This is the 23 newsletter from Final Frontier Media and the 2nd of
2009. You can
find the previous newsletters
here.
For the first time in 2 years I will radically change the
newsletter format. This is because of several things. Firstly it's
very hard for me to be motivated to create this newsletter. In my
opinion there's little extra. I want to change this. Secondly it was
needed. Last but not least after a few months of low activity I want
to do something new, which encourage me to do more.
First I will tell you about the latest updates of Final Frontier
Media. This will be divided into months for this newsletter. I keep
it short this time, because I want to do more. Last year I
introduced a new subject, which is called "Music videos of the
month". Two music videos will be highlighted every month. In the
Opinions section you can find opinions about music videos which are
stated on YouTube, BBS/Forum or E-mail. The Subspace section will
tell you something about other websites. You can read a in "The
undiscovered Country something of what I'm going to do in the future
with this website. A new part of the newsletter will be "Trexperience".
I will talk about my experience with Star Trek on some level. Every
newsletter will end with some writings from me about my website, or
the newsletter or something completely different. At the bottom of
the newsletter you can read how to contact me or how you unsubscribe
from this newsletter. On the left side you can see a small table of
contents. By clicking on them you can navigate through the
newsletter.
This is the 23rd newsletter from Final Frontier Media and the
second of 2009. Normally I write only a newsletter at the end of an
even month, but after February I was busy with my work and also I
didn't had motivation to work on the website. But finally it's here.
Enjoy it.
The news is divided into several months, because it's a lot of news.
I also keep the news short. It's all about you knowing what there's
done and which music videos you can download where. In the future
this system will stay the same, only more elaborate.
In the last four months a lot of music videos, categories, links,
Star Trek 2009 wallpapers, images and trailers are added. A lot of
sections were updated. Several small errors have been corrected and
new functionality is added. Also the looks and working of the site
is more uniform. Enough to talk about. Read on!
In February 13 new music videos have been added. Also the category
Nephtys59 and
PG15 were created. On 13 February I added a music
video I created myself. It's called "Kind of wonderful". A music
video about the woman of Star Trek and how wonderful they are.
Several love music videos by
Belanna and
Casper were added. All of
them about Janeway, Chakotay and/or Seven of Nine.
Of course several Star Trek Enterprise music videos have been added,
which are created by
Linsey. I've also changed the categories in the
Music videos section. Because there weren't coming any new music
videos from TLI in the short time, I've added them to the
Other
section. I just did the opposite with
PG15. I all ready had two
music videos of him and added more and created a own section.
In the music videos section several categories have more than 20
music videos. When this happens the category is split into two
pages. After 40 music videos the category is split in three pages.
The look of this is now made uniform to the rest of the website with
blue, bold text. It's added at the top and bottom of the page and
combined with the "back to top" function. This way it's more
noticeable that a category has more pages and thus more music videos
to offer.
February #2
I've added a Star Trek 2009 link category to the
Link
section. In
the final days for the release of the new movie a lot of new sites
popped up on the internet. Therefore I added those links, because I
thought you people would appreciate it. Beside these links I've
added new trailers, images and more in the
Star Trek 2009 section.
The sub-sections
Sitemap and
Statistics are probably the most
updated part of the website. Every month the statistics are updated
with the latest download figures in the top 50, top 10 per month and
top 10 this year. Also statistics from the past can be found here.
The Sitemap is always updated when a new page is added or and old
one is removed. The archive is also updated every month with old
news, which was first available at the homepage. For all
previous
news, finding a page and
statistics.
Several small errors have been corrected like changing the links in
the archive section which were linking to a internal or external
page which doesn't exist anymore.
The Statistics page of Final Frontier Media
Chris Pine as the new Captain James T. Kirk
(source: Paramount)
I was still motivated to work on my website at the start of March.
Especially when the third Star Trek trailer came out. That's the
only "music video" which was added in these two months. But it was a
great trailer and I badly wanted to see the new movie. Therefore I
created several wallpapers which can be download in the
StarTrek
2009 section.
In March it was also the end for the Rik Report download mirrors.
The server is removed, and thus all links. Positive about this is
that the statistics will be more accurate, because I didn't have
statistics for the Rik Report server. Of course the sub-sections
sitemap and
statistics were updated.
The last section which didn't look like the other pages on Final
Frontier Media, was the
Archive. I've changed this and collected all
old news from before 2006 in one page. Because March is the
first month of the year that news from January is going to be
archived a new 2009 archive is added.
Final update was done in the
pictures section. There was a StarTrek.nl Utrecht meeting and pictures taken by Ace of Spades were
added. These are probably only interesting for StarTrek.nl members.
Motivation was totally gone, unfortunately. Playing games are a
very important part for my decrease in motivation. Games like
Transport Tycoon, FIFA 98, Red Alert 3 and Ultimate Soccer Manager
98/99. I'm never bored playing them, but they keep me from something
important, this website.
Because I wanted a big updated just prior to the release of the new
movie I've updated in May. I had a lot of new stuff from Star Trek
2009 collected in these two months. I've added everything in a big
update for
StarTrek 2009. Five new links, seven film clips, four
TV-spots,
21 images, a theatrical poster and 3 premier photos. This would be
"the final update".
In the link section these 5 new links and 1
top site website was
added. I've deleted the federation top sites, because it doesn't
exist anymore. Unfortunately a lot of sites aren't updated anymore.
If you any new website, or you have your own, just let me know.
The working of the sub-section
sitemap is changed. You can now also
see in a instance if a page is updated. You all ready could see if a
page was new.
