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Behind the Scenes With the Star Trek Fan Reboot
SternisheFan writes: The original Starship Enterprise was on a 5-year mission, but the original series was canceled after the third year. A continuation of Star Trek:TOS is being created by a dedicated cast and crew intent on keeping true to the spirit of Gene Roddenberry's television show. From recreating the original sets with incredible accuracy and attention to details, staying faithful to original storylines has been a true labor of love for all involved. Here are a series of videos showing the progress being made on recreating the iconic series. (And if you missed it last time, here's the first episode they produced.)
TOS was a bunch of LSD lights and kirk visiting stupid copies of earth
TNG a bunch of technobabble and reengineering the ship to solve the problem of the week
DS9 was a bore until the main plot line was introduced and then it was a by the numbers war story
never got into Voyager
Out of the movies only 2 and 6 were watchable although i liked The Search for Spock as well
ST Generations sucked
the borg movie had so much potential and the B&B twins ruined it with a stupid time travel story
Insurrection was hyped to the point it was a let down when i saw it
didn't bother with the romulan movie
i hated the time travel reboot of the Abrams movies, but they were a lot better than what came before them but even then so much story and canon wasted on what could have been awesome romulan/klingon war movies and real exploration and discovery of believable alien worlds
I chipped in for their funding campaign, and I am glad I did. So far the first 3 episodes are great. Mignogna and crew have really done a wonderful job on Star Trek Continues.
A brain is a terrible thing to waste... Mind? That's debatable.
I use to love this show as a teenager. In college, I stopped watching television. Afterwards, it just struck me as stupid and self righteous, but maybe that was a reflection of society as a whole. The dialogs were campy and the situations so contrived. Everything was just so fortuitous. Kirk would make a silly gamble and win. Just did not strike me as real. Especially when others would make the same gamble and lose. I think "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy " made fun of this in the improbability drive.
People would say it was the best SF. I thought Outer Limits was much better in terms of having stories and characters. For one thing, Kirk and the Enterprise would survive.
I've watched a few of these fan made series - I have yet to find one that was actually watchable. The sets can be great, the lighting, the CGI effects - but what always kills these series is the acting. It's awful. Always. I have yet to find a fan series with passable acting. If they could get decent actors, they could use cardboard boxes for sets and it would at least be watchable.
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Like a good neighbor, fsck is there
Yet Another Fan Made TOS? Here's the first group I heard of: http://www.startreknewvoyages.... They actually got Sulu. What's this new one got?
whatever floats your boat. make as much as possible. don't blame nobody.
I've watched everything they've made so far, it really is well done. I like how the stories flow from the original episodes on which they are rooted.
...the problem is they can't act! They make Shatner look like Brando by comparison.
It's a terrible shame, but bad acting is bad acting.
Tubby or not tubby. Fat is the question
The look and feel of the TV show is preserved, from the background music to how the way the show was lit. The actor who originally played the god Apollo is re-cast in the first episode, green skinned alien women in the second show, and the third has final closure to what happened to the Harkonnens after the episode 'Mirror Mirror' ended. Goateed Spock is back!
If you were ever a fan of Star Trek, you'll enjoy these remakes.
I'm not really interested in fan-made anything, for the usual reasons. This team's version of Pilgrim of Eternity is however nothing less than remarkable and deserving of much credit.
..Mullah or Pope, Preacher or Poet, who was it wrote: "Give any one species too much rope and they'll fuck it up"?
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Must have been under a rock, had not heard of "Star Trek Continues" before, so I am watching the first episode right now. Although I can certainly understand keeping the same sets, characters, props, and sound effects, I can't for the life of me understand why they would intentionally want to use the 4:3 aspect ratio. Hmm
You have no copyright... this stuff belongs to the Chris Pine as Kirk team. This can't make any money and will be assimilated into Paramount.
This fan fic already has a few episodes in the can. And it's so good, that even the most horrible episode in the bunch (the one with the Orion slavegirl), is simultaneously unwatchable, and completely watchable on its merits as a very faithful recreation of a typically bad episode from the original series. These guys have got it down pat. They know exactly how to faithfully remake an honest homage to an average bad episode from the original series. And it's certainly doesn't hurt that the episode's guest star was none other than Lou "The Incredible Hulk" Ferrigno. As an Orion slave trader. In full body green makeup!
It's eery watching Chris Doohan in this series. The guy is a spitting image of his old man. Looks like a younger Scotty. Close your eyes, and you can't tell it's not Scotty. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the episodes as they came out. They were far more entertaining than either of the two terrible reboots. I refused, on principle, to pay money to watch the crap reboots in the theaters. But if these folks ever manage to crank out a reel, and it makes it down to my local megaplex, I'll be the first in line to buy a ticket.
