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The SS Valiant was Earth's first true interstellar starship hastily developed shortly after Zefram Cochrane's first warp flight by the United Earth Space Probe Agency (UESPA) using easily obtainable parts and materials. Only the landing module and warp nacelles were designed and built from scratch, while the fusion reactor was adapted from maritime naval use. Following Cochrane's success, a mission to those star systems known to contain planets become an immediate priority, even among the war-ravaged population who viewed the mission as a symbol of Earth's recovery and future among the other races of the galaxy.
UESPA was not the space agency of a unified world government, which would not fully exist for another hundred years, but rather the major space powers of the New United Nations.
SS Valiant from the Star Trek: Encyclopedia:
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Sorry about the sound glitches, not sure why those happened.
Tried so many ways of doing the magentic storm, still wasn't happy with it...
Alot of aspects of the story are based on the novel "The Valiant" with my own bits of extrapolation.
The SS Valiant model has been released for download at the Star Trek Mesh Collection www.trekmeshes.ch
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Valiant 3D Model
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VideoSpaceFX
Ship interior corridor
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Reif Dietmar
Planet Texture Map
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Matt Davis
Music
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Ron Jones
Valiant Mission Patch
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Kristian Trigwell
Based upon the Star Trek episode
"Where No Man Has Gone Before"
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Samuel A. Peeples
and the novel
"The Valiant"
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Michael Jan Friedman
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Only just saw this for the first time after 11 years. I'm awestruck, as a lifelong Trekkie, by the creativity and direction that this went in. Literally clapped when it was done. You should still be very proud of the short you created here.
This was a perfect tie in between the Star Trek episode and the Novel. Thank you for your time, effort and of course talent.
According to the novel, the colony grew and developed technology similar to Earth and was rediscovered by the Stargazer in 2333.
Thank you! Answered my question.
Which novel was that
What's the name of the novel?
@@charleswilson7371 memory-beta.fandom.com/wiki/The_Valiant
The stargazer one of picards first missions i think
Why this was a treat to watch:
1) No bad acting by amateurs.
2) Story line that does not include war.
3) Real imagination centering on human desire to survive and explore.
4) Simple in concept but expertly told through outstanding visual effects and a wonderful score.
Great Job.
Well put, Marc. Good points. It doesn't rise to the level of an official Star Trek production, but it comes relatively close! And none of us fans pretending we can act!
Have you seen Aurora? That's pretty good, something different.
well said Marc. It's like reading a graphic novel with videos :)
We already had 7 years of DS9's war with the Klingons and dominion. Why the fuck would we want another war series? Or another prequel too for that matter?
Why this sucked.1) NO actors what so ever 2)Story line had no war/fighting, just clips of it crusing around in space. 3)There were no humans in this. 4)Bad visual efects a 6th grader could of made on their computer in their bedroom.
Another awesome video! I honestly got chills when you showed that hallway on the Valiant, giving the impression that Agnarsson was stalking the ship. Very scary and claustrophobic, a la Alien. Thank you for doing these! :D
Intriguing idea. A story told entirely with 3D models, SFX, and artwork, with no actors. Interesting and well done!
Nice work. The episode "Where No Man..." has haunted me since childhood. I always thought that Mitchell would awaken from that grave pit!
I agree. I didn't ever believe that big rock finished Mitchell. My bet is that he is alive and has totally remade that planet into a paradise to his liking. One day the Federation will come back and get a HUGE surprise.
He and Elizabeth Dehner are now living happily and peacefully on Delta Vega, after regeneration.
In a book called "Q²", it was Q trying to escape the barrier he had been trapped in. If I remember right, he'd been hurt pretty badly and all he could do was try to latch on to someone. That was what kept killing people, trying to find a host that could handle a Q. He wasn't in the driver's seat, they just had access to his powers while he was trying to heal.
Yeah the novel just says that, but I added the idea that the crew in the escape pods developed extra powers to enable them to survive. By their reckoning they were outside the galaxy edge, but solitary star systems and rogue planets have been shown to exist and they could have stumbled on this by chance.
As a old TOS fan, and a long ago cellist, the background music was excellent and practically told the story without ever seeing what was happening inside the ship. I don't think your average person realizes the importants of good background music playing alone with the story..... A well told story. Great Job!
~Safe Journeys,Space Fans,Wherever you are~
I am so glad this popped up in my recommendations. Its like a book evolved into an audio book and now this, a video book. I enjoyed reading and watching. We need more of this.
