Doug Drexler on the building of the Bajoran Interceptor Bridge
A few great photos and some commentary on one of the important spots from one of my favourite DS9 episodes.
My latest desktop wallpaper.
It’s from an SMBC comic and you can buy it in their online shop for $1,99
I’m waiting for these three stickers to arrive.
I found them on a site unbeknownst to me until that date, called redbubble.com
I only paid around €6,- for the lot of them, because I ordered six in total.
The site also offers t-shirts with the same motifs.
Here are the links should you be interested:
“Engage” — “Live long and… Brains!!” — “Are you out of your Vulcan Mind?”
my workspace, a set on Flickr.
I finally found the time to rearrange my workspace.
I’m quite happy with how it turned out.
CBS releases "Star Trek PADD" application
The application provides access to the StarTrek.com database using an authentic LCARS interface.
I’ve been wanting something like this ever since the iPad was introduced.
CBS needs to make more Star Trek themed applications for iOS, especially more games. There are tons of old, glorious games that could be ported to the iPad; “Starfleet Academy” comes to mind.
Imagine flying the old Enterprise into battle again a few D7 cruisers, using the iPads motion controls.
Thanks to Peter Cohen at The Loop for the link.
LCARS Lock & Home Wallpapers by Gedeon Maheux
I’m a huge Star Trek fan and this was an instantaneous download.
An email to the game publisher Interplay (update)
The following email I just sent to the game publisher Interplay. I wonder if I’ll get an actual response.
Good evening.
I recently went through some old boxes and found my copy of Starfleet Academy. With glee I remembered the hours of fun I had playing it.
Then I asked myself: Why is there not one good Star Trek game for iOS? Sure there was the promo game for the 2009 Star Trek movie, but that was it.
So I thought: Starfleet Academy would be the one of the best games to re-release and port to iOS. Both the iPad and the iPhone 4 have displays that can easily handle the games interface and the internals are more than capable to run smoothly.
What other devices have come closer to what we have seen in the countless Star Trek episodes than the iPad (P.A.D.D. anyone?) and the iPhone?
What better homage could you give the creators of Star Trek, than making them and yourselves more money, by letting people play one of the greatest Star Trek games on an interface that so closely resembles what the characters in the movies and TV series have used daily?
Just think about it.
Kind regards,
…
Well, I received a response from a nice soul at Interplay this morning. I’m going to assume he or she doesn’t mind me posting it:
Mr. Hoffmann,
Thank you for writing. Star Trek for iOS makes sense to us, unfortunately, we no longer have the Star Trek license and are not permitted to make Star Trek games for any platform, including iOS.
I’m not sure who is the current license holder for Star Trek. Last I heard, it was Bethesda, but that was a while ago. Perhaps you should contact Paramount directly.
Thanks again for the suggestion, sorry we can’t do anything about it.
It looks like I’m going to have to write another email. I’m not giving up though.
reminiscent of a PADD
The iPhone 4 feels even less like a phone to me than the iPhone 3GS. The latter was already an impressive design, but the iPhone 4’s ‘density’ and finish are of a different class. The first thing that came to my mind when I held it, was that this is what I imagined the smaller PADDs from Star Trek to feel and behave like.
