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! And while Let Old Wrinkles Comes has generally been getting very positive feedback, Kirk’s romantic overtures toward a female crew member in this fan film are stirring up a bit of controversy. Back in 2013, LEO TIERNEY of the United Kingdom set out to make a Next Generation-era Star Trek fan film called STAR TREK: DECEPTION.  Most live action fan films set in that time frame either record away teams in outdoor locations or else use green screen composited actors in front of virtual backgrounds…since creating practical sets in the 24th century style is incredibly challenging. With the release of their latest Federation Files episode, the Star Trek/Star Wars crossover “Galaxy Hopper,” Glen and Dan come together once again for a very exciting and good-looking fan effort on board the USS Lexington. History. Hold onto your phasers and buckle your utility belts, because Batman and the Boy Wonder are about to go where no Gotham superhero has gone before…, View: Star Trek vs. BatmanRating: PRETTY GOOD +, Star Trek / Star Wars – A TALE OF TWO GALAXIES (feature). We are the dreamers of dreams. 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. This year also marks the 25th year since Curt Danhauser’s Guide to Animated Star Trek website debuted on the Internet. Seven years went by, and Star Trek: Survivor seemed content to hold its place in fan film history as a simple one-off project.  I’d written a blog about it early on for my FAN FILM FRIDAY feature on the Axanar website, and I was planning on bringing it over here to FAN FILM FACTOR eventually.  But before I could, Matthew Blackburn surprised me with a SEQUEL!!! The captains just keep getting younger as 8-year-old ARIANNA ANDREWS takes the center seat in ARIANNA’S ENTERPRISE…an impressive 6-minute fan film. I am totally repulsed by Pogo’s prejudices against gay people and women. 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. Easter came early to STARBASE STUDIOS on a cold day in January.  That’s when Emmy-winning musician and Parkview Elementary School teacher KEVIN CROXTON brought 33 students from his Music Club to shoot a Star Trek fan film. If you hear the words “Star Trek” and “Scotland,” chances are you’ll immediately think of Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott.  But do you think of NICK COOK and the cast and crew of the STAR TREK: INTREPID fan series?  You should…because Intrepid is currently the longest-running Star Trek fan series still in active production (and there’s no end in sight). Fans have edited together scenes from both franchises to create clever mash-ups where the USS Enterprise battles a Star Destroyer or Captain Picard confronts Darth Vader over the view screen.  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. Star Trek: The Best Fan Films - YouTube. When the global pandemic hit and the world began sheltering in place (at least in many countries), I wondered what effect the quarantining would have on Star Trek fan films.  Hidden Frontier broke new ground in using green-screen compositing, generating home-made 3D visual effects, recasting established characters from Star Trek canon, and even featuring the first gay Starfleet officers in a fan film series. 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. View #1: Episode 1 of STAR TREK: AURORARating: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED +, View #2: Episode 2 – “Mudd in Your I”Rating: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED +, STAR TREK: DISCOVERY Opening Title Sequences by Fans.  familiar characters to fans: James T. Kirk, Mr. Mr. Spock, and Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy…having the future equivalent of a three-way Skype call or Zoom meeting. STARSHIP EXETER (feature), Part 1 – “The Savage Empire”, STARSHIP EXETER (feature), Part 2 – “The Tressaurian Intersection”. But what if your budget is missing four or five zeros at the end? So how did this Axanar parody come about? THE AVALON UNIVERSE kicked off its debut with a complete surprise for most fans: the 2-part GHOST SHIP, a sort of “Star Trek meets The Walking Dead” hybrid fan film that quickly went viral and now has a combined 280K views on YouTube! In fact, Glen is 50% owner of what remains of the TOS sets formerly known as STARBASE STUDIOS. In today’s world of cutting-edge Star Trek fan films, teams of dozens—sometimes hundreds!