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While Trekzone began as an IT project for high school in 2003, podcasting didn’t begin until ten years later to celebrate the anniversary and join “this new fad”!

We begin our journey with the thirteen episode series TREKZONE.org Interviews, a rather unimaginative title for what were longer form conversations with SciFi alumni.

Trekzone.org Interviews and SciFi Weekly

In late 2015, early 2016 we experimented with a weekly science format, which lasted for only thirteen episodes…

The Trekzone Spotlight

In 2015 we moved into a green screen studio and began to really focus on a consistent content schedule. The Trekzone Spotlight gave us the opportunity to flex our muscles and we really worked hard to bring a quality product to the internet more frequently than ever before.

  • The Trekzone Spotlight With Dominic Keating
    In Perth for Oz Comic Con, the man behind Lt. Malcolm Reed on Star Trek: Enterprise – Dominic Keating – sat down and had a chat for the FIRST ever…
  • The Trekzone Spotlight At Supanova Gold Coast
    April 18 2015 was the day Australia’s largest independent pop culture and cosplay expo hit the glitter strip for a weekend of awesome costuming and special guests. TREKZONE.org’s new podcast…
  • The Trekzone Spotlight With Walter Koenig
    On the Gold Coast for Supanova, Walter took some time from meeting fans to have a chat about his time on Star Trek, and also to reflect on the passing…
  • Michael Gummelt Explains His Pitch – EXCLUSIVE Details About A Potential New Trek TV Series
    “I think Star Trek has to come back to TV… You can have TV and movies happening at the same time.” You probably don’t recognise the name Michael Gummelt but…
  • Oz Comic Con Melbourne – Two Actors, One Convention
    UPDATE #2: Check out my chat with David on The Trekzone Spotlight here. René Auberjonois’ podcast is on-line now too! UPDATE: David Nykl’s interview has been delayed due to a…
  • The Trekzone Spotlight With Richard Dean Anderson
    MacGyver or Jack O’Neill from Stargate, however you remember him he was in Australia for Oz Comic Con. He chats about MacGyver, Stargate and his work with the Sea Shepard…
  • The Trekzone Spotlight With 5th Passenger
    It’s an upcoming inde science fiction film starring several Star Trek alumni, including Manu Intiraymi (Icheb, ST:VOY) who sat down with director Scott Baker in our LA studio for a…
  • The Trekzone Spotlight With Tim Russ
    Tim Russ, ‘Tuvok’ from Voyager, had a chat about his project – Star Trek: Renegades – and life before and after the fourth spin off to Star Trek. Check out…
  • Larry Nemecek Reviews Star Trek: Horizon
    Larry’s a regular to TREKZONE.org and many other podcasts around the world, he’s the authority on Star Trek and in this edition of The Trekzone Spotlight we chat about the…
  • Doug Drexler Remembers Anthony Fredrickson
    Doug’s work includes make up and visual effects on The Next Gen, Deep Space Nine and Enterprise, more recently he’s worked on Battlestar Galactica and Defiance. He chats about his…
  • One Man’s Passion Leads to the Best Fan Film This Year
    Tommy has managed to pull together a feature length Star Trek fan film for under 50,000 crowd funded dollars. I chat with him about getting it made and also the…
  • Dr. Andy Thomas Talks Space Exploration and Aussies in Space
    For the first time the World Science Festival is being held outside of New York, and I had the chance to catch up with Australia’s FIRST astronaut, Dr. Andy Thomas….
  • Rod Roddenberry Chats Trek 6, Visiting Australia & Trek’s 50th
    The latest Trekzone Spotlight podcast has been released. My guest is Rod Roddenberry, son of Star Trek creator Gene, and he joined me from our LA studio. He’s got lots…
  • Alec Peters Talks Axanar
    Speaking on the record is something that Axanar’s PR – Mike Bawden – and lawyers Winston & Strawn have flatly refused to allow due to the on going legal case,…
  • Mike Bawden & Carlos Pedraza Respond to Alec Peters
    After making a Spiral Media road trip a priority and rebuilding a badly damaged edit suite, this edition of The Trekzone Spotlight is being released a lot later than I…
  • Star Trek: Axanar Sought Writer For Illicit Novela
    Continuing TREKZONE.org’s coverage of the Star Trek: Axanar legal proceedings against CBS and Paramount, author Dave Galanter sat down with me via Skype for a chat about his dealings with…
  • The Trekzone Spotlight with Vic Mignogna – Continues EP Makes A Stern Point About THAT Production
    For a long time, today’s guest was on my wish list and I’ve finally had the opportunity to e-meet and interview him for The Trekzone Spotlight. Vic started his working…
  • The Trekzone Spotlight with Aaron Vanderkley – Six Month Old Fan Fic Fits New Guidelines Perfectly…
