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5-Year Mission Continues After 45-Year Hiatus

Posted by Soulskill on from the fascinating dept.

Okian Warrior writes "Hackaday brings us news about a continuation of the original Star Trek series. The Kickstarter-funded project is attempting to complete the original 5-year mission, which ended after only three seasons on the air. The fan-based and fan-supported reincarnation is cleverly titled Star Trek Continues and has CBS's consent. Check out the first episode, Pilgrim of Eternity. For being fan-made, it's actually pretty good." The attention to detail in the sets, costumes, and even lighting is incredible. It's far and away the most faithful re-creation of the original series I've ever seen.

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  1. TAS by Bradmont · · Score: 3, Informative

    Didn't The Animated Series finish off the last two years of the five year mission? With the original cast and everything.

  2. Re:Faithful by jIyajbe · · Score: 5, Informative

    Baseline: I am a trekker; I really, really like all of Star Trek, old and new.

    For all that it was the genesis of all things Trek, TOS is terribly painful to watch these days. Not an auspicious starting point for a fan-made series.

    What's funny is that they managed to write a story that was the same quality as most of TOS stories--mostly low; the actors reproduced the acting "skills" of the originals (especially Kirk! Wow!); and it was just as cheesy as the original show. I fully expected it to be hard to watch.

    But it wasn't! It was a labor of love, but they managed to go above that, and actually make an enjoyable episode, one that can hold its head up with the all but the best TOS episodes.

    Hats off to them all, and I think I'll open my wallet.

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  3. Re:Faithful by khellendros1984 · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm surprised it took this long for the fans to come together and do something like this.

    Then be surprised no more, it's been done before. I think I watched part of an episode when it first came out, but I don't remember my impression of it. Obviously, I wasn't impressed enough at the time to continue.

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  4. Did you come to it as an adult? by Beryllium+Sphere(tm) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's different if it's something you grow up with.

    Its place in history is easier to understand if you look at how awful mass media sf was in 1966. They were groundbreaking. Others later were able to do cathedra building.

  5. Re:Holodecks were supposed to be new tech in TNG by Blakey+Rat · · Score: 3, Informative

    That kinda bothers me the first thing I see is Holodeck technology in that vid. In season 1 of TNG, it was described as fairly new tech, of course that got retconned in Voyager as Janeway reminisces about using one as a child.

    Crown me king of the dorks but... I gotta correct you on this one.

    TNG says the Enterprise holodecks are much better than previous versions. (And they get better still after the Binars work on them in that one episode, which is presumably also where it gets the magical ability to make a super-genius Moriarty due to a misspoken command.) They never say or suggest that the holodeck technology is brand-new in TNG.

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  6. New Voyages/Phase II is dramatically better by macraig · · Score: 4, Informative

    Somebody's never heard of Star Trek: New Voyages/Phase II, in spite of one episode nearly winning a Hugo Award and nearly a dozen actors from TOS contributing to various episodes, and even some of the original writers on board contributing new scripts? I hope it's just ignorance that motivated the OP and Soulskill to promote this to the exclusion of ST:NV and all the other Star Trek fan productions in active production. This is not "the most faithful re-creation of the original series".

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