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Sunday, December 4, 2011

Headline News (last month only)

January 29, 2012. The Two Ronnies (1973) Spooftackular No. 7* Professional Parody of TOS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtzFNEI-b3Y (11:40)
Other Historic Star Trek Fan Films: http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/137.html
Other Professional Parodies, Comedies and Commercials: http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/218.html

January 20, 2012: Mariner's third release is their fifth episode (their second, third and forth episodes are called, "A New Threat" parts, 1, 2, and 3, and only Part 1 has been released). Animated, drama, adult fans including some with good records in other fan films, Silver Age. You can view it here: http://vimeo.com/35370095 (18:13). For all that Mariner has to offer, and more background on this series, see http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/120.html
A Review: Fan Film Friday: Mariner: ‘Revelations & Anomalies’

BAD LINKS: All LINKs to Megaupload are now BAD because the United States government has shut down Megaupload for copyright violations. SEE http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/19/indictment-charges-7-people-tied-to-megaupload/ NOTICE THIS DID NOT REQUIRE A NEW LAW which would have empowered PRIVATE COMPANIES to do this. I will work at removing and replacing these links over the next few months after I complete a major reorganization I am currently doing at this website, which including removing all links to Professional Star Trek from this website, to a separate site. NOTE MOST much links are generally links to reviews and to CBS. I do not host or copy ANY films at this website.

January 19, 2012. The Newz. Spooftackular No. 6* (Professional Star Trek Parody from 1994)
Part 1 of 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckZxFEQBC88&feature=related (2:01)
Part 2 of 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej2vV-miskw&feature=related (2:01)
Part 3 of 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFUkPTkv7gw&feature=related (2:01)
Part 4 of 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Pl9YzZ-oo&feature=related (1:03)
For more professional parodies and commercials based on Star Trek, See http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/218.html

January 15, 2011. Red Star Trek. Spooftackular No. 5* Maxsmodels asks, "What would Star Trek have been like if it had been made in the old USSR?" He has an idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HC5zMLHLQyM&feature=related.(2:58) But why guess? The USSR did make it's own version of Star Trek, and they called it Cosmos Patrol! see http://www.stim.com/Stim-x/0996September/Automedia/soviet.html .

January 8, 2012 Star Wreak (American) Spooftackular No. 4* See http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/47.html .

Newly found, not new. Parody by adult fans. Two films. No standard costumes, low level special effects, green screens. Some might find it funny, even though I did not. There are people who actually watch Saturday Night Live, and it's better than most of their skits. It combines bathroom jokes, ridicule for tough guy movies where the tough guy shoots everyone, and makes fun of Star Trek conventions, particularly ones that are arrogant. The second film is a take-off on Arena.

Star Wreak (American, not the Finnish Film). Live action parody. Adult fans. No costumes. Green screens.

You Tube home: http://www.youtube.com/user/lengatraff
Permanent home at Star Trek Reviewed: http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/47.html
Film without "Parts"... just Star Wreak http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeIOLQABrvk (9:56). Looks like a shorter, earlier version of the version in parts.

Same film, longer, later version:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvmjwq4hmEQ (6:52)
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCulhIASTvo (3:00)
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7IGcMWytBY (2:28)

Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DWmQ4UyUSMg (4:15)

"Star Wreak II"
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BucXl6H-e38 (7:10)
Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO0PkMBbZtE (9:27)

December 31, 2011. Star Trek: Aurora (released last month) has received a rating of 5 and been declared a Quick Pick Treasure, one of the finest Star Trek Fan Films ever made. Quick Pick Treasures are listed, here: http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/1.html and Star Trek Aurora is discussed here: http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/25.html. Happy New Year to everyone!

*"Spooftackular" refers to comedies, parodies and commercials which are recently found but not recently made. Therefore, they are headlined during a period in which there have been no new releases for at least a few days, and no more new ones are expected for at least a few more days.

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Saturday, June 27, 2009

(1) Quick Picks

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Quick Picks
Don't want to waste time reading reviews? Just want to know which fan films to watch first? I've already found these Quick Pick Treasures:

For Golden Age Fan Film Star Trek,

The most praised group of all the Star Trek Fan Film producers, Star Trek: Phase II (formerly Star Trek: New Voyages). Although each of their episodes have much to recommend them, you might start with "World Enough and Time" which is their third episode. Go to (Blog 20) Star Trek Phase II or Star Trek New Voyages for discussions and reviews, or directly to their website, and download and watch it: Star Trek Phase II Episode Downloads Rating: 5. Also, the best fan film I have seen. In one additional note, this is the only Fan Film Group that has such enthusiastic followers that it has a Fan Film about New Voyages/Phase II's Fan Films! (See Short One Shots in the Table of Contents).

