Ensigns of Command
You’re inspiring me, Steve. I really do want to post the script, but Paramount can be tough. With the show cancelled maybe no one would notice, but they’ve got this new Star Trek movie in the works. Dither, dither.
I had an interesting conversation with David Gerrold at Boskone. He’s done a script for this group that makes new Classic Trek episodes to show on the internet. He was urging me to redo Ensigns for Kirk/Spock and let them film it, but I think it would lose a lot of the juice if it’s Spock rather than Data.
I do think it’s interesting that the fans chose to make Classic Trek rather than episodes from any of the other Star Trek franchises. As someone who grew up on Kirk/Spock/McCoy I do like the old show the best.
Melinda
March 12th, 2007 at 10:07 am
It’s true that TOS-era fan productions are more popular (there’s a ton of them, according to Wikipedia), but I think the longest-running of the fan productions (with something like 50 episodes done) is Star Trek: Hidden Frontier, set in the TNG-DS9 era, although it doesn’t feature new actors cast as the series characters (like The New Voyages).
It’s really quite amazing though, what modern home computing (for special effects) and fan dedication (up to and including securing set blueprints to make exacting replicas of bridges, getting writers and actors from the shows involved, etc.) can do.
I’d be very interested in seeing the script for Ensigns of Command as well, but not if it’d cause any trouble. I suppose technically the script belongs to them?
March 13th, 2007 at 5:08 am
Inspiration-R-Us