Hours at Warp - A Star Trek Fan Production (2021)
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Hours at Warp - A Star Trek Fan Production was a project filmed and edited within the 2021 Lockdown conditions of the United Kingdom.
We are currently in the final week of an Indiegogo to create 5 more full short films, as of release of this film we are at 70% and will end on the 31st May 2021. We are getting close to our goal but we need your help! If you want to see the main 5 shorts and other mini shorts then please support and help us fund more fan Trek content!
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Covid struck production of Trek Shorts in May 2021 and a schedule filming day had to be changed on the fly. Because we lost Nimran but still had Marcus come to the studio, a brand new and unexpected short was written in his 2hr car journey to the studio and was subsequently filmed over that day.
This is a bonus mini short for all the fans of the Trek Shorts project and brings back Marcus Churchill as Sam Harriman for the first time in front of cameras since 2013 and for the first time in a finished film since 2019.
This short follows Ensign Sam Harriman as he heads back to the Enterprise, this is mean to be a simple day in the life mini short and also connects certain fan films together though dialogue and guest appearances.
Enjoy and donate to the Indiegogo if you can!
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"Lets mention the armagosa observatory because that's the only uniform I have and that dates it to about 2 weeks before Generations only"
Haha, clever.
haha! Well we know he has his First Contact uniform but I wanted him in the brand new Voy Uniform I got for him. I also wanted to make sure he was still on the Enterprise rather than his earlier ship...so..it all fit with that little reference ;) plus it makes a bitter sweet end for fans that recognize that!
@@SGUDistantHope it's funny they're called Voy uniforms when they were designed for ds9 as more of "roll your sleeves up" workmans overalls kind of uniform
I guess ds9 jettisoning them for the first contact uniform meant voyager was free to claim the title
@@cdname47 Indeed, its easier to say Voy since DS9 used that shoulder colour uniform...but also sometimes used TNG uniform...then moved onto FC uniform. So..just keeps it neat and specific haha.
What did you think of the short? anything stand out specifically you liked?
@@SGUDistantHope yes I loved the shots of the shuttle and the idea people on comm channels aren't instantly able to reply almost before they've heard your hail like you get on TV lol
A shame though the TNG shuttle is so boxy...I know there's no aerodynamics in space but they always looked slow for some reason.
At least voyager and ds9 gave us sleeker looking shuttles
@@SGUDistantHope My only issue is that the Enterprise went to the Amargosa after a Distress call. Not really time to spend dallying for a shuttle to pick up. A more accurate way to tie in with Generations, might have been to mention Worf's impending promotion.
These little short fan fiction trek videos are great!! Nicely done!!
The shuttle landed in the neck there's no shuttle door there 🧐
It landed in the smaller of the 2 very high neck shuttlebays, its just the perspective of the shot and camera...i made sure to have it fly in so it would all line up :D
I think where everything is provided for federation citizens I'd say you could probably just get your own cargo ship telling them you want one and that you will be you know you will run cargo for the federation and I wanted to have its own holodeck and you know it's got to have weapons at least phasers you know be mostly automated maybe have a crew of six maybe 10 if most be fully automated though you'd have a bunch of them little robots to do any maintenance work on it exocamps or whatever Starfleet robots they have or holographic crew with your own holiday on boardCaptain Cisco's dad had his own restaurant I want my own cargo ship where I want my own holiday deck attached to my house and then you know I could just play like I had my own cargo ship and the holodeck
This is fantastic, I’d love to see some more stuff like this.
Short little stories with minimal cast required, based on some event that is somewhat equivalent to what we’re used to in our everyday lives, just with a bit of 24th century mixed in.
This was a great mix of some lore, a character we’ve seen on your fan productions before, and a long lonely journey that a lot of us can relate to. Absolutely brilliant.
Thank you so much!