If you are very shy about taking on a full-length film, you could also start with their excellent short vignette, "Center Seat." It's on that same download page, at the bottom. Or, watch them both!

Starship Exeter (One Episode) See Blog 21 Starship Exeter, or click on http://www.starshipexeter.com// and watch, "The Savage Empire." Rating: 5

Also try: "Of Gods and Men" See Blog 24 Star Trek: Of Gods and Men, or click on
Star Trek: Of Gods and Men Rating: 5

The first Episode of Starship Farragut, Blog 22 Starship Farragut, "The Captaincy" Rating: 5
http://www.starshipfarragut.com//

For a very original but well done take on Trek, follow the Merchant Ship, Aurora and her two woman crew as they make cargo runs and face the challenges of space without the help of a massive ship, weapons, or Starfleet. Star Trek: Aurora, Blog 25 Star Trek: Aurora. Single episode, beautiful 3D animation, well written, well edited, good voice acting, Rating: 5

For Silver Age Fan Film Star Trek, "Star Trek: Intrepid." See Blog 79 Star Trek: Intrepid

OR click on:
Star Trek: Intrepid
but watch the episodes in this order:
Release 1 : Heavy Lies the Crown
Release 4 - Transitions and Lamentations
Release 2 : Where There's a Sea
Release 3 : Turning Point

Speak Czech? Or, if not, willing to handle subtitles? If so, I can recommend "Star Trek: The Metrensky Incident". Rating: 5. See Blog 85, Star Trek: The Metrensky Incident for both download instructions and instructions on how to run the film with the subtitled language of your choice.

[proposed section]Other Quick Picks: The following films are all very good, rated 4 or 4.5, but lack a single element that would move them up to a 5. That element might be poor quality sound or picture at places that don't interfere with viewing enjoyment, or a great, well-told story with no 'message'. [This section is proposed, not yet developed!]

I have only begun going through the comedies and parodies, and have not yet developed a system to rate them. However, I can strongly recommend the animated film, Stone Trek. Episode One, The Deadly Ears.

But, be Warned: I haven't watched most of the fan films myself.

I've sorted out websites that have films from ones that don't, and found films on You-Tube, Vimeo, and other video-hosting websites that have no websites of their own. I'm optimistic that much of what I've found but haven't watched yet is very good! However, know that I have removed a few films I have glanced at for sexual content. I have created a separate "Adults Only" website for Fan Films with explicit sex and violence. Links to that website, rather than links to those fan films, are in the appropriate places in this website. I'm trying to put links to every fan film which does not have that kind of problem which I can find below, organized in a useful way... I have put aside plans to review most films until a later time. If I do more reviews, I want to inform you about what's good to watch... what's good to skip.... and enough about why I think so so that if your taste differs from mine, you can watch what will make you happy. Where I've found easy to access reviews or review threads on the fan films, I've included them. Randy Hall of SciFiPulse has done many reviews of Star Trek Fan Films.

(2) Table of Contents

(3) Rating System

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Rating System
I use a 6 point rating system. From best to worse, the rating system is:
5 - Excellent, wonderful -- as good as the best Star Trek made by anyone. It does well on all these: 1)Well written, 2) well acted, 3)enjoyable use of sets, background, CGI or other special effects, 4)entertaining, 5)well directed, 6)well edited, 7) it makes a point of some kind or explores an idea of political, scientific or social scientific interest... whether I agree or not, and 8) it provides a low level of suspension of disbelief beyond that required to watch and enjoy TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY. A 5 has all of these traits.
4 - Very Good, Entertaining, has 6 or 7 of the 8 points.
3 - Good to OK. It is a matter of taste. It has 4 or 5 points of 8. If you like Star Trek, it's probably worth a try.
2 - Not so good to watch. It has something going for it, but it only hits on 2 or 3 of the points, or is weak technically (see below). I recommend watching NovaScienceNow on PBS instead. Neil DeGrasse Tyson will give you The Cosmic Perspective. If it makes you feel better, he opened the show on August 18, 2009 wearing an TOS Starfleet captain's uniform...
1 - Hard to watch. It may have something good about it. Either it has just one or zero of the eight points, or it may just be technically so weak that it's hard to follow. but you'd be much better entertained by reruns of most made for television classroom lecture shows. Can I recommend "The Western Tradition," (http://www.learner.org/resources/series58.html) introduction to physics (http://www.learner.org/resources/series42.html) or a nice course in Algebra (http://www.learner.org/resources/series66.html) or Statistics(http://www.learner.org/resources/series65.html)?
"Really, Really Bad Stuff" or 0 - ... this stuff is worse than hard to watch. It's aggressively bad, and it has no redeeming qualities. These films are not given their own webpages, but are listed here: http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/144.html . They do offer us one redeeming quality... they make us appreciate the serious but failed efforts that may be rated a 1 or a 2.

