Record your Birthday wishes for Star Trek Online!

With 2nd February fast approaching, Star Trek Online’s 1st Birthday, Trek Radio would like to invite you all to dust off your microphones and record a Birthday message to commemorate this historic occasion!

Perhaps you want to tell us some of your best stories involving Star Trek Online over the past year, or perhaps you’d just like to say happy birthday. Maybe you’d like to thank the devs for all of their hard work……

Whatever you wish to say, please record it (in MP3, WMA or WAV format, though if sending a WAV, please try to zip it) and then email it to “stobirthday@trekradio.net”

Alternativly, if you do not have a microphone, you can leave us a voicemail with your birthday wishes via the phone:

Tel: 347-321-8955 or 206-202-2414

On February 2nd, we will play all of the messages we have recieved throughout the day, along with a bunch of other festivities that we are arranging now and which will be announced soon!

Doug Drexler Interview (Part 2) available in on-demand!

Trek Radio is very happy to offer the second part of our interview with Doug Drexler, conducted on Saturday 22nd January from 10am until 12pm Midday PST, for download in our on-demand section!

Our second interview with Doug is certainly action-packed and the entire interview ended up being a call-in show, with back to back callers that literally almost crashed our non-existant switchboards!

So many great people called in and suprised Doug during this interview, including:

• Craig Binkley (Property Master for Star Trek: Enterprise)
• Michael Okuda (a man who needs no introduction!)
• Sam Witwer (who played a Xindi Arboreal in Enterprise,  also Crashdown in Battlestar Galactica and is currently starring in SyFys new show, Being Human)
• Margaret Clark (editor and writer for Pocket Books, and comic books companies DC and Marvel!)
• Guy Vardaman (a stand-in performer who often appeared in the role of Darien Wallace on Star Trek: The Next Generation. He also served as photo double for Data during the majority of the show’s run)
• ….and many more!

The interview session is jam packed and features a tonne of cool info including:

• Craig Binkley and Doug discuss various Enterprise behind the scenes secrets.
• Doug prompts Craig to reveal a funny story involving a fly and a strange fasination with bugs….
• Michael Okuda calls in and dicusses what he is working on right now (Infinite Space), and Doug gushes about how thankful he is that Michael hired him!
• Sam Witwer calls in and he and Doug talk about Blood and Chrome (the whole show is green screen).
• Doug reveals that he is  very excited to be back working on Battlestar and kicking some toaster ass!
• Doug talks about CGI and Visual Effects on DS9 and what its like to have a VFX team on Blood and Chrome!
• Sam Witwer takes credit for the Cylons Human Sized hands in Battlestar Galactica!
• Sam also talks about his various roles in Star Trek and the weird voicemails he used to leave for Doug.
• Margaret Clarke calls in and talks books books books with Doug!
• …..and, most importantly, Doug answers the age old question about toilets on the Enterprise 1701-D!

This is just some of the super-cool and suave information revealed during this interview, so do not delay another moment and head to our on-demand section and download it now or click the following link to grab the MP3 directly (right click and save target as).

We are going to be having Doug back on a regular basis, so be sure to look out for future interview dates with Doug where you can call in with YOUR questions!

Doug Drexler returns this weekend!

Trek Radio is happy to announce that award winning artist Doug Drexler will be returning with the second part of his live interview, this weekend, Saturday 22nd January at 11am PST!

Drexler joined us for two hours on December 18th for a live interview that covered a range of subjects and featured call ins from names such as Steve Neill and Barbara Luna.  The interview was so succesful that we had to wrap it up less than half way through our list of talking topics but we resolved to continue the interview and now that time is here.

Be sure to tune in this weekend, January 22nd at 11am PST to hear what will surely be a fantastic continuation of our interview and if you missed the first part of the interview in December, grab it from our on-demand section now!

Trek Radio at FedConXX in April!

We are happy to announce that Trek Radio is going to be attending FedCon 20 in Dusseldorf, Germany from April 28th until May 1st later this year.   Station owner Zach Nicodemous and the much loved DJ Bear are beaming down to the annual FedCon to join in on the celebrations as this amazing convention hits its 20th birthday!

