Here’s the link to the playlist I’ve set up on YouTube for my Star Trek Online videos.
Star Trek Online…or as I like to call it, Kill as Many Aliens as Possible
Here’s a few minutes of me killing some aliens in space, specifically Tholians. If you check it out, please take a few seconds to Like the video and Subscribe to my channel. It only takes a second and helps me out tremendously.
Here’s the link to my STO Playlist where you can see Episode Five & Six. Any further STO videos I make will be uploaded there as well.
Remember to like and Subscribe, thanks a bunch.
Picking up where I left off yesterday…more STO…
Here’s episode 1 & 2, of a Let’s Play series I’m doing for the recently released Season 9 of STO.
The Sound was a bit wonky in the beginning, but it straightens out after a few minutes.
More coming later today/tomorrow.
Today is the 20th Anniversary of the premier of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Here are some of my thoughts…
My first episode was Heart of Stone. Like many people, I was preoccupied with TNG and didn’t give the show a fair chance until catching it late one night almost by accident. I hadn’t intended to watch it, but simply left the tv on to have something playing in the background while I was working on something else…which I can’t even remember what it was now.
What I do remember though, was being so engrossed by the Odo, Kira, and the Female shapeshifter that I made a point to tune in the following week to watch more. And boy was I not disappointed. By the time I started watching, Season Three was nearing the end of its original run and was showing repeats before heading into the last few episodes of the season. I don’t recall if it was the next episode I saw, but shortly there after, I saw The Search…and was properly introduced to the Defiant.
Wow. This wasn’t the Enterprise-D at all and Sisko wasn’t anything like Picard. If anything, he was more like Kirk, kicking ass and taking names. It definitely left an impression.
Soon after that came Defiant, Improbable Cause and the Die is Cast. I suppose that it helped a great deal that my introduction to DS9 was based mainly on such strong episodes. Had I started out from the beginning, I’m not sure I would have stuck with it. I enjoyed Emissary quite a great deal when I finally saw it and there are some really good episodes in the first two seasons, but they are certainly few and far between.
Well, by the time the Season Three finale came around, I was hooked and I had only seen mainly half the season. I was gearing up for Season Four and the obvious conflict with the Dominion that was sure to come and that’s when something changed for me.
I had seen and enjoyed the original movies, some of TOS, and much of TNG. All of it though was just something I watched and and enjoyed. They were just movies and TV shows.
DS9 was different.
DS9 flipped the switch that made me a Star Trek Fan. It wasn’t enough to just watch the show any more. I had to know about the Defiant and how things worked on the ship as well as the station. I had to know about these characters and their past, where they had been and where they were going. I needed more information than what the show was giving and for the first time, I began to seek out other sources for that information.
DS9 pushed my into bookstores to buy sci-fi magazines so I could get interviews with anyone who worked on the show. And eventually DS9 pushed me online to find other people and what information they had. I had to know as much as possible about this world. I was fanatic…I was a fan.
DS9 made me the sci-fi fan I am today and for that, it will always hold a very special place in my heart. Those were good years, some of the best years and while my love and enthusiasm for Trek may wain at times, I will always be a Niner.
The official post and website were released today.
As others have noted, the general style is lifted from the Dark Knight Rises poster and shows some sort of future London likely being attacked. It nice to finally get some sort of official advertising for the film and hopefully we’ll get a trailer soon.
New screenshots from the upcoming Star Trek game. I think they’ve done a fairly good job capturing the look of the Abrams era universe. They’re still rocking that Mass Effect look though, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing. I don’t remember if it was here or somewhere else, but I remember someone saying Mass Effect was the best Trek game ever made and to a large extent I agree with that. I remember playing the first one and thinking at the time, how well a Star Trek game could have been adapted to that style of gameplay. It’ll be interesting to see if they’ve just borrowed the look from Mass Effect for this new game, or it there are similar gameplay elements as well.
Here are a couple drawings I’m working on.
The first is a Star Trek related drawing, an upgrade of the Galaxy Class USS Venture. It’s a rather large image, so I won’t be imbedding it here. If start Trek is or ever was your thing, then by all means take a look. Galaxy Class USS Venture
The second imagine is a New Haven Chronicles Map, because I know how much people love maps.
This is mainly just a reference, but it also show just how enclosed and vast an area New Haven will cover. For a space opera, New Haven is rather small in scope because it’s contained within our inner solar system and even then it’s really only unfolds between Earth in Mars. What people don’t realize though and what I’m trying to do with New Haven, is show just how big space really is.
This map is all about orbital dynamics, around which gravitational body you’re orbiting, your place in orbit around that body, and the time/power/fuel/energy/ needed to travel along an orbit of that body to achieve a better position to deploy your weapons. Orbital Dynamics play a vital role in the depiction of combat in New Haven. Almost all space oriented combat occurring during the series, takes place with both sides in orbit of a large gravitational force, whether it be a planet, moon, or Lagrangian point.
So there’s that. There’s also this, Method of Life, an action, adventure, comedy, sci-fi tale of survival in a post apocalyptic wasteland.
Jon Michael May 