EXTRA CREDIT for just plain fun!
LOSE ONE POINT if the quality of the sound and video make watching it difficult, TWO POINTS if it's so bad it makes it hard to follow.
LOSE ONE POINT for including non-Star Trek science fiction or serious literary sources (e.g., it treats Hamlet as history, not a play) in the stories, TWO POINTS if the non-Star Trek materials are from fantasy or other non-reality based and non-Science Fiction sources (it includes magic, vampires, aliens who defy the laws of physics like Superman or Star Wars).

For a better understanding of the thinking behind this rating system, read these Blogs:

(240)Why Star Trek Reviewed?

and

(241) What is Star Trek and why are some people so enthusiastic about it?

Or read my review of the J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie, Star Trek XI, Blog 211

All rated fan films represent significant work. All rated fan films beat out watching meaningless trailers, teasers, credits for films that don't exist. Fan films websites listed under Blog 143 are effectively rated zero, as they have no product. But these websites can issue a single full episode and can go from zero to 5 in a day. This website is for viewers who want to watch fan films, not people who want to create them. Videos listed in Blog 144 are bad enough that my assertion that anything rated is better than just watching trailers and looking at banners is violated. The purpose of the ratings are to help the viewer not to degrade the creators, all of whom have clearly worked hard and lovingly.

FOR CREATORS OF FAN FILMS: I am trying to include the physical location of all fan film productions so that people who would like to be involved can contact a fan film in their own part of the world. That is also why I am including fan film websites with no product.

(4) Overview of Fan Films

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Overview of Fan Films

Some of the products of Star Trek alumni, Trekkers, and Trekkies are of stellar quality. Some are better than some of the authorized professional materials. I include "Of Gods and Men" (See Blog 24) as a fan film because it is unauthorized and associated with James Cawley, who is Fan Film's Jacob to Gene Roddenbury's Abraham in the Star Trek World. However, "Of Gods And Men" stars professional actors and is distinguished from professionally produced Star Trek only by the extreme of care and love so evidently put into the project... and the small production budget. Star Trek Phase II is produced by show business professionals, including James Cawley, who worked for Paramount on the later Star Trek series as a costumer, and who appears in both J.J. Abram's "Star Trek" and "Of Gods and Men." The production quality of Phase II films is obviously professional. Phase II has sold props to Paramount. Not yet released Phase II episodes star the Paramount JJ Abram's film's Spock double as Spock. (No $150 million budget, though). Some credit James Cawley with saving the Star Trek franchise. However, former cast members and James Cawley are not the only Star Trek professionals who has produced fan films. Starship Exeter (Blog 21) includes Paramount Star Trek alumni, and boasts stellar quality work as well. Star Trek: Beyond is also produced by industry professionals, and has a significant volume of output of fan films available for viewing. (see Blog 130).

For a nicely laid out Star Trek Time Line, See http://www.howlingmoon.us/id8.html from Star Trek: Eagle Star, a fan novel website. Here is another one from the Hidden Frontier forum: http://forums.hiddenfrontier.com/index.php?showtopic=14711&st=0 . For a map of the Professionally produced Star Trek Voyages, click: Map of the Galaxy via Star Trek

I am in the process of assigning Fan Film Maker groups into one of three groups. (A) says they are Actively producing new Fan Films. (B) says that they may have something in the can they are working on releasing, but no serious plans for more after that. (B) alternatively would apply to a group which has plans but have let a lot of time elapse since their last film. A Group partway through a partially released film with more than one year between sections may also be given a (B) if they have no specific release date for their next section. (C) says the group has Completed all Star Trek Fan Films. It may still be producing prose, comics, audio shows, or other fan Trek, but it is done with films.

For the location of fan film producers, here is a map which is a work in progress:
In some cases, all I have is a nation, a state or a province of origin, not a city, so many of the markers (e.g. in Germany) are not exact. They are (with the Exception of "Enterprise," "Titan", and "The Way Back") just somewhere in Germany. In many cases, I don't even have that yet. The map is a map of the world. You can move what you see in the window around with you mouse. You can then zoom in on your part of the world to see what, if any, fan films are made in your area. However, fan film groups in Blog 143 with a two-letter designation are believed to not be active.

