Star Trek - Fan made internet series

[RickJ]

If you are a Star trek fan you may want to check this out!!! A fan made internet series.....



http://www.5yearmission.com/

[TerranRich]

Hmm, odd. I'm a Trek fan, and I doubt it would be possible to effectively use other actors to portray already known characters. I'll download the 15-MB (!!!) teaser and find out.


Rich

EDIT: Hmm, from the looks of http://www.cowcreekfilms.com/cast1.jpg , it doesn't seem that they made much of an effort to get an Uhura and Rand that even closely resembled the actresses that played them. Kirk, Spock, McCoy and even Chekov look all right, at least...

[RickJ]

Somewhere on their web page they talk about that.  They said they considered Spock, Kirck, etc to be classic characters in the same sense as are  Hamlet and the like.  They said they wanted to continue the original story and so didn't want to invent new characters.  They also wanted to avoid cheap parodies of the original actors but rather wanted new actors to give their portrails of the characters.  

After awhile I got in to it, except that Kirck sometimes reminded me of Jim Carey.    All in all I thought they did a respectable job seeing as how it was pretty much a volunteer, non-profit effort.  

In any case it's something a Trek collector would probably want to have, IMHO.


P.S. Actually the girl playing Uhura does a pretty decent job of it.  I can't say about Rand because I can't place the character (I remember the name though) in the original series so I have no comment about her for now.