Star Trek Excalibur starts Kickstarter! Please help!

[Captain_Nelson]

Everyone Please support Star Trek Excalibur and make a pledge!

We have gone through a LOT since beginning, the worst of it being the BULLDOZING of our sets a few years back, the subsequent going bankrupt of the person that did it and having our law suit end with no compensation for what was done!
Here is a link to a video of what the original sets looked like days before their destruction. http://youtu.be/d760gE11CGM The new sets will look even BETTER!!

Right now Excalibur is only asking for a $2 Pledge (More is OK, there are some pretty cool incentives for higher pledges), no actual fulfillment of any pledge is made until the goal is reached and the Fundraiser ends January 7th 2012! There are Millions and Millions of Star Trek fans in the world, all we need is 37,000 of you to each pledge $2 each (it is OK to pledge more too)! Please help make some excellent Trek for everybody!

One of our main goals is for the Hollywood professionals that are part of our crew to pass on their experience to Students interested in working in the Industry some day, all at no cost and you will get to watch some excellent episodes too ! We have some Great scripts all ready to go (8 of them already!)
Please help!

There are only 55 days left to go! Please pass this link on to everyone that you think would help!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/excalibur/star-trek-excalibur

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/excalibur/star-trek-excalibur

NO PROFIT WILL BE MADE BY THE PLEDGES, 100% OF PLEDGES WILL GO TOWARD THE PRODUCTION OF EPISODES, WHICH WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR FREE ONLINE.

 

[MarsWeeps]

I hope you guys do well but I had to "unlike" your Facebook site because you were spamming it with the pledge drive several times a day, sometimes a few hours apart.

Just a suggestion...less can be more!

 

[Captain_Nelson]

Please relike us
We only have 55 days left to promote this and we may have gone a bit overboard in this first week.

 

[MarsWeeps]

Please relike us
We only have 55 days left to promote this and we may have gone a bit overboard in this first week.

Why the deadline? I'd like to see you succeed but not be "under the gun" and stop production if you don't meet the time frame.

I pledged $10 towards the cause, looking forward to it.

 

[Captain_Nelson]

The Kickstarter program is a Timed fundraising program.
This is what it says on the Kickstarter page for the show "This project will only be funded if at least $75,000 is pledged by Saturday Jan 7, 5:22pm PST"
Also its only 54 days now. I wish it were open ended.

 

[Captain_Nelson]

Thank You!

 

[JimTheBuilder]

Best of luck...those sets were bloody fantastic and the guy who bulldozed them is sure to smoke a turd in hell for doing it.

 

[Captain Atkin]

Why the deadline? I'd like to see you succeed but not be "under the gun" and stop production if you don't meet the time frame.

I pledged $10 towards the cause, looking forward to it.

"Kickstarter" sets up a deadline for any film that fundraises on their website.

I'm very interested to see how this fundraising project works out. I worry though that the $75,000 fundraising goal may be to high. Especially within a 60 day time frame. With Kickstarter, if you fail to reach your goal, all the money that is raised goes back to the people who donated. I find it is better to ask for less, because you can always raise over that amount. A "Sailor Moon" fan film that asked for $2000 on Kickstarter ended up raising over $9000.

 

[Maurice]

While I wish you luck I'm very skeptical this can happen. The goal seems incredibly high for yet another Star Trek fanfilm. Frankly, the pitch doesn't tell me why I should give a darn, as it's just starships blasting each other...again. It's just not compelling.

 

[CmdrAJD]

I followed your project during your original set construction and was saddened (and more than a bit pissed off) about what happened to them. I was astounded that anyone would just come in and demolish all of that work.

In any case, I've made my pledge. Good luck!

 

[MarsWeeps]

The Kickstarter program is a Timed fundraising program.
This is what it says on the Kickstarter page for the show "This project will only be funded if at least $75,000 is pledged by Saturday Jan 7, 5:22pm PST"
Also its only 54 days now. I wish it were open ended.

I guess my next question would be, why use the Kickstarter program at all? Why not just have a fundraiser using a Paypal acccount for donations and that way you won't be under a deadline.

If you don't meet the $75,000 via the Kickstarter program, what's plan B? Do you give up at that point? Or, as someone else suggested, why not lower the goal to make it more likely to achieve?

 

[gastrof]

Could I ask just what happened with the destroying of the sets? Who? How? Why?

I'm curious about how this happened. Would have sent a private message, but the OP doesn't seem to allow private messaging.

 

[Maurice]

The target is just too high. One third of the time in towards the deadline they're only 1/36th of the way to their goal (less than 3%). To put this in perspective: they'd need to raise $1,778.27 every day for the next 41 days to reach their goal.

 

[dayxday1000]

The target is just too high. One third of the time in towards the deadline they're only 1/36th of the way to their goal (less than 3%). To put this in perspective: they'd need to raise $1,778.27 every day for the next 41 days to reach their goal.

Agree. The Pepsi contest seemed unrealistic and so does this. I wish these guys all the best and I hope it comes to fruition, but seriously...

 

[MarsWeeps]

The target is just too high. One third of the time in towards the deadline they're only 1/36th of the way to their goal (less than 3%). To put this in perspective: they'd need to raise $1,778.27 every day for the next 41 days to reach their goal.

Not...gonna...happen.

 

[Captain_Nelson]

There is always a chance. But with a negative attitude.......
If people had voted for Excalibur in the Pepsi Refresh project, Excalibur would not be even asking for Pledges. Even now if just the 1438 Facebook fans each pledged about $50 each, the goal would be reached. I don't know if anyone has any idea of what this sort of project cost to make, the amount being asked for in this fundraiser wont do it all, but it can make it happen.
The thing that is needed is people, people to know about it and to pledge, Excalibur is only asking for $2 (yes you can pledge more) from every Star Trek fan that can be pointed at the direction of the fundraiser web site. Seriously if only 37,000 of the Millions and Millions of Star Trek fans out there just pledged that $2 the goal would be easily reached!

So instead of saying it "can't be done" why not Pledge $2 and get everyone you know to do the same and have them get everyone they know to do it to(and so on and so on etc)? Maybe it CAN be done! I am sure everyone could spare $2 for a project that will be exciting and interesting to see.

 

[MarsWeeps]

There is always a chance. But with a negative attitude...

I don't think it's so much a negative attitude as it is a realistic one. The combination of the high dollar amount needed in such a short time frame probably doomed this from the start. Sure I'd like to see it happen but maybe if you just had a general fundraiser or donation page and didn't make people feel that you are "under the gun" time wise would have yielded better results.

If people had voted for Excalibur in the Pepsi Refresh project, Excalibur would not be even asking for Pledges.

Never heard of it...was it posted somewhere?

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

So instead of saying it "can't be done" why not Pledge $2 and get everyone you know to do the same and have them get everyone they know to do it to(and so on and so on etc)? Maybe it CAN be done! I am sure everyone could spare $2 for a project that will be exciting and interesting to see.

But I don't see why I should pledge $2. As was mentioned upthread, the trailer doesn't give us any reason as to why we should care about this fan film — it's just ships in space, a Kirk soundbite ripped from a video game and some dude putting on a uniform.

 

[Potemkin_Prod]

Equally important, why should a viewer give $2 (or $50) to your production instead of all the others asking for donations?

 

[Captain Atkin]

Equally important, why should a viewer give $2 (or $50) to your production instead of all the others asking for donations?

The amazing FX in this trailer do make the production stand out. I think what is missing is the live-action component. A future trailer with a few shots of the crew in uniform on the bridge could help raise funds.