—work to make these ambitious cinematic endeavors come to life on YouTube, Vimeo, or even a DVD or Blu-ray. Social distancing is affecting nearly all aspects of life. Blog entry PART 1 posted: February 26, 2016, STAR TREK: NEW VOYAGES – Ep. ), there’s amazing make-up on Spock and the Klingons (plus really nice TOS Klingon uniforms), and all of the children do a spectacular job. Most fans thought Survivor was just a one-and-done effort, but seven years later in the summer of 2017, Matthew released a sequel: SURVIVORS. – Where No Musical Has Gone Before didn’t start off as a fan film.  In fact, it was only performed six times in front of audiences in late February and early March of 2016 in Pasadena, CA at the Ramo Auditorium at Caltech.  But last month, a year after its too-short theatrical run, the full two-and-a-half hour live performance was posted to Youtube…and now I consider it officially a “fan film.”  And not only that, but it’s one to which I am giving a rating of “Highly Recommended +” because it’s REALLY good!  (And if you don’t want to commit that much time, at the end of this blog, I’m including time codes to skip to the four best musical numbers that are MUST SEE/HEAR. The full-length Star Trek: Horizon has just been released to the general public, and it is a cinematic triumph of Trek fan films. It was called SURVIVOR and was written, produced, and directed by MATTHEW BLACKBURN, who also starred in the leading role. The VERY FIRST major Star Trek Fan Film: PARAGON’S PARAGON (1974)!  By today’s standards of green screen, digital effects, professional actors, and the resources of crowd funding, Paragon’s Paragon looks pretty weak in comparison. starts out with a bang—several, in fact—and immediately lets the viewers know that they’re in for a wild and high-quality fan film ride. On the surface, The Human Adventure is a fairly simple and straightforward fan production—minimal VFX, no custom-built sets, basic sound, etc. Youtube (14) Crossover (13) Hero (13) Independent Short (13 ... whose life mission is to protect the moroi (mortal vampires). I consider this a MUST SEE Trek fan film not simply because the kids are adorable but because it really is a remarkably well-produced fan film!  It’s well-lit with lots of interesting camera angles, the sound levels are perfect, the music is great (the kids even get to sing! A fan film dedicated to … If the release of the new guidelines by CBS and Paramount was the shot heard round the fan film world, then the subsequent response by the show-runner of Star Trek Raven was the first hint of return fire. View: The Human AdventureRating: HIGHLY RECOMMENDEDÂ. But try to find a film where fans themselves portray the characters of both realities at the same time, and you’ll be looking for a long while. Is it a parody? It looked silly, and I didn’t really get what the title meant.  And then I watched it. The Derelict: a Star Trek Fan Production Video of The Derelict: a Star Trek Fan … Blog entry for “Storm Front, Part 1” posted: April 21, 2017Blog entry for “Storm Front, Part 2” posted: July 30, 2018, View: Melbourne – “Storm Front, Part 1“Rating: PRETTY GOOD  View: Melbourne – “Storm Front, Part 2“Rating: PRETTY GOODÂ. 03 “WORLD ENOUGH AND TIME” – Marc Zicree (interview), Part 1Marc Zicree (interview), Part 2. A dream sequence? 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. Exploring the world of Star Trek fan films. Some fans believe that Axanar was the first fan film to use professionals or, at the very least, the first to pay them. Did the Dynamic Duo actually encounter an Enterprise ensnared by a capricious collaboration of the Clown Prince of Crime and the captivating Catwoman??? Articles and interviews spotlighting the fantastic world of fan films and the fascinating folks who make them. NOTE: In cases where there are multiple episodes of a fan series in one feature article, the highest-rated episode determines the placement on this list. It usually involves at least two different ships (or a ship an an object), since having only one ship usually falls into the “hero shot” video category. The greatest fan films ever made. NEEDS OF THE MANY and THE DERELICT (Interview). As you know from reading my many blogs, there’s a heck of a LOT of Star Trek fan films out there!  And thanks to the annual Lucasfilm Star Wars Fan Film Awards (which have been going on since 2002), there’s at least as many (if not more!) In other words, the viewer should be able to figure out the story even without words or narrations…and hopefully the story is compelling and makes some sense. But more recently, Glen and Dan constructed a new TOS bridge set for use in their fan films. It’s amazing how much movie trailers have changed in the last few decades! 