Star Trek: New Voyages, The Fan-Based Star Trek Series (nytimes.com)

Posted by samzenpus on Monday October 12, 2015 @08:08AM from the big-fans dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The New York Times has published an article on Star Trek: New Voyages, a fan production that's based on TOS. “People come from all over the world to take part in this — Germany, the United Kingdom, Australia and every state in the union,” said James Cawley, the show’s executive producer. “That’s the magic of Star Trek. It’s spawned this whole generation of fans who went on to professional careers — doctors, lawyers, engineers — who are now participating in that shared love here.” With TOS fans generally being less than enamored with the movie reboots, are fan produced web series the wave of the future?

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Sigh by Anonymous Coward · 2015-10-12 08:29 · Score: 0, Troll

The older series didn't have enough angst for the current generation. Not enough "it's about me."
The new stuff replaces the older, admittedly crudely done, focus on issues, with CGI candy.
And the children, true to form, eat that shit up.
The last good SF out was Firefly. It's all been downhill since then.