A tenuous link but Chris Doohan is playing Scotty in STO - a fanfilm actor reprising his role in an official production (with Walter Koeing who of course was Chekov again in the To Serve All My Days, OGAM and Renegades fanfilms plus an upcoming audio story): http://www.startrek.com/article/stos-agents-of-yesterday-debuting-this-summer
Since Michele Specht and Kipleigh Brown are also in it, I guess that makes at least 4 if you include Vic.
That's cool that STC has led to some official franchise roles for the actors. Also, Fiona Vroom (Lolani) will be playing another "Green Girl" in the new film.
I guess there's a reason STC's people are being asked to participate in the franchise they love while Alec Peters is being sued...
What I meant by tropes were fan film tropes, such as but not limited to: Phone an admiral. Connecting the canon dots. Adding elements from later shows that are anachronistic to the original series. Thankfully, STC doesn't have endless space battles like some other fan productions.
When STC does "connect the canon dots" or call forward to species or tech that was not yet known in the original, its done very thoughtfully, imo. ..
Well, nearly every film has a sequence where an Admiral gives them the orders.. Why can't they just dive straight into the adventure?
It's a TNG trope that they've planted into the TOS-era. However, "The Tressaurian Intersection" does start in media res and has the best teaser of any fan film. Of course, it's also my favorite fan film hands down and not just because I have a minor credit at the end. No, but "Lolani" had a great deal of time spent where Kirk was constantly phoning the admiral on the situation. Things like that undercut the autonomy Kirk has as a captain on the frontier.
i like that.. I watch the Admirals, and the dialogue isn't all that wonderful.. And it's all delivered in one long gulp.
TOS often had sequences when Kirk communicated with admirals over subspace. I think that "phone an admiral" sequences could be fun, if they were done with self-awareness. Mission: Impossible always (or pretty much always) started out with a taped briefing. The catch phrase "Your mission, should you choose to accept it...." made that amusing and entertaining. I'm not suggesting exactly that, but if the writers are aware that "phone an admiral" sequences are clichés (they are) and bring some twists to the table with that in mind, so the sequences are not intended simply to play straight or are otherwise infused with some entertaining novelty, it might be effective. TNG managed to pull that sort of thing off, or at least make a good try, on at least two occasions: for example, with the "Captain Picard Day" scene in "The Pegasus," when Picard had that banner hanging in the background while he talked to Admiral Blackwell, and in the film INS, when Picard had the ridiculous thing on his head while he talked to Admiral Dougherty (with the added twist that that "phone call" served to introduce one of the film's villains). In "Lolani," the Commodore Gray sequence was a cameo sequence for Erin Gray with the well-executed novelty of having her wear an implied but never-before-seen costume for female Starbase command personnel. Those factors probably aren't enough to bring freshness to the trope, but they might be considered efforts in that regard.
Certainly there shouldn't be a superior officer appearing in every episode, but I don't mind it occasionally as long as the scenes aren't boring.
To be fair Vic Mignogna IS a professional voice actor (who's done work for Funimation) - so doing voice over for Cryptic and STO seems right up his alley as it's what he does.