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Re: Starship Exeter, part 2 - TAKE 2!         

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Author: Jaxtraw
Date: Nov 26, 2006 01:01

Jaxtraw wrote:
> Snake wrote:
>> "Wouter Valentijn" wrote in message
>> news:456859bb$0$330$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
>>> Jaxtraw wrote:
>>>> Wouter Valentijn wrote:
>>>>> Jaxtraw wrote:
>>>>>> Wouter Valentijn wrote:
>>>>>>> Snake wrote:
>>>>>>>> Wow. Remember our discussion on Starship Exeter's second
>>>>>>>> episode, "The Tressaurian Intersection"?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Well, the second act is up now...and it's *completely*
>>>>>>>> re-edited, with a new story!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ...just like I suggested. Re-edit, move on.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hopefully now they can finish this great online episode.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Go there and see the episode!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://homepage.mac.com/starshipexeter/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It is great indeed!
>>>>>>> I hope they will finish it one day. It's been a while since the
>>>>>>> first parts were put on line.
>>>>>>> I visited the Exeterstudio site, but no real new news there.
>>>>>>> Does anyone have some more recent information on that project?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The last I heard (here, now I think of it) was that they'd
>>>>>> re-edited the rest several times but couldn't make the story
>>>>>> work; presumably because of changing the story in the parts
>>>>>> already shown at the editing stage. Which was a dangerous thing
>>>>>> to do anyway, when there's no facility to go back and re-shoot
>>>>>> scenes.
>>>>>
>>>>> They should have had a better planning writing the story?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It looks to me that they probably had a good enough story to start
>>>> with, but then they (being Trekkies :) started nitpicking it and
>>>> decided to "improve" it in editing-- with the result that they now
>>>> can't make the remaining parts fit the re-edited early parts. I
>>>> can't really comment of course since I've not read the original
>>>> script nor seen the unreleased parts (nobody has of course!) but
>>>> it's hard to see how they've ended up in this fix, since it seems
>>>> to be pretty straightforward so far.
>>>>
>>>> As I see it, the story so far is- Exeter finds Kongo destroyed, the
>>>> Kongo had discovered a "dimensional gateway thingy" device which
>>>> the Tressaurians had stolen off the Tholians, the Tressaurians
>>>> tried to get it back, and then the Tholians arrived and kicked the
>>>> Tressaurians collective ass and are now attacking the Exeter.
>>>
>>> Yeah.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> So I'm a bit perplexed as to what was changed, and what in this
>>>> doesn't match up with whatever they have filmed for the remainder.
>>>> This makes me wonder if what they're fretting over are really quite
>>>> minor "plot errors" that we're used to ignoring in real Trek.
>>>
>>> They just should go for it!
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Anyway, I'm looking forward to the third episode; by which time
>>>> presumably the cast will be grey, bald, wrinkled and using walking
>>>> frames. It'll be like The Deadly Years, without the cure at the end
>>>> :)
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ouch! :)
>>
>> How about Star Trek New Voyages? To Serve All My Days is finally
>> available!!
>>
>> http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/800/downloads.php#TSAMD
>>
>> Use only Mirror 7 - all the other "mirrors" can only be loosely
>> marked as such, with sometimes 5kbs speeds o_O
>>
>> The .MOV QT files have *substantial* motion artifacts but the WMV are
>> superb.
>>
>> It's amazing...a "fan" pic probably has the best, most "realistic"
>> battle scenes in the last 15 years of Trek!
>
> Thanks for the heads up! Hadn't chacked New Voyages for a while.
> Downloading it now :)
>
>
> Ian

Also, there's a trailer available for the TIm Russ directed "Of Gods And
Men"

http://www.startrekofgodsandmen.com/

which looks interesting to say the least. :)

Ian

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