View Star Trek Fan Film Production in a larger map

Star Trek Fan Film Production Map.

The Original Series("TOS") and The Animated Series("TAS") and Star Trek XI, JJ Abrams Star Trek (JJA) will be referred to here as Golden Age Star Trek. Fan production set at the time of Golden Age Star Trek are fan film links and reviews start at Blog 20, with Phase II/New Voyages. (Roughly, 2250-2349 AD.)

Star Trek: The Next Generation("TNG") through late TNG Movies, including Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ("DS9") and Voyager("VOY") and shortly thereafter time line are here referred to as the "Silver Age" Star Trek. Silver Age fan production links and reviews star at Blog 70. (Roughly 2350-2449 AD.)

Fan productions set in the time of the last series, Enterprise, until Spock enters Star Fleet Academy will be referred to here as "Stone Age" Star Trek. Stone Age fan production links and reviews start at Blog 10,. (Roughly 2150-2249 AD.)

Some fan film productions are set 70 or more years after Voyager returns to Earth. Star Trek Beyond is set 160 years after Voyager. Clearly, this is not Silver Age Star Trek. I will call films set roughly from 70 to 270 years after Voyager returns to Earth Bronze Age Star Trek. Bronze Age fan productions links and reviews will start at Blog 130. (Roughly 2450-2649 AD.)

I was originally unsure how to handle fan films produced based on the J.J. Abrams Star Trek reboot. I once proposed calling it "Iron Age" Star Trek or "Iron Pyrite Age" Star Trek. But that would not fit my 'time line' based system. I then realized that if I were going to differentiate between J.J. Abrams Star Trek and TOS, I also had to make a distinction between the original time line and Trek set in the Mirror Universe. Although I remain interested in suggestions about better ways to handle this, I am favoring calling it entirely by time line for overall classification. That doesn't foreclose refinements. ( TOS is Golden Age 195, Mirror Universe is Golden Age 196, J.J. Abrams is Golden Age 197? Gold has five known isotopes, 195-199, with 197 being atomically stable).

Most fan websites include only a few episodes, and have only one blog here to review them. However, Hidden Frontier is by far the largest website for fan produced Silver Age Trek. It is not created by entertainment industry professionals, although it is located in Southern California. In 2010, it stopped filming new Star Trek Fan Films, and starting producing audio Trek only. One final film will be released in 2011. It is also a website which has a clear political agenda, gay rights (or, as they must now be called in some states, "Takei rights."). It has completed an entire fan show series of 50 separate episodes, and has completed filming three new series as well as a non-Star Trek series, some of which continue as audio shows. I will note that the non-Star Trek materials exist, but will not review them. Hidden Frontier is in Blog 100 , but it's series are in Blogs 101 through, Blog 107. Voyages of The USS Angeles, a fan film series which forms the basis of the Hidden Frontier fan films, is at Blog 107. You can also listen to their new audio series which continues these adventures.

GoAnimate! Is a major website of an entirely different sort. They have created tools for easy animations to let anyone make animated Star Trek. They are at Blog 50, and significant users will each get their own Blog to follow.

Where to draw the line between major films or groups of small films which get their own blog and small groups of shorts or one-shot shorts that do not isn't perfectly clear. For the time being, that distinction is being made in a somewhat arbitrary manner.

(5) Fan Film Series, Production Groups, and Significant Individual Fan Films with links to their individual blogs.

5 This listing is not current, and needs more detail on some groups to be more useful. The user can scan this for Drama or Comedy, live action, animation, mechinima, puppets, or other forms. For Audio, see Audio listings. Ideally there would be a little additional detail to help the watcher pick a set of films to consider. I currently list 66 groups who have produced fan films or are currently producing a film and have already put out significant output ("significant" is arbitrarily defined by me.). Abandon projects by groups that have completed projects will be found under the producer's webpage or, in the case of Hidden Frontier, webpages, here.

These Star Trek Fan Films are set in the past, the present day or in the future but prior to the Stone Age which begins 2150 AD (or CE).

Blog 6: Duet.  Drama, live action. Set in post-World War II Germany
Home on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/user/actorwriterdca
Home base is Garden Grove, California. Film is shot in color before a green screen and changed into black and white as a special effect.

Blog 7: Steam Trek. Historical recreation, live action. This tribute to Trek and the beginnings of film tells a story which is part 20,000 leagues under the sea, part Perils of Pauline, and yes, part Star Trek, in black and white and in the style of early silent films. I have also included links to two genuine early silent films so that the reader can compare this recreation to the real thing. One, a Trip to the Moon, is said to include the first special effects, the second, The Great Train Robbery, the first to tell a story.

