Headline News for July, 2015

July 31, 2015, Major New Release from The Galaxy Quest Restoration Project, (Audio, Comedy, adult fans), Episode 2, "Lilith." Listen here: https://vimeo.com/134928291 (29:05) or download here: http://www.galaxyquest.tv/.  For all prior releases from The Galaxy Quest Restoration Project as well as more than four dozen other Star Trek Fan-made Audio Shows, see http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/247.html

July 29, 2015.  Major Recent Release from Star Trek: Omega, German with English Subtitles. Silver Age Machinima using a Star Trek Online engine by adult fans.  Both first and second episodes in German (which completes a story) are available for viewing, the first episode is available with English Subtitles (which will be added to the second episode later):
Episode 1:
German only:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0tCEjwZp-0 (25:56).
German with English subtitles:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U77lu2dYBZc (25:56).
Episode 2:
German only: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK3mmoL_SH8 (29:12).
For more about Star Trek Omega see http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/138.html

July 27, 2015,  Major New Release from The Federation Files.  Animated, full voice cast.  Appears to be the work of adult fans.  Episode 2, "In Vino Vertas." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9L5nFOvtaDs (16:14).  The animator, Glen Wolfe, makes this series with the Go!Animate engine and a sound track from Peter Pan Records.  The permanent home of Glen Wolfe's work, starting with The Federation Files, is here: http://startrekreviewed-goanimate.blogspot.com/2015/07/glen-wolfe.html

July 26, 2015.    Major New Release from a new Golden Age audio series with mechanical voices and minor animation, Excaliber Logs  From Gary Davis, Chapter 3, "Who Haunts This Ship." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZNCj7Z1Ip0(37:16).   Comment: Low-quality 2D animation, mechanical voices. For everything about Excaliber Logs as well listening information on four dozen other Star Trek Audio shows, see http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/247.html

July 25, 2015.  Find No. 72,  Star Trek - DIStant COusins, the movie.  (Mechinima, Silver Age, Star Trek Online, drama) This English language Film is made in Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia, although the Facebook page is in Slovenian.  After the opening, it becomes very slow placed. Although animations of humans appear on the screen, the only voice is the voiceover. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Qu4cVCqUo (1:17:50).  It appears to be somewhat complete, although when posted it was originally described as the first part of a multi-part epic.  For a discussion of this film and links to more about this unique group of cross-border gamers and filmmakers, see http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/135.html

 July 22, 2015, Axanar's Third Fundraiser, this time at Indiegogo:  https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/star-trek-axanar#/story
Segment of final movie:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K723TV7GZFQ (4:09) or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrlNSGbgrlQ (3:02)  with Portuguese subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6VvVHm3GaM (4:09)
Prior release:  Prelude to Axanar on You Tube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W1_8IV8uhA (21:09)  Includes subtitles in Czech, Dutch, English (US), Finnish, French, German, Indonesian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, and Swedish.  With Russian voiceover: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyC_AYq5m70 (21:09)

Discussed here:
(1) http://www.trek.fm/the-ready-room/181
(2) http://www.space.com/29902-star-trak-axanar-fan-film-funding.html
(3) http://www.sfi.org/2015/07/axanar-crowdfunder/
(4) http://wordofthenerdonline.com/2015/07/star-trek-axanar-grand-daddy-fan-films-part-one/
     http://wordofthenerdonline.com/2015/07/star-trek-axanar-grand-daddy-fan-films-part-two/
(5) http://www.rogerebert.com/festivals-and-awards/sdcc-2015-star-trek
(6) http://news.yahoo.com/star-trek-axanar-fan-film-kicks-fundraising-warp-171422536.html
(7) http://www.examiner.com/article/star-trek-axanar-a-film-by-the-fans-for-the-fans-1
(8) http://www.dailydot.com/geek/star-trek-axanar-indiegogo/
(9) http://www.1701news.com/node/871/star-trek-axanar-presents-spectacular-vision.html
(10) http://nextbigfuture.com/2015/07/star-trek-axanar-has-indiegogo.html
(11) http://www.inquisitr.com/2275637/new-star-trek-movie-axanar-release-date-2016-star-trek-3/
(12) http://www.popmythology.com/interview-richard-hatch/
(13) http://www.space.com/30058-star-trek-axanar-targets-george-takei.html
(14) http://www.1701news.com/node/888/richard-hatch-explores-star-treks-new-paradigm.html
(15) http://www.mnrdaily.com/article/star.trek.axanar.cast.news.gary.graham.stars.in.independent.star.trek.film/2222.htm
(16) http://www.techtimes.com/articles/74911/20150808/interview-richard-hatch-discusses-star-trek-axanar-and-what-its-like-being-a-klingon.htm
(17) http://www.blastr.com/2015-8-10/star-trek-axanar-still-worth-it

