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Anybody watch any of the Star Trek fan productions?
Star Trek fan productions - Wikipedia
I haven't had a chance to check any of them out, but some are made by people in the biz as works of love.
Star Trek fan productions - Wikipedia
I haven't had a chance to check any of them out, but some are made by people in the biz as works of love.
^^^
I've watched a few eps of https://www.startrekcontinues.com/ and intend to watch most/all of them. Was really cool that they got the actor who played Apollo to play Apollo again in ep 1.
For ep 3, the evil mirror universe ep, it was amazing they got an actress (Asia De Marcos - IMDb) who looks very similar to Marlena Moreau (mirror) at the time she was starring in the ep. Has been pretty cool they've gotten various actors from other sci-fi (and some from Trek) to be in it: Star Trek Continues.
'Star Trek: Discovery' releases first photos from mysterious season 3 has a trailer for 6 more Short Treks. Those who enjoyed TOS should totally get all the references.
I've watched a few eps of https://www.startrekcontinues.com/ and intend to watch most/all of them. Was really cool that they got the actor who played Apollo to play Apollo again in ep 1.
For ep 3, the evil mirror universe ep, it was amazing they got an actress (Asia De Marcos - IMDb) who looks very similar to Marlena Moreau (mirror) at the time she was starring in the ep. Has been pretty cool they've gotten various actors from other sci-fi (and some from Trek) to be in it: Star Trek Continues.
'Star Trek: Discovery' releases first photos from mysterious season 3 has a trailer for 6 more Short Treks. Those who enjoyed TOS should totally get all the references.
As I have already tried to watch it, I must say it is rather interesting to move forward. Anywhere else, as well.
For those in the US but who didn't pay for/want to pay for CBS All Access to watch the show: Star Trek: Discovery Season 1 to Air on CBS.
With no new content being made for TV right now the networks are scrambling for stuff to air this fall. Airing is on CBS when there is little else one might help build an audience for the show.
Speaking of ST series, All Access has a new show that is animated Below Decks. I don't think it's great, but it is ST.
Speaking of ST series, All Access has a new show that is animated Below Decks. I don't think it's great, but it is ST.
Star Trek: Short Treks Now Streaming on YouTube
"Six shorts are streaming for free until August 31"
I'd imagine they might be geo-blocked and only available in the US or North America.
"Six shorts are streaming for free until August 31"
I'd imagine they might be geo-blocked and only available in the US or North America.
Wasn't sure if this should go here:
Star Trek Day mentions a bunch of panels on Sept 8th. I hope they'll be recorded as I need to work during the day and have some work meetings too.
I stumbled across I'm co-hosting a full day of Star Trek festivities on 8 September, to celebrate Star Trek Day. I didn't seen any submissions about it, so I thought I'd let you know myself. : startrek, as well.
Star Trek Day mentions a bunch of panels on Sept 8th. I hope they'll be recorded as I need to work during the day and have some work meetings too.
I stumbled across I'm co-hosting a full day of Star Trek festivities on 8 September, to celebrate Star Trek Day. I didn't seen any submissions about it, so I thought I'd let you know myself. : startrek, as well.
Panels are up at https://www.youtube.com/c/cbsallaccess/videos. I'd watched the ones on Strange New World, Disco season 3 and Picard, so far.
I will probably watch the Enterprise and TOS one.
I will probably watch the Enterprise and TOS one.
Disco season 3, ep 1 became available on CBS All Access in the US on 10/15. For rest of world outside US and Canada it became available on Netflix around 10/16.
I've watched that ep already.
Season 1 of Disco airing on CBS has apparently been getting pretty terrible (Nielsen) ratings.
I've watched that ep already.
Season 1 of Disco airing on CBS has apparently been getting pretty terrible (Nielsen) ratings.
Season 1 was not great. It started getting somewhat better in Season 2.
The Anson Mount as Captain Pike storyline was interesting enough that they are spinning that off into a new series called Brave New Worlds. So at some point in the next year or two there will be 4 Star Trek shows in production at the same time: Discovery, Picard, Below Decks, and Strange New Worlds.
For those in the US, I was able to use 1-Month CBS All Access Membership (New or Returning Members) Free to resume my CBS All Access subscription.
