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Seasons Greetings!

Welcome to our festive season issue of Assimilate.

With the year coming to a close I am looking back at a very fast and highly successful year for our club.

So active was our club, that we had an organised club display somewhere around our community every month of 2007!

Our most recent activity was the sell out film night at The Palace East End Cinema where we hosted a very successful presentation of the remastered version of the classic 60s feature length episode - The Menagerie.

Combining with The Australian Costumer's Guild and Cernat Enterprises, we created a fantastic expo area for the visiting theatre patrons to interact with and we were lucky enough to secure new memberships and many new contacts for our online e-mail group.

So whats on for 2008?
Well, just wait and see!

First up will be our Star Trek Monopoly challenge followed by Fanzone 2008, our combined open day with Adelaide's leading Sci Fi fan clubs. See our club news page for all dates and information.

To all members that have dedicated their valuable time to the many activities we have organised this year, I thank you and look forward to working with you once again in 2008 and to all members around Australia and parts of the World, I wish you a very Merry Christmas and a fantastic SF New Year!

Joyeux Noel

Latest Club News

Mawson Website
Check out our Website StarshipMawson.com (Click on the Ship) for all the latest updates including our cool Jazz 24/7 radio station that you can listen to whilst surfing our great site!

Starship Mawson on Myspace
Check us out on Myspace!
Join up as a friend and post a comment as this is another great way to promote our club to the Sci Fi community.
StarshipMawson on Myspace

We're on Facebook!
Fighting Vampires is just one of the activities keeping members busy on Facebook! Join us there as a friend and receive cool club bulletins and plenty more.
Search for Starship Mawson on Facebook

Convention Listing
We have added a few more events to our listing, have a look and see what you think.

Club Chat
Want to meet up? We're Australia's Sci Fi meet-up group and IFT Correspondence chapter!
Chat online with fellow crew members every Sunday at 8pm (South Australian time). Join us on the holodeck via MSN Messenger and contact chiefofscience@hotmail.com to be invited in.You'll have a great time!
MSN.com

starshipmawson.com goes global!
StarshipMawson.com members can view where fellow fans are finding us via the instalment of our Global Tracker.
Simply click on the map of the World under our Home Page site menu and an enlarged map will appear with markers in red depicting the originating countries.

We've recently refreshed our tracker as a result of us being visited by so many people from around the world!

Being a meeting and correspondence chapter for The International Federation of Trekkers in the Southern Hemisphere, we welcome fans of Television, Theatre, Print and Film to join us and have fun!

Go to www.iftcommand.com for membership information or go to our "Club News" Page on our website.

Club Meeting dates for 2008
Please see a revised schedule of meeting dates for 2008.
Feb 10
March 23
April 27
May 25
June 29
July 27
August 24
Sept 28
Oct 19
Nov 23
Meeting from 3pm to 6pm

Star Trek magazine number eight issue
Titan Publishing have recently released the number eight issue of Star Trek magazine celebrating twenty years of TNG.
There is a great article on Jonathan Frakes as well as a feature on the recent stage appearance at German convention - Fedcon, of Robert O'Reilly and J.G.Hertzler.
New product focus and much more!

Issue on sale in Australia now.
See cover issue link opposite our Sponsor's links.

The UK based publication is circulated to a World wide readership.
Titan Publishing information

Members section
I am pleased to announce that our new members only section on our website is fully operational featuring a wide selection of department newsletters and all members information.

Access to this section of the website can be obtained by contacting us via the clubs e-mail on our home page.

I.F.T. News
Check out the Official I.F.T. website to see whats new and while you are there have a look at the latest club merchandise on offer to members.The I.F.T. is the Official fan club for the Star Trek New Voyages motion picture group and we are not alone in our Region as we have three other ships here in Australia - The USS Warragal, the USS Fortuna and The USS Taraina, making it the largest Star Trek fan association in the Australia!

The Mawson institute of learning and knowledge is operational and members are enjoying their time on campus.

Dr Who campus now operational and for all the retro tv fans there will be a cool campus for you shortly.

We should all be proud as our school is Australia's only Science Fiction institute.
Topics are being continuously added as the Institute grows.

Please click on the Institute banner on our home page for all information.

M.I.L.K. will give Mawson Members the unique opportunity to study at an Australian SF campus and communicate with the faculty right here on Planet OZ!
Have you had your MILK today?

Fanzone 2008
Checkout Fanzone 2008!
A combined open day presented by Adelaide's leading Sci Fi fan clubs this coming Feb 10.
Venue is The SA Writers Centre located at 187 Rundle St - Adelaide.
From 11am to 4pm
Displays from all clubs as well as interactive games and demonstrations.
Volunteers needed - Can you help out?
Contact us to record your name.
We need you!

