Why am i not surprised it was you that made it! Very cool! I've really grown to love the TNG S1 jumpsuit after using the cosermart one for my fan films, i bought 5 of them ha! Great uniform! I hope we see it again!
This was an incredible thing to watch. As a lifelong Trek fan, I was blown away by it. You should be very proud to have been a part of this. As near perfect as Star Trek could be. ❤️
The first time I've ever cried watching Star Trek was this production you were involved in. So truly beautiful and which spoke without the need for dialogue. This is coming from a fan in UK ...
I don't care much for "NuTrek", but I appreciate how OTOY managed to acknowledge both generations of Star Trek in a tasteful way in order to bring us something truly special. Unification is amazing on a technical level, and it is the profoundly emotional send-off for Kirk and Spock that fans needed. Thank you for being a part of this project, it really meant a lot to me.
These OTOY shorts are strange and beautiful - thanks for being a part of making it happen. As a lifelong Star Trek fan who hasn't loved newer entries, really starting with how they left Kirk in Generations, this is just a great full circle for fans and especially Kirk, Spock and TOS fans. Great to see something that really just feels like a labor of love for Trek. And for the record, love both Star Wars (at least old school Star Wars) and Star Trek almost equally.
Thanks for confirming that Kirk was brought back from death. Lot of people seem to think his spirit came back to join Spock on his final journey. If that was the case Kirk wouldn’t need Yor to transcend to the Kelvin universe. Thanks for sharing some insight on such a great piece of art.
I agree. Kirk’s body was taken and placed into some kind of stasis on the Daystrom station. During that time he had a sort of “near death” experience. That’s where Yor comes in, to bring his badge back to him and then send him physically across timelines and into the future to reunify with Spock. And all of this made possible by Gary Mitchell who gave Yor his time and universe skipping power in the first place…to be able to bring peace to his friend Kirk, and to bring him together with Spock at his death bed. Remember Gary staring into the fire? Dr. Soran said “Time is the fire that we burn in”.
Yes, I immediately thought this was the Shore Leave world, where Leonard McCoy was killed and 'repaired'. I half expected the rabbit from Alice in Wonderland to run out in front of Kirk! This seemed unquestionably, to me, to be a resurrection of Kirk, not some afterlife fantasy. Also, why would an aged Saavik and Sorak be in the afterlife? If it was an afterlife hallucination, it would have included McCoy, Uhura, Scotty, Chekov and Carol and David Marcus, among others. Indeed, Kirk takes a moment to realise who Sorak is. In Picard season 3, there was a sickbay sound where Kirk was stored, indicating life. Also the skeleton image in the display was intact, not crushed. It's a testament to how ill-thought out elements of Generations were that across the next 30 years, great efforts have had to be made to unpick its flaws. It took decades to build Star Trek up the point it was at in 1994 and a single film to wreck big elements of it. As it stands now, the Enterprise-D has returned, Kirk is alive and we've returned the TNG crew to the wonderful closing moments of All Good Things..., playing cards together. Kirk is a bit of a tragic figure: his sense of adventure and drive to explore will take him beyond the lifetimes of his friends and loved ones, doomed to outlive everyone and to die alone. Kirk, though, is someone who will forever be exploring and we'll never see how he dies. It's a comfort to know he's out there somewhere.
I thought about project Pheonix straight away when I saw this, which I believe spock started. Kirk never gave up on spock and spock never gave up on Kirk.
@@liamtayler498 Agreed. It feels right that Spock started Project Phoenix. That sickbay life sighn sound was playing when we got to see the readouts and scans of Kirk’s body.
Thank you for this. I watched Star Trek with my dad growing up, I was introduced to it very early. Dad passed when I was young but I can now watch Trek with my son. This short movie had me in tears. Dad would have loved it too.
Thank you for this, Gordon 🙏 It’s by far the best documentary video on this production I’ve seen so far ~ very honest and heartfelt❣️ You’ve got yourself a new subscriber!
