Living the Dream - A Star Trek Fan Production (2024)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
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Trek Shorts is proud to present a pretty special and unique visits back to Deep Space 9, special in that it is so rarely done in fan films!
Trek Shorts is also proud to present Nimran Saund next film and the direct sequel to our 2022 film “One Small Step”
Ensign Anna Keeley has served as a helms officer aboard Deep Space 9 for 3 months now and lots has already happened. She has made friends, logged many hours on Defiant and is eager to take on more responsibility.
Her time at DS9 gives her hope of a positive future for her and career, the Dominion feel like something which can be dealt with and moved past like many before. her career is in front of her and she wants to make the most of it.
A famous officer is about to arrive at Deep Space 9 and the young Ensign wants to make the most of the opportunity.
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Loved seeing the Beowulf. That ship model has had some awesome adventures in Trek. Great use of it.
And a tip of the hat to the Boardman. Well deserved.
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the cgi of the station and ships was amazing! Even better than the effects in Disco
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Great lead in to the Defiant theft episode.
I got a feeling that a certain person named "Thomas" will take off his beard 😊
Ps: nicely done
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Nimran Saund is a talented and gorgeous actress❤. 👍 if you agree.
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Sure Hope to see lots more from her!🙂
Wow! This was a really great film and to tack it into an existing DS9 episode? It was genius! Keep making amazing films and I’ll watch them. ❤😊
Thank you! Really aphreisate that and yes indeed, another new thing we tried to do...was it fully successful, probably not but...we gave it a go and people seem to be enjoying it! Always trying something new!!! What else about the film did you enjoy in particular? any moments or scenes or visuals?
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Love the use of the Wolf 359 ships. A real shame they were never used on DS9. My modest suggestion for a future production would be to alter them slightly. Maybe something as simple as removing the lower pod on the New Orleans, or replacing one of the Challenger's nacelles with a mission module of some kind, like a smaller version of the one on the Nebula class.
Great casting with ENS Keeley! I enjoyed every moment she's in.
Samuel's CGI/VFX and composites are outstanding as usual.
We're also experimenting with digital doubles, and they work best in very short segments with appropriate voiceovers.
Excellent job, everyone!
Between changelings, transporter clones, and the occasional visitor from the mirror universe, you really couldn't be sure who anybody was on that station.
🤣😅🤣 true
I'm reminded of the B-5 mantra of no one here is exactly what he or she seems
You keep that 90s 2k feeling alive ❤
Love the concept of telling a different perspective of another, well-known story! :D Nimran is excellent as always!
A creative way to connect this tale to an existing episode.
Also, well done from a technical aspect.
In my long career I have met/worked with several eager beaver types that are still wet behind the ears and haven't yet realized that volunteering for additional work is always a bad idea.
At best, you get exhausted as tasks are piled on since they've found a sucker who will do the work. At worst, others in the unit will label you a brown-noser, which will hurt in the respect department.
This was a really nice episode, the only thing I would have changed is having a second cast member, it felt like the ensign was pointlessly telling herself everything she was doing/seeing.
That said, still really great work, as always, phenomenal work with the CGI/animation
Thanks! So, at this point in Keeleys career there is no one in the cast also at DS9 with her so, unless we went out and cast someone brand new, brought in someone randomly and got a brand new uniform fitted for what would have been a few lines...it was not worth the extra budget given that this was meant to be a small and simple character focused piece.
Also, if you watch Keeleys films, there is a specific journey there. She starts off as a young officer who is so nervious she just...talks a lot... but as things happen at DS9 she changes and in the later films she has the confidence she needs and...does not talk to herself ha. It was an international choice to maintain this style based on her earliest film released " one small step"
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I enjoyed it. Thank you.
That was good. Combining live action and CGI was brilliant.
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Riker on DS9? I knew immediately that it was his transporter clone :D well done on both visuals and story!
Very nice tie in. Love that it's Thomas Riker.
The animated characters are getting better
I can't wait to see what's next.
Sure is a lot of traffic there. Pretty heavy fleet presence for a pre-war episode. Always nice to see the Wolf-359 ships, though.
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Another top Trek Short, interest attempt to use CGI to fill in the scene at the airlock and on the promenade.
Thank you so much! Indeed, we tried to push the boundaries a little. We are still just a very low budget fan film so hopefully people will aphreisate the quality we were able to achieve Versus comparing it to real Hollywood with...more budget in the snack budget for 1 actors trailer then we do in an entire film ha!
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@@SGUDistantHope I enjoyed the shuttle flyby of the defiant and Keeley reaction when she realised the Defiant had been stolen.
PS already support you on Patreon keep up the good work.
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Awesome work. Miss this show. Those days.
Love the tie in! Total nitpick here - and I hate myself for knowing this - the episode is called “Defiant”, not “The Defiant” lol
Ha! Must be a Mandela effect as we all thought it was "The Defiant", so confident we didn't even double check lol!
What did you think the film itself? any fav moments?
Fantastic job and great explanation on not having another character/crew member opposite of Keeley - makes sense. Love seeing the Orleans Class and getting the digital/CGI crew looking pretty good. Thanks so much @SGUDistantHope ! ❤💛💙🤓🖖🏾
Solid tie in to DS9 S3.
Great film Sam! Just one question, what medical condition would Dr. Bashir diagnose the ensign with for talking so much to herself? ;)
Definitely not the encounter she was expecting was it?
