Priority One: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast

Greetings, Captains! You're listening to Episode 174 of Priority One Podcast, the premier Star Trek Online podcast! This episode was recorded on Thursday, May 15th, 2014 and published on Monday, May 19th, 2014 at PriorityOnePodcast.com! Happy Monday, Captains! In episode 174 of Priority One Podcast, Jayce, CookieCupcakes, and Elijah dive in to Fluidic Space with Visualization Scientist & Priority One's Science Advisor, Dr. Robert Hurt. In STONews, the Ferengi cup overfloweth with Lobi with a featured episode rerun, new literary challenges, changes to weapons, and a new parties on Risa. Later, in our Community Spotlight segment, ChivalryBean returns with his Foundry Officer’s Report and a review of Brothers of Man by gwalchavad. And of course as always, we’ll open hailing frequencies and see what’s incoming from you — our listeners. Be sure to check out Priority One Production's The Guard Frequency. This new show is focused on the latest offering from Wing Commander/Freelancer creator Chris Roberts and Clo

Greetings, Captains! You're listening to Episode 173 of Priority One Podcast, the premier Star Trek Online podcast! This episode was recorded on Thursday, May 8th, 2014 and published on Monday, May 12th, 2014 at PriorityOnePodcast.com! Happy Monday, Captains! In episode 173 of Priority One Podcast, Jayce, CookieCupcakes, and Elijah brace themselves for a Tempest on the Horizon and jump right into STONews this week. Itching for a new ship? Well, in STONews, Jayce and Elijah review the release of the new Patrol Escort Refit and its Fleet variant. Later, Elijah asks -- what if Star Trek Online wasn't instanced? In this week's Field Notes, Jayce continues his discussion on Defense. Later, in our Community Spotlight segment, we have an interview with the creative mind behind Star Trek: Horizon, Tommy Kraft. Star Trek Horizon is another independent film project that takes place a few years after the voyages of the Enterprise NX-01. This is an independent film project you won't want to miss. And of course as always,

Greetings, Captains -- and Feliz Cinco de Mayo! You're listening to Episode 172 of Priority One Podcast, the premier Star Trek Online podcast! This episode was recorded on Thursday, May 1st, 2014 and published on Monday, Cinco de Mayo, 2014 at PriorityOnePodcast.com! Brace yourselves, Captains! This episode is going to be a doozey! Clocking in a just over 2-hours, this episode is full of Star Trek and Star Trek Online goodness! For starters, this week we Trek Out an on-site interview with Star Trek Alums, Anthony Montgomery (Helmsman Travis Mayweather - Star Trek: Enterprise) and Robert Picardo (The Doctor - Star Trek: Voyager) from the Creation Entertainment Star Trek NJ Convention! In STONews, we have a surprise guest revisiting the show to help correct a few errors in last week's episode 171 of Priority One Podcast. If you can appreciate Elijah being p0wnd, then this is not a STONews you're going to want to miss. Later, in our Community Spotlight segment, we interview some of the cast and crew of Star Trek

Greetings, Captains! You're listening to Episode 171 of Priority One Podcast, the premier Star Trek Online podcast! This episode was recorded on Thursday, April 24th, 2014 and published on Monday, April 28th at PriorityOnePodcast.com! This week, we conclude our interview with Star Trek Online’s Lead Designer, Al “CaptainGeko” Rivera as he discusses the latest featured episode “Surface Tension.” So Captains, we present you with yet another !!SPOILER ALERT!! If you have not yet played the mission, you may want to hold off listening to this episode until you do! In Trek It Out this week, a recent article from The Warp gets Elijah all riled up about the real problem keeping Star Trek from reaching its fullest potential in mass-media. In STO News, Cookie, Jayce, and Elijah review some of the amazing content to hit STO in Season 9; including some controversy surrounding the latest Undine Lock Box. And of course as always, we’ll open hailing frequencies and see what’s incoming from you -- our listeners. Be sure to c

Greetings, Captains! You're listening to Episode 170 of Priority One Podcast, the premier Star Trek Online podcast! This episode was recorded on Thursday, April 17th, 2014 and published for download on Monday, April 21st at PriorityOnePodcast.com! Elijah, Jayce and Cookie bring you yet another epic show as we continue our conversation with Al "Captain Geko" Rivera bringing you more details on Season Nine and beyond, but before we get to the good stuff, in this week's Trek It Out Cookie tells us of some poor habits picked up by the Star Trek community that need to be broken. Next, in STO News, we cover the avalanche of Dev Bogs that have been coming out of Cryptic as we being you our coverage of Season Nine Dev Blogs 12, 13, 14, 15 and 16; and a tiny little spoiler let out by Garrett Wang (better known as Harry Kim from Star Trek Voyager) on Twitter. After our conversation with Al, Jayce puts on his jacket and glasses, transforming into Professor Jayce right before your eyes to bring you a reimagined Field Not