We will be bringing you coverage of the entire convention with a series of live shows from the convention floor, where we will speak with fellow Star Trek Fans, hand out flyers to promote the station, and much more! In addition, we will be working with amazing organizers of FedCon to bring you a series of interviews with the attending Star Trek celebrities, which (as of Janurary 8th) include Nicole de Boer (Ezri Dax), Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi), Wil Weaton (Wesley Crusher), Garret Wang (Harry Kim) and many more!

If you are fan of Trek Radio or Star Trek and live in Europe, then FedCon XX is a perfect oppurtunity for you to come and hang out with your fellow fans!   As we move closer to April and nai down how much time we will have to interview each Star Trek guest, we will of course give you all the oppurtunity to send in questions, so be sure to look out for that!

If you are planing to attend the convention, post a comment and let us know so we can arrange to meet you and for more information on FedCon, please visit its official website at www.fedcon.de

Warp Core Replaced!

We have just switched over to our new Warp Core (media server) so some of you may need to refresh your browsers or redownload your playlist files in order to hear the stream, which is now on a new IP address and port.

Please use the icons in the top right of the website to grab the playlist for your player, or listen via the website player!

Advertising Rates Online

Trek Radio is happy to announce that its advertising rates have now been published on the Advertising page.   Rates have been included for on stream audio advertising, on website banner advertising and information included for printed advertising oppurtunities is also included.

If you are interested in any of the advertising rates mentioned on the page, please contact us via our contact page.

Giving it all shes got! [update 2]

We are experiencing a hiccup in our main transciever array. We are working to repair the issue.

UPDATE: We have brought our emergency backup transceiver online while the main array is repaired.

UPDATE 2: Everything is fixed now. Main transciever array is back online, sorry for the interruption. New warp core on order to arrive in the next 10 days.

Trek Radio joins The Federation!

Trek Radio is proud to announce that it is joining forces with the International Federation of Trekkers (IFT).

Founded in 1984, IFT was launched with the design and endorsement of Gene Roddenberry and continues to this day as the most popular Star Trek fan club in the world. IFT re-launched its website in June 2010 and announced Chase Masterson as the new face of “The Federation”.

Trek Radio joins a growing number of websites and groups that are currently part of The Federation Network, including TrekUnited, Airlock Alpha, Star Trek Cruise, Star Trek: Phase II and Roddenberry.com

IFT President Russ Haslage said:

“I am so proud to have Trek Radio as a part of The Federation Network.  Since our upgrade started in early 2010, I had never dreamed that all of these great organizations would come together to form such a great team.  Now The Federation is truly multimedia as Trek Radio joins the family.”

In addition, Trek Radio owner Zach Nicodemous had this to say:

“This new affiliation is a great step forward for Trek Radio in its mission to reach as many Star Trek fans as possible and boldly go where no group has gone before.  Over the past few months, we have brought you many fantastic interviews and going forward, our partnership with The Federation will help us in bringing you many more interviews and exclusive offers!”

Over the coming months, Trek Radio will be working with The Federation and its members to bring you special interviews, special offers and a range of other content and media as we continue on our journey to bring you the best Star Trek programming and material!

ABOUT TREK RADIO

Trek Radio (TR) was launched in June 2010 as the internet’s first dedicated Star Trek Radio Network. Each week, our team of over 30 DJs along with our podcasting partners, broadcast live to the world of Star Trek with a variety of popular music and the latest entertainment news. For more information, visit www.TrekRadio.net. For regular updates, follow us at www.Twitter.com/TrekRadio , or become a fan on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=136367119727015

Contact Info: Zach Nicodemous, zach@startrekradio.com; 347-321-8955

ABOUT THE FEDERATION

IFT (The Federation) is a worldwide organization founded in 1984 to promote the humanistic philosophies and ideals portrayed in the Star Trek myths in a realistic fashion, conducive to the continued existence and responsible advancement of human kind. To provide, promote, and support education and positive legal activism in the area of human rights, racial and sexual equality, environmental causes, and space exploration. To promote a more positive impression of Star Trek fans as intelligent, socially conscious, active individuals who are aware and concerned about the real world today.”

Contact Info: Russ Haslage, ops@trekfederation.com; 877-365-TREK