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Personnel Report (2011.1024)

Congratulations to the following officers who recently passed Starfleet Academy’s Officer Training School (OCC) to receive promotions to Lt. (jg) and shall now serve as the chief officers of their respective departments.

-Lt (jg) Ben Roodman, Chief Tactical Officer
-Lt (jg) Nicole Lippman, Chief Operations Officer

And please also welcome Chief Petty Officer Cody Bratt, our new transporter chief, and Security Officer Ensign Micah Jolly, who will be a correspondant member based out of Austin, TX.

The ship’s present crew structure is as follow, with positions being grouped by division. There are several new positions here which will be included and further defined in the upcoming edition of the chapter handbook.

Commanding Officer – Zach Perkins – Cmdr
Executive Officer – Samantha Dolgoff (acting) – Lt
Yeoman – Cindy Bee – Ensign

Chief Helm Officer – Jon Sung – Lt
Navigation Officer – Andy Smith – Ensign

Chief Engineering Officer – Tom Hesser – Lt
Warp Propulsion Officer – Brian Schroeder – Lt(jg)
Antimatter Technician – Thomas Marrone – Crewman
Replicator Systems Specialist – Pete Hottelet – Crewman

Chief Operations Officer – Nicole Lippman – Lt(jg)
Quartermaster – Tria Connell – Ensign
Transporter Chief – Cody Bratt – Chief Petty Officer

Communications Officer – vacant

Chief Tactical Officer – Ben Roodman – Lt(jg)

Security Crewman – Micah Jolly – Ensign
Security Crewman – Steve Band – Crewman

Chief Science Officer – Samantha Dolgoff – Lt
Stellar Cartographer – Shawn Alpay – Crewman
Xenoathropology Specialist – Jenny Wilson – Crewman

Medical Officer – vacant

~Cmdr. Zach Perkins
Commanding Officer
USS Loma Prieta
Starfleet, Region 4

 

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Captain’s Blog … Stardate 2011.1024

Captain’s Blog, Stardate 2011.1024…

October isn’t over yet and already it’s been an eventful month on the USS Loma Prieta. We’ve added new members, seen many promotions amongst our crew, and conducted yet another successful away mission. We’ve also reached a significant milestone in our progress toward commissioning by voting in our chapter’s emblem. The winning design (above) was chosen after receiving 6 out of a total of 9 votes present at the time of our monthly meeting.

Throughout our shakedown cruise, the USS Loma Prieta has had an impressive record as an active chapter. Word of our activities has even reached the rest of the fleet, with the USS Loma Prieta’s July away mission to the USS Hornet being featured in the Starfleet Region 4 Fall Newsletter. We began the month with a well attended away mission to San Francisco’s Fleet Week 2011 celebrations.

October also held a poignant reminder that spoke directly to our chapter’s secondary mission: to render disaster relief to Federation worlds and our immediate community. On Thursday, October 20th, the Hayward fault produced a magnitude 4.0 earthquake in the East Bay that could be felt as far away as San Francisco. Later that night, a 3.8 magnitude aftershock hit while Lt. Hesser, Yeoman Bee and myself were undergoing a disaster training simulation with SFFD NERT, which reinforced our reasons for being there in the most heavy handed way imaginable. This coming Thursday, select crew members will conduct their final exercises, graduate from NERT training, and be assigned to their neighborhood NERT teams for further disaster preparedness and emergency response training. Any crew members who wish to volunteer as ‘victims’ for the October 27th training simulation, or who wish to enroll in the next series of NERT training classes, should contact the commanding officer.

November is gearing up to be even more active. We’ll be forgoing our standard general chapter meeting in lieu of not one, but four special events and away missions. First, Chief Helm Officer Lt. Jon Sung will be taking command of a Runabout to lead an away mission to investigate the mysterious transmissions we’ve been receiving from the Hayward sector. Rumor has it that these transmissions could lead to the discovery of the planet Sonic, whose fast food value menu was once thought to be a myth. Next, on November 15th, the San Francisco Amateur Astronomers organization will be hosting UCSF Professor of Psychiatry Nick Kanas for a free lecture on Psychological Issues affecting Astronauts in Space. The next day, the USS Loma Prieta will dispatch an away team to the California Academy of Science for the ‘Into Space’ NightLife event, featuring NASA’s GLAST Optical Robotic Telescope and a screening of JJ Abram’s Star Trek (2009) in the theater (Tickets are $12, buy now before they sell out). At the end of November, we are also anticipating a Star Trek Costume and Craft Night event, hosted by Lt(jg) Lippmann and our Quartermaster, Ensign Connell. More info on this event will be available when Ensign Connell returns from Switzerland Prime in the Europa Sector.