Looking forward to Part 2.
You’ll find part 2 on Paramount + 😁
No indeed...and hopefully as the audience it gives you a nice sense of...dread ha!. You can watch part 2 on netflix or paramount+ now, DS9 S3 Episode the Defiant :D
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An excellent addition to a story, I'm now going to watch that DS9 episode. :-) Particular standouts; the Enterprise D and other ships never looked better, deep space nine was extremely well done, the actress has a very natural flow and pleasing manner and voice, and she was well incorporated into the CG backgrounds (that many would assume were actual sets).
The music also was extraordinary and well integrated.
The full CGI effects of the people are in progress and very well done.
But I'm not a fan of the exaggerated theatrical aspect ratio since these were TV shows after all, and will not be shown on a on a film screen, so normal widescreen TV aspect would be great.
I would even suggest cropping it and showing both versions to people and getting their opinions.
I find the black bands just make the image smaller and are unnecessary for modern TVs.
Also the "camera float" can feel a little bit queasy, never was done on any of the Trek shows or movies, and if anything it attracts attention to the CGI/ artificiality aspect rather than letting those things blend in more seamlessly.
There could be a trope of having that only while in a small shuttle or something to indicate some movement but any shot on a station or a ship or in a room doesn't need to feel like a handheld camera, that feels like a step backwards from hiw Trek was always shot.
Overall an absolutely excellent addition to your catalogue, and I know you will continue to make impressive films and effects for us all to enjoy, greatly appreciated!
Interesting!
Nice work , loved the cgi
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Pretty dodgy CGI, yet a charming episode! Great work as always..
Great stuff and nicely done!
A fifty year Star Trek fan (:
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@@SGUDistantHope I liked the way your story tied in with the original DS9 episode and Thomas Riler , also the use of CGI film and Game graphics were awesome I'm, a big fan of the Mighty D she looked amazing and it was nice to see a British Starfleet officer for a change. Great stuff.
Well done can't wait for Part 2 thomas Riker stole the defiant
Love me some DS9!! Great job
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From the second I saw the station and heard the music - I was back!! I had to go rewatch The Defiant right then.
This precursor to episode Definat. Outstanding.
Indeed...at what point did you realise thats what was happening and did it fill you with the dread of knowing what was going to happen ha?
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Keely's great but she talks too much lol
Another cool production from your team. Love all the Power543 Fan Films.
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Outstanding.
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@@SGUDistantHope One of the best aspects of your short films are how they all expand the Star Trek universe in small ways. This is a great example of depicting the events of a particular episode but from a different perspective. It doesn't do too much, like ST: ENT's "These Are The Voyages..." did. I also like how you chose to depict the docked Defiant the way the show did... completely out-of-scale and thus preserving that show.
Nice. I like the idea, even though it's one of my least favourite episodes (one of the "pale" ones, typical to the first three seasons of "Deep Space Nine").
She's really cute :3
Well ✅ Done 💫🖖💫
Wonderful !
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Great job with this short. Ens. Keeley was excellent!
Great visuals and sound. Just Fantastic as always, Samuel. Send in the Clone in part two, Thomas Riker.
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@SGUDistantHope The Ds9 Station visuals and Music.
Her face.... 🤔 ".....someone stole the Defiant?"
WOW!!! EXCELLENT!!!! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Riker wasn't very talkative was he? (Have you considered using AI voices? :)
He was not. This short was from Keeleys perspective so there is a certain narrative flow that she was in her own head and so we didn't need to hears the other famous cast.
Using AI voices would be problematic for various reasons. You are also advice against using any material/clips or actor audio from existing Trek so i cannot go that route either.
What did you think of the short apart from that? A ton of hard work :)
Good ships CGI!
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Changeling impersonating Riker, red alert red alert!
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Could of used audio clips for riker.
No we couldn't have :) CBS does not like audio clips or video clips from trek being used.
They may have come and asked us to take the film down.
Another great short! Going to rewatch on the big screen when I get home.
Thank you so much Mark! Some of those shots should look good on the big screen! ! What else about the film did you enjoy in particular? any moments or scenes or visuals?
@@SGUDistantHope the close-up shots of the Defiant as the shuttle passed by were great, loved the details.
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I think that the real Star Trek franchise now lives on in fan films rather than official shows. It used to be thought-provoking optimistic sci-fi, not a political propaganda platform or a ferengi production. Fanfilms stayed true to the original Star Trek ideas.
Star Trek was always political and woke pmslol 🤦🏼♂️
The wormhole isn’t that beautiful. Looks like something made by people who had too much time working on an old computer they found. Just “artists” trying to play like they know better than a computer when trying to show people physical anomolies that we already know don’t look like that.
nahhhhhhh....beautiful :D
Tell us how you really feel. LOL I recommend a Snickers.
You're looking at it through jaded eyes. Imagine if this actually opened up above your city only occasionally , filling half of the sky, you're telling me people wouldn't go outside to experience it?
People even now go out in the country to watch meteor showers, momentary streaks of light sometimes only every few minutes.
As a child we went out to look at the Hale-Bopp comet, stationary, but filled up half of the country sky and we were in awe.
There's something in humans that want and need to look at things that they can't explain, or that are unusual in nature and they want to experience it firsthand.
I'm sorry that beauty of this type has escaped your life..... So far.