Star Trek Continues Kickstarter 2.0

The Real Dr John writes Vic Mignogna and crew have launched their second Kickstarter campaign to produce 2 or more additional episodes of Star Trek Continues, a fan-based web series finishing up the 5 year mission of the original Star Trek television series. The first Kickstarter campaign raised enough money for 4 episodes, 3 of which have already been aired. Depending on how much funding they get this time, they plan to produce up to 4 additional episodes.

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So how are they

[Anonymous Coward]

I guess this means I've been living under a rock, but this hasn't been on my radar to watch at all yet. Are the first three pretty good? Are they adequately carrying on the legacy?

Re:So how are they

[roc97007]

I guess this means I've been living under a rock, but this hasn't been on my radar to watch at all yet. Are the first three pretty good? Are they adequately carrying on the legacy?

My background: I grew up watching TOS, was at first excited and then bored by TNG and the rest of the Berman series, and had my interest renewed by Abrams' films, which I believe are reviled primarily by Berman "endless meetings" era fans, and not first-run TOS fans. That said:

Star Trek Continues (TOS-C?) is, so far, surprisingly good. The sets, costumes, tools, and effects are easily equal to TOS Remastered. But besides that, the plots are interesting and after you get over different people playing the characters, it's like episodes of TOS that for some reason you hadn't seen yet.

Wife and I both loved them, and my 20 year old daughter, who grew up watching TOS Remastered, has given it her conditional seal of approval.

Something we all agree on is that there needs to be more episodes. Daughter holds back full approval only because there hasn't been enough so far to have an informed opinion.

Re:Amazing work..

[hairyfeet]

It was enjoyable in that "its a brain dead boom fest" kinda way which frankly isn't what I go to a ST movies expecting or wanting. Hell the whole "Red Matter can send you back in time OR blow up a planet, just depending what the plot calls for" bullshit totally took me out of the story, not to mention the whole "alternate timeline" mess which made no fucking sense and doesn't behave anywhere near every. single. other. timeline. we have seen in the ST universe and we have seen plenty. I'll always remember what one reviewer said "It would be like you made a Batman reboot and out of the blue Batman could just burst into flames like Human Torch with NO explanation!"

I mean if you wanna suspend disbelief with the new actors looking almost nothing like the originals? that is fine and dandy, I have no problem doing that with Star Trek Continues so I'm not gonna fault 'em for that, some of the originals are sadly gone and for some damned reason they didn't feel like they could tell any other story in such a wealthy universe? Fine, okay, I'll go along with that....but the fucking Klingons man, WHAT THE FUCK! Why do the Klingons look like fucking WOW Orcs, tell me why? I mean we even had a perfect explanation as to why TOS Klingons didn't have the bumpy forehead thanks to them fucking around with the same Eugenics that made Khan, but even if you wanted to write that event out by saying Marcus fucked with the time line that still doesn't explain WTH is up with them looking like fricking Orcs? And even if you give them that why in the hell are they spending countless trillions on starships when you have transporters that can reach across the galaxy faster than a fucking Tardis?

I'm glad you found some enjoyment out of them because I found them to just be dreadful and I have a feeling history will NOT be kind to them, in a decade we'll look back at them and groan as much as we do at something like Attack Of The Clones (although to give them credit neither movie was as bad as Phantom Menace but I'd rather watch Ice Pirates than that snoozefest).

Re:Amazing work..

[tnk1]

Actually, I don't have a problem in-universe with time travel via Red Matter. It makes about as much sense as going to high warp around a star and going back in time. Red Matter does something with altering or destabilizing mass to an extreme degree, causing a singularity which certainly could mimic a star's effect with the warp drive or simply causes a wormhole with an opening into the past. It's not too far outside of the usual faux science that Trek uses.

What I am tired of is Star Trek relying on time travel. Just stop. Please.

I know this isn't hard science fiction, and time travel is a common plot device in soft sci-fi, but at least make it rare or something. I get a headache with the epic things they do with time travel and how it still all ends up with them right back with everything the way it should be at the end of the episode/movie.

All that said, it actually made sense for a reboot. Particularly since time travel was set up in canon to be so damn easy to do. Using time travel for a reboot is consistent, albeit annoying, since you really are just setting up an alternate time line, not "fixing the past". It's one of the few time travel stories in Trek to actually truly display the massive consequences of changing a timeline.

As for the Klingons... eh. I had more of a problem with the transporter that lets Khan transport all the way to Qo'noS from Earth. WTF does that bad-guy Starfleet admiral need a dreadnought starship for when he could just transport megatons worth of weaponry through the Klingons' planetary defenses all the way from Earth? If they can transport a man, I doubt they would have trouble with a photon torpedo/bomb.