Star Trek: The New Voyages Fanvids

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2004-12-26 05:06pm

Here's another very enterprising group of fanvid producers who've put together a rather impressive production featuring some killer CGI and state-of-the-art sets. Whether or not you buy these actors in familiar characters or not, this group had some chops to be able to rope in Barbara Luna, William Windom, and Malachi Throne as guest stars in this production.

As they explain their motivation:

Jack Marshall wrote:We believe in the type of future envisioned by Gene Roddenberry. "New Voyages" is our vision of Star Trek. A Star Trek set in the 23rd century and created in the 21st. It's a Star Trek with a familiar look, a familiar crew, but something new, and we think, something special.

There are other fan films - some want to imitate the 60's look and feel of the show - some are focused on other parts of Roddenberry's universe, and all are made with love and passion.

However, New Voyages is not the Trek of the 60's. It is the Trek of the future; a Trek that looks as modern and flows as fast as any action adventure show on TV today.

New Voyages was created in April of 2003 by James Cawley and Jack Marshall. Our goal is to tell stories that fall within the 4th and 5th year of the five year mission. These "short films", continue the original 5-year mission of the Enterprise and are produced at a rate of 2 per year. As such we consider each short film an "event" not merely a new episode of a weekly TV show.

Enjoy the show - and enjoy the science fiction

Jack Marshall
Series Director/Executive Producer
Star Trek New Voyages

The episode "In Harm's Way" is available for download in DiVX and QuickTime formats. Follow the Link.

Oberleutnant · Post by **Oberleutnant** » 2004-12-26 07:04pm

Thanks for the link! I'm downloading the second episode right now with Bit Torrent, and it seems to go very smoothly. I'll comment the show after watching it. Compared to most other fan productions, this one seems very promising.

Stofsk · Post by **Stofsk** » 2004-12-26 09:44pm

Does anyone else think Jeffrey Quinn looks a little... psychotic, as New Spock?

Jon · Post by **Jon** » 2004-12-27 12:05pm

Gene Roddenberry was a raving psychotic, why anyone would want to stick to his 'original vision' is beyond me. I'm very happy he was side lined out of production.

Oberleutnant · Post by **Oberleutnant** » 2005-01-01 05:33pm

Both "New Voyages" episodes were pleasant surprises, best non-parody Trek fanfilms I've ever seen. Actors were believable in their roles ("Scotty's" fake Scottish accent was horrible, though) and their fantastic bridge set seemed like a perfect replica of the original TOS bridge to me.

They should, however, leave 3D animations to someone else, or simply make them look like TOS effect shots. These camera flybys and starships making wacky maneuvers just didn't look right.

I spent some time looking for their first episode "Come What May", and it can be downloaded from one of their mirror links: http://leslie.onlinestoragesolution.com/

Just click "Come What May wmv"

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2005-01-02 02:32am

"In Harm's Way" demonstrated in brutally clear terms just why Berman-Trek is such an unmitigated disaster. The Cow Creek Productions group care about what they are doing and it shows with every decision, every shot, every smallest detail.

The Paramount gang by contrast don't care. Not one jot. That's why Berman-Trek sucks while a fandom group beats them out with just two films as opposed to their years of wasted effort and wanton contempt for the intelligence and goodwill of the audience.

I'll have more detailed commentary on this production when I'm sure people have had enough time to check it out for themselves.