Greetings, Captains! You're listening to Episode 169 of Priority One Podcast, the premier Star Trek Online podcast! This episode was recorded on Thursday, April 10th, 2014 and published for download on Monday, April 14th at PriorityOnePodcast.com! Season 9 is right around the corner! This week, we're pleased to have Star Trek Online's Lead Designer Al "CaptainGeko" Rivera on the show to talk about all the new features coming to Holodeck later this month. We've also got a quick update from the creative minds behind Star Trek: Axanar! Later, we open Hailing Frequencies and see what's incoming from YOU! This is definitely not a show to be missed! Be sure to check out the newest show in the Priority One Productions lineup, The Guard Frequency. This new show is focused on the latest offering from Wing Commander/Freelancer creator Chris Roberts and Cloud Imperium Games, Star Citizen. If you like Priority One, head on over to http://guardfrequency.com/ and see what awaits you in the world of Star Citizen! Topics Dis

Greetings, Captains! You're listening to Episode 168 of Priority One Podcast, the premier Star Trek Online podcast! This episode was recorded on Thursday, April 3rd, 2014 and published for download on Monday 7th April at PriorityOnePodcast.com! Cookie, Jayce and Elijah are back once again with your weekly dose of Star Trek Online sweet stuff, so join us as this week we Trek Out who is taking the helm of the film series Star Trek now that J.J.’s moved off to other things before checking out what's going on around the Federation, Romulan Republic and the Klingon Empire as we bring you our coverage of Season 9 Dev Blogs 7, 8 and 9 and talk about kit revamps, the Undine assault and the new head/complexion designs, and a little patch that made it on to Tribble that brings some interesting changes! Next Justin "Chivalrybean" Lowmaster brings us another awesome Foundry Officer Report in this week's Community Spotlight, and then finally we open up Hailing Frequencies and hear from you, our listeners. Be sure to check

Greetings, Captains! You're listening to Episode 167 of Priority One Podcast, the premier Star Trek Online podcast! This episode was recorded on Thursday, March 27th, 2014 and published for download on Monday 31st March at PriorityOnePodcast.com! Elijah, Jayce and Cookie come together on the bridge of the USS Priority One this week to bring all you lovely lot your weekly dose of Priority One goodness! In this week's Trek It Out we bring you two-for-the-price-of-one as firstly we look at an interesting article that discusses 7 ways to bring Trek back to the small screen, and then we check in with our friends at Star Trek: Axanar for a quick update. News about Season 9 continues to be released and so we bring you our coverage of Season 9 Dev Blogs 3, 4, 5 and 6 -- the Undine Art Revamp, the Undine Battlezone, the Reputation Revamp and the Reputation Power Updates;, but the news doesn't stop there! We also bring you coverage of the latest patch-notes to land on Holodeck and some upcoming changes to the base comp

Greetings, Captains! You're listening to Episode 166 of Priority One Podcast, the premier Star Trek Online podcast! This episode was recorded on Friday, March 20th, 2014 and published for download on Monday 24th March at PriorityOnePodcast.com! This week we have a fearsome mix of Elijah, James, Jayce and Cookie to bring you right up to speed on everything Star Trek Online! In this week's Trek It Out, we interview Adrienne Orpheus who on March 15th was featured in a recent episode of MTV’s True Life, the subject of the episode: I Want To Be an Obscure Pageant Queen. We're starting to get more and more information on the upcoming Season 9 so in STO News we bring you our coverage of Season 9 Dev Blogs 1 and 2 -- A New Accord and the latest intel on the Undine, and we ask the question, "Where's the danger in STO?" before we dive full-force into our Community Spotlight segment and bring you our interview with Enzo Aquarius of Reddit's STO fleet. Finally, we open up hailing frequencies and listen to your incoming m

Greetings, Captains! You're listening to Episode 165 of Priority One Podcast, the premier Star Trek Online podcast! This episode was recorded on Friday, March 14th, 2014 and published for download on Monday 17th March at PriorityOnePodcast.com! Elijah, Cookie and Jayce talk the helm of the USS Priority One, boldly going where no Cuban, Baked Good and Jayce have gone before! This week's Trek It Out sees the welcome return of Dr Robert Hurt, Priority One's Science Advisor, as we talk how science fiction has become science fact. In STO News we talk about the new Mirror Universe Event, (including new environments, the new Vauthil Space Station, new objectives, and even new voice work from Obisek!) and our first look at the Earth Space Dock revamp that's currently available on Tribble for testing. Next, we make the the inertial dampers are working by throwing the ship to Warp 9.99 and let you know everything you could ever want to know about being the Captain of the new Fleet Dreadnaught Cruiser before finally cru

