Hailing Frequency - Star Trek Gaming Podcast 'the Internets Only Podcast Dedicated To Star Trek Gaming'

Old is mixed with new in this show, as the hosts, Zach, Kinneas and Nova discuss all of the latest happenings in the world of Star Trek Gaming. As usual, K'suan'indra brings us the Star Trek Gaming News, though in a new two-part format which focus on Modding/Fan Games and Star Trek Online, respectivly. During the show, we interview Mark Ward, Lead Artist of ST: Excalibur and we find out some amazing information about what future updates they have planned, plus their newtonian physics system and what this means for ship control and playability. Kinneas bring us the first new segment pilot, for something we call UFP Media which envisions how an "in-character" radio station might work in Star Trek Online and during the show, we premiere several new adverts from various Star Trek Guilds including Zeta Fleet who will soon be celebrating their 1 year anniversary. We also disscus how the closure of StarTrek-Games.com is affecting the community and the most recent screenshots to come out of Cryptic Studios for St

During this Episode, Hosts Zach, Kinneas, Nova and Athos discuss all of the latest updates from the past four weeks to Star Trek Online - including discussion on the most recent screenshots, new video footage, new timeline updates and much more. K'suan'indra brings us a 16 minute roundup of Star Trek Gaming News from all around the community and in addition, we discuss DAC Updates, Star Trek Excalibur Updates and more!

We are happy to release the interview which we conducted with the legendary "George Takei" on April 14th 2009. In this truly amazing 25 minute interview, we speak about Mr Takei's experiences with The Original Series and the Original 6 movies, as well as his hopes for the future and more!

This show sees a temporary return to the original crew of Zach, Kinneas and K'suan with Nova and Athos both incapacitated in sickbay with the Tarquelian Flu. In the show, we talk about all of the latest Star Trek Online Updates, plus some Star Trek DAC Updates which have been quietly filtering out in past weeks including some screenshots. K'suan brings us a 15 minute Star Trek Gaming News Update and we also talk about the pending collapse of Filefront (or so we thought at the time!)

n this show, we discuss all of the latest Star Trek Online news, screenshots, storyline updates, et cetera. Mark Ward of Star Trek Excalibur also joins us with a 30 minute update on the status of their upcoming fan game. Amira brings us the latest Star Trek Gaming News this week, and Athos joins us as a third co-host once again.

In this show, we cover the latest STO news from the last 2 weeks including an Ask Cryptic Update and 4 new screenshots. We also have two interviews in this show, the first one is with the legendary Nano - who created NanoFX for Bridge Commander and is currently working on the NanoFX-Evolved Game Engine which is powering Star Trek Excalibur. As always, we have the latest Star Trek Gaming News Roundup however this week we have an Orion Slave Girl called Amira standing in for K'suan. Athos joins us once again as a guest host in this show.

In this show, we cover a ton of Star Trek Online News that has been released since the last show including the first tid-bits of information to come out of the New York Comic Con. Half way into the show, we bring our field reporter into the show live from the floor of the New York Comic Con where he gives us some STO Updates and an idea of the incredible atmosphere there. As always, K'suan'indra brings us the latest Star Trek Gaming News Roundup and towards the end of the show we talk briefly about the new fan game TrekWars and about some rumours surrounding Bethesda Softworks hold over the Star Trek Gaming License. Athos joins us once again as a guest host in this show.

You all know her as Awen and those of you who pay attention to the Star Trek Online website probably know her by her real name too - Nicole Hamlett. In this 30 minute interview, she joins us to talk about many aspects relating to the Community in Star Trek Online, Fleets/Clans/Guilds, the STO Forums, how community will be handled post launch, and much much more.

In this episode, we feature an EXCLUSIVE Interview with Cryptic Studio's Head of Community Relations, Nicole Hamlett. (This was released as a separate file a few days ago.) In the interview we discuss the how the community of STO will be handled inside and outside of the game post launch, upcoming website features, videos and much much more. K'suan'indra also brings us the latest Star Trek Gaming News and myself, Nova and Kinneas are joined this week by Athos who joins our discussions about the latest STO Updates. Athos also talks to us in detail about the Lotus Fleet Academy in the last 15 minutes of the show.

Here is Episode 58 of Hailing Frequency which was broadcast live on Saturday January 10th 2009. In our first show of 2009 we discuss in detail the multiple updates that have been posted on the Star Trek Online Website since our Christmas show. We gauge the communities opinions on the topics from the updates which include the ship specs in the new ship of line updates, owning multiple ships and ship physics from the new Ask Cryptic Update and we discuss the new screenshots in detail and analyze how the graphics have improved since the first batch of screenshots and hopefully how they will continue to improve. We also talk about what might happen to the Star Trek Gaming License once Bethesda's tenure with it expires in 2010/2011 and we check out the Interplay Classic "Starfleet Academy" to see if it still holds up on today's computers.

