Chief Editor's Notes
by Bram Peeters
Slightly delayed, here is the April 2010 edition of the Federation Tribune!
This month we bring you... updates from our council, and from all our dutystations! Oh wait, we will do that every month. What else is there... Oh right! Kelley wrote a commentary on Doctor Who (the recent series), David wrote a review of a classic Doctor Who episode, so that's quite a bit of Doctor Who stuff in this newspaper. There's also other things though, just read on :-P
Then an important note: The reviews and sci-fi news have been placed at the very bottom. They may contain spoilers. Consider yourself warned. In particular the sci-fi news contains spoilers for upcoming episodes of Stargate Universe and Eureka.
Also, I'd like to repeat a question Rick asked us in the December edition of his Academy status report, as it asks for a potentially good source for things to write for the Tribune:
So I ask the question; how has the game changed since the heyday when there were five active duty stations? A couple of years ago someone mentioned in a status report that their posting numbers were good, but still only half of what they'd once been. What is different? From what I understand, the game started with just the Calhoun. How did it grow so much that it spawned three other ships and a space station?
I for one would like to hear what those days were like. Maybe someone could write a piece on that for the newspaper or something, but we were already up to the five when I arrived. In this era when Star Trek itself is looking at its own origins for inspiration, it might be time for us to at least dust off the cornerstone. We don't have to go back in time, and really we couldn't if we wanted to. The game is clearly founded on the idea of moving the Trek we know forward, not backward. But maybe it's time to take a look at how far forward we've come.
This month already has something written by Rob Versteegt, looking at STFF's past, with Rob looking back at his favourite characters, missions, and posts from the time he has been a member of Frontier Fleet. I would really like to see this a recurring type of article in the Tribune (and already have been poking some former members about this too)
In this month's edition:
- Council News, by the Council
- Update from the USS Calhoun, by Kelley MacKinnon
- Update from the USS Valkyrie, by Kelly Power
- Update from Yeager Colony, by Rob Versteegt
- Update from Pandora Station, by Rob Verlinden
- Starfleet Academy Status Report, by Rear Admiral Charles D. Clark
- Frontier Fleet Favourites, by Rob Versteegt
- Review: Doctor Who - The Ribos Operation, by David Susman
- Commentary: Doctor Who, by Kelley MacKinnon
- Sci-Fi news, by various contributors
Plain text version (members only)
Anything else people will send me will be included in the August edition, which will be... Our TENTH Anniversary Special Edition. So you people better send in lots of nice stuff for that, please 
