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Hailing Frequencies Open September 2026

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September marks several special anniversaries for our Star Trek family. The one that most people will know about is the 60th Anniversary of Star Trek The Original Series that premiered on September 8, 1966. Admiral Stark has sent out a question to the members of the fleet, how are you celebrating this special event? There are special presentations back in the theater, marathons and special episodes on H&I and MeTV. Special presentations in many different chapters and conventions. Go have fun on this anniversary and share with us the fun you had.

On September 1 is the 40th Anniversary of the USS Kelly. This is a major milestone that was accomplished by all of the current and past members of this proud chapter. This club was built by the members, for the members. Ideas for activities, newsletter articles, websites, club t-shirts and jackets, games and community service projects all came from the suggestions that members made. Be proud of the club you made, and feel free to make suggestions for the future. There will be many more years to come and you’ll help shape it. There will be a party held on September 19 in Murray, UT.

FanX: The Salt Lake Comic Convention is coming up on September 24-26 at the Salt Palace in Salt Lake City, Utah. And the Seventh Fleet will have a big presence there. First, we will have our booth back in club row within the vendor hall. To celebrate the 60th Anniversary we will have the Captain Kirk’s Command Chair that was built by our own Admiral Hunsaker and the crew of the USS Rendezvous. We will have a special add on for the chair this year. As per usual, we are using this to promote our community service charter. We will be raising funds for local food banks that have been hit hard in these hard economic times. The USS White Buffalo is also co-running the Artemis Bridge Simulator at the same location they did last year. Volunteers are needed for both locations. Please let your Commanding Officer know if you are willing to assist. Then on Friday, September 25th at Noon, we’ve been invited to participate in the 60 Years of Star Trek Fandom panel where several Seventh Fleet members will be talking about our organization. There will be members from Crewman to Admiral talking about their participation within the group. And, of course, we will have lots of members in their cosplay at this convention.

The USS Rendezvous with the Captain Kirk Command Chair.

One of the ways that members of the Fleet can earn Leadership Promotional Merit Points is by voting in local and national elections. Voting gives us a voice in the future that we want to see come about. To vote, you need to make sure that you are registered. If you are 17 years old now and will be 18 by November 3rd, you can register to vote. If you are registered, it’s a good idea to double-check your registration to make sure it is current. And then once you’ve voted, submit it on your duty report. Remember, we don’t need to know what you voted for, just that you participated in the election process by voting.

If you are looking for more information about us feel free to look around this website. Please visit our Online Interest Form (which is undergoing changes so you can also email us at Join@SeventhFleet.org) and let us know which chapter you would like to have reach out to you. You can also talk to us on our Facebook page, on our Discord server or by following us on our BlueSky account.

Congratulations To:
Thea Tolman (USS Pulsar) for being promoted to the rank of Crewman 1st Class
Hanna Baker-Louvar (USS Pulsar) for being promoted to the rank of Ensign
Zack Baker-Louvar (USS Pulsar) for being promoted to the rank of Ensign
Mira Bergevin (USS Pulsar) for being promoted to the rank of Lieutenant (j.g.)
Skye Caden (USS Pulsar) for being promoted to the rank of Lieutenant (j.g.)

Fleet Birthdays and Anniversaries:
September 1 USS Kelly anniversary (1986)
September 25 USS Roanoke anniversary (2025)

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 Dawson (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise)
September 12 Paul F. Tompkins (Star Trek: Lower Decks)
September 14 Walter Koenig (Star Trek, Star Trek Movies, Star Trek: Picard)
September 14 Callum Keith Rennie (Star Trek: Discovery)
September 15 Tom Hardy (Star Trek: Nemesis)
September 15 Blu de Barrio (Star Trek: Discovery)
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 Dates To Note:
September 7 Labor Day
September 7 National Buy a Book Day
September 11 Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance
September 12 National Video Games Day
September 15 National Voter Registration Day
September 17 Constitution Day and Citizenship Day
September 19 Talk Like a Pirate Day
September 22 Hobbit Day
September 22 Autumn Equinox
September 25 National Comic Book Day
October 2 Grandparents Day
October 3 Bookshop Day
October 4-10 World Space Week
October 10 National Chess Day
October 11 Federation Day
October 12 Columbus Day
October 15 National I Love Lucy Day
October 21 Back to the Future Day
October 30 National Frankenstein Friday
October 31 Halloween

Other Items To Note:
Remember to send your photos for the 2027 Seventh Fleet calendar to Photos@SeventhFleet.org

Upcoming Events:
September 24-26: FanX: The Salt Lake Comic Convention
February 20-27: Star Trek: The Cruise X (departs New Orleans, LA)
February 27-March 2: SaltCON (Layton, UT)
May 14-16: Gem State Comic Con (Boise, ID)

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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Hailing Frequencies Open September 2025

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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 Dates To Note:
September 1 Labor Day
September 6 National Read a Book Day
September 11 Patriot Day and National Day of Service and Remembrance
September 12 National Video Games Day
September 16 National Voter Registration Day
September 18 National Cheeseburger Day
September 19 Talk Like a Pirate Day
September 22 Hobbit Day
September 22 Autumn Equinox
September 25 National Comic Book Day
October 4-10 World Space Week
October 11 Federation Day
October 11 Columbus Day
October 21 Back to the Future Day
October 31 Halloween

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.