{"id":35531,"date":"2014-07-31T13:34:32","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T20:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=35531"},"modified":"2014-07-31T13:34:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T20:34:32","slug":"warp-5-0-trek-toward-sci-fis-golden-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2014\/07\/warp-5-0-trek-toward-sci-fis-golden-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Warp 5.0: Trek Toward Sci-Fi&#8217;s Golden Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35534\" alt=\"Warp5.0-073114\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Warp5.0-073114.gif\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Roddenberry Entertainment<\/em> and<em> Wikia<\/em>, the social universe of fandom are teaming up for the <em>Warp 5.0: Fandom&#8217;s Two-Year Trek Toward Sci-Fi&#8217;s Golden Anniversary<\/em> project.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Warp 5.0: Fandom&#8217;s Two-Year Trek Toward Sci-Fi&#8217;s Golden Anniversary<\/em> will be part of <em>Trek Initiative<\/em>, the online<em> Star Trek<\/em> community portal.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;Launching at the <em>Star Trek Vegas Convention<\/em> this week, a signature element of the &#8216;<em>Warp 5.0<\/em>&#8216; campaign will be the world&#8217;s first and only &#8216;census&#8217; of<em> Star Trek<\/em> fandom. Featuring an interview with Rod Roddenberry himself, this &#8216;census&#8217; will incorporate videos from fans around the world voicing their favorite <em>Star Trek<\/em> memories. Over the course of the next two years, this compilation will include videos from other live fan events as well as online submissions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s really fantastic to have the chance to pull in personal fan content around such an important milestone for my family,&#8221; said Eugene &#8220;Rod&#8221; Roddenberry. &#8220;My father would be proud to be part of such a collaborative initiative celebrating the fandom of his legacy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The campaign will consist of several programming initiatives (things like <em>Star Trek<\/em>-themed Qwizards and Showcases with celebrity talent, a massive character bracket tournament, a fan film contest, etc.) and will incorporate presences at several live events over the course of the two years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;[The] campaign [kicks] off with &#8216;<em>The Roddenberry Effect<\/em>&#8216; [census; to be] recorded at this year&#8217;s official <em>Star Trek Vegas Convention<\/em>. In <em>The Roddenberry Effect<\/em>, &#8220;participants [will be] asked to look directly into the camera and record their name, where they&#8217;re from, why they&#8217;re a Trek fan, and what their favorite Trek memory is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>More &#8220;videos [will be taken] at live events across the globe over the course of the next two years, [and] an online submission tool will be available soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Trek Initiative<\/em> can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/trekinitiative.wikia.com\/wiki\/Trek_Initiative_Wiki\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roddenberry Entertainment and Wikia, the social universe of fandom are teaming up for the Warp&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2416],"tags":[2855,7589,7592],"class_list":["post-35531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","tag-roddenberry-productions","tag-the-warp-5-0-fandoms-two-year-trek-toward-sci-fis-golden-anniversary","tag-wikia"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/fandom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Fandom<\/a>","tag_info":"Fandom","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35537,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35531\/revisions\/35537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}