Exeter Act Three Has Been Released
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It is a bit odd to see a cringing Andorian...
Finally, well worth the wait...The Starship Exeter crew has outdone themselves yet again...(and have done so much better than the "Professionals") Jimm /Josh et all should be proud for capturing the style and spirit of TOS..an actual PLOT instead of special effects... 2 thumbs WAYYYY up on this one...
Good to hear because I really enjoy the relationship between the big four (Garrovick, Cutty, Harris and B'Fuselek), who harken back to the crew dynamics of the original pilot "The Cage." And while I am a huge supporter of New Voyages and their TOS-modern style, I really love that Exeter looks and feels like a show made in the late 60s. It's as if NBC spun off Star Trek and made Starship Exeter as a companion series. Even the CGI has an almost model-like quality to it (good job, Dennis!).
Finally, Act III comes out and I don't even notice for two weeks. That figures.
Well, I'll download it next year.
Just kidding. Downloading now.
Great work guys. You have been consistently putting out good product on par with New Voyages. I hate to say this I felt like I have stepped back in time to the Late 60's and I am watching New Star Trek Eps.
Good stuff. Some interesting background info on the captain. One thing I didn't like was Garrovick being a killjoy on Ensign Richards' idealism. One thing I've liked about Exeter, strangely enough, is how both Garrovick and Harris are so amusingly unlikable, but no corrupting the cute young ensign, please. 
Anyway, it's the middle of the story, so there's not much else to say. Can't wait till next year and Act IV.
Anyway, it's the middle of the story, so there's not much else to say. Can't wait till next year and Act IV.
Exeter would be better if they just released their ep all at once. I do like what is released but I can't remember what happened to the last part I watched so I'll have to download those and watch them first. I'll probably just wait till the entire thing is up sometime next decade.
I don't think anyone's ''unlikeable.'' I think Garrovick's character if anything hearkens too much to the ''Kirk-model'' and less to an ''original design.'' However, if perhaps later on Kirk when serving under him on Farragut becomes his role model, then perhaps he incorporates the ''stuffed shirt'' persona as his own. Actually that brings up a question I have about the timeline. I'm not sure which Garrovick this is. Is this Charlie Garrovick or his son that appears in TOS?
Harris isn't unlikable either. She's very confident and it's nice to see a first officer not be the obligatory Vulcan and also be ready to give her captain some grief when necessary.
Richards is adorable and there's just no other way to say it--and yet she's not just a standard push-over girlie either. She's green and yet ambitious.
Cutty as a character is believable and it's nice to ''fill in'' that station on the bridge that we never saw. It's nice for a captain to have a buddy relationship and history with someone other than his first officer too. Reminds me of the Kirk-Mitchell relationship.
I'll admit one thing I'm waiting for in a fan-produced series is a captain like Matt Decker (William Windom), who is so confident and driven that he's not so much of a stuffed shirt.
Harris isn't unlikable either. She's very confident and it's nice to see a first officer not be the obligatory Vulcan and also be ready to give her captain some grief when necessary.
Richards is adorable and there's just no other way to say it--and yet she's not just a standard push-over girlie either. She's green and yet ambitious.
Cutty as a character is believable and it's nice to ''fill in'' that station on the bridge that we never saw. It's nice for a captain to have a buddy relationship and history with someone other than his first officer too. Reminds me of the Kirk-Mitchell relationship.
I'll admit one thing I'm waiting for in a fan-produced series is a captain like Matt Decker (William Windom), who is so confident and driven that he's not so much of a stuffed shirt.
There's definitely a different dynamic involved. If anything, to me Garrovick is more out of the introspective Pike model than the flashy and dynamic Kirk model. While Cutty and Garrovick are clearly friends, they don't have the same kind of drinking buddy relationship that Kirk and McCoy had. It's interesting to look at the way a different personality affects the relationships between the members of the command structure. It's very different than TOS, but it works.
Garrovick on "Exeter" is the nephew of the Captain Garrovick that James Kirk served under.
Yeah, I see Garrovick as a Pike-type commanding officer who internalizes his decisions but still has a confidant in Cutty. As I said before, the characters of Exeter remind me of the dynamics in "The Cage" -- i.e. The Captain (Pike/Garrovick), the First Officer (Number One/Harris), the confidant (Boyce/Cutty), the alien (Spock/B'fuselek) and the yeoman (Colt/Richardson).
K'riq Sa
Commodore
DL'ed it yesterday and watched the early eps first to catch up. Great friggen work guys. Everyone did a great job, and loved the doc, can't wait to see him bloom in his part, he really is a great mirror to Bones. Keep it up can't wait for the part 4.
astoundedly,
K'riq Sa
Minister of the Church of Missing Vowels
astoundedly,
K'riq Sa
Minister of the Church of Missing Vowels
When I said Garrovick and Harris were "amusingly unlikable," I was being slightly facetious. They're definitely a humorless pair, though. Probably end up married....
^If they did, I feel bad for B'fuselek.
Oh, they'd adopt him.
It's funny how that kind of worked out. We tried to base the character dynamic on the TOS model (with the Spock character getting split into two people). As it is though, I can see the similarity to "The Cage." While Harris was always intended to cold and cerebral, ala Spock and Number One, I think Garrovick's perceived "humorless"-ness is tied more to the circumstances of this particular story than to the character in general. He makes a few attempts at humor in our first ep, "Savage Empire."
--Jimm
I can certainly see that, especially when your character attempts to make funny comments about B'Fuselek who obviously has no idea that they're funny at all and plain doesn't get it. However I can see more similarity in this episode to the "Pike - Spock - Boyce" relationship and actually kind of like it that way honestly. I always was intrigued by the character of Pike and honestly thought it was the best part of New Voyages second episode as the actor who played Pike in that episode was the best part, IMHO. I would love to see a series based in the Pike era with him playing the part.
I saw it more as Garrovick being the Guy Williams character from "Lost In Space," with B'fuselek as Will Robinson and Azato as Doctor Smith.
Harris is the Robot.
Harris is the Robot.
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