Blog 8, Stone Trek.  Comedy, animation. Several films, Star Trek in the animation style of the Flintstones, but no Fred, Wilma, Barney, Betty, Bam Bam or Pebbles in sight. The comedy style may be Flintstones, but these stories are 100 per cent Star Trek, or whatever other franchise is being satirized.

Stone Age Fan Films: Star Trek set around the time of Enterprise or thereafter, but before the time of The Original Series. Stone Age Star Trek, roughly 2150-2249 Information on Enterprise, or Star Trek: Enterprise starts at Blog 180.

Blog 10: Star Trek: The Romulan Wars
http://www.stromulanwars.com/index.html  Drama, Live action. Looks at the war in which the Federation fought, but never saw, the Romulans. This war was mentioned in Star Trek, The Original Series.
Their home base is Fort Smith, Arkansas.

Blog 11: Star Trek: Alliance Born
Surak75's Channel  Drama.
A remix of Enterprise shots and sounds to create a different ending for the Enterprise series.

Blog 12: Star Trek Enterprise: The New Generation German. Drama. Stop Action animation, English voice cast and soundtrack, using the original German animation.

Blog 13: Lilredhead Studios. . Flash animation, Comedy. The first series, Enterprise Flashed, is based on the Enterprise TV series. Later, they produced two series based on Voyager, (Ahoyager) but the animator expressed frustrations with these series. Animator lives in Dickinson, North Dakota but has not worked on these fan animations in a few years.

Golden Age Fan Films (based on The Original Series, The Animated Series, or Star Trek XI set roughly from 2250-2349).
Information on The Original Series (TOS) itself starts at Blog 151.
Information on The Animated Series (TAS) is in Blog 155.
Information on the movie, Star Trek (Star Trek XI) (JJAbrams Trek) is in Blog 211.

Blog (20): Star Trek Phase II or Star Trek New Voyages, is the most professional of the fan films production companies. Drama, live action. This series attempted to continue the five year voyage of the Original Series with a new cast, but remarkable recreations of the bridge, and superior graphics. 5 stories, 6 episodes, have been released, four more are in post production.
http://www.startreknewvoyages.com//
The home base is Upstate New York, USA. Studios in Port Henry.

Blog (21): Starship Exeter is set at the time of The Original Series, but on a different spaceship. Drama, live action. One complete dramatic episode, One live comedy short. Being based in Texas, its characters remind one of real NASA astronauts. A second episode was shot over five years ago, and parts of it have been released, but nothing has been released for nearly three years. http://www.starshipexeter.com//
The home base is Texas, USA. A comedy short, "Night Shift" using the same set and the same captain, has also been released. Others have proposed animated episodes.

Blog (22): Starship Farragut  Wins more awards than any other fan film series. It is set at the time of The Original Series, but on a different starship. Drama. Two live action dramatic episodes, one live action short episode, two TAS style animated episodes. More in the works. http://www.starshipfarragut.com/  The home base is Washington, D.C., USA

Blog (23): Curt Danhauser's Guide to Animated Star Trek.
Curt Danhauser's Guide to Animated STAR TREK
This website does not appear to exist primarily to produce fan films, but more to promote The Animated Series ("TAS"). However, it has produced an animated fan film after the style of TAS. It has also produced the only public service announcement ever produced for TAS, because TAS was the only Saturday Morning Cartoon whose content was considered to not require any public service announcements. Drama, TAS style 2D animation. His home base is Ridgecrest, California, USA

Blog (24): Star Trek: Of Gods and Men is a 40th Anniversary tribute to the entire franchise including many cast members from The Original Series as well as a DS9 and Voyager. It also includes the stars from Star Trek Phase II. It produced a single feature-length film in three parts. Drama, Live Action.
http://startrekofgodsandmen.com/main//

Blog (25): Star Trek: Aurora  A fully animated drama in 3D animation set just after TOS which follows a non-starfleet merchant ship. Drama. 4 Parts of the first 5 part Episode have been released.
http://www.auroratrek.com/index.html/
Their home base is Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Blog (26): Tales of the Seventh Fleet
Although this website reserves the right to produce fan films about any ship in any time period, the three episodes they have actually produced are in the late Golden Age. Drama, live action.
http://www.podship.com/totsf_files.htm  Their home base is New Jersey.

