Star Trek: Anthology
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This is only their first try. They are working with a composer to improve it. But it does give you the general idea of where they want to go.
Here's another theme for Assignment Earth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmynXHrR74w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmynXHrR74w
Sorry I haven't been in much, but I've just been so damn busy!!
We're gearing up for a location shoot for episode 2 at the end of this month, then in August we will be shooting all our shipboard stuff for both eps 1 and 2.
Also, in the spirit of "One Big Happy Fleet", we will have cameos in ep #2 from THREE other fan productions as they come to the aid of Captain Colt...one of which has already shot their few lines.
Suffice to say, this train is rolling down the tracks!
We're gearing up for a location shoot for episode 2 at the end of this month, then in August we will be shooting all our shipboard stuff for both eps 1 and 2.
Also, in the spirit of "One Big Happy Fleet", we will have cameos in ep #2 from THREE other fan productions as they come to the aid of Captain Colt...one of which has already shot their few lines.
Suffice to say, this train is rolling down the tracks!
Looks like Anthology has dropped a teaser trailer.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoCZ-EAq2_A[/yt]
I guess Ajax got blowed up real good after all.
The story seems to be, at least in the trailer to be very similar in tone and content really to Dreadnought Dominion and Starship Valiant: Haunted commanders unsure they want to take command and having to be convinced by some superior to do so.
Valiant did that better, I think. Dominion did it worse.
It'd be great if fan films would branch out (story-wise) in to new ground though. This is getting tiresome.
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoCZ-EAq2_A[/yt]
I guess Ajax got blowed up real good after all.
The story seems to be, at least in the trailer to be very similar in tone and content really to Dreadnought Dominion and Starship Valiant: Haunted commanders unsure they want to take command and having to be convinced by some superior to do so.
Valiant did that better, I think. Dominion did it worse.
It'd be great if fan films would branch out (story-wise) in to new ground though. This is getting tiresome.
This trailer/video for "Starship Challenger" is a couple of years old now.
("Commander Chapel" refers to the character referred to by Captain Pike as his "Number One"--played by Majel Barrett.) I guess that makes it somewhere between lazy and fanboy-clever.
Oh. I had assumed it was new since the Star Trek Anthology folks posted it to YouTube on July 22, and shared it on Facebook this morning from their website. My mistake.
Too many fan filmmakers mistake melodramatic hand-wringing for characterization and story. No one cares that Cmdr. Mesoangsty is having doubts about themselves, especially after the Starship Bullseye gets crippled, and watching Admiral Snapoutofit order them to buck up doesn't move the needle on the giveaflyingfig scale.
I'm hoping to see something interesting, but I would be perfectly happy to never see another "Captain Questioning" fan film again. I don't like the idea because it tends to pull agency away from the ostensible protagonist, and put it in the hands of a superior going "Attaboy."
Valiant pulled it off surprisingly well; Dominion much less so.
Valiant pulled it off surprisingly well; Dominion much less so.
I have a website devoted to not-appropriate-for-children Trek, but it does not include outright porn.
Gay Trek is on the main website (Star Trek Reviewed) unless I believe it would be inappropriate for children if the same interaction was heterosexual.
http://startrekrestricted.blogspot.com/
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Yeah we kinda did that too. I guess it's a popular motif.
Exactly. All future Star Trek fan filmmakers should study up this single 45 second clip, which in a very short time establishes clearly who the two main characters are and how they relate to each other, and even hints at the final battle of the episode (where Kirk manages to outthink and outmanoeuvre a seemingly Superior intellect),
[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj5GjmDT0G4[/yt]
And that scene also foreshadows the conflict between Kirk and Spock throughout the episode — where Kirk's emotions cloud his judgement while Spock tries to be rational about the situation ("Kill Mitchell while you still can.").
I also love how the bits about having "bad blood" and "act like you have a heart" comes back at the end, with: https://youtu.be/ORBGSaBZynw?t=8m16s
(Sorry couldn't get the youtube code to work.)
I've said it once and I'll say it again: fan filmmakers, especially those writing scripts, should study what makes WNMHGB tick. It's the quintessential "Star Trek" episode — Kirk takes a risk that endangers the ship and must make a decisive, gut-wrenching decision.
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WHNHGB? I called a friend who says you are talking about Where No Man Has Gone Before, even though I'd have thought that would be WNMHGB, but it works in your sentence.
Here is a vignette for the aborted fan series 'Assignment: Earth'.
"It has been a number of months since Miss Roberta Lincoln has been working for Agent Gary Seven. Her duties have tended to consist of 90% boredom, 10% chaos. In this vignette, we get a glimpse of that 90%, but all of that is about to change..."
Although they have decided not to move forward at this time with any more Star Trek fan productions they are making their own independent web series called 'The Outer Rim'.
www.exploretheouterrim.com
"It has been a number of months since Miss Roberta Lincoln has been working for Agent Gary Seven. Her duties have tended to consist of 90% boredom, 10% chaos. In this vignette, we get a glimpse of that 90%, but all of that is about to change..."
Although they have decided not to move forward at this time with any more Star Trek fan productions they are making their own independent web series called 'The Outer Rim'.
www.exploretheouterrim.com
