Star Trek: Renegades

[Amaris]

My commentary on the picture was more that it was right in the middle of nowhere. It just kind of hung there. "Hey Pavel, you think we should break up all of this blank space?"

"Sure, I have just the thing!"

 

[wamdue]

Oh, well the answer to that is quite clear. See, um... everybody run, I'll hold off his questions!

"What does Jonas Quinn need with a starship?"
"Shields failing!"

still a hundred times better than Captain Harriman in Star Trek: Of Gods and Men. Heck that statement applies to Generations as well.

 

[CRM-114]

I can't do it. I'm at a point in my life where I'd honestly rather have no new Star Trek than slog through mediocre to bad Star Trek.

I say this fully realizing that in some quarters, this is tantamount to blasphemy.

Well, then I went ahead and posted a picture of Hulk Hand above, just so you could see it. Hulk Hand is what got me through the rest of the film.

Okay, that gave me a chuckle. I'm sure that was never the intent of the filmmakers, but okay, there's one good thing about Renegades. I didn't even have to do the work to find it.

 

[Amaris]

I can't do it. I'm at a point in my life where I'd honestly rather have no new Star Trek than slog through mediocre to bad Star Trek.

I say this fully realizing that in some quarters, this is tantamount to blasphemy.

Well, then I went ahead and posted a picture of Hulk Hand above, just so you could see it. Hulk Hand is what got me through the rest of the film.

Okay, that gave me a chuckle. I'm sure that was never the intent of the filmmakers, but okay, there's one good thing about Renegades. I didn't even have to do the work to find it.

I am glad to be of service.

In all seriousness, the longer I watched the film, the less it became about the story (what there was of it), and the more it became about waiting to see what trope would appear next, and how poorly it would be executed. If you approach the film like that, you'll be through it before you know it. Well, no, not before you know it, but you will get through it. Your curiosity will get the better of you.

Again, seriously, I am not trying to be mean about any of it, even though I'm sure it's probably coming across that way for some. It's just that I am critical when a production says it has a pilot/TV series quality film, and that they're going to take it to CBS, and they're firm in the belief that they could make a real show out of it. I am going to be extra critical because of that.

A movie can be low budget, and still be amazing. I have been impressed by many low budget films. For me, Renegades was very unimpressive, to the point of tedium.

 

[BeatleJWOL]

So what you all are saying is I should drop what I'm doing and watch this movie immediately.

Got it.

 

[Starfury]

If I was an exec at CBS, this movie would utterly convince me
...to stay the frak away from Star Trek

 

[MadMan1701A]

We just finished watching it as well... man, they were trying way to hard.

A few changes, and it could have been an totally original movie; why didn't they do that instead?

-Ricky

 

[BillJ]

We just finished watching it as well... man, they were trying way to hard.

A few changes, and it could have been an totally original movie; why didn't they do that instead?

-Ricky

Trekkies wouldn't empty their pockets then.

 

[Karzak]

Oh, well the answer to that is quite clear. See, um... everybody run, I'll hold off his questions!

"What does Jonas Quinn need with a starship?"
"Shields failing!"

Apparently, Parker Lewis can lose.

 

[CRM-114]

"What does Jonas Quinn need with a starship?"
"Shields failing!"

Apparently, Parker Lewis can lose.

After dealing with the Klingon demanding his cargo, Captain Alvarez turns to the camera and says, "This is not coolness."

 

[SeerSGB]

This is why I try not to get pumped up for fanfilms.

 

[chardman]

How the Hell did they get Sean Young in this?

 

[BillJ]

How the Hell did they get Sean Young in this?

She probably had a house payment to make.

 

[BigJake]

It's not like Sean Young has been doing a whole lot.

I actually kind of enjoyed her in this -- though the spectacles could go? given that they made a point of talking about medical advances? -- except I could live without the holographic romancing of Bob Picardo. (Although I understand that was also conveying plot information and setting up Fixer's little twist at the end.)

 

[Barbreader]

I haven't watched this yet, but after reading your comments I decided to also headline the re-release today of a 15 minute German Star Trek fan film, Starship USS K'Ehleyr, Away Mission, now with English and Portuguese subtitles. Hell, if this is as bad as you say, people need something else to watch.

And Starship Saladin is going to be releasing their first film on Labor Day. I have been waiting for a Starship Saladin release since before I started creating my index, which is to say OVER SIX YEARS. As a result, that release feels more momentous to me, anyway.

Carry on. Just reading all these negative comments made me sad, but I have set things with a friend who wants to suffer through this with me. He hates fan films, so he'll enjoy telling me how bad it is. He does like being right. Sounds like he'll have plenty of opportunity to crow ... and make me eat crow.

 

[BigJake]

I don't think it's really as bad as all that. It doesn't succeed in what it's going for but it's a noble stab at the idea and it does entertain, leastways it hooked me enough to watch it through and root for the good guys. (I could have catalogued all the little things that annoyed me like J. did, actually I contemplated it, but it would have given a fallacious impression.)

 

[Amaris]

I don't think it's really as bad as all that. It doesn't succeed in what it's going for but it's a noble stab at the idea and it does entertain, leastways it hooked me enough to watch it through and root for the good guys. (I could have catalogued all the little things that annoyed me like J. did, actually I contemplated it, but it would have given a fallacious impression.)

I'm not sure there were good guys in this one.

 

[Kelso]

I'd really like to see a fanfilm that's more like The Man From Earth. No pew-pew. No saving the universe. Just a group of people in a room with a killer script.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

I'd really like to see a fanfilm that's more like The Man From Earth. No pew-pew. No saving the universe. Just a group of people in a room with a killer script.

Or something like "Moon" or "Ex Machina" — an intimate story about something that makes you think a bit.

 

[Amaris]

I'd really like to see a fanfilm that's more like The Man From Earth. No pew-pew. No saving the universe. Just a group of people in a room with a killer script.

I'd really like to see a fanfilm that's more like The Man From Earth. No pew-pew. No saving the universe. Just a group of people in a room with a killer script.

Or something like "Moon" or "Ex Machina" — an intimate story about something that makes you think a bit.

Very much this. At the very least, I'd like something that doesn't appear to have been written by a hormonal 13 year old school boy.