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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."
WMV is a tool of the Devil.
Maybe we deserve this world ?
It does look like they've put an unimaginable amount of thought, time and effort into this; it's just a damned shame that they couldn't have gotten people who can actually act for it.
They decided that going for the visual resemblence of TOS cast was more important than hiring (or recruiting, I'm sure tons of people would volunteer) people who actually can act to play the parts.
Personally, I'd rather see someone who looks nothing like shatner but is able to act play the part of kirk than watch a shatner-alike ham it up.
You're right...why even make anything like this, we have stuff like it now. If you want to see bad stuff just watch old MST3K, or cheese and bad acting just watch old Trek.
In fact, why make anything anymore? I mean, everything has been done already. If I want action movie just watch Die Hard, if I want fantasy just watch LOTR, if I want comedy just watch Young Frankenstein.
If I want music just listen to Chuck Berry, everything else has been done before. I've listened to enough music to last a lifetime, probably three.
Why paint anything anymore, I have a nice Picasso right here. Why read or write anything anymore because it's all been read and written before.
Thanks! You've freed up so much of my time now!
"Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it." - John Lennon.
Or better yet, anyone got an MPEG or other decent format?
DS9 is less hoaky than TNG, but then TNG got less hoaky after Rodenberry died, so that is probably the reason.
DS9 also had a better lead off than TNG, he first 3 seasons were god where the first 3 seasons of TNG were cheap sets, bad music, and weird camera shots.
Voyager just took the PCness of TNG to an entirly new level and it pissed me off.
Enterprise lost its way in he first season, and no that the 3rd season is over, I actually like what I saw. there might actually be a movie to come out of it like the birth of the federation or something since the event of the first federation conference happens just outside the traditional 7 year span of the shows.
the visceralness of the episodes has increased, it will be interesting to see what happens next season..something weird happened at the end of last season, and history got changed to where some weird aliens took power during WW2 and kept the war going so humanity could not develop as it did. at least, that is what I surmised from what I saw in the last episode
I am the Alpha and the Omega-3
Trashing Shatner's and Nimoy's acting shows you're really sophisticated, one of the in-crowd. Like EVERYbody agrees they can't act, right?
Stop being a mindless sheep. There is nothing wrong with Nimoy's acting, and little to complain about in Shatner's. They're not Alec Guinness, but their performances in the original Startrek were perfectly adequate.
The next time someone posts a link to a video instead of each and everyone trying to get the files and slashdotting the server in the process we do the following: Everyone flips a coin 10 times. The lucky guys (1 in 1024) whose coin flips all come up head actually go and download the files. Whose who got the files seed a .torrent.
No Slashdotting => happy slashdot crowd!
Although their work is not up to the quality of Paramount's production, I want to congratulate them for chasing and finally realizing their dream. Keep up the good work, guys! and don't be disappointed because of any negative comments out there!
I think that only teams like them can offer something new and innovative...big companies are locked onto money chase. These guys can do anything, as long as they are doing it for hobby.
You're defending Enterprise, and then turn around and accuse somebody of "lack of imagination"?
How can we continue to believe in a just universe and freedom to eat crackers if we have no ale?
I thought DS9 was the best of all. With the previous series, they rarely had to deal with deep-seated hatred between two races. It also had a long plot-arc, something that was practially verboten in OS, and in TNG until 4th season.
Most of all, I liked DS9 because it didn't try to paint Starfleeters as such perfect, moral people, and didn't try to paint an idea that all problems can be solved in a week (or two). And I was tired of all the moral pontificating that TNG had, it was a better show when they were OFF the Enterprise, like on the homeworlds of other races.
Being on a station didn't seem to stop them from going places, they still had runabouts, went to numerous Gamma quadrant planets, and later, they did eventually get the Defiant.
I've been thinking about this since stumbling across it (and downloading it before submitting it to Slashdot).
What's really cool about this is that, as promised, the low price of quality digital video equipment and computer editing is really letting people chase their passions in this way, and the low cost distribution of the Internet is letting
That's really cool. All the snide comments about Trek creativity that some readers would undoubtable make aside, perhaps the promise of a creative renaissance in video fiction can actually be fulfilled. It doesn't matter if 99% is crap, a higher volume means more great stuff being created and it just becomes a matter of finding the great stuff.
May a thousand flowers bloom. Times a thousand.
"It is our blasphemy which has made us great, and will sustain us, and which the gods secretly admire in us." - Zelazny
ST:TOS: To boldly go where no man has gone before ...
ST:TNG To boldly go where no one has gone before (PC version)
ST:DS9: To boldly stay in one place
ST:VOY To boldly go and get completely lost
And that's from before Enterprise, so I don't know where Enterprise would fit in. Perhaps `To bodly go and mess up the time-space continum?' :)
DS9 had the most human stories of all, and is in many ways the most original of all the shows following TOS. The scripts were terrific: well written and thought provoking; and the acting was most of the time really quite good.
I'm with you -- it's the best of all.
quiquid id est, timeo puellas et oscula dantes.
It would seem that many people reading this would make it a forum of right Trek and wrong Trek. There really is no such thing as a right Trek or visa-versa. Every Trek series has had its moments, as every Trek fan would agree. The whole basis of Trek was indeed the vision of Roddenberry, but since Roddenberry's death, the vision has stopped. It is now up to others to decide the direction of the Final Frontier.
The direction chosen seems to be bad at times, but still, they manage to come up with a great story every few episodes, regardless of the series.
I was really disappointed with Enterprise, especially during the second seaon, but the writers have really turned the bad to the better.Voyager had some really GREAT episodes...."The Year of Hell" was awesome, but in contrast, meaningless, as the whole year was erased, ala Dallas. It was still a gripping pair of episodes, regardless.
Janeway was not a bad caption. If fact, she was so modeled after Picard it was obvious. Did you not notice? Look closer!
DS9 had the episode (to mention just one) that had O'Brien serve many years in a prison cell only to find out later he had only been subjected to a few hours of mental "treatment". Scarey stuff, and a real look at our future.
Capt. Picard always had great moments, but none like the episode "The Inner Light" (also the title of a great indian influenced Beatles song). I remember tears coming to my eyes the first time I saw that episode. The soundtrack is amazing!
"Dear Doctor", an Enterprise episode, was perhaps the best so far. They have come a long way since the second season, but "Dear Doctor" stands out in good story telling.That's all........
- Support for MPEG-4 in QuickTime (for developers) and (for end users) where they write:
- Microsoft and MPEG-4 where it's clearly stated that: i.e. they're not much interested in working with others on open standards. They want to license but keep it proprietary.
It's quite clear to me which one is the less of the two evils here, i.e. which company works on actively promoting open standards.More about MPEG licensing at the MPEG Industry Forum's web site.
There was no bait and switch.
Enterprise is progressing towards the birth of the Federation.
We're getting to see first meetings... tellarians, andorians, klingons, romulans (though not shown). That is exactly what I expected from the series, and it's been a lot of fun seeing that aspect of it. The whole "expanse" arc I wasn't hot on to begin with since it really diverged from that, but they worked it out if you watched last season.
I don't know why you think they shouldn't have phasers.
As far as distances between things in Enterprise vs. TOS: ST:TOS made very little effort to get distances and facts for that matter correct. That really only started to happen with TNG... Sternbach, Okuda... I think we have to give them some leeway there. It's a hard problem dealing with less than "careful" certainly not hard sci fi and keeping it convincing to a more aware audience than was expected with TOS.
Read through the Encyclopedia, you'll see even the experts can't resolve huge inconsistencies even within TOS itself.