Exeter

[Psion]

I can't wait for this to come out. I'm holding out on watching Act III until it does, but I'm not sure how much longer I can keep this up.

Charlie

Act III? I haven't seen anything after the teaser, I've been so determined to enjoy this whole thing in one sitting! I've been in the back seat of this car since we picked up a 32-oz Big Gulp two years ago and Dennis et al still refuse to pull over and give me the relief I need!

Sweet zombie jesus, man! Are we there yet?!!

 

[Trekwatcher]

Well, these guys are consistent; they do not rush their work. I gave up wondering when the next part would come out a long time ago. When it is out, I will watch it. Until then, I am not gonna lose sleep over it.

 

[Psion]

Easy for you to say ... you're not the one who really has to pee!

 

[Kagan]

Easy for you to say ... you're not the one who really has to pee!

Sorry Psion, we can't stop the car right now. No, we're not there yet, but we are headed in that direction...I hope. Until then, you've got three choices: 1) use that empty soda cup from the last fast food drive-thru, 2) hang IT out the window, or 3) hold it just a little longer.

To Exeter...
Hey, gas is $4 a gallon! We need to get there soon because driving Psion around in circles is becoming expensive.

 

[Psion]

God-DAMN! Doctor Pepper really hurts when it comes up through one's nose!

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

From Josh Johnson ("Joshua Caleb/B'fuselek") over at www.starshippolaris.com:

Dennis, others, I watched the rough cut with jimm this weekend.

All in all you can tell that everything is there and that it will be good, and should be done before the end of this year.

Having said that, it is still rough, and needs plenty more tendar love and care to get it to match the quality of the other acts.

on a slightly diffrent note, but still one of interest to exeter fans, Jimm, Mike Buford and myself sat around a few nights ago at a local bar, had a few pitchers of beer, and talked about plans for the next exeter episode!

We have some pretty good ideas and it looks likely that there will be at least one more show, but time will tell on that one.

Link

 

[Tallguy]

Awesome news, Dennis. Really looking forward to having this whole and complete.

Wow, another Exeter episode. Best of luck with that. Fan films is hard.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I'd love to see another "Exeter" myself.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

I'd love to see another "Exeter" myself.

So would I.

 

[Kagan]

I'd love to see another "Exeter" myself.

So would I.

Extremely Ditto Here

My only hope is when they start churning out the next set of Exeter acts that Psion will be old enough to drive himself.

 

[Jim Gamma]

I don't care about another Exeter. I just want THIS one finished first! THEN I'll start to care.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I just want THIS one finished first!

You and me both, Bunky.

 

[Noname Given]

I'd love to see another "Exeter" myself.

So would I.

Extremely Ditto Here

My only hope is when they start churning out the next set of Exeter acts that Psion will be old enough to drive himself.

So would I - but they'd have to fast-forward to the TOS movie-era time frame so their character's ages would match the actor's physical ages; and thus would avoid a big WTF from the audience asling why these characters aged so much by the time the third episode is finished.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

So would I - but they'd have to fast-forward to the TOS movie-era time frame so their character's ages would match the actor's physical ages; and thus would avoid a big WTF from the audience asling why these characters aged so much by the time the third episode is finished.

Nah, not really. Just do it, and let the few folks who might fret about that come up with explanations of their own.

That's how us old-timey geezers dealt with inconsistencies back in the NBC days, when the Trek folks were too busy actually making a TV series to hold our hands.

 

[Trekwatcher]

Now, I enjoy all of the ST TOS Fan films, especially Exeter, Farragut, and NV (or Phase II...), but as I have said before I think Exeter is the real standout that comes closest to really embodying the spirit of TOS (and I know many who feel the same way).

That having been said, they seem to get the least press of all the fan films, which makes me nuts. What gives? Is it the problems with the production schedule or something else?

