Happy New Year

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1

Should old acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot
And auld lang syne?

For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne
We’ll take a cup of kindness yet
For auld lang syne, for auld lang syne

Yeah, I don’t know what all of that means, but I kinda like the part about kindness. 2011 has been kind to us. In fact, it has been a banner year for Trek Radio. We celebrated the first of what will be many anniversaries. We traveled the globe, from Dusseldorf to Las Vegas, to bring you the best, hands-on coverage of all the latest and greatest Star Trek and Sci-Fi inspired events.

We have brought the Legends to your doorstep. We were honored this year to speak with the likes of Scott Bakula, George Takei, Walter Koenig, Doug Drexler, Larry Nemecek, David Mack, Rick Sternbach, Rod Roddenberry, Richard Hatch, Dan Stahl, Christine Thompson, Geoff Notkin, Lawrence Schoen, and so many other visionaries I just don’t have the room to list them all.

We were the first station to stream live back to back concerts from Sci-Fried and Warp 11 as part of our annual Ectopalooza Halloween Weekend.

We took you inside the Gorilla Tango Theatre in Chicago for a hands-on screening of Boobs of Khan: A Star Trek Burlesque. Ok, well not exactly a hands-on, since they frown on that, but we still boldly went where no fan has gone before.

We’ve partnered with incredibly talented and gifted members of the Trek community to bring you groundbreaking Audio Fictions and original programming.

The list can go on and on, but I’ll stop it right there and take a moment to reflect on what was perhaps Trek Radio’s greatest accomplishment of 2011.

You.

It is you, the listener, who has honored us above all. You who let us into your life by streaming us live in the car, while running on the treadmill, instead of finishing that TPS Report at work, while sitting at your computer, and everywhere in between. You are the green blood that pumps through our veins… and dare I say it… the wind beneath our wing… er… nacelles! Thank you.

We look forward to another incredible year and hope to continue having you by our side. From all of us here at Trek Radio, we wish you only the best and brightest New Year.

Merry Treksmas 2011

Trek Radio wishes you peace on throughout the United Federation of Planets!

Happy Holidays

“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled ’till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.” – Dr. Seuss

As the Holiday Season is upon us, we find ourselves reflecting on the past year and on those who have helped to shape our station in a most significant way. Whether our staff, our listeners, donators, or friends – we value our relationship with you and look forward to working with you in the year to come. We wish you a very happy Holiday Season and New Year.

May you truly live long and prosper in 2012.

Brandon from Cryptic on Trek Radio for PewPew PVP Today!

Brandon Felczer of Cryptic Studios will be joining Trek Radio later today during the latest PVP event which he is hosting for STO players!

The event begins at 8pm GMT / noon PST / 3pm EST.   Here are the plans from Brandon himself:

Let’s plan to meet on Drozana station then and we’ll queue up for public matches. Feel free to come in whichever ship/ class you would like, on either faction. We’ll try and do 30 minutes of space and 30 minutes of ground. Please join Zone chat, the OrganizedPvP channel or the REDALERT channel to see any communication/ instructions from myself.

Brandon will be on air with us throughout the event, so you can tune into Trek Radio for live coverage of the event, commentary from Brandon and much more!

Doug Drexler returns to Trek Radio this Saturday!

The awesome king of epic-ness and general genius Doug Drexler is returning to Trek Radio this weekend on Saturday 17th December at 11am PST to get us caught up on what he has been up to this year, discuss upcoming ship of the line calendars, his involvement in the TNG Remastering Projects and much more!

Trek Radio has interviewed Drexler two times previously, in December 2010 and January 2011 and his return this weekend will be his third epic appearence.

If you have any questions for Doug Drexler, you can e-mail them in advance to zach@startrekradio.com or if you would prefer to ask your question live, you can join our IRC Chatroom during the interview, call your question into our hotline on 347-321-8955 (New York Based Line) or add us on Skype (hailing.frequency).

The interview will begin at 11am PST (2pm EST, 7pm GMT) sharp, so be sure to tell all of your friends about this and tune in!

You can check out some of Doug’s latest work on his blog at http://drexfiles.wordpress.com/

Earlier This Year…..FedConXX

Earlier this year, Trek Radio attended FedConXX in Dusseldorf, Germany – a fantastic convention where we had the chance to meet alot of great folks!

8 months later, and the official FedConXX DVD is almost ready for release and in preparation for this, IntexDigital have released a couple of promo videos, one of which features Trek Radio in a couple of spots – you can see the video here – Trek Radio can be seen at 1:09, 1:15, and most awesomley at 2:00 – 2:05 where I can be seen chatting with Marina Sirtis and shaking her hand after she roasted me in the press conferance!

