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

In our first in a series of special podcasts for StarTrek.com, we take a journey through time and give you a brief history in Star Trek Gaming!

Following the recent announcement by Craig Zinkevich that he was stepping down as executive producer of Star Trek Online, we contacted the new one, Daniel Stahl and sat down with him for a 30 minute interview to talk about various aspects of the game and ask a number of community submitted questions.

Episode 75 has arrived and its another fun filled, jam packed show. K'suan'indra gets us up to date on all of the latest Star Trek Gaming News and then later in the show, Mark Ward joins us to talk about the latest developments in the upcoming fan game, Star Trek Excalibur. Jigallypuff also joins us to talk about some mod plagurism issues that have been occuring in the Birth of the Federation community, plus Zach and Nova discuss all of the latest Star Trek Online happenings as well as the recent announcement of the fan game, Bridge Commander 2

Our first interview with Craig Zincevich since the release of Star Trek Online in February, this interview focuses on upcoming new features and includes tonnes of cool information!

Hailing Frequency returns for its first episode since February 2010 and does not disappoint. In this one hour show, we talk about all of the latest Star Trek Online updates that have hit the game since its launch in February, including the Season 1 updates, the upcoming Season 2 updates and beyond. Later on in the show, we sit down with Griffin Endurance, lead developer of the Freelance Mod for Star Trek Elite Force 1 - a very exciting upcoming mod that promises to add a forking storyline to the game, flight controls, and a full RPG system! Most excitingly - this edition of Hailing Frequency sees the return of the highly popular and critically acclaimed segment - "Mod Weekly". Mod Weekly is a long-time Hailing Frequency segment that was with the podcast from its roots back in 2005, until late 2008 when the segment presenter, Croesus, retired to focus on his real life work. Now, the segmenth as been revived by community member and modder - Max Loef. Max has produed mods for a range of Star Trek Games,

On the evening of Wednesday 27th Jan (2010) we sat down with Craig Zinkevich for a final audio interview before Star Trek Online releases next week on February 2nd! We asked a tonne of community submitted questions on subjects ranging from the genesis system to social planets, along with some retrospective questions on the last 2 years of development and all in all, its a great interview with a cargo-bay full of information!

On Saturday 9th January 2010, we broadcast a second live show where myself and my team members, Nova and Kinneas, answered literally dozens of your questions about Star Trek Online, Live. If you missed the live show, the good news is that the MP3 is now ready to download for your listening pleasure Many thanks to all who had questions during this show, especially to those who actually called in!

On Sunday 3rd January 2010, we broadcast a 100 minute live show where myself and my team member, Nova, answered literally dozens of your questions about Star Trek Online Live. If you missed the live show, the good news is that the MP3 is now ready to download for your listening pleasure Many thanks to all who had questions during this show, especially to those who actually called in!

The Hailing Frequency 2009 Christmas Special is upon us and we have a truly awesome show for you! During the show, we take a look back at what 2009 has brought to us and look forward to what 2010 has in store. Ksuan brings us all of the latest Star Trek Gaming News, and at approximatly 30 minutes into the show, our special guests join us Craig Zinkevich, Christine Thompson, Dan Griffis and Joe Blancato from Cryptic Studios spend a whopping 40 minutes with us talking about Star Trek Online and answering our questions along with a tonne of community submitted questions. Following on from that - perhaps the only thing in the world that could be better than an interview with those 4 - we launch the Hailing Frequency Star Trek Online Closed Beta Competition where you have a chance to win one of 150 closed beta keys we have to giveaway for Star Trek Online! Details for the competition are below. After that, Mindwipe, a popular figure from the Star Trek Gaming Community gives us his thoughts about 2009 and his

We are very happy to announce that Episode Number 70 of Hailing Frequency is hereby released, recorded to a live audience on Sunday 6th September 2009. This episode sets both a record and milestone for Hailing Frequency - it is our 100th Audio Production since 2005, meaning we have released a total of 70 full length podcasts and 30 shorter special episodes such as interviews, road reports, etc. This is also possibly the longest episode of Hailing Frequency which will ever occur, running a whopping two hours and ten minutes. You might be asking yourself - what could they possibly have spent two hours and ten minutes talking about and the answered lies in the fact that we have just had the busiest period of Star Trek Online News - EVER!. Cryptic Studios attended Penny Arcade Expo in Seattle this weekend, taking with them the first ever publicly playable demo of Star Trek Online and Hailing Frequency (with the help of Tamgros and Vmann from AoA) were there to cover it. We released almost thirty high def pho