Indeed, we have the plan for the 5 larger shorts...and some smaller ones but we need help with our Indiegogo www.indiegogo.com/projects/trek-shorts-2021-by-fans-for-fans/x/4750234#/
We are only 70% funded, so if you can help please do! :D
One of the aspects I like of these shorts is the small anxiety it causes when you realize your shuttlecraft is out of communication range with anyone.
A very good story of a long journey from here to there besides i think those shuttle craft's top speed is warp two,keep up the good work.
Short but sweet. Very nice! This is one, that could see several more shorts being developed around this story.
Thanks man! Glad you got to see it! Hopefully something you've not really seen before and a fun way to bring Harriman back!
Was there anything you particularly enjoyed?
@@SGUDistantHope, as with a previous short I just viewed, the exterior shots are great. The colors and realism add depth to the story.
I was wondering why he had the voyager style uniform, then the Armagosa Observatory mention and it made sense. Fun little episode.
Yeah sometimes in Star Trek characters where wearing different uniform depending on rank or location. But sometimes real-world explanations like the show doesn't have enough uniforms for everyone so they wear different ones.
Excellent CGI work. would like to see a longer video. The acting was also great.
So, is the premise that he was talking to an imposter, rather than his old friend, and that he gave away the position of the Enterprise D to Lursa and B'etor?!?!
This was a nice little short trip into the TNG universe. I love your CGI, Sam, but I was just a _little_ bit disappointed that we couldn't see trough the shuttle windows like we did in "A long way from home". They were black here. However, I just love Star Trek fan films in the (post) TNG era and this was another sweet one. And it was nice to hear Robin's voice as "Lieutenant" Richardson. And I liked the little easter eggs like the mentioning of Commander LaForge and the Armagosa Relais. I'm really looking forward to seeing the other short films.
Glad I found this channel! This work you're doing is the best fan fiction I've seen from the Trek universe in many years, and top-notch video quality, too - wow! Wish I could help some other way, but all I can offer is this like and comment for the Almighty Algorithm.
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Very nice Star Trek fan Film, Nice Enterprise D Modell
There and back again. A star trek story, by these guys.
That was very sweet. And classy. Good acting, CGI set perfect, ship shots excellent. Really nice production!!!
I loved this one! Terrific idea, a nice and calm and very human moment. Just lovely.Great work on all fronts!
Great Short Film! Great to see Sam Harriman again. He got a little older since we've last seen him. Hope he won't be an ensign forever. ;)
Indeed he is, although this is obviously set before Temporal Anomaly by a few years. The realities of real life ageing VS in universe storytelling!
yes there will be a specific story about his rank, a teaser has already been filmed and will be released this week..hopefully it will grab a few people and get them to donate to our Indiegogo! :D
WOW!!! AWESOME graphics!! Beautiful exteriors! Only one MINOR nit to pick... the computer sound effects were missing. ;) Other than that, this was a very enjoyable watch! The ending came up too quickly! ;) NICE WORK!!!
Nice slice-of-life piece. One of the issues I've always had with TNG era Trek is how the Starfleet personnel seem to see space travel as mundane and uninteresting. I mean, they have to have holodecks on the ships to live out their fantasies and dreams. Distractions. In Star Trek First Contact, the Enterprise is sent to do a scientific survey of the neutral zone and discovering a comet is somehow uninteresting. The officer in this play is looking for ways to avoid boredom while racing through the galaxy at warp speed. Nowadays, we see views of the Earth from space and we marvel at them. We see pictures of deep space from the James Webb telescope and the whole world is awed by them. Is space travel in the 24th century going to become so routine that it will no longer be amazing or even interesting to us? Will we need distractions because life aboard a starship will be boring?
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Excellent, I actually thought the uniform was incorrect... then the perfect positioning of "Amargosa Observatory" dialogue and all is right. Love love, love this style of 'day in the life' story telling. Cheers.
Enterprise D, about to warp off to the Armagosa Observatory.... 😢
Nice reference.
