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And yet she is involved… in her own way.  A poor player strutting and fretting her hours behind the stage, Ensign Williams is stuck on Deck 7, commenting in her logs on what is going on.  And her insights and observations are hilarious… as are guest appearances by certain fellow crew members and other colorful and familiar faces like Trelane, Harry Mudd, and Balok. It’s about the people involved and the effect this shared experience had on all of their lives…even decades later. With plans in motion for more Voyager and Raven productions, David has also busied himself with a new and unique series of five “QUICK TREKS” (not to be confused with Short Treks, since David’s fan films came first), each running between two and four minutes.  The first Quick Trek debuted last November and focused on Captain Janeway’s quest to order a simple cup of coffee while being “thwarted” at every turn by a friendly and helpful barista. View: “Command and Conquer”Rating: PRETTY GOOD +, THE FEDERATION FILES: “Galaxy Hopper” (interview).  And you shouldn’t watch it simply because it feels like good Star Trek. Meet MrBonk85 (that’s his YouTube handle) and his STAR TREK STUNT DOUBLES fan series.  I first discovered this fellow a few months ago when he released his version of the TOS episode “Spectre of the Gun” (see below).  It compressed the classic episode down to just 5 minutes, a mix of recreations of scenes using original dialog with unexpected flourishes of humor.  And this one fan was was playing all of the roles himself!  It was very surreal. The world is just a little topsy-turvy at the moment. At the end of March, a new Star Trek fan production titled MELBOURNE (just that, no “Starship” in front of the name) posted its debut fan film: “Storm Front, Part 1.”  One of several fan series shot on the sets of STARBASE STUDIOS (while they were still in their previous Oklahoma City location), Melbourne initially released two ultra-short vignettes, “Pen Pals” and “Pen Pals 2”. You shouldn’t watch “Mind-Sifter” simply because it’s a well-constructed, well-acted, and well-produced story. Writer/producer DAVID CHENG and his team produced THE HUMAN ADVENTURE, a TMP-era vignette focusing on the “meeting” Admiral Kirk had with Admiral Nogura convincing the Starfleet commander to give Kirk back the Enterprise to investigate the giant cloud approaching earth. What a long, strange trip it’s been for Starship Exeter! View: A Tale of Two GalaxiesRating: PRETTY GOOD +, CERBASI TREK – The Search for Nicolas (interview). After all, most fan films involve multiple people interacting closely together. In September of 2017, Aaron wowed the fan film world again with yet another NX-01 era fan film, the twelve-minute THE DERELICT.  Even more intense than his first effort, Derelict cemented Aaron’s reputation as a top-notch Star Trek fan filmmaker. The local teachers who wrote the lesson plan scripts – each is a short story teaching some aspect of science in an engaging way – plan to incorporate our show into the classroom with their students. And few Trekkers love the series more than cosplayers. Did the Dynamic Duo actually encounter an Enterprise ensnared by a capricious collaboration of the Clown Prince of Crime and the captivating Catwoman??? TAS was the first time we ever learned that the “T” in James T. Kirk stands for Tiberius (which became official canon in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country). View: “Star Trek Raven“Rating: PRETTY GOOD. I call these “fanimations.”. View all episodes: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmKxi5xAVJrJuLkreoPnHq-nAc2wIt4_t. Both of those assumptions are incorrect by nearly a decade. We are the music makers. It’s not easy making a set-based TNG-era Star Trek fan film! produced entirely during the weeks of shelter-in-place orders. The drive to create fan-produced stories emanates from a deep love of Star Trek. Could it?”  One of the most convincing cosplay impersonators out there has to be JENS (pronounced “YENS”) DOMBEK…also known as “The German Spock.” Born in Berlin and currently a resident of Brieselang, Germany, Jens is completely committed to our favorite Vulcan/Human hybrid, portraying him in all manner of uniforms and clothing. Most machinima-based Trek fan films use only the video game renderings for all of their scenes.  What makes Cerbasi Trek unique, however, is that this is the first time (that I’m aware of, and I’ve looked hard) that a Trek fan filmmaker has utilized green screen compositing alongside machinima to incorporate real people INTO the computer-generated scenes.  