Blog (27): Star Trek: Counter Worlds    This producer attempts to create new TOS adventures by editing footage from the three seasons of TOS. He also uses clips from Star Trek:Phase II. It is set in an alternate universe. Only available on You-Tube. Drama, Remix. The home base is Pittsburgh, Pa. USA

Blog (28) Turist Ömer Uzay Yolunda (a.k.a. Turkish Star Trek) (1973) One of a series of films about the mishaps of a Turkish hobo, Tourist Omar. Usually he hops a train or hitches a car ride. This time, he hitches a ride on the Enterprise. Sort of like the Harry Mudd episodes, but with a zanier, cuter, more fish-out-of-water and less threatening offbeat character. Comedy, adventure, Live Action

Blog (29): Star Trek: Frontier  A single episode made in "machinima" and available on You-Tube. Set on another ship at the time of TOS. Drama.

Blog (30) Starship Mojave  A film which uses children to play the parts of Starfleet Officers. Live Action. TOS era.

Blog (31) Star Trix  One of the oldest Trek Fan Film animations ever made. A parody. Stop action clay animation.

Blog (32) Jr. Star Trek (1969)  This film has been held out to be the earliest Star Trek Fan Film ever made. Drama. Live Action.

Blog (33) Star Trek: The Mego Picture  Dolls used as puppets. Parody.

Blog (34) Up All Night Productions presents, The Multiverse Crisis, a Trilogy. Currently available, the 2nd of three films, Star Trek: The Incident at Beta 9   Drama, Live Action fan film which offers an explanation for why TOS Klingons look different than later series and Movie Klingons. Home base is Franklin Square, New York on Long Island.

Blog (35) Calvertfilm Presents two short filmed stories, Intrepid Finale and The Brave and the Valiant. Drama, Live Action, pre-CGI film (late 1990s) and confab of TOS footage. Both films involve the TOS Enterprise Their homebase is Romford, England.

Blog (36) Star Trek Eagle  First episode of what may become a series. Set in 2269. Drama, live action. Teen production. Home base is Dassel, Minnesota, USA

Blog (37) Star Trek: Machinima  A planned series. Set on Captain Kirk's Enterprise. Drama. As the title suggests, it's Machinima. Home base is Pensacola, Florida USA. The first episode and part of the second has been released. Plans for the 3rd move it to TNG era.

Blog (38) Bastards of Kirk Live Action, Comedy/Parody. 60 Minutes explores what happened to the many alien women after Kirk loved 'em and left 'em... the offspring they bore, the Federation cover up, and the consequences for interplanetary war and peace.

Blog (39)The Search for Spock's Body Parts  Mego Action Figures, 1988. Comedy/Parody.

Blog (60):   Go!Animate Star Trek Fan Animations
Home base is New York, USA, with offices in San Francisco CA USA and Hong Kong, China.
This website provides tools for dozens of animators to create their own animations, including tools specifically designed to create Star Trek flash animations. Animators who have produced large bodies of work are listed below, most are listed in (60). The animations are highly stylized figures with limited motion choices, but with greater flexibility than machinima. Mixture of Drama, Comedy, Parody, commercials, instructional videos, public announcements.

Blog (61):   RoTV Animations
Home base is Stanford, Maine, USA
RoTV has created a number of dramatic Star Trek animations, some excellent, some weak.

Blog (62):   Star Trek: Armada, and other Section 31 Animations. (Home base is Manchester, UK)   Star Trek: Armada is the largest and best know of the animated series coming out of GoAnimate! Two seasons, 19 episodes, over two hours of action/adventure Sci Fi animations. Section 31 has produced other animations, including two series. TOS era films are dramas, TNG era is comedy.

Blog (63):   DMAC6806's The Kobayashi Maru, and other Animations  (Flash Animations)

Blog (64):   Marvel Sorcery's Star Trek: TNG and other Animations  (Flash Animations)

Blog (65):   NCC 1701's Animations  (Flash Animations)

Blog (66):   Warpfactor's Animations  (Flash Animations)

Blog (67): Spock Prime's Animations  (Flash Animations)

Blog (68): Armalarm's Animations  (Flash Animations)

Blog (69): JTR3KK3R  (Flash Animations)

Silver Age Fan Films (based on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and the related films, set roughly 2350-2449 AD.) Information on Star Trek: The Next Generation starts at Blog 156. Information on Star Trek: Deep Space 9 starts at Blog 164.   Information on Star Trek: Voyager starts at Blog 172.

Blog 80: Star Trek: Dark Armada
Available in both Dutch and English with assorted subtitles.
http://www.darkarmada.nl//
The home base is the Netherlands. Live Action.

Blog 81: Star Trek: New Homelands
http://sites.google.com/site/newhomelands//
The home base is Tennessee, USA. Live Action.

Blog 82: Star Trek: Osiris
http://www.stosiris.com//
The home base is Michigan. USA. Live Action.