I saw this video back when it was released. I was mesmerized by the soundtrack and jaw dropping effects. You have a talent for conveying a great story without dialogue.
I just wanted to let you know, I REALLY enjoyed this. I've been a ST fan for 40 years and know way too much about it, and was really impressed how tense this was with only narration. Really would like to see a future one along the same line of creation, a video showing something described in ST but never seen and with only narration.
I like the idea of "small scale stories" set in the Star Trek universe because they can stand-alone in content but ultimately fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. It is less demanding on the producers because the actors may only appear in 1 to 3 episodes, and the writers could "go crazy" telling a mosaic of Trek stories all over the map!
I like the Valiant story and it should remind all fans that space is dangerous and not all crews will make it home! Some might be imprisoned on alien worlds, marooned, eaten, kept as "pets" or ???. The likelihood of getting enhanced physical or mental abilities seems "far out" (slim chances) compared to all the other things that could happen, but that's what going where no man has gone before is all about!
How about: "Star Fleet: Classified Above Top Secret"? #startrek #startrekTV #startrekmovies #startrekfranchise
Space is a dangerous place. It is the least hospitable environment for humans that I can imagine!
The storytelling of Star Trek is meant to embody how we are willing to do anything in the name of exploration and discovery, no matter how challenging the circumstances.
Dennis Costea Jr. Space is disease & death wrapped in darkness & silence.
I once pitched an idea for a Star Trek anthology series. Episodes could range from anywhere in canon history (USS Horizon at Sigma Iotia
This was a fantastic effort to conjure up a true sci-fi lover's fantasy of having the best of breed ships from all of the dopest shows, games, universes and incredible story lines in sci-fi history - all in one spot for one, wonderfully brief battle. It's a great concept, in which to test out one possible battle scenario, out of so many. THIS IS A GREAT EFFORT and a treat to watch & enjoy. Really loved the ship modeling, Newtonian effects & principles (mostly adhered to), shading, animation, lighting...really impressive stuff. THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY DAY!!
This absolutely has to be one of your best productions yet. I liked when the ship slipstreamed and again when you showed the ship crossing the barrier back into the galaxy and you showed the crewmember's eye fluctuating. Both scenes were very remiscent of the stargate scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
I enjoyed that. Thanks. It's a great example of a great story not needing great effects. Effects are the supplement to the story. They are not THE story. Well done.
Amazing the videos that you can find on TH-cam. This is 6 years old and just now found it looking at Star Trek fan films and this little nugget pops up. Beautiful story and VFX. Thanks for the work that you put into this. 🖖
As I'm typing this, you said that 4 years ago!
This short followed a Star Trek novel titled "Valiant" which followed Picard and the Stargazer crew. They encountered the descendants of the Valiant's crew who called themselves Magnians named after a 21st Century social movement on Earth. The Stargazer also encountered descendants of the Kelvans from the episode "By Any Other Name."
The book switched between the Valiant crew in the aftermath of the barrier encounter and the Stargazer interactions in the 24th Century. Pretty good novel.
Some time between "First Contact," and "Enterprise" lies this forgotten tragedy of Starfleet history. It would have been nice for this to have been referenced in dialogue by Archer's crew, for it would have surely left an impact on their era, and on their mission. it might have even explained the Vulcans' insistence that they remain cautious in exploring.
Which would have been hard to do given that the voyage Valiant takes place AFTER the time line covered by Archer's series. The Valiant was NOT Earth's first starship, but the first ship to reach the edge of the Galaxy and to encounter the Barrier. If we're going by canon the title is majorly wrong. There were also no survivors of the ship's self destruct.
Wrong on all counts: the SS Valiant's journey was between 2064 and 2065, while Archer's Enterprise was launched in 2151.
Second, there was at least one paperback novel (which this short film is inspired by), which gave a different account of the story.
While it does sound like a good idea, any idea which quadrant the Valiant was heading when it was hit with what I could suppose is a Care-Taker styled wave of sorts.
Safe to assume she was exploring the Alpha Quadrant, considering it was only 2065 when when she had to be destroyed. With a warp factor hardly higher than 1, it'd be hard to get to any other Quadrant within the span of a human life.
Warp 1 dont gets you anywhere. It is basicly light speed. So you would need 4.5 years to reach the next star system which is Proxima Centauri. :) I think the ship was faster then this. Warp 2 or 3 maybe.