Absolutely nothing happened yet this was still a charming, enjoyable and perky fan film. Full credit for being able to pull that off. Really good actor and production team. Thank you for entertaining me for 5 mins while I was on route to Deep Space 3. :-)
Seems like someone isn't prepared for longer warp travels. He must have been soooo bored 🤣 Loved the mention of Scotty and the Amargosa Observatory as I already wondered about the uniform, but then it clicked 😅
It's the Lower Decks version of Generations... I Loved it
Nice to see an aspect of living in the S.T. universe that doesn't get much attention.
Also nice to see something respectful of Star Trek in terms of both spirit and technology, unlike Duhscovery and Pretendcard.
That was really sweet - I loved it.
But enterprise, please don't go to Amargosa! You're my favourite ship and it will lead to bad things.
One Captain Picard about Malcolm McDowell he's trying to destroy a bunch of stars and he has this weird little flip disruptor pistol and he kills Captain Kirk after Captain Kirk came back to life and a Klingon ship destroys the Enterprise so one of them about that
Alternate ending- just as the shuttle is about to enter the shuttle bay, the Enterprise- without warning- jumps into warp, leaving Ensign Sam Harriman alone in deep space. Now, a new set of problems arise, when the sudden jump to warp causes an energy surge that takes out the warp engines on the shuttle, and Sam finds out that he now has nearly an hour of life support left, and even though the nearest Federation outpost is only ten minutes away at sub light speed, he finds that he must navigate through hostile territory and could be attacked by Klingons, Romulans, Borg and maybe even the Breen.
I thought 20 Questions was a game where you had to guess what a person was thinking of within 20 “yes/no” questions.
Very nicely produced, was it just me thinking that that’s not how you play 20 questions?
A little story, no pew pew, and yet lot of little Easter eggs dropped in from the past. Good stuff!
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Another home run, outstanding work. And I did catch where the D is going next. The beginning of the end for it ;)
Kewl…. I loved seeing Enterprise D. Awesome angle on the shuttle craft entry into the shuttle bay. In my head I have envisioned the same perspective hundreds of times and it was nice to see it on screen. Thank you…
Ive often wonder if the lower ranked crew member were allowed to attend conferences and special skills schools on different planets. Starfleet is a little bit more interesting now...thanks!
it was good to see the old girl again, I miss the D always have great memories of that ship, nice job Sam with the effects
The graphics are ASTOUNDING! Great job!
Yes! More please. This is Star Trek.
As soon as he said 'Amagosa' I was like, No, don't do it...turn around!!!!
Ok this was funny in the way it is about time to see the crew BORED as hell during these missions and travels....
Tbh I forgot this was not actually an episode of TNG for a minute or two
the ultimate question: how the fuck do they pass the time in shuttlecrafts?
Better sound design with this one makes it seem more environmentally real and not like the actor is talking in an echoey room
A dandy little video that addresses the ancient question. "Are we there yet?"
Love these shorts..... Impactful.... Witty
Thank you for this piece of art. I enjoyed it.
Uhmmmmm. Well. That was something at least.
If I have only one bit of constructive criticism, it's that there is a lack of ambient sound. No engine noise either outside or inside the shuttle when we should be hearing the warp engines. Also no beeps we normally hear when one interacts with the computer via voice command, or in the background (watch an episode of Voyager or TNG when they're in the shuttle....there's always little bits of noise to remind you that things are happening in the background with the computer and shuttlecraft systems)....little things that add to the immersion we all feel when we're watching an episode of TNG. Other than that, great work and I'm excited to watch more of what you've produced!
Hey! Thanks!
There is in fact constant audio engine hum in the shuttle, its low in the mix as to not interfere with the voice track. It is hearable on headphones but maybe not on all speakers. Always a tricky busyness with that levelling.
We do add sleeps to some of the button presses but not all, its some what dependent...they didnt 100% of the time do presses on the show.
