Star Trek

[Buster's Uncle]

Star Trek Continues E03 "Fairest of Them All"

This was amazingly well-paced.  Considering that it heavily featured their weak Spock as Evil Weak Spock, astonishingly good.

Mind, I think the script wildly underestimates Evil Kirk, and they missed a couple of chances to do something interesting with Evil Scotty -who, in the original episode, was clearly below Evil Sulu in the Evil pecking order and probably a drunk or something- but still, very good.   

[Geo]

Star Trek Continues E03 "Fairest of Them All"

SPOOOOOOOOOOOOCK!!! 

[Valka]

So where did the Tantalus Device Nullifier come from - did Marlena make it? 

It was a decent episode. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Probably Evil Helen Noel...

[Geo]

So where did the Tantalus Device Nullifier come from - did Marlena make it? 

I thought they only said where Evil Kirk obtained it?

[Buster's Uncle]

Alien woman scientist on Tanalus IV - and you know how Kirk gets on with the space ladies...

[Unorthodox]

Middle son watched into darkness again the other day, and I sorta half-watched while reading.  Overall thought Silar-spock did a better job than the first one, but the rest of the cast not so much.  Plot was all over the place inconsistent. 

Yet...I could see how it might work better as a Star Wars show, so somewhat guarded optimism that reboot might be half decent with Abrams. 

[Buster's Uncle]

It's so easy, even Kirk could do it.

[Geo]

Meaning there's an alien fem somewhere at the help desk?

[Buster's Uncle]

An busty green one.

[Mylochka]

Star Trek Continues E03 "Fairest of Them All"

I want to add my recommendation of "Fairest of Them All."  This is by far the best fan-made Trek episode I've ever seen.  The script was really good.  I love a good mirror universe story.  This one was tightly paced and engrossing.  Not a false note.  Even though I wouldn't have thought their Spock had the weight (literally or figuratively) to pull off the driving role he played in this one, that lil' Vulcan gave me chills at more than one point!

[Buster's Uncle]

Silly Sulu !

[Valka]

Where is this from? Did Phase II release a blooper reel for "Mind-Sifter"?

[Buster's Uncle]

They released this.

[Buster's Uncle]

'Star Trek: Axanar' Fan Film Warps Beyond Crowdfunding Goal
Space.com
By Elizabeth Howell, Space.com Contributor   |   August 16, 2014 07:00am ET



The crowdfunding campaign for a new fan-funded "Star Trek" film more than doubled its expected goal.  Credit: Axanar Productions

 
 
A new "Star Trek" fan funding campaign has just hit warp speed.

The crowdfunding campaign for "Star Trek: Axanar" — a fan-funded "Star Trek" film — has raised more than $200,000, donated through the website Kickstarter, blowing well past the original goal of $100,000. The campaign comes on the heels of another wildly successful Kickstarter launched by the team earlier this year. The budget for the film is about $600,000, and other fundraising campaigns are possible, said the executive producer of the project.

"They love what we’re doing," said Alec Peters, the executive producer of the project, of the fans who have followed "Axanar"for the past few months. "We get so much positive feedback. It inspires us to be better, and whenever we release something, they tell us something else they’d like to see."

The Kickstarter campaign closes to donations on Aug. 24.

Additionally, a 20-minute mock documentary on the battle of Axanar — the fight on which the movie is based — premiered July 26 after raising more than $100,000 through crowdfunding. Actors in the film, called "Prelude to Axanar," include Richard Hatch of "Battlestar: Galactica" and Gary Graham of "Star Trek: Enterprise."

Both Trek fan films focus on the Battle of Axanar, which was briefly mentioned in the original 1960s "Star Trek" series, but the battle itself never appeared on screen. The event was mentioned in the original series' third-season episode, "Whom Gods Destroy," which followed battle winner and Starfleet captain Garth of Izar.


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Peters has had a lifelong fascination with Garth's story, which came to the forefront after he played the character in a fan production in 2010. He got permission from CBS representatives to go ahead with "Star Trek: The Battle of Axanar" and quickly marshaled actors and production staff to make a cinema-quality project. (The movie is allowed to proceed as long as the filmmakers do not make a profit.)

When Peters went on to Kickstarter with a $10,000 ask for the mock documentary, he received many times that amount. He attributes the success to laying out the budget concretely and constantly updating his fan funders.

"We have an active donor's group on Facebook of 1,200 people, and we've got about 2,500 donors total," Peters said. "We update them, probably, three times a week on the Kickstarter page … [and] on Facebook, we're on every day talking to them."

It took sacrifices to make a Hollywood-style film on a thrift-store budget. The production staff worked without pay. The actors took advantage of a clause in their union contracts that allows them to work for less than their rate, because this is a "new media" film.

Off-screen staff will be paid for their work on the new production but at a lesser rate than usual. Even so, "that alone is an extra $100,000," Peters said. The actors will also take a cut to their rates.

The group is still figuring out the timing of the feature film's release. They estimate it will take about 20 days to shoot, and they hope to start filming in December in Los Angeles to avoid the hottest times of year.

Fans can learn more about "Star Trek: The Battle of Axanar" and donate to the project through the film's Kickstarter crowdfunding website: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/194429923/star-trek-axanar

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