Until then, standby for a personnel report… Perkins, out.

~Cmdr. Zach Perkins
Commanding Officer
USS Loma Prieta
Starfleet, Region 4

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Away Team Report: (2011.1009) Fleet Week 2011 – The Blue Angels and the USS Bonhomme Richard

As the headquarters of Starfleet Command, San Francisco is also naturally home to one of the most extravagant of annual Fleet Week celebrations.  While the USS Loma Prieta itself was not featured amongst the ships on display, our crew did send a rather sizable delegation to the festivities.

After beginning the mission with a minor transporter accident that scattered our away team across the Embarcadero waterfront, we regrouped at Pier 30. Anchored there was the USS Bonhomme Richard, an amphibious assault carrier capable of launching a wide variety of aircraft, from helicopters to Harrier jets, as well as amphibious Marine landing vehicles.

The crew of the USS Bonhomme Richard was friendly and informative, showcasing the latest in military hardware from armored personnel carriers, attack helicopters, and even the advanced V-22 Osprey. But it wasn’t just vehicles that were being showcased. There was some surprisingly advanced technology on display, including pre-Soong android technology in the form remote controlled ordinance disposal robots, and even an airborne surveillance drone.

After disembarking the Bonhomme Richard, our away team attempted to seek out a spot to best observe the Blue Angels air show. Unfortunately, after making a few aerobatic passes that could easily rival Nova Squadron, the show was cut short after atmospheric anomalies (ie: clouds) were detected. Hopefully, our crew will be able to witness the full performance at Fleet Week 2012. Perkins out.

~Cmdr. Zach Perkins
Commanding Officer
USS Loma Prieta
Starfleet, Region 4

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Away Mission to San Francisco Fleet Week 2011 (Stardate 2011.1009)

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Away Team Report: (2011.0924) Star Trek Live – The Way To Eden

After receiving encouraging reports from Yeoman Bee’s scouting party, the crew assembled a full away team to attend the Darkroom’s final performance of Star Trek Live: The Way To Eden.  Knowing that the events we were about to witness occurred long ago in the 23rd Century, the crew took care to don vintage Starfleet attire to blend in and draw as little attention as possible.

Our attempts, however, seemed to have the complete opposite effect. The away team was immediately spotted by the audience and staff, and we were made to pose for photos in the theater’s Constitution class bridge stage. The potential damage that we’ve done to the timeline is incalculable, and I’m sure as soon as I submit this log to Starfleet that I will be paid a rather unpleasant visit from Temporal Investigations. They ask so many questions…

Regardless of the consequences, the crew’s egregious temporal vacation violation was well worth it. The house was packed, the cast talented, and the production was heartfelt. Star Trek Live provided a fresh take on a particularly absurd episode that, in its own time, showed just how culturally divided our society had been (and how utterly detached and mislead the mainstream media could be).

Star Trek Live’s re-telling of ‘The Way to Eden’ notably featured a kilt wearing Scotty; a singing Kirk who wore yoga pants; a Sulu that was far more out-of-the-closet than had anyone remembered him being; Yeoman Rand (not actually featured in the original episode) in an up-do wig as eye candy; and a series of three wig-alternating Red Shirts all played by the same actor.  The crew of Star Trek Live’s USS Enterprise each had something to offer, but the real highlight was Andrew Moore’s rendition of Adam, the episode’s iconic hippie-bard. Unlike the original episodes creepy yet happy-go-lucky Adam, Moore’s psychotic Adam was played more like a member the bank-robbing surfer-gang in Point Break than a prancing space hippie.

I seemed that our presence had seriously disrupted the timeline. Any doubt of this was put to rest not long after we returned to our own time and discovered that Charles Napier, the original Adam from the 1969 episode, had passed away.  Rest in peace Charles, “we reach…”

~Cmdr. Zach Perkins
Commanding Officer
USS Loma Prieta
Starfleet, Region 4