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Fan-Made Star Trek Episode Available for Download
Minnesota trekker writes "Two Minnesota fans of the original "Star Trek" series spent seven years, off and on, creating an all-new episode in the 1960s style using their own actors, sets and props. Behold, the U.S.S. Exeter (www.starshipexeter.com). The episode's look and feel is amazingly authentic. The story is inventive and the acting surprisingly good. The damn thing, dubbed "The Savage Empire," is actually watchable. The site gives lots of details on how the episode was created, and even more background is available on the Pioneer Press site."
I'm an ACTOR, not a STAGEHAND...
can't wait for the lawsuits to start :P
To the William Shatner school of overacting?
Cannot...seem...to...communicate...with...the aliens...must get...somekindof...resolution before Enterprise...is...destroyed!
The episode's look and feel is amazingly authentic. The story is inventive and the acting surprisingly good.
Wait a sec. No way it can be authentic to the original and be well acted.
Much of the charm... of the original... Star Trek was... the wooden acting... not to mention the... inexplicable pauses... in William Shatner's... delivery.
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
is 49 human years.
Trolling is a art,
Ingredients:
1 Website
5 large Star Trek related Movie Files
Instructions:
Post 5 movie files on your website. Have someone post a link on slashdot.org. Watch your webserver cook at 300 degrees until the case is a nice golden brown.
"Captain, I am detecting incoming connection from the Slashdot Quadrant. They have taken all available frequencies! Aarrgghh!!"
(The console blows up)
"Red alert, shields up!"
This looks like a plot by Apple who wants to show off their OS X server (it's mac.com..)
What time is it/will be over there? Check with my iPhone app!
... that these fellas get laid ALL the time. seriously. chicks dig that shit.
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
Am I the only one who thought of a scene where the captain opens a hatch to the food reserves, and thousands of video cards drop down on him?
"I can't give you a brain, so I'll give you a diploma" - The Great Oz (blatently stolen sig)
This is much better than the latest Star Trek movie. And I bet it'll even be more profitable!
Sex - Find It
Don't forget it's Star Trek, having continuity errors only adds to the authenticity...
Down with Saudi Arabia!!!
when does the black guy in the red shirt get killed by aliens?
Everyone will start to cheer when you put on your sailin' shoes.
The damn thing, dubbed "The Savage Empire," is actually watchable. ...not anymore
Also hosted on Camp Chaos
The adventures of the BCC-1701 Magnetize are in Flash.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Seriously. I've gotten used to the real Star Trek, where this is rampant, so I just can't watch Star Trek unless time travel is involved. Let me know if they go back in time to chase Klingons or get visited by Borg, and then I'm interested.
Will I have to wait another 7 years for the conclusion?
Operator, give me the number for 911!
I predict that the Paramount Legal Away Team will soon be setting phasers on "heavy bitchslap"...
When you say to your friends, "You know what would have been cool? If they had gone to a planet where...", and they agree, that's normal fan behavior.
When you actually write up the idea you were thinking of in a 200 word concept and share it with your friends, who all like it, that's committed fan behavior.
When you flesh out the concept to a 10 page script treatment, that's borderline wierd fan behavior. If your friends offer revisions to correct continuity errors, that's definitely wierd fan behavior.
When you write out an entire script in three acts and actually perform it with your friends, that's borderline obsessive fan behavior. Defintiely obsessive if you film the process.
When you perform it with homemade costumes, props, etc., and have special effects and a musical score to go with the footage, and then reformat the film as downloadable Quicktime videos for all the world to see, you are ready for film school.
Either that, or the plastic pointy ears you wear to bed every night are cutting off the flow of blood to the brain.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain
Said the guy posting his with the five-digit Slashdot userid and a big old page of lengthy comments.
There's just about everything you'd want from a Star Trek episode but the Captain getting it on with a green-skinned vixen down on the planet. Darnit, I wanna see some alien nookie.
"I want peace on earth and good will toward men." "We're the U.S. government. We don't do that sort of thing!!"
... this looks like a derivative work to me.
Well, hey, I didn't spend all those years playing Dungeons and Dragons and not learn a little something about courage.
So I can ask, so, how does it feel to not get laid for 7 years?
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And btw mplayer can play these if you have compiled it right and have the proper codecs.
;-)
On the other hand, QuickTime Player plays these without having to be compiled, and it comes with all the proper codecs.
I write in my journal
. . . but they cut me out, in an effort to be as authentic as possible.
-B
Ash and Hickory, straight-grained and true, make excellent bludgeons, dandy for the cudgeling of vegetarians.
She's dead, Jim.
"And like that
Actually there is alot of original scfi stuff like Farscape, no that was cancelled by TV execs. Well there is FireFly, no that too was cancelled by TV execs (at least in Canada).
Looks like its not the lack of creativity but the the TV execs lack of imagination and faith in original content being marketable.