Hello Everyone.

Once again our contributors to the Newsletter have come up trumps. We have a full page Webley cartoon from Ke'reth this month. We have more Starfleet Regulations and a crossword puzzle to get you all thinking.

I was a bit disappointed at the turn out for the last meeting but I think that the Flu may have had something to do with it.

We have a new treasurer. It is our Bajoran Ambassador Madia Amme, otherwise known as Emma Hindle. Major Madia assures me that she has spent 6 months on Feringinar learning Economics. Apart from that, Emma is also married to an accountant, so the funds will be in safe hands. Talking of money matters - we are going to be running a savings club for those who would like to pay for their Ambassadors Ball Ticket on a monthly basis, to ease/spread the cost.

The Ball - Known as the Ambassadorial Ball and awards evening, will be held on Saturday 15^th July 2000, at The Heathcourt Hotel, Newmarket. The Hotel is very Trekker friendly. It will start at 19.00 hrs (7pm) for an 20.00 hrs (8pm) sit down meal. This will be followed by a short awards ceremony - a light-hearted Commodores award to those who have helped the club become the success it is. We also have a Disco and a small musical ensemble to entertain during the meal and later for those who may not wish to be in the Disco.

We are hoping to get a celebrity guest - more details when confirmed.

Each ticket will cost £25.00 and your first payment of £5.00 this month, to the savings club will secure it for you, further payments of £5.00 each month, including June, will complete the payments.

We are also going to have a GIGANTIC raffle to raise fund for SARS (Suffolk Accident Rescue Service). It is not as well known as MAGPAS nor so well funded - leaflets are enclosed with this newsletter. We all travel on the roads and we never know when we might need them!!!

Our Next event will be Saturday, March 11^th 2000, this is our street collection for Rethink Disability. Full Costume please as we will collect more money that way.

I also need some volunteers to help shift furniture at the Rethink Disability SHARE Day at Thurston Upper School on Saturday 15^th April - Any Volunteers?

The April Meeting will be on Saturday 15^th April 2000. When we will be celebrating Jeanettes 40^th Birthday. Volunteers are needed please, to decorate the hall and provide food. The food list will be going round at the March meeting.

Has anyone got any ideas for things to do at meetings? All ideas considered.

There are currently three types of the basic mushroom design in use within the Federation. The Senator Class; like the huge Starbase One Complex located in geo-stationary orbit above San Francisco Bay, Earth, is the largest of the designs. The Defender Class is the most common and smallest of the designs used for the defence of Federation borders. The Guardian Class is a medium-sized, deep space facility.

Starbase 410 is the latest in a long run of the Guardian Class. A 6,000 (six thousand) metre - disc topped spire. It floats silently, spinning slowly in deep space, like an enormous child's spinning top. The red tinged glow of the nearby nebula - the Klingons called 'ram quI' (Night Fire) - reflects upon the surface as it turns. Set within the area called "The Triangle", the Starbase had been built to defend the area and help in the war with the 'Dominion'. The Starbase is totally self-sufficient and armed with the latest weapons technology, much of which is still highly classified. Suffice it to say, as a joint venture with the Klingon Empire, much trading of knowledge has gone into the construction of this particular Starbase. Starbase 410 has been up and running for eight months (Federation Standard Time).

The Commanding Officer is the recently promoted Commodore Anarita Jat, a Trill who worked Starfleet Intelligence and still gets called away, occasionally, on secret missions.

The First Officer is Captain T'Pina, a Vulcan who knows the rule book inside and out and keeps the Commodore on the straight and narrow.

Head of Security is K'SQqwa SuDs'qan'ya, a Klingon who joined Starfleet. He is accompanied by his bond mate beLuSbe, who is Head of Security at the Klingon Embassy.

The Klingon Ambassador is that old war-horse Ker'eth and his Chief of Staff is b'Sel, who is stationed there along with her three children.

The Bajoran Ambassador is Major Madia Amme, who had been in the Bajoran resistance.

Our Science Officer is Lt. John Borda (also known as 'Plan B'), who arrived in a most unusual way!

Ships on permanent attachment to the Starbase are the USS Rage, under the command of Captain Leigh Brown, and (as from last month) General LoDnI' has stationed his IKV Hegh qad for the general protection and defence of the Starbase and also as a base for the war with the 'Dominion'.

More about Starbase 410 and the crew next time.

Commodore Anarita Jat
Commanding Officer
Starbase 410

Commander T'Pina - First Officer Starbase 410.

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

STARBASE BIRTHDAYS

Starfleet

2000

Anturan Jat

Anturan married young at 18 but his wife Jocata died in childbirth, the baby also died. Anturan threw himself into his work. He had been a teacher but after the deaths of his wife and child, he could not cope with working with children. So he joined the diplomatic corps and enrolled on the Trill Joining Commission. His first application to the Commission was turned down because it was felt to be too soon after his loss, and the Commission wanted him to take more time to think about it.

Two years later, still of the same mind, he applied again. This time he was accepted and underwent the four years of training required. After completing his training it was another year before he was given the Jat symbiont, when its previous host died.

It was noted that Anturan was very good at dealing with other races and species. He found himself becoming more involved with peace negotiations. He was able to see both sides of the story and yet maintain a balanced view, to eventually come to a peaceful solution. It was while working on negotiations with the Klingons that he met and became firm friends with Cuzon Dax. It is because of his affinity with the Klingon race that enabled his successor Anarita Jat to get on so well with them, and led to her becoming the Commanding Officer of Starbase 410, which is a joint venture between the Federation and the Klingon Empire.

Anturan was involved in some highly secret hostage negotiations between the Klingons and the Romulans, and it was the success of these that led to him being offered the order of the Batletlh by Kahless himself.

Anturan had one or two liaisons, but they were very brief, as no other woman could measure up to his Jocata. His love for her stayed with him until his death. He could drink Curzon under the table but was never the womaniser that Curzon was. He sometimes drank too heavily, when the loneliness got too much to bear. It was after such a bingem, that he fell down the stairs and broke his neck. He was, at last, re-united with his beloved wife and baby son.

The Jat symbiont was given, at Curzons' recommendation, to Anarita Tehamus who changed her surname to Jat to honour the symbiont.

nuqneH (Greetings), from the Empire.

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