |
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Off she goes!! |
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The IKV Praxis sustains only Minor Battle-Damage |
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Doug and Kathy with the trophy. |
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