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Podcasts
Podcasts
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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....
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....
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...