Season Seven, Our Last Season
We have begun pre-production work on season seven, and expect to start principal photography on our first episode of the season shortly.
Season seven will be remarkable in several ways: it is our final season. It is expected to have more than six episodes. And it is expected to last from January, 2006 to approximately March, 2007, to accomodate the extra episodes without "cramming" them into our already busy schedule.
Hidden Frontier has already created a record number of "firsts": it is one of the few (perhaps the only?) fan series with more than one episode a year. As such, it is also the first series to complete six seasons. It is the first Star Trek video series to fulfill the late Gene Roddenberry's promise to feature gay characters as part of the straight crew. After the Associated Press picked up the story from the Columbia University's newspaper article, Hidden Frontier's gay subplot achieved national publication. Hidden Frontier is the first fan series to be written up in Variety. Four representatives of Hidden Frontier were Guests of Honor at Gaylaxicon in 2005, serving on discussion panels with Hugo award-winning authors Joe Haldeman and Lois McMaster-Bujold.
Hidden Frontier has also cooperated extensively with our fellow fan productions (New Voyages, Intrepid, Section 31, Pioneer, Tales of the Seventh Fleet, to name but a few), exchanging technical information (and occasionally actors) and generally maintaining a sense of community in a world not always friendly to amateur efforts. (Manny Coto, former producer of the greatly missed ENTERPRISE fourth season, is a notable exception: he is on record as enjoying several fan film efforts, including New Voyages and Hidden Frontier.)
It is our fond hope that our fans will enjoy the seventh and final season of Hidden Frontier as greatly as they've enjoyed our previous efforts. Certainly they've made our efforts even more fun than we'd expected.
John A. Whiting
Head of Makeup
"Dr. Henglaar"