Blog 83: Star Trek: The Way Back
Set immediately after Star Trek X. Although
Star Trek: The Way Back appears, from it's web address to be German, there is, as of this time, no known German soundtrack for this internationally created animation.

Blog 84:Borg War
http://www.borgwarmovie.org/
Animated, set about 15 years after Voyager returns. Mechinima.

Blog 85:Star Trek: Metrensky Incident
A Czech fan film. My webpage on this film includes two sets of instructions on how to run the film with English subtitles. Live Action.

Blog 86: Star Trek: Encarta
No longer in production, but out of Grand Rapids, Mich.
There are four films, the last three of which appear to be online.
http://www.startrekencarta.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6Q7kXlYSoY  Live Action.

Blog 87:Digital Ghost
Digital Ghost (German, with Subtitles)  Live Action.

Blog 88: Dark Frontier
http://www.triple-fictionproductions.net/
Based in Lake City, Florida USA Live Action.

Blog 89: Star Trek: A New Beginning.
Possibly out of Choate Rosemary Hall a prep school in Wallingford, Connecticut.
This is A High School Film which is more a Teen Horror Flick than Star Trek. No website, just You-Tube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCLqBUSsDYY&feature=related  Live Action.

Blog 90: Star Trek: Unity
Mostly on You-Tube.
Probably the best of the teen productions.
The home base is Hampshire, England.
Mostly live action. More than 20 Live Action episodes and two Mechinima.

Blog 91 Star Trek: Requirius Silver Age, Live Action. Teen-made film.

Blog 92 Chains of Betrayal
Silver Age. Live Action, TNG episode set in the 5th year. Produced and Directed in Vancouver, BC Canada

Blog 93 Star Trek: Euderion German film with English subtitles.

Blog 94 Star Trek: Specter Animation.

Blog 96 Star Track  Comedy/Parody. Live Action with a some animated episodes. Home base is Montreal, Canada.

Blog 97 Star Track: The Metric System . Comedy/Parody Live Action. Series is set in the Star Track universe but produced by another fan group.

Blog 98 Starship:Seneca  Live Action. Comedy/Parody, Canadian.

Blog 99 Commander Rob   Dolls as puppets. Comedy/Parody.

Blog 100:Star Trek: Hidden Frontier Website Hidden Frontier is by far the most prolific fan film group.

http://www.hiddenfrontier.com///

The home base is Pasadena in Southern California, USA. All productions are Live Action.

Blog 101:Star Trek: Hidden Frontier Fan Film series
entire fan film series of 50 individual episodes. Live Action.

Blog 102:Star Trek: Odyssey   Live Action.

Blog 103:Star Trek: The Helena Chronicles  Live Action.

Blog 104:Star Trek: Federation One  Live Action followed by Audio Drama

Blog 105: Voyages of the USS Angeles Live Action.

Blog 108:Hidden Frontier - Intrepid Crossover Films Live Action.

Blog 109: Starship Intrepid
Possibly the highest quality of the Next Generation fan film productions.
http://www.starshipintrepid.net//
The home base is Scotland, UK Live Action.

Blog 110 Star Trek: The Pepsi Generation and other work by Ryan K. Johnson  Parody, Live Action.

Blog 111 Star Traks Mechinima Comedy, Parody, Mechinima.

Blog 112 Star Spoof Voyager Cartoon Comedy/Parody animation.

Blog 113 Star Wreck   Parody, Finnish, mostly Mechinima, but one full length live action movie as well. The most watched Finnish Language film in history.

Blog 114 Aah Productions Star Trek XII and Star Trek XIII. . Comedy/Parody.

Blog 115 Star Trek the Quasi Mechinima  Comedy/Parody

Blog 116 Star Trek: Red Squad Drama, Animation. No voices, words appear on the screen, and we only see the outside of ships, never the people in them.

Blog 120 Mariner  Drama, Animation. Set in the early 25th Century, in the Original Timeline.

Bronze Age Star Trek
Star Trek set at least 70-270 years after Voyager returns, roughly 2450-2649 AD.

Blog 130: Star Trek: Beyond
http://www.myspace.com/stbeyond
Shot in Connecticut, the Writer/Producer is from Texas.
Set 160 years after Voyager returns.
Live Action.

(6) Duet

This is a remake of a Deep Space 9 Episode, but set in post-World War II Germany. It is not very 'Trek.' I'm not sure it belongs in this collection. It has apparently been included in an Israeli film festival on holocaust films. It raises the issue of how far away from Trek is a film before it's not a fan film. The connection here is explicit, but I am still not sure that this belongs on this website of Trek fan films. Comments below are welcome.