Greetings, Captains! You're listening to Episode 164 of Priority One Podcast, the premier Star Trek Online podcast! This episode was recorded on Thursday, March 6th, 2014 and published for download on Monday 10th March at PriorityOnePodcast.com! Elijah, Cookie, James and Tony are your fearsome foursome this week as we bring you everything that's happening from Star Trek Online and the wider sci-fi community! Are you sad that Star Trek is no longer on the air? We are, but fear not for in Trek It Out we bring you our round-up of the creme-de-la-creme of fan-made Star Trek productions. In this week's STO News we cover the Galaxy class reboot (including everything you want to know about the Galaxy X), the latest roundup of Holodeck patch notes, including our thoughts on the controversial changes made to the cooldown on "Team" powers. Next, Justin "ChivalryBean" Lowmaster brings us his review of “Of Morals and Ethics” by Voporak, before we open our Hailing Frequencies and listen to the feedback from you, our loyal

Greetings, Captains! You're listening to Episode 163 of Priority One Podcast, the premier Star Trek Online podcast! This episode was recorded on Thursday, February 27th, 2014 and published for download on Monday 3rd Tuesday 4th March at PriorityOnePodcast.com! This week, in what future historians are sure to mark as one of the pivotal moments in mankind's journey, we welcome not one but two new hosts to Priority One! We hope you will join us in heartily welcoming Jayce and CookieCupcakes (aka Laura) to the team and wishing Tony the best of wishes as he joins the crew of Priority One Production's new show all about Star Citizen, Guard Frequency! James is still very much with us on the team and will be returning to Priority One very soon. So, what do we have for you this week? Well in this week's Trek It Out we welcome back Adrianne as she takes a break from managing our awesome community to bring you our interview with the very talented Alec Peters -- writer and producer behind the hottest new Star Trek fan pr

Greetings, Captains! You're listening to Episode 162 of Priority One Podcast, the premier Star Trek Online podcast! This episode was recorded on Thursday, February 20th, 2014 and published for download on Monday, February 24th at PriorityOnePodcast.com! James was unfortunately kidnapped by salt vampires this week, so you lucky listeners are treated to an outstanding trio of Elijah, Tony and community guest host CookieCupcakes! In this week's Trek It Out we tell you about an outstanding international Star Trek fan organisation that's free to join before heading in to STO News where we discuss Season 8 Dev Blogs #50,#51 and #52 -- the complete rundown of the Dyson Science Destroyers including their consoles and special set bonuses; the latest Spire Featured Project, the ARC Portal, a very interesting article from veteran developer Matt Miller over on MMORPG.com and all the latest goodies to hit Holodeck. Next, ChivalryBean brings us his latest Foundry Officer Report with his review of “Collectiveness Strikes Go

Greetings, Captains! You're listening to Episode 161 of Priority One Podcast, the premier Star Trek Online podcast! This episode was recorded on Thursday, February 13th, 2014 and published for download on Monday, February 17th at PriorityOnePodcast.com! Elijah may have fallen victim to a nano-probe infection; but, Tony and James take the lead and bring you the latest from Star Trek Online. First, the guys Trek Out what would really happen if a black-hole formed in the center of a planet with Priority One's Science Advisor, Dr. Robert Hurt. In STO News we review new ship materials in Season 8 Dev Blog #49, another attempt from PWE to incentivise ARC testing, the latest Patch Notes to hit Holodeck, and an article from GamaSutra about Fighting Familiarity in games. Later, we open Hailing Frequencies and see what's incoming from YOU -- our listeners. Be sure to check out the newest show in the Priority One Productions lineup, The Guard Frequency. This new show is focused on the latest offering from Wing Commander

Greetings, Captains! You're listening to Episode 160 of Priority One Podcast, the premier Star Trek Online podcast! This episode was recorded live on TrekRadio.net on Thursday, February 6th, 2014 and published for download on Monday, February 10th at PriorityOnePodcast.com! In yet another episode of epic proportions, Elijah and Tony bring you another show that's show packed full of STO goodness it's illegal in several European countries. As we have so much to bring you, we have to forgo this week's Trek It Out again so we dive right into the STO News which, although it has been a little thin on the ground due to the release of Season 8.5, still provides us with a wealth of discussion as we cover Spire Featured Project #7, a listener's concerns on the changes to the hourly events and how this affects small fleets and our review of the Featured Episode "A Step Between Stars" before we get into the meat and potatoes of this weeks episode, our interview with PWE Community Team Lead Brandon "BranFlakes" Felzcer an