    After hearing too many complaints about the restrictive nature of the new guidelines issued by CBS and Paramount, I decided to go looking for undiscovered content on YouTube… then one…
  • Former Axanar Director, Christian Gossett, Speaks About His Time With The Ill-Fated Production
    Celebrating three years of The Trekzone Spotlight with continuing coverage of the Axanar saga. On this edition, I’m joined by the one time director who parted ways with Alec Peters…
  • The Trekzone Spotlight on the Red Carpet
    Days before anyone else will see the movie, Sydney is once again hosting a red carpet premiere for a Star Trek movie. This time around, I’ve got three other people…
  • Project Small Access Takes Aim At The Guidelines
    Jonathan Lane spearheaded a group in response to the fan film guidelines CBS released a few months ago. Project Small Access aimed to offer different perspective and request changes to…
  • Axanar: The Trial – Coverage Details
    On January 31, the trial begins where CBS and Paramount have teamed up to fight off the Star Trek fan film that tried too hard to be a professional studio….
  • Axanar: The Settlement – Fan Film Escapes Court Appearance, Extended Coverage
    As the dust clears on the massive announcement that CBS, Paramount and Axanar Productions had reached a settlement agreement, I’m working on providing a comprehensive wrap up of what this…
  • Chance Encounter Sets Benchmark for Character Driven Fan Fiction
    Last year Gary O’Brien and his friend set about making their next short film in the United Kingdom, they didn’t realise at the time but a year later they would…
  • From There To Here – A Trekzone Spotlight Special Presentation
    In a special three part edition of The Trekzone Spotlight, Axamonitor’s Carlos Pedraza and I will dissect the ‘golden age’ of Star Trek fan films. From the humble beginnings of…
  • EDITORIAL: Axanar – The Deception – Indiegogo Refuses to Comment, So I Take A Stand
    In this editorial, I dissect the latest tidbits of information about Axanar and her studio that is and isn’t an integral part of the film that won’t be. Alec Peters…
  • Dissecting The Star Trek: Discovery First Look
    CBS’ recent upfronts brought us our first look at Star Trek: Discovery, the first new TV Trek since Enterprise went off the air in 2005. And boy was it a…
  • Live Your Trekkie Dream In Ticonderoga! – CBS Licenses Former New Voyages’ EP To Create a ‘Fan Film Academy’
    From fan film producer and star to official licensee, James Cawley’s decade plus adventure playing Captain Kirk is now helping to empower Trekkies to live out their fantasies on his…
  • Four Years of Podcasting
    Started in 2003 as a high school IT project, TREKZONE.org was the beginning of an adventure I didn’t know I wanted to have. But ten years later, with a resurgent…
  • A Perth Getaway
    When your financial institution gives you free return domestic airfares to anywhere in Australia and the year is almost up… what do you do? Well, I go looking for places…
  • Countering The Narrative
    It’s been almost twelve months since Axamonitor’s Carlos Pedraza last spoke solely on the topic of that fan production on The Trekzone Spotlight. Of course, we’re talking about the infamous…
  • Aaron Vanderkley Serves Up More Trek Goodness
    He’s fast becoming known in Trek fan circles as a man that can get things done. Hot off the heels of the 2016 release of The Needs of the Many,…
  • Dr. Trek Reviews The First Two Eps
    He used to edit STARTREK.COM before it was folded by CBS, he’s now the founder and chief diver over at Portal 47… of course it’s Larry Nemecek, veteran guest of…
  • Axanar Redux Is Back
    Back in February, a fan of Axanar decided to re-edit the Prelude mockumentary to omit Alec Peters and insert the original actor Steve Ihnat. It was hailed as a very…
  • Mr. SciFi Discusses His New Project
    Marc Zicree has been writing science fiction for many decades and has a body of work that’s most likely unrivaled in the industry. He’s written for TNG, DS9, Babylon 5,…
  • The Star Trek Discovery Story So Far
    Star Trek Discovery is nine episodes old now, and for the first time in our history, the Trek Geeks and The Trekzone Spotlight have had fresh Trek to talk about….
  • Jim Bray on the Starbase Studios Upheaval
    Back in 2010 John Hughes came across the Starship Exter sets in a poor state of repair owing to the years spent in storage, they were essentially left to rot….
  • Looking Back At 2017
    Each year you make resolutions to yourself of things you want to accomplish before another orbit of the sun lands you back in the same spatial coordinates, but you never…
  • EDITORIAL: YouTube Threatens To Pull Trekzone ‘Partner Program’ Status
    ** UPDATE ONE 11:24 19/1: Adjusted figures are in, 159 subscribers and 769 Watch Hours to go I realised that the ‘last 12 months’ timeframe would mean 365 days before…
