Star Trek: Hidden Frontier

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The USS Excelsior traverses the subspace currents in the Briar Patch. (Full size image: 160K)

Star Trek: Hidden Frontier is a long-running fan-made series, now in its seventh season (42 episodes produced), set in the Briar Patch, the wild region of space introduced in the film Star Trek: Insurrection. The series focuses on the starship Excelsior, and its home base, Deep Space 12, as they fend off attacks from a powerful new alien race, the Grey, and mediate disputes between such races as the Tholians, Cardassians, Bajorans, the Son'a and the Breen. This video series is produced by volunteers in Southern California.

Background Information

Star Trek: Hidden Frontier premiered in 2000, an offshoot of the fan series Voyages of the USS Angeles, produced by the Star Trek fan club of that starship name in Southern California. Hidden Frontier inherited the setting, Deep Space 12, and several of the characters from the Angeles series, but quickly went on to establish its own identity. Two later HF episodes made use of footage originally shot for Angeles episodes that were never produced.

Episode Listing

For a key to the abreviations and additional notes, shown thus <1>, see the end of this section. The ratings for "Best of season" come from a series of polls done on the Hidden frontier forum in Jan.'06

• SEASON 01
  • 101, __/__/00 "Enemy Unknown, Part 1"
  • 102, __/__/00 "Enemy Unknown, Part 2"
  • 103, __/__/00 "Enemy Unknown, Part 3"
  • 104, __/__/00 "Two Hours" Blp
  • 105, __/__/00 "Perihelion" Blp - Voted best of season
  • 106, 29/04/01 "Echoes" Blp

• SEASON 02
  • 201, __/__/00 "Refugees" Blp
  • 202, __/__/00 "Yesterday's Excelsior" Blp - Voted best of season <1>
  • 203, __/__/00 "Old Wound" Blp
  • 204, __/__/00 "Great Starship Robbery" Blp
  • 205, __/__/00 "Encke" Blp
  • 206, __/__/00 "To the Stars" Blp
  • 207, __/__/00 "Fire in the Heart" Blp
  • 208, __/__/00 "Coward's Death" Blp
  • 209, __/__/00 "Worst Fears, Part 1" Blp

• SEASON 03
  • 301, __/__/00 "Worst Fears, Part 2"
  • 302, __/__/00 "Worst Fears, Part 3"
  • 303, __/__/00 "Heroes" Blp
  • 304, __/__/00 "In Memory Of" Blp
  • 305, __/__/00 "Modus Operandi" Blp
  • 306, __/__/00 "Santa Q" Blp
  • 307, __/__/00 "Ashes" Blp
  • 308, __/__/00 "Voyage of the Defiant" Blp - Voted best of season
  • 309, __/__/00 "Hell's Gate, Part 1" Blp

• SEASON 04 +
  • 401, __/__/00 "Hell's Gate, Part 2" Blp,Prw
  • 402, __/__/00 "Piracy of the Noble" Blp,Prw - Voted best of season & best overall
  • 403, 11/09/03 "Addictions" Blp,Prw
  • 404, __/__/00 "Grave Matters" Blp,Prw
  • 405, 03/12/03 "Crossroads" Blp,Prw
  • 406, 26/03/04 "Entanglement, Part 1" Blp,Prw

• SEASON 05
  • 501, 02/05/04 "Entanglement, Part 2" Blp
  • 502, 13/06/04 "Imminent Danger" Blp
  • 503, 07/07/04 "Darkest Night" Blp,Prw
  • 504, 04/08/04 "Security Counsel" Blp,Prw - Voted best of season
  • 505, 24/10/04 "Epitaph" Blp,Prw
  • 506, 01/12/04 "The Battle is Joined" Blp,Prw

• SEASON 06 +
  • 601, 27/02/05 "Countermeasures" LoRes,HiRes,Blp,Prw
  • 602, 12/04/05 "Dancing in the Dark" Blp,Prw,iPod
  • 603, __/06/05 "Homeport" Blp,Prw,Prv,iPod
  • 604, 12/08/05 "Beachhead" Blp,Prw,Prv,iPod
  • 605, 28/09/05 "Vigil" Blp,Prw,Prv,iPod - Voted best of season <2>
  • 606, 24/11/05 "Her Battle Lanterns Lit" LoRes,HiRes,Blp,Prw,Prv,iPod

• SEASON 07 +
  • 701, __/__/06 "Heavy Losses"
  • 702, __/__/06 "Bound"
  • 703, __/__/06 ""
  • 704, __/__/06 ""
  • 705, __/__/06 ""
  • 706, __/__/06 ""
  • 707, __/__/07 ""
  • 708, __/__/07 ""

key;
LoRes - Low Resolution format available
HiRes - High Resolution format available
Blp - Blooper reel available
Prw - Preview trailer available
Prv - "Previously ..." trailer available
iPod - iPod video format available

Notes

• <1> - Act 1 only available as a Graphic novel
• <2> - James Cawley, who plays Cpt Kirk in Star Trek: New Voyages, made a cameo appearance in this episode as the Peter David character, Cpt Mackenzie Calhoun.

Trivia

• The character of Lefler was originally played by Kelly Jamison, but because of work obligations, she had to pass the role on to Joanne Busch.
• The character of Ro was originally played by Arthur Bosserman, but he decided to leave the cast after five seasons to pursue professional interests in music. The role is now played by Bobby Rice.
• Most episodes are released in low resoloution, to lessen the risk that the episodes are burnt to DVD and sold. Selling DVDs would break copyright laws. At this point only two episodes—Countermeasures and Her Battle Lanterns Lit—have been released in high quality.
• For Seasons 2 and 3, Nine episodes were produced each season. The later seasons were reduced to six as nine episodes seemed too much work for the cast and crew.
• Hidden Frontier came from a series called "Voyages of the USS Angeles." This is not available online due to copyright restrictions.
• Hidden Frontier's theme music was taken from the the film Galaxy Quest and Battlestar Galactica (original series).

See also

• Star Trek, fan made productions

External links

• Series website
• Series encyclopedia