Author: Mary Pucel

If you missed the meeting on Saturday, you missed hearing about the upcoming cookbook. Our plan is to offer the book at cost, because this is not a fundraiser. We may offer the book for sale to non-members if we have excess copies.

The book will feature the menus and recipes from all of the annual Valentine Dinners and Garden Parties, which have been pretty spectacular. It will also include all recipes submitted by members, and it's here where we need your help. Please send Mary your favorites! We are about halfway there, so we need quite a few more. Your help is greatly appreciated.

Did you love Grudge on Discovery? Did you ever expect her to write a book? It's true, she has, and Star Trek Discovery: The Book of Grudge: Book's Cat from Star Trek Discovery comes out in November. According to trekmovie.com, it's “packed with offbeat observations, thoughts and universal facts.” It  will also include a combination of illustration and photography from Star Trek: Discovery season 3.

Well, why not? After all, she has her own social media sites and lots of hype. If you're interested, check it out (and even preorder) on Amazon.com.

Greetings, Crew!

I hope you're all doing well as you breathe in a little spring air. That dose of temperatures in the 60 was just what we needed after that chilly spell. I know, I know, it's not over, but a girl can hope! I keep thinking of all the MarsCon events that were difficult due to slogging through the snow to load our trucks, but of course we don't have to load a truck this year!

The lack of a physical convention isn't slowing us down, though. You'll see the great results of our Saturday blood drive in an article below. Plus, the virtual convention - MarsCon 2021: Forces of Darkness - starts at 3pm on Friday. They are promising "a weekend of virtual panel discussions, demos, gaming, cosplay, art, science, specialty vendors, watch parties, music and camaraderie", which sounds like a lot of fun. Click HERE for a link to the Facebook event, which gives all of the details. You can subscribe to the YouTube channels and bookmark your pages to find all of your favorites. Don't forget to get the t-shirt!

Also, don't forget TC Trek Trivia, which takes place tonight (Wednesday). The theme this month is "Wait, it's been how long?" and that's pretty intriguing. Drop me an email and I'll send you the link to join us.

See you around the Galaxy!

Mary

Maybe we've all done it? I know that I've used the principles learned from Star Trek (staring at age 3) in my real life. Yah, it's no coincidence that there's a book called "All I Really Need To Know I Learned From Watching Star Trek." Here's an article from StarTrek.com that caught my eye. It's called "Loss and "The Loss:" How Deanna Troi Counseled Me Through COVID-19." This writer talks about how Trek has helped him with the (temporary) loss of taste and smell, and it hits home.

How many times have I been sitting in a conference room, wanting to jump over the table with my bat'leth, and it helped me to think "What would Captain Kirk do?" Actually that's a really bad example, because Captain Kirk would just grab a phaser, but perhaps Captain Picard could have served as a role model where diplomacy was required. I know, however, that there have been a lot of really good examples in my life, so this piqued my interest. If you'd like to read about this Trek fan's experience, click HERE

Mary

After the numerous questions and lamentations about the lack of Girl Scout Cookie availability this year, a solution has presented itself!

Many of our members use MarsCon as their source every year, as the girls sell cookies at a table. One of our friends from MarsCon has provided a link that you can use to order online. If you're interested in buying from Anna, drop me an email and I'll send you her link. If anyone else has a Girl Scout, please let me know and I'll share that link, too. I, for one, will buy from any Scout that asks me!

Greetings, Crew!

We have a couple of important dates coming in the next two weeks. The MarsCon Blood Drive is on Saturday the 6th, and we hope to get to 1,150 pints of blood collected by our many drives over the years. That's over 3,000 lives touched by our blood drive recruitment and hosting, and it's pretty awesome! Our appointments are full and we're excited. If you're donating, we'll see you there! Also, if you tried to get an appointment and couldn't because we are full, please drop me a line and I'll tell you where another opportunity awaits.

We'll also be enjoying our annual beer tasting next week after the membership meeting. Those who signed up have already submitted their beers, and we're looking forward to a blind tasting, virtually. Well, we'll we able to see each other, just not the beers. Actually, we'll be able to see the beers (because otherwise we would dribble), but not the names. Well, we know each others' names, but not......just never mind.

Of course, there's the upcoming meeting on March 13th. I'll be sending out more information in next week's newsletter, including the Zoom link.

Short and sweet this week. See you around the Galaxy!

Mary

Not to sound like a commercial, but this is really a good deal for Trek fans. If you've been reluctant to pay for streaming to get the new Star Trek shows, you can do so for a huge discount right now.

Tomorrow is the big day when CBS AllAccess becomes Paramount+, and today is your last chance to try it for 50% off! You can use the link here and use the promo code PARAMOUNTPLUS to get a screaming deal, so check it out. You an also browse through the content, which includes Star Trek but also much, much more. Click HERE

Greetings, Crew!

I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying our emergence into spring. That may be a little optimistic with March coming on, but temperatures above 40 are in sight! Woo hoo!

I'd like to give a shout-out to our club members that are participating in the Twin Cities Regional Science Fair this week. The 2020 fair was one of the last things we did before things closed down, and the organizers have found a way to keep the student experience alive and well. Judging of papers took place over the last few weeks and was all done online. Today is the last day of virtual project judging, which has been fun because you get to watch each student in a 10-minute recorded presentation. This is great for a judge since you get to view the student without the outside influences of friends, noise and nerves that usually accompany an on-floor discussion. On Friday, the judges will get to (virtually) interact directly with the students whose projects they have judged. All in all, it's a great solution for the prickly problem of hosting a fair during the pandemic!

Speaking of Friday, plan to join us for our virtual pizza party this Friday after the Science Fair is over. We'll begin at 9pm, so order or bake your pizza, grab a beverage, and get on the Zoom! Details are below.

Finally, thanks very much to the few people that have sent recipes for our 2021 cookbook. Drop yours in an email and send them to me at .

See you around the Galaxy!

Mary