Star Trek Futures

posted on February 11th, 2014, 12:07 am

http://www.startrekfutures.com

Another fan film project, this one is aiming to produce five hour-long episodes. Based in the future of the JJ-verse, it's aiming to tell a story of its own. I wouldn't have paid it much attention, except for the teaser they've released:



Yep, set on the Enterprise-C, using a model by Tobias Richter based on Andrew Probert's original design for the Ambassador class. So, one to bookmark...

posted on February 11th, 2014, 1:39 pm

It was just a beauty pass.

The design of the ship is also extremely TNG. Personally, I like that, but it is not very JJ-verse.

posted on February 11th, 2014, 4:17 pm

Hey, gotta get my fix of starship porn any way I can! And it's nice to see the Richter/Probert Ambassador take flight, too.

posted on February 11th, 2014, 5:15 pm

LOL, though I agree. I've always thought this version of the Ambassador Class was infinitely better than the one we see in the episodes. It's much more graceful looking as the nacelles/pylons on the show version were pretty rediculous.

posted on February 11th, 2014, 7:21 pm

They got away with calling that a teaser???? wtf

posted on February 12th, 2014, 6:50 am

LOL, though I agree. I've always thought this version of the Ambassador Class was infinitely better than the one we see in the episodes. It's much more graceful looking as the nacelles/pylons on the show version were pretty rediculous.

I still like the version that we saw originally in "Yesterday's Enterprise" though. The Richter/Probert version feels much closer to Galaxy than Excelsior, while the Probert/Sternbach/Jein shooting model has a design sensibility that is closer to being a true intermediate step.

Memory Alpha's article on the Ambassador shooting model is well worth a read, with some good comments from Sternbach about how the design came together, including those oversized nacelles.

posted on February 13th, 2014, 1:26 pm

Hey, gotta get my fix of starship porn any way I can! And it's nice to see the Richter/Probert Ambassador take flight, too.

Hey, no problem. I certainly understand. More a criticism of them than you.

It is actually a pretty nice looking ship, unlike the TNG Ambassador. That is terribly ugly.

posted on February 13th, 2014, 8:09 pm

i like this version more than the original, tho it didnt give any indication of how the show will look. have they done anything before?

posted on February 13th, 2014, 10:10 pm

If you've read the site I've linked in the OP, then you know everything I do about this project!

posted on February 14th, 2014, 12:37 am

well its hard to tell from the description how much they have to put behind this for the sets/ props/ costumes and locations. the concept art looks cool but it will be interesting to see how it turns out on screen. if its anything like the ship then the cg will be awesome.

tho the characters list has a 9 year old.. kids that age on tv either work well or spoil it so who knows how that will turn out.
but the description doesnt sound like a 9 year old.. sounds a bit odd tbh

posted on February 14th, 2014, 12:50 am

More importantly, that nine year old is Wesley Crusher.

posted on February 14th, 2014, 9:05 am

More importantly, that nine year old is Wesley Crusher.

wow, that's awful. tng did a lot of good things, but wesley crusher wasn't one of them. such a poor mary sue character. i don't see why any fan project would want to revisit one of star trek's mistakes. what next, a remake of threshold?

posted on February 14th, 2014, 12:24 pm

what next, a remake of threshold?

Worse, Shades of Grey

posted on February 14th, 2014, 1:20 pm

what next, a remake of threshold?

Worse, Shades of Grey

actually i wouldn't mind that. i agree that shades of grey was the worst ep of trek made, but its biggest problem was that it was a clip show (i hate clip shows), but if fans "remade" it, then they'd have to film all new content for it. it wouldn't be a clip show then.

if they reused trek footage to make shades of grey, then they aren't "remaking" the clip show, they're just "making" it. a clip show of a clip show.

the story still wouldn't be great, as not much story exists as most of the original ep was wasted on the clips. but better than threshold. there's no way to salvage anything from threshold, the basic plot starts wacky and goes downhill fast from there.

posted on February 14th, 2014, 1:33 pm

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if they reused trek footage to make shades of grey, then they aren't "remaking" the clip show, they're just "making" it. a clip show of a clip show.

the story still wouldn't be great, as not much story exists as most of the original ep was wasted on the clips. but better than threshold. there's no way to salvage anything from threshold, the basic plot starts wacky and goes downhill fast from there.

Yeah, that one is really not even worth watching. It was a clip show because of some writer strike or something, right? Not that they wanted to write a show that way. Still does not change how awful it was. Why re-do it though?