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This is a new series of fan movies being produced by (who else?) fans of Trek. In a few weeks, Episode Two will be out of PP, but, until then, you all can watch Episode One, if you are so inclined.

The story takes place where TOS left off (after the end of season 3) and before the movies. There are quite a few interesting character developments. The sets are gorgeous, and the story is ok, although, a lot of lines are pulled out from other eps and movies word-for-word. The acting is sub-par, but thats understandable, because it is a FAN production...

So, watch it... It is downloadable in 5 pieces at: http://www.5yearmission.com/news.html


And post your thoughts, as well as voting on the poll.

ARX ANGELUS


***SPOLIERS***




Anyone have any idea what the heck that 'On' creature was? At first, I thought it was a Q... and then after the memory/wavyness stuff, I thought maybe it was an Orb of the Prophets... But, those don't normally talk. And Onabi says its a younger version of her... Wierdness abounds. And what does she have to do with the Borg?

Does the captian score with an alien chick at the end of every episode?

.:tag:.

First things first, I'm a Trekker. So I ain't Trek-bashing.

Do you know what must be done to revive the Star Trek franchise? The Trek fan population now consists of a lot of elderley persons, which is hardly a market media companies are willing to make shows for (since they are difficult to market products to, eg. computer games and themed bits-and-pieces).

IMHO, to revive the Trek franchise we must appeal to a younger demographic. Otherwise no one will make new TV series or movie again, esspecially after how Nemesis flopped in the box office and sales. (Its a vicious cycle, the more the last one flopped, the less they invest in the next one, and it flops even worse.)

Either way, a solution would be real nice. We gonna adapt or dwindle.

Speaking of adapt, "We Are The Borg, Lower Your Shields And Surrender Your Ships, We'll add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own, your culture will adapt to service us. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE."

^ = random Trek quote

JiangGuo

Oh S!@#$!

I just thought of it.
For Trek to survive. We simply gotta go low, way low. We gotta appeal to our baser biological impulses.

Mild Erotica, continuous inneuendos involving actresses known outside of Trek (but ain't too expensive to hire). Personally I just had this imagery of the Olsen Twins in Starfleet uniforms in a 69 Position, doing something perfectly innocent like fixing a sub-system. The odd R16 pun wouldn't hurt either.

Oh, throw out the whole TNG cast! Patrick Stewart need to go find honest work, same with whoever it is that plays Riker. They're not interested in old men reciting outdated music and ancient poetry...

JiangGuo

As the current series Enterprise proved (and of which I unfortunately watched a couple episodes of), the star trek franchise is all but dead. They have lost any concept of likable storylines, interesting characters, and original scenarios. It would take some serious altering to make the franchise viable again.

then again tng and ds9 were both shite in their first few seasons...

Hmm... Getting off track here... Tell me about the fanmovie; not Trek's dismal recent history...

Sounds interesting.

Oh S!@#$!

I just thought of it.
For Trek to survive. We simply gotta go low, way low. We gotta appeal to our baser biological impulses.

Mild Erotica, continuous inneuendos involving actresses known outside of Trek (but ain't too expensive to hire). Personally I just had this imagery of the Olsen Twins in Starfleet uniforms in a 69 Position, doing something perfectly innocent like fixing a sub-system. The odd R16 pun wouldn't hurt either.

Oh, throw out the whole TNG cast! Patrick Stewart need to go find honest work, same with whoever it is that plays Riker. They're not interested in old men reciting outdated music and ancient poetry...

JiangGuo

ohmyGOD youre a freaking GENIUS!!

that would make the whole thing worth reviving.

ya ya just casual innuendo and double entendres, the original series was full of that stuff because they had to be much more careful in the 60s.

Or you could revive it as a reality TV show:

"The Real Trek"--Space: the final frontier. This is the story of what happens when seven species are "forced" to live in a palatial space condo and stop being Federated and start getting real.

"The Human"--A human is searching for a spouse. They have 10 possible humans to choose from. However, the catch is, only one of them is actually human. The rest are actually shapeshifters that will eat the human if they are chosen. Will the human find true love or end up a main course? Tune in and find out!

"Who Wants To Marry A Starship Captain?"--Alien races searching for love from across the galaxy are invited to compete against each other to impress a Federation Starship Captain. Only hot, green-skinned chicks need apply.

enterprise is good, i think, i havnt watched it in a year.. t'pau is hot

TAG! You are it!

Do I really have to .:tag:. this again?

tagagagagalagalag!!!!

First things first, I'm a Trekker. So I ain't Trek-bashing.

Do you know what must be done to revive the Star Trek franchise? The Trek fan population now consists of a lot of elderley persons, which is hardly a market media companies are willing to make shows for (since they are difficult to market products to, eg. computer games and themed bits-and-pieces).

IMHO, to revive the Trek franchise we must appeal to a younger demographic. Otherwise no one will make new TV series or movie again, esspecially after how Nemesis flopped in the box office and sales. (Its a vicious cycle, the more the last one flopped, the less they invest in the next one, and it flops even worse.)

Either way, a solution would be real nice. We gonna adapt or dwindle.

Speaking of adapt, "We Are The Borg, Lower Your Shields And Surrender Your Ships, We'll add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own, your culture will adapt to service us. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE."

^ = random Trek quote

JiangGuo

ugh Nemesis was just ugh. where the hell did they come up with that remun crap. It just hurts the head.

The problem with trek is the most popular show wasnt even rodenberrys vision of what trek was supposed to be like. For example compare ToS and the first movie. ToS is like "wow this is cool". The movie was "wtf?" the crew was basically wearing pyjamas there was very little conflict involved it was more like sci fi night at the playboy mansion. Then look at the wrath of Khan(which rodenberry had very little to do with) that movie was great.

TNG was based more heavily on Rodenberrys vision of trek. Notice the massive change in society from the two shows. In ToS it was acceptable for Kirk to destroy enemy ships get into fights and do other crazy stuff. Then in TnG it was talk talk talk talk, 2 minutes of action that ends in disabling the shields, talking with disabled ship disabled ship gives into demand, plot twist, talk, talk, talk.
As TNG progressed starfleet got less militarstic and became more of a space yacht with the occasional boom.

DS9 tried to save the series as a shoot em up like with the domain wars but it was too far gone then.

Voyager started out pretty good the first season was like "hey this will be good" the second season was a bit of a let down I stopped watching it in the third and i picked up again in the last 3 when they went back to alot more combat but it was still crap. I just watched it for seven of nine and explosions.

Enterprise isnt even worth the time mentioning.

What trek needs to do is go back to the days of ToS.