Fanfilms that almost made it!

[XCV330]

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I've always thought that if the audio from Secret of Vulcan Fury were ever recovered that a fun Fan made animated film could be made from it. Sadly it's almost 30 years now, and I don't suppose some magic hard drive is going to finally show up with the audio.

 

[Bixby]

could you tell us what Vulcan Fury was all about?

 

[Akillaprise]

Finding this long lost game would be a gamer's dream come true.

Star Trek: Secret of Vulcan Fury - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Star Trek: Secret of Vulcan Fury is a cancelled action-adventure game, in development by Interplay Entertainment from 1997 until its cancellation in 1999. Based on the Star Trek: The Original Series license, the game would have followed Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise through a series of adventures regarding the Vulcan and Romulan races. Secret of Vulcan Fury was to have been the latest in a series of games produced by Interplay based on the license. It would have featured a control method similar to those seen in LucasArts games of that period, and nearly seven hours of full motion video capture using clay models.

The storyline was written by former Star Trek writer D.C. Fontana, while the script was created by John Meredyth Lucas. A promotional cereal competition was run in conjunction with Quaker Oats. Despite this promotion, the game was cancelled with estimates placing it at only 5% completion. The cast of The Original Series had already recorded their voices.

 

[Maurice]

Having worked in game development, it boggles my mind that they'd record the voice actors so early in development, unless, perhaps, they worried that they wouldn't all be around by the time they finished.

 

[Danlav05]

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I've always thought that if the audio from Secret of Vulcan Fury were ever recovered that a fun Fan made animated film could be made from it. Sadly it's almost 30 years now, and I don't suppose some magic hard drive is going to finally show up with the audio.

Unless it's in an archive somewhere

 

[Bixby]

I've always thought that if the audio from Secret of Vulcan Fury were ever recovered that a fun Fan made animated film could be made from it. Sadly it's almost 30 years now, and I don't suppose some magic hard drive is going to finally show up with the audio.

wouldn't it be much simpler to just take the script and fix it up if needed, and recast the characters?

But it likely would not get made, the script and whatever recordings and artwork already produced are the property of Paramount (or whomever owns Trek now).

 

[Bixby]

He's still active on Facebook; I follow him there because I keep hoping one day to be able to afford to commission a TOS uniform from him.

I had a look at his Facebook, a year's worth, and pretty much all he talks about are the costume/props/ insignia/braids replicas that he sells (to his credit they do look very good!).
I don't really feel like trudging through hundreds of FB postings to discover the reasons why he gave up on making more Excalibur shorts a decade ago...

Next up for this nostalgia thread, 2 more Starbase Studios productions to examine...(if anyone has aborted productions for me to examine here, sound off! I don't have that many left to go!)

To set the record straight, I'm in no way chastising the producers of these films for closing up shop, as I fully understand starting a project/production and halting it before the finish line since I have a few of those myself (not Trek, but regular films- some were stopped due to lack of money, writer's block, etc.)

My hope however, is to generate new interest in these, and who knows what could happen...

 

[XCV330]

Unless it's in an archive somewhere

its one of those holy grail things. I keep hoping it will be found. It's unbelievable that it all got destroyed before archiving.

 

[Danlav05]

its one of those holy grail things. I keep hoping it will be found. It's unbelievable that it all got destroyed before archiving.

Interplay got bought, or went bust or something. So it might be somewhere!

 

[Therin of Andor]

Does he mention anything about trek at all, apart from selling his costume recreations?

He contributes to posts on the "'Star Trek -- The Motion Picture' Appreciation Society" Facebook Group.

 

[MCKurland]

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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I really wish that those final episodes had been given permission to be finished.