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Hard agree😻He is the only man for me from the Original cast💘

(in no particular order)

Star Trek: Of Gods and Men

Imagine if SyFy channel got the rights to make Star Trek and did a movie with every available and affordable Trek actor they could get hold of during their low-budget mockbuster phase. This brings back so many Trek actors, some as their characters and some as new ones. More callbacks than your average Lower Decks episode and some are deep cuts (recognise Uhura's husband?) Clunky as hell but full of heart. Nostalgia overload, and my favourite fan film.

Star Trek: Renegades

The follow-up to Of Gods and Men skipped from the late 23rd century to the late 24th. Set in 2388 it was intended as a pilot for a fan-funded web series. Alexa Singh and her band of misfits are recruited by Admiral Chekov for a secret mission.

Renegades: The Requiem

Following the Axanar lawsuit (and Renegades was doing similarly-dodgy bootleg Trek merchandising), Renegades VERY hastily (as in, on day two of filming) scrubbed all Star Trek references for their follow-up/tie-up episode. Admiral Chekov became "The Admiral", Tuvok became a human named Kovok. The Andorian character lost her antennae. Uhura became Jemison. The Federation became the Confederation and Section 31 became Sector 6 - all while continuing the storyline from the previous, Star Trek-set adventure.

Star Trek: Horizon

Set during the era of Star Trek: Enterprise and mostly using green screens (very well disguised with JJ Abrams Star Trek '09-style lens flares and shaky cam), a new cast of characters on board the Discovery NX-05 are sent across time and space during the Earth/Romulan war. Ties in with the Iconians, Future Guy and manages action scenes with very little budget. The Axanar drama scuppered the planned sequel, and the creator has gone on to original projects.

Star Trek: First Frontier

Extremely clunky but charming, this is the first voyage of the USS Enterprise under Captain Robert April (who is now an American unlike the British accented James Doohan-voiced character in The Animated Series' "The Counter Clock Incident")

Star Trek: Continues

Star Trek Continues is an entire 4th season of The Original Series. The storytelling and presentation is very authentic to the original show with a few exceptions: a new ship's counsellor character played by the Captain's then-girlfriend, and that almost all episodes are sequels to TOS stories which almost never happened in the classic show. Scotty is played by Chis Doohan, son of James who played Scotty in TOS. Sulu is the late Grant Imahara of Mythbusters fame. Lots of familiar faces show up. Sadly tainted by Vic Mignoga's real life scandals, but *if* you can look past that, well worth watching. The link above is my favourite episode, the "Mirror, Mirror" sequel.

Star Trek New Voyages/Phase II

The grandfather of modern fan films. Some episodes are well worth watching, others not so much. It went from a group of friends having a LARP to semi-professional episodes with so much behind the scenes drama someone could probably write a book about one day. "To Serve All My Days" and "World Enough and Time" are their best episodes.

James Cawley's sets are now the Official Star Trek Set Tour in Ticonderoga, NY.

This list is uncomplete, there are LOTS more awesome fanfilms out there!

Dishonourable Unmention:

Change is inevitable, outside of obscure fan stuff like Star Trek Continues (sadly tainted by what we now know about it's lead) they're never going to make more TV in the exact style of the 1960's or 1990's. Television is different, our attitudes are different, the way stories are told in the medium has changed. Strange New Worlds is the modern, bug budget attempt at making more TOS, with the old planet-of-the-week formula. Time will tell if it'll make fans happy, but it should be a nice change of pace after 6 years of season-long arc Trek.

I could have just turned it off. I could have just kept enjoying what I already had and that'd have been fine. It's okay to only like a specific era of a franchise that's been running for six decades! Hell, I still only like the original Star Wars trilogy and a few of the subsequent one-off projects!

But. I love Trek so very deeply, I dug in my teeth and held on for dear life. And it felt weird and uncomfortable for a bit. But also... I found I didn't hate it. It was very different and sometimes I didn't like how they did things, but over all I became deeply invested in this new era of Trek. And looking back, I realized I had a lot of similar issues with previous series when they aired. I hated that Voyager's interior had a different look, darker and more drab. It felt like a military vessel in comparison to the elegance of the D. I hated DS9 when it came out, too. What? They're just... Sitting on a station? Where's the star trekking in this Star Trek?

Huh. Maybe I didn't dislike the new era. Maybe I just was uncomfortable with it clashing with my nostalgia.

So I stopped wanting it to be what I expected from Trek. I asked it to show me people who center on Hope and Love and then take me to strange new places. I want Trek to make me uncomfortable sometimes. It should make me uncomfortable! Not just with topics but everything about it!

And maybe future projects won't be "for" me. Picard certainly wasn't. Section 31 might not be, either. But I gave Picard the chance. I'll give S31 the same. Maybe it'll hit, maybe it won't for me.

DINOSAURS IN SPACE! I repeat, we get DINOSAURS IN SPACE!!! 🦖

Reminds me a bit about the Doctor Who episode with dinosaurs in space, so maybe another hint at a coming crossover?

Also remember my SNW x Terra Nova crossover idea? Did I manifest something again? It would actually be fun if those dinosaurs turn out related to the story of the Voth from Voyager.

Cowboy La'an!!! This gives me Firefly vibes and I'm here for some good western in space!!! I'm very curious to find out if Christina could already ride or if she had to learn it for this episode.

Also Outlaw La'an x Barkeeper Spock AU anyone??!!

(maybe someone really stalked my tumblr for ideas 🤣)

Pike's Angels!!! Love seeing Una, La'an and Erica going on a mission together (could be the same episode as the dinosaur one).

(is that a space ship? could that be the aliens that took the ancestors of the Voth to the Delta Quadrant?)

La'an seeing dead people!! Could be the same episode with her talking to Uhura about their last mission. I would be worried about this line as foreshadowing if we didn't know Christina filmed s5 as well, but who knows.

It would be interesting if La'an being haunted by ghosts would somehow tie to her dead family (still holding on hope that Manu turns out to be alive against the odds). Could be a callback to Memento Mori (when La'an already envisioned Manu on the bridge, remember?) and fingers crossed that we'll get another Spocklaan mind meld/katra space scene!

Spock crawling outside the hull at high speed! Michael would be proud!

I don't really care for the Sp*ik, the Kirk push to the center was to be expected (noticed how Una did not have one solo scene or audio line in the teaser, because I did 😒), but this hug looks so awkward and the episode still makes it even more obvious that this scene is most likely not what it seems (I had the same feeling about the Spock and Chapel bits back in the s3 teaser and see how Wedding Bell Blues turned out).

But if they give this, then they better also give Spocklaan its deserved focus! Fanservice for all!!!

I've seen people saying the new Vulcan officer could be related to T'Pol and I can see that and it would be an awesome tribute to Enterprise, but honestly my first thought seeing her in that red shirt was "Time travelling future Spocklaan daughter!!!" (remember the ad during s3 where the parents were dressed as Spocklaan? so maybe foreshadowing?)

As Star Trek dies once again, Paramount are selling off costumes and props. Up first: Discovery and Short Treks. There's a LOT here.

LAUNCHED: APRIL 11, 2245

Happy launch day to the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701!