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Hailing Frequencies Open December 2025

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The month of November was a busy one for the nanites working on the Seventh Fleet website. Almost 2,700 photos were uploaded to the Seventh Fleet Photo Albums going all the way back to 1988 (before we started as a parent organization). We were able to identify most of the individuals in the photos and the events that they were taken at. But we may have messed up a few. Corrections have already been sent in (and updated). Thank you. These photos were also meta tagged by event and chapter. Thus when you click on one of the pages for that chapter, you will find a link to all of their photos (and blog posts). We want more photos from the events that you have just enjoyed as well as those from past events. Please send them to Photos@SeventhFleet.org.

With it also being December, it’s time to get your orders in for the 2026 Seventh Fleet Calendar. The publisher was able to give us a good bid so we could keep the cost at $10 a calendar. This will run from January 2026 to January 2027. Contact your CO ASAP if you would like to order one.

Another notice about December that we would like to pass along is the warning about the weather. Travel can get hazardous over the next few months, so be careful out there. Especially traveling to see friends and family for the upcoming holidays.

The Seventh Fleet Admiral’s Banquet is coming up next month on Saturday, January 24th (note, this isn’t the last Saturday of the month). It will be held in Richmond, Utah. For additional details, contact your chapter CO. This will be hosted by the USS Rendezvous.

Did you have a good Thanksgiving? Tell us about it on our Discord Server, our Facebook Page, our BlueSky Account or just email us at Join@SeventhFleet.org.

Congratulations To:
Lieutenant Josh Sorensen for being named the Acting Executive Officer of the USS Pulsar

Star Trek Birthdays and Anniversaries:
December 4 Tony Todd (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager)
December 6 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country premiers (1991)
December 7 Star Trek: The Motion Picture premiers (1979)
December 9 Michael Dorn (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)
December 10 John Colicos (Star Trek, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
December 11 Star Trek: Insurrection premiers (1998)
December 13 Christopher Plummer (Star Trek: VI The Undiscovered Country)
December 13 Star Trek: Nemesis premiers (2002)
December 15 Garrett Wang (Star Trek: Voyager)
December 18 Jason Mantzoukas (Star Trek: Prodigy)
December 20 Nicole de Boer (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
December 21 Michelle Hurd (Star Trek: Picard)
December 23 Noel Wells (Star Trek: Lower Decks)
December 27 Wilson Cruz (Star Trek: Discovery)
December 28 Nichelle Nichols (Star Trek)

Other Dates To Note:
December 4 National Dice Day
December 8 Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day
December 10 Human Rights Day
December 14 Hanukkah Starts
December 21 Winter Solstice
December 22 Hanukkah Ends
December 25 Christmas Day
December 26 Boxing Day
December 31 New Years Eve
January 1 New Years Day
January 2 National Science Fiction Day
January 9 Law Enforcement Appreciation Day
January 19 Martin Luther King Jr. Day
January 21 First Star Trek convention (1972)

Upcoming Events:
January 24: Admiral’s Banquet (Richmond, UT) **DATE UPDATED**
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)
August 5-9: Trek to Vegas (Las Vegas, NV)
September 24-26: FanX: The Salt Lake Comic Convention

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.

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Hailing Frequencies Open November 2025

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Greetings everyone and welcome to November. We apologize for not having more posts in October as the nanites were working towards more updates to the Seventh Fleet website. They are nearly complete, but some observers may notice a lot of new options lately. Major announcements coming soon. If you see anything out of place or have suggestions, please email Webmaster@SeventhFleet.org.

Have you been listening to the Star Trek Khan audio drama or watching Star Trek Scouts? If so, what have you thought of them? Tell us about it on our Discord Server, our Facebook Page, our BlueSky Account or just email us at Join@SeventhFleet.org. We also have a release date for the upcoming Star Trek Starfleet Academy which will be January 15, 2026. That will be here before you know it. At the New York Comic Con there was several trailers and announcements made. Here are some of them.

And a final reminder that Election Day is coming up very soon. If you vote, please report it on your duty reports. This is worth Leadership Promotional Merit Points for rank advancements.

