Brian Christiansen
2018-07-11 19:46:08 UTC
Last night I watched a couple of episodes of the web series "Star Trek
Continues," which is supposedly a completion of the Enterprise's 5-year
mission. I know it isn't anime, but the 2 leads, Captain Kirk and Mr.
Spock were played by Vic Mignogna (SP?) and Todd Haberkorn, 2 of the
biggest names in anime dubbing (I think even sub-purists, at least in
this group, will recognize the names.) I did some "research" (i.e.,
read the wikipedia article) about the show and discovered some
interesting facts:
I wondered if the guy who played Scotty, Chris Doohan was the son (or
nephew or whatever) of James Doohan, or if that was just a coincidence.
Turns out he was indeed the son.
Several of the episodes had actors from the "real" star trek. According
to wikipedia, John Delancie (Q in the original series, but he wasn't Q
in the web series) and Michael Dorn (Worf) made appearances, though I
guess in episodes that I did not watch. The computer was voiced by
Marina Sirtis (Troi), but I did not recognize it as her until I saw the
credits.
On the first episode, Michael Forest reprised his role as the Greek god
Apollo. In the "Star Trek continuum," it was only about 3 years between
when they first saw him in TOS and when they saw him in "Star Trek
Continues", but it was closer to 50 years in real life, so they had to
come up with a plot device to explain why the character had aged so much
in such a short time. If I recall correctly, the realm that the Greek
Gods escaped to made them age more quickly than they would have otherwise.
A bunch of other people from the original series/movies and other sci-fi
shows made it to the web series as well, but I think those are the most
notable. Lou Ferigno (the Hulk) made an appearance as an Orion slave
trader, and I liked that character.
As for whether I liked it, I saw 4 episodes, and 2 were "continuations"
of TOS episodes and 2 were original stories, or at least I think they
were. The 2 that were continuations, "Who Mourns for Adonis" and
"Mirror, Mirror" being the titles of the TOS episodes, at least to me,
came across as bad fan fiction. The other 2, though, I suppose,
technically fan fiction, I thought were quite good.
As for the special effects, I am going to guess that they were computer
animation/green screen. Some of them were quite good, and others looked
like...umm...computer animation/green screen.
Continues," which is supposedly a completion of the Enterprise's 5-year
mission. I know it isn't anime, but the 2 leads, Captain Kirk and Mr.
Spock were played by Vic Mignogna (SP?) and Todd Haberkorn, 2 of the
biggest names in anime dubbing (I think even sub-purists, at least in
this group, will recognize the names.) I did some "research" (i.e.,
read the wikipedia article) about the show and discovered some
interesting facts:
I wondered if the guy who played Scotty, Chris Doohan was the son (or
nephew or whatever) of James Doohan, or if that was just a coincidence.
Turns out he was indeed the son.
Several of the episodes had actors from the "real" star trek. According
to wikipedia, John Delancie (Q in the original series, but he wasn't Q
in the web series) and Michael Dorn (Worf) made appearances, though I
guess in episodes that I did not watch. The computer was voiced by
Marina Sirtis (Troi), but I did not recognize it as her until I saw the
credits.
On the first episode, Michael Forest reprised his role as the Greek god
Apollo. In the "Star Trek continuum," it was only about 3 years between
when they first saw him in TOS and when they saw him in "Star Trek
Continues", but it was closer to 50 years in real life, so they had to
come up with a plot device to explain why the character had aged so much
in such a short time. If I recall correctly, the realm that the Greek
Gods escaped to made them age more quickly than they would have otherwise.
A bunch of other people from the original series/movies and other sci-fi
shows made it to the web series as well, but I think those are the most
notable. Lou Ferigno (the Hulk) made an appearance as an Orion slave
trader, and I liked that character.
As for whether I liked it, I saw 4 episodes, and 2 were "continuations"
of TOS episodes and 2 were original stories, or at least I think they
were. The 2 that were continuations, "Who Mourns for Adonis" and
"Mirror, Mirror" being the titles of the TOS episodes, at least to me,
came across as bad fan fiction. The other 2, though, I suppose,
technically fan fiction, I thought were quite good.
As for the special effects, I am going to guess that they were computer
animation/green screen. Some of them were quite good, and others looked
like...umm...computer animation/green screen.
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got to every couple of months to empty out, and anything sent to it will
not be seen for probably several months, if it is seen at all.
Brian Christiansen