The Star Trek fan film community: What it looks like & where its going

[Maurice]

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Honestly, I think Space Command was a bit of a bait and switch. It was pitched it as this retro-50s like Space Patrol thing, which is what Drexler and Probert, etc., signed on for, but when the first draft script showed up it wasn't anything like that, causing a lot of key players to bail because it wasn't the film they signed on to do. That first draft script (not the story they filmed eventually, gather) is more Star Trek meets Flash Gordon than anything.

 

[Mudd]

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How did they know they had a post on Altair 4 if there was no trace of it?

He’s come to a big Y’maa BRAIN DRAIN DEVICE, with two sets of calibers to fit two heads into. (See the brain-boosting device in FORBIDDEN PLANET.)

Because originality.

Yeah...there's a line almost exactly like that in Polaris.

Space Command may not turn out to be very good, but I admire what they tried to do - it's a much better thing to be doing, in my arrogant opinion, than pouring all your resources into something that can be taken away from you at a moment's notice because it belongs to someone else.

 

[Maurice]

Re: The Star Trek fan film community: What it looks like & where its g

How did they know they had a post on Altair 4 if there was no trace of it?

He’s come to a big Y’maa BRAIN DRAIN DEVICE, with two sets of calibers to fit two heads into. (See the brain-boosting device in FORBIDDEN PLANET.)

Because originality.

Yeah...there's a line almost exactly like that in Polaris.

Yeah, but it's a single throwaway reference. In the SC script there were multiple references to it.

Space Command may not turn out to be very good, but I admire what they tried to do - it's a much better thing to be doing, in my arrogant opinion, than pouring all your resources into something that can be taken away from you at a moment's notice because it belongs to someone else.

QFT.

 

[Amaris]

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+1

What's wrong with Space Command? I watched the trailer and it actually looks pretty good to me, but then I loved the old sci-fi serials, and I expect with Marc Zicree the writing will be solid. Plus, I kind of maybe might just possibly kinda perhaps in a way have a slight but tiny crush on Sara Maraffino. A lot.

I read an early draft of a Zicree Space Command script ("Empire") and it was baaaaaaaaaaad.

P.S. ...aaaaaaad.

Also, damn. Writing is a big deal with me. I can put up with mediocre acting, bad SFX, and mediocre pacing, as long as the story is good. *sigh*

I can still crush on Sara Maraffino, though, right?

+1

What's wrong with Space Command? I watched the trailer and it actually looks pretty good to me, but then I loved the old sci-fi serials, and I expect with Marc Zicree the writing will be solid. Plus, I kind of maybe might just possibly kinda perhaps in a way have a slight but tiny crush on Sara Maraffino. A lot.

Where you high? Because the trailer I watched was horseshit.

The trailer Squiggy posted is not the one I saw. Ouch.
Plus, no. For your information, I don't get high. My mental decay is due to my own personal brand of stupidity, so nyer!

 

[David cgc]

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Maybe more wannabe fan film makers will start removing the CBS-owned elements and making original projects? Though most fans I think would prefer more Trek.

The "more Trek" hunger will probably be sated by Beyond and Series Six, assuming they're even slightly well-made. Especially the TV show, since CBS isn't going to give up on it easily, so even if it starts off as a misfire a la TNG season 1, it'll get more chances to retool and adjust itself than most shows.

And even without that, it's not 1992 anymore, when Star Trek was synonymous with competent popular science fiction (check out this preview of the pilot of Babylon 5, and count how many times everyone in it explicitly and implicitly compares it to Star Trek, as if that was the only kind of science fiction that ever was, and any other story set in the future was unimaginable). With Babylon 5, the Stargates, Firefly, nuBSG, and so many other TV shows and movies, I think the sci-fi audience is willing to say a spaceship is a spaceship when they see original projects. Especially if they have a reputation to build on. Space Command took off because of the names of the people attached, after all. "From the creators of..." can get you pretty far.

No, people make Trek fan films because they love Star Trek and want to be a part of it, not because they think it's the only way to get people to look at their work.

 

[BillJ]

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No, people make Trek fan films because they love Star Trek and want to be a part of it, not because they think it's the only way to get people to look at their work.

I have a feeling there are people from both camps making Star Trek fan films.

 

[David cgc]

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No, people make Trek fan films because they love Star Trek and want to be a part of it, not because they think it's the only way to get people to look at their work.

I have a feeling there are people from both camps making Star Trek fan films.

I suppose it's possible, but making a Trek fan film when you'd be just as willing to make an unbranded science fiction micro-budget picture seems like an odd way to promote yourself. You've got all the risks of fan-art (both legal and social, in that there's a stigma to basing your work off something that already exists), and all you gain is better odds that someone who's bored and googling around for Star Trek will find what you did. Quality is what will determine if they keep watching, and if they tell their friends, and if it ends up having any viral legs, and that all applies just as much to an unbranded work. As a cynical attention-getting ploy, setting your project in the Star Trek universe doesn't gain you much, and it closes off a ton of opportunities. I don't see making that trade off unless you're in a committed relationship with the Star Trek universe.

 

[Kegg]

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As a cynical attention-getting ploy, setting your project in the Star Trek universe doesn't gain you much, and it closes off a ton of opportunities. I don't see making that trade off unless you're in a committed relationship with the Star Trek universe.

What about that guy who made that 'gritty' Power Rangers film with Katee Sackhoff that blew up as a viral moment? His interviews made it clear he made the work intentionally satirizing the idea of making something as ridiculous as Power Rangers 'gritty,' and that he doesn't remotely care for the franchise (which he said he had been was a little too old to be into regardless.)

 

[Bixby]

Do you mean the director, or the Producer? Because according to this:

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Adi Shankar who also produced the fairly-recent Punisher fan film and DREDD starring Karl Urban, Power Rangers is one of his favorite shows from the 90s.