Exeter Trek: "Our Dearest Blood".

[Philip Guyott]

Here is a preview of a new fan series called 'Exeter Trek'. The story is about the first crew of the 'USS Exeter 1672', long before the events seen in TOS episode “The Omega Glory”. Episode one is titled 'Our Dearest Blood'.

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I admit that I'm not too sure about the title music, but apart from that this has real potential.
What do you guys think?

http://exetertrek.com/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4423726/
https://www.facebook.com/ExeterTrek/

 

[Maurice]

The photography looks okay. Hard to tell since most of it is outdoors.

It's a cool touch that the phaser lights up the [EDIT] LOWER rail, but anything powerful enough to vaporize an entire person is gonna melt that metal.

But 12 ships and they have to use the same one used by another fanfilm series. Oy.

That "stinger" was lame-o. Ooh, she was stunned and then she sits up. The horror.

 

[Philip Guyott]

One thing that did make me smile is that the Doctor commented that the Ambassadors life signs were weak, yet she was able to walk out of there.

It's a cool touch that the phaser lights up the rail, but anything powerful enough to vaporize an entire person is gonna melt that metal.

I suppose that could depend on which type of metal it is made from. But this begs the question, why was his phaser set to such a high setting? The Captain did not have his weapons set to vaporize.

But 12 ships and they have to use the same one used by another fanfilm series. Oy.

Was there another fan series with the USS Exeter in it?

 

[Maurice]

Hmmm... perhaps!

 

[Philip Guyott]

I just realized, that the Captain in ‘Exeter Trek’ (Captain Moorey), played by John Sims, was also in Starship Farragut: “The Crossing”. He was the Commodore who welcomed Captain Tacket to Starbase Six.

Hmmm... perhaps!

If I remember correctly, ‘Starship Exeter’ (Best fan film ever) was set after “The Omega Glory”. This new fan series is set long before that episode, so in a way it could be seen as a kind of prequel to ‘Starship Exeter’

 

[Maurice]

If I remember correctly, ‘Starship Exeter’ (Best fan film ever) was set after “The Omega Glory”. This new fan series is set long before that episode, so in a way it could be seen as a kind of prequel to ‘Starship Exeter’

Except the ships have different registries.

If one were cynical, one could assume the name was chosen so if someone googles "Exeter Star Trek" looking for Starship Exeter they'll find Exeter Trek (which, in fact, happens, as an article about the latter shows up as the 8th result in your search for "Exeter Star Trek" and obviously the first one if you search for Exeter and Trek).

If one were cynical.

 

[Treadwell]

That wasn't the rail glowing, his elbow was on this side of the railing.

 

[Wowbagger]

Impressed they were able to pull off The Cage-era uniforms and set design so effectively. Not much else to say, yet!

 

[Philip Guyott]

Except the ships have different registries.

Oh that’s right, 'Starship Exeter' went with registry NCC-1706 as listed in Franz Joseph's Star Fleet Technical Manual. The ship was later given the registry NCC-1672 in the Star Trek Encyclopaedia by Michael Okuda which in turn was based on speculations given in “The Case of Jonathan Doe Starship” (1975). As such is now regarded as canon by 'StarTrek.com' and 'Memory-Alpha'. The number was later confirmed we saw the CGI model recreation of the Exeter in the 2007 remastered version of "The Omega Glory", as seen below.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/USS_Exeter_(NCC-1672)
http://www.startrek.com/database_article/exeter-ncc-1672

I think 'Exeter Trek' are using the lower registry number to suggest that the Exeter predates the Enterprise, and was the prototype for the Constitution-class. The plot summery on IMDB suggests that the Exeter was launched twenty years before TOS, which would make the ship five years older than the Enterprise.

That wasn't the rail glowing, his elbow was on this side of the railing.

After seeing it again, I see where you are coming from. But if you look very carefully you can see that the bar in the middle of the guard rail turns red and remains so after the person has been vaporized. It's a very small detail, easy to miss, but is a nice effect.

 

[Maurice]

Yes, it was that lower rail I was indicating, not the upper one. It could be a mistake, but it looks intentional.