 

[Tallguy]

Trekwatcher, I totally agree on all counts. New Voyages has done extraordinary things in the last couple of episodes, but even before that they always got the lion's share of the press. Exeter has not only felt the most like TOS (to me) but has been the most "uncontaminated" by later Trek. (Maybe I can use a less confrontational word like "unsullied". )

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Yeah, I think it's largely because of the lack of real news about "Exeter" at any given time. We've been given reason to expect a little bit of a bump-up from several sites when the entire current episode is finally available, and I think that's fair.

If we view making these things as a competition for publicity we're certainly behind the 8-ball because of our unpredicted lengthy post-production. I think most of the folks who make fan films do it mainly for the joy of doing it and of being appreciated, and the fact that - as you say - the feedback and word-of-mouth that "Exeter" does get is overwhelmingly positive in most every way that we could hope for is the most important kind of attention. Hopefully that will continue to be so.

Exeter has not only felt the most like TOS (to me) but has been the most "uncontaminated" by later Trek. (Maybe I can use a less confrontational word like "unsullied". )

Certainly a large part of the artistic goal of the "Exeter" producers has been to present the show in a style as if it were being created more-or-less contemporaneous with the Original Series. That extends to details of terminology, production design and so forth.

Landing parties rather than away teams was a no-brainer, but I had to be reminded during the scripting phase that we had a "hangar deck" rather than a "shuttle bay." "Corinth IV" is a planet actually mentioned in TOS.

There are little "improvements" here and there, but always intended to be within the scope of the original design approach. Hopefully this is evident in things like the design of Tressaurian ships (and the rubber-headed Tressaurians themselves) and the "Tressaurian device."

I've joked with Jimm that if there's another episode of "Exeter" I'd like to see the Tressaurian device turned upside down and repainted and installed in a corner of the engine room as some kind of special equipment - sort of like the Nomad/Flint's robot recycling.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Exeter has not only felt the most like TOS (to me) but has been the most "uncontaminated" by later Trek. (Maybe I can use a less confrontational word like "unsullied". )

Certainly a large part of the artistic goal of the "Exeter" producers has been to present the show in a style as if it were being created more-or-less contemporaneous with the Original Series. That extends to details of terminology, production design and so forth.

Of all the fan films, and I do enjoy NV/PII a lot, Starship Exeter feels as if it is a spin-off of the Original Series. I joked once that Exeter is what might've happened if NBC, Desliu/Paramount and Roddenberry got sick of the Shatner/Nimoy feud. Exeter feels like it's made in the mid-60s to early-70s.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Of all the fan films, and I do enjoy NV/PII a lot, Starship Exeter feels as if it is a spin-off of the Original Series. I joked once that Exeter is what might've happened if NBC, Desliu/Paramount and Roddenberry got sick of the Shatner/Nimoy feud. Exeter feels like it's made in the mid-60s to early-70s.

That's pretty much the way I thought about it while I was working on it - that it's a 1970/71 spin-off of "Star Trek." And I assumed that there was no future "modern Trek" universe in existence for me to know anything about or worry about.

Now, as far as I know Jimm Johnson is pretty respectful of modern continuity even though most of it doesn't interest him. But I've said to him for years that if there were ever an episode of "Exeter" where we saw a century into the future it would be fun if it were an early-70s projection of what Trek's future might be like, rather than one based on the actual continuity built up since the return in 1979.

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

That's pretty much the way I thought about it while I was working on it - that it's a 1970/71 spin-off of "Star Trek." And I assumed that there was no future "modern Trek" universe in existence for me to know anything about or worry about.

Which is the route that I wished NV/PII had taken as well since in some of their episodes they seem to service a lot of what came after TOS. However, it doesn't make it any less enjoyable.

Now, as far as I know Jimm Johnson is pretty respectful of modern continuity even though most of it doesn't interest him. But I've said to him for years that if there were ever an episode of "Exeter" where we saw a century into the future it would be fun if it were an early-70s projection of what Trek's future might be like, rather than one based on the actual continuity built up since the return in 1979.

That would be awesome cool.