Star Trek

[Vishniac]

I have seen something for you...

http://www.trekkiedating.com/

[Geo]

You shouldn't make fun of BUncle like that. Trekkies have needs too!

[Buster's Uncle]

Star Trek Continues E02 "Lolani"

[Geo]

*snif*

[Valka]

Almost like Original Star Trek. Thank you for posting this, BUncle.

[Buster's Uncle]

[Spoilery - read before watching the episode at your own risk.]

Ok, not quite 10 minutes in -  No.  The Federation honors Orion slavery by returning slaves?  Just, no.  That's about the last thing in the universe would have gotten pat Roddenberry.  They should have put a lot more thought into setting up the situation - perhaps a major recent diplomatic incident, at least...


Man; Wilma Deering has gotten old.

Are Tellerites attracted to Orions, sexually?  Does that stand to reason?  Why else buy a green lady, then.

We could really do without the low rumbling every time they do a ship exterior.

Kirk rarely pushed the wall com button with a finger - he pounded it.  Points off for that.

I'm not sure killing your way out of slavery is murder...

The scoring is pretty excellent on this.  A good selection of the usual suspects from the ST TV music, used in the right places, and at an excellent volume level - does a lot to sell the thing.

Ah, good - he punched the com button that time.

Weak Spock is wearing a tank top under his uniform.  And his hand is too pink.  However, either I'm getting used to him, or he's not quite as inadequite in this one.

I'm pretty sure a semi-competent lawyer could get you off for killin' your way out of a rape attempt...

They tried something, with latex, I think, that didn't quite work for some of the green makeup.

It's a pity their McCoy is so poor - this is an episode where the real thing would surely have been in fine rant form...

Bad Sulu hair.  Bad Uhura hair until the last shot of her, where she suddenly had it in a tail, which somehow worked.

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I'm glad this was made - I enjoyed it.

[Buster's Uncle]

Anyone else want to chime in?  I love how much this fan production both looks and feels like ST - they've got a really strong Kirk, IMO, (though, as we discussed previously, the rest of the cast is fairly weak, which doesn't bode well for the long run).

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Something that might be of interest to youse Valjiir types - Phase II, the other fan-made ST, has adaption of The Mind Sifter in production.

[Valka]

That would be the version of Mind-Sifter as published in the New Voyages paperback? The final one, not the draft that wasn't professionally published?

I'll give it a try, but honestly 'Star Trek Continues' is the closest I've seen to REAL Star Trek without it being actually official.

[Geo]

How many groups outthere are making their own new serie(s) of TOS?

[Valka]

Star Trek Continues
Star Trek Phase II


I don't know of any others... 

[Buster's Uncle]

The first post purports to be an exhaustive list of fan films/audios: http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=60711

All I know about the production of The Mind Sifter episode is that they're doing one - I think it's safe to assume that it will be more interested in fidelity to Enterprise/movie/TNG, etc. continuity than Valjiir.  (As I've mentioned many times before, I have a real problem with these fan productions trying to be anything but real ST and the frequent references to all the subsequent inferior pro knockoffs annoy me.)  -But it's still of interest that they're producing a story that happens to also be foundational Valjiir.  As Mylochka mentioned to me just a few minutes ago, they've always had a problem with good writing, and it's probably good that they seem to be looking at adapting the best of the decades of fanfic that's out there.

[Valka]

There's lots of great fanfic that would make wonderful episodes/movies. One of the TrekBBS members, Alpha Flyer, has a great series of Voyager stories that take place post-Endgame, and they're about Tom Paris. She posts them on fanfiction.net. If anybody ever decided to do Voyager fan productions, these stories would be a goldmine of good material.

[Buster's Uncle]

Word is, new ones bi-monthly...

[Valjiir1]

Where can I find this?!?!

[Buster's Uncle]

I think it's in square-bound glossy comic book format - published by IDW.  John Byrne is a fan from the beginning and a major, MAJOR comicbook artist (and a very good one, too) who should, by rights, have done a better job of choosing and laying out shots than the old photonovels.  His drawn ST comics have been pretty good.

So the answer is google it, unless you're familiar with a local comic book shop.  The first one, released a few mouths ago, was a sequel to  http://Where No Man Has Gone Before.  I haven't seen any of them first hand -just a few pages online- but it looks like he knows what he's doing.