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. CURT DANHAUSER has already released numerous animated Trek fan films, ranging in length from short vignettes to 66-minute multi-part releases. View: The QuintainRating: HIGHLY RECOMMENDEDÂ, STAR TREK STUNT DOUBLES (audio interview). Of out of all Batman fan films, this makes the list for many reasons. Last November, the fan series DREADNOUGHT DOMINION returned from a 16-month hiatus with a new episode that crossed over with sister fan series STARSHIP VALIANT…an episode entitled “Chain of Command.”  You can read more about that endeavor here in this Fan Film Factor blog. Written by Vance Major, Gary Davis, and David R. Wrenn, and directed by Vance and Gary, the scenes for “Chain of Command” were filmed separately in the states of Ohio, North Carolina, and Oklahoma (the former location of Starbase Studios) and then edited together into a 7-minute fan film.  It focused on the new CO of the USS Dominion trying to find a first officer. Brilliant! 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. I’ve assembled those twelve fan-made videos here in one blog—ranked in order so that my favorite is last.  Which one is YOUR favorite? Back in the winter of 1982, a number of dedicated Trekkers from northern California came together to make a Star Trek fan film.  Most were in high school or college, and nearly all of them were pretty clueless about filmmaking.  But the thing was: they didn’t know they were clueless!  And so they soldiered on, always imagining the awesomeness of their final production. The Cerbasi family lives in the town of Reading in the United Kingdom.  “Captain Daddy” WAYNE CERBASI has two sons, PETER (almost 12-years-old) and NICHOLAS (9-years-old).  And a few months ago, they made a 16-minute Star Trek fan film. Kenny had a dream to create a fan film focussing on the very first captain of the U.S.S. And it’s not as though the idea of crossing the franchise streams is completely alien. 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). This cinematic version of the popular zombie shooter Left 4 Dead manages to … The fan film Deadpool: A Typical Tuesday was shot in just two days with a budget of $500 and successfully captures the very essence of Deadpool, and is arguably one of the best fan films on youtube. I mean, I suppose you could do a fan film that takes place entirely on board a Breen or Gorn vessel, but most races in Star Trek show their mouths and noses. I’d watched barely the first 15 minutes when I shot him a Facebook IM saying simply “F—king WOW!”. This content is imported from YouTube. The second Avalon Universe fan film, “Avalon Lost,” premiered and quickly surpassed 35K views! Oh, and it’s pretty darn funny, too! 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. There are just some of the questions that are asked in a fascinating new “enhanced” audio drama just released in the lead-up to the debut of The Romulan War fan film series. 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. In the genre of Star Trek fan films, the universe (quadrant?) No film exists…only photosRating: DECENT EFFORT +. View: “His Name Is Mudd”Rating: PRETTY GOOD. 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?  Heck, the Enterprise has even picked up Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz!  (I’ve already done a feature on Star Trek vs. Batman.  The others are coming.).  What if you’ve got virtually nothing to spend on your fan film? Our new normal, apparently, is also the new normal in the late 23rd century—at least temporarily for our three heroes. produced entirely during the weeks of shelter-in-place orders. View all episodes: The Red Shirt DiariesRating: MUST SEE, THE ROMULAN WAR, PART I (audio interview)THE ROMULAN WAR, PART I (interview for first crowd-funder). Since then, Intrepid has released twelve fan films PLUS an additional three crossover fan films with STAR TREK: HIDDEN FRONTIER…and has also had its characters make cameos in three (soon to be four) additional fan series.  A century and a half later, a group of dedicated Star Trek fans has followed that order with enthusiasm to make a film series that bears his name. What makes this new fan film extra fun is that the three actors portraying Kirk, Spock, and McCoy are not only cosplayers, but two of them are impersonators of these characters who appear at many conventions. La miglior lista di Film interi in italiano del web. Blog entry posted: August 15, 2018Blog entry posted for “Final Flight” posted: December 20, View: “Sleep Is Hard to Find, Part 1”View: “Sleep Is Hard to Find, Part 2”View: “They Want Us Dead”View: “Final Flight”View: “The Fighting Fourth”View: “Hunting Grounds”Ratings vary by episode from:HIGHLY RECOMMENDED +to MUST SEE. 13 Judge Minty At the end, the video also includes a new REMASTERED higher-quality version of Chasing the Infinite Sky. 