Starship Exeter

Starship Exeter

Starship Exeter official logo
Created by Jimm & Josh Johnson
Starring James Culhane
Holly Guess
Michael Buford
Joshua Caleb
Country of origin United States
No. of episodes 2
Production
Executive producer(s) Jimm Johnson
Broadcast
Original channel World Wide Web
Original airing December 19, 2002
External links
Website

Starship Exeter is a Star Trek fan film project, one of the earliest of the semi-professional fan film projects that have become an increasingly common fixture of the internet video scene. As with many other fanfilms, Exeter created an entirely new series around an event of an established franchise.[1] Starship Exeter is set within the continuity of the original Star Trek series, and features the new crew of a sister-ship to the famous USS Enterprise, the titular USS Exeter, NCC-1706, whose previous crew were exterminated in the Star Trek episode "The Omega Glory".[2]

Episodes

Two episodes of "Starship Exeter" have been released.

"The Savage Empire,"[3] written and co-directed by the Johnson brothers, was released as downloadable video files via the internet on December 19, 2002.[4] A January 2, 2003 mention of the film's website on SlashDot resulted in a deluge of hits, with bandwidth demands beyond what the hosting Mac.Com servers could handle.[5]

The second, a far more ambitious production titled "The Tressaurian Intersection",[6] with a script by Nebula Award nominee Dennis Russell Bailey[7] (who wrote the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Tin Man"), was shot in mid-2004, and released in segments over several years. The completed episode was released on YouTube on May 1, 2014.

A third episode, "The Atlantis Invaders,"[8] was in pre-production at the same time the second episode was being filmed, but ultimately abandoned. According to co-creator Joshua Johnson, the script is being adapted into a full-cast audio production.[9]

In addition to these full-length episodes, a humorous vignette titled "The Night Shift", written by Dennis Russell Bailey, was shot as a trial run and as camera tests at the start of principle photography of "The Tressaurian Intersection". It was released on the internet in August 2005.[10]

Cast

Main characters

Character Rank Actor Position
John Quincy Garrovick Captain James Culhane Garrovick is the cousin of Ensign Garrovick, who joined Captain Kirk in an attempt to destroy a mist-creature in the original Star Trek episode "Obsession". Garrovick took command of the USS Exeter at the age of 37, following the demise of several veteran Starfleet captains.
Jo Harris Commander Holly Guess Harris is the Executive (First) Officer as well as the science officer of the ship, following the pattern of Spock from the original series. Harris is a human from the United Kingdom on Earth.
Paul Cutty Commander Michael Buford The ship's Chief Security Officer, he served with then-Commander Garrovick on-board the USS Kongō where the two became close friends. The Kongō was commanded by an officer they both looked up to, Captain Kosnett (Garry Peters), who makes a cameo appearance in the second episode.
B'fuselek Lieutenant Joshua Caleb B'fuselek is the Exeter's Andorian communications officer. The makeup is patterned on designs seen in the original series episodes "Journey to Babel" and "Whom Gods Destroy".
Vandi Richards Ensign Elizabeth Wheat Richards is the Captain's assistant (this position was referred to as "yeoman" in the original series, but the term hasn't been used in the parts of "The Tressaurian Intersection" that have been released).

References

  1. ↑ Russell, M.E. (May 14, 2004). "The Fan Films Strike Back". The Weekly Standard (News Corporation). Retrieved February 13, 2013.
  2. ↑ Hakim, Danny (June 18, 2006). "'Star Trek' Fans, Deprived of a Show, Recreate the Franchise on Digital Video". The New York Times (New York, NY). Retrieved February 13, 2013.
  3. ↑ Asmar, Melanie (January 31, 2004). "Final frontier redux". Portsmouth Herald (Portsmouth, NH: Dow Jones Local Media Group). Retrieved February 13, 2013.
  4. ↑ "The Savage Empire" release info at IMDb
  5. ↑ http://zeigermann.com/cartoonist/2003/05/01/sun-05-jan-2003-094118-gmt/
  6. ↑ "The Tressaurian Intersection" info at IMDb
  7. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2381391/
  8. ↑ Republibot interview with director Scott Cummins
  9. ↑ [Posting by Joshua Johnson on Facebook, with confirmation contact on 6 May 2014.]
  10. ↑ "The Night Shift" reviewed by Fred Dixon

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