For more about Axanar, see http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/14.html

July 18, 2015,  Major New Release from a new Golden Age audio series with mechanical voices and minor animation, Excaliber Logs  From Gary Davis, Chapter 2, "Who Haunts This Ship." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PYmJ8LPZzQ (28:56).   Comment: Low-quality 2D animation, mechanical voices. For everything about Excaliber Logs as well listening information on four dozen other Star Trek Audio shows, see http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/247.html

July 17, 2015, Major New Release from Star Trek Cataja, The Falkenhorst Chronicles, Episode 2 with English voice cast, "First Signs" in HD:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfWQuyiaBD4 (23:35).  For previous releases in both English and German, see http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/137.html

July 15, 2015, New Release from Audio Drama, Star Trek: Shadows of Tyranny, A Short recording, Episode 1.5, "Casualties of Conquest"  http://shadowsoftyranny.com/vignette-1/ (3:31) or http://www.spreaker.com/user/stshadowsoftyranny/casualties-of-conquest (3:31) or https://soundcloud.com/star-trek-shadows-of-tyranny/casualties-of-conquest (3:31).  For all previous episodes of Star Trek: Shadows of Tyranny as well listening information on four dozen other Star Trek Audio shows, see http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/247.html

July 12, 2015, Major New Release from a new Golden Age series, Excaliber Logs (there are three existing audio and video shows with the name Star Trek: Excaliber, but not Excaliber Logs)  The creator consider this an audio drama,  From Gary Davis, Chapter 1, "Who Haunts This Ship."  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVeilZXcvIw (15:13).  Thanks to the guy I call "South Africa" for pointing this one out to me when I got online after taking a day to have a life.  (Yeah, this is the Trek Community and he lives in South Africa.).  Comment: Low-quality 2D animation, mechanical voices.   For everything about Excaliber Logs as well listening information on four dozen other Star Trek Audio shows, see http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/247.html

July 11, 2015, New Release from Star Trek: Aurora, comedy short, 2D animation, "Do You Mind (Meld)?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9xiJCq4rHk (1:05).  For everything from Star Trek Aurora, see http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/25.html .

REVISED Release from Starship Valient, Episode 1, Legacy, The Special Edition, (an expanded version)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzI3xZmETNQ (23:39).  For more about Starship Valient see http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/42.html  My comment:  The additional footage significantly adds to this episode.  Excellent addition.

July 8, 2015, New Release from Project Potemkin, (Adult fans, professional actors, sets, costumes, CGI) Season 3 Episode E, "Third Watch," You Tube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5oPA8lrEHg (7:06). Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/132947635 (7:07).    With Portuguese subtitles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CusNWxwoxdY (7:06).    For everything Project Potemkin has to offer, see http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/31.html

July 7, 2015.  Major New Release from The Federation Files,  a new fan film series.  Animated, full voice cast.  Appears to be the work of adult fans.  Episode 1, "Passage."  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJLMhbCPh-A  (17:32)  The animator, Glen Wolfe, has confirmed that this was made with a Go!Animate engine.  The soundtrack is taken from a recording by "Peter Pan Records." The permanent home of Glen Wolfe's work, starting with The Federation Files, is here: http://startrekreviewed-goanimate.blogspot.com/2015/07/glen-wolfe.html

July 5, 2015,  Major New Release from Star Trek: Lost Universe, an Audio drama, presents, Episode 3, Choices,  https://soundcloud.com/tags/star%20trek%20lost%20universe (29:12) ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgS2j8-atpE (30:01) For all previous episodes of Star Trek: Lost Universe as well listening information on four dozen other Star Trek Audio shows, see http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/247.html

July 4, 2015,  Major New Release from Golden Age series Dreadnought Dominion (adult fans, costumes, sets) Episode 102 "Anchors Aweigh" on  You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXSWTlcaEbQ (15:25) or Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/132577502 (15:27).  A review: http://trekclivos79.blogspot.co.uk/2015/07/meeting-up-dominion-serves-vignette.html .    For more about Dreadnought Dominion, including their prior episode, see http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/58.html

July 1, 2015,  Major New Release from Audio series, Star Trek: Excelsior, Season 4 Episode 4, "Only Murder."  Listen or Download here: http://starshipexcelsior.com/episodes/ .   For all previous episodes of Star Trek: Excelsior as well listening information on four dozen other Star Trek Audio shows, see http://startrekreviewed.blogspot.com/2009/06/247.html