"Torment of Destiny" Star Trek New Voyages

[GSchnitzer]

Only dyed-in-the-wool Trekkies would argue the finer points of bridge set pie slices and not even acknowledge the lovely Nichelle Nichols in the foreground showing off how bendy she was.

Just a reminder that Nichelle was a dancer before she was an actress.

 

[GSchnitzer]

A few more droppings:

 

[Borgminister]

Nice! And what a get--Will Farrell reprising his role from Zoolander!

 

[Indysolo]

Nice! And what a get--Will Farrell reprising his role from Zoolander!

Maybe the script called for a Mugatu.

Neil

 

[Bixby]

The Navigator in yellow tunic, is that Lieutenant Rahda from That which Survives?

 

[Zaminhon]

Great casting decision for Natira. Becky Wood closeley resembles Kate Woodville and based on the last episode, she's a fine actress and should nail the role.

 

[DCR]

Great casting decision for Natira. Becky Wood closeley resembles Kate Woodville and based on the last episode, she's a fine actress and should nail the role.

It looks good, and after seeing both "Mind Sifter" and "The White Iris," I'm definitely looking forward to this more at the moment than I am to STC episode 5. ST:NV is doing a great job of releasing just the right amount of information to both attract, and hold my interest. I've seen enough to get an idea of the episode, but not so much that it loses the mystery.

 

[Zaminhon]

If I'm not mistaken, isn't "The Holiest Thing" next on the list? I would be surprised if "Torment of Destiny" is released anytime soon.

 

[GSchnitzer]

If I'm not mistaken, isn't "The Holiest Thing" next on the list? I would be surprised if "Torment of Destiny" is released anytime soon.

Last year, after shooting "Mind-Sifter" in June, we worked hard to get it out the door before the end of the year. (It was release on December 1st.) We then started working on "The Holiest Thing" as we could find time.

We're planning on doing the same thing this year: work on getting "Torment of Destiny" out before the end of the year, and then work on "The Holiest Thing" as we can find time. My understanding is that our Post-Production Supervisor thinks that "before the end of the year" might be a little ambitious for "Torment...." Not only will the post-production work be a bit more involved than "Mind-Sifter" was, but we shot "Torment..." a month later in the year than we did "Mind-Sifter;" so more work with less time means we might not get it out before the new year.

There's also a shot we still need to get for "The Holiest Thing." We couldn't get both Jacy King (Dr. Carol Marcus) and Brian Gross (Captain Kirk) on our sets together for the necessary pick-up shot this July, but we did grab a nice static plate of Kirk's quarters. The plan is to get the one short scene we need as a green screen shot when the actors are together in Los Angeles. Once we grab that green screen shot, we can start our final work on "The Holiest Thing." But that probably won't happen until we get "Torment..." released.

So it actually is looking like it will be "Torment..." followed by "The Holiest Thing."

 

[jamesmc]

Wrong Greg. "The Holiest Thing" most definitely will be the next release as we are winding our way thru the post and new optical's now.

 

[GSchnitzer]

Wrong Greg. "The Holiest Thing" most definitely will be the next release as we are winding our way thru the post and new optical's now.

Thank you, James.

It's always frustrating to get the straight poop via forums like this. Anything you can do to keep the producers (notably myself, of course) in the loop better would be appreciated. It looks like I don't know what the hell is going on because, well, I guess I actually *don't* know what the hell is going on. Your Co-Executive Producer finds out about our production plans when he reads it on TrekBBS. How dysfunctional is that?!

 

[mos6507]

I'm not sure how I feel about us becoming a resident acting troup--just using the same people as guest actors assuming different roles. But it's working for now.

TOS had its share of actors portraying multiple roles. William Campbell, Mark Lenard, etc...

 

[GSchnitzer]

I'm not sure how I feel about us becoming a resident acting troup--just using the same people as guest actors assuming different roles. But it's working for now.

TOS had its share of actors portraying multiple roles. William Campbell, Mark Lenard, etc...

Yes of course. Stuart Moss, Phyllis Douglas, Gene Dynarski, Barry Russo, Jon Lormer, Skip Homier, and others resurfaced multiple times, too. What I'm saying is that recycling actors in this manner is just one tiny way the audience gets pulled out of the story. ("Hey--I remember that guy!"). Anything we can do to look even more like a real production and less like a super-neat Star Trek club or a repertory theatre would probably serve us well.