Greetings, Captains! You're listening to Episode 159 of Priority One Podcast, the premier Star Trek Online podcast! This episode was recorded live on TrekRadio.net on Thursday, January 30th, 2014 and published for download on Monday, February 3rd at PriorityOnePodcast.com! This episode is not for the faint of heart! With Season 8.5 now live on Holodeck, our fearless Captains - Elijah, James, and Tony - boldly take on all the special features available to players in Star Trek Online's 4-year Anniversary Event! With such a prestigious guest joining the team this episode, we forgo our Trek It Out segment and jump right in to STO News to discuss ships, consoles, a new mission, 4 years of Star Trek Online... and much, much more. Later, in his first appearance on Priority One Podcast, Star Trek Online Executive Producer Stephen D'Angelo spends time with Tony & Skiffy to discuss Season 8.5 and the next 18 months of Star Trek Online! This is NOT an interview you're going to want to miss. More importantly, towards

Greetings, Captains! You're listening to Episode 158.5 of Priority One Podcast, the premier Star Trek Online podcast! In this supplemental release, Elijah, Tony, and James continue the Season 8.5 discussion with Star Trek Online's Lead Designer Al "CaptainGeko" Rivera. WARNING: This episode is absolutely filled with spoilers. If you have not yet played Star Trek Online's Season 8.5 content, a majority of the story-line WILL be revealed to you! Did you miss the FIRST part of our interview? Find it HERE Be sure to check out the newest show in the Priority One Productions lineup, The Guard Frequency. This new show is focused on the latest offering from Wing Commander/Freelancer creator Chris Roberts and Cloud Imperium Games, Star Citizen. If you like Priority One, head on over to http://guardfrequency.com/ and see what awaits you in the world of Star Citizen! This Week's Community Questions Are features like hot-swappable ships, access to exchanges and banks in personal ships, and other conveniences killing Soci

Greetings, Captains! You're listening to Episode 158 of Priority One Podcast, the premier Star Trek Online podcast! This episode was recorded live on TrekRadio.net on Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 and published for download on Monday, January 27th at PriorityOnePodcast.com! Elijah, James and Tony, our intrepid trio return this week to bring you a monster of a show! In fact, we've got so much content this week that we've had to skip Trek It Out this week and dive straight into STO News as we cover Season 8, Dev Blogs 37, 38, 39, 40 and 41 (Undine Space Combat Experience Revamp, Ship Management, Load-Outs, and Quick Equip Systems, Small Craft Arena PvP Mode, Spire Featured Project #6 and the Events System Revamp) before we are joined by our very special guest, Al "Captain Geko" Rivera, Star Trek Online's Lead Systems Developer as he gives us the low-down on all of the fantastic new features coming with Season 8.5 including Stephen D'Angelo's role as the Executive Producer of STO, Bug Squashing (including Fire At

Greetings, Captains! You're listening to Episode 157 of Priority One Podcast, the premier Star Trek Online podcast! This episode was recorded live on TrekRadio.net on Thursday, January 16th, 2014 and published for download on Monday, January 20th at PriorityOnePodcast.com! Well, James and Tony have unfortunately come down with a case of Andorian shingles (we warned them about those blue girls), so Elijah is joined by Priority One Podcast's Audio Editor, Skiffy and Community Guest Host Jayce! In this week's episode we Trek Out an interesting -- and hilarious -- revision to Star Trek XI’s trailer! In STONews there is PLENTY to discuss! From the announcement that Dan Stahl is moving on to another Cryptic Project -- to the return of Stephen D’Angelo as Executive Producer with his first Dev Blog back in the Captain's chair of Star Trek Online -- what could this mean for STO?! What’s coming in Season 8.5?! In his latest Dev Blog, Star Trek Online Designer Jesse Heinig invites players to re-try several newly “re-tou

Greetings, Captains! You're listening to Episode 156 of Priority One Podcast, the premier Star Trek Online podcast! This episode was recorded live on TrekRadio.net on Thursday, January 9th, 2014 and published for download on Monday, January 13th at PriorityOnePodcast.com! James, Tony and Elijah are back this week, taking command of the USS Priority One in style as they Trek Out the basement that every Star Trek Fan wishes they had. In this week's STO News, not a lot has been released via the official website but we do have a round-up of all the latest news from around the Star Trek Online social media circles as we talk about SalamiInferno's interview in Game Reactor, the tweets recently posted by Brandon and Al "Captain Geko" Rivera of a soundbooth with a mystery guest, the latest patchnotes to hit Holodeck and, the news we've all been dreading, ARC finally goes in to beta; and whilst we know we can't stop this steam train, we're going to let you know our thoughts on the beta as well as what we here at Prior