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Star Trek - Project: Potemkin "The Hunt" S04-B NOW ON-LINE

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A landing party from the Potemkin is engaged in a search for a new medicine found on what is purported to be an uninhabited planet. Yeah, right! Can Commander Cooper and the landing party solve the mystery of 'The Hunt'?

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Starring MJ Johnson as Commander Cooper, Bill Mackenzie as Science Officer Quentin Caley, Sara Higgins Mackenzie as Navigator Ziandra Yanari and Nic Wawruck as Security Officer Keith Meyers. Guest starring James Green and Ashley Longacre. With Randall Landers and William C. Searcy.

Written by David A. MacKenzie. Directed by Bill and Sara Mackenzie. Edited by Randall Landers. VFX by Skyler Foxx. Music by Tony Lunn. Associate Producer/Webmaster Michael Day. Producer David A. MacKenzie. Co-Executive Producer: Rick Foxx. Executive Producer / Web Series Creator Randall Landers.
 
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It did end up with a lot of great lines and Nic's expressions are priceless.
 
There was a real discussion about that swamp scene with Nic. The question was whether or not we should stay with the shot on him for as long as we did. I insisted we stick with it because, well, it made me laugh. His expressions are mirroring his own feelings about sitting in a damned Southwest Georgia swamp, in 95°F heat, in 100% humidity, bugs everywhere, and he stays in character as a security officer on a crappy assignment on a craptastic planet, and he just has fun with it. That's what made me keep his scene as long as it did.
 
Has Michael Johnson had any other acting credits before this episode?
 
Mj made his voice over debut for The Last Child. He will appear again in Destinies. As far as I know, he's done some other acting. He was very well prepared for every episode he appeared in. He also built the Sickbay bed.
 
At the rate Potemkin Pictures is turning these out, the next one should be due in about a week to ten day?
 
Thank you for this, I enjoyed the story. I have a few questions.

Was there actually any prey on the planet?

Were the small nets and whacking sticks given to the Starfleet officers as a joke by the aliens or were they for real?

Also, would Starfleet officers of that time period agree to take part in the hunting of a sentient species, even just to win the trust of these aliens?
 
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Every alien planet has their version of a "snipe". I wonder if a "snipe hunt" is an American tradition or if there are any international versions of hunting an imaginary animal as part of an initiation? I was introduced to snipe hunting in the Boy Scouts.
 
The people of Salamud were technology advanced, spent some time among the stars but after a while it was no longer a priority for them. I assume they had built up a distrust of other races they encountered and devised a test to discover if a race was who they claimed to be. The test was based on some historical event of betrayal in their past and due to the fact that all the races who failed the test never spoke of it, I would consider the cost of failure was fairly extreme.
 
Zaminhon said:
Every alien planet has their version of a "snipe". I wonder if a "snipe hunt" is an American tradition or if there are any international versions of hunting an imaginary animal as part of an initiation? I was introduced to snipe hunting in the Boy Scouts.
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As most of us were. I doubt it's distinctly American.
 
Philip Guyott said:
Thank you for this, I enjoyed the story. I have a few questions.

Was there actually any prey on the planet?

Were the small nets and whacking sticks given to the Starfleet officers as a joke by the aliens or were they for real?

Also, would Starfleet officers of that time period agree to take part in the hunting of a sentient species, even just to win the trust of these aliens?
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1) Nope.
2) a ruse
3) not sure why you think Snipes would be intelligent?
 
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not sure why you think Snipes would be intelligent?
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Snipes are a type of bird.
snipe_kirchmeier.jpg

Intelligence and sentience is not necessarily the same thing.
I am not American, nor were I a boy scout, so I was unfamiliar with your use of the term.
 
For the "uninitiated": ;)


From the urban Dictionary ..

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=snipe hunt

A North-American prank and rite of passage wherein older adolescents take younger boys into the wilderness for the supposed purpose of “snipe hunting.” Snipes are an imaginary game bird purported to resemble quails or pheasants or what have you (the fictional snipe is not to be confused with the extant North American shorebird of that same name). Snipe hunts take place on moonless nights; the victims are provided burlap bags with which to catch the birds, while the conspirators spot them with flashlights. The conspirators make birdcalls, through rocks in the bushes, and urgently cry out “snipe” to make the victims believe that there are actually birds in the area. The victims don’t want to be the only one who can’t see the imaginary birds, so they claim to have seen them also. Pretty soon the victims have convinced each other they are surrounded by snipes and proceed to run about foolishly in search of the non-existent birds. “Dude right there didn’t you see it?” The conspirators will often agree that they have just seen a snipe in that cactus patch or lake or thorny bush and order then the victims to dive in and catch it with his respective sack. The victims are then often abandoned by their guides, thus completing the joke. The cycle repeats when this year’s dupes become privy to the joke and then take their younger brothers out the following year, in search of the ever-illusive snipe.
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There's also an article in Wikipedia:


An excerpt from Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipe_hunt
This article is about impossible tasks, often referred to as fool’s errands. For other uses, see Fool's errand (disambiguation). ...
A snipe hunt or fool's errand is a type of practical joke that involves experienced people making fun of credulous newcomers by giving them an impossible or imaginary task.[1] The snipe hunt may be assigned to a target as part of a process of hazing, but the word "sniper" is derived from a marksman with enough skill to shoot one.

A snipe hunt is a specific type of "wild-goose chase", where a person embarks on an impossible search. Where a wild-goose chase may be accidental, a snipe hunt is always initiated by a second person, as a prank.[2]

It should also be noted that Snipe do in fact exist, and they can be, and are hunted for sport. While the term 'Snipe Hunt' is most commonly used as described above, Snipe Hunting is ironically a real pursuit. [3]

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I still haven't found that " Left-Handed-Smoke-Shifter" or that elusive bottle of "Elbow Grease".
 
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The couple of times we did this at the lodge, it was played on the wife of a member who wanted to become involved but didn't know how. It was followed up with a campfire, ribs and a guitar, was always a good time but over the years the actual hunt became just an excuse to go.
(edit) Randy did an excellent job of recreating a daytime version of a Snipe Hunt.
 
I'm sure that the only things that weren't imaginary in the film were the alien-mutant-6-foot-long mosquitoes. That swamp environment looked brutal to film in.
 
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