I can appreciate the energy and enthusiasm that goes into these projects.
But with 85 years of modern science fiction to explore, with excellent examples available to draw upon in from all media, you would think even the die-hard fan would have grown a little weary of gearing up to prduce yet another retread of Star Trek: TOS.
I've watched the two episodes that have been produced, and liked them quite a bit, worth watching and worth supporting.
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
There are three things about Star Trek which are unbearable to me:
1. The Holodeck, which is just one massive plothole
2. Badly done time travel, which is yet another massive plothole
3. Badly done aliens, with a lame explanation.
That episode made by the fans just utterly obliterated any interest I might have had by starting right with big mistake no. 1.
intent on keeping true to the spirit of Gene Roddenberry's television show.
That's just another way of saying "more of the same".
I can understand why the entertainment industry is so obsessed with the canons: to not dilute value of the original.
But I still can't grasp the why the fans are so obsessed with the "more of the same"?
P.S. I like how Japanese animes often parody and make fun of themselves. I like how they sometimes shuffle the roles and characters. Occasionally the shenanigans are way too transparent and shallow - but sometimes very brilliant and deeps ideas come out of it.
All hope abandon ye who enter here.
I guess nobody remembers Star Trek: New Voyages aka Star Trek: Phase 2....
I loved ST:OS when I was a kid, and these remake/homages definitely capture the fun and a lot of the spirit [and a bunch of the cheese] of the original. Definitely worthwhile.
Kids nowadays....you can't understand how groundbreaking and exciting Star Trek was back in the '60's.
There have only been three episodes since, like, forever. They're ok, but is that all there's going to be?
Oliver's law of assumed responsibility: If you're seen fixing it, you will be blamed for breaking it.
You want the real continuation of the 5 year voyage? Go with the guys that have been making episodes for over 10 years.
www.startreknewvoyages.com
Vic and his crew are no where near the level of accuracy and faithfulness to TOS as the New Voyages team is, and their latest episode, Mind-Sifter is all the proof you need.
...it's because he is portrayed by James Doohan's son.
Political debates have me rolling my eyes so much I think I got optical whiplash. I should sue. - Foamy The Squirrel
Where Picard is a war lord and sexual deviant:
TNG Recut 1
The early videos are a little all over the place, but the later videos have over arching themes and stories, some are masterfully put together. Watch for Janeway, Archer, and Sisko to all make appearances as enemies of The Picard.
If you can look through the change in uniforms, sets, dialog tone... It can be quite funny. If you cant tune that out, then you probably wont enjoy them. I always enjoy hearing dialog from cast members in movies they were in that I never saw.
Because the web designer is an asshole. "So bright, it's almost white!" or "Almost white, but not quite", could be his motto.
What's with all the grey text all over the internet nowadays - why are 'designers' such pathetic, bandwagon-jumping, unoriginal tossers?
Actually Paramount has a fairly generous policy towards unauthorised fan productions like this, in that as long as they don't try to earn any money from them, Paramount doesn't mind and won't try to shut them down. There's been a fair few fan productions who've used actors from the proper shows, there's even been one or two primarily produced by those official Trek actors.
Well there's only been three episodes of this so far, and you can see them improve in each one, at least in my opinion. They're certainly improving more than the first three episodes of most official Star Trek series, which are generally guaranteed to be pretty awful.
We're going to need a bigger basement.
I've put off watching these for a long time.. Big mistake.
The effects are adequate, but the cameo guest stars they got are surprising and subtle. The dialog really good.
Though its a bit jarring whenever a Fan film recasts the orginal I found you get over it in particular with this series relatively quickly.
The Kirk actor could use a slightly deeper voice, but the Spock actor is spot on.
Having Marina Sirtis as the ships Computer was a real treat and a real nod to Majel Roddenberry since she played her daughter in the Next Generation.
Chris Doohan does a really nice Scotty, though I think he could use a haircut more conservative to reflect the business look of the late 60's.
Grant's Sulu is funny if not likeable.. I think he's a bit over the top. George Takei could give him pointers.
The red headed counselor really has chemistry with the new Kirk, and their timing is excellent. Though I kept thinking they had got Wynona Judd to guest star somehow.
I really liked the stories and their plots.. they actually paid a great deal of attention to them, had a goal.. and you couldn't guess what that was by the end of Act 1.. which was also a trademark of Star Trek. And the dialogue isn't perfect.. but its close. Bad dialogue is like a poorly edited book.. you notice.. good dialogue lets you enjoy the show without pointing things out to yourself every few minutes.
Really.. the writers of this show could have made Str Trek:Enterprise a much better show. The episodes would have been far more interesting, inventive and pleasing on the mind once the show was over.