Star Trek Continues - Divided We Stand - A message on the value of freedom
Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 6 months ago to Entertainment
The latest "fan produced" episode "Divided We Stand" of Star Trek Continues.
While it continues some of the false history of Lincoln's Looter War, the message of freedom is worth enduring it for.
If you long for an authentic continuation of Star Trek, the original series, you will get it with Star Trek Continues.
Review of this episode:
https://www.the-newshub.com/film-and-...
While it continues some of the false history of Lincoln's Looter War, the message of freedom is worth enduring it for.
If you long for an authentic continuation of Star Trek, the original series, you will get it with Star Trek Continues.
Review of this episode:
https://www.the-newshub.com/film-and-...
SOURCE URL: http://www.startrekcontinues.com/episodes.html
If they charged for these fan videos, I would pay for them. I never thought I'd see a time with fan videos available for free.
Hmmm. I wonder if the studios would permit them to make a profit off ads accompanying their video...? (Or maybe the studios will eventually get a clue as to what people would like to watch. Not gritty, not depressing...After all, it worked to revive the VW bug.)
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It would have been nice to use some facts and relevance from the original series such as crew size and the size of the ship.
Thanks to Netflix all the series still live.
" Live Long and Prosper ".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM0_P...
Hatch's comments start at about 15 minutes, but the entire video is worth watching if you have interest in Trek or film making.
http://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/gw...
“I am who I am. I can’t pretend to be somebody who makes $25,000 a year.”
Paltrow reportedly gets a paltry 16 million per movie. Could be that Downey is a better businessman than he is an actor.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000375/
imo, good as Sherlock Holmes, although the digital SFX certainly add to the effect. Otherwise, he is a decent actor who has been touted as fantastic by insiders for decades.
He would have made a good effort at Francisco, imo. ;^)
Movies came up with the highest returns in a short time IF you were one of the insiders. Outsiders got short shrift.
So they rated at the bottom of the scale as safe investments.
The contracts alone meant spend a bundle on a lawyer versed in that sort of thing. There is not only off the top but off the bottom and out of the middle. Then all the extras start like DVD TV Amazon sales etc.
The bundled approach seemed good in some respects. You pick one actor or actress or the same with directors or producers and invest in his or her next five or ten films or twenty. If they are...bankable....and the contract lets you get paid early enough pretty good deal.
But for those of you in the industry I wonder what the aspirin and tylenol rate per day must be. Now you say Downey did Ironman? As a competitor. He always reminded me of someone who couldn't lift his plate from the table unless he finished everything and then couldn't lift himself.
But I was saddened to see that episode 1 is an open encomium to self-sacrifice, featuring the metaphysical contradiction that at least one being can gain the energy of life itself from self-sacrificial acts. And Kirk endorses self sacrifice as the way to live. So sad. It's either rape and pillage, or self-sacrifice, because there is no such thing as long-term self-interest or a right to live and be happy, at least, that's the attitude of the screenwriters.
The original series had some of the best sci-fi writers of the time creating episodes, and they were always interesting. You could tell if the episodes were created by ST writers or outsiders pretty easily.
Still an enjoyable series in spite of the underpinnings.
The Star Trek Continues started out with follow-ups to TOS episodes.
Pilgrim of Eternity - Follow on to - Who Mourns for Adonis
Lolani - also a follow on, but don't recall the name of the original episode.
Fairest of them All - follow on to - Mirror, Mirror
They are trying to follow the existing materials for the Star Trek milieu. That material pushes the altruism, since that was what Gene Roddenberry set it up as. He really pushed this, and not just in Star Trek either. Genesis II was a series pilot that aired in the 70s, same group underpinnings as ST. Given the history, they really have to get some good writing to step beyond those constraints without offending the fan base (which still exists)
Since it is fan written, produced, and acted, kind of trapped.
https://youtu.be/1W1_8IV8uhA
All fan funded, and voulunteer based but with a plan for the future. The 1st half of the movie is funded, and will start production in January.
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Thanks for the reference to the book, I didn't know they had one they had made.
Well.. that's a side comment. but to tie it into this forum it's as if someone wants all traces of the old independent pioneer spirit erased.