STARFLEET Region 7

Hi everyone,

By now you may have heard (I do hope you have that) we’re having our 2025 Region 7 Conference at the Double Tree by Hilton Fairfield Hotel & Suites in Fairfield, NJ October 10th to 12th.  Please register now if you haven’t already as online registration ends Friday, October 3rd.  After October 3rd, registration will only be available at the door, for $60 cash only.  The hotel does not have an ATM so please keep that in mind.   

We have two new recent announcements regarding this Conference.  The first is, Star Trek drinks will be available for purchase at the Hotel bar.  Please look for the Bar Sign listing these drink specials.  Next we’ll be having a Friday night Pool Party from 8 to 11 PM.  Please bring your swimsuit if you’d like to go swimming in their indoor Pool.  Yes, let’s bring it on for a Region 7 Pool Party!

The Friday night Mixer begins at 6 PM and includes a sandwich buffet.  There are also a number of  restaurants nearby for lunch and dinner including the food court at Willowbrook Mall which is a short distance from the hotel.  Other restaurants close by include, Yard House, Cheesecake Factory, Olive Garden, Jose Tejas (Mexican) and the West Essex Diner which is located on the Westbound side of Rt. 46.  In addition the hotel restaurant will be open for breakfast and dinner as well.

The theme for this year’s conference is Voyager’s 30th Anniversary.  We have a lot of fun panels planned which include a talk about Delta Quadrant Species, Star Trek Collectibles, an Astronomy – Webb/Hubble panel, a Starship Magic Show, Significant Secondaries, Star Trek Voyager Trivia, Best Guest Stars on Voyager, the 5 Best and 5 Worst episodes of Voyager and of course our Region 7 Meeting, a CO/XO Meeting and a 7th BDE Muster as well along with many other panels.

More information is available at our Region 7 Conference Website https://2025region7conference.regfox.com/2025-starfleet-region-7-conference  

Should anyone have any questions about this Conference, please feel free to contact me us directly.

Thank you,
ADM Mike Stein
CO, USS Justice – NCC 556-A

Greetings!

Those who are going to Star Trek New Jersey Sept 5-7th next week, if you haven’t heard we will have a table there at the event. https://www.creationent.com/cal/st_nj/index.html

And I wanted to reach out to anyone that is going who might want to help out the table that will be there. Please let me know I’ll get a sign up sheet generated for that.

Also, if you are going there is a code you can use to get a discount on your badge. The code is “starfleet”. It should give you 25% off your registration! Hopefully you’ll be able to attend. It’s going to be a fun event!

Hope to see you there!

Warm regards,
CAPT Christian Savage
Recruitment and Retention Officer, Region Seven
XO, USS Mae Jemison, Region Seven

Hi everyone,

I hope you are enjoying your summer. It was great to see so many of you at Shore Leave 45 earlier this month. We had a great turnout at the STARFLEET Region 7 Meeting and the STARFLEET Marine 7th Brigade and we did well with representing STARFLEET, Region 7 and our respective chapters at this year’s table operation headed by our new Recruiting Officer Christian Savage and assisted with some new swag items like stickers by our new Quartermaster Joe Traum.

We discussed a number of items and Region 7 Staff reports were issued but one thing that has not been announced were this year’s Region 7 Award winners which will be up for consideration next weekend at the STARFLEET International Conference being held in Texas.

The Commanding Officer of the Year is USS Matrix CO Pamela Nery, Officer of the Year is Mattew Barclay of the USS Solstice and the USS Justice won R7 Newsletter of the year that will be judged by the Starfleet Communications Department. There was no chapter of the year awarded this year as we received only one single nomination.

Submissions for the categories were extremely low this year and I am disappointed about that. In speaking to STARFLEET Awards Director Kelli Capette this was a situation that was not unique to Region 7 but across STARFLEET. We congratulate those who won and while our Region 7 Awards Director Marie Dutilly did fully promote the award program early and often, we simply didn’t get the involvement we had in the past. Kelli said she was disappointed Fleet wide. None the less those winners were sent months ago to the STARFLEET Awards Department and Communications Dept. We will see if Region 7 winners take home a STARFLEET award next Saturday.

This year’s STARFLEET INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE (IC) is being held in Texas next weekend and unfortunately, we won’t have any live representation there from anyone in the 7th Fleet. Wayne and I will be present for Executive Committee Admiralty Board meeting more commonly known as ECAB on Friday morning via Zoom and it is expected to be, as always, a lengthy session. I am unsure of any virtual format for this conference, but you can check that out at SFI.org and on the Starfleet Members and Starfleet Business Facebook pages.

Region 7 is seeking a new awards director. We thank Fleet Captain Maria Dutilly for her work this year and years prior in that role. Please send a letter of interest to the RC and VRC.

We are looking for a member who has some experience in the area of awards programs if possible and who has been a member of STARFLEET for at least five years. We’d like to hear your ideas and one of the requirements is interfacing with the STARFLEET Awards Director and the awards directors of other regions.

Should you have any questions, you can also email Wayne or I about the position that we would like to finalize prior to the Region 7 Conference in October. By the way, please join us for that event. See the Region 7 website and Facebook page for details. It isn’t too late to book your room and register.

The summer has been busy with BBQs, cons and picnics and summer blockbuster movies and based on the MSRs we’ve been getting (and remember COs to make sure you submit your next one before Aug. 5) a lot of fun is being had. We also recognize that 2025 seems to be a tough year for some with health, car issues (I am an example of that) and general life issues. STARFLEET is a social group for ST fans and those who enjoy fandom and we do understand that sometimes, you need to take a breath and things happen.

We are happy for the participation we see, and we also appreciate your patience when things happen a bit closer to sub light speed as opposed to warp speed.

We had a great CO/XO meeting in June, and we will have one in September. I will report on what transpired during the ECAB/IC at some point after it concludes. Life has kept me rather busy as of late as well and I am sorry that I have not been able to make more posts lately.

Thanks again, keep cool and be safe.

Admiral Bob Vosseller
Region 7 Coordinator
CO USS Challenger NCC-1676-D