The following reached me this morning from the owner of the Shuttlecraft Galileo prop who may or may not have also reached out to your chapter.

I’m passing the word along and will be providing the headcount for Starfleet-Region 7 if you can send a landing party out for the event. —Adm. Bob Vosseller, VRC Region 7, CO USS Challenger NCC-1676-D

A year ago Leslie and I committed to restore “The First Shuttle,” Galileofrom Star Trek, back to her original glory.  She has been restored atMaster Shipwrights in New Jersey.  Galileo is now restored andyou and your family are invited to the unveiling on Saturday, June 22, from1-3 PM at Master Shipwrights, 25 West Highland Street, AtlanticHighlands NJ 07716.  The unveiling is “rain or shine”

Our old meeting place, the Seaside Heights Community Center, is almost completely recovered from Hurricane Sandy, and we’ll be holding our June meeting there at 1:00 pm. Here’s the address:

Seaside Heights Community Center
1100 Bay Boulevard
Seaside Heights, NJ 08751

See you there!

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