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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."
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.
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
Someone already said this, but I'll expound
If you don't zip then people can stream it off your server, if they end up watching it multiple time then that's additional bandwidth off your server, if you zip it they have to DL it and are more likely to just remember they have it localy and rewatch it from there.
zipping seemed stupid to me till I found this out.
"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson
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 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?
All of the mirrors must have all been wearing red shirts.
I belong to the ______ generation.
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.
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