Which productions just "stick the landing" with you?

[Phantom]

By which I mean when you watch them, you sit there at the end and go "Wow! I just watched real Star Trek!"

They don't have to be perfect. Some of the sets may look cheap, or the FX are a skosh awkward, or whatever, but the end product is so good that you don't really notice the "bad bits".

My top four have to be (as of this moment, and in no particular order):

• Continues (Sorry P2, but they're consistently better)
• the ever-controversial Axanar
• my newest discovery, Brandon Bridges' animated trilogy (Star Trek: Spectre/Retribution/Redemption), especially Redemption.
• Starship Exeter: The Tressaurian Intersection

What are some of your choices?

 

[Jay]

Exeter felt the most like Star Trek to me, and New Voyages too. (If you remove Peter Kirk from NV and McKenna from STC, both are more like Star Trek. I tried to like those characters, but neither of them feel like 60s characters. They feel modern, and that ruins it for me.)

I can't wait for Axanar but can't judge it yet.

 

[Phantom]

^Have you seen the Bridges Trilogy? It's Next Gen era but it absolutely nails the tone and style down perfectly.

 

[Jay]

^Looked at a couple seconds once. Looked like all the voices were the same so was hard to follow and it was very long so I didn't bother. :-(

 

[Bixby]

To date,
(1) Starship Exeter TTI
(2) P2 ''Going Boldly'' and ''World Enough & Time''
(3) Star Trek Aurora
(4) 3\4s of STC's Lolani
(5) ''Prelude To Axanar''
(6) a good part of Farragut's ''The Captaincy'' and ''FWOAN''

 

[Warped9]

Starship Exeter and Starship Farragut each had a certain something that resonated on some level even though the acting was spotty. Axanar looks potentially interesting, but I'll wait to see the final product.

P2 just doesn't work for me and I've seen nearly all of them over time.

STC nails it with few minor exceptions. There are some things they do that don't ring quite true (for me), but most of the time I can easily envision the original cast saying those lines. It's certainly the only production I genuinely look forward to.

 

[Phantom]

^Looked at a couple seconds once. Looked like all the voices were the same so was hard to follow and it was very long so I didn't bother. :-(

His voice casting fell apart at the last minute in the first film so he decided not to bother recasting and used his temp tracks.

Give it another shot. Five minutes in, and I'd all-but fogotten about the same voice. The characters are so well drawn that you shouldn't have a problem following the story at all.

Start with Redemption (film 3). It's the longest, but also the strongest entry. If you find 4 hours too daunting, break it into 2 parts.

 

[northstar]

Actually, not really a lot, some elements or flaws just disturbed the experience.

- Prelude to Axanar
- most of the later episodes of P2/NV
- some segments of STC episodes

 

[Zaminhon]

STC
P2/NV
Tressaurian Intersection
Farragut

 

[Karzak]

By which I mean when you watch them, you sit there at the end and go "Wow! I just watched real Star Trek!"

None of them. They're fan films.

 

[Phantom]

^Thank you for playing...have a nice day...elsewhere.

 

[Campe]

Continues by a mile.

I'm intrigued by Axanar, but really outside of the way Prelude presented the story, I was not impressed as it doing a good job capturing the feel of Star Trek. I'm not convinced it will be Star Trek the way I want to see it.

 

[Karzak]

By which I mean when you watch them, you sit there at the end and go "Wow! I just watched real Star Trek!"

None of them. They're fan films.

^Thank you for playing...have a nice day...elsewhere.

I see no reason why my response is any less valid than anyone else's so far. You asked a question and I answered it. I'll not be chased away simply because you don't like that answer.

 

[BillJ]

By which I mean when you watch them, you sit there at the end and go "Wow! I just watched real Star Trek!"

None of them. They're fan films.

This. They're fun in their own right, but they simply don't do it for me the way the professional productions do.

 

[Maurice]

^Thank you for playing...have a nice day...elsewhere.

You really don't get the board rules, do you? Shall I push the notify moderator (

) button?

 

[martok2112]

 

[Jedman67]

^Looked at a couple seconds once. Looked like all the voices were the same so was hard to follow and it was very long so I didn't bother. :-(

His voice casting fell apart at the last minute in the first film so he decided not to bother recasting and used his temp tracks.

Give it another shot. Five minutes in, and I'd all-but fogotten about the same voice. The characters are so well drawn that you shouldn't have a problem following the story at all.

Some of it was quite good, but most of it i couldn't follow, due to it being voiced entirely by himself. There were some incidents with him on another forum, haven't followed him since.

 

[DCR]

So far, TTI really nails the feeling of being in the Star Trek Universe the best. It feels like a spinoff set on another ship. Not quite the same but very close to the ST expreince I remember.

The next level for me is shared by STC and P2/NV. I find that STC is more consistent and they nail the visual feel of 60's TV better than anyone else has. At the same time, I find their storytelling reminds me more of TNG than TOS. As for P2/NV, they aren't as consistent as STC, and the choice to go widescreen definitely moves away from the 1960's visuals of STC. Having said that, I think their best work is better than STC's.

I also like what Farragut's doing a lot, but they haven't quite the consistent level of STC or the peaks of P2/NV.

 

[Maurice]

So far, TTI really nails the feeling of being in the Star Trek Universe the best. It feels like a spinoff set on another ship. Not quite the same but very close to the ST expreince I remember.

That was pretty much the idea: make it like a 1969 spin-off, and keep that 1969 aesthetic throughout. It was a pain in the tuchus to get that look, especially in the crazy VFX at the end!

 

[GSchnitzer]

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Pure ad hominem noise; no signal. Stop it, please.