Star Trek: New Voyages

[Lazybones]

Um.. I think it was too early to pull the plug on  Star Trek if the unofficial fan films are able to get original cast members?  :shock:



http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/20/0617246





Then again maybe the original cast members need the press.  :roll:

[Mr. Analog]

As long as it has zaftig women in spandex catsuits I'll watch it...



All kidding aside, Trek is an institution for some and there is an urge to keep exploring that universe which so many love. I'll admit, I'm a Trekkie (balls to that Trekker stuff), not the dress up and order pizza in Klingon kind, but I do have more than one technical manual   and I enjoy me space-stories. I see some real challenges on the road ahead for Trek. First of all Paramount has to decide if they want to do the easy out, which sadly is pander to existing Trek fans with continuation stories that don't really bring anything new. This isn't a bad thing BUT it goes against the grain of the "mission" of Trek in the first place; to tell thought provoking science fiction / space fantasy stories  in a humanistic way. The other option is to keep it evolving and turn it into something that might turn "Trek" fans off. This kills their built in demographic projections but opens the door to new sci-fi fans who otherwise wouldn't watch Trek.



Either way, I wanna see this fan show, looks neat, but I don't think Paramount will stand idly by and let their property get usurped by a bunch of fanboys.

[Lazybones]

Maybe it needs to die and be reborn like Battlestar.

[Mr. Analog]

I second that!

[Darren Dirt]

I watched the "Voyages" 3rd episode (I think) and it was pretty cool... Amazing what a group of fans can do with a lot of time, modern computers, decent and/or free software... and of course, a Time Machine!

[Darren Dirt]

Trekkies keep the Starship Enterprise airborne

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1090345.ece

Trekkies keep the Starship Enterprise airborne
By Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
Published: 19 June 2006

The Trekkies have struck again. Most of us might think of Star Trek as a television sci-fi programme whose time came and, after an extremely robust career on both the small and big screens, went again.

But diehard fans of Captain Kirk, the Klingons, and that mantra about boldly going where no man has gone before do not give up so easily.

Since there is no more Star Trek on television, and since the various generations of the film series appear to have run their course, the fans are taking matters into their own hands and shooting their own Star Trek episodes on digital video, for broadcast to fellow fanatics over the Internet.

Paramount Studios, which owns rights to the show and its various spin-offs, does not appear to mind so long as no commercial transactions are involved. And the fans are lapping it up.

One amateur production group called New Voyages claims to have received 30 million hits on its website. Its episodes, which are shot in upstate New York, are so popular, in fact, that some of the actors who appeared on the original show have agreed to make guest appearances. (Among them, George Takei, who played Sulu, and Walter Koenig, who played Chekov.) One of the original Star Trek writers, D C Fontana, has written an episode.

Another site, in Los Angeles, is boldly exploring gay themes that no official Star Trek episode has explored before. A third, which is based in Austin, Texas, imagines a space ship whose crew has been turned into salt.

Amateur Star Trek has taken off in Belgium and the Netherlands. One production, found at www.ussintrepid.org.uk, is based in the Scottish Highlands and is currently putting the finishing touches to an episode entitled Heavy Lies The Crown.

Altogether, there are believed to be more than 20 online Star Trek homage shows either in existence or in the works. Yesterday's New York Times followed the fortunes of a group of Trekkies creating their own show in the woods of Virginia, complete with intergalactic weaponry and cloaking fields. Participants revelled in donning the costumes and spending hours trying to perfect the make-up, especially for the Klingons.

One organiser described the experience as "online community theatre". Another, Paul Bednar, marvelled at how he had allowed his producer-friend to talk him into donning a form-fitting blue tunic, black trousers and ebony boots.

"I used to joke with him, 'You would never get me in a Star Trek uniform'," he told the newspaper. "Even on Hallowe'en, it's not going to happen. Next thing I know, I'm wearing a uniform."

[Darren Dirt]

Wow, a bit more "professional" feel than many fan films..


17 minute "episode 17"
http://www.startrack17.blogspot.com/

Love the name of the production company
http://goldenshowerstudios.blogspot.com/

[Darren Dirt]

I was looking at the Wikipedia entry for ST: New Voyages, and was impressed by the fact that even Mr. Koenig and Mr. Takei have participated in "new episodes".

And the IMDB entry for ST:NV mentions a FEATURE-length film (still for fan-fun 'net distro only) being made -- check out the big names involved:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0458122/board/nest/48053836



Then from Wikipedia I somehow found this link -- hilarious! Sums up Movie #5 perfectly:
http://www.fiveminute.net/startrek/

[Mr. Analog]

Episode Three on the Youtube!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Q--LGY1lds0

[Darren Dirt]

"World Enough and Time" feat. George Takei ... anyone watched this ST:NV ep?

[Mr. Analog]

I'm finally caught up on all the episodes, the improvement in quality as the series goes on is impressive, the power of fans, you can't beat it.

[Tom]

Wow. 7 year old thread. crazy.

[Mr. Analog]

Wow. 7 year old thread. crazy.

Well we had a conversation rolling about it already so why not??

[Tom]

Indeed. Nothing wrong with it. it just surprised me! I opened the thread and saw the first post and was like "2006?? wut".

[Thorin]

He was trying to beat Darren's all-time thread resurrection record

Although his post was perfectly on-topic, so yeah, this did make sense to post here.

How many seasons of Star Trek: New Voyages are there?  I have yet to peruse any of it.