Wayne and his two sons appear with the CGI characters on the virtual bridges, and the result is a really fun-looking adventure…, View: CERBASI TREK – The Search for NicolasRating: PRETTY GOOD, THE FEDERATION FILES “Extraction” (feature). Along the way, they picked up sponsors that donated some pretty amazing free hardware, software, plus meeting and studio space. And not just any fan film…it’s a parody of Prelude to Axanar! Speaking of dreaming and never knowing what you’re gonna get, I recently experienced the brand new 2-part Star Trek fan film TO HAVE BOLDLY GONE, written and directed by (and starring) LARRY FLEMING…and it was quite a head trip, lemme tellya! Along the way, Minard has encountered multiple alien races, survived space battles and starship crashes, and even squared off against his Mirror Universe doppelgänger. It’s amazing how much movie trailers have changed in the last few decades! Lighting, make-up, directing, editing, music, VFX, acting…everything came together flawlessly to present fans with one of the most polished-looking set-based fan films in a long time. And for us Trekkers, that includes our fan films.  Lately, a series of fan films have been produced entirely during the weeks of shelter-in-place orders.  A few months later, out of the blue, she called and said, “We have the first script ready!”  And I suddenly realized: “Okay, so I’m producing a fan film.”  I hadn’t really thought about doing my own film before that phone call. I’ll explain that unusual comment in Part 2, but first, let’s take a look back at a decade of a truly remarkable fan series…, Blog entry PART 1 posted: January 13, 2017, View #1: “These Are the Voyages”Rating: PRETTY GOODÂ, View #2: “Worst Nightmare”Rating: PRETTY GOOD +, View #3: “Choices, part one”Rating: HIGHLY RECOMMENDEDÂ, View #4: “Choices, part two”Rating: HIGHLY RECOMMENDEDÂ, View #5: “Promotion”Rating: PRETTY GOODÂ, View #6: “It’s Dark… Get Over It”Rating: PRETTY GOOD +, View #7: “Nightfall”Rating: HIGHLY RECOMMENDEDÂ, View #8: “Almost Time”Rating: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED +, View #9: “Out of Time”Rating: MUST SEE. View portions of “Paragon’s Paragon”Rating: DECENT EFFORT +Â, THE THING IN THE CAVE – fan film from 1967 (interview). ) Trek fan films—one per day!—in just seven days, I think I need to rechristen Vance the “Oompa Loompa of Star Trek fan films”…perhaps even Willy Wonka himself! View: Star Trek: SurvivorRating: HIGHLY RECOMMENDEDÂ, View: Survivors – A Star Trek Fan FIlmRating: HIGHLY RECOMMENDEDÂ. Now, half a year later, David just released his second effort, a 9-minute short film titled “Derelict.”  This one focuses on two members of the crew—Harry Kim and Seven-of-Nine—on board a, you guessed it, derelict spacecraft. And so I was torn. And now a fan has fixed those mistakes—not with physical models and high quality camera equipment but instead using only his computer…, View: Opening Klingon/V’Ger sequenceView: Drydock departureView: WormholeRating: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED +, DREADNOUGHT DOMINION (feature)DREADNOUGHT DOMINION (interview)DREADNOUGHT DOMINION (audio interview)DREADNOUGHT DOMINION (interview). Those VFX sequences, overseen by the legendary DOUG TRUMBULL and JOHN DYKSTRA, were rushed together in less than six months. View: Left BehindRating: HIGHLY RECOMMENDEDÂ. With the sequel to 2012's Wreck-It Ralph, Ralph Breaks the Internet, poised to trash theaters on November 21, we're set to venture into the territory of amateur fan films to try and see which not-for-profit shorts have best captured the video game experience. And it’s not as though the idea of crossing the franchise streams is completely alien. If you can’t stomach my decision to post this blog feature, then please feel free to skip it. Just when all seemed lost, however, an angel donor named ALEXANDER MAYER stepped up with an offer to fund the entire project. The bar has just been raised for Star Trek fan films.  On May 2 of last year, Gary O’Brien and Paul Laight launched a Kickstarter to fund their latest short film.  Based in Oxfordshire in the United Kingdom, over the past eleven years Gary and Paul had collaborated on eight other short films. One of the best examples I’ve seen of this recently is a fan-edited version of the trailer for Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.  JONATHAN WORMAN is a talented video editor based in Toronto, Canada who has worked on commercials, music videos, shorts, and documentaries over the past eight years.  Last summer, he released a brilliant “modern” version of a trailer for this beloved fan favorite feature film. Now, this is intriguing!  If you look about half-way down the fan film guidelines to the second-to-last point under #6, you find the following: No unlicensed Star Trek-related or fan production-related merchandise or services can be offered for sale or given away as premiums, perks or rewards or in connection with the fan production fundraising. While filmed primarily in outdoor locations, it also featured an elaborate shuttlepod interior set as well as a turbolift constructed for the production. But by far (at least in my opinion) the most inspired, creative, and well-executed of all the Star Trek fan film mash-ups is Stone Trek, a series of nine cartoon shorts created by Brian Mathews and released online using Adobe’s Flash software between 2000 and 2007. The rules which do not directly support their copyright, and copyright law, will be ignored. And like the coronavirus itself, Star Trek fan films are proving to be quite tenacious and hard to get of…which is a GOOD thing if you like Star Trek fan films (and I certainly do)! And yet, it’s 100% a Star Trek fan film! To quote Scotty, “I’ve always held a sneaking admiration for this one.”  