As to the NCC-1706, I had nothing to do with that decision. It goes back to "The Savage Empire", which I was not involved with. As to TTI, outside of editing Act 4, I contributed only lots of little things, like script notes/ideas, some artwork (signage for the corridors and Cutty's station screens), the fire control panel design, a few storyboards, etc.

 

[Philip Guyott]

As to the NCC-1706, I had nothing to do with that decision. It goes back to "The Savage Empire", which I was not involved with. I contributed only some script notes/ideas and some artwork to TTI, outside of editing Act 4.

I am not suggesting that 'Starship Exeter' made a mistake with their registry. The number was changed afterwards. In my view “The Case of Jonathan Doe Starship” is based on nothing more than mere conjecture. But for better or for worse it is now considered canon.

The only good thing with the lower construction registry is that it directly contradicts ‘Prelude to Axanar,’ which Alec Peters had said should be regarded as canon. Axanar had tried to suggest that the Enterprise was the first Constitution-class starship built.

 

[Maurice]

I wasn't suggesting you were suggesting it was a mistake. I was just indicating I had nothing to do with the decision, as your post's language I believe read "you", but it's been edited since so I can't double check.

 

[Philip Guyott]

I wasn't suggesting you were suggesting it was a mistake. I was just indicating I had nothing to do with the decision, as your post's language I believe read "you", but it's been edited since so I can't double check.

Yes I edited it as I didn’t want people to think I was trying to suggest that you had personally made mistake.

 

[Draculasaurus]

This looks fun.
I like the title music OK. It seems like an interesting re-think, having a naval vibe.

 

[Warped9]

Impressed they were able to pull off The Cage-era uniforms and set design so effectively. Not much else to say, yet!

Yeah, that Cage era bridge set made me drool. Very nice.

 

[USS Intrepid]

This is fun. Love the Cage look.

 

[trynda1701]

Interesting. And even more interesting, another Cage era Bridge.

Not sure if this is the same as the Star Trek: First Frontier Bridge, colour scheme slightly different, although that could be intentional to differentiate different ships. Upper screens black surround look smaller than the First Frontier one though, and there seem to be other small differences. Does anyone know where Exeter Trek was filmed for the Bridge scenes?

[EDIT]

I was looking on youtube for the Exeter Trek original promotional teaser, and the Bridge scenes in that are in classic TOS colours, possibly Starbase Studios Bridge? So it would still be interesting to know where the new scenes for the new trailer were filmed.

 

[Philip Guyott]

Interesting. And even more interesting, another Cage era Bridge.

Not sure if this is the same as the Star Trek: First Frontier Bridge, colour scheme slightly different, although that could be intentional to differentiate different ships. Upper screens black surround look smaller than the First Frontier one though, and there seem to be other small differences. Does anyone know where Exeter Trek was filmed for the Bridge scenes?

[EDIT]

I was looking on youtube for the Exeter Trek original promotional teaser, and the Bridge scenes in that are in classic TOS colours, possibly Starbase Studios Bridge? So it would still be interesting to know where the new scenes for the new trailer were filmed.

Exeter Trek is filmed at Farragut Films Studios. They modified TOS era sets to look like the Pilot era sets. Their website blog explains:

"Our interiors were shot at the then, Farragut Studios in late January. It was a 2 day, hardcore exercise in back dating the sets to our pilot era look"

http://exetertrek.com/blog/

 

[trynda1701]

Thank you Phillip. It makes me more intruiged to know where First Frontier's Bridge scenes were filmed, as there are small but noticible scale differences between the two.

Mark

 

[Philip Guyott]

Thank you Phillip. It makes me more intruiged to know where First Frontier's Bridge scenes were filmed, as there are small but noticible scale differences between the two.

Mark

I am sure they are different sets. 'Stage Nine' (formally Farragut Films studios) is in Kingsland, Georgia; whereas the First Frontier sets are in Marietta, Georgia. Here is the Facebook site for the First Frontier set:
www.facebook.com/pages/Star-Trek-First-Frontier-Set