Star Trek Birthdays and Anniversaries:
November 5 Armin Shimerman (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Lower Decks)
November 6 Rebecca Romijn (Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Short Treks, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds)
November 7 Mary Chieffo (Star Trek: Discovery)
November 9 Robert Duncan McNeill (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Lower Decks)
November 12 Wallace Shawn (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
November 12 Max Grodenchik (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Lower Decks)
November 13 Whoopi Goldberg (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Picard)
November 18 Star Trek: Generations premiers (1994)
November 19 Robert Beltran (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Prodigy)
November 19 Terry Farrell (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
November 21 Alexander Siddig (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: The Next Generation)
November 22 Star Trek: First Contact premiers (1996)
November 24 Denise Crosby (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
November 24 Dwight Schultz (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: First Contact)
November 25 Ricardo Montalban (Star Trek, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)
November 25 Jeffrey Hunter (Star Trek)
November 26 Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home premiers (1986)
November 27 Alison Phil (Star Trek: Picard)
November 28 Scarlett Pomers (Star Trek: Voyager)

Other Dates To Note:
November 2 Daylight Saving Time ends
November 4 Election Day
November 8 National STEM Day
November 11 Veterans Day
November 25 Gazpacho Soup Day
November 27 Thanksgiving Day
December 8 Pretend to be a Time Traveler Day
December 10 Human Rights Day
December 14 Hanukkah Starts
December 21 Winter Solstice
December 22 Hanukkah Ends
December 25 Christmas Day
December 26 Boxing Day
December 31 New Years Eve

Other Items To Note:
The latest issue of the USS Kelly newsletter, the Kelly Communique, is now available. Contact the CO for a copy.

Upcoming Events:
January 24: Admiral’s Banquet (Richmond, UT) **DATE UPDATED**
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)
August 5-9: Trek to Vegas (Las Vegas, NV)
September 24-26: FanX: The Salt Lake Comic Convention

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.

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Hailing Frequencies Open October 2025

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Another FanX has come and gone and we had a ton of fun. We got to meet a lot of new friends, raise some money for a good charity and play a lot of Artemis. If you are checking out our website after the convention, welcome. We hope you reach out to us soon using the information on our Online Interest Page, on our Discord Server, our Facebook Page, our BlueSky Account or just email us at Join@SeventhFleet.org.

The Seventh Fleet booth before the convention starts.

We would like to thank the many, many volunteers and members from the USS White Buffalo, USS Roanoke, USS Pulsar, USS Ticonderoga, USS Kelly, USS Delaware, USS Valkyrie and USS Rendezvous. Not only for helping out with the booth or Artemis, but for helping out with the convention or even just stopping by to say hello to members of the Star Trek family. We truly Do Not Stand Alone. We would also like to thank Dan Farr, the FanX Staff and volunteers for all of the help they provided that allowed us to fulfill our community service charter. We also made sure to thank the police officers who were present keeping us safe at the event. Their patrols and K9 units were noticed and appreciated.

Have you been listening to Star Trek: Khan audio drama or seen the new Star Trek Scouts aimed at very young fans? We will link both of the first episodes below for your enjoyment.

We need your geeky photos!!!!! Not only for the soon-to-be updated Photo Albums, but for the 2026 Seventh Fleet Calendar. Please send them to Photos@SeventhFleet.org. Please identify the people in the photo. We had a lot of people tell us how impressed the past calendars were when they visited us at the FanX booth.

The nanites are still polishing up various sections of the website. We still plan to tackle the photo albums and Seventh Fleet Council page soon. If you see anything out of place or have suggestions, please email Webmaster@SeventhFleet.org.

Welcome Aboard:
Crewman 2nd Class Tommy Bencomo who joined the USS Roanoke
Crewman 2nd Class Abby Callor who joined the USS Roanoke
Crewman 2nd Class Derek Callor who joined the USS Roanoke
Crewman 2nd Class Rulon Olsen who joined the USS Roanoke
Crewman 2nd Class Sarah Willey who joined the USS Kelly

Congratulations To:
Lieutenant Julie Henkes for being sworn in as the Acting Commanding Officer of the USS Kelly.

Fleet Birthdays and Anniversaries:
October 17 USS Rendezvous anniversary (1992)

Star Trek Birthdays and Anniversaries:
October 2 Avery Brooks (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
October 4 Star Trek: Short Treks premiers (2018)
October 9 Scott Bakula (Star Trek: Enterprise)
October 15 Mark Lenard (Star Trek, Star Trek Films, Star Trek: The Next Generation)
October 22 Christopher Lloyd (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock)
October 24 F. Murray Abraham (Star Trek: Insurrection)
October 26 Anthony Rapp (Star Trek: Discovery)
October 27 Robert Picardo (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Prodigy, Star Trek: Academy, Star Trek: First Contact)
October 28 Star Trek: Prodigy premiers (2021)
October 30 William Campbell (Star Trek, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)

Other Dates To Note:
October 4-10 World Space Week
October 11 Federation Day
October 14 Indigenous People’s Day
October 14 Columbus Day
October 21 Back to the Future Day
October 31 National Frankenstein Friday
October 31 Halloween
November 2 Daylight Saving Time ends
November 4 Election Day
November 11 Veterans Day
November 25 Gazpacho Soup Day
November 27 Thanksgiving Day

Upcoming Events:
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)
August 5-9: Trek to Vegas (Las Vegas, NV)
September 24-26: FanX: The Salt Lake Comic Convention

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.

