Star Trek Anthology

[Philip Guyott]

Star Trek Anthology has released the title credits for Starship Challenger.

https://youtu.be/UwfQWD2FOP4

http://www.startrekanthology.com/
https://www.facebook.com/StarTrekAnthology

 

[Barbreader]

 

[BigJake]

I smiled when I saw a "Commander Taggert" in the credits. Tres droll.

 

[Karzak]

They've released a new trailer, and it's just as "meh" as the last one.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsVWLPyyj-M&feature=youtu.be[/yt]

 

[Bixby]

''trained Under Commander Chapel''?


ughhhhhhhh

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

All backstory and no real story.

 

[Tosk]

I stopped watching at the one minute mark due to the volume blast. If they have no respect for my eardrums, I have no respect for their trailer.

 

[YJAGG]

when is this due out?

 

[Not Herbert]

I'll give it a chance. However, I don't think the numbers add up. If Colt were 19 during the events of the Cage, which is 13 years before TOS season 1, or is it 11 years? Lets say she was 21, straight from the academy and TOS season 1 is Kirks 2nd year of command (the first being WNMHGB era) then Captain Colt should be 37-years-old. I'm guessing that the actress is over 40, yes?

I'll watch it anyway, maybe it'll be good.

 

[Maurice]

I have no respect for "THE FOLLOWING PREVIEW HAS BEEN APPROVED FOR ALL AUDIENCES". Approved by whom?

The photography looks blah. The effects look choppy. And it seems to be yet another "I don't know if I'm ready for this command" thing that so many fanfilms do.

 

[SPCTRE]

the ship is upside dooooooooown, too spoopy for me

 

[Bixby]

And it seems to be yet another "I don't know if I'm ready for this command" thing that so many fanfilms do.

Here I thought that they give commands and promotions to people who demonstrate confidence in themselves and their abilities.

 

[Squiggy]

Oh dammit. Will every single irrelevant character in Trek have their own fanwank produced about them?

I demand to know what happened with Dr. Boyce by way of a seven-part miniseries. If I don't see it, I will boycott JJ forever.

 

[Philip Guyott]

I agree with most (if not all), of the comments above, but I will give it a chance. It’s certainly not Axanar or Renegades, but is an amateur dramatics production that is funding most of it themselves. Taking their budget into consideration I liked some of their visual effects, especially the Romulan bird of prey. But to be honest I am more intrigued by the idea behind another of the ‘Anthology’ series called “Assignment: Earth”. It’s a time travel adventure based on TOS episode of the same name, featuring agent Gary Seven, Roberta Lincoln and the (unfortunately named) shape shifting cat, Isis! In the first episode the team will intervene to prevent an all out nuclear war.

Opening credits:
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1cCSAaRNlA[/yt]

P.S. Sorry about the size of the image that I originally used when opening this thread. I was new at the time and have since learned not to post such large images on this board.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

The photography looks blah. The effects look choppy. And it seems to be yet another "I don't know if I'm ready for this command" thing that so many fanfilms do.

It's cheap melodrama, trying to ape Pike's situation in "The Cage." The difference there is that Pike was at the end of his ropes, lost too many people and wasn't sure if he still wanted the job. And I'm sick of that little fan film trope.

I bet there's even a five-minute scene where an admiral giving a briefing on her mission.

 

[Karzak]

Putting aside the alleged age issue re: Colt, I'm also concerned about the editing of the thing.

The trailer is all over the place. The Assignment Earth title sequence is similarly woefully edited, and really, really needs to use a different song.

Beyond the lip service to yet another reluctant starship commander forced to assume command against their own will, it's just impossible to get any kind of feel what this film is going to be about. I mean, there are some pew pew pew pew space battles with the Romulans and Klingons? Or maybe just the Romulans?

But there's no story here. There's nothing to get excited about. It's like whoever edited this thing saw the utter mess that the trailer for The Phantom Menace was and thought "That's exactly what we're gonna do!"

And while it's nice that the editors found a way to mix in Handbraked footage from "The Cage" (which seems a stupid move, honestly; isn't one of the main tenets from CBS that fan films not use anything already officially produced from the episodes and films?), there's just nothing here beyond a bunch of people in manufactured scenarios that have no greater overall connective tissue here to make me care one way or the other. If this were the early days of fan films before things like New Voyages, Farragut and Continues were de rigeur, maybe I'd feel differently. Even Yorktown has it's own "gimmick" of sorts because it's essentially the ultimate throwback fan film.

But this.... this is all built on one thing: Jim Bray's wife looks a lot like an older Yeoman Colt. And if the two trailers are any indication, I don't know that I believe yet that she's going to be able to carry this film They've obviously built everything around that and that's a fine choice if that's what they want to do. It just doesn't inspire much excitement in me.

Honestly, I'd much rather see the trailer they do for their Assignment Earth continuation because at least that would be something moderately more original and different from every other TOS-based amateur fan film trying to launch itself these days.

