I've mentioned this "fan fiction" series before, including a recent interview I did with the series creator and "Kirk," Vic Mignogna. Today they released the final episode, which concludes the two-parter that ended the Starship Enterprise's five-year mission and brought the crew back to Earth.
When I spoke with Vic, who as you can imagine was a life-long Trekkie, he lamented that the original series was cancelled, and thus never got the series finale it deserved. The last two episodes of his series served to provide fans with that proper sendoff. There are several callbacks to original series episodes, returning characters, and a few surprises. Vic also wanted to connect the proverbial dots between the original series and the start of the movie franchise (why did Spock go to Vulcan to purge all emotion, why did McCoy retire, why did Kirk accept a promotion to take him away from the one job -- and ship -- he loved?). No fan-fiction series is going to be perfect, and there are legitimate criticisms to be made about "Star Trek Continues," but at a time when humanity is running a little short on optimism and hope, these guys provided well written, well acted, well produced episodic Trek... something I feel CBS All Access failed to do. Just about the only thing those who never watched "Star Trek Continues" need to know is at the start of the fan-fiction series, they introduced the character of Dr. McKenna, sent by Starfleet Command as an experimental program to provide a ship's counselor. Other than that, the rest is... well... Trek. "To Boldly Go..." part 1 https://vimeo.com/236207052 "To Boldly Go..." part 2 https://vimeo.com/241107969 P.S. - It made me cry -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