Thanks. Personally I think this is probably the best video on the channel as a lot of thought went into every shot (lighting, camera angles etc.) and I had learned a lot of techniques by this time.
Wow. Good stuff. Why back in my day we had to actually READ fan fiction!
And we still read fanfiction.
(and I actually write fanfiction too).
Really nicely done. I'm going to watch the old TOS episode again!
Good story would been nice to have the ending connect to "Where No Man Has Gone Before" when the enterprise find the probe from the valiant.
This was really good. The text, music and visuals alone created a terrific and suspenseful atmosphere. Great work.
The idea that we need to take nukes out with us on the first voyage into interstellar space didn't sit well with me. Especially considering that this is just after WW3. Perhaps it shows a certain naivety in the Humans of the day regarding the dangers of space. That said the ship still has lasers.
How powerful would they be? Considering that Earth Cargo Ships had Plasma Turrets in the early 22nd century.
"We needed those weapons...and a hell of a lot more"
- Capt. Jonathan Archer
I understand and respect your opinion. However, how can we have an exciting adventure, with no self-destruct mechanism, doing a countdown?
Proton torpedoes are basically nuclear, I don't really know what they have been smoking in the 60s 70s and all the way to the 90s
We detonated a fusion bomb in 1954 that was supposed to have a yield of 6 mg tons but it had 15 because someone at Los alamos had determined the lithium 7 in the bomb would remain inert. It was very shocking and very scary for the guys who watched it detonate. So we kept setting them off for another 20 years
A nod to TMP with the rotating camera in that over head fly-by. Nice touch.
With an epic detailed story line this has to be one of my favorite old Starfleet ( AKA UESPA ) history ☺
Right up until the last piece of text, I more than half expected it to turn out that the distant descendants of Valiant's survivors evolved beyond corporality and linear time, a progression accelerated by their proximity to the Barrier, and eventually became... the Q. :)
Wasn't expecting much, but that was VERY good!
Thank you!
"Captain: Repair time lieutenant!" Lieutenant: Next century sir!"
You have 12 hours!
You have one decade. Make it so
"Time repaired, Captain!"
@@neophobicnyctophile8264 oh dear
that was not what I intended but I like that, thanks for repairing time
At least it isn't Voyage to the bottom of the sea. Every thing in the Seaview blows up. Repair time "Oh about 10 minutes sir".
My first car was a 1970 Valiant. A good ship but I overload the warp coils one too many times..
LoL ... that seemed to happen to a lot of the first ships we piloted!
Don't forget the struts that would break off. Had a buddy that drove around with both starboard struts that way. Right turns were crazy, left not too bad....
My '66 Dart was just like that, but take a right a bit too fast and: WHOA! With a broken reactor mount, it would yank on the throttle cable and HARD A'STARBOARD, AND AWAY YA GO!
273 or 225 or 340? Automatic or manual?
Mine was a 1991 Caravan, she was a good transport ship...unfortunately her warp nacelles were stuck on warp factor two and we had to decommission her.
Once again, very well done. Good story, visuals and music. Very entertaining and enjoyable. Even seems to fit 'canon' for the IP pre Abrams. Thanks again.
Great video, I love how clunky and delicate the Valiant looks and I felt the interior shots were very inkeeping with some of the old ships seen in Enterprise. The glowing eyed silhouetted man was quite creepy looking. Loved the escape pods too. Good work!
Would have been nice if I could have read all the text. In the first part the text was blurry at first then cleared up, and later on it went by too fast. About three quarters of each block, it was displayed too quickly and wiped before I could could finish reading it. Annoying! 😢
I actually enjoyed that, and have bookmarked it to watch again in the future. Well done VSFX.
Very enjoyable, well done! I would definitely recommend this to open minded Star Trek followers. I have no idea of the difficulties involved in making the video but I thought the Valiant looked very plausible as a ship design. The one interior shot seemed right for the time too, I wish there had been more interior shots.
This was nice. Thanks, VideoSpaceFX.
Really excellent. This could well adopted into TOS cannon and further explored.
Jeez, I was totally gripped by that, what a superb piece of work. I agree with others on here that it would make a superb feature length movie.
Wonderful chunk of proper Sci-Fi, nicely seated with-in the Star Trek Universe.
Good works.
Nice malfunction alarm and graphic from from 2001 hibernation tube and the eye thru the maelstrom!!!!!! Enjoyed this very much !!! Well done!!
Well spotted, thank you!
