"A mean secret that stays in this room." Media Relations; Star Trek Games

Stephen is still in missing in Chicagoland, so we once again retained the services of guest co-host Holly Harrison for an episode featuring two topics that could not be more completely unrelated to each other.

First, Holly teaches us some media relations skills that gamedevs need to know (even if they don't want to), and then, because Stephen isn't around to stop us, Mark and Martha (but mostly Mark) talk about the history of Star Trek games!

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Media Relations

Hey you, indiedev, use presskit()!

Write a better press release using the Inverted Pyramid

Todd Versteeg

Signature Style

Holly recommended “trying out” Buzzsumo and Buzzstream.

Artist Statement Guidelines

Getting Your Sh*t Together

Similarweb

Wikipedia

Ask Holly your PR questions on twitter: @hollharris.

0:31:20

Star Trek Games

“How a Star Trek card game quietly continues, 10 years after its official end”

Cyrus Farivar

Ars Technica

The unreleased sequel to the Star Trek VCR board game was called “Borg Q-Uest.”…

The "Q the Referee" CCG card that features a still taken from that game's unused footage.

The fictional VCR board game from Community we mentioned was called “Pile of Bu…

Mark talked about the end of the 90s-era Star Trek action figure line. That sto…

“Looking At The Star Trek: TNG Interactive Technical Manual From 1994”

Will Stape

Treknews

“The inside story of Apple's forgotten project: Quicktime VR”

Kif Leswing

Business Insider

You can actually play “Star Trek: Klingon” on YouTube!

“Language App Duolingo Finally Added Klingon”

David Murphy

Lifehacker

“The best Star Trek games”

Richard Cobbett

PC Gamer

“Jeff Bezos announces Amazon is picking up 'The Expanse'”

Richard Lawler

Engadget

“Retrohistories: Secret of Vulcan Fury: Trek's Lost Adventure”

Chris Chapman

YouTube

“The Game Archaeologist: Perpetual's Star Trek Online”

Justin Olivetti

Engadget

Ubisoft teased on Twitter that DS9’s USS Defiant will appear in Bridge Crew.

Mark praised Star Trek: Ascendancy on a previous episode of the program.

Nicest of 2016

“Hogwarts Mystery Players Upset With Use of Microtransactions”

Shabana Arif

IGN