SNN UPDATE #26

Saturday, 24 August 1996

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Hi, and welcome back to SNN UPDATE, the black stain on the  
dinner gown of STF, the black sheep of the Broadcast Indus- 
try, the discarded tuna can in the crown of CNN of STF...   
you get the picture.  Here at SNN Center we've just retur-  
ned from our customary Summer Hiatus, with great news:  The 
release date for "ST: First Contact," the second TNG movie, 
has been set at November 22nd.  Of course, you already knew 
that.  In today's UPDATE:  The Web Colony, a Power Void on  
the Angel, the inside dope on McCullick, Midyette, & More!  
                                                            
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* In late July, Premsident Randy "www.mad-rabbit.com" McCu- 
 llick shocked the STF world by announcing what was once    
 considered to be impossible-- STF was going on the web!    
 By mid-september, the Premz hopes to have a CGI page on    
 the web, courtesy of Mad Rabbit Productions (his one-man   
 publishing company).  This site will allow people to comm- 
 unicate over the www in the same way we use the GBB.  With 
 this announcement, plans for a whole new Third Fleet are   
 being discussed, to allow ex-STFProdigy members to         
 maintain their commissions over the Internet.  As always,  
 we're following the story, so you're there also.           
* In the Engineering Department this summer, the New Fleet  
 nears completion as specs for the Nimitz, Aurora, and Tra- 
 falgar projects near final authorization.  Even the once-  
 stagnant Trinitron-3 Project has showed incredible signs   
 of life this week.  Engineers, take notice...these are     
 the ships of Tomorrow's STF!                               
* In the news this summer, the command staff of the USS Ark 
 Angel, flagship of Fleet One, has apparently vanished. For 
 unknown reasons, the three ranking officers on this once   
 mightily-staffed ship have been sent careening off into    
 the Outer Reaches of Human Perception (or maybe AOL) and   
 may be lost forever (definitely forever if it's AOL). CE   
 McCullick, one of those missing, describes the crisis as   
 such: "Someone once said, that without strange  disappear- 
 ances, none of us would strangely disappear."  This is     
 definitely true.  But why the Angel staff? Captain  Dennis 
 "Plumb Goes The Weasel" Hannigan was the first to disap-   
 pear, in mid-July.  The next was XO Adam "H/H in 96!"      
 Hesch.  Last was third officer and Chief Eng- ineer Randy  
 "Are-E-Mac-Cee" McCullick, just this week. But why the An- 
 gel?  Is it the blue lightning bolt painted on the secon-  
 dary hull?  Is it a new, invisible, Tholian Web? Or is it, 
 as some suspect, the Ghost Of Mike Cathcart? Many in the   
 Strange Disappearances business believe that McCullick was 
 purposely silenced by what they believe to be kidnappers,  
 who they think saw McCullick as getting close to real ans- 
 wers that could expose them... an anonymous leading expert 
 on UFOs supports this theory and told SNN UPDATE that the  
 kidnappers -- who he would only identify as "the Prodi-    
 Gods" -- use extortion to force the kidnapped to, in ess-  
 ence, "disappear themselves, make themselves scarce, and   
 hide from the Fleet and their Families."  Fleet Captain    
 Adam Kent, longtime nemesis of Commander McCullick and the 
 last one to see Randy before he disappeared, was unavail-  
 able for comment.                                          
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