Actually, my admiration for the efforts of Fan Trek Productions (out of the Netherlands) has never exactly been “sneaking.”  These “semi-professional” (their words) fan filmmakers have consistently turned out really impressive, self-funded episodes of their fan series.  And now, after ten years, that series, STAR TREK: DARK ARMADA, has released its final episode. I think it was Deforest Gump who once said, “Star Trek fan films are like a box of chocolates: you never know what you’re gonna get…” Or did I dream that? And in this short film, so much was left out in order to distill a haunting but loving tribute to the “emotionless,” logical first officer of the starship Enterprise. Fan films like Star Trek: Horizon, Prelude to Axanar, Star Trek: Renegades, Star Trek Continues, and New Voyages have been viewed millions and millions of times on YouTube….and with good reason.  All are excellent productions of professional-level quality. The first three each had the word “Survivor” in them and all follow a general “pattern” of featuring nearly all of the action down on a planet where the protagonist(s) is/are separated from any help from the ship.  While down on the surface, they face a threat that usually involves running, climbing, and at least one solid fight scene. Written, directed, and produced by SAMUEL COCKINGS—the King, Ace, and Jack of all trades involving CGI animation—back in 2013, Temporal Anomaly has traveled a long and challenging path on its way to completion. View: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan – Modern TrailerRating: MUST SEE, STONE TREK, Part 1 (interview)STONE TREK, Part 2 (interview), When it comes to fan films, Star Trek is no stranger to mash-ups.  Fans have taken Star Trek into the Star Wars universe and vice versa. Blog entry PART 1 posted: February 5, 2016, View #1: “The Captaincy”Rating: PRETTY GOODÂ, View #2: “For Want of a Nail”Rating: HIGHLY RECOMMENDEDÂ, View #3: “Just Passing Through”Rating: PRETTY GOOD +, View #4: “Rock and a Hard Place”Rating: PRETTY GOODÂ, View #5: “Power Source”Rating: PRETTY GOODÂ, View #6: “The Needs of the Many”Rating: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, View #7: “The Price of Anything”Rating: MUST SEE, View #8: “Night Shift”Rating #: PRETTY GOOD +, View #9: “Conspiracy of Innocence”Rating: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, View #9: “The Crossing”Rating: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED +, STAR TREK: DARK ARMADA, Part 1 (2005 to 2009)STAR TREK: DARK ARMADA, Part 2 (2010 to 2016). Blog entry audio interview posted: October 20, 2020Blog entry crowd-funding interview posted: April 10, 2018, View: The Romulan War, Part 1Rating: MUST SEE. Instead, it’s a complete hybrid of the two shows, an entirely new entity combining recognizable elements of both but ultimately emerging as something totally unique and original. View: Voyager Continues: “Derelict“Rating: PRETTY GOODÂ, VOYAGER CONTINUES -“Star Trek Raven” (interview). The Derelict: a Star Trek Fan Production Video of The Derelict: a Star Trek Fan … Most fan films feature fan-written scripts with fan actors, fan-generated visual and sound effects, etc…some with small budgets and others with big budgets.  But as far as I’m concerned, fan films don’t stop there! Today’s fan film show-runners walk in footprints that John made over four decades ago. View: Star Trek: RenegadesRating: MUST SEE, View: Renegades: The Series – “The Requiem, Part 1”Rating: MUST SEE, STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE – Modern Trailer. Oh, and it’s pretty darn funny, too! But Samuel did…just weeks before releasing his half-decade labor of love. From way back in March of 1967, while the original Star Trek was still in its debut season, a trio of youngsters created a short Trek fan film titled THE THING IN THE CAVE. And many fans consider Robert April to be the first captain of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 and Dr. McCoy’s daughter’s name to be Joanna…both revealed in TAS episodes. The 7-minute vignette is from STAR TREK FAN PRODUCTIONS INTERNATIONAL and is very nicely done (especially since all of the actors are cosplayers and have impeccable monster maroon uniforms). View: AVALON UNIVERSE: “Avalon Lost”Rating: MUST SEE, AVALON UNIVERSE: “Demons” (audio interview). Filmed both in Kingsland, GA on the old Star Trek Continues TOS sets and also in the new WARP 66 Studios in Arkansas, Ghost Ship looked amazing. Fortunately, you don’t have to look…I found one for you! Airsoft GI – Left 4 Dead – Impulse 76 Fan Film.  Many fans were also getting quite good at costuming. of the series Voyager is a rare setting.  