Don't look at Behind-The-Scenes Photos from the Making of Star Trek: Discovery Season 3 until you've finished S3.
Probably only applicable for those in the US:
Paramount+ Launches With Free Episodes, A Star Trek Marathon, And Free Month Offer
Paramount+ Launches With Free Episodes, A Star Trek Marathon, And Free Month Offer
The above is the new branding for what was formerly known as CBS All Access.
Disco coming back on Nov 18, 2021:
Maybe there should be a new thread for this since it's for Strange New Worlds...
'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds': Meet Uhura, Nurse Chapel and Other Pre-Kirk Enterprise Crew Members (Video) mentions a La’an Noonien-Singh. :O
Maybe there should be a new thread for this since it's for Strange New Worlds...
'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds': Meet Uhura, Nurse Chapel and Other Pre-Kirk Enterprise Crew Members (Video) mentions a La’an Noonien-Singh. :O
I think this thread has been sort of a clearing house for all things Star Trek. It appears CBS All Access runs the new series back to back starting late summer. Lower Decks is running right now. Strange New Worlds sounds like it could be good. The arc with the Pike era Enterprise was supposed to just be one season on Discovery, but it's becoming its own series thanks to fan input as well as the cast approaching CBS saying they were up for a series.
I don't care about Lower Decks. I don't care about Prodigy.
I will continue watching Disco and Picard show when new eps come out. I am looking forward to Strange New Worlds. Anson Mount did a pretty good job as Pike and there are potentially many compelling gaps to fill in with Pike, Spock and all prior to Kirk somehow being in command of the Enterprise.
I do wonder if/when Trek will hit franchise fatigue again or will Paramount keep pumping out Trek in order to have content for Paramount+ and to have content to license to others (e.g. Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc.)
I will continue watching Disco and Picard show when new eps come out. I am looking forward to Strange New Worlds. Anson Mount did a pretty good job as Pike and there are potentially many compelling gaps to fill in with Pike, Spock and all prior to Kirk somehow being in command of the Enterprise.
I do wonder if/when Trek will hit franchise fatigue again or will Paramount keep pumping out Trek in order to have content for Paramount+ and to have content to license to others (e.g. Netflix, Amazon Prime, etc.)
Lower Decks is kind of dumb, but they do have a fair number of inside jokes that people familiar with the canon might find humorous.
The Star Trek franchise is also painfully aware that their audience is aging. Most fans are Boomers or Gen X. Prodigy is aimed at getting young kids interested in the franchise.
Because most of the fans are over 50, Star Trek can't survive on commercial TV today. Advertisers want an audience between 25 and 50 and pay a lot less for ads that appeal to an older audience. A lot of shows that appeal to older audiences are going to streaming services because the service already has their money no matter what their age.
I first noticed this when Longmire was canceled by A&E (or one of those cable channels) and picked up immediately by Amazon. It had a strong audience, but most were older. The same thing happened to the SciFi channel show The Expanse.
CBS/Paramount saw a strong fan base for Star Trek, but most were older so they used Discovery as the anchor program for their streaming service CBS All Access (rebranded to Paramount+).
When Viacom split in 2006 the ownership of the Star Trek rights were on the table. Les Moonves who became CEO of the new CBS wanted to bring Star Trek back to the small screen, but the head of Bad Robot wanted to reboot a movie franchise distributed by Paramount.
The deal worked out was that Bad Robot would have exclusive rights to a movie franchise spun off into an alternate universe from the original series for something like 10 years. After that CBS television had the rights to develop new series in the original universe. Moonves thought the Bad Robot films were doomed to fail and to a large extent they did. I thought the first movie was annoying. We saw the second movie and my first comment when it was over was I wanted that three hours of my life back. We never saw the third movie. I think it is the only Star Trek production I've never seen (though I've only watched a few of the fan created shows, and there are a lot of parodies I haven't seen, though I did see the Turkish Star Trek, which is bizarre).
Once Bad Robot's exclusive contract expired Moonves personally sheparded Discovery along. Discovery was his baby. When Moonves left the company in disgrace (many sexual harassment claims) it was thought Discovery would be canceled, but it lived on and now they have started spinning off series.