The space exteriors i go with the firefly approach sort of. I do weapons fire/warp/shields etc but i am not a sound designer and do not have the ability to produce the ambient space FX for every type of scene with the whooshes of a ship passing etc. IT would be a very large job for anyone to come onboard and do that for the 20-+ shorts in production and no one has stepped up.
Because of that, we go for the more quiet approach ala Firefly and maintain a standard of quality though out. If a audio engineer wanted to volunteer and could give up the time required then id love to add all that stuff.
Check out the other various Trek fan films on this channel! This was written and filmed on the same day and released within 7 days...so was quite a whirl wind to get it produced.
Man!!!!! I was just getting into it and it end????!!!!!!!
I said this on the other upload. I'm pretty sure Amargosa was an emergency situation. Not somewhere they were going ahead of time. Mentioning Worf's promotion might have been better.
So, they make a jump to amagosa because of the emergency call...we don't know if it was somewhere they were sheceduled to be in the near future.
They were very close to it at warp...so...who knows :) I chose to add a bit to the story.
And shortly after this, the Enterprise D was No more....
i alwasy wondered if during the court martial did everyone laugh at picard and riker for losing a galaxy class ship to a bird of prey that's decades old. how riker didn't get fired is just the silliest story telling. like riker would never ge another command....again. ever.
and hours to warp before i sleep...
I enjoyed this ! Its a side of Star Trek we rarely get to see !!!!
honestly this was pretty awesome
Nice shout out to "Captain" Uhura in the 20 questions game! I always wondered if she made Captain. Now I am wondering did she get her own ship?
An Oberth class USS Intrepid B
Short and simple. I like to see casual situation like this. It make the exceptonnal one more real.
Well said! If you want to see more films, we have a n Indiegogo croud funder on right now!!www.indiegogo.com/projects/trek-shorts-2022-by-fans-for-fans/x/4750234#/
That shuttle looks gorgeous.
That uniform looks spot on
Nice little show 👌👍😀😎
Thanks for sharing.
beautiful interlude. thank you for doing this for all of us.
Thank you so much! Over 10 new fan films have been shot already and waiting to be edited in 2022/2023 :D
Why are most of these fan productions British?
Hi Tim. We are based in the UK and as such all of our actors are from the UK with a version of a UK accent.
The same could be asked as to why 95% of Star Trek: Continues actors have an American accent when Starfleet is world wide so it is very odd almost all are USA accent.
The Star Trek shows have a very bad habit of having almost all USA accents BUT...its a USA produced show just as ours are UK based so...thats the reality of filming things :)
What did you think of the short itself?
Am I seeing a flash of a negative scratch every so often?
Its part of the 35MM grain i added ontop to make the clips feel more real :D
The Federation has the most advanced computers ever built by humans. Are you seriously going to tell me they don't have Mech Warrior 32 or Star Wars Knights of the New Republic 5 available? Minesweeper 3D at least?
Fun!
Keep the beard
Very cool.
I love this little vignette. Only one teensy thing... Harriman looks years older here than he did in Temporal Anomaly (which I know, Marcus IS several years older IRL). But the beard and the gray hair really shows the years that have passed. Oh, and loved that bit about the Amargosa Observatory -- nice tie-in with Generations.
Nicely done, cleverly made considering the restrictions that you were under. My one nitpick however:
Seriously, those credits.
No offence, but if the same few people do _a lot_ of stuff, the credits need to be collapsed a lot more. It's silly to be listing the same one or two people over and over again.
What a wondrous close up view of the Big -D!!! Being able to almost see the inside rooms just makes gives me goosbumps..as if I could just jump in and walk around. Maybe one day there'll be a view with an inside room and someone walking by...maybe even waving out a window.