This was hugely engrossing -- and the story itself would make a terrific feature film. The bit at the end, involving Captain Tarasco's apparent escape by way of the command module, reminded me a bit of the Space: 1999 episode "Dragon's Domain."
I wouldn't want to imagine how dire a situation as being lost thousands of light years from home and outside of the disk of the Milky Way would be alone, without the navigation equipment for that sort of voyage. Adding a mysterious "energy barrier" that wrecks electronics and electrical systems while turning humans into monsters is just icing on the cake.
Excellently done mate. I found this very interesting and it held my interest.
As a Trek fan, knowing this took place just a few years after Cochrane made first contact with the Vulcans, watching the Valiant story really feels unnerving.
"Absolute power corrupting absolutely..."
Kirk to Dr. Dehner
From the 2nd pilot episode "To Boldly Go, where no man has gone before."
Good stuff, I'd definitely watch this if it were made officially. You kept it simple and sensible, with a good amount of tension considering it's an animation sequence, well done.
Kudos on the truly unsettling image at 7:46.
my favorite ship the U.S.S. Muffler i have watched this episode thousands of times.
I concur with others who have proposed the "vignette" style of story telling, such as displayed here - jolly good short story, by the way. It's too bad that Paramount didn't launch a Star Trek: Chronicles series where they could have had a different story or serial each week/month featuring stories across the Federation.
It goes back to the old days of small stories, like the DS9 episodes when sisko was also Benny in the late 40's/50's. Just like you said, small but can fit together.
That is a DAMN GOOD idea there matie!!
That's a great idea.
Also that shot at 4:08 is one of the best shots of any of your videos, second only to the opening shot of the Enterprise-C
Not bad! I think that was a nice story to accompany "Where No Man Has Gone Before."
I think it is well done.
The main objective is to have this new starship ready for its first maiden voyage to a parallel universe using on board trans dimensional drive and use a combination of trans warp, trans Hyperion slipstream, hybrid wormhole, and hybrid tesseract to the Palarian star system in the Polaraxis universe which is five billion light years. More progress updates to follow.
Hey, nice work developing this video & incorporating part of the Star Trek: The Next Generation novel "The Valiant" into the storyline. Very entertaining.
🖖😎👍Very cool and very nicely well done and very well executed in every detail way shape and form provided by you and the story line was very great indeed!,👌.
Great move referencing demons. It gives the last part a nice, spooky feel. Nice job.
he self-destruct system I described was a simple one. It wouldn't require packing explosives and a lot of additional mass. It was basically just blowing up the fuel tanks. This can be important if a failure was causing the ship to re-enter and crash on a populated area.
I could see this becoming a cinema style, if it's not already ;). The characterless scenes and the story told in text does leave some place for imagination, and that is great story -telling. You could also have someone read the text at a slow pace, I think it will have some more impact. Do not worry about those that mock the ship's design, it is much better than enterprise. One slim disk and flimsy engine attachments (sorry, nacelles) is much worse than cylinder-shaped, from engineering point of view. Also, warp engines mounted on retractile rails (they look like that anyway:) would be a good solution to protect the crew against radiation /warp field, but keep the engines serviceable. I think Klingon small cargo ships had this design - don't remember , it was few thousand years in the future, I was a teenager back than :).
Florin Pandele I agree on all of which you said except for what was said about my ENTERPRISE , but then again that's my opinion . Good to see someone else who understands cosmetics doesn't mean jack in the vacuum of space. Others must also remember about time and improvements , the " model A" car never looked good to me but that "GT 40" sure does . Also if you look at the ship it would be an improvement on Cockenzie ship, to me it's kinda crossed between his ship and Kahn 's .
I quite liked it, although it would have been better if we could see the crew or the structures they built once they landed, to help build a stronger empathic link, but i know from experience how hard it is to create believable humans. Over all though a very nice short story.
Beautiful story, and very much in the spirit of Star Trek, especially the ending.
Wow you're getting really good at this. My only comment is the text that says the captain had remained on board the valiant after it had exploded. I would have left that out because the valiant already exploded and the tension of the story was released, so that piece of extraneous information felt a bit tacked on.
I really enjoyed this video. The effects were awesome! I'd love to see an actual story or mini-series based on this!
Bob Nohouse No problem. Please read the STTNG novel "The Valiant" by Michael Jan Friedman.
Awesome!
Indeed, also available as an audio book.
Thanks, man :)
That's a really interesting concept. It has a good plot with lots of potential for enhancement. I applaud your efforts.