Wow; very cool. This was so incredible. I have been a Star Trek fan since Star Trek III came out on VHS in like 1985! I hope this will lead to some incredible things in the future. I can see possibilities!
It looks beautiful. I love the sensitivity shown in the clip. Shatner, Nimoy, Takei, Kelly, Nichols, Koenig, and Doohan will always trigger my emotions, for the characters they played and who they are or were as human beings. Same for the actors who gave us TNG, DS9, and Voyager, and for those in the first three Star Wars films. They impacted not only my childhood, but have brought me joy and happiness my whole life.
This was super cool of you to do, I’m obsessed with this short, it’s so beautiful, a real work of art. Congratulations for being part of something so magical ❤
Regarding the handoff, it reminded me of the Japanese tradition that when someone hands you their business card you must receive it with BOTH HANDS as a sign of respect. Yor didn't release the badge until Kirk took it in both hands.
Thanks for sharing your experience with this project. This video was quite informative. Trek fans can be a prickly lot but I've seen nothing but love for this.
The photo case on the table was seen being held by Zachary Quinto's Spock in Star Trek Beyond and the pic is the bridge promo shot for Star Trek V The Final Frontier of our primary cast which older Spock had left him after he died.
It’s so fun that there are NDAs around this project. They should have read me in on it. But.. since I am not read in on it, I can tell you one thing. I know EXACTLY where it was filmed. I have been there, and I knew as I watched this beautiful short film play out, where they all were. If anyone else knows, go ahead and reply to this post. Anyway, thank you Otoy and the Nimoy Esatate, and William Shatner and Paramount, and so many others for making this “love letter” to Star Trek happen. It truly was a “reunification” if there ever was one.
Ooh wow you were Yor?? I found him so intriguing and kinda cool. I have been trying to look everywhere where this character is. You definitely need a few episodes or a proper spin off. Would love to see you reprise this role of Yor more.
I've heard those reports, too. I'm really not confident that this actor who played Yor, a very small part in the project, knows everything about it, and thus, some of his assertions could be incorrect.
Fascinating BTS insights there, thank you, it explains a LOT about how & why this looks so good, such effort, it must drive you mad when folks just assume it’s all one-click AI. My only critique on the entire thing is that in some long shots ‘Kirk’ walks a bit oddly.
I think I saw a couple of pics of Arex from The Animated Series in the collage. He would be a difficult character to animate with his 3 arms and 3 legs and skinny neck. They would have to figure out how he would walk.
Shatner on X said in reply to someone asking if it was straight AI and he answered 'No. That’s me in the beginning and @SamWitwer as young Kirk with a little AI thrown in.'
Maybe this is something you can't answer yet, but what is the "face swapping" technology? How does it work? For the young Kirk, or middle-aged Kirk, I get that Sam was the actor, but are they taking prior images of Shatner and then face swapping them, but somehow keeping Sam's facial expressions ? Fascinated by the technology since it's more realistic than de-aging and I can see it coming into more use. I've had a running bet going back over a decade with a friend that we will one day have a new Star Trek film with the original cast all digitally recreated. I could try claiming a win with this video, but I'm talking about a full production. I've crossed the Rubicon (aka my 60s!), so hopefully I can claim my bet within the next twenty years...unless my digital recreation can claim it in my absence!
although I thought Sam did a fantastic job, i disagree that he nailed the walk, that wide shot of him taking whatever you handed him, he looks like C3-PO, other that not having Shatners walk right, this was totally amazing
Personally, I believe that after Kirk died in Generations, this short feature demonstrates that his spirit was allowed to comfort Spock as he passed decades later, and they both traveled to whatever is next together. Saavik and Spock's son, who were shown greeting Kirk, would have been dead themselves, since the planet Vulcan was blown up in the film from 2009. The Yor character, an interdimensional time traveler, appears to have helped facilitate this.