Loved it like the episode in a bottle style I need to make one of these one day 🤔
Absolutely loved this! The music and FX are perfect. Also, it's neat to think what you'd do to pass the time in a shuttle voyage... including apparently what we all do in long car rides: try to call all my friends to see if they wanna talk! Always thought that the couches in the back of those shuttle types looked comfy. If this were me, this would have opened with the wide zoom into the cabin of me asleep, half off the couch with replicator rations food all over me :D
Well that was a lovely little short, and the nod to Armagosa to explain the uniform and badge also, lovely.
SFX and music excellently done also. Overall nice, very nice indeed.
Lost Destiny has different plans for the Enterprise B but I still enjoyed.
Tanks a lot for your dedicated project!
The Shorts literally feels like "homecoming"!
Stopped at 0:39. Name dropping sucks.
“Good thing Darth Vader wasn’t at Deep Space Nine when I stopped there on my way to Vulcan to see Spock.”
What an odd complaint... Sorry you couldn't enjoy this Star Trek fan film :)
@@SGUDistantHope
Hi! Thanks for the reply!
It just hits me like “memberberries” only with writing. Like “Ooooo. I know that ship! It’s a Memory Class heavy cruiser! Oooo! That guy is talking about the Type 1 phaser! I know what that is!”
I’d take it as an observation more than a complaint. I’ve done these but not at this production level.
Subbed.
Good luck on the next one.
@@greggstrasser5791 Its not member berries so much as Harriman is a character that has a 7 film arc, though his career as an Ensign into Captain. He happens to have served on the Enterprise D and E and as such knows and works with people from them. Its not member berries its Harrimans life ^^.
Besides, having that last note of "Amigosa" instantly gives the audience a totally different vibe at the end of the file and deepens the story. Gives it a fun bitter sweet vibe.
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I promise I’ll check him out.
Looking forward to him doing a Harriman Maneuver.
Top Marks Samuel. Looks legit on a scale of one to 10 you get a ten. Great story and equally so visuals.
Docking in one of the minor shuttlebays.. excellent!
Now, THESE are the truest episodes that we all so dearly love & enjoy
Very nice! Gotta say that I love the shot of the shuttle going into the shuttlebay seen from the warp engine. Beautifully done!
A nice little episode but very high quality in all categories.
That was really cool to watch !! I like this. Ships graphics were cool tool.
love the aspect ratiro you use, use of musis is perfect and you've blended everything together wonderfully. Only wish you had more angles shooting at once, so you could edit those angles together.
Indeed, this was a semi impromptu short and limited time to shoot on the day. More angles are always good although in the end i actually limited my edit here between the angles i did have because it made it feel as if Marcus was having to say each line at a time...but in reality he could do long takes and really sell the moment!
Glad you enjoyed it!
It ended before in really began... lost the entire middle :)
hi Robert, what do you mean?
@@SGUDistantHope It was was like it just started and than it was over... maybe the way the storyline was handled was a bit bare.
@@robertwheeler5125 This was written and shot on the same day, to make the best of a day where an actor cancelled but we still had the other.
I wrote it while they were in the car to the studio and was created as a "Bonus" short for our Indiegogo.
its very much a "day in the life" and also shows one of our lead actors at a different point in their life and a little about how they were.
@@SGUDistantHope In that case I guess it works
@@SGUDistantHope To be clear I do not hate it, I just did not understand it
There seems to be some rather large fake film scratches/hair at certain points, at 0:43, 1:31, 4:47, et al. It was a bit distracting.
Indeed there were, that's part of my post production process to make the VFX less CGI and more "real by adding imperfections.
Sorry you found them distracting, all on purpose!
What did you actually think of the short itself? :D
@@SGUDistantHope It was great. Evokes the feeling you get from the scene with Geordi in the beginning of The Mine's Eye.
Oh dear another Samuel Cockings production.
I invite my fellow Trekkers to enjoy a completely free novel. Just google Star Trek Lost Destiny race.
Total waste of time!
That is some what part of the point, showing the boredom that warp travel can be...and what this specific character would do. It's very much "a day in the life" style of the short and acts as a character piece for Harriman and brings back Robin from his fan film series!