Holodeck 3

The trailer for the new Star Trek movie came out in theaters yesterday with the new James Bond movie, and some star trek fans have already put the new trailer online. I'll replace this with an official version when it is available, but here is the new trailer:

star trek trailer from SPOCKBOY on Vimeo.

A few of our members met last Friday for one last last visit to the Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas. This marked the 4th trip I've made there, the second for my wife, and the first for MrGoo.

I shall post a detailed review one last time of the rides and attractions in the next couple of days, but I wanted to share with you a flickr photostream of pictures I took with my iPhone at the experience.

The time has come for one last hurrah, as just about everyone knows know, the Star Trek Experience in the Las Vegas Hilton, will be closing on September 1st forever. The Holodeck 3 and SubspaceLink Site Network team have been planning one final trip to the Experience to... Experience it one last time.

Several members of the Staff will be there enjoying the Experience, This Friday, August 22nd, 2008, so if you are going to be in the Las Vegas area, come by and enjoy the Ultimate Star Trek encounter with us one last time, before it closes forever.

The Unofficial Star Trek Online IRC Network is pleased to announce it's second user server. betelgeuse.stoirc.com, located in Oklahoma. This server is contributed by kalis and Arrakiv, so be sure to thank them in #Startrek-Online on the server for providing a great additional server for the network. Also be sure to visit their Star Trek webiste, StationK7.com.

Cap has Installed a CGI Web chat Applet to connect to the server. You can Access it via the left pane window. or by clicking Here

We here at Holodeck 3 are Very Excited about the upcoming Star Trek: Online MMORPG coming out from Cryptic Studios. In fact we were very excited about it back when Perpetual was producing it, and quite upset when Perpetual vanished without a trace.

To show our excitement, we've decided to put together a place for people interested in the game to Gather, so we've worked to create the beginnings of a Star Trek Online Unofficial Chat Network.

To kick things off we will be hosting a Chat during Cryptic Studios' webcast of their new game footage today. Cryptic Studios' webcast is at 1:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time at startrekonline.com, but we welcome you to gather in #Startrek-Online on irc.stoirc.com during the session to chat with us here at HD3 and the SubspaceLink site network about what we are seeing when we watch the webcast together.

The first User Server in The Unofficial Star Trek Online IRC Network has been launched, you can visit it at amargosa.stoirc.com or you may connect to any server in the STOIRC Network by connecting to irc.stoirc.com. The Amargosa Chat Server, as well as our Services Server are provided by MrGoo, and Cap from Holodeck3.com and The SubspaceLink Site Network.

Welcome to the new Unofficial Chat Network for the Star Trek Online Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. We are a dedicated team of Star Trek Fans who are excitedly looking forward to the upcoming game, and have created this Chat Network as a place where we, and others who are interested in the game and looking forward to playing it, can gather and be with others like us.

Cryptic Studios, the video-game company that is now producing Star Trek: Online (after acquiring it from Perpetual Entertainment) is running a sweepstakes where they will be giving away 5 Lifetime Subscriptions to the upcoming Star Trek Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. To enter all you have to do is sign up on startrekonline.com for their newsletter and click that you want to register for the sweepstakes here.

Star Trek is finally getting it's own SceneIt Game! But the developers need help. They are looking for Trivia Questions from Star Trek Fans, for the next 17 days you can submit your questions at sceneitstartrek.com for a chance to have your Star Trek Trivia questions become part of the game, and win cool Star Trek prizes while you are at it, talk about a Win-Win, I'm going to go submit questions myself.

For more information, check out this news Article on the topic:
New Star Trek SceneIt Site Wants Your Help - Offers Prizes Too - Next Spring, Star Trek joins the pantheon of franchises to get its own Scene It? Deluxe Edition DVD trivia game. This week the new Star Trek SceneIt? website went live and fans can enter a contest that awards cool prizes and a chance at having their questions included in the game itself. [TrekMovie]

I get a lot of flack for letting Holodeck3.com go offline for so long, and rightfully so, but I've personally had a lot of flack in my heart for the abandoning of Startrek.com by CBS. Startrek.com has been the premier place for Star Trek information on the web, indeed the only official place for Star Trek information on the web for over a decade, but in late December 2007, it appeared that the site had been abandoned.

No new news has shown up in the News area of the site since December 18th, 2007, which was basically a goodbye message from the staff. The last STARTREK.COM newsletter I had received in my email was many months earlier, on March 27, 2007.

For months after Paramount announced that the Star Trek movie had been moved to May, 2009 instead of December, 2008 the Startrek.com homepage still showed a banner showing the December, 2008 date.

They eventually fixed the date of the Star Trek movie on the banner but the rest of the home page has stayed exactly the same since December 18th, 2007 when that last news article was posted.

But today... there was a glimmer of hope that StarTrek.com may not be as dead as we once feared. I received in my email a Startrek.com Newsletter again! If you haven't received this newsletter yourself, you can find it online here.

Sensors show life signs on startrek.com, live long and prosper! I intend to keep a close watch on the Startrek.com home page for changes once more.