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. With all the fans making these films, there are some that rise above the rest. But for a little fan film released in 2010, the answer was just…FOUR.  Titled STAR TREK: SURVIVOR, the 10-minute production featured just four names in the credits, including one name who was the writer / director / producer / star / director of photography / camera operator / editor / music composer / special effects / miniatures / make-up / visual effects / and additional voices guy: MATTHEW BLACKBURN. Kenny’s dream was BIG! ), A look at this groundbreaking fan production from 2008 actually allows us to look at its fascinating place in the grander history of all Star Trek fan films…, View: Star Trek: Of Gods and MenRating: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED +, STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE FANIMATION (feature). View all twelve sequences: On the blog pageRating: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED +.  Along the way, Farragut boldly went where no fan film had gone before, blazing a successful trail for other fan series to follow. Today’s fan film show-runners walk in footprints that John made over four decades ago. A perfect parody of one of the most classic fan-favorite TOS Star Trek episodes: “Amok Time.”, View: Stalled Trek: Amutt TimeRating: MUST SEE, STALLED TREK: PRELUDE TO AX’D WE ARE (feature). Unlike TOS, where there are multiple set recreations where fans can film, TNG sets are much more difficult to construct and maintain. Details of Vulcan from the animated episode “Yesteryear” made it into fourth season episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise. After releasing the LOOK FORWARD TO THE DAY with Kirk, Spock, and McCoy having a long distance “Zoom call,” DAVID CHENG and MIKE LONGO have teamed up once again, this time with KEN HAYASHIDA, to present a brand new “Zoom call” adventure…this time featuring Captain Kirk, Captain Sulu, and Admiral Nogura (along with a forth “Away Team Officer”). So what happens when a bunch of cosplayers get together to make a Star Trek fan film? Prelude to Ax’d-We-Are is a love letter to the amazing fan production that has become so popular… and it also doubles as a bit of light-hearted satire on this whole copyright infringement controversy. Questa è una playlist che include i migliori film completi in italiano di produzione italiana. 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. Last October, I posted an interview with the fan film wonder from down under, Australia-based Trekker AARON VANDERKLEY.  When the fan film guidelines came out in 2016, many fans worried that it would be impossible to create a decent Star Trek fan film story in 15 minutes or less.  But Aaron had already disproven that six months earlier when he released the six-and-a-half minute NEEDS OF THE MANY, an emotionally intense NX-01 era fan film with great acting, real practical sets (not green screen), and wonderful costumes. View: Horreur Post-AtomiqueRating: PRETTY GOODÂ. 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. The film clearly shows what usually happens in the world devoid of any honor and conscience, which is probably the best lesson one can get. Two and a half years later, on November 23, 2007, Star Trek fans began to fill in that missing half decade with a new fan series: STAR TREK: THE ROMULAN WARS. BOLDLY GO! For the “big” productions, like Star Trek Continues or Axanar, the number can be 50 or even 100 people!  For some of the smaller productions, maybe one or two dozen. View: Left BehindRating: HIGHLY RECOMMENDEDÂ. Ratings vary by episode, but in general:Seasons 1 and 2 – DECENT EFFORT Season 3 – PRETTY GOODSeasons 4 thru 7 –HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, View the 7 seasons of Star Trek: Hidden Frontier here: http://www.hiddenfrontier.net/productions/hf/, STAR TREK: SURVIVOR and SURVIVORS (audio interview). 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 all: Quick TrekRatings vary by episode from:DECENT EFFORT + to PRETTY GOODÂ, STARSHIP GRISSOM – from STARBASE STUDIOS (interview). All three stories were something quite different than most other fan films…and I don’t mean just the unusual meshing of Kelvin-verse uniforms with TOS-style sets…along with nacelles and shuttlecraft which looked slightly different than the familiar Prime Universe technology. It’s rare to see the full (or nearly full) casts of two different fan series cross over into a single fan film.  