The further adventures of the crew of the USS Enterprise. The USS Enterprise's historic five-year mission continues with all new episodes of the original series. "Star Trek: Continues", a new Trek series, beams down with exciting adventures of the Federation's most heroic crew led by Captain James T. Kirk. The lighting and color of the highly accurate sets accentuate the equally detailed props and costumes, matching the original series that ran from 1966-69! With acting and stories that also replicate the original series, the adventures are sure to dazzle even the most die hard Trek fans. Witness now the untold morality plays that explore the final frontier and more importantly… the human condition. Fans of the original series will especially enjoy the pilot episode as a familiar guest star from the original series reprises his role in a sequel entitled "Pilgrim of Eternity". It's not prime time television, but has some interesting qualities, such as matching the sets and credit rolls and music so closely to the original. I just read all those highly personal reviews and happily do not know any of the crew behind this series, so am not biased. I think more of the original music during the scenes would have helped the flow of story action along. To me the best actors were Kirk, Uhura, Dr. Elise McKennah, and Scotty was pretty good. Marina Sirtis was a nice addition as the computer voice. The rest I would have taken longer to cast, if it were up to me. It was fun they brought Apollo back and they did what no STOS ever did before, they had a follow up scene after the credits! That was awesome. How do we find out when a next episode will air? If anything, it is a garbage scow that should be hauled away as garbage. Star Trek Continues is certainly a reminder of the dark side of Star Trek fandom taking physical form. It's latest episode was certainly heavy-handed, painful, and disappointing to view<br/><br/>It also really boggles the mind as to why the Farragut Films staff would partner themselves with someone who has utterly tarnished, ruined, and decimated whatever credibility and reputation Farragut Films has. Especially after Mignogna's unauthorized release of the Phase 2 episode 'Kitumba'. An incident that made fan headlines last year and certainly did not help matters much for the Washington D.C. based film company. In fact, it pretty much was the final nail in their proverbial photon burial tube. <br/><br/>Like I said before about Vic Mignogna's performance as the heroic Jim Kirk is nothing more than a belch from a bad onion. Seriously, he doesn't even have the voice for such a strong, heroic lead. <br/><br/>William Shatner, James Cawley, Christopher Pine, and Brian J. Gross certainly give better performances as James Kirk than this slab of rotten Fisher's Ham(i.e. Mignogna). <br/><br/>And that is only scratching the surface and putting a gloss on this situation.<br/><br/>Todd Haberkorn's performance as Spock was certainly dull, dry, and regretfully one-dimensional. If anything, he could have learned a few things or more from Leonard Nimoy, Zachary Quinto, and Brandon Stacey. Those aforementioned three gave better performances as our favorite and beloved Vulcan. Haberkorn would have been better off in a different role. Maybe he could play Hikaru Sulu, again. Who knows?<br/><br/>Wyatt Lenart's performance as every Star Trek fans favorite nationalistic Russian navigator, Pavel Chekov, was not all that great, either. For starters, his eye color was all wrong(Chekov was brown-eyed, NOT blue-eyed). Second, his Russian accent just was not convincing enough. Lenart, for all intenets and purposes, was seriously miscast. Better luck next time, Wyatt. Walter Koenig, Anton Yelchin, and Jonathan Zungre are the better versions of Pavel Andreivich Chekov.<br/><br/>Larry Nemecek did the best that he could as Dr. Leonard 'Bones' McCoy. Unfortunately, his weakness in his performance was the lack of a mild Southern accent(which the late DeForest Kelley wonderfully displayed)and the strong one-liners that were brilliantly conveyed by Karl Urban in the two Star Trek prequel/reboots. Larry's greatest strengths are that of being a writer and a columnist concerning Star Trek. Sadly, acting is not one of them.<br/><br/>Christopher Doohan is probably the only shining light in this production. Sadly, it is a shining light that has severely faded by being part of this demented 'French Farce' of a Star Trek fan film. While he certainly recaptures the qualities of Montgomery Scott(who was played brilliantly by his late father and honored World War II veteran, James Doohan), it doesn't help matters much that his talents are regretfully wasted in this less than productive endeavor. Frankly, his talents would be put to much better usage in either Star Trek – Phase 2 or the J.J. Abrams films(for which he has clearly demonstrated). <br/><br/>Kim Stinger's performance as Nyota Uhura was better suited when she played the same role on Star Trek – New Voyages/Phase II. Especially when it comes to her singing voice. One wonders how much she was paid in silver to jump ship over to a production that she knew that would bring her some serious controversy. Judas would have obviously approved.<br/><br/>As for Grant Imahara's performance as Hikaru Sulu well, he worked for Lucasfilm during the making of the less than popular Star Wars prequel trilogy. He should keep his day job with Mythbusters or something better.<br/><br/>Michelle Specht's performance as Dr. Elise McKenna is clear statement as to why she is even in the film. While she is a very lovely woman and an actress who seems to display some talent, her only reason for being there is just to be a symbol of nepotism. Being Vic Mignogna's soon to be wife, her role as a ship's counselor(a rank and position that did not start until the NG era some twenty- five years past)is merely window dressing. <br/><br/>I seem to recall that the name Elise McKenna was the name of the 19th Century stage actress played by British thespian Jane Seymour in the 1980 time travel fantasy 'Somewhere In Time'. Not only do we know where the entire sets from Star Trek Continues was taken from, we now know where Mignogna hijacked the name for Michelle's character from. Unoriginality indeed!<br/><br/>The bottom line is this. Star Trek Continues definitely does not have the potential to be all that entertaining. As a result, Star Trek Continues is a faulty and controversial fan film production that makes the bad points of Star Trek Into Darkness look pale in comparison. <br/><br/>Spare yourself this flop of a Star Trek fan film and stick with the original series, the animated series, first six films, J.J. Abrams prequel reboot, and Star Trek-New Voyages/Phase 2. The latter being the ONLY Star Trek fan film for the fans, by the fans, with professional experience in cinema/television production, acting, SFX, and quality artistic craftmanship and integrity.
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