Ok, there's a group of very dedicated, hard working star trek fhans (Trekkers, to be respectful of them. Only disrespectful, rude or ignorant people call them trekkies.) that are making amateur trek videos called "Star trek the new voyages" on volunteer labor and virtually no money.
Here's their website: http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/
I saw part of one at a recent convention and just downloaded the premier episode, "In harm's way" which wasn't bad for a very amateur, no budget flick. Mostly CGI, but still it told the story. The story wasn't too clear or explained, but I hear they got better with time and plan to download more of these free, PD videos.
Now, why I'm posting this on a traveller forum: I'll admit traveller has nowhere near the fhan base of name recognition the trek brand dows, but dammit, traveller and it's fhans have been around for about 30 years now, and a lot of traveller fhans have more than the usual amount of little grey cells tucked away in their cranial cavities, so maybe we should start thinking about the idea of doing a traveller video.
I guess the first step would be getting MM's permission, but I don't see him as being the kind of arrogant, petty, venal
that would stand in the way of something like this as long as it was done on a non profit basis, also it might help generate free publicity for T5.
The second and most important step would be coming up with an intelligent and coherent plotline that was both firmly set in the traveller universe yet had enough appeal to interest general SF fhans, trekkers, SW fhans, etc.
Then we need a good writer to do the dialogue, and test audiences to review it for comprehensibility.
Really, I don't think a traveller fhan video couldn't be done, especially if we use a lot of CGI. Even that could be done on a cooperative basis if the scenes were set up by the film makers using a commonly available renderer, then the scenes could be divided into segments and segments could be emailed to volunteer traveller fhans with good computers who would render a handful of frames, then email the rendered frames back for assembly. This would divide the rendering time and work between a lot of traveller volunteer players and speed things up a bit.
So, does anyone want to see about getting this ball rolling or are we going to let the trekkers have all the fun?
Here's their website: http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/
I saw part of one at a recent convention and just downloaded the premier episode, "In harm's way" which wasn't bad for a very amateur, no budget flick. Mostly CGI, but still it told the story. The story wasn't too clear or explained, but I hear they got better with time and plan to download more of these free, PD videos.
Now, why I'm posting this on a traveller forum: I'll admit traveller has nowhere near the fhan base of name recognition the trek brand dows, but dammit, traveller and it's fhans have been around for about 30 years now, and a lot of traveller fhans have more than the usual amount of little grey cells tucked away in their cranial cavities, so maybe we should start thinking about the idea of doing a traveller video.
I guess the first step would be getting MM's permission, but I don't see him as being the kind of arrogant, petty, venal
that would stand in the way of something like this as long as it was done on a non profit basis, also it might help generate free publicity for T5.The second and most important step would be coming up with an intelligent and coherent plotline that was both firmly set in the traveller universe yet had enough appeal to interest general SF fhans, trekkers, SW fhans, etc.
Then we need a good writer to do the dialogue, and test audiences to review it for comprehensibility.
Really, I don't think a traveller fhan video couldn't be done, especially if we use a lot of CGI. Even that could be done on a cooperative basis if the scenes were set up by the film makers using a commonly available renderer, then the scenes could be divided into segments and segments could be emailed to volunteer traveller fhans with good computers who would render a handful of frames, then email the rendered frames back for assembly. This would divide the rendering time and work between a lot of traveller volunteer players and speed things up a bit.
So, does anyone want to see about getting this ball rolling or are we going to let the trekkers have all the fun?
