It has been a long time coming, nearly a year. Last summer Star Trek: Discovery was announced. We received a title, logo, and a simple test flight video that many mistook for a final ship design. We were also given a premiere window of January 2017. Well, it’s mid-May and obviously that didn’t happen. The…
What I love and hate about Star Trek
Derreck’s recent article about the Star Trek: Pacific 201 Kickstarter campaign got me thinking about Star Trek again. It’s a topic I generally avoid because I am fairly passionate about it, and really disappointed with how the property has been handled in recent years. But now that I’m thinking about it again, I feel the need to write it out…
Pacific 201 – A New Star Trek Kickstarter
Pacific 201 is a brand new Star Trek universe fan-made production. We’ve had several major hitters over the last couple of years including Star Trek: Renegades and, of course, Star Trek: Axanar. Pacific 201 takes place in the 2200s, forty years after the end of the Romulan War, the war we would have seen in season five of Star…
CBS Says ‘No’ to Star Trek: Renegades
Space might be the finale frontier but Star Trek is still trying to return to the small screen after the 2005 cancellation of Enterprise. Many have pitched show concepts and ideas but only a few have really made anything concrete. One of the biggest is Star Trek: Renegades, a crowd-funded fan film starring many Trek alum including Walter…
Axanar – The Future of Trek
“Space… the final frontier…” I’ve been watching Star Trek in one form or another since I was six months old. Seriously, I’m not kidding. It all began with The Next Generation, it coming out six months after my birth. My father and I watched as much as possible, TV and film. As I got older I read…