Zoe Saldana as the new Nyota Uhura
(source: Paramount)
T'Pol is a popular character in Enterprise Music Videos
(source:
Woman
of StarTrek)
May #2
Because I didn't do much in most part of March and al of April I
wanted to add a lot of music videos. I've added a total of 20 music
videos. I've never added this amount of music videos at once before.
The total of music videos is now at 275. A lot of great voyager
music videos can be found in the categories
Mistyfur,
Belanna and
Other.
Several Star Trek Enterprise music videos, which are still very
popular can be found in the categories
Linsey,
Other,
PG15,
Scifispace and
Nephtys59. T'pol in combination with Jonathan Archer
are the most used characters in Star Trek Enterprise Music videos.
After some time I've also find a new vidder which creates TOS Music
videos. I only had
Mary S. van Deusen, and some people in
Other,
beside myself. But only Mary was fully devoted and in
Other and
Final Frontier Media it were more one of a kind. This is now changed
because of the new category
McCoySpock Love. A lot of the music
videos are Slash Music videos, but they're really good. You'll see
more of this in the future.
Of course the statistics are also updated with the latest download
figures from April. Because of this newsletter also the
sitemap is
updated. On the
newsletter page you have now short links to the
music videos of the month. It's all about the
Star Trek Music
Videos.
In this last year introduced part of the newsletter two music videos are chosen to be
the Music videos of the month. One of the music videos deserve the
recognition because of the statistics. This can be sudden popularity
or just the opposite. The second music video will be one I choose
because of my personal opinion of it.
This music video was the third video added after Final Frontier
Media moved to it's current web-address. The music video was
originally created by two VCR's, but it's digitally remastered in
1998. In 2002 this music video won in a Convention Music Video
Contest. In the
top 50 of most download music videos this music video is on the
44th place.
This is one of the first music video I had found on the internet.
After the Sabatoj Music Videos I had soon contact with "Cool Kyle".
We went partners and I mirror his music videos. Unfortunately his
website isn't updated for a long time but his music video are still
popular. In my opinion this one is the best he has created. I'll bet
you agree with me.
All those poor guys in red. Here you can see "another one
bites the dust". A good video clip with good timing and a
good sense of humor. The video is of high quality.
Nice to see all those moments together! It succeeded very well
(translated) - Jataan at "The Federation"
I quite enjoyed it.
Good song, liked the money and car scenes you used at the beginning
and you did a wonderful job finding clips of lots of different
couples.
- Chris at "Fanforum.com"
Your comments in the BBS or Forums are always welcome. Also YouTube
Comments are welcome. You can also enter comments in the
contact section.
This time in the subspace bulletin is the website "Strekonline.com".
This website exists since 2001 and was before known as
Randy's Star Trek site. You can find a lot, and I mean a lot
of screenshots of Star Trek and other great series and
movies. All in great quality and you're free to use them. As
long as you give credit to Strekonline.com. Beside
screenshots you can find standard and widescreen wallpapers,
music and relatively new some music videos. All together a
must website for the media Star Trek fan and fans of those
other series and movies. You can find the site
here.
Last time I talked about a new music video, well It's all ready done
in February and available for download. At the moment I've a idea
for a music video, but not really started. Next time more news about
this subject.
The StarTrek 2009 has his final update and will be changed in a next
update. The lay-out will be different and everything will be
collected to simple overview. In the future the page will probably
be moved to the archive. Because they're all ready busy with
StarTrek XII a new section for that movie will be added in time.
Still working on changing the website, but I haven't done anything
lately. Hope to do it this year a bit. Also I hope to add the Final
Frontier Media award this year, but that's not entirely in my hands.
When I know more, I'll let you know.
I'm still looking for people who do create music videos so I can add
them to the collection. Also stories or comments about my website
are welcome. If you write comments and you want that it will be in
the next newsletter, make sure you write more than a few words. All
ideas or comments can be send to me through the contact form, which
you can find
here. When you want to publish your music video you can do the
same.
In this new section of the newsletter I will gave my opinion about
something I see or experience in Star Trek. As reader of this
newsletter you can respond by sending me
a message. In this will the
experience will go on, from newsletter to newsletter.
Almost everyone has seen the latest Star Trek movie. It's the talk
of the day. To be serious. I've had it for now. I've seen the movie
three times in the Cinema including one IMAX cinema. I've talked
about ins & outs on several forums or BBS and everyone has it's
opinion ready. From bullshit to Heaven on earth.
But of course I have to stay on this topic, because it's new, it's
hip and in my opinion great. Just the little stuff of the movie is
great. Have you seen the Tribble? Have you seen R2D2? Eating an
apple while Kobayashi Maru, The creature of Ceti Alpha 5, Giving the
formula to Scotty. All those small things makes this movie
worthwhile for the Star Trek fans. And beside that it's an good
action movie. I've experienced this movies several times now. Every
time I found something new, something sparkling and something bad.
But I still experience it as Star Trek. How do you experience it?
Almost halfway 2009 and only a few updates have been done. As you
did noticed by now I didn't had any motivation for working on the
website until today. I've finished this newsletter and have several
plans for future updates.
Beside seeing the newest movie several times, I'm again started with
watching Deep Space Nine. It's my favourite Star Trek series and I'm
going to watch it for the eleventh time!!!
Also I started watching something which is not Star Trek but from a
lot of friends I hear it's awesome. I talk about The West Wing and
just started watching it. It's funny, but it's not Star Trek.
At the moment I'm very busy with my work, starting early and end
late. This means I'm most evenings tired when I come home, but I'll
try to update more often. Stay tuned!
Greetings from Zwolle.
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-
Willsbabe at "
Good song, liked the money and car scenes you used at the beginning
and you did a wonderful job finding clips of lots of different
couples.
