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Minutes

(08/30/2000)

Call To Order: 10:12 pm

Attendance:

• Joel Oberdieck (Captain)
• Julie Faas (First Officer)
• David Henderson (Chief of Operations)
• Meg Callender (Grand Nagus)
• Kenny Albright (Communications Officer)
• Roger Grunkemeyer
• Katie Kilby
• Ray Kremer
• Amy Lewis
• Carl Murphy
• Aaron Nevitt
• C. Adam Scott
• Charlie Truong
• Ryan Woodrow
• Eric Zaleski

Minutes: Summarized and approved.

• Specific disorder ensues during the reading of the minutes.
• The First Officer Emeritus is declared conspicuously absent.
• Seconds later (at 10:25(now)), the F.O. Emeritus arrives, with Carl in tow.

Committee Reports:

• Welcome!

• No report.

• A paper airplane was directed toward Katie, who read the report.
• No report. (applause)

• We have reinstated this committee in the hopes of having monthly movies in the Marty Theater.
• Charlie was named chairman.
• One movie put up for consideration was The Wizard of Speed and Time.

Officers' Reports:

• Minutes for the last meeting were taken but are not up yet, since the Comm Officer is a total failure.

• We have lots of money.
• The current balance is $142.09.

• Description of the Chief's job is given for the new people: He looks for things to make us go.
• A shameless plug is given for our website at www.psiphi.org, now receiving a million hits a month!

• No report.

• Our Fearful Leader is proclaimed to be a dismal failure, not to be confused with the total failure that is the Comm Officer.
• Mail:
  • All mail is deemed to be propaganda; however, there is no relevant mail for us this week.

Old Business:

• Nominations for a new First Officer took place:
  • Julie, Ray, and (gasp!) Adam (shudder) were nominated.
  • The club voted to the strains of the famous Star Trek Fight Scene music - Da da da da DA dun-dun-DA dun-dun-DA...
  • Julie got 4 votes, Ray got 2, Adam got 1 (thanks a lot, Joel!) and, not surprisingly, there were 6 abstentions.
  • Julie is our "new" First Officer. All hail the status quo!
  • Julie likes to consider herself the Darth Sidious of the Psi Phi club. We're not quite sure why.

New Business:

• We also reinstated the T-Shirt committee this week.
• Amy, David, and Julie all opted to be on the committee, and get to fight over who chairs it.

Scifi News:

• New Frontier books 9 and 10 are now available, dealing with the adventures of the crew of the U.S.S. Excalibur.
• A new book series, Star Trek: New Earth, is also coming out. It is 6 books long, and deals with the period of time between ST:TMP and TWOK.
• The good news is, they got rid of those ugly costumes! Hooray!
• So many ugly comments that could have been made at this time were held back.
• Also available now is the 800-page DS9 Companion, in glorious black and white!
• David also had book covers for us:
  • Swordhunt and Honor Blade are the newest books in the Rihannsu series, by Diane Duane.
  • They continue the story from "My Enemy, My Ally," and are due out in October.
  • Coming in November/December is The Dark Matters, a Voyager trilogy.
  • Taking place during the 6th season, it deals with contact with the Romulans, made during the first season.
• Horrible chaos ensues.
• A good website for TOS can be found at www.thelogbook.com/log/TOSmenu.html.
• The Chief was quick to point out that Mark Holtz runs that site.
• "Flesh and Blood" is the name of the Voyager episode set for November sweeps.
• Talk migrated to several little tricks hidden in the Captain's Chair computer program, including how one can move from the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise-D to that of a Klingon Bird of Prey.
• This was followed by absolute silence. It was decided that this would be a good point to end the meeting.

Adjournment: 10:54 (now)pm