Star Trek Timelines Interview with Erin Prince

by David Holquinn

In celebration of the first anniversary of Star Trek Timelines, we recently had the privilege to chat with Erin Prince, Product Owner of Disruptor Beam and Senior Producer of Star Trek Timelines.

We discussed the special activities and player rewards related to the anniversary event, as well as recent and upcoming content updates that will provide players with more of the content with which they are already familiar as well as some new ways to play the game and interact with other players.

A recent addition which is sure to make many players more merry than Worf is the ability to play Star Trek Timelines through Facebook while maintaining your existing account so you can play seamlessly between platforms and retain your progress.

Listen to the interview below, and be sure to download the game on the Apple App Store or Google Play Store then connect to Facebook, and engage with Disruptor Beam on the official forums and via social media.

AXANAR LAWSUIT SETTLED

by David Holquinn
 

It’s been a long road getting from there to here. The Axanar lawsuit has been settled.

Just 11 days before the scheduled copyright infringement trial, plaintiffs CBS Studios and Paramount Pictures settled out of court with Axanar Productions and Alec Peters, putting an end to the lawsuit which was filed in December of 2015.

As a result of the settlement, Peters will not be making the original 100-minute “feature film” as planned but will instead be allowed to produce two 15-minute short films that must conform to the official Star Trek fan-film guidelines set forth by CBS and Paramount in June 2016. As part of those guidelines, some of the cast and crew originally slated for Axanar are no longer able to be involved, although the settlement does allow Richard Hatch, Kate Vernon, J.G. Hertzler and Gary Graham to participate, “but no other actors who have appeared in professional Star Trek productions.” The two 15-minute segments, and the pre-existing Prelude to Axanar, will be allowed to be presented on YouTube for free, both prohibited from including commercialized ads.

You can read more about the settlement at Axamonitor, and read Axanar Production’s official statement.

What are your thoughts on the settlement? Will you watch and support Axanar in the new shorter form?

Star Trek Timelines First Anniversary

by David Holquinn

Disruptor Beam is honoring the one year anniversary of their mobile game Star Trek Timelines with a celebration – and a new update later this month. To observe the anniversary, Disruptor Beam launched its Convergence Day Galaxy Event.

With this event, comes new crew: a new version of the popular and devious Ferengi Quark, who conceived of Convergence Day, and C.O.P. Founder Picard, a new version of the popular captain voted on by players during the event “The Second Battle of New York.” At the end of this event, with Captain Archer indisposed, qualifying players voted for Captain Picard to replace him as one of the founders of the Coalition of Planets. In addition, as players celebrate their own anniversaries of playing Timelines, they will receive a special reward avatar — Alfa 177 Canine. All players will also receive a Supply Kit, more crew slots and discounted Dabo Wheel pulls throughout the weekend.

In the coming weeks, Disruptor Beam will introduce The Gauntlet, an exciting new crew-based player-vs-player mode. While open to all players, The Gauntlet will especially challenge experienced Captains to make the most out of their crew’s abilities while competing against other experienced leaders. After assembling a team of five crackerjack crew, Captains will be able to face off against the chosen teams of up to 200 other Captains. Each Gauntlet contest will feature a different skill, so every entry will be different.

Since Star Trek Timelines’ January 2016 launch, Disruptor Beam has dramatically expanded the game’s scope with galaxy-changing storylines, player-vs-player ship battles, collaborative gameplay in fleets, hundreds of new crewmembers and other significant enhancements.

Star Trek Timelines is available as a free download for the App Store and Google Play, Facebook Games and Facebook Gameroom on Windows PC.

Watch the new trailer for Star Trek Timelines below: