Thursday, July 13 2023
•Matt
Expanding on our editorial from Monday's Fan Film Awards, an interview has been released with further proof for our reason to step away.
Wednesday, June 14 2023
•Matt
As the build up to tomorrow's eagerly anticipated return of Strange New Worlds continues - lets talk about the first six that were sent to media, including Trekzone...
Tuesday, June 13 2023
•Matt
Following a weekend filled with conversations spurred on by the contents of a demand letter that was sent by a group of nineteen fan film makers, I feel an official...
Thursday, June 8 2023
•Matt
A letter co-signed by 19 Star Trek fan film makers was received this morning, detailing concerns they have about editorial decisions made for The 2023 Trekzone Fan Film Awards.
Monday, April 17 2023
•Matt
It’s the season two episode of Voyager that’s stirred the controversy pot for close on 25 years since it first aired in the 90’s. As Trekzone’s editor I lamented the...
Thursday, June 4 2020
•Matt
Trekzone has joined many of it's fellow Star Trek fan websites and podcasts by donating $47.
Wednesday, May 27 2020
•Matt
Officially designated Demo-2, this mission is a significant step forward for Elon Musk's SpaceX. Click to learn more about tomorrow's mission.
Wednesday, October 30 2019
•Matt
For almost two decades, Star Trek fan films have been entertaining a niche market of Trekkies around the world. However in the past five years a perceived arms race between the biggest of the players built into an inevitable end game that saw the landscape irrevocably changed.
Tuesday, June 11 2019
•Matt
Trekzone is THE destination for the latest on Star Trek Fan Films Done Right.
Monday, May 6 2019
•Matt
I've long been a champion of true fan films set in our beloved universe - hosting numerous Fan Film Done Right interviews, while so many other Trek podcasts don't even give them a passing glance. But something caught my mind's eye last week and it's taken me a few days to conceptualise it in written form...
Monday, January 21 2019
•Matt
I might've left the daily fight behind, but I'm still keeping across all the developments of the fan film called Axanar. And over the past week there have been some interesting developments, not on the actual film... rather everything else that goes into making a business.
Sunday, January 13 2019
•Matt
Bear with me on this Sunday afternoon... as I ponder a question that's been swirling in my brain since news broke about director SJ Clarkson's availability to direct the Games of Thrones prequel.
Thursday, December 20 2018
•Matt
Well, it’s been about half an hour since the third and final installment in the Jonathan Lane interview was released and overall the reaction has been lukewarm to my interviewing...
Friday, November 2 2018
•Matt
I was writing an Op Ed collating all of the comments on last week’s post when I decided to put together a few questions for James Cawley to respond to....
Friday, October 26 2018
•Matt
When the fan film guidelines dropped in 2016, Star Trek: Continues was already on the path to wrapping it’s production. A little over a year later the final episode was...
Tuesday, October 16 2018
•Matt
One of the last takeaways from the Axamonitor Facebook group for me, as briefly mentioned in my previous post, was the attention placed on Ray Tesi’s Fan Appreciation Weekend –...
Thursday, October 11 2018
•Matt
It feels like a long time coming, but today it finally happened. I put myself out there in the Axamonitor Facebook group and was summarily shut down for holding a...
Sunday, September 23 2018
•Matt
Axamonitor has today revealed the itinerary of the “convention within a convention” cleverly titled “Axacon” – and what a con it seems to be. You’ll have to fork out at...
Thursday, August 30 2018
•Matt
A week ago, I posted about a Kuwati-based game developer who had filed a lawsuit against CBS Broadcasting. Now, informed by legal advice and opinions of others interested in this...
Saturday, August 25 2018
•Matt
A YouTuber has weighed into the Tardigrades dispute with a video posted yesterday on their channel. Ketwolski is an advocate of Abdin, fully supporting the Kuwaiti based game developer. The...
Thursday, August 23 2018
•Matt
The lawsuit filed this morning has little hope of making it to the jury trial nor being granted the injunction sought, in this blogger’s opinion. And I’ll tell you why...
Thursday, August 23 2018
•Matt
A lawsuit has just been filed in the US District Court against CBS and Netflix for perceived similarities between the storyline and characters in the latest Star Trek series and...
Sunday, January 21 2018
•Matt
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...
Friday, January 19 2018
•Matt
** 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...
Wednesday, February 22 2017
•Matt
It’s a time of trepidation for die hard Star Trek fans as we eagerly scour the internet for new tidbits about the upcoming series Discovery, so much so that any...
Monday, February 6 2017
•Matt
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...
Friday, September 2 2016
•Matt
Yesterday morning (Australian time), I interviewed Jonathan Lane – the blogger behind Fan Film Factor and organiser of Project Small Access and later that day I posted a promo teaser...
Friday, August 5 2016
•Matt
Almost a week and a half ago my father passed away after a long battle with bowel cancer and earlier this week we paid tribute to the man who taught...
Saturday, June 25 2016
•Matt
Early Friday, Australian time, CBS released the fan film guidelines that Axanar had been demanding for over two years – and not surprisingly they’re not happy with them, but neither...
Monday, March 21 2016
•Matt
It was December 29 2015, four days after Christmas… people around the world were slowly recovering from their eating binges and merry times with families and for us Commonwealth subjects...
Tuesday, June 2 2015
•Matt
Star Trek was an idea from the mind of Gene Roddenberry, a man who flew B-17 bombers in the Guadalcanal during the second world war, before discovering television after a...
Sunday, March 15 2015
•Matt
Over twelve years ago I signed up for my first hosted domain with GeoCities – then a thriving community of websites hosted for free by one company, created by David...
