EAE Award Winners Since 2019
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Some Kind of Star Trek (December 2019)
Launched in 2012, Some Kind of Star Trek (SKoST) is a blog with reviews of episodes, games, books, miniatures and other merchandise. This description doesn't sound very exciting because it is just what a fan expects from a Star Trek website. Yet, although there are two or three other (and bigger) sites that offer essentially the same, SKoST has gained a very good reputation and a respectable followership. Whenever I visit the site, I am grateful that it posts only news and opinions that are relevant and that it spares us meaningless interviews and baseless ramblings. Their absence makes the valuable content even easier to find, although it means that SKoST is not updated every day. Speaking of finding content, the site is overall arranged as a blog with all the usual problems of vanishing "old" articles, but the additional menu proves very helpful in staying informed about topics such as the Official Starships Collection. As a general rule, articles at SKoST are thoroughly written, rather than being a just bunch of random observations. I may disagree with quite a few things posted at SKoST, but I like the well-reasoned way opinions are presented here. Rather than trying to defy or decry opposing views, the writers simply tell what they think, and why. Thanks to Clive Burrell and his co-writers for maintaining a great Star Trek site from fans and for fans!
Star Trek + Design (March 2024)
It's been a long time since I last gave out an old-fashioned award. But I think I should revive the tradition to praise the incessant efforts of Eno Farley to identify furniture and other real-life objects in Star Trek and to present them. Besides contributing greatly to the lists of Commercially Available Chairs and Commercially Available Lighting at EAS and posting at Instagram, Eno also maintains a website named Star Trek + Design. The site design is unassuming in a "form follows function" fashion. Rather than being organized the "lazy" way as a blog with random entries that you'd have to scroll through, Star Trek + Design has a well-ordered menu that allows to browse identified object by type (Glassware, Tableware, Seating, Tables, Lighting, Miscellaneous). Each object is presented on an individual page, with photos, screen caps and additional information on the designers. Overall, Star Trek + Design is much like a one-stop site to look for real-life design objects that appeared in Star Trek. Be sure to check out Eno's own collection of Trek-related items too!
MeWho (April 2025)
Providing an authentic computer experience for Star Trek fans has been a thing ever since HTML allowed to combine text and graphic elements and since Macromedia Flash made animated Windows applications possible. First launched towards the end of the 1990's as far as I can remember, the System 47 screensaver is the arguably most legendary LCARS software. MeWho aka Rob has maintained and further developed System 47 ever since. It survived the temporarily waning interest in Star Trek and the discontinuation of Flash. In the past couple of years, Rob has created various browser-based LCARS interfaces with an incredible amount of interactive functions, animation details and Easter eggs. The highly configurable interface of Titan.DS and the stunning warp flight simulation in Starfield 47 are my favorites, but every one of them is a masterpiece. MeWho also provides a variety of hour-long LCARS videos and of desktop backgrounds in social networks. But don't make the same mistake as Boimler in "Crisis Point 2: Paradoxus" and try to find the deeper meaning in the animations. The journey is the reward. "Just point & click & watch. There are really no goals nor wrong things to do here. It's a mindless site." The EAE Award goes to MeWho for over 25 years of immersive Trek experience!
TNG-Picard.com (April 2026)
For Star Trek fans, the costumes, props and models that appeared in the various series and movies are far more than production pieces. They are tangible connections to the characters and their stories. Seeing them at exhibitions or even owning them is a special experience. TNG-Picard.com stands as an exceptional example of what such dedication can achieve. Built by a fan whose connection to Star Trek reaches back to its earliest days, this exhibition, which focuses on screen-used items from TNG and Star Trek Picard, reflects a lifetime of passion and commitment. The sheer scope of the collection is impressive in its own right. The thoughtful presentation in LCARS style, elegant but simple and intuitive, additionally sets the website apart. It turns a personal archive into a shared journey, inviting visitors to rediscover what gave the series its iconic look and feel, relive memorable moments from the screen and examine details that were never fully visible before. This site is the next best thing to actually seeing these pieces in a museum. Thank you for making them accessible to the public and for supporting our research at EAS quite a few times!