The USS car muffler.
darn ..I was gonna say the same thing LOL.. I was still entertained tho :)
The USS MagnaFlow.
maybe it fell off the enterprise?
I thought it kind a look like one of those tin man robots from the 50s
The warp nacelles need to be in clear line of sight of each other.
Another VERY well-done video, and with an even more engaging story than "Botany Bay." This makes the events of "Where No Man Has Gone Before" much more interesting to watch, thanks to the newly enriched subtext.
U could have a million people talk about a million inconsistencies with this (kind of illustration audio book ) story but facts are opinion and opinions are facts in the minds of people who tried pick apart even the most minor discontinuities in the storyline... failing to enjoy it for what it's worth ..... Personally i think it's the best fan made episode I've seen in a while ..graphics were awesome and I was really digging the explosion at the end looked real good also the storyline was fresh and crisp love it love it love it preciate it
If you liked this you will LOVE Prelude to Axanar. It's to bad Paramount and CBS wont let them make the full movie, and wont make themselves.
Just found this in January of 2025. Excellent story line. Be proud! Thank you from another life long, 60 year old Trekkie.
This was excellent! This would be an outstanding prequel type movie to the whole Trek universe. I thought this may be how the Q got started, but I don't think enough time elapsed in 300 years to go from humanoid to a God like entity. Very interesting!! Very well could be what Gary Mitchell encounters! Great job!
The primary source for the history of the Valient can be found in Where No Man Has Gone Before, Stardate: 1312.4, Original Airdate: 22 Sep, 1966. The vessel was the S.S. Valiant, which was destroyed two hundred years ago. The Valiant had encountered a magnetic space storm and was being swept away, Kirk indicates the old impulse engines weren't strong enough.
Apart from that any information we have about this vessel comes from much later episodes of star trek. As canon tended to be rather flexible as the series progressed, I am uncertain if those later sources reflected the original thoughts behind the Valiant.
A ministory leading up to the TOS episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before"
Thanks for this video, it is a very enjoyable and original effort. I would like very much to have seen this idea developed into a full length feature film, or even a TV mini series. Congratulations and best of luck in your future endeavours.
Thank you
Yes I have to say I liked that, all the way through to the end. Very good effort indeed.
Great job!!!!!! Explosion effect was spot on!!!!!
This video gave me chills when I first saw it 4 years ago
It is also known that the history archives of the original UESPA starship Valiant circ 2,065-2,069 are viewed inside the Historic Ministry Dome, Inter Galactic Fleet, 3,073. Alpha Centauri Prime.
This was really awesome to be honest!
I do wonder how far the Valiant colonists got in the growth of their colony. It'd be interesting to see the Federation meeting their descendants at some point.
By Picard's time it would have been safe, the entity that took over Gary and
Agnarssan was given to us in one of the STNG book, in which we find that Q had fought with an evil Q and had been disillusioned It took many melinia for Q to draw himself back together, and in that time, the Valiant and Enterprise passed through the field that was him, and part of his being attached to Gary and Agnarssan.. Not by Q's doing.. In the Movie, ST The Final Frontier, we were introduced to the other Q entity, the Q Continuum had banished him to the planet he was found on, by taking most of his powers, but not giving him a corporal body.
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If you remember from the Original series also, the Planet destroyer.. It was also written into STNG folklore, as having been created by Guinan's people, in response to the Borg, they had release two, and they were to search out and destroy the Borg, but they were too late, and the Borg destroyed Guinan's home planet.. the writers for STNG did an excellent job of tying the several of their books into the Original series.
genroc2005 a fellow trkkie !! love it.
I thought the evil Q called himself O in those book series of TNG.
Wait what? This is an actual story from STNG ?
This was a great story.Was a pleasure to watch!
Star Trek: Chronicles, Episode 1, "Final Flight of the Valiant."
Excellent job! I liked both the video itself and the well thought-out story for how a fusion-powered early warp ship ended up in extragalactic space.
Can you imagine this becoming the full movie? It would be unlike any Star Trek movie.
Completely stand alone.
No peaceful exploration (for most of the movie).
Just pure drama... Cosmic thriller...
But none the less integral part of the Trek history.
Can you imagine it?
"THE BARRIER"
And as the final shot of the movie... perhaps somewhere in the middle of the end credits... the data-modul is drifting through the space... old... damaged... while in the distance a silhouette of a starship emerge... closing in... and in a sparkling effect of the transporter the module disapears... while the starship is slowly passing "the camera"...
