Holodeck3 and the SubspaceLink site network wish a hearty congratulations to Sir Patrick Stewart, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II this week.

Stewart – Queen Elizabeth II Made It Sir

 47th. Fleet would like to announce that it has decided to make Holodeck3 it's new Home. In the coming weeks we will work to implement gamer friendly forums and relevant content that gamers would be interested in. We thank Admiral Victor Scott Regnum for hosting 47th Fleet critical communications during a time of War.

47th Fleet is a group of ships and Captain's Within the Star Trek Online (STO) Universe. The first real Startrek MMO ever! For more information check out http://www.startrekonline.com/

Today is Valentines Day, and despite what many of you will feel about this day celebrated for romance and scoffed for commercialism, it's a fair bet you are thinking about Romance in one way or another on this day.

TrekMovie is also thinking about Romance today with a revisit of an earlier theme of theirs, Star Trek's Most Romantic Moments.  

Holodeck3.com is now on Twitter, you can find us at http://twitter.com/holodeck3 And while we are on the topic of Twitter, we've launched a brand new Star Trek Themed URL Shortener as part of the services here at HD3, it's simply hd3.st.

TrekMovie is Reporting, that CBS has decided to sell off assets from the original Star Trek: The Experience attraction in Las Vegas that closed in September, 2008.

Holodeck 3 staff visited the Experience days before it was shut down, and I can tell you it was sad to see the attraction already starting to be stripped to bare necessities (most of the shops were closed).

But there is hope. While the re-opening of The Experience in Vegas (At the Neonopolis Mall in Downtown Las Vegas) has been delayed several times (CBS and Neonopolis were originally hoping for a release to coincide with the new Star Trek movie), it is still ongoing, and CBS has decided that rather then try to re-use everything, a lot of the original pieces of the Experience will be rebuilt (or replaced with something new and different) in the new version.

According to TrekMovie, Sony has positioned the next Spider-man reboot movie to the 4 days after the announced date of Star Trek XII (June 29th, 2012) and has also announced that they are going to do the film in 3D. TrekMovie speculates that Paramount may respond by having Star Trek in 3D as well.

Many thanks go out to Roy Veldman, a long time member of HD3's staff, and owner of our sister sites: Acacia Fleet, Starbase 49 and the Startrek Wormhole, for creating this great new theme for Holodeck3.com.  It's nice to have a theme again that gives us a view of what this site is about, rather then one of the plain normal drupal theme that was being shown before. We have a number of other changes in the works on HD3 to hopefully bring it back to it's former glory. 

We have formed a fleet in Star Trek: Online, the new Star Trek MMORPG from Cryptic Studios. Holodeck3's official STO fleet will be the 47th Fleet. We will have new information here about the 47th fleet soon. In the process of setting up our fleet pages for the 47th fleet, we will also be revamping features of HD3, most notably the forums using plugins and theming to make them more prominent parts of the site.

We've also worked to make it easier to join and login to the HD3 site. This week we've added Facebook Connect as a way to login to this site. If you have never signed up for this site before, but are a member of Facebook, simply click the Facebook button under the login form on the left, and you will be able to create an account and log into it without ever setting up a username or password on the site.

Today at 6 p.m. Pacific Time, the public Beta of Star Trek Online will end. This coming weekend the Head Start will open up for people who have pre-ordered the game, and the game will finally launch after years of being under development by various studios, next week!

This is a call out to HD3 members, post in your site blog your review of the newest Star Trek movie, and I'll promote your posts to the home page for everyone to see.

The trailer for the new Star Trek movie came out in theaters yesterday with the new James Bond movie, and some star trek fans have already put the new trailer online. I'll replace this with an official version when it is available, but here is the new trailer: