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Star Trek: New Voyages, Downloadable Video
tm2b writes "What if you could make new episodes of the original Star Trek, with the same characters, worse acting (believe it or not), better special effects, and lower resolution? It seems that some fans secured the Roddenberry family's support for doing just that. They call it Star Trek: New Voyages and they've completed one full episode and and working on another to be released in August. They plan to pick up with the fourth year of the "five year mission," and the first episode can be downloaded in zipped WMV format. It's worth checking out if you can ignore acting that actually makes you yearn for the quality of the original cast. Personally, I love seeing what they can do rendering the old ST tech with modern CGI."
Does anyone want to set up a .torrent file?
Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati
Zipped WMV Format? Is this some sort of Romulan Empire technology I'm not familiar with? Boy, let me rush right over and download that! :P
Worse than Shatner?
Oh.....come.....on.....I.....find that......hard....to.....believe!
WARNING:Approaching Nerd Factor 9. . .
Seriously, though, I salute their courage and hard work. This can't have been simple to put together.
You are not the customer.
Make the Star Trek name absolute mud? Honestly, it has all been downhill since TNG...
Star Trek DS9: "To boldly go... no where. We're on a freaking space station people. We stay stationary, people... that's our job - to be dull!"
Star Trek Voyager: "To boldly promote the worst captain ever! Yeah, Janeway - you go, girl. Magically know stuff that no one else does. Cool, baby!!!"
Star Trek Enterprise: "To boldly go and fuck up the entire timeline."
Give it up, already... this is just getting pathetic. Leave us with the good stuff and get rid of this marketing money-driven drivel.
if you haven't downloaded it yet, better wait awhile. any other mirrors out there?
Did they get Steven Segal as the captain, whose mission it is to explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and BEAT THE CRAP out of their civilizations? (fade-in Segal beating the crap out of a green alien dude with his bare hands, then saying "Where the hell is that chick who jumped out of the cake?!")
;p
Ok, I admit it, I'm a troll.. I just can't help it. I like negative karma
I do not respond to cowards. Especially anonymous ones.
Capn' I don't think the mirrors will hold, even by rerouting auxillary power!
Seriously, all mirrors were slower than death already while the post was in the Mysterious Future...
what's the point in zipping a WMV file ??? I can't imagine getting more than 1% gain, probably even a negative compression effect...
When will I end this grieving ? When will my future begin ?
To boldy where no one has gone before?
I went to Mirror 1. The page loaded quickly, as did the main page. I got confused. This was Star Trek and on Slashdot. I initiated the download. I got 0.1 KB / sec.
*phew*
The world hadn't gone crazy after all.
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
But can they ever match the horror that is Turk Trek? http://www.thewavemag.com/pagegen.php?pagename=art icle&articleid=22646
Scotty, beam me down a zipped WMV file!
Sir, I just doanna 'ave the power!
Bones, what the hell happend to those mirrors? .torrent!
They're dead, Jim.
Can't you bring them back up?
Dammit, Jim, I'm a doctor not a
Of course there's no need to take all the mirrors down but it's too late for such kindness because to paraphrase Mr Scott in "Wrath of Khan"
Kirk: "We've got to set up a torrent! The mirrors will die!"
Scotty: "They're dead already!"
New episodes of Star Trek (in any form) + Slashdot = server death. No way around it.
Appended to the end of comments you post. 120 chars.
The beginning of our fourth mission year brought a new challenge ... perhaps beyond our capabilities. Upon entry into Cyberian space, the efficiency of the Enterprise warp engines was reduced to nearly 1% of their rated capacity. Working together, Science Office Spock and Chief Engineer Scott have determined the physics of the region of space we currently occupy is somehow different from normal space - rapid movement, at least in the conventional sense, is impossible. Originally observed and reported by a member of the Engineering staff, the phenomena has been unofficially named for him.
Recommend commendation for Ensign Sleesh Doot for identification and communication of this phenomena. Let us all hope we are all able to make it out to be able to see he actually gets it.
The little guy just ain't getting it, is he?
What if you could make new episodes of the original Star Trek, with the same characters, worse acting (believe it or not), better special effects, and lower resolution?
You would never, ever breed.
You might forget for a while having been beaten up for your lunch money as a kid.
You get to wear for a little while, clothes more fashionable than anything else you ever wear. (Them ST uniforms is sharp!)
Or THIS could happen
The Death Star could so blow up an entire fleet of borg cubes!!! No topic for wimpy Star Trek!!
Yes, but this has become a Star Trek thing. Shatner, Shakespearrean actor who filled the screen with his presence. Patrick Stewart, Skaespearrean actor who filled the screen with his stern brogue and cue-ball head. Avery Brooks, I dunno if he's Shakespearrean but he's a real over the top actor who stole the show in every scene he was in...shit, do you not remember the tension in the DS9 pilot when Sisco met Picard? I thought there was going to be some kind of explosion due to an overload of intense acting
In fact, one could say the reason that Voyager and Enterprise suck so badly is that their captains just don't have the overacting leadership needed to make it in Star Fleet.
Hey freaks: now you're ju
Spock: It is illogical, I know of no force in nature which can be so powerful.
Bones: I'm a doctor not a computer geek dammit.
Kirk: Then there is nothing else for it. We have to ...surrender!
later...
The new beings beam abord, they look remarkably human (this is Star Trek), wear jeans and T-Shirts, smell and have long hair in ponytails.
Kirk: Oh my God.
Spock: We welcome our new Slashdot reading overlords.
Bookmark the site, set up a counter to remind me to visit again in N days, then download after the slashdot croud has thinned out. I could tell you my formula for incrementing the delay counter, but then it would become worthless.
Who is John Cabal?