  • The Trek Files Are Coming
    He was the first guest on what was to be a podcasting adventure. He’s now joined me five times including today to discuss all sorts of things, so I thought…
  • EDITORIAL: YouTube Shifts The Goal Posts
    In this brief episode of The Trekzone Spotlight, I discuss the impact of YouTube’s decision to change the goal posts for entry into their partner program, the way of monetising…
  • Author David Mack Beams In For A Chat
    David Mack has been writing Star Trek since 1995, including two screenplays for Deep Space Nine and books set in the 24 and Farscape universes. His most recent Trek work…
  • Lee Sargent’s Drawing His Way Through 2018
    It’s always fun to meet someone in real life that is as passionate about something as you are, as I have done in Lee Sargent… a mad keen Trekkie by…
  • Perth’s Aaron Vanderkley On His Third Dive Into Trek Fan Films
    He’s a two time guest of the show, now back for a third to plug his newest fan film Good Men… it’s Aaron Vanderkley. This time around Aaron kicks off…
  • Vance Major Owen On A Stellar Career
    Vance Major Owen is one of those great guys that just got stuck into making fan films because he enjoys it, not for any monetary reward, and as such he’s…
  • Author Dayton Ward On Writing Trek Novels
    Another noted Trek author joins me for a chat… this time it’s Dayton Ward from Kansas, part time writer, full time awesome guy. We get so excited talking about Discovery…
  • Ray Tesi Acquires The Old Continues Sets
    You may not recognise his name, but he’s about to become another Star Trek fan with his own fully functional Enterprise sets after agreeing to purchase the former sound stage…
  • From Chance Encounter To The Holy Core : Gary O’Brien is Back With A New Adventure!
    Gary O’Brien is another of those fans getting things done. Much like Aaron Vanderkley and myself he’s a trained short film maker which means he’s more qualified to produce a…
  • Reviewing The Blackvue DR-750S
    Sponsorships on the side help keep things running here at The Trekzone Spotlight and today’s product review is the Blackvue DR-750S two channel dashcam model… since my first sponsored post…
  • OMWF: Learning from Eternal Night
    Eternal Night spent a long time in the making and was released with little fan fare from this website that was still fledgling and finding it’s feet. The second season…
  • The State of Axanar
    At the beginning of March, Alec Peters and his gang attended a convention held in a shopping centre outside Atlanta to talk about the fan film that still isn’t, the…
  • Sorting Out The Home Office
    They specialise in server cabinets, rack mount accessories, cabling and network equipment… and today they’re helping me sort out the home office that has become a cluttered nightmare. Thanks 4Cabling!
  • Remembering Professor Stephen Hawking
    Diagnosed with Motor Neuron Disease and given only two years to live, Professor Stephen Hawking defied the odds and became one of the most accomplished minds of the twentieth century….
  • Meeting The 8 Bit Guy’s David Murray
    He started out making repair videos for Apple products while holding down another job, but when his popularity grew… so did the demand for more content. Eventually today’s guest, David…
  • Gary Davis on The Dreadnought Dominion
    Asked to work on a friend’s new fan film, Gary Davis became the executive officer for the ‘pilot’ and contributed some story threads. When Farragut Studios became Star Trek: Continues…
  • 26 Episodes A Season… Part One
    Doug Drexler is a very talented man that has joined me on the show before where we spoke very broadly about his roles on Star Trek during it’s golden years…
  • Production Update – In Perth For Two Weeks ‘On Air’
    After the gremlins attacked the end of the recording featuring Doug Drexler and with my desire to push new content weekly, I’ve decided to put together a quick update on…
  • The Spirit of the ANZACs and the Science Behind the RAAF
    Today across Australia and New Zealand we pay respect to those who have fought to defend (and are defending) our two nations from enemy forces. It’s a time to reflect…
  • Revisiting the Past : Two Years Since the Infamous Alec Peters Interview
    It’s been two years today since infamous producer Alec Peters joined me to discuss his professional fan film Axanar. Since then, he’s settled the law suit, moved to Atlanta, started…
  • Supanova Rolls Into The Gold Coast
    It’s that time of year again, as the Supanova Pop Culture Expo rolls around the country, bringing fans closer to their favourite stars… Sydney had their moment last week, now…
  • 26 Episodes A Season
    Neither the gremlins nor Larry Nemecek can keep him away! Doug Drexler is back for a remade second part of my chat with the man who has a talent for…