I of course wish them well and hope they'll prove me wrong.

 

[Philip Guyott]

And it seems to be yet another "I don't know if I'm ready for this command" thing that so many fanfilms do.

Here I thought that they give commands and promotions to people who demonstrate confidence in themselves and their abilities.

You could well be right, its fair criticism. However to put it into context, this story arc is following on from Starship Ajax, (the Saladin-class Starship that was destroyed in the trailer). The Ajax series will act as a kind of prequel to Starship Challenger, although it is not part of the Anthology series. As the story goes, Colt was commander of the U.S.S. Ajax for 8 years until the ship was destroyed. She was an experienced and confident #1, but having lost her ship and crew, people whom she had known for years, it is to be expected that that such a person would take a knock in their confidence. This is the human equation and quite frankly if someone could just take command of another Starship straight after losing her previous ship and feel nothing, such a person would be a monster. It would be impossible for fans to be emotionally invested in such a character.

It's cheap melodrama, trying to ape Pike's situation in "The Cage." The difference there is that Pike was at the end of his ropes, lost too many people and wasn't sure if he still wanted the job. And I'm sick of that little fan film trope.

It’s true that Pike was at the end of his ropes, lost too many people and wasn't sure if he still wanted the job, but as far as I’m aware he never lost his entire ship and crew. The best Starfleet captains are those who face their fears head on and overcome. I have no idea if this series is going to be crap or not, but when taken into context of the prequel series (Ajax), the themes of command and loss are unavoidable and are completely appropriate here.

Ref: https://www.facebook.com/Starship-Ajax-111286342269229/

 

[Philip Guyott]

Honestly, I'd much rather see the trailer they do for their Assignment Earth continuation because at least that would be something moderately more original and different from every other TOS-based amateur fan film trying to launch itself these days.

 

[Philip Guyott]

I'll give it a chance. However, I don't think the numbers add up. If Colt were 19 during the events of the Cage, which is 13 years before TOS season 1, or is it 11 years? Lets say she was 21, straight from the academy and TOS season 1 is Kirks 2nd year of command (the first being WNMHGB era) then Captain Colt should be 37-years-old. I'm guessing that the actress is over 40, yes?

I'll watch it anyway, maybe it'll be good.

I have had to learn the hard way that it is best never to try and guess a women’s age . Whatever answer you give will be wrong. I believe that Jodi Bray is around forty. The character takes command of the U.S.S. Challenger in 2275 and (according to the Anthology website) she was Yeoman on the U.S.S. Enterprise in 2254. If she was nineteen at the time, she would now be forty years old.

Ref: http://www.startrekanthology.com/captain-jamie-mia-jm-colt/

 

[Karzak]

And it seems to be yet another "I don't know if I'm ready for this command" thing that so many fanfilms do.

Here I thought that they give commands and promotions to people who demonstrate confidence in themselves and their abilities.

You could well be right, its fair criticism. However to put it into context, this story arc is following on from Starship Ajax, (the Saladin-class Starship that was destroyed in the trailer). The Ajax series will act as a kind of prequel to Starship Challenger, although it is not part of the Anthology series. As the story goes, Colt was commander of the U.S.S. Ajax for 8 years until the ship was destroyed. She was an experienced and confident #1, but having lost her ship and crew, people whom she had known for years, it is to be expected that that such a person would take a knock in their confidence. This is the human equation and quite frankly if someone could just take command of another Starship straight after losing her previous ship and feel nothing, such a person would be a monster. It would be impossible for fans to be emotionally invested in such a character.

Snore. Don't care.

This "human equation" you write of has been done innumerable times in fan films (Valiant, Intrepid, Dominion, and to a lesser extent, Farragut) as well as elsewhere also. As I said -- if this were the first time a fan film were doing this, it would be a different story (literally!) but today, here, now, it's just old hat. Even seaQuest did it in their pilot and that was Roy fucking Scheider, 20 years ago!

It's cheap melodrama, trying to ape Pike's situation in "The Cage." The difference there is that Pike was at the end of his ropes, lost too many people and wasn't sure if he still wanted the job. And I'm sick of that little fan film trope.

It’s true that Pike was at the end of his ropes, lost too many people and wasn't sure if he still wanted the job, but as far as I’m aware he never lost his entire ship and crew. The best Starfleet captains are those who face their fears head on and overcome. I have no idea if this series is going to be crap or not, but when taken into context of the prequel series (Ajax), the themes of command and loss are unavoidable and are completely appropriate here.

Ref: https://www.facebook.com/Starship-Ajax-111286342269229/

Really difficult to expect an audience to care about a prequel series that was aborted before it even started and then expect everyone to follow along and give two shits about it in the broader context of the new show. Unless Ajax is still happening? I don't know; they keep shutting down and starting up again that it's impossible to know WTF is going on with them.

Either way, if this is a pilot for a new fan film series, they're really stacking the deck against themselves by doing this.