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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.
Another great fan made Star Trek is Hidden Frontier
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.
WMV is a tool of the Devil.
Maybe we deserve this world ?
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.
The trailer at any rate works fine for me that way (using Knoppix-based Debian install). Xine complains that my processor isn't fast enough*, but that seems to me a family matter and nothing the authorities have any right to pass comment upon.
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timothy
*And they mean the one on my desk, a VIA Epia-M 900. Probably right, too, but the trailer played acceptably for me
jrnl: http://tinyurl.com/c2l8yr / foes: http://tinyurl.com/ckjno5
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 ?
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.
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
Here are links for the files in Overnet / Edonkey format:
Star Trek New Voyages Teaser.zip
Star Trek New Voyages act_1.zip
Star Trek New Voyages act_2.zip
Star Trek New Voyages act_3.zip
Star Trek New Voyages act_4.zip
Star Trek New Voyages Episode_Trailer.zip
Star Trek New Voyages Series_Trailer.zip
Someone post the Torrents pls!
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.
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 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.
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
Yeah, Winamp work just fine and so does Media Player Classic. Probably a lot more too. This is because Windows Media Video is just a simple DirectPlay codec AFAIK, and any media players supporting DirectPlay (basically all does) can play that WMV movie.
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
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.
I think the only problem with Shatner's acting was that he couldn't seem to turn down his "stage presence". On TV he always looked like he was doing live theater and exaggerrating every word and movement "so the people in the back of the theater could [see|hear] it". Either he never realized, or the director never told him, that on TV you should tone it down just a little.
If a job's not worth doing, it's not worth doing right.
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
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.
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.
I watched it, I thought it was great!
:)
It felt authentic, in a way that everything after ST:TNG does not.
It's true, it's rusty. But they seem really comitted, and I think they're going to master this system that they've created.
I just have one major wish:
I really wish the audio were redubbed. Do the shots just using the microphones on the set, and then perform a seperate dubbing session, so that the sounds are clear.
Regardless of whether the audio is improved or not, I'm a dedicated fan now.
I haven't watched a Sci-Fi TV show in about 7 years. But I'm excited about these shows!
Well, if they configured their web server they wouldn't have to screw around like that :)
.WMV files with a content type like 'application/octet-stream' instead of whatever video/* type they default to. This will tell the browser to download it as a file instead of streaming and displaying it. As far as I'm aware MSIE has been respecting content-types with every version after 4.0.
The need to tell their webserver to send
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........
Starship Exeter: I like the lighting and design. Some acting is ok other is very bad. Maybe some sponsors relatives had to get a job on the show. Greatest annyoance: It looks like they used VHS or SuperVHS, no DV. And they should have done something in post production to give it more of a film look. As the original was filmed on 16 or 35 mm film.
New Voyages: Brilliant set design, nicely combinated with CGI that tries to recreate the classic look. And they treated their video to more look like film. All in all it best matches the classic series. Feels cheap here and there? Yes, the original did too. Sometimes really felt like watching a never before seen episode of the original show. Which happened for the last time in the seventies when I watched in in my payamas before going to bed.
Final Frontier: Good story, best acting, overall good look, but with all the bluescreen stuff it got the look of movie sequences in a Star Trek game. Anyone remembers Starfleet Academy?
Which gives me an idea which is pretty obvious: How about a fan based effort about Starfleet Academy? You could give it a classic look but also could make your own designs. It would make perfect sense to use young actors. Still you could use the classic characters. IIRC Paramount thought about that concept before.
What I really don't get: Why not use a format that will play on every machine (standalone DVD players included) and LOOK GOOD FFS? Sorenson QuickTime, WMV ... Someone please give them some hours of video encoding 101. (Grumbel ...) No, size shouldn't matter. There are distribution systems that work perfectly fine for big files, like BitTorrent and donkey/overnet.
Would be a nice thing if those projects would join their efforts.
In the end all those shows are good enough to make me want to watch more of them. Which is more than the first season of "Enterprise" achieved for me.
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