I believe that after Kirk died in Generations, this short feature demonstrates that his spirit was allowed to comfort Spock as he passed decades later, and they both traveled to whatever is next together. Saavik and Spock's son, who were shown greeting Kirk, would have been dead themselves, since the planet Vulcan was blown up in the film from 2009. The Yor character, an interdimensional time traveler, appears to have helped facilitate this. No?
Hey! I made that uniform you wore! never tell me the odds of coming across your video.
Whoa!!! I need to add you to my thanks list! It fit awesome!!
Thank you to both of you! Love from Portugal💫🖖
Why am i not surprised it was you that made it! Very cool! I've really grown to love the TNG S1 jumpsuit after using the cosermart one for my fan films, i bought 5 of them ha!
Great uniform! I hope we see it again!
It was such a gift to us fans. Really appreciate the hard work and love put into this project. Well done all.
I envy the opportunity you had, and thank you for being a part of this production. The emotions it invoked ran deep.
This was an incredible thing to watch. As a lifelong Trek fan, I was blown away by it. You should be very proud to have been a part of this. As near perfect as Star Trek could be. ❤️
The first time I've ever cried watching Star Trek was this production you were involved in.
So truly beautiful and which spoke without the need for dialogue.
This is coming from a fan in UK ...
Magnificent, thank you. For helping bring us the best Star Trek in 30 years
I don't care much for "NuTrek", but I appreciate how OTOY managed to acknowledge both generations of Star Trek in a tasteful way in order to bring us something truly special. Unification is amazing on a technical level, and it is the profoundly emotional send-off for Kirk and Spock that fans needed.
Thank you for being a part of this project, it really meant a lot to me.
Hey'o.
Many thanks for your participation within this phenomenal production.
Again, thank you.
Very cool! Welcome to the Star Trek world! I hope we see Yor again...very soon!
Always liked Witwer, but did not know that he is THAT good. wOW.
These OTOY shorts are strange and beautiful - thanks for being a part of making it happen. As a lifelong Star Trek fan who hasn't loved newer entries, really starting with how they left Kirk in Generations, this is just a great full circle for fans and especially Kirk, Spock and TOS fans. Great to see something that really just feels like a labor of love for Trek. And for the record, love both Star Wars (at least old school Star Wars) and Star Trek almost equally.
Fantastic work, very moving to see the incredible detail and fidelity to William Shatner image.
Thanks for confirming that Kirk was brought back from death. Lot of people seem to think his spirit came back to join Spock on his final journey. If that was the case Kirk wouldn’t need Yor to transcend to the Kelvin universe. Thanks for sharing some insight on such a great piece of art.
I agree. Kirk’s body was taken and placed into some kind of stasis on the Daystrom station. During that time he had a sort of “near death” experience. That’s where Yor comes in, to bring his badge back to him and then send him physically across timelines and into the future to reunify with Spock. And all of this made possible by Gary Mitchell who gave Yor his time and universe skipping power in the first place…to be able to bring peace to his friend Kirk, and to bring him together with Spock at his death bed. Remember Gary staring into the fire? Dr. Soran said “Time is the fire that we burn in”.
Yes, I immediately thought this was the Shore Leave world, where Leonard McCoy was killed and 'repaired'. I half expected the rabbit from Alice in Wonderland to run out in front of Kirk! This seemed unquestionably, to me, to be a resurrection of Kirk, not some afterlife fantasy. Also, why would an aged Saavik and Sorak be in the afterlife? If it was an afterlife hallucination, it would have included McCoy, Uhura, Scotty, Chekov and Carol and David Marcus, among others. Indeed, Kirk takes a moment to realise who Sorak is. In Picard season 3, there was a sickbay sound where Kirk was stored, indicating life. Also the skeleton image in the display was intact, not crushed.
