STARFLEET Medical Reading Challenge
2024-03-01 - 2024-12-31
Our new Reading Challenge will be starting on March 1st! Please join the STARFLEET Medical Reading Challenge Facebook Group. You must answer the questions to join per STARFLEET regulations. You will not be permitted to join if you do not answer the questions.

With that little bit of business out of the way…..all files will be added to the group soon.

The Challenge is simple, you just read. Read whatever you want, as much or as little as you like, any genre, any age. You will fill out the excel document that will be in files with your name, SCC number, ship name, region, book title, author, and pages read. At the end of the month, you will simply email the form to medicalr04asg@sfi.org. Certificates will be awarded to everyone who participates. There will also be monthly awards for the most read per person, per ship, and per region.

There will occasionally be monthly challenges, for instance, this month we may give double pages read for Star Trek books, or Sci Fi, or historical…etc. Always, any STARFLEET manual will be double pages scored.

I am sure there will be kinks to work out, and I appreciate your patience as we begin this new Challenge. Please tell your friends…and we will have so much fun! “But, you don’t have to take my word for it!”

STARFLEET Medical: Region 17 Fitness Challenge
2024-09-01 - 2024-12-31
STARFLEET Medical: Region 17 has a fitness challenge open to all members of STARFLEET. This challenge counts steps OR active minutes. You can turn in week by week or once at the end of each month.
While many of our members choose to walk, our department recognizes that this is not feasible for all members. Active minutes may be counted in lieu of steps, such as wheelchair yoga, physical therapy, swimming, or adaptive weightlifting sessions. Please choose whether you turn in steps OR active minutes each month.
Please contact R17 ASG Coleen Parker at theotherotter4@gmail.com if you need different accommodations.
This is an event that will last all year for fun, no pressure. As always, please consult your medical provider before beginning a new or more strenuous exercise program.
Steps/Minutes not submitted by midnight on the 2nd of the subsequent month will not be counted.
For details of each month and to turn in: https://forms.gle/79dEkubgiqte1GYt8
Certificates will be posted in STARFLEET Medical: Region 17 on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/sfmregion17asg/ and Region 17 Discord https://discord.gg/h6TwqWw5SP

STARFLEET Medical Proxima Centauri Step Challenge
2024-10-01 - 2024-10-31
Round trip to Proxima Centauri Step Challenge:
We at STARFLEET Medical are very excited to offer this fleet-wide challenge that is open to all members of SFI, regardless of whether or not you are a member of STARFLEET Medical. Each month, we will travel along another leg of our journey to explore and establish a human colony in the Proxima Centauri system.
Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star that is 4.2 light years away from Earth. As of 2022, two exoplanets are known to exist within the system: Proxima Centauri B & Proxima Centauri D. Proxima Centauri B orbits within the habitable zone which means that liquid water can exist, allowing for the possibility of life, or at the very least the ability of the planet to support a human colony. The purpose of our mission will be to travel to the Proxima Centauri system with a colony ship, establish the start of a human colony on Proxima Centauri B and return home.
One of the purposes of STARFLEET Medical is to encourage increased physical activity, so our individual goal as participants will be to travel an average of 8000 steps per day. We hope that you choose to join us for our trip to Proxima Centauri so that we can enjoy the journey together while we individually maintain a higher quality of life!
Participation rules:
• The step challenge will take place from March to December, 2024.
• The challenge is open to all members of SFI. You do not have to be a member of STARFLEET Medical to participate.
• Participants can join at any point along the journey
• Participants will keep track of their own steps each week and then report that total to their Regional Assistant Surgeon General. If you do not know who your Regional ASG is, please consult the Office of the Surgeon General Current Serving Officers website
• The only units that will be accepted are STEPS. Please do not submit calories, activity time or any other units other than steps. They will not be accepted.
• Participants in regions that are not staffed with an ASG, can report directly to the Deputy Surgeon General by using this form
• Steps must be reported within 48 hours of the end of the activity period. Late submissions will not be accepted –THIS IS A HARD DEADLINE – NO EXCEPTIONS.
• If you are unsure that you will be able to report your steps on time, report them early.
• Certificates will be generated within 7 days and returned to ASGs for distribution to participants in their region.
• Two certificates will be available: 1. Recognition of completion of the monthly goal of 8000 steps per day 2. Recognition of effort for members that were unable to achieve 8000 steps per day.
We hope you’ll join us for this long-term challenge
October 2024: “TURN THIS SHIP AROUND”
We’ve been in orbit around Proxima Centauri B for 5 exciting years. In that time, we’ve deployed and activated the unmanned cargo that arrived before we did. Within it, the core habitat and supplies within those cargo shipments were key in the early days as we established humanity’s first ever extra-solar colony.
Combined with the supplies we transported, we’ve built out Earth 2.0’s first small city. The matter/antimatter power generator was activated partway through our second year which allowed us to come off of solar and battery power. It also greatly accelerated construction since the power output was significantly enhanced.
Food production started immediately and has become a successful, full-blown agricultural industry for our colonists. There were certainly a few challenges and surprises that needed to be overcome, but the carrots and peas that come out of those farms are as good as the ones I remember from Earth.
As exciting and fulfilling as the work here has been, the time has now come for us to turn our ship around and return to Earth. It’ll be a much quieter trip home since we’ve offloaded our colonists. A skeleton crew will navigate the ship back to Earth so that it can be retrofitted, retooled and reloaded with colonists that wish to lay down their roots on Proxima Centauri B.

The schedule for October will be:
Week 1: October 1st to 11th
Week 2: October 12th to 18th
Week 3: October 19th to 25th
Week 4: October 26th to 31st
Once the week ends, you will total up the steps you have travelled over that period. You will then have 48 hours to submit those steps to your Regional ASG (ie. Week 1 ends on Friday, October 11th, therefore you have until Midnight PST on October 13th to submit your steps). Any steps submitted after that time will not be accepted. Please submit steps and only steps, no other units will be accepted.
If you do not know who your Regional ASG is, please consult the following website: https://medical.sfi.org/office-of-the-surgeon-general/serving-officers/
If your region does not have an ASG, please submit your steps using the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeOFfOYPqv6BRHndwmQhRjE-1na3AJRsCSgEKcldbQtT8yAqw/viewform

We’ve successfully setup the first interstellar human colony here on Proxima Centauri B. Now we will turn our ship back toward home so that we can retool and take the next group of settlers to their new home!

Dr. Wade Poitras
Deputy Surgeon General
STARFLEET Medical
