{"id":389,"date":"2010-07-23T16:04:04","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T23:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/?p=389"},"modified":"2010-07-23T17:20:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T00:20:12","slug":"craig-zinkievich-leaving-star-trek-onlines-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/craig-zinkievich-leaving-star-trek-onlines-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Zinkievich leaving Star Trek Online&#8217;s bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/sci-fi\/\" rel=\"tag\">Sci-fi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/mmo-industry\/\" rel=\"tag\">MMO industry<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/news-items\/\" rel=\"tag\">News items<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/star-trek-online\/\" rel=\"tag\">Star Trek Online<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/startrekonline.com\/node\/1875\"><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogcdn.com\/www.massively.com\/media\/2010\/07\/craigzcrypticstudios580.jpg\"  alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>We&#8217;ll take &#8220;things we didn&#8217;t see coming&#8221; for 5000, Alex. What would that be? Well, in a nutshell, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/tag\/Craig-Zinkievich\/\">Craig Zinkievich<\/a>, Executive Producer on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrekonline.com\"><em>Star Trek Online<\/em><\/a> and seven-year vet of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/tag\/cryptic-studios\/\">Cryptic Studios<\/a>, has announced his plans to step down. The long open-letter posted on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/category\/Star-Trek-Online\/\"><em>Star Trek Online<\/em><\/a> official site is titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/startrekonline.com\/node\/1875\">What you leave behind<\/a>&#8221; and indicates that his intent is to &#8220;<em>take a break<\/em>&#8221; allowing him to enjoy &#8220;<em>hanging out with [his] kids over the summer, walking [his] goat more and taking care of [his] bees<\/em>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>As to just what his plans for the future are, and whether or not they may involve a return to Cryptic Studios in the future, he does not say. In the meantime, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/tag\/daniel-stahl\/\">Daniel Stahl<\/a> will step into his position as <em>Star Trek Online<\/em>&#8216;s new Executive Producer. According to both <a href=\"http:\/\/startrekonline.com\/node\/1875\">Zinkievich&#8217;s note<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startrekonline.com\/node\/178\">Stahl&#8217;s own profile<\/a> on the <em>STO<\/em> site, the game&#8217;s future trajectory appears to be in capable hands. We wish Zinkievich the best with his children and his goaty kids &#8212; and may he especially never wind up <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yWRz_-0B1qw\">covered in bees<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/media\/feedlogo.gif\" alt=\"Massively\" style=\"float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/07\/01\/craig-zinkievich-leaving-star-trek-onlines-bridge\/\">Craig Zinkievich leaving Star Trek Online&#8217;s bridge<\/a> originally appeared on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\">Massively<\/a> on Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:15:00 EST.  Please see our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weblogsinc.com\/feed-terms\/\">terms for use of feeds<\/a>.<br style=\"clear:both;\"><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;\"><\/h6>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/07\/01\/craig-zinkievich-leaving-star-trek-onlines-bridge\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permanent link to this entry\">Permalink<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/forward\/19538947\/\" title=\"Send this entry to a friend via email\">Email this<\/a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/07\/01\/craig-zinkievich-leaving-star-trek-onlines-bridge\/#comments\" title=\"View reader comments on this entry\">Comments<\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.massively.com\/2010\/07\/01\/craig-zinkievich-leaving-star-trek-onlines-bridge\/\">Massively<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filed under: Sci-fi, MMO industry, News items, Star Trek Online We&#8217;ll take &#8220;things we didn&#8217;t see coming&#8221; for 5000, Alex. What would that be? Well, in a nutshell, Craig Zinkievich, Executive Producer on Star Trek Online and seven-year vet of Cryptic Studios, has announced his plans to step down. The long open-letter posted on the Star Trek Online official site is titled &#8220;What you leave behind&#8221; and indicates that his intent is to &#8220;take &#8230;&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/craig-zinkievich-leaving-star-trek-onlines-bridge\/\" style=\"text-decoration:underline\">Read More&nbsp;\u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[289],"tags":[381,378,380,293,247,248,379],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.taultunleashed.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}