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Updated 3/22 TrekUnited is now in the hands of a new owner. Russ Haslage, who several years ago led efforts to create a Star Trek series starring George Takei as captain of the USS Excelsior, has bought the domain name and rights of TrekUnited from troubled founder Tim Brazeal. The remaining staff of TrekUnited, which has been mostly reduced to nothing more than a small group of people on a message board sharing their interest in Star Trek, had said an announcement would be made as early as today. However, Airlock Alpha has learned through public records associated with domain transfers that Haslage, head of the International Federation of Trekkers, took control of the domain name on Monday. Haslage later confirmed the purchase to Airlock Alpha, saying an official announcement ...

I debated whether or not I wanted to give Tim Brazeal one last bit of attention. But after reading some of the crap he wrote on the TrekUnited message boards over the weekend, I felt I couldn't simply let it go. Brazeal, if you remember, was the brain cell behind the Save Enterprise campaign. It started out normal enough: Fans who really loved "Star Trek: Enterprise" wanted to see it continue on what was then known as Upn. They signed petitions, wrote letters, did the things fans would normally do to save a show. And they got it (even if it wasn't necessarily because of their efforts). Upn renewed "Enterprise" for a fourth season, mostly to help it achieve numbers more desirable for post-run syndication. But it seemed almost obvious that the fourth season of the show would be the last, ...

So what exactly happened at FedConUSA in Dallas over the weekend, and who is to blame for it? In a special two-hour edition of SyFy Radio Wednesday night, six people who were connected to FedCon over the weekend have been invited for a panel discussion to talk about the convention that has had more drama than many television shows on the air. The convention was canceled on its second day, right in the middle of a panel being hosted by John Billingsley, who played Phlox in "Star Trek: Enterprise." Since then, attendees, vendors and even scheduled guests have been questioning convention organizer Tim Brazeal -- best known as the leader of TrekUnited, which refunded tens of thousands of dollars to "Enterprise" fans thinking they were donating money to fund a fifth season of the show -- as ...

The partnership with Tim Brazeal during the fallout of the TrekUnited scandal has apparently come to an end. Chris McKeown, considered one of Brazeal's and TrekUnited's larger supporters, announced Monday that he has dissolved the merger between his former sites SciFiUpdates and SciFiSite along with TrekUnited -- a merger that created SciFiUnited -- and is disassociating himself with Brazeal following the collapse over the weekend of FedConUSA. "There has been no unity there," McKeown said in a post on SciFiUnited announcing the split. "There has been great unity with Thomas Moore and the sites he runs. We, the active admin staff here at SciFiUnited, have decided to pull all our content, images, etc., from SciFiUnited due to recent activities by Tim Brazeal and certain members from TrekUnited." ...

FedConUSA, the disaster of a convention that tried to take the floor in Dallas over the weekend, is under a lot of fire from attendees, especially from those who thought the Tim Brazeal convention had the seal of approval from FedCon Gmbh, the popular European convention that had announced a partnership with Brazeal last August. FedConUSA was cancelled Saturday morning while it was already in progress. However, FedCon's American contact, Marc B. Lee, informed attendees after the problems erupted on the convention site's message board that the German group hadn't been involved in the convention in the last six months, and failed to tell anyone. Dirk Bartholomäe, the head of FedCon Gmbh, said Brazeal ended up not being the person he thought he was. "When I first met him two years ago, I thought, ...

FedConUSA just opened 24 hours ago, but it's already over ... leaving those who traveled to Dallas and paid for tickets for an event they thought would give them a chance to hob-nob with science-fiction actors, writers and producers wondering what they are going to do now. Tim Brazeal, the organizer of FedConUSA, announced Saturday morning that he had canceled the convention, despite the fact that it had already started the day before, plagued with missing guests, last-minute plane tickets (if they came at all), and attendees trying to justify the money they spent to get there. "I have asked my son to shut the show down," Brazeal said in a post on the FedConUSA message boards. "It seems that nothing is going the way it should. I really don't think that it would ... have been done any better ...