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Star Trek: New Voyages, Downloadable Video

Posted by timothy on from the commitment dept.

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."

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  1. Hidden Frontier by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Another great fan made Star Trek is Hidden Frontier

  2. Re:Torrent? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You know what would be useful?

    A system like BitTorrent, but that could also be seeded with a list of URLs where the file is available online.

    All copies of the software would work together, which each user automatically and optimally assigned different parts of the files to retrieve from the URLs. Using Content-Range: and those "seed" URLs, each user would download a different part to get things rolling. Then they would all work collectively to send those parts of the files back and forth between each other, until everyone has the whole file.

  3. Petition for Star Trek Topic on Slashdot by doconnor · · Score: 5, Interesting

    For too long Star Trek, the most important series in Geek history, has had second class status to Star Wars, The Lord of the Rings and even The Matrix. Those series has their own topics. Star Trek deserves better. Join the others who have signed the petition to give Star Trek a topic on Slashdot.

  4. Re:The crowd is wrong, as usual by sql*kitten · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There is nothing wrong with Nimoy's acting

    I saw an interview with him once where he said that whenever the camera stopped rolling, he would spontaneously burst into laughter or start crying. Maintaining Spock's emotionless facade took a lot of effort for him, he couldn't keep it up for long. Hell they had to write a "Data goes crazy" episode every now and again, I reckon that was just to keep Brent Spiner sane.