Greetings and Salutations Trek Gamers

Its been a little while since we the last edition of Hailing Frequency – I am sure allot of you thought we had kicked the bucket – but never fear – Hailing Frequency will always persevere.

There has been a lot going on recently, but do not worry as we have been keeping tabs on all of it. During this show, K’sua’indra gets us all caught up on the Star Trek Gaming News for the last couple of months.

Following this, we sit down for a chat with Captain Source of the Enterprise Temporal Cold War Project who is able to update us on everything going on over there. We also get to hear samples of TCW’s music which is layered into the background throughout the interview – and some of their voice acting talent!

Additionally, we also announce details of a competition in association with Lightspeed Design Studios.

We also discuss and review the recently released ‘Star Trek Conquest’ before moving onto a brilliant episode of Mod Weekly from Croesus.

After Mod Weekly, we talk in detail about the recently released screenshot from perpetual entertainment – be aware that portions of this discussion may offend the STO-Lovers out there.

Finally – Just before we end the show, we run a segment compiled by myself as a response to a cry from community member “RonaldRabbit” – detailing the best free star trek games out there!

Show Notes:

Intro: 0:00 - 02:00 Zach21UK & Kinneas
Ad: 02:14 (Public Safety Announcement)
03:00 Star Trek Gaming News:
- Star Trek: Conquest "Worst Star Trek game...ever?"
-Star Trek:Online: First Screenshot, biz news.
-Elite Force 1 Events: FRAG FEST/TURKEY SHOOT.
-Elite Forces 1: Mod: ARSENEL
-Starfleet Command News: Rebalance Expansion 2007
-Star Trek: Supremacy: Updated Public Alpha.
-Star Trek: Birth of the Empire (Formerly: Birth of the Federation)
-Star Trek Gaming Universe rename.
-TREKCORE news
- DECIPHER Star Trek RPS "Not renewing Star Trek License!"The FINAL RELEASE:
"WHAT YOU LEAVE BEHIND"
12:23 End Star Trek Gaming News
13:05 Kinn and Zach.
12:35: HL2 Mod. ENTERPRISE: Temporal Cold War,  Interview
28:37
29:30 Armada Fleet Command! Birth of the Federation Ad! "We Need YOU!!"
33:37 - Zach21UK and Kinneas: UPDATED NEWS!  Temporal Cold War Competition! WIN WIN
32:30 - 35:40 Kinneas:'Opinions' on Star Trek:Conquest.
36:00 - 43:15 M O D   W E E K L Y
- Hello to Victor1st
- RPG X V.2 For Voyager :Elite Force 1 by UBER Games. The 'Emotion System', Turbolift, Transporter extra, RPG-X Flagship. All enhanced features...LOTS more.
 43:50 - 47:29 Fleet Radio: Promoting Media and Radio in Star Trek:Online. "Bad Attraction" by BRAD SUCKS. Music provided by Magnatune.com "We Are Not Evil". www.bradsucks.net.
47:30 Chris Jones Gaming Star Trek: Legacy: ULTIMATE UNIVERSE!
48:45 SHOUT OUT!  Thank you for sending that in!
48:52 - 54:49 Zach21UK and Kinneas. Opinions on Star Trek: Online's first screenshot.
55:56 - Zach21UK Fan Games. "Something is missing!"  Free Star Trek games.
- Final War 2
- Red Alert !
- Flash Trek Assault !
1:01:55  Ad "PODCAST PICKLE!" Your resourse to thousands of podcast  "GEEK FU", "THIS WEEK IN TECH", "X-Box Station.net".
END

Technical Info:

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Final Notes & Relevant Links & Information

As always - we appreciate any comments and suggestions that you may like to make about Hailing Frequency. To that end, if you do have any comments to make, please visit our forums at http://www.hailingfrequency.co.uk/boards/

During the "Something is Missing" Segment - We featured three different fan games - you can download these using the following links:

Star Trek: Final War 2 - 7.0mb - http://www.hailingfrequency.co.uk/downloads/fw2_en11.exe
Star Trek: Flashtrek Assault - 0.5mb - http://www.hailingfrequency.co.uk/downloads/Flashtrek%20Assault%20v2.zip
Star Trek: Red Alert - 13.0mb - http://www.hailingfrequency.co.uk/downloads/stra_setup_101.exe


Competition Launch - Click Graphic for More Information!

I am just waiting for them to launch the topic lol - they are behind me!

Good show but I really cannot agree with Zach's assertions that somehow that ST:O screenshot looks better that EVE-Online: Trinity.  I just viewed the HD trailer for Trinity and it looks amazing, whereas that ST:O screenshot is clearly awful if for no other reason than the awful scaling of planets and other objects in the background.  I have not played EVE myself and I have no idea how well the large ships or other objects may look up close but from what I have seen of the Trinity Expansion it far exceeds the quality of anything that this screenshot would have us believe we will be seeing in ST:O.

Good show but I really cannot agree with Zach's assertions that somehow that ST:O screenshot looks better that EVE-Online: Trinity.  I just viewed the HD trailer for Trinity and it looks amazing, whereas that ST:O screenshot is clearly awful if for no other reason than the awful scaling of planets and other objects in the background.  I have not played EVE myself and I have no idea how well the large ships or other objects may look up close but from what I have seen of the Trinity Expansion it far exceeds the quality of anything that this screenshot would have us believe we will be seeing in ST:O.

I really do genuinly feel that the screenshot looks in parts better than Eve: Trinity. Obviously i could be wrong however, there is something about the STO one that makes it feel better.

Hey Mindwipe - Good to see you listened to the show! Glad you enjoyed it!

Folks - Here is the link to the TCW Competition! http://forum.enterprise-tcw.com/viewtopic.php?t=1048

agree to lepton about the show: good one! ;)

k'suas outburst at the end, brilliant. anyway, regarding the latest sto screenshot, it looks kinda cute in the sense of dinky to me like if it was made to appeal more the future female players who, and we have to admit that sadly, don't usually find themselves liking the trek "realism" depicted in the shows and series with that certain lack of bright and shiny looks.

I am glad you liked K'suan'indra's change of character in this show. It was Kinneas's idea actually - he experimented last show with taking her away from the "vulcan" like model she has been using, and asked for a more upbeat tone which was increated in this show to great success i feel.

I agree with alot of the comments you have made there about STO too malle.

With regards to how customisable in game details will be for STO there are two pieces of information we have at the moment that would suggest the answer being - "We will be able to customise alot"

One of these relates to a question Hailing Frequency asked Daron in an interview about how customisable character themselves will be - the answer was that characters would be highly customisable - with a similar character creation and modification system to those seen in other MMOs such as Second Life.

Secondly, it has been suggested recently, and unofficially that the new company which has effectivly just bought Perpetual, is keen to have Star Trek Online modified to reflect the system which alot of Taiwanese MMOs choose to use these days.

Allow people to have basic characters within the game for free - without a monthly charge. Any transactions in the game would be made using "real world" currency, and if a player wishes to advance beyond a certain level they pay a monthly fee. This is how income is generated to support all of the freeloaders.

Alot of these styles of MMO choose to have extensive in game content creation tools - which in the best cases let you create new content from scratch, and in the not so good examples, allow you to only modify within a very small set of specifications, existing media.

Thus - If a player wanted to open up a private ship yard independant of Starfleet - they may well be able too.

This is speculation though - if you want a better answer, i suggest you post this question specifically, in the STOzone section of the forums - where MrJuliano, our STO expert, will see it and answer it.

Anyway - In Conclusion - GLAD YOU ARE ALL ENJOYING THE SHOW!