Holodeck 3 - Holomatrix Initiated

Star Trek Trailer Online

admregnum — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:03:46 +0000

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.

Star Trek: The Experience, a Final Rest

admregnum — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:06:13 +0000

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.

Holodeck 3 Meetup at the Star Trek Experience

admregnum — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 19:00:00 +0000

Start: 08/22/2008 - 12:00

End: 08/22/2008 - 22:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-7

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.

Holodeck3 and SubspaceLink Site Network announces new Unofficial Chat Network Dedicated to Star Trek Online

cap — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:30:06 +0000

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.

Cryptic Studios giving away 5 lifetime subscriptions to Star Trek: Online

admregnum — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 06:58:01 +0000

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 Scene-It Needs your help!

admregnum — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:50:02 +0000

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]

Life Signs Detected on Startrek.com

admregnum — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:45:00 +0000

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.

Holomatrix Initiated

admregnum — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:59:00 +0000

Holodeck3 has been offline for quite some time now, the server I was running it on was starting to feel the sign of age, as was the CMS system I was previously using to run the site.

I had long meant to re-do the site using a Drupal Core, however the daunting task of porting the massive amounts of content on the existing site put me off, and when the owners of the server took the site offline, I didn't bother to put up a blank shell. The blame lies with me, perhaps my interest in Star Trek was waning, mostly due to the lack of new Star Trek content after Enterprise was canceled (long before it should have been I assure you), but also my life was moving on. I took a new job in California, uprooted my life from Texas, and started moving on to new things, and new Science Fiction Franchises.

However Star Trek will always be at the core of who I am, and what I've done, therefore, and with Star Trek information starting to come out once again, I have decided to pick the torch back up, and Relaunch Holodeck 3.

In the coming weeks I hope to get most of the original content back online, as well as put up a host of new Star Trek content about the new Star Trek Movie coming out in May 2009, as well as the fantastic new news that Star Trek Online is not as dead as many of us thought it was.

I will not however bother restoring the old usernames and passwords from the old site, I'm sure many of my old users have moved on, and while it would have been worth porting over had I done it immediately, going through the tremendous coding of porting old logins from the old site would be mostly useless, as many of the old email addresses of HD3 users are probably long dead. However Registration is now open, you may register on HD3 with a new login and participate in the Forums!

I also will be working on a more trekker Template for the site's relaunch, I apologize for this simple plasma one that we are using now. I look forward to bringing Holodeck3 and the SubspaceLink Network back to the fantastic Star Trek community it once was.

Star Trek, I've returned home, May you Live Long and Prosper!

Star Trek Online back on Course

admregnum — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 01:00:00 +0000

One hour ago Cryptic Studios announced the relaunch of the Star Trek online game. The game was previously being produced by Perpetual Entertainment. However when perpetual went out of business, the future of Star Trek: Online was unclear. For a while the official website was down, only to be replaced for months with a simple page saying nothing but "Coming Soon"

Rumors abounded that Cryptic Studios had picked up the rights to the game, but there was no confirmation of this.

Over a month ago a countdown timer appeared on the Cryptic Studios website that contained some artwork that was previously known to have come from Star Trek Online's development.

That countdown reached it's timeout at Midnight, and those of us who had the page up when the countdown reached 0 got a popup message saying "Launch Time", refreshing the page showed a Star Trek: Online logo where the countdown timer previously was, and clicking this logo showed a newly re-designed and re-launched Star Trek: Online Website.

On the new website the following press release could be found:

CRYPTIC STUDIOS LICENSES RIGHTS TO PRODUCE STAR TREK ONLINE

Trek Fans Worldwide Are Invited to MMO Gamplay Reveal at Annual Star Trek Convention August 10, 2008 or Via Live Webcast at http://www.startrekonline.com/

Los Gatos, Calif. – Cryptic Studios™, a leading developer and publisher of massively multiplayer online role-playing games (MMORPGs), announced today that it has secured the global rights to develop and publish Star Trek® Online, a massively multiplayer online game based on the legendary Star Trek franchise, from CBS Consumer Products.

Cryptic will unveil the first Star Trek Online gameplay footage as well as details about this highly anticipated MMO at the annual Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas on Sunday, August 10, 2008. Trek fans from around the globe can also view the event live via webcast at http://www.startrekonline.com/.

Interested participants can register today for the Star Trek Online webcast and to sign up for the STO community by visiting http://www.startrekonline.com/.

We look forward to seeing this new game footage on August 10th (which happens to be this Star Trek Fan's birthday, happy birthday to me!

Star Trek: The Exhibition is BACK!

admregnum — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:00:00 +0000

Late last year an exciting exhibition of Star Trek was announced to begin a 40 city tour of the US, to begin at the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California, and visit 39 other cities over the course of a couple years.

Unfortunately there were problems with the first stop and the tour seemed to end before visiting any of the 39 other cities. But the powers that be were not deterred by the setbacks! They have regrouped and now Star Trek: The Exhibition is open once again. The tour is open at the San Diego Air & Space Museum in Balboa Park, San Diego, California.

The exhibit features recreations of the Original Enterprise Bridge, recreations of sets from the Next Generation including Captain Picard's Quarters, a photo-op in the Transporter Room, two full-motion flight simulators, and the CBS Paramount collection of original artifacts and uniforms from all 5 series and 10 movies.

For more information about the Exhibition, and to get tickets, visit startrektickets.com.