Tommy is a freaking genius

I guess he wants NPR to do the casting.

I wouldn't go that far but yes this was really good. However something did annoy me a bit.. everything seems a bit blurry and I'm watching in 1080p. It feels like there is some kind of bloom and smudging (using Photoshop terminology for this one). As an example 28:00, his clothes, like that yellow ribbon, are kinda smudged out into the background. I assume it is because of lack of tech? I don't make movies so idk.

ok wat it is. is saw this film on t.v. a few years ago. and all the guy is doing is reposting it here. that all. so he changes thing ever so slightly. so he can make it past the flgging proto call. if you notice thier voices were al slightly high in octave as well. like the were breathing in helium, through out the entire film.

First of all this was more live action then animation. Let me also add the acting was horrible. Good though for such a low budget.

Excile an t.

Dude even Stanley Kubrick had people who criticized his movies. This is par for the course. A measure of good works is in its emotional effect that happens to those who are to know them. Pacific Rim was a movie I was excited for, for years, but I was sorely disappointed in how it held back from being a deeper film simply because of its genre. It could have been more and I expected more but my emotions and criticism of the film is also born of a love for it. That's part of what being a fan is. To be fanatical.

+Krystal Myth sucks

+Krystal Myth Constructive Criticism is good and used in film schools.. youtube foul mouth trolls No use for them anywhere

good speech

The film is very good considering how it was produced, funded, directed, etc. The plot line was actually reasonably engaging. Why, exactly, do the Internet "trolls" have to spew their excessive venom, hate, foul-mouths, & trash vocabularies??!! I have a theory in-agreement w/others who comment reasonably: the "trolls" are non-achievers who do nothing, create nothing, add nothing, accomplish nothing, add-up to nothing, so they hate themselves ... but, in their completely enraged ignorance of failed selves they blindly spew their garbage posts. Each time the rest of us read such trash, check-out the sceen-name of the writer & let it register that this is just another failure. ("For kicks", click-on their little pictures or icons to see if they've revealed a Facebook homepage; then one can go there & more intimately identify what such a failed person posts about themselves. It might prove an instructive experiment?!)

+Rico E. Anderson You people should be proud! Nothing other then satisfied Trek fans :) Congratulations

+Rico E. Anderson you did a great job!

+Rico E. Anderson Lets have a nice LA viewing party. We can invite the Romulan too, even though we blew him up.

You guys did a great job. Very well done.

We do.

These studios are only driven by profit and the bottom line-no room for real story telling, everything driven by CGI and no substance.

the captain looks like Andrew Zimmern from bizarre foods, and Tom had this blank stare throughout the film, however it's a fan made film and what were you expecting, Brad Pitt or Scott Bacula...? I though it was great, better than half the stuff on SciFi channel. ..

I agree. I actually thought, compared to some fan made stuff I've seen, this was vastly superior. Someone actually cared for the characters. I think, if exposed to Hawke on a regular basis, you might find his actions and attitudes quite basic for the fledgling venture at the time of the original Enterprise. A great addition to the lore.

the actors and script is actually very poor, but the story is much better than what nowadays cinema bigshot would allow to happen

+Kel Kun exactly my thoughts. Waaay to much talk that makes no sense, and some of the behaviours are also not true to canon in terms of other than human races. The CGI is really well done, especially the space scenes, but there's too much bloom everywhere. Still, I bow to the makers, as it's a great addition to the ST universe.

Are you serious? Have you never seen an actual movie before?

@cmmiles000 Yes we've seen actual movies before, and we're sick and tired of the bullshit cliches and focus on visuals over character and plot that is being pumped out lately. Today's movies are just robots and superheroes punching each other in the face, and the new Star Trek films aren't much better. In the 80's, the Star Trek films were fantastic, mostly. And then with the exception of maybe First Contact, the rest are shit. This fan film made me think of a long, perhaps 2 part episode to an offshoot of Enterprise. It fits perfectly with it. There are things to nit-pick for sure, but it's better than any of the shit being peddled out today. 2016 hasn't seen one good sci-fi movie.

Mechaghostman2 Wow... do you carry that soap box around with you where ever you go? I was just responding to OP's comment about how someone could mistake this as not being a fan made film. Who is this 'we' you seem to be speaking for? It sure as fuck better not include me. By the way, Enterprise was fucking garbage. I wish there was a way to just retcon the whole damn show. Your standards seem WAY to high.

