User:Admhawk

Greetings and Felicitations...

I am Admhawk, the contributor and primary author of the Fan Fiction Project - Star Trek: Black Hawk. I share my real name with the Commanding Officer of the USS Black Hawk (NCC-75004)|USS Black Hawk]].

I am infact a long-time Star Trek Fan, however I did not see the first-run epidoes until 1967. Why? My father, a member of the US Air Force, was stationed at Bitburg Air Force Base in Germany and my first viewing of the series was a year after it premeiered on NBC, over the Armed Forces Radion and Television Service TV station out of Spangdahlem AFB, Germany. I did not see the entire third season until many years later when Star Trek went to reruns.

I have been in Trekdaom (organized Star Trek Fandom) since I organized the Ken Rock Space Science club out of a community center in southwest Rockford, Illinois in 1975. It faded after a few years. It was 20 years later before I would re-enter Trekdom when I joined STARFLEET: The International Star Trek Fan Association, Inc. while I lived in Henderson, Tennessee. My family and I joined the nearest chapter, the USS Alacrity (NCC-1881) and a few months later we organize a chapter which would become the USS Shiloh (NCC-74683). We actually did public service work out of Shiloh National Military Park & Cemetary, cleaning monuments and gravestones of the honored war dead.

In 1997 we moved the chapter to Rockford Illinois, and in 1999 renamed it the USS ''Black Hawk' (NCC-74683). A year later we changed the class of our fictional starship from Intrepid to Sovereign Class and our NCC number was changed to 75004 by STRAFLEET Technical Services. We had picked the Intrepid class to reflect the population of the area we lived in at the time as well as the name, whose namesake was only 30 mile (as the crow flies). It was decideed that we would change the name and class to reflect the population of the area the chapter moved to. The area we live in is also known as the Black Hawk Valley so this was an easy choice for a name.