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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

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Personnel Report (2011.0927)

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

-Lt Tom Hesser (with Honors), Chief Engineering Officer
-Lt Jon Sung (with Honors), Chief Helm Officer

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

Medical Officer – vacant

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

Operations Officer – Nicole Lippman – Ensign
Quartermaster – Tria Connell – Ensign
Transporter Chief – Cody Bratt – Crewman

Tactical Officer – Ben Roodman – Ensign
Security Crewman – Steve Band – Crewman
Security Crewman – Micah Jolly – Crewman

 

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Away Team Report: (2011.0804) Kennedy Space Center – Trek Exhibit

Broken shuttlecraft rides, fake Vulcans, and so much Trek memorabilia. 

While on shore leave in the Florida sector, I received word from Starfleet that the Kennedy Space Center had not one, but two Trek related points of interest. I immediately plotted an away mission. The Space Center had been running an educational live-action show, called ‘Mad Science presents Star Trek Live’, for some time. This performance, aimed at introducing young cadets to basic scientific principles, was also joined by the traveling museum of ‘Star Trek: The Exhibition’, which together made for the Kennedy Space Center’s ‘Sci-Fi Summer’.

Star Trek: The Exhibition seemed to focus most heavily on TNG memorabilia, which had it’s own, large area right at the entrance. TOS, on the other hand, was relegated to hiding in the IMAX theater. They had a Trek themed ride on site, but alas, it was broken. Since it was a motion simulator that traveled with the Exhibition and not a permanent installation, I can’t help but wonder what I missed.

While wandering the grounds of the Space Center, you could see some ‘Vulcans’ hanging out in their 21st century Earth street clothes, presumably waiting for own their scheduled performance of the Star Trek Live science show.

If either of these exhibits ever come (or in the case of Star Trek: The Exhibition; returns), a full scale USS Loma Prieta away mission is certainly in order.

~En. Nicole Lippman
Operations Officer
USS Loma Prieta
Starfleet, Region 4