USS Challenger’s in the Asbury Park Press!

Shore-area Trekkies show up in costume for movie’s arrival

Meet the crew of the starship USS Challenger — for 25 years, the local Jersey Shore chapter of an international Star Trek fan club, called Starfleet, which boasts hundreds of similar branches around the world.

While there are only about 25 members in Challenger, these are not your run-of-the-mill fans of Gene Roddenberry’s utopian vision of the future, in which humanity is part of a united federation of interstellar civilizations that explore the Milky Way galaxy aboard faster-than-light starships in the pursuit of “strange new worlds … new life and new civilization,” or so it goes. Click here to read full article at app.com