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The Seventh Fleet at FanX 2025

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.

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Introducing the new Seventh Fleet rank advancement guidelines

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.
  • We now have four official tracks for rank advancement depending upon the level of participation you wish to pursue. Civilian, Provisional Officer, Non-Commissioned Officer and Commissioned Officer.
  • A time-in-grade requirement has been added.
  • 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.

Seventh Fleet Rank Advancement Guidelines September 1 2025Download

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.

Let’s see what’s out there.

Site Maint

Online Interest Form Fixed

We were just made aware that our Online Interest Form for new recruits was not sending out messages to the webmaster to forward to the chapters. After pulling out a big hammer and threatening the servers, the form started working again and has sent several successful tests. We had never heard a computer whimper before.

If you’ve sent in a form expressing interest in joining one of the Seventh Fleet chapters recently, and you have not heard anything back, please fill out another form or email us at Join@SeventhFleet.org. We will make sure it gets to the right parties for you to be contacted.

You can also reach out to us on the Seventh Fleet Facebook page, the Seventh Fleet Discord Server or on our Seventh Fleet BlueSky account as well.

Sorry about the computer messing up. It’s promised to never do it again.

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Website Updates: Interest Form, Photo Albums and more

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So we’ve been working on several updates to the Seventh Fleet website. There have been some updated information posted in the Seventh Fleet Academy section and some minor updates to the Seventh Fleet Council site.

Two of the biggest changes includes our new Online Interest Form and some new Photo Galleries.

With the Online Interest Form, new recruits can send us their information that we will then pass onto the chapter of their choice.

We’ve added photo albums for 2020, 2021 and 2022. We have a lot of photos for the other years, it just takes a while to go through them and sort them all.

If you have photos of conventions, chapter events and more that you would like to send in, please email them to Photos@SeventhFleet.org 

More updates coming soon.

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More site updates

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More work was done on the site today. We removed several old link pages (these were held over from the days when link pages were very popular on websites). Most of the links were out of date and the information on actors, writers, etc. could be found by a simple google search.

Also updated the USS Valkyrie logo and scheduled several upcoming blog posts with information on Star Trek anniversaries and chapter meetings and events. These posts will come at midnight on the date of the events. Check back for information on the fun our chapters will be having.

Work on updating the site will continue over the next week. If you see anything that is badly out of date, please let us know at Webmaster@SeventhFleet.org

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Changes to the seventh fleet website

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“Change is the essential process of all existence.” Spock- Let That Be Your Last Battlefield, Stardate: 5730.2

Log Entry: Stardate 72090.2, Vice Admiral Carl Stark recording. Just as Starfleet Command’s Seventh Fleet is constantly looking for ways to improve our processes and our organization, we have decided that there should be a change in the website as well. Prior to this, the home page for the fleet website was a constantly updating calendar showing the list of upcoming fleet and chapter events. This calendar can still be found on our Events page. However the main page will be used for news and discussion about the Seventh Fleet and our fandom. One of the reasons for this change is to be inclusive to those fans who do not access our Facebook page or Twitter account.

There will be other changes happening as well as time permits. Some sections of the website may look more like a cobweb site. If you have noticed anything lacking, please let us know and we can try to tackle it. There are also plans to update the chapters section to provide additional information on the interests of the chapter. Another goal is to finally get the massive photo album online for all to enjoy.

Thanks for sticking with us and reading this log entry. I can’t wait to see how we can better utilize this communications tool.

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Communication interruption resolved. ship is back under human control.

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Stardate 96652.22
Staff of family.  Mr Hnack has restored the site, communications has been interrupted over the past week to in infestation of Klingon Malware.  As a reminder to protect the integrity of our site, use complex passwords, do not share, change passwords etc. Most of all bring any issues to Mr Stark or myself a quickly as possible.
The previous webhost is no longer doing business with us, I have found a trusted source that speaks human, is local to our region and was quick to assist in moving all website content.

We are online once again. Live long, and I-Sci-Fi, do you ?

Mr Hnack @iscifitv