Fanfilms that almost made it!

[Bixby]

Some years ago Trek fanfilms dropped onto Youtube at a glorious rate, of various levels of craftmanship. As most of us know, the hammer came down quite hard on many people's ambitions to make Trek films, although some still keep appearing if you look hard enough for them.

But I'd like this thread to present some of them that were already filmed/partly filmed and were on their way through post-production.

Today's presentation is James Cawley's final ST: New Voyages production. A few others like torment of Destiny and The Protracted Man were released in incomplete form, yet still close enough to get a feel for the episode. For a long time I believed there was only one or two short clips for this episode that roamed out in Youtubeland, but the following bit seems to have gathered together a lot of this specific film`s content.

I'd like to dedicate this posting to the memory of the great Gregory L. Schnitzer, who was an awesome moderator and contributor for this fanfilm section specifically, also an associate producer for this Cawley Productions in upper NY state.

BREAD AND SAVAGERY was intended to be a sequel to the OG Trek episode BREAD & CIRCUSES...

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Today's long lost fanfilm is the lesser-known EXETER TREK, a Cage-era production with, I presume, Atlanta-based actors (I recognize a few people that appeared on Starship Farragut episodes).

This production wasn't on my social media, so I have no idea what happened to all their footage, if they were close to airing, if they ever plan to release it...(if anyone knows, please share with us!)

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(oof, the effects are a bit dodgy...)

 

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By the mid-23rd century, the United Earth Space Probe Agency had ventured deep into known space. Now a new mission with twelve Starship class vessels. The task – reach further into the unchar…

exetertrek.com

Even 8 years later, their website is still active!

We even discussed their trailer back in 2016

Exeter Trek: "Our Dearest Blood".

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'. I admit that I'm not too sure about the title music, but apart from...

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Quite a few scenes in all those videos, yet we still don't really know what their film would have been about? I kinda get the feeling these Federation people beam down to a planet and everyone has become zombie types that can still fire a phaser weapon.
It's a bit jarring to see the redhead security guy 's phaser set on disintegrate when he could just as easily stun.
A few of the scenes are bizarre choices for a trailer, like the Captain being called by the whistle thing, punching the wall communicator, and chewing out someone without knowing who is at the end of the call...
I do like the old refinery setting they chose for their filming...