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A cut above the rest!

Welcome to the Spring issue of Assimilate.

National Science Week 2007 has once again proved to be a very essential part of our club's ongoing awareness within the South Australian Community.

Our event at Science Week - The Adelaide Pop Culture Festival conducted from August 17 to 26, recorded 26, 093 visitors that actively took part in many of our activities that included workshops in Alien Makeup and Prosthetic construction, Fantasy Costume construction, a four day Retro film festival, as well as a unique mission quest conducted by our very own Mawson Institute for Learning and Knowledge.

With large attendances at all workshops as well as the Ultimate Quiz night (conducted as a prequel to our event) and a real highlight of the nine day festival, ensured the club of new memberships throughout the week.

Club members actively donated their time over the nine days and their dedication to ensuring a successful event paid off once more as we have received great praise from the National Science Week Committee, resulting in our club being invited back once more, to attend in 2008!

Appreciative thanks to The Australian Costumer's Guild for their fantastic costume displays and informative workshops. The partnership between the Mawson and the Guild has been very successful and we look ahead to many great ventures together.

Our exhibition of retro sci fi memorabilia thoroughly entertained the visiting public as they reminisced on some of the great shows from the era.

Thank you to The South Australian Fan Force for their participation in our Alien Invasion of Rundle Mall on day one of the festival.

Congratulations to all members that donated their time as you are all true credit to our great club.

I wish you all a fantastic spring season

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

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. 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.

Star Trek magazine number seven issue
Titan Publishing have recently released the number seven issue of Star Trek magazine celebrating twenty years of TNG.
Articles covering every TNG episode plus an exclusive interview with John Delancie, a tribute to Majel Barrett and focus on new Star Trek comic releases.
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 Southern Hemisphere!

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

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?

A word from a new voice onboard!
Lt Glenn Potter extends a warm welcome to all at Starship Mawson.

As this is my first contribution, I have a great deal to share with you in this and future issues.
I have been with The Starship Mawson since it's inception and Star Trek has been a part of my life for many years. In April 2006 I was fortunate enough to travel to Las Vegas where I visited the Star Trek Experience, and what an experience it was. One of the many highlights was the exhibition in the Museum at the Experience.

Displays included uniforms, models and items that were actually used in all five Star Trek tv shows and films. Another highlight was the backstage tour. The tour outlined how the television series and films were produced.

Did you know that it takes approximately eight hours to apply the makeup for the Worf character and others?

During my visit I also managed to enjoy a unique dining experience at Quark's bar where I took in some Romulan Ale and a Warp Core Breach (A high octane beverage!)

I was so taken in with this visit, that I attended the Experience again in August 2006 to be a part of the celebrations at the 40th anniversary of Star Trek convention. The celebrations lasted for four days with numerous opportunities to rub shoulders with all the main cast, allowing me some great photo's with the stars.

A short but enthralling trip and a great chance to purchase an array of memorabilia including some rare Star Trek collector plates commemorating the occasion.

Since returning from my trip and attending Terra Nova 5, I have established my own web page detailing these experiences. You can check them out plus more at the link below and please feel free to leave a comment.

I am looking forward to seeing you all in September as I am travelling over from Melbourne to attend the Pancake Meeting.

Live Long and Prosper
Lt Glenn Potter
Deputy Chief of Security
Starship Mawson

Visit Glenn's Star Trek page here!

Upcoming Events

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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 Spring / Summer 2007

October 19
November 2
November 16
November 30

Next Club Meeting
Sunday - November 11
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!

Starship Mawson Roadshow!
October 13 and 14 - Country Adelaide
October 28 - Northern Suburbs
Following on from our success at The Adelaide Pop Culture Festival, we have been hired by the Adelaide Hills Council to conduct workshops on Alien Makeup construction at two rural locations!

Our reputation as Adelaide's most active Sci Fi fan club is earning us great exposure outside the City based community and you are all invited to come along as we promote the club to the following locations.

Session one - Woodside Library, October 13
26 Main Road, Woodside from 2pm

Session two - Stirling Library, October 14
61 Mount Barker Road from 2pm

Members wishing to enjoy an enjoyable drive into the hills are welcome to contact us as we can arrange a car pool for this Away Mission.

Session three! - "Celebrate Sunnybrae" - October 28
Sunnybrae Farm - Regency Park
10am till 4pm
Gallipoli Grove, Regency Park
Workshop plus We will have a display table set up as well, as this is a fantastic opportunity to recruit new memberships

Club Christmas Dinner
Saturday November 24
A fantastic way to see out another highly successful year for our great organisation!
This year we will be enjoying the sumptuous cuisine being offered at Cafe Primo in the heart of Adelaide's restaurant precinct.
The restaurant is located on Gouger St, not far from the Adelaide Central Market.

Bookings are essential, so please contact us to reserve your place!

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

Stop the Press!

Star Trek Convention
Melbourne - Victoria, November 6
Live on Stage at the Mecure Hotel
John Delancie and Garrett Wang with special guest - Mr Richard Arnold

Ticket sales and full event information is available by contacting Mark on Mob: 0418 889 950