Tag Archives: Phase II

Star Trek: Phase II‘s Cawley in J.J. Abrams’ Trek Reboot

James Cawley, ‘Captain Kirk’ on the fan film series Star Trek: Phase II, cameos in the new J.J. Abrams reboot feature film, but have the fans really spotted him? Decide for yourself.

The Hunt For Gollum Meets The Chip Kidd of Fan Films

In the book industry, you can tell if a publisher is really invested in making book a hit by a number of factors, but one of the most tell-tale signs is that it’ll spring to have Chip Kidd design the cover. In addition to his own novels and books, including co-producing the awesome Watching the [...]

Podcast Picks Top Trek, Star Wars Fan Films

Fan Film Feeder is a new video podcast and accompanying blog by Donald D. Dienst (I’m sure there’s a joke to be made there about 3D, but I’m too tired to find it). The gist is simple enough: Dienst chooses a fan film he likes, makes it available as a downloadable podcast, and announces on [...]

Star Trek Fan Film News: Hidden Frontier, More

Star Trek is a massive universe (even if it’s supposed to be our own) and the legions of fans that support it are just as huge. As a result, there’s always enough going on within Trek fandom that any given week, there’s bound to be a few fan film news stories to tell. To whit: [...]

Star Trek: Phase II Starts Buck Rogers Web Series

Star Trek: Phase II‘s James Cawley announced this week that he and his crew are tackling another Sci-Fi classic—Buck Rogers in the 25th Century—and it’s NOT a fan film! They’ve gotten a license from the copyright holder to create 20 40-minute web episodes, and will debut the series in the fall of 2010. TrekMovie.com has [...]

Star Trek Fan Films: Kirok of L’Stock Rocks

It may be a few months out of date now, but if you’re jonesing for some info and insight into the biggest and best-known Star Trek fan films, you should visit ThunderDownUnder.org and download a great, free ebook, Five Fan Films. Australian mega-Trek fan Kirok of L’Stock has compiled the history of five fan productions, [...]

"I canna change da laws of fan films, Captain!"

Love it or hate it, there’s no denying that Star Trek is all around us every day, from corny newspaper headlines that say something will “go where no [fill in the blank] has gone before” to Motorola Razr cell phones that bear a striking resemblance to Communicators. As for me, if I stumble across the [...]

Smart Take on Star Trek: Phase II Controversy

The best Fan Film brouhaha so far this year has to be the fuss a few weeks ago when Star Trek: New Voy…uh, Phase II got nominated for a Nebula Award for the episode, “World Enough and Time” (AKA “The one with Sulu in it”). The move sparked all kinds of controversy within the Sci-Fi [...]

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