Here is the 2008 christmas special of Hailing Frequency which was broadcast and recorded live on December 20th 2008. In this show, we talk about the hard hitting impact the death of Majel Roddenberry has had on the community. After this, we discuss the latest Star Trek Online Timeline updates and we reveal that we have 2 interviews lined up with Cryptic Studios in January - The first one with Nicole Hamlett aka Awen and the second one which will be with Craig Zinkevich - Dates for both of these will be announced very soon. Following on for this - we give a little bit of coverage on the 2008 Players Choice Awards from StarTrek-Games.com and discuss some of the nominations to date - voting for this opens on January 1st at http://www.startrek-games.com We take a look back at the events of 2008 and reveal the full details of how and when exactly Hailing Frequency found out that Cryptic Studios had taken over development of Star Trek Online and we look forward to what we can expect in 2009. Finally - we remin

Episode 56 is here after a 7 week break in Hailing Frequency broadcasts. This episode was broadcast live on Saturday 13th December 2008 and released as a podcast on Sunday 14th December. K'suan brings us a bumper edition of the Star Trek Gaming news this week, bringing us fully up to date on all of the news from the last 7 weeks. Then we talk about the hot topic - Atari's purchase of Cryptic Studios. Following on from that, we touch briefly on the latest Storyline updates and Ask Cryptic updates. Later on in the show, we discuss the latest updates from the fan project - Star Trek Excalibur - we speak to Bethesda Softworks to see if they intend to release any more Star Trek Games, and we review the latest Beta Version of Fleet Operations 3 for Armada 2.

Episode 55 is here, almost 2 weeks on from the last show, and once again this show was recorded live on Saturday October 4th. Its slightly rougher than our past shows have been, but its much cleaner than last weeks show. K'suan returns this week with the Star Trek Gaming News for the last couple of weeks and we discuss some of the latest things out of Cryptic Studios relating to Star Trek Online. Following on from that, Max Loef join us to talk about a Star Trek Mod he discovered for the Space Simulator X3: Reunion. Fleet Radios on this show are all from the Brand New Brad Sucks album and Kinneas provides some excellent news updates from around the UFP and Beyond!

This is the first actual show we have done since we got back from Vegas, so we begin the show with a 30 minute de-brief with Kinneas and Nova who give us some of their experiences and feedback from Vegas including a rather touching story from Kinneas toward the end of the de-brief. We then launch into the Star Trek Gaming News - K'suan was unable to join us to read this live, so it was read out by myself, Kinneas and Nova and was far from smooth - but all of the important news is there which is what matters. K'suan will return in the next show. After that, we get caught up on all of the latest STO News from the last couple of months and boy has there been alot and finally at the end of the show, Nova tells us about some of the exciting things going on at Lotus Fleet Lately.

We got a chance at the Las Vegas to sit down with your STO Community Manager Razor, also known as JR Sutich in real life. This is his very first interview ever in his career at Cryptic, so we were very nice to him. Its a great chance for you to meet the man behind the name, so we hope you will all enjoy this interview.

We are now able to release part 2 of our video interview with Jack Emmert, CCO at Cryptic Studios. In this part of the interview, we cover things like the economy, starbases, and much more.

We have been given the go ahead by Cryptic Studios to release PART ONE of our EXCLUSIVE VIDEO Interview with Jack Emmert, Chief Creative Officer at Cryptic. In this interview, we discuss a wide range of topics surrounding Star Trek Online and Jack reveals a good amount of new information about Star Trek Online, and while we are only able to release PART ONE at the moment, its definetly a revealing segment.

Previously, we posted an audio review of the first day of the convention and we now have an audio review of days 2 and 3 of the convention hosted by HF Co-Host Kinneas, Lotus Fleet Admiral Athos and Star Trek Writer Derek Chester. We hear TONNES of news from the convention including the fact that Chase Masterson wants "in" on Star Trek Online and we hear about a new Remote Controlled flying 4 ft Enterprise, plus Anthony Montgomery, Garret Wang, Jolene Blalock, George Takei and MORE!. This is a jam packed review weighing in at around 45mins folks - so be sure to download it and have a listen!

Broadcasting from Quarks Bar, we have a 15 minute audio review of the first day of the Las Vegas Star Trek Convention. Hailing Frequency Co-Host Kinneas and Lotus Fleet Admiral Athos talk about their experiences on day one of this amazing convention and we also hear from a Klingon D'har Master who wanders up to Kinneas and Athos asking about podcasts!

After 36 hours of editing and post production, here we finally have the recorded sound file from our Cryptic Countdown show which was broadcast on Sunday July 27th for around 5 hours. Key Highlights: Interview with Rick Sternbach - Senior Illustrator and Technical Advisor on Star Trek since 1979 - We talk to him about a range of things including his thoughts on STO, his thoughts on the NASA Space Program and much much more! Derek Chester - Co-Writer of Star Trek Legacy, Star Trek Tactical Assault, Star Trek Bridge Commander and the IDW Year 4 comic books, Derek Chester is DC Fontanas writing partner and a huge gamer. He joins us throughout the live show discussing his views on Star Trek Online and much much more. A huge array of guests throughout the entire show including- -DIF-Josh who is leader of Consortium Ultimate Gamers -Chris Jones who is head of Chris Jones Gaming -GamerGlo from OnTheAirTV -Pestalance from Dynaverse.net -Lotus Fleet Members Raven, Lrd Nova, Random Redshirt and