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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."
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,
"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)
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.
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
. . . 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.