It's a testament to how ill-thought out elements of Generations were that across the next 30 years, great efforts have had to be made to unpick its flaws. It took decades to build Star Trek up the point it was at in 1994 and a single film to wreck big elements of it. As it stands now, the Enterprise-D has returned, Kirk is alive and we've returned the TNG crew to the wonderful closing moments of All Good Things..., playing cards together. Kirk is a bit of a tragic figure: his sense of adventure and drive to explore will take him beyond the lifetimes of his friends and loved ones, doomed to outlive everyone and to die alone. Kirk, though, is someone who will forever be exploring and we'll never see how he dies. It's a comfort to know he's out there somewhere.
I thought about project Pheonix straight away when I saw this, which I believe spock started. Kirk never gave up on spock and spock never gave up on Kirk.
@@liamtayler498 Agreed. It feels right that Spock started Project Phoenix. That sickbay life sighn sound was playing when we got to see the readouts and scans of Kirk’s body.
Great job man! What an awesome tribute! I'm sure Leonard would be very pleased and honored!!
Thank you for this. I watched Star Trek with my dad growing up, I was introduced to it very early. Dad passed when I was young but I can now watch Trek with my son.
This short movie had me in tears. Dad would have loved it too.
Thank you for this, Gordon 🙏 It’s by far the best documentary video on this production I’ve seen so far ~ very honest and heartfelt❣️ You’ve got yourself a new subscriber!
Wow; very cool. This was so incredible. I have been a Star Trek fan since Star Trek III came out on VHS in like 1985! I hope this will lead to some incredible things in the future. I can see possibilities!
It looks beautiful. I love the sensitivity shown in the clip. Shatner, Nimoy, Takei, Kelly, Nichols, Koenig, and Doohan will always trigger my emotions, for the characters they played and who they are or were as human beings. Same for the actors who gave us TNG, DS9, and Voyager, and for those in the first three Star Wars films. They impacted not only my childhood, but have brought me joy and happiness my whole life.
This was super cool of you to do, I’m obsessed with this short, it’s so beautiful, a real work of art. Congratulations for being part of something so magical ❤
Great video. Thanks for this. Congratulations on your being a part of Star Trek history
Regarding the handoff, it reminded me of the Japanese tradition that when someone hands you their business card you must receive it with BOTH HANDS as a sign of respect. Yor didn't release the badge until Kirk took it in both hands.
I didn't know that about Japanese tradition. I've come to understand that is practiced in Chinese culture too.
Thanks for sharing your experience with this project. This video was quite informative.
Trek fans can be a prickly lot but I've seen nothing but love for this.
Awesome dude, you're going from strength to strength
Oh shit, that was you? Class bro. Man that makeup must have been traumatic! Great job indeed!
The photo case on the table was seen being held by Zachary Quinto's Spock in Star Trek Beyond and the pic is the bridge promo shot for Star Trek V The Final Frontier of our primary cast which older Spock had left him after he died.
🖖😎👍Very totally wonderfully cool on informatively explaining everything provided by you on and about "765874 Unification!" Indeed Sir!.
BRAVO !!!!! Kirk needs to come back !!!!!
Great job, Gordon!
Congrats on the gig!
It’s so fun that there are NDAs around this project. They should have read me in on it. But.. since I am not read in on it, I can tell you one thing. I know EXACTLY where it was filmed. I have been there, and I knew as I watched this beautiful short film play out, where they all were. If anyone else knows, go ahead and reply to this post. Anyway, thank you Otoy and the Nimoy Esatate, and William Shatner and Paramount, and so many others for making this “love letter” to Star Trek happen. It truly was a “reunification” if there ever was one.
Gordon! That’s fantastic, congratulations! You know I saw 765874 a few times now. I’m a Treker the way you’re a Star Wars fan.
Awesome insights! Thanks for sharing!
Heh. Nice Collection.
Nice Video 📼
Ooh wow you were Yor?? I found him so intriguing and kinda cool. I have been trying to look everywhere where this character is. You definitely need a few episodes or a proper spin off. Would love to see you reprise this role of Yor more.