 

[DCR]

So to get things as clear as mud: my understanding as of right now is that "the Holiest Thing" is up next, most probably followed by "Torment of Destiny." We will likely see the first by the end of the year, and the second sometime before next summer's shoot. Going forward, the idea appears to be to shoot an episode every summer, and release it the following winter usually in or around the December-January time frame.

 

[GSchnitzer]

So to get things as clear as mud: my understanding as of right now is that "the Holiest Thing" is up next, most probably followed by "Torment of Destiny." We will likely see the first by the end of the year, and the second sometime before next summer's shoot. Going forward, the idea appears to be to shoot an episode every summer, and release it the following winter usually in or around the December-January time frame.

That would seem to be pretty much correct, barring new information from The Boss Man. Another data point is that James announced at our recent Kickstarter campaign that we would be shooting another episode in October of this year--two months from now. How that figures into our release schedule and how "Bread and Savagery" figures into our release schedule haven't been made clear to me.

 

[Barbreader]

I'm not sure how I feel about us becoming a resident acting troup--just using the same people as guest actors assuming different roles. But it's working for now.

TOS had its share of actors portraying multiple roles. William Campbell, Mark Lenard, etc...

Yes of course. Stuart Moss, Phyllis Douglas, Gene Dynarski, Barry Russo, Jon Lormer, Skip Homier, and others resurfaced multiple times, too. What I'm saying is that recycling actors in this manner is just one tiny way the audience gets pulled out of the story. ("Hey--I remember that guy!"). Anything we can do to look even more like a real production and less like a super-neat Star Trek club or a repertory theatre would probably serve us well.

Good script, story, and quality of acting. You've got great sets and Tobias and the rest of the post-production people are brilliant. Good edits. I think the fans will live.

One or two repeat actors does not a repertory theater make. Anyway, the last time I bought season tickets for a repertory theater it was the Yale Repertory Theater, and I got to see Meryl Streep live 7 times for $28.00. Of course, that was decades ago, and nobody knew who she was. She was already great, and I could have watched her live for $4.00 per show 100 times. See, suddenly a Repertory Theater doesn't sound so bad, right?

If you have new award-winning guest actors for each shoot, you would still be a super-neat Star Trek club. If every production was the quality of WEAT, (which a skeptical Trekkie friend of mine saw for the first time last night and proclaimed the equal of "City On The Edge Of Forever") you would still be a super-neat Star Trek club. You are stuck with being a super-neat Star Trek club. It's a burdon you'll just have to bear.

 

[Karzak]

Anything we can do to look even more like a real production and less like a super-neat Star Trek club or a repertory theatre would probably serve us well.

...and yet...

Wrong Greg. "The Holiest Thing" most definitely will be the next release as we are winding our way thru the post and new optical's now.

Thank you, James.

It's always frustrating to get the straight poop via forums like this. Anything you can do to keep the producers (notably myself, of course) in the loop better would be appreciated. It looks like I don't know what the hell is going on because, well, I guess I actually *don't* know what the hell is going on. Your Co-Executive Producer finds out about our production plans when he reads it on TrekBBS. How dysfunctional is that?!

Speaking frankly, you guys have a long way to go on that front if that's (one of) your goals.

 

[MCKurland]

Some early pictures are coming in from our episode "Torment of Destiny" that we shot earlier this month. How are they looking?

McCoy gets zapped in the Yonada Oracle Room as actor Richard Hatch looks on:

Scotty, Chekov and Sulu on the bridge:

Will those backstabbing, brainless Ferengi at CBS allow you to finish the goddamn episode?!?

 

[Professor Zoom]

Will those backstabbing, brainless Ferengi at CBS allow you to finish the goddamn episode?!?

Lol. Backstabbing? No. Not backstabbing. Owners of the property.

 

[Noname Given]

Will those backstabbing, brainless Ferengi at CBS allow you to finish the goddamn episode?!?

I think you've confused CBS with the idiots that run and are behind 'Axanar Productions' with regard to the "Backstabbing brainless Ferengi" comment.