  • Forthcoming Episodes
    Despite the recent news that the Trekzone production camera and tripod were on the operating table getting much needed servicing after some unfortunate knocks in Perth, the show must go…
  • EXCLUSIVE: The Holy Core Gets Funded!
    The long awaited episode with Gary O’Brien is here and is so full of information that I’ve had to split it up over two parts.  Tonight, part one focuses on…
  • EXCLUSIVE: Gary O’Brien Talks The Holy Core & It’s Mystery Donor
    Gary O’Brien was disappointed the target he set for his next Star Trek fan film was missed after a month long crowd funding campaign.  We spoke at length about that,…
  • On Set For The Fall of Starbase One
    What happens when you just get down to making Star Trek fan films, rather than crying about how unfair the rules of the sandbox are? You end up producing your…
  • Learning About Gravity With Black Holes
    It’s a concept first postulated by Albert Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity over one hundred years ago, the existence of ‘gravitational waves’ produced by some of the most…
  • Part Two With Professor Tamara Davis
    I’m continuing the deep dive on a science theme this week, with part two of my chat with Professor Tamara Davis from the University of Queensland.  She’s researching gravitational waves,…
  • Aussies In Space!
    When you think of NASA, you think of the American space program – not the many components that make up that behemoth of scientific research and space exploration… and now…
  • A Spotlight On Potemkin Pictures
    Following the successful ‘fan films done right’ series of episodes, it’s time to dip our toes back into Star Trek fan film making, and today’s guest has been producing some…
  • Free Plug Thursday!
    The Trekzone Spotlight isn’t the first, nor the only, podcast featuring and occasionally focusing on Star Trek – there are a heap of great ones out there. Today, I got…
  • The Continuing Voyage of Vic Mignogna’s Sets
    Supanova hit Sydney’s Olympic Park Showgrounds last weekend and The Trekzone Plexus was there to cover the panel action… and meet today’s interviewee once again – Mr Vic Mignogna.  He’s…
  • Boldly Going With New Fan Films
    Gary Davis, the man behind Dreadnought Dominion, is back on the show to plug his new vignettes that were shot in May on the former Star Trek Continues sets (now…
  • Emcee’ing the Stars: Ben Sorensen on His Gig at Supanova
    With the Las Vegas Star Trek convention less than a month away, I decided to find out just how panel hosts get the most out of the audience and their…
  • Australia’s Next Star Trek Fan Film Is Here!
    The U.S.S. Sydney, en route to Earth following the end of the Dominion War, receives a coded message on a Starfleet emergency frequency… Starring: Jeremy Levi as Captain Donovan Lindsay…
  • Anniversary Day!!
    Five years ago today, I started a podcasting adventure that’s taken me to Perth, Sydney, Melbourne and the Gold Coast… fifteen years ago today I registered the domain name TREKZONE.org……
  • Back To Where It All Began
    Five years ago I started a podcasting adventure that’s enabled me to meet some pretty amazing people.  From Nana Visitor, Connor Trinneer, René Auberjonois, David Nykl, Torri Higginson and Joe…
  • Exploring the Visual Effects of Once More With Feeling
    Sam Cockings is a self taught CGI artist, having worked on a dozen Star Trek fan films. Most recently, his work can be seen on Trekzone’s fan film Once More…
  • It’s Time To Change
    As I prepared to get the sixth season of The Trekzone Spotlight underway for a September 6 return, I got to thinking about the direction of the show, the cost…

The News

As we approached the end of 2020 and with a desire to produce more video content, The News was born to give us a weekly dive into the latest science fiction production news. In late 2023 the podcast was merged with Fan Film Update to become The Trekzone Breakdown.

The Trekzone Variety Show

In 2021 in an effort to produce seven shows a week we also tried our hand with a co-host and a variety format, bringing together our passion of Star Wars, the Marvel universe and more…

Fan Film Update

As we continued to ramp up our content production, Fan Film Update was a way of giving you a bite sized wrap of everything happening in the niche of a niche by Fan Films Done Right. Following the Brazen Attack on Our Independence, the Fan Film Update was merged with The News to become The Trekzone Breakdown.

Trekzone Plays

Our deep dive into the Star Trek gaming catalogue with no commentary…

And Now…

This brings us into the current series offerings on Trekzone.

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Thanks for beaming in to Trekzone as we continue to go boldly… since 2003.