Vintage fan films?

[chardman]

Don't know that it's been discussed or linked, but here's a fan parody from 1988 called "Star Trek: The Pepsi Generation". It's both hideous and fairly funny at the same time. I especially like their explanation that the bridge looks like the livingroom of a 20th century, because young Wesley Crusher had been playing with (and messed up) the ship's "interior decoration program".

Here 'tis: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJ9eRygbRZ4

 

[thegreatunknown]

Another category are videos of fan presentations done on stage at various conventions over the years. I have a bunch of those. Others probably have more.

I remember those shows, I think they were great.
Could you upload them on youtube/etc. so that we all can enjoy them?

 

[Ryan Thomas Riddle]

Here you go:

This is something I've wanted to mention for quite a while, but I couldn't find my visual reference. Well, going through some boxes of papers this evening I found a few stray pages from a trade paperback I bought back in 1981 -- "Film Magic" was the name of the book, and it was a collection of articles that had appeared in the pre-Starlog, Don Dohler-published CineMagic magazine.

One such article was about a Trek film titled "Paragon's Paragon" which had been made in the late 1970s by a young guy named Jon Cosentino. It was all shot on Super-8 film, I believe, and the sets were constructed in Cosentino's basement. He built his own aerial optical printer in order to do the effects, like beaming and so forth.

I've never seen the film, nor have I ever been able to track Cosentino online. He did build one of the monster suits for Dohler's first low-budget movie, and that's the only Internet reference I've found.

Anyway, here's a scanned page from the article:

This has impressed Hell out of me for a quarter of a century.

A blog with an entire scan of the above magazine article:

http://mystartrekscrapbook.blogspot.com/2009/01/fan-film-paragons-paragon.html

 

[Maurice]

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I stumbled across some REALLY early Trek fan films. Here's the webpage of Art Bininger the creator of Star Trix, a shot on film stop-motion series of shorts parodying Trek. The site goes into a fair amount of detail about the making of these shorts.

And here are some of the films:
Star Trix
Star Trix (2) "A Snatch In Time"
Star Trix (3)

(At the start of 2 and 3 he explains how some of it was done.)

Mind you, these were made in 1974-75 on 8mm, which makes them some of the earliest fanfilm material I've yet seen.

He also did a TMP parody called Star Trix The Movie, but it doesn't appear to be on YouTube.

Enjoy!