What’s even rarer is to see them cross over TWICE! Just when all seemed lost, however, an angel donor named ALEXANDER MAYER stepped up with an offer to fund the entire project. This “fandemic” film, LOOK FORWARD TO THE DAY, features three very familiar characters to fans: James T. Kirk, Mr. Mr. Spock, and Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy…having the future equivalent of a three-way Skype call or Zoom meeting. Take a look at this 2-parter and decide for yourself…, View: To Have Boldly GoneRating: PRETTY GOOD. Starship Farragut had its fair share of torpedoes to get past, but speed on it did. Think about the actors, writer(s), director, camera people, sound people, lighting people, costumers, make-up, props people, set designers and builders, special effects, visual FX, music composers, editor…and don’t forget all the production assistants and even the folks who bring the snacks, do the catering, or just run our for pizza. Film in Italiano Completi - Film&Clips. All the while, Vance paid for his dozens and dozens of fan films with the change he found in his sofa, and shot them all on his cell phone. Despite being ultra-low budget, it was actually quite ambitious, being shot in multiple outdoor locations by a team of just four people…two of whom appeared on screen. Without a doubt, we live in a veritable renaissance of Star Trek fan films… one after the other they come, dazzling us with intricate and expansive sets, elaborate green screen backgrounds, meticulously crafted costumes, breathtaking special effects, professional level make-up and lighting, and rich music and sound effects. Along the way, they picked up sponsors that donated some pretty amazing free hardware, software, plus meeting and studio space. View: CHASING THE INFINITE SKYRating: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED +, INTREPID (3-part interview)INTREPID: “Dangerous Minds” (Interview). Having now developed an industry-grade pipeline process, they just needed $15,000 to finish this incredibly ambitious project. It is also the five-year anniversary of the beginning of production on STAR TREK: FIRST FRONTIER, the long-awaited fan film from show-runner KENNY SMITH. And few Trekkers love the series more than cosplayers. But Samuel did…just weeks before releasing his half-decade labor of love. If onlyStar Trek could have…, Blog entry PART 1 originally posted: April 15, 2016 (updated October 20, 2017), View #1: “Pilgrim of Eternity”Rating: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED +, View #3: “Fairest of Them All”Rating: MUST SEE +, View #4: “The White Iris”Rating: HIGHLY RECOMMENDED +, View #5: “Divided We Stand”Rating: MUST SEE, View #6: “Come Not Between the Dragons”Rating: MUST SEE +, View #7: “Embracing the Winds”Rating: MUST SEE +, View#8: “Still Treads the Shadow”Rating: MUST SEE, View#9: “What Ships Are For”Rating: MUST SEE, View #10: “To Boldly Go, Part I”Rating: MUST SEE +, View #11: “To Boldly Go, Part II”Rating: MUST SEE +, View all Star Trek Continues episodes, vignettes, and videos here: http://startrekcontinues.com/episodes.html, STAR TREK: FIRST FRONTIER (audio interview with KENNY SMITH and ZEKE FLATTEN)STAR TREK: FIRST FRONTIER (interview with KENNY SMITH)STAR TREK: FIRST FRONTIER (video montage interview with MATT GREEN and SCOTT LYTTLE). But what if there’s just ONE guy?  One guy doing all the camera work, costuming, make-up, writing, direction, lighting, sound, editing, compositing, visual FX…and even playing all of the roles? 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). 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. 12 Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015) View: Let Old Wrinkles ComeRating: PRETTY GOOD +, Is it true that the Caped Crusader cunningly confronted a cranially-controlled Captain Kirk and Mr. There are some amazing cosplayers and impersonators out there…folks you walk past at conventions and you do a double-take. His first Trek fan film, the must-see CHANCE ENCOUNTER, was released in 2017 to rave reviews from fans. This “fandemic” film. 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. Screenwriters who have worked in Hollywood it’s fun were a LOT of to. Over four decades ago: â https: //www.youtube.com/playlist? list=PL-Ebp3MDibXLuftTRzk3Jga0Amz0FJGl0Rating: MUST SEE, AVALON:. Fall of Starbase OneRating: MUST SEE, Boldly go! Rating: PRETTY GOOD DeceptionRating. 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