Not sure this counts as fan production, given that Shatner and Curtis came back and there is a certain level of official involvement, what I’m sure is that once I understood what I was actually witnessing I got very emotional.
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Not sure this counts as fan production, given that Shatner and Curtis came back and there is a certain level of official involvement, what I’m sure is that once I understood what I was actually witnessing I got very emotional.
Also Lockwood was involved too for Gary.
And this is an excellent production. A credit to @Jules / OTOY and their incredible team.
And this is an excellent production. A credit to @Jules / OTOY and their incredible team.
In my neck of the world, we have a word for something like that. It's "Boah!" Spoken like boar, but meaning "Absolutely awesome and astounding." How long did it take to create this? Was all of that rendered in the computer? Or did one put "cgi-masks" on actors? Thank you in advance and LLAP.
Adding @Jules / OTOY to answer these questions. I know that they use a combination of live action actors, including Robin Curtis reprising as Saavik, Sam Witwer as Kirk and others standing in. The CGI used to update the faces to more realistic representations.
More of an update here: https://home.otoy.com/unification/
Also more shared here by @Rekkert
The Roddenberry Archive / OTOY
Yay, the Generation Bridge - just what I've been waiting for! That Unification video was trippy. Seeing a version of in "action" again was something I wasn't prepared for.
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Indeed, that sequence was quite puzzling to me. Why is Mitchell there? It looked like a reality where he survived and won…perhaps a foreboding of the involvement of differing timelines?
Of course Colt appearing is even more puzzling. Well, I guess she served with Spock…
Funny personal note: I’m having a ball at imagining the temporal agent (an hologram of which was seen, with the same uniform, in discovery) as being extremely sloppy: he got the uniform wrong by several years and he doesn’t care!
As one of the people who suspected the RA's projects might technically be fan films, I want to note that in the credits for "Unification," it did explicitly state it was an official Star Trek product licensed by Paramount, clearing up the gray area where (as far as I could tell) none of the prior RA projects had those magic words attached to them.
You are not.
Perhaps, as others have speculated in another thread, he had survived in some fashion, and only his body was eliminated. And once he mastered his abilities he was feeling more benevolent.
Not exactly with these productions. The first one is Spock sharing his experiences with Colt in some fashion. Him clicking with Colt in the Kelvin timeline is consistent with these productions.
I don't seem him as sloppy. We don't see his role in the Temporal Wars, and he might have opted to appear quite dissonant so Kirk would approach him.
What’s up with the big fires then?
Ah. Thanks.
Nah, it’s just funnier that way!
"Time is the fire in which we burn," perhaps?
I'll, uh, take your word for it.
Yeah, these are officially licensed shorts not fan films, although I'm sure we're only a few years from AI generating similar content and thus a tidal wave of low effort fan content.
A great mystery is why the tng season 1/2 uniform. Was it the only thing in the closet that fit?
I’m wondering if Picard 3 encouraged them to make this. Yes the tng cast were all fit and able to make it, but did they look at this and get the urge to give Kirk and Spock closure?
I think I get the narrative now but those first two films have glimpses of Colt and TMP Spock, the ring ship, the tower etc. this series is arty but there are things making y question if there is more to come
I hope, there is more to come.
It looks awesome. And maybe - just maybe - one can let the characters speak next time? Don't get me wrong, the facial expressions and gestures are absolutely awesome - quite fascinating, how good CGI and A.I. have become these days - but the next step would be: let them talk.
Where is this from?
The character appeared with this uniform in discovery. In fact the uniform is the only reason I immediately knew who he was.
A Star Trek comic book.
It was in IDW's Star Trek #400, but it's actually a prequel to Godshock from their current run. (And featured in its correct place in the trade paperback, I believe)
I know i was joking about him picking the worst uniform
I think it's still a "fan film", it's just a sanctioned fan film. It's like the novels... they're "official", they're licensed by Paramount but they aren't a part of the universe.
Technically, it's excellent. Sometimes frighteningly so. Sam Witwer did a great job mimicking some of Shatner's facial expressions...
Storywise, it's a bit barebones. You'd think his son David might have been among the people assembled to greet Kirk? also, all of them were humanoid apart from one who has some forehead appliances (oh god, this again?), and wearing roughly the same style of clothing...it's quibbling, sure, but a bit contradictory when they obviously take so much effort with the CG visuals...
Storywise, it's a bit barebones. You'd think his son David might have been among the people assembled to greet Kirk? also, all of them were humanoid apart from one who has some forehead appliances (oh god, this again?), and wearing roughly the same style of clothing...it's quibbling, sure, but a bit contradictory when they obviously take so much effort with the CG visuals...
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