{"id":8525,"date":"2016-01-09T10:56:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T18:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=8525"},"modified":"2016-01-09T10:56:28","modified_gmt":"2016-01-09T18:56:28","slug":"hello-again-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/09\/hello-again-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"hello again, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago, a group of <i>Star Trek<\/i> fans decided to do a fan version of a <i>Star Trek<\/i> show, including actual episodes. They weren&#8217;t the first with this idea, but they <em>were<\/em> the first that I know of to do it as a <em>period spin-off<\/em>. It&#8217;s all original characters, different (and in one case original) aliens, it&#8217;s a different ship (USS Exeter, NCC-1706, yes, <em>that<\/em> Exeter, the reclaimed plague ship)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And so they learned the tropes of 1960s television and made a pilot episode (&#8220;The Savage Empire&#8221;) to get into practice, and then started rolling on the main story idea, <i>The Tressaurian Intersection<\/i>. They built a complete bridge set, they rented a studio, they shot it, and parts started coming out, separated by many months at a time, then a year or more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;until the final act, which never appeared, until it became long enough that I imagined they&#8217;d lost interest and given up.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why stumbling across the complete episode a couple of days ago during a YouTube crawl was just such HOLY HELL THEY FINISHED IT shock moment. I think it had been six or seven years since the previous update. Here y&#8217;go:<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jkuJG1_2MnU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t watch anything else, watch the teaser, because it closes on what <em>absolutely<\/em> would&#8217;ve been an iconic shot in the original series &#8211; and may&#8217;ve been a defining shot had this been an actual, period spin-off. I haven&#8217;t seen any shot in any of the other fan versions I&#8217;ve watched which managed such a thing, but this one did.<\/p>\n<p>And besides, the editing on this thing is <em>tight<\/em>. I admire anybody&#8217;s crazy fanac trying to do any of these monsters, but a lot of the episodes I&#8217;ve seen will drag in places and wander a bit, because hey, you can, right? There&#8217;s no need to land on exactly 52 or 48 or 46 minutes or whatever.<\/p>\n<p>But this production crew doesn&#8217;t waste any time. It&#8217;s not all that it&#8217;s high action at every moment, because it&#8217;s not. They&#8217;re just strong in economy of storytelling &#8211; particularly for a fan effort.<\/p>\n<p>So, yeah. Go you, crazy fans. I &hearts; you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long time ago, a group of Star Trek fans decided to do a fan version of a Star Trek show, including actual episodes. They weren&#8217;t the first with this idea, but they were the first that I know of to do it as a period spin-off. It&#8217;s all original characters, different (and in one [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-peoples-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8525\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}