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Star Trek Continues Meets Kickstarter Goal, Aims For Stretch Goals
jdavidb writes: A couple of months ago on Slashdot, I learned about Star Trek Continues, a faithful continuation of the Star Trek original series five-year mission, lovingly recreated by Vic Mignogna and a dedicated cast and crew. The original Enterprise set from Desilu has been recreated, great scripts have been written, fantastic guest stars have been enlisted, including stars from the original series and other Star Trek voyages, and the three episodes filmed so far look like they genuinely came from the era that produced the original series. Continues has now turned my children on to original series Star Trek, and we eagerly await more episodes.
Continues has two more days to go in their Kickstarter campaign. They have already raised enough money to produce two more episodes and meet their first stretch goal: creating a set for Engineering. They're also bumping up against their next stretch goal: creating a planet set so the Continues Enterprise team can visit strange new worlds and experience the tragic loss of nameless redshirts.
Continues has two more days to go in their Kickstarter campaign. They have already raised enough money to produce two more episodes and meet their first stretch goal: creating a set for Engineering. They're also bumping up against their next stretch goal: creating a planet set so the Continues Enterprise team can visit strange new worlds and experience the tragic loss of nameless redshirts.
I want to care about this. I really do. But the acting is justflat. None of them feel like they've got skin in the game. I don't know what it would take but the entire series would become a different thing if they could somehow be gotten INTO the story. Because for now they're really not.
Out of the like, 3 of these continuation series that I took a look at a couple of years ago, this was IMHO the best one that was getting the least attention. I'm glad to hear that they've made it through their kickstarter.
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I thought these were of good quality and are looking forward to the next episodes. However I really do not understand the fixation with all these fan productions and the current Star Trek franchise to have to reuse the original characters. Why not new characters and stories on a similar ship.
I would really rather see 24th century fan productions with new characters, a different ship or space station. New DS9 episodes with different characters would be good to. They could even have the original DS9/Voyager actors make guest appearances.
Dang, another lost generation. STTOS is a lost art, apparently. At least amongst the /. crowd.
I swear the title ended with stretch goats and wondered if another meme had whooshed over my hat but yeah, never mind...
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If Phase 2 could get a singular cast, I'd probably watch them .They've had some fantastic guest stars and some fairly decent writing. But just as soon as I come to like an actor, he or she gets replaced in the next episode. I know, I get it, these aren't well-paying gigs (if they are at all). But seriously, I can't get into the series if they're going to keep pulling the carpet out from under me every time I get it onscreen.
Seemed to work for Graham Chapman.
That might have been true if Gene Roddenberry hadn't declared TAS non-canon.
It's still up and coming, but check out Marc Zicree's Space Command movies. He has the same gripe with modern sci-fi, too dark and gritty.
How did they secure the rights to make these episodes? You'd think that would be the most expensive and most restrictive part.
He has the same gripe with modern sci-fi, too dark and gritty.
Problem with the beautiful future of Trek is that there's no real evidence that we're becoming better people. And exploiting space would permit us to continue an extractive existence.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
It's the geek's time-honored right to rant and whine that Big Media produces nothing but remakes and sequels. But when given the chance to show what he can do, it always Star Trek: Back To The Future.
Well, we are in the future now and we know it to suck.
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You pronounce GIF with a hard g, don't you?
You have it backwards. Exploiting space is what permitted Trek folk to become better people.
No, I have it the way I have it. Star Trek is fiction. And I say that there's no reason to believe that would happen. Exploiting space will permit us to not have to become better people, because we'll continue to have resources to exploit.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Look, you need to have resources to exploit.
Wrongo. You clearly don't understand that the world is full of cyclical systems which self-perpetuate. Look at the history of earth, it went through these different stages and then settled into a series of cycles which were self-regulating. And they might still be, but we've perturbed the cycle to an extent that might disturb this condition of relative stasis. But that's not at all necessary. This is what organic gardening is all about. It's not enough to put some things on a list and only grow plants with those things. The shit has to return to the soil, for example. We need some things to survive, yes, but there was a cycle which provided them to us. We over-multiplied without maintaining and extended these systems, and now we're starting to have to pay for it.
Human nature will not change, but people tend to be happier and friendlier when everyone has more resources than they need.
There's no reason to believe that the benefits of exploitation of space will be distributed to everyone. There are already far more resources on this planet than everyone needs, and yet many people get far less.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I came across Prelude to Axanar recently. It's original material, it's crowd-funded, it seems quite faithful to the traditional Trek mythos, it has a cast of well-known sci-fi actors (including several actual Trek veterans) and it has a crew with some serious credentials between them as well. If you're looking for new Trek ideas from outside JJ world, you might like to check it out. It looks like although this was made in a retrospective/documentary style, it's intended to set the scene for a major feature to come later that would be filmed from a real time perspective as most Trek is.
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Dont like it? Dont watch it.
Please, for the love of Pete's sake, either get a steady cam or don't attempt the "lead the actors down the hall with the camera while they're talking" shot. There was one shot so bad that it totally pulled me out of the scene. I think the camera guy might have stumbled or ran into someone. It was that bad.
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Are you judging her based on her appearance? That's superficial and sexist. It's the nails-on-a-blackboard voice that gets me, and irritating voices get worse as you drink more...
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Yeah, because the oil barons and bankers are the nicest, most generous people on Earth, right? The truth is, we have a whole f*ckton of resources on this planet, and some people squander inordinate amounts of it as ivory ego-massagers. Interstellar mining company managers will be rolling in positronic quadra-platinum while their underlings will be suffering radiation burns because of undermaintained shielding on transports..
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You pronounce GIF with a hard g, don't you?
The "G" in "gif" stands for "graphic" - hard 'g'.
The word "gift" is pronounced with a hard 'g'.
There are no other vowels in the word to alter pronunciation to be like 'giraffe'.
The inventor of the format can say what he wants. It's a hard 'g'.
That's exactly what the first algae said when it washed up on a stony beach. And so it was, until some algal cell with a shiny dome particularly free from cilia ascended to the very top of a stony outcropping.
A logical argument based on English grammar. Man, the Internet is funny today.
No it isn't. The whole point of naming it GIF was to play off of the peanut butter brand Jif. This was commonly known when the GIF format was introduced and the only people I ever heard pronounce it with a hard G were non-techies and kids like you who weren't even alive at the time.
"Voyager" would have worked if the writers would have cut back severely on the booze. Kate Mulgrew is a fine actress, but the writing for her character was wildly inconsistent and the writing for the show varied between "going through the motions" and "people actually got paid for this crap?". If there was ever a by-the-numbers, we-can't-upset-the-status-quo-one-iota television show, it was "Voyager". You can go back and watch "Gilligan's Island" reruns and there is a more realistic chance that the castaways will get rescued in every single episode than there will be in the Voyager crew making any meaningful progress in getting back to Earth, until the finale-decreed deus ex machina.
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Okay, okay, time to relax. Sit down. Take a deep breath. Here, have some gin.
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