Episode 69 of Hailing Frequency is hereby released. Recorded to a live audience on Saturday 22nd August, this episode runs approximatly 1hr 26mins. Kinneas and K'suan'indra are currently on a well deserved shore leave on Risa, so filling in for them this week, we have Jatal Khyron and Soulful Latina respectivly, who both do excellent jobs in their temporary positions! The show starts as always with the Star Trek Gaming News and we then descend into a conversation about the latest Star Trek Online Video Trailer which was released at GamesCon in Germany. Later on in the show, we also talked about the hypercool UI screenshot that Craig Zinkievich released on his Twitter Account. Launching in this show, we have two great new segments. The first, entitled "Fleet Focus" is a new regular segment where each week, we will sit down and interview a different Star Trek Gaming Clan so that members of our audience can get to know some of the wide selection of fleets out there. The second is a new Star Trek Online Op

This is episode 68 of Hailing Frequency, our first "normal" episode since our stream of specials over the past few weeks as we covered the New Jersey and Las Vegas Star Trek Conventions. Episode 68 was recorded on Saturday August 8th and our interview with Star Trek Online's Executive Producer Craig Zinkievich was run during this show for the first time. I am sure you have all heard it already, but how can you ever get tired of it? Ksuan brings us all of the latest Star Trek Gaming and Star Trek Online news as usual and we talk about some of the Star Trek Online screenshots that were released at Kotaku. Another great show and well worth the download as usual! Enjoy Folks!

Here it is folks, this is what you have been waiting for all this time. Hailing Frequency's 25 minute telephone interview with Star Trek Onlines Executive Producer, Craig Zinkievich. There is a tonne of information in this interview ranging from subjects such as space and ground combat, to other things such as gameplay and economy. Its a truly amazing interview, so download it right away folks and don't forget to post your comments after you have listened to it!

Our fourth and final road report from the Las Vegas Trek Con 2009. Athos joins us to give us his report on all of the happenings there, some funny stories, but unfortunatly no videos today as Creation Entertainment were really pushing the "no video" rule today.

This is our third audio road report from the Las Vegas Star Trek Convention and this report covers the convention for Saturday 8th August. The first 8 minutes of the report focus on the convention in general and then the last 25 minutes or so focus specifically on the STAR TREK ONLNE panel which had a playing demo of Star Trek Online! He also recalls how he was elected to dish out the TRIVIA questions for the BETA KEY GIVEAWAY!

This is our second audio road report from the Las Vegas Star Trek Convention and this report covers the convention for Friday 7th August. Our reporter Athos is on the floor meeting Trek Fans and Trek Stars and already has some funny stories to tell us! Accompanying this audio report, we have photos and video from the convention on Thursday and there is some fun stuff to see there! Check out photos in our gallery at and videos are on our official YouTube channel at Another Road Report will follow tomorrow, so until then folks, keep it Hailing Frequency!

This is our first audio road report from the Las Vegas Star Trek Convention and this report covers the convention for Thursday 6th August. Our reporter Athos is on the floor meeting Trek Fans and Trek Stars and already has some funny stories to tell us! Accompanying this audio report, we have photos and video from the convention on Thursday and there is some fun stuff to see there! Check out photos in our gallery at and videos are on our official YouTube channel at Another Road Report will follow tomorrow, so until then folks, keep it Hailing Frequency!

This is the second and final special report from Hailing Frequency for August 1st 2009 covering the New Jersey Star Trek Convention which is being run by Creation Entertainment and that is tagged as the Largest Star Trek Convention on the East Coast. On the floor, is our Hailing Frequency Technical Director and Co-Host, Ryan L White aka Nova, who has been hard at work all day capturing HD Video, taking Photos and conducting interview after interview with folks such as Barry Jenner (Admiral Ross of DS9). In this second road report, Nova lets us know everything thats been happing in the last 5 hours and its sounds like an aweful lot of fun, so if you arnt lucky enough to be there, this is the next best thing. My Podcast Alley feed! {pca-170d6eafa86445543c48b70e7bb6cfb4}

This is a Hailing Frequency Special. We are on the floor today at the New Jersey Trek Con, ran by Creation Entertainment. It is the largest Trek Convention on the East Coast, and our Technical Director Nova is milling around, meeting folks and getting tonnes of interviews! This is the first of two audio road reports we will release today.

This is our second show since our 8 week break for updates and reformatting and the changes continue in this show with a selection of new segment and backing music provided by our talented musician, Tim Reinink. K'suan'indra once again brings us the Star Trek Gaming News, in two parts and our special guest on this show is Victor1st from startrek-gamers.com who opens our discussion into the current state of the Star Trek Gaming Franchise, with a 10 minute recording of his thoughts and predictions for the next 12-24 months. Later in the show, we discuss the latest Star Trek Online Updates including the new Klingon Ship which can only be described as a behemoth and following on from this, Napalm006 joins us once again to discuss mods - last week it was Fleet Operations 3, this week it is Kobayashi Maru 1.0 for Bridge Commander.