"Star Trek Continues" first episode "Pilgrim of Eternity"

[luke strawwalker]

Someone started an interesting thread on this over on YORF and after watching the show twice, I thought I'd post it here...

This is a fan-based web episode of the new "Star Trek Continues" series... very interesting stuff... Star Trek takes up right where it left off at the end of the third and final season of the original run... Chris Doohan (James Doohan's real-life son) is excellent as Scotty and though some of the actors need some polish, they'll get better with time, just as the TNG cast did as the first season wore on and into the second season as they came to adapt to their roles...

IMHO this is much better than the JJAbrams Trek with its entirely too "Michael Bay meets Batman" style... This story actually has a moral and makes you think, like the classic Trek did back in the 60's!

https://www.startrekcontinues.com/star-trek-continues-episode-1-pilgrim-of-eternity/#.UhEp8mso5y2

Later! OL JR

 

[closet astronaut]

Definitely not bad, not a bad plot either, using the original actor from the original episode that played Apollo. I must say the acting is quite stiff except for the red head, she was the most convincing actor out of all of them, and quite the hottie too. Scotty is a bit of an over actor, and I'm not crazy about Bones. But all in all I think the show has potential, it's really great to have all the old sets, music and sound effects. If it continues it will be interesting to see the evolution of the characters. Heck..any kind of new Star Trek would be good as long as it's not on some space station.

 

[luke strawwalker]

Yep, that's true... no more space stations... LOL Never was particularly crazy about DS9.... seemed an inherently limited idea from the beginning... which is why, I suppose, they had to give them runabouts and the "Defiant" to actually fill the holes caused by the problems of having the show set on a space station...

Yep, the redhead is a hottie... just like I like my girls... CURVY... I liked Chris Doohan as Scotty... Scotty was always a little "over the top" so to speak... very flamboyant. Not to speak ill of Shatner, but let's face it, he DID overact the part of Kirk a LOT... not all the time, and we came to accept it as part of his "character", but the Shat did overact a LOT when he was younger. I agree I'm not crazy about the guy playing Bones... that "bug eyed frown" that he does, trying to look contemplative, as DeForest Kelly used to do on original Trek, just comes off looking rather silly... and the eyerolls need to go. The guy playing Kirk (who is behind a lot of the new series) came across as pretty wooden and soft-spoken at first... his voice (and Spocks) are just a little too high to "sound right"... part of that may be nerves, as we all tend for our voices to go up in timbre as we get nervous... with some time and comfort, I think they'll settle in. The guy from Mythbusters, Grant Imohara, who plays Sulu, overacted the bit in the transporter room-- my wife even commented on that.

Watch it a second time, and it grows on you... things like these I mentioned that 'stuck out' to me the first time I watched it, were far less "noticeable" the second time around... I like it.

I like that the storyline actually HAS A STORY, and actually MAKES YOU THINK, and has a MORAL TO THE STORY... just like the old classic Trek... not like the new Abrams abominations that have NO point or story, just use Trek to run around breweries blowing stuff up and fighting and having chicks scantily clad... (not that the last one is necessarily a BAD thing, mind you... LOL)

Later! OL JR

 

[Odo]

Interesting.
Sulu is Grant Imahara from Mythbusters. That was a pleasant surprise

 

[luke strawwalker]

Interesting.
Sulu is Grant Imahara from Mythbusters. That was a pleasant surprise

Yep... he makes a passable Sulu... hopefully his acting improves a bit...

Later! OL JR

 

[Odo]

Yep... he makes a passable Sulu... hopefully his acting improves a bit...

Later! OL JR

Yeah his acting is horrible. He should just lay off the fake voice too, his normal voice would be fine.

 

[Mushtang]

Yeah his acting is horrible. He should just lay off the fake voice too, his normal voice would be fine.

Did anyone pick up on who did the voice for the computer?

 

[luke strawwalker]

Did anyone pick up on who did the voice for the computer?

Yep... Marina Sirtis... Deanna Troi from TNG... She does a good job of it, too...

Fitting as well, somehow, since Majel Barrett Roddenberry played her mother Lwaxana and did the voice of the computer on the Enterprise D...

Later! OL JR

 

[aerostadt]

Very well done! It is amazing how they captured the spirit of the original series. (I think Bones and Uhuru casting are not quite right.) This is considerably better than most of the stuff on TV nowadays.

 

[Zeus-cat]

And the guy who plays Apollo is the same one that did it on the original show. He is 84 now.

 

[luke strawwalker]

Very well done! It is amazing how they captured the spirit of the original series. (I think Bones and Uhuru casting are not quite right.) This is considerably better than most of the stuff on TV nowadays.

I'll agree on Bones, but Uhura... well, I like her...

Later! OL JR

 

[aerostadt]

It is interesting to look at the plot strategies that the Star Trek writers have employed over the years. The very first episode that I watched in the 1965 time-frame had a story about a green skinned creature with mind control and sucked blood from its human victims. This plot approach would have very quickly have degenerated into the monster-of-the-week approach and the original series would have been doomed. Instead, Gene Roddenbury and his writers decided to tap the vast wealth of short science fiction stories for though-provoking mature plots. This strategy worked. (I remember even one of the Saturday morning Star Trek cartoons had a plot from sci-fi writer Larry Niven.) Actually, the same method had been used by The Twilight Zone TV series. When the first Star Trek movie with William Shatner came out I heard that a theological issue was forming part of the plot, but the writers soon felt that they were in over the heads and they soon gave up resorting to a plot similar to the Nomad plot of the original series. That this story was such a plot-bust tends to make me believe that the rumors I heard were true. After this first attempt the writers decided to resurrect the old Kahn plot from the original series and this ploy worked. Nevertheless, the dream of some of the writers to have a mature theological idea for a plot arose again in the Shatner starred film about Spock's half-brother searching for an unknown planet with a god-like creature that needs a spaceship. Of course, there were the Patrick Stewart movies based on the Next Generation and then came Abram's versions with a new time-line and special plot twist. Fans either love or hate Abram's version. I tend to like the Abram's first version, but the second film is using the old tired idea of the evil military general bent on his own vision. Interestingly enough, this new original version posted on this thread goes back to the original plot line and does some re-capturing of old but mature thought-provoking story lines. In fact, in the typical Spock-McCoy-Kirk banter at the end of the episode a statement is made about writing a technical paper about the god-organ that was surgically removed from Apollo, but the paper would probably be rejected. This looks like a running commentary on the old and long difficulty of discussing theological issues in Star Trek story lines.