Hailing Frequencies open!

Lt Glenn Potter expends a warm welcome once again on board the USS Mawson.

This being my second contribution, I would like to begin by asking if anyone is familiar with a new Star Trek TV series? It's called Star Trek New Voyages. (You can check them out at the link below) and their latest episode is "World enough and Time" and runs for one hour and five minutes.

My Wife Judy and I recently celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary by enjoying a seven night cruise to the Whitsundays. Travelling aboard the P&O luxury liner - The Pacific Sun, we visited places like Cairns, Port Douglas and Willis Island. This was thoroughly relaxing and exciting. The 47,000 ton liner with nine decks and 223 metres in length with a maximum speed of 21 knots, added so much to this special occasion. Needless to say there are countless photos and video footage that captured all the excitement of this adventure.

Not sure if all of you have seen a sample of the novelty bank notes with The USS Mawson I sent over recently?
I am able to produce a wide variety of of similar notes which are for sale on Ebay or by contacting me direct. I am able to produce just about any denomination including English Pounds and US Dollars. These notes can be personalised to include Sporting, Music, film notorieties or any of your favourite Star Trek characters. To get a better idea of the work I do with these notes, you can view a sample at Ebay.com.au and my user name is 190855.

It's that time of year again, so please let me take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a safe and prosperous New Year and I look forward to seeing you all when I come over for Fanzone 2008 on Feb 10!

Until then.. Health and Happiness

Live Long and Prosper

Lt Glenn Potter

Upcoming Events

Club Activities.
There are a few events where the Club will be setting up its corporate display and recruiting table

Pancake Meeting!
Every second Friday
The Pancake Kitchen - Off Hindley St , Adelaide.
730pm till late
All welcome for a fantastic feast of pancakes and fun!
Pancake meeting dates for Summer 2008

Feb 22
March 7
March 14
March 21

Next Club Meeting
Sunday - January 13
"Happy New Year!"
3pm to 7pm
SA Writers Centre,187 Rundle St - Adelaide.
A fantastic afternoon awaits all members as we present a great SF screening, games and plenty of fun!

Well thats about it everyone. Logon to our Links Page for all your sci fi TV show resources and our Clubs supporters.
For the latest in sci fi around Planet Oz, simply subscribe to the Sci Fi Reporter, Australia's Sci Fi E- Newsletter at scifireporter@yahoo.com

Sci Fi Reporter is now located at myspace!

Check out their link below and post a comment on the blog or become a friend of the Sci Fi Reporter!
Sci Fi Reporter at Myspace

Club Alliance News
Presented by Queensland Star Trek fan club President and Starship Mawson member - Mary Kemp.
Quest has had a successful year in recruiting new members and with the enthusiasm of a new younger generation, we are certain that Queensland's longest running SF club will continue into the future for all to enjoy.

Some of the highlights for this year was our stand at Supanova, many members were busy making Tribbles and also the Tribble detector boxes (Courtesy of the SA fan club). We also made 3cm button badges with our new logo and showbags which was a great success in all being sold on the first day by 1.19pm.

Other highlights throughout the year were the Library days at the Logan North Library, our picnic at The Planetarium with a show of Infinity Express, Viewing The Menagerie in high definition recently as well as the DS9 Market Day, which was a great highlight.

Members also attended War of The Worlds - The Musical and The Queensland Model Hobbies Expo (as we have some talented Modellers in our club that competed), we enjoyed being interviewed on FM 88 and celebrated the 20th anniversary of Star Trek - The Next Generation with the celebration being reported on Extra's - with Doug Murray, reporting on our 30th anniversary.

Costuming workshops were conducted as part of our 30th anniversary celebrations and a Klingon theme will continue into 2008 due to the immense popularity of costuming with all members welcome to participate.

The club will be holding it's AGM in Feb 2008 and this will see a new generation of committee members taking the club to a new plan of excitement!

Quest meets every second Sunday of the month at The PCYC in Fortitude Valley, Cnr of Church St and Wickham St - Fortitude Valley. We have an extensive Library of over 650 items for members to resource and the club produces it's own newsletter for financial members called, "Log of The USS Quest". The newsletter is produced four times per year. Being a family oriented club with Children most welcome, memberships commence on the 1st of November each year.

Quest Memberships..
Single is $25.00
Family is $30.00
Members joining in 2008 receive a small gift in appreciation of your enthusiasm and we welcome your contact.

Quest President - Mar Kemp can be contacted at ..
jmkemp@bigpond.net.au