To commemorate our awesome FedConXX experience, we are releasing this new audio file where you can hear all of Trek Radio’s notable appearences – during the segment, we chat with Nicole de Boer, Garret Wang, Richard Dean Anderson, Marina Sirtis, Scott Bakula and more!  Get this file in our on-demand section or by listening below: clicking right here!

In addition, we are releasing a previously un-released interview with did with Carel Struycken who played Mr Homn in Star Trek: The Next Generation which you can grab in our on-demand section at https://www.trekradio.net/on-demand

Finally, if you missed it, you can check out all of our FedCon XX coverage from earlier this year by visiting the following summary page – there are hundreds of awesome photos and much much more – check it all our using the following links:

Girls of FedCon:

https://www.trekradio.net/news/girls-of-fedcon-day-1

https://www.trekradio.net/news/girls-of-fedcon-xx-day-2-part-1

https://www.trekradio.net/news/girls-of-fedcon-day-2-part-2

https://www.trekradio.net/news/girls-of-fedcon-xx-day-3

Panel Coverage:

https://www.trekradio.net/news/fedcon-xx-day-2-marina-sirtis

https://www.trekradio.net/news/fedcon-xx-day-2-richard-dean-anderson

https://www.trekradio.net/news/fedcon-xx-day-2-scott-bakula

https://www.trekradio.net/news/fedcon-day-2-robert-duncan-mcneill

https://www.trekradio.net/news/fedcon-xx-day-2-kate-vernon

Exclusive:

https://www.trekradio.net/news/fedcon-xx-a-look-at-infinite-space-interview-coming-tomorrow

https://www.trekradio.net/news/infinte-space-interview-for-download-in-on-demand

Roundups:

https://www.trekradio.net/news/fedcon-road-report-1-photos

https://www.trekradio.net/news/fedcon-road-report-2-more-photos-videos

https://www.trekradio.net/news/fedcon-xx-day-2-roundup

https://www.trekradio.net/news/dj-bear-reporting-from-fedcon-20

https://www.trekradio.net/news/fedcon-xx-day-3-summary

https://www.trekradio.net/news/fedcon-xx-day-4-summary-roundup

Other:

https://www.trekradio.net/news/fedcon-xx-autograph-hall-interviews

https://www.trekradio.net/news/fedcon-xx-autograph-session-thoughts-photos

https://www.trekradio.net/news/couples-of-fedcon-xx-1-robert-tina

https://www.trekradio.net/news/fedcon-xx-germany-takes-back-guiness-world-record

https://www.trekradio.net/news/fedcon-day-1-photos

https://www.trekradio.net/news/fedcon-day-1-press-conferance-photos

https://www.trekradio.net/news/fedcon-day-one-garret-wang-photos-coverage

https://www.trekradio.net/news/fedcon-day-1-general-photos-2

https://www.trekradio.net/news/fedcon-day-2-general-update

Daniel Stahl is back in town!

Yes!!! Daniel Stahl, ex-Executive Producer at Cryptic Studios has posted on the Celebrate Season 5 topic on the STO forums saying “Congrats to the STO Team for all their hard work to get Season 5 live!” But the question, why is he posting as a DEV? Is Dstahl back?

The short answer is….. Yes, our beloved Danny boy is back!

Daniel’s tenure at Cryptic Studios ended in September of this year. He was recruited by Zynga Game Network as Executive Producer involved in the pre-production of a yet to be announced Zynga titles. According to LinkedIn.com, that all ended in December. But that’s not all…confirmation was made on his personal Facebook page when a friend noticed a status change to his job title. The following comment was posted by Stahl on his wall in response:

“I missed the Cryptic Family. Excited to be back working on MMOs. You should come back too! :)”

Interestingly, his Facebook page lists his position as Sr. Producer. So what does this mean? Just moment ago, he posted this amazing update on the STO forums that is sure to thrill the Foundry folk and the rest of the community.

Daniel Stahl: Greetings!
As the snoops have deduced, yes I am back at Cryptic Studios! My time at Zynga was fun and interesting, but I really missed working with my colleagues here. There is something magical going on at Cryptic these days and I’m very happy to be back working on the MMOs that I personally love to play. Being a part of Perfect World is having such a great positive impact on this company.

After talking with Jack about returning, I accepted a position as a Sr. Producer managing the Foundry (UGC) tools at Cryptic Studios. I’ve always been passionate about User Generated Content and Community Developer involvement. Whether it was community deckbuilding software at Wizards of the Coast, the Xbox Community Developer Program at Microsoft, or more recently, the Foundry on STO, I’ve been a strong believer that if you build the right tools, game developers can partner with the community to build amazing content and applications.