And cut! 🎬
I think by avoiding references to "Star Trek" there would be no legal problems either.
I didn't mean the fan movie... I ment the full official movie. It would give them chance to bring something new.
But of course... the fan movie is more probable :-D
Niusereset that should read "slow fade to black." That's how a real script would/does end.
Oh, very well done! Well concieved and executed. The musical accompaniment accented the mood expertly.
That was well done and consistent with the known Trekkerverse. Thanks.
I don't think it is consistent at all. 50 years after First Contact(2063), we had a united humanity and Star Fleet. By 2163 we had the Federation.
@@Jeffrey314159 This is 2 to 6 years after Cochrane's first Warp flight. The United Earth Space Probe Agency literally took a spaceworthy hull from the 2040s and strapped Warp Nacelles to it and sent it out. A very bold undertaking given the rather grim situation on Earth at the time.
The 3D model was based on the work of Greg Jein who created a Valiant for use in the ST Chronology and Encyclopaedia books.
Thank you,so much!Bro.My longtime dream come true!And for Botany Bay too.This video has almost horror atmosphere.Like Dead Space or something like that:-)
Thank you. Yes it was hard to create that atmosphere but I'm glad it came across.
My top 3:Valiant,Botany Bay,Narendra III.I hope U will keep go on.I think,that Star Trek need people like U.Certainly not dickheads like JJ.
Visuals became less important while the story goes. Nice SF tale we need more like this.
wait a minute. if they were ejected "thousands of light years outside the galaxy", how could they have gotten back in their lifetime? The first starships couldn't do better than warp two. Archer had a warp 5 ship and still took months just to go 60 light years.
Centuries later they all were found dead in their life pods
It's called suspension of reality for a reason. I can't remember all of the dialog in the subtitles as it was to small to read on my tablet. From the TOS episode I thought they had limped back into the Galaxy before the crew members became effected by the ESP, and telekinesis or is it Psychokinesis? Not really sure which. After that the Captain destroyed his ship. This is a back story and continuation of that seed of a log entry. And it's a very fine one in my opinion.
If I remember the TOS second pilot, it was said that the Valiant was “blown half a light year out of the Galaxy”-presumably meaning past the Barrier-and came back into the Galaxy through the Barrier.
You know, all I could think about from the time the "barrier" was introduced was that this was leading up to the events in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier - The barrier, the god-like being on the other side without a ship to take him back out...... I really thought that was where it was going.
That was cool. Nice job good legend creation.
This is brilliant, well written and well told. Thank you!
And they all lived happily ever after, warm and snug in their teepees, and wigwams communing with the spirit of the planet. The End.
It was in a novel written by Michael Jan Friedman in his "Star Trek:Stargazer" series. The novel was called "Valiant", and it was about what happened to the crew of the Valiant, as well as how Jean-Luc Picard became captain of the Stargazer.
I enjoyed this, I especially liked the storyline!
Thanks. Yes it's stretch to say they managed to explore much in 4 years considering it would have taken them that long to get to just the nearest star. It actually would have taken tens of thousands of years to get back to Earth at any rate, I doubt I would bother if I found a suitable planet close by.
Interesting design, reminiscent of submarines. Very well done story line and graphics.
The second pilot shot, and what would be the pilot accepted (ending up being the true pilot therefore, with "the Cage" as sort of a proto-pilot) "Where No Man has Gone Before", was one of the finest episodes, and the Roddenberry team had a pretty fair budget for it. Note that the Conference Room (in the middle of the episode) was reasonably elaborate, and so unlike later conference rooms during the series run.
VALIANT: A STAR TREK STORY.
Kind of like what the "Star Wars" universe storytellers try to do. Either a limited-run or limited-season TV show or miniseries, or a one-off movie, specializing in the tale in focus.
That'd be an intriguing idea, and pathway for incarnating stuff from the "Star Trek" universe. These History-of-the-Future, and speculative Alternative-Past renditions of stories, would be terrific in putting into a tele-film, at some point! Let's keep the idea alive, with our suggestions, as fans.
Really enjoyed that little story. Good job :)
Loved the Star Trek the Motion picture D-7 like shot at 3:00.
That was so cool:
1 I always wondered what the valiant looked like
2 I had no Idea about the first part...which definitely (And finally) explains how that "Old" Ship got way the Hell out there.
3 I'm so happy that some of the Valiant's crew survived :)