What amazing work!
I thought Shatner played some of Kirk? in this magnificent video, there was an interview were he said it was him at the beginning.
i heard that too. Now I'm confused as to how much he might have done.
He's credited as playing one of the Kirk's and other sources state he played the older Kirk.
I've heard those reports, too. I'm really not confident that this actor who played Yor, a very small part in the project, knows everything about it, and thus, some of his assertions could be incorrect.
@@ptaylor5014 Even IMDB lists Shatner as a cast member
Shatner surely contributed with facial expressions which were combined using state of the arts CGI with Witvers physical acting filmed on set!
i loved it..i thought the effects were amazing
Near perfect!
Wow, I didn’t know that, I thought maybe it was all AI. That was amazing!
Fascinating BTS insights there, thank you, it explains a LOT about how & why this looks so good, such effort, it must drive you mad when folks just assume it’s all one-click AI.
My only critique on the entire thing is that in some long shots ‘Kirk’ walks a bit oddly.
I think I saw a couple of pics of Arex from The Animated Series in the collage. He would be a difficult character to animate with his 3 arms and 3 legs and skinny neck. They would have to figure out how he would walk.
Nice droids in the back.
Shatner on X said in reply to someone asking if it was straight AI and he answered 'No. That’s me in the beginning and
@SamWitwer as young Kirk with a little AI thrown in.'
@@76TomD its Sam. I was looking him right in the eyes many, many times over the course of filming those garden scenes.
@gordontarpley so Shatner is lying?
@@76TomDdo you think he runs his own social media?
@@gordontarpley when that question was asked him he insisted yes he does. So I guess again according to you, he's lying
@@76TomD lying and being wrong are two different things.
Are you saying I'm lying? Why don't you go tell Sam it wasn't him.
Maybe this is something you can't answer yet, but what is the "face swapping" technology? How does it work? For the young Kirk, or middle-aged Kirk, I get that Sam was the actor, but are they taking prior images of Shatner and then face swapping them, but somehow keeping Sam's facial expressions ? Fascinated by the technology since it's more realistic than de-aging and I can see it coming into more use. I've had a running bet going back over a decade with a friend that we will one day have a new Star Trek film with the original cast all digitally recreated. I could try claiming a win with this video, but I'm talking about a full production. I've crossed the Rubicon (aka my 60s!), so hopefully I can claim my bet within the next twenty years...unless my digital recreation can claim it in my absence!
I loved it. But one thing bothered me... why doesn't Kirk move his arms when he's walking? It looks very strange.
I _loved_ everything about this short, _except_ for the way Sam walks at 5:45, just before he grabs the badge. Why is he so stiff?
although I thought Sam did a fantastic job, i disagree that he nailed the walk, that wide shot of him taking whatever you handed him, he looks like C3-PO, other that not having Shatners walk right, this was totally amazing
Still don't get the significance/role of the Yeoman in the intro...!?
I don't understand the video and Kirk's return? After all! Is he in the Nexus or in the world of the dead? Can someone explain it to me?
Personally, I believe that after Kirk died in Generations, this short feature demonstrates that his spirit was allowed to comfort Spock as he passed decades later, and they both traveled to whatever is next together. Saavik and Spock's son, who were shown greeting Kirk, would have been dead themselves, since the planet Vulcan was blown up in the film from 2009. The Yor character, an interdimensional time traveler, appears to have helped facilitate this.
I believe that after Kirk died in Generations, this short feature demonstrates that his spirit was allowed to comfort Spock as he passed decades later, and they both traveled to whatever is next together. Saavik and Spock's son, who were shown greeting Kirk, would have been dead themselves, since the planet Vulcan was blown up in the film from 2009. The Yor character, an interdimensional time traveler, appears to have helped facilitate this. No?
Says so much while saying so little.
sorry, you can not deep-fake tech. Shatter must have done the facial expressions. No one can duplicate those shatter nuances.