That is why I’m excited to be back at Cryptic working directly with the highly talented UGC team to begin working on future updates for the Foundry, especially with the development of Neverwinter which has its own deep history of User Developed Content.

Today is a great day to be back at Cryptic. Season 5 is here! Stephen D’Angelo has been doing an awesome job as EP on STO. He’s been able to rally the team to deliver on the many tasks needed for Season 5 to prepare the game for F2P. He and the STO team have been working from a solid plan and everything is on track for an awesome F2P launch. For those who have been asking, I’m in full support of the changes that have been made in Season 5 as they will contribute to the continued success of STO into the future as it brings in a whole new host of players.

So big hugs to everyone in STO land. I’m happy to be back and looking forward to contributing to the future of the Foundry.

As of yet, there is no confirmation or comments from Cryptic Studios or Zynga Game Network at the moment, but the spark of hope is spreading across the Star Trek Online community that our Dan is back in the Captain’s chair!

(Source: Holosuite Magazine)

Trek Nation premiere’s tonight on the Science Channel

The documentary, which airs tonight as a two-hour special on the Science Channel , explores “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry’s vision and its impact on viewers’ lives over the last 45 years. The film is produced and narrated through the eyes of his son Eugene Roddenberry Jr., who has been on a quest to know his father since he passed away when Rod was only 17 years old.

Among those interviewed for the film include J.J. Abrams, Ron D. Moore, George Lucas, Nichelle Nichols, Patrick Stewart, Wil Wheaton, and Seth MacFarlane.

Everyone’s talking about Roddenberry’s Trek Nation!!! Read what people are saying…

“All hail Gene Roddenberry! Honored to be a part of the @ScienceChannel’s #Trek Nation” – Nichelle Nichols (@RealNichelle)

“Trek Nation may be one of the most lovingly crafted documentaries I have ever seen, concerning ‘Star Trek’ or any fan base.” – Ashley Strickland (CNN)

“I love the idea that we do have this belief in a future where we are working together for the greater good and that makes me so proud of my father,” – Rod Roddenberry (Roddenberry.com)

“’Trek Nation’ really made me reassess what I thought I knew about the power of sci-fi, because it took science as its foundation and then created this incredible world that had powerful social commentary,” Bernadette McDaid (The Science Channel)

Watch the special features and some deleted scenes with Trek Nation Director Scott Colthorp on The Director’s Log, a web series on YouTube. Trek Nation airs tonight (November 30th) at 8PM ET/PT on the Science Channel.

Thank You and Happy Treksgiving!

Today in addition to being thankful for our friends and family, Trek fans can also give thanks for some recent good news in the world of Star Trek. We finally have movement on the next Star Trek film, which goes into production in two months and has an actual release date: May 17, 2013. We also have recently learned that Star Trek: The Next Generation is going to be released in HD on Blu-ray, starting with a sample pack in early 2012. And of course there are new Trek books, new Trek comics and lots of Trek stuff to keep us occupied. At 45 years old, the Trek franchise is still giving us more.

The future history of Star Trek introduced us to many new holidays, like the Federation’s First Contact Day, the Klingon Day of Honor and the Bajoran Gratitude Festival. Although Thanksgiving is an American holiday, the spirit of giving thanks in appreciation for what we are blessed with is one that fits well with Star Trek. Star Trek has always celebrated different cultures coming together and working for a better future, something that is at the core of Gene Roddenberry’s vision. (Source: TrekMovie)

Today and everyday, wherever you are in the universe, Trek Radio wishes you all a “Happy Treksgiving”!

Ectopalooza 2011 – Trek Radio Halloween Concert

It’s that time of year! The ghosts and goblins are causing trouble and we’re working ourselves to an early grave to bring you the First Annual Trek Radio Halloween Concert – Ectopalooza 2011.

First up on our “To Boo” List is a Trek Radio exclusive concert from the main stage of Away Mission: Orlando hosted by Vulcan Events. That’s right…Trek Radio will be broadcasting Sci-Fried, the “Motley Crue of Geek Rock,” LIVE on Friday night at 7:30pm PT/10:30pm ET.

But that’s just the tip of the tombstone…We also invite you to continue your Halloween celebration on Saturday, October 29th at 9:00pm PT/12:00am ET with the Annual Halloween Show by Warp 11 “America’s premiere Sci-Fi rock band,” and special guest Truth of Mars at the Blue Lamp in Sacramento, CA.

We will be airing both concerts in their entirety exclusively at TrekRadio.net.

Be there or beware!!!