The Helena Chronicles to premiere New Years Day!

[areakt]

Hey there. Over at Hidden Frontier productions, we will be releasing our sister series of Star Trek Odyssey, "The Helena Chronicles" pilot episode on new years day at 1Pm PST (9Pm GMT) in the Hidden Frontier Chat room.

The chat room is at:

Hidden Frontier Chat Room

No registration is required for the room or the episode. Just stop on in and join us for the big release of the first episode, "Sanctuary Lost".

The episode will go into wide release later in the week or sometime the following week.

The preview is available at:
Sanctuary Lost Preview

And the Bloopers:

Sanctuary Lost Bloopers

I hope you will join us for this launch party!

Rob

 

[Kagan]

What time was that again?

 

[areakt]

The sneek peek chat has come and passed. It may be shown again in tomorrow night's (Wednesday 6Pm PST) regular chat, and it will also go out in the newsletter this week. Wide release on the website will probably be this coming weekend.

Cheers,

Rob

 

[Lindley]

That would be in half an hour or so, if I'm doing the conversion properly. 9pm EST?

 

[areakt]

Newsletter subscribers were e-mailed download links a couple of hours ago as well as folks in our weekly chat.

Wide release is expected in a day or so.

Cheers,

Rob

 

[Zeppster]

I watched it last night or early this morning depending on your point of view. It's a good episode. Although I don't like the captain that much. Seems to be a weak point to me. But I bet we'll see Jorian take over as the captain soon. Interesting pilot episode.

 

[lonewriter]

I thought all of you involved with it did a great job. I'll defiantly watch the next one.

 

[Lindley]

Zeppster said:Although I don't like the captain that much.

To be honest, I was never that keep on Faisal since she first appeared in Hidden Frontier. Don't really know why. She just doesn't have much to make her interesting so far.

We'll see, though.

 

[areakt]

For those averse to newsletters and chat rooms, the episode is now in wide release at:

http://www.hiddenfrontier.com

Click the graphic on the main page for link options. .mov, DivX, and dialup friendly downloads are available.

Cheers,

Rob

 

[nx1701g]

It's not bad, but I only half watched. I'll have a better review later.

 

[Starhawk]

I tried to dl the file but keep getting a "file does not exist" message. I have tried from a couple of different machines from Windows XP and Mac OS X. Any thoughts?

 

[areakt]

Sorry you're having trouble downloading. Can you tell us which mirror you were assigned in the download system?

Cheers,

Rob

 

[Hudson_uk]

Also, which of the versions you selected, Full resolution, dial up friendly or DIVX ?

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

I liked it. It was very much a continuation of HF, but focussing in on a ship and crew we were mostly familiar with. For all the pure awesomeness that was the space battles in HF, there was often too much going on in the later seasons that made it tough to simply enjoy an episode beyond the pretty splosions. This brought it back to a small crew, no human enemy to divide the attention, and some hanging character threads that brought the whole thing back to ground zero for a new adventure. Well done.

Mark

 

[Hudson_uk]

Starhawk said:
I tried to dl the file but keep getting a "file does not exist" message. I have tried from a couple of different machines from Windows XP and Mac OS X. Any thoughts?

Turns out there was a mirror server down. All up now and firing on all cylinders. Our apologise for that and please let us know if you get any more problems.

 

[Starhawk]

Got it. Thanks for the help. Cheers.

 

[Starhawk]

I've had a chance to watch the first ep and wanted to provide some feedback.

First of all, this ep has all of the things I have come to expect from the gang at Hidden Frontiers. From the opening theme to the sets as well as the storyline are all right on. I like the Helena starship too. A new class for me, but I like the sleek design. It looks fast and, somehow, mean in a fight. Not sure why, but it does.

A couple of the actors/actresses are new to me, then again I haven't seen everything that you guys have put out there.

My only gripe is the IMHO, openly gay relationship. I know they exist, but prefer them implied/inferred, versus open. I just fast forward through those scenes though and move on.

Otherwise, outstanding stuff guys.

Cheers.

 

[Thalek]

Starhawk said:

My only gripe is the IMHO, openly gay relationship. I know they exist, but prefer them implied/inferred, versus open. I just fast forward through those scenes though and move on.

Why shouldn't it be open? It has certainly been acceptable for centuries for playwrights to portray openly hetero relationships.

I'll be the first to admit that I'm not comfortable with it either, but I figure that's a flaw in me, not in the story.

 

[Lindley]

I enjoyed HF more before that stuff started to be so front-and-center, but I can tolerate it well enough. There is the occasional skip-forward when you've got things like close-up kisses that go on too long, but I sometimes do the same while watching Buffy, so I can't really complain.

 

[Beolach]

Starhawk said:
My only gripe is the IMHO, openly gay relationship. I know they exist, but prefer them implied/inferred, versus open. I just fast forward through those scenes though and move on.

Now see, on mainstream television, I have a problem with openly straight relationships. I know they exist, but prefer them implied/inferred, versus open. I just fast forward through those scenes, which means I watch very little television whatsoever.

From the perspective of an openly gay male myself, I resent feeling that rather than being open about my relationship I should imply it or infer it. Somehow the status of gay relationships is lessened by those who, through their own fault (no offense John), have uncomfortable feelings. So because they are uncomfortable about it, it should be inferred/implied. Now that makes me very uncomfortable.

Having a general aversion to open affection in general on TV is not what I'm talking about - I have an aversion to overly passionate scenes on television be they gay or straight. However they're part of television, and often part of a good story, hence necessary. But having an aversion to them, and believing it should be just 'implied' because of the orientation of the persons involved, is not in my view the same thing, nor is it acceptable that gay relationships should be removed from public vision just because some don't like it.

That's my personal take on it anyway.