Captain's log. Star date 08.27.2025. Since the start of our five year mission to document and analyze historical ruins on earth's northern hemisphere in what was once known as the State of Maine, new data sources have been assimilated by Memory Alpha.
Specifically those from what was once the premier educational institution in the northern frontier lands. As such, the crew of the CenturyMaine have sought to explore these new databanks and update mission logs accordingly.
Therefore, this record is going to be transmuted from a recollection of the output of a specific fan club, to a retrospective of the Star Trek fandom in Maine. Pulled together using databanks from the Penobscot Times, Bangor Daily News, and University of Maine student newspaper.
New content will be noted in italics.
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STARFLEET ACADEMY DATABASE ACCESS
AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY
> COMMAND AUTHORIZATION CODE TANGO-12 ROMEO-15
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PLEASE INPUT QUERY
> REVIEW LIBRARY TAPES OF DIGITIZED MEDIA FROM EARTH'S LATE 20TH CENTURY. REGION: NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT. WHAT WAS KNOWN AS THE STATE OF 'MAINE'
PROCESSING QUERY, PLEASE STAND BY
GETTING YOUR RESULTS
TIME LINE OF EVENTS RELATED TO 'STAR TREK' DOCUMENTED IN THE REGION OF MAINE
THE FORMER CONFEDERATED STATES OF AMERICA
December 13th, 1979 - Umaine media speculates about the upcoming release of the dramatization of Captain James T Kirk's encounter with the VGER entity and also profiles the local Star Trek fandom in an aloof and awkward way reminiscent of the Anthro Panic of the early 21st century.
January 21st, 1980 - This article details what sets the Starfleet Historical Record apart from things like Bewitched, The Monkees and The Mod Squad. This features a unique schematic of a consitution class heavy cruiser emblazoned across the text of the article.
November 4th, 1983 - In which opposing letters to the Umaine paper editor are published, arguing about release order of episodes.
April 18th, 1986 - Star Trek II is screened in back to back showings at Umaine.
November 13th, 1986 - Leonard Nimoy appears at the Maine Center for the Arts on the Orono campus.
November 14th, 1986 - Student journalist Christina Baldwin interviews Leonard Nimoy. The actor who portrayed Captain Spock during the causal-improbability loop causing historic documents to manifest as period action space-adventure. Novel insights include referring to the job as "staying stone faced for 12-hours per day, like pumping up a baloon and never letting out the air", somewhat paradoxically echoing what was referred to as Futurama several years later.
December 9th, 1987 - In which Enemy of The Federation Jim Boynton characterizes recognizance of Starfleet as a virus. Echoing The Clown entity defeated by Captain Janeway 9 years later.
December 4th 1989 - In which a university comedy show is reviewed referring to the tendency of Starfleet enlisted personnel to sacrifice themselves in the line of duty.
April 29th, 1992 -- This artefact reveals that there was such demand for the historical drama "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" that it was shown twice in the same Saturday night.
October 2nd, 1992 - In which the USS Kasimar is detailed.
Regarding the Kasimar:
In 1984, Bangor resident John Supranovich sent $10 to the Star Trek fanclub based in Oregon and started one of the largest Star Trek fan clubs in the nation. The Kasimar had gone from having 30 members in 1984 to near 300 by the time the show's 25th anniversary rolled around in 1991. A burgeoning membership isn't the most important part of this story, though. Like Chester Greenwood and his dead beaver ear coverings, and Percy Spencer's radioactive chocolate bar melting machine (the microwave) this is a case of Mainers finding something they need, or in this case something they love, and building stuff.
Here are some photos, and there are virtual newspaper clippings after the jump courtesy of Google Newspapers.
This article from 1990 gives us some truly impressive background information on the Kasimar bridge. Funding for the project was donated by "Bangor Daily News charities and other donors" and labor was done by students from a phantom high school named Penobscot Regional (which either doesn't exist or is mis-named in the article) as a class project in 1984. In addition to having a full size mockup of the bridge (as if that wasn't cool enough) they also did work for the Children's Miracle Network, Ronald McDonald house and visited sick kids while in uniform.
Here are some photos, and there are virtual newspaper clippings after the jump courtesy of Google Newspapers.
This article from 1990 gives us some truly impressive background information on the Kasimar bridge. Funding for the project was donated by "Bangor Daily News charities and other donors" and labor was done by students from a phantom high school named Penobscot Regional (which either doesn't exist or is mis-named in the article) as a class project in 1984. In addition to having a full size mockup of the bridge (as if that wasn't cool enough) they also did work for the Children's Miracle Network, Ronald McDonald house and visited sick kids while in uniform.
December 2nd, 1994 - A university student provides an enthusiastic review of the dramatization of Captain Jean Luc Picard and Captain James T Kirk defeating the el-aurian scientist, Soren. It is an absolute time capsule.
November 22nd, 1996 -- in which the student run media re-prints a review of NCC-1701-E's encounter with the Borg queen.
September 20th, 1999 -- In which a Umaine staff writer details an encounter with a contingent of Trekkies at the Borders book store in Bangor, Maine
September 22nd, 1999 - A rebuttal from a Star Trek fan insisting that many take it 'too far' and dress up like their favorite characters as a form of escape.
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