But one stalwart fan believes that the indomitable Intrepid-class starship, lost for seven years in the Delta Quadrant, is the perfect subject matter for a Trek fan production. If you’re a true Star Trek fan, you should watch “Mind-Sifter,” the ninth episode released from Star Trek: New Voyages. His genocidal campaign in the 21st century resulted in the deaths of 37 million people. “Troops” is a hilarious mockumentary fan film based on the "Star Wars" universe, and in particular, an everyday glimpse at Storm Troopers on the job. Details of Vulcan from the animated episode “Yesteryear” made it into fourth season episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise. View: The QuintainRating: HIGHLY RECOMMENDEDÂ, STAR TREK STUNT DOUBLES (audio interview). History. In December of 2002 when Starship Exeter released its first episode, “The Savage Empire,” it was a total game-changer. Then it was time to get to work…and so he did! With all the fans making these films, there are some that rise above the rest. Show-runner Tommy Kraft gave me a special link to view the movie early. Curt’s latest 23-minute episode spotlights Scotty and premiered on July 9, 2020, timed to coincide with the year marking one century since actor JAMES DOOHAN was born and exactly 15 years to the month of his passing in 2005. It’s now the age of the pandemic fan films—or fandemic films, as I like to call them—at least for the time being. There are so many great fan films of Star Trek it is impossible to pick a favorite. RICHARD WELLS: I was initially explaining the idea of using the sets for educational productions to my cousin, who is a teacher, and she said she would talk to some friends about it. Blog entry feature posted: December 5, 2019Blog entry interview posted: February 12, 2020, View all episodes: IntrepidRatings vary by episode from:PRETTY GOOD  to HIGHLY RECOMMENDED +, HINDSIGHT: The Unmaking of ALTERNATIVE VICTORY (feature). But for me, these two words were so much more powerful: If onlyStar Trek hadn’t been canceled. View: “The Green Manifesto”Rating: PRETTY GOOD +, THE FEDERATION FILES: “Voices from the Past” (audio interview). It looked silly, and I didn’t really get what the title meant.  And then I watched it. And Vance invites others to come along and play in his little corner of the sandbox simply because it’s fun! CURT DANHAUSER has already released numerous animated Trek fan films, ranging in length from short vignettes to 66-minute multi-part releases. At the end, the video also includes a new REMASTERED higher-quality version of Chasing the Infinite Sky. A fan film dedicated to … Star Trek: The Best Fan Films - YouTube. THE RED SHIRT DIARIES ran from September 2014 through January 2016 and produced 30 hilarious short episodes plus an almost equal number of specials, sneak peaks, and light-hearted behind-the-scenes vignettes.  Much like potato chips, I guarantee you won’t be able to watch just one episode. Kenny had a dream to create a fan film focussing on the very first captain of the U.S.S. This included an e-mail directly from CBS saying, “You can’t release this fan film!”. The full-length Star Trek: Horizon has just been released to the general public, and it is a cinematic triumph of Trek fan films.  Twelve years later, Starship Exeter released the final act of its second episode, “The Tressaurian Intersection,” considered by many to be one of the few MUST SEE Star Trek fan films out there. Just before the start of the new year, the anthology series THE FEDERATION FILES released its third full episode: “Extraction.”  Produced by GLEN L. WOLFE and DAN REYNOLDS, this episode was written by Glen and features Dan as the captain of the USS Nikita, a dreadnought-class starship.  Glen also appears briefly as a shuttlecraft pilot. On the one hand, Pogo had created this wildly popular Star Trek fan film music video…and his background story is quite interesting. But the cast is much more extensive than that.  The 12-minute fan film features Romulans, a Starfleet bridge crew, shuttlecraft pilots, and a team of TOS-era MACOs.  The episode also features a Starfleet shuttlecraft interior set that took about four weeks to build. Set solidly in the 21st century during the time of World War III, the story focuses on Colonel Green from the TOS episode “The Savage Curtain” (although in this fan film, Green is still a Major). The vast majority of the fan film community had no idea that GHOST SHIP was coming (including me)!  But just a few weeks ago, on Halloween, the newest full-length Star Trek fan production from JOSHUA IRWIN and VICTORIA FOX debuted on YouTube. Before there was Renegades: The Series, there was STAR TREK: RENEGADES, one of the largest, most ambitious fan film projects ever attempted.  Nearly four hundred thousand dollars in crowd-funding, multiple Star Trek veteran actors reprising their roles from the various TV series, paid industry professionals on both sides of the camera, two years in the making, enthusiastic plans to present this to CBS as a potential pilot for a new Star Trek TV series, and even a gala Los Angeles red carpet premiere at the historic Crest Theater in Westwood. 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