Where you will find the Seventh Fleet at FanX 2025
Once again it’s time for FanX: The Salt Lake Comic Convention. Yes, the Seventh Fleet will be present at the event. No, we will not be on the vendor floor this year. If you look at the map above, we will be in the main hallway just outside the vendor room in panel room 151A. Both the charity and the Fleet will have a table in the hallway.
This year the USS White Buffalo will be our coordinating chapter. Room 151A will be holding the Artemis Bridge Simulator that the White Buffalo is running in cooperation with Starship Frontier. As the coordinators, the chapter also gets to select the charity for the convention which is R.E.A.C.H. (Raising Education Through Arts Characters and Heroes). This 501c3 charity teaches anti-bullying literacy, history and art.
The Seventh Fleet would once again like to thank Dan Farr, his staff, and his many, many volunteers who work tirelessly to put this event together. We would also like to thank them for the opportunity to fulfill our community service charter as detailed in our Mission Statement.
Please come visit us, learn about R.E.A.C.H. and have some fun with the Artemis Bridge Simulator. It will be an exciting weekend for all.
Additional: The nanites have completed about 95% of the website overhaul. There is some minor tweaking to perform. Coming soon are major updates on the Fleet Council page and the online Photo Albums. If you see anything that is broken or out-of-place, please let the nanites know at Webmaster@SeventhFleet.org. Thank you.
So the nanites working on the website have been doing some updates to the different sections. One of the areas that they have been able to improve is adding the information on the new Seventh Fleet Rank Advancement Guidelines. This is version 4.0.1 of the rank guidelines. Several years ago a series of different proposals came in regarding the rank guidelines that we had been using for over 10 years. We felt like it was time to review the guidelines with feedback from the Commanding Officers. These guidelines are a combination of some of the various proposals that we have received.
Starting now we will be reviewing the guidelines on a regular basis to see how they are helping our members learn and grow. As you progress through the different steps, please provide feedback to your Commanding Officer and Executive Officer. This will help us evaluate what works and what might need to be changed.
So what are some of the changes that have gone into effect?
There is a higher emphasis on our community service charter.
The Crewman 3rd Class (members under the age of 16) has been eliminated and will soon be replaced with a new Junior Starfleet Officer Training Course (JSOTC).
The Academy Exam has been replaced with the Academy Basics Course in the requirements. Course 1 will cover the basics of Star Trek and course 2 will cover the basics of the Seventh Fleet. The older Academy Exam is now the Advanced Academy Exam and is optional (but still worth automatic rank promotions and merit awards with high scores if taken by a Crewman).
The out-of-state convention requirement has been replaced with the out-of-area Star Trek/Science road trip.
The Command Test required for the Commissioned Officer Track- Lt. Commander has two options. The pre-generated test by series (the current tests that we have now) or a customized test where the candidate selects two episodes per series. Ninety days later a customized test will be available for the candidate to take.
The full Commander in the Commissioned Officer Track will be creating merit sheets instead of passing them off. The Command rank also has Admiralty Projects instead of additional Command Tests.
The details have been broken down on the Seventh Fleet Ranks section of our website. A copy of the version 4.0.1 PDF can also be found here available for reading or downloading.
Several members have already inquired about following the new guidelines. But we are also grandfathering in those who were close to completing their next rank on the previous guidelines. If you have any questions, feel free to inquire with your Commanding Officer.
The nanites are still working on other sections of the Seventh Fleet website. If you discover a broken link or missing information, please let us know at Webmaster@SeventhFleet.org.
Welcome to the start of the New Star Year. We are probably hearing a few head scratches out there? New Star Year? Well as you know, the stardate is usually listed when a character is giving a log entry on the show. Well in The Original Series, and in the early episodes of The Next Generation, there wasn’t really a fully fleshed out system for the numbers to the Gregorian calendar that we use in modern times. It was a plot device to make the show seemed futuristic like warp drive and phasers. The numbers were randomly selected (but were usually higher later in the season) and there wasn’t really a pattern to them. Roddenberry attempted to explain that the stardates were set by where the vessel was at a certain moment and…. well lets just say even he didn’t know 100% how they worked. When The Next Generation was first being produced the production staff attempted to standardize them for the show. For the first season of TNG, all of the stardates started with 41xxx.x. When the second season started in September of 1988, the stardates had moved to 42xxx.x. This continued with DS9 and Voyager so that the episodes that aired after September of 1996 started with stardate 50xxx.x. So in the Seventh Fleet we adopted this as the year mark. The next two numbers after the year was the month, and the last two numbers (even with the period in them) was the day. So today’s stardate is 79080.1 (September 1, 2025). The official launch date of the Seventh Fleet is January 3, 1998 which is Stardate 51010.3. The first Star Trek convention was held on January 31, 1972 or Stardate 26013.1. Here is a quick breakdown for reference following this pattern.