My own issues with this are simple. The value of discussing issues such as war, massacres, strife between species and peoples, in Sci Fi instead of in the real world are that it frees people from their personal involvement and allows them to look at such issues as abstractions. It also frees the writer of doing the hard work of serious research required of historical fiction. Setting a story in a real place limited the writer to reality. And that's how the trouble starts. A well written bit of sci fi can get past the overwhelming issues of harm and loss and bring the reader, or watcher, to issues of looking forward to a better tomorrow. So much of recent writing about Nazi Germany and its aftermath is wildly unrelated to historical reality. The Nazis were very proud that they were going to be the people who rid the world of Jews, and kept careful documentation of their extermination. That has not stopped Iran, and like nations from claiming it didn't happen. Likewise, many recent films have a fantasy notion of escape, or ability to rise above the situation in the camps without the individual compromising their integrity as copos or prostitutes. It is easy to forget the Nazi notion that the ideal man committed violence with no conscience or regret.

My family was not a victim of Nazi Germany, save the way every other American family was during World War II. Like all young men in the 1940s, my father fought in the war, as did my uncles, and my mother and aunts worked in the war factories. I have relatives, direct and by marriage, who were involved in the assault on Germany and who witnessed what occurred there when they entered upon liberation. And I grew up in New York, where many survivors of those camps settled after World War II. So, while in no way a victim, the distortions offend me. I have not yet watched this, so I cannot say if this is one of the bizarre flights of fancy or not. Having said all that, whether good or bad, this film falls squarely within my guidelines, and is therefore included in my collection unless and until I come up with a different defination of a fan film. I have not reviewed this film, and do not expect to review it for a long time. However, I consider it ready to be reviewed. Mr. Andrews has told me he may create an additional Star Trek Fan film, but I don't know if it would be on this order, or a more traditional fan film.

Mr. Andrews has been kind enough to say that the running time is almost exactly an hour, 59 minutes 42 seconds.

When I add up the You Tube Total I get a running time: 59 minutes, 45 Seconds. That includes 14 introductions and 14 sets of credits, so the actual film is clearly shorter.

The creator is Christopher Andrews of Garden Grove, California.
http://www.christopherandrews.com/
http://www.myspace.com/christopher_andrews
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Andrews/52077239091

This is a 'Fan Series" set in 1950s Germany but based the DS9 episode entitled, "Duet.":

Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/actorwriterdca

Episode 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gviH8wrupOk&feature=player_embedded (6:20)

Episode 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQM-izINJKo&feature=related (3:12)

Episode 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M98_EKzbxHc (3:10)

Episode 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN8TxZJ2zCU (4:26)

Episode 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUREvQrhPQg (6:48)

Episode 6 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOaPPaWN-uU (4:00)

Episode 7 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ_LZ_aW9fI (5:13)

Episode 8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_YuN-NoeL0 (2:48)

Episode 9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4Rmqrxh3sk (2:45)

Episode 10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHt_3QW-JnQ (3:35)

Episode 11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72DD6Dwigz4 (2:54)

Episode 12 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUTcznxgVio (3:48)

Episode 13 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpdDMnaYnyE (7:34)

Episode 14 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nIM8VSdzoo (3:12)

Other Languages:

Hebrew Review: http://www.starbase972.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=409

(7) Steam Trek

7 Comedy/Parody. Star Trek imagined as if it were done in the early days of silent motion pictures. Excellent. Reminds one of the first 'Trip to the Moon' video in which men in top hats were shot out of a cannon and hit the moon... and the man in the moon winched.

This posting is labeled, "Complete": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCUVT4bi4dU (11:42)

Older version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y39gHihP74(9:55)

A review:

Fan Film Friday: Steam Trek: ‘The Moving Picture’

Fan Film Saturday at Con News : http://con-news.com/?p=3406

This same group produced the missing Star Trek: The Endeavour Missions: First Command, which does not appear to be on the web. The group is English, and the poster, Dennis Sisterson lives in Alnwick, Northumberland.

Compare:
Steam Trek: The Moving Picture with this real silent film from 1902, A Trip To The Moon(5:53) (with commentary)
Original: Part 1
Part 2

The Great Train Robbery, 1903, http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7949193416885414135&hl=en&emb=1#

And, the Perils of Pauline (1914) http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6935207288511750782#

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(240)Why Star Trek Reviewed?

(241) What is Star Trek and why are some people so enthusiastic about it?

(4) Overview of Fan Films

(5) Fan Film Series, Production Groups, and Significant Individual Fan Films with links to their individual blogs.

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