September 1960-August 1970 = 14090.1 to 23083.1 September 1970-August 1980 = 24090.1 to 33083.1 September 1980-August 1990 = 34090.1 to 43083.1 September 1990-August 2000 = 44090.1 to 53083.1 September 2000-August 2010 = 54090.1 to 63083.1 September 2010-August 2020 = 64090.1 to 73083.1 September 2020-August 2030 = 74090.1 to 83083.1
We’ve had some changes in command to two of our chapters and a new chapter-in-training launched. Lt. Julie Henkes is now the Acting Commanding Officer of the USS Kelly after getting voted in by her crew, the former CO and the Admiralty. Lt. Commander Dawn Woods is staying on as the Executive Officer of the USS Kelly. The former CO, Lt. Commander Jill Bogler-Patterson and her husband, Crewman Bob Patterson are joining Admiral Stark’s staff to assist him with his duties. Captain Joe Colflesh is launching a new chapter-in-training in the St. George, Utah area. This will be the USS Roanoke NCC-74634 launched off of the USS Pulsar formerly commanded by Captain Colflesh. The Pulsar’s Executive Officer, Commander Michelle Ludeking, is moving into the position of Commanding Officer with 2nd Officer Lt. Commander Evelyn Durrant moving up to the role of Executive Officer. Congratulations to everyone on their new position.
Star Trek Strange New Worlds season three is more than half done. There have been some very interesting and excellent episodes so far. “What is Starfleet” had a very touching episode even with the documentary format. We are looking forward to the last batch of episodes as well as the new audio drama Star Trek: Khan.
Our charity for FanX: The Salt Lake Comic Convention will be R.E.A.C.H. (Raising Education Through Arts Characters and Heroes). This 501c3 charity teaches anti-bullying literacy, history and art. Every year FanX gives us the opportunity to perform our community service charter. Instead of a booth on the floor, we will be coordinating our efforts with the Starship Frontier Artemis Bridge Simulator. Feel free to come visit us there.
We are taking down our online interest form for the time being as we still haven’t been able to get it to work. If you are interested in being contacted by one of our chapters, please email your name, phone number and local city to Join@SeventhFleet.org and we will route it to the nearest Seventh Fleet chapter. You can also talk to us on our Facebook page, on our Discord server or by following us on our BlueSky account.
As we have mentioned before, September 1st is the date we are adopting our Version 4.0 of the new rank advancement system. If you are close to earning your next rank, we are grandfathering those individuals in. Contact your CO or XO for details. Over the next few weeks you’ll see the updated information being added to our blog posts and in our rank section of the fleet website. If you have any questions at all, again contact your CO or XO or Info@SeventhFleet.org and we will try to answer them.
Welcome Aboard: Crewman 3rd Class Ariana Chacon who is joining the USS Pulsar Crewman 3rd Class Isaac Chacon who is joining the USS Pulsar Crewman 2nd Class Nathan Flynn who is joining the USS Kelly Crewman 2nd Class Sarah Wiley who is joining the USS Kelly
Congratulations To: Hanna Baker-Louvar of the USS Pulsar for being promoted to the rank of Crewman 1st Class Zack Baker-Louvar of the USS Pulsar for being promoted to the rank of Crewman 1st Class
Fleet Birthdays and Anniversaries: September 1 USS Kelly anniversary (1986)
Star Trek Birthdays and Anniversaries: September 6 Idris Elba (Star Trek Beyond) September 8 Star Trek: The Original Series premiers (1966) September 8 Star Trek: The Animated Series premiers (1973) September 9 Jeffrey Combs (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Star Trek Lower: Decks) September 10 Harry Treadaway (Star Trek: Picard) September 10 The Orville Series premiers (2017) September 11 Roxann Dawason (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise) September 14 Walter Koenig (Star Trek, Star Trek: Picard) September 15 Tom Hardy (Star Trek: Nemesis) September 16 Jayne Brook (Star Trek: Discovery) September 17 Ella Purnell (Star Trek: Prodigy) September 18 Christina Chong (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) September 18 Babs Olusanmokun (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds) September 23 Rosalind Chao (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) September 24 Star Trek: Discovery premiers (2017) September 26 Star Trek: Enterprise premiers (2001) September 28 Star Trek: The Next Generation premiers (1987)
Other Items To Note: Volunteers are needed for the Seventh Fleet booth and the USS White Buffalo Artemis simulator at the FanX: Salt Lake Comic Convention in September. Please contact your commanding officer if you are interested in helping out.
Upcoming Events: September 25-27: FanX: The Salt Lake Comic Convention January 31: Admiral’s Banquet (Richmond, UT) March 12-15: SaltCON (Layton, UT) April 4: Ogden-Con (Ogden, UT) May 15-17: Gem State Comic Con (Boise, ID) July 18: Fleet Day (Clearfield, UT)
Hailing Frequencies Open is posted on the 1st of the month at SeventhFleet.org. If you have an entry that you would like to be included in a future HFO, please contact your Commanding Officer. The CO needs to have it submitted to the Admiralty by the 2nd to last day of the month for inclusion.
“They say time is a fire in which we burn; right now I’m running out of time.” Dr. Soran- Star Trek Generations, Stardate: 48650.1”
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