It is the Vulcans, there are billions and billions of them, and now that their galaxy finally got 5G too, well, you got the picture. Human beings can't stand this BS anymore. Only 15 million of our world population has seen it. Don't you SEE that is not exactly a majority? It is SAD! Sure you had math at school?! Are you a bit duh?

thorlo6 peace and long life

I, too, enjoyed the cast. They created believable characters you care about, want to know more about. I'd definitely like to see more of Captain Hawke and his crew.

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I totally agree with you! This was an unexpected surprise to me....

The acting, really! There's Picard and this fat bastard! Come on man you must be kin to the producer.

That's true, Gene would be amazed by this. Everything about this production is consistent with the core Trek ethos

@@detlefvonberg Except for the relentless shakycam...

As an old Trek fan I thought everyone did an amazing job, especially with you all had to work with. Bravo!

Write a book

That's Awesome! The Enterprise is one of my Favorite Series.

excellent job mate, thank you

With a lack of experience comes a disconnect, in all facets. I guess to get that last 5% of 'immersion' is sometimes accidental until you start to recognize situations and solutions, or opportunities to finally hand that fully refined and un-distracted expression over to the viewer. Things like busy computers screens in the background and never getting the feeling like there was daylight or some equivalent quality of lighting made me feel claustrophobic. But it was great; I admire this work very much. IMO it can hold it's head up high in the ST universe.

I hear you on that!! Most of the movies Holly-WEIRD makes shouldn't even be on video tape/DVD!!!

Jamie Shutler Wait........ I've seen _you_ before.

Jamie Shutler very well said sir,one who actually gets star trek and its characters and timelines.Some of the original franchises used worse effects an backdrops then you see in fan films.

Thanks Azula

It sucked overall but nice try. The music was shit, the acting was total shit but the story line was ok.

faz melhor

Espinoth no such thing as Canon,only original stories that adapt to Roddenberry 's dream. The whole Canon saying is nonsense and made up,even real directors ignore it's lameness as a reference.

If it sucked over all that just says you know Jack $h!t about star trek,maybe you can watch the Orville lmao.

Okay I'm so sorry but it doesn't feel like star trek to me and the fracture is that like when discovery from started discovery goes into the future they find the federation a mear minor power then they help pull shit back from the brink but the sole dilithium source in that show wouldn't last indefinitely certainly not an additional 4 centuries so I dont belive that's not a breaking spot in star trek history now maybe the federation did survive the dilithium shortages that would have followed the star trek discovery series but I don't buy it they had been trying to solve warp travel without dilithium for over 100 years by the time discovery arrived without any success so to belive that a huge alliance still existed by the 31st century is not belive able and the fact that the plot surrounds the temprole cold was is just illogical becaues it was over so yeah to may holes and shallow idk evrrything for meni felt like i was watching a 1970'd porn movie and that at anytime the sex awful porn star actor was about to pop our and say let ne show you an anomaly or something equally stupid leading to some over acted sex seen I'm not saying I hated it it's just not got the star trek feel I like the story but it's got way to many holes and the who temporal cold war no quite being over is Ludacris Vlas was the last opponent to the cold War so how was thier one single romulan who was still purely Romulan still fucking with time I mean it was a good story but the whole center of the plot was just shit easily explained as aberrant shouldn't even be considered cannon since it muddy the water after all in started time like by the time the romulan war started thier were not only the nx class but the posidon class and thier were four other class starship by that time frame one of which was the precursor to the constitution class starship it was a battleship and with out all those ships and some andoria vessels its like starfleet was a joke and by the time rhe romulan war happend 3/4 of the vulcan fleets had been mothballed due the the formation of rhe federation so to even think that the colition fought the romulans is really off mark this is just sad i was expecting startrek firat contact style acting so you have earth not in the federation but a colaition and only four starship fighting the entire romulan empire common boys really bad for the whole it jives with startrek cannon it dosent and the captain was so stupid it like he was reading a script with out any emotion non of the characters had aby depth its sad i was hoping it wod show the romulan war that shaped the neutral zone not something that torpedoes the trek timeline sorry but it needs less cheap plot like why didn't the surving iconians bring the ship to the place to kill the axion weapon or something like that and make your characters feel more emotional they all acted like vuclans totally illogical

sarcasm hasnt died with you has it, lol

+mesof Good but the best is yet to come.... AXANAR

But Axanar isn't even filming and it's already been years.

They already have plenty of stars.

Yes indeed. Why wait for Paramount.

+Ryan T. Husk Don't tell the others but you and the Captain were the best performances by far... ;)

THIS WAS STUPENDOUS !!! I had to be reminded by comments that this was FANfilm-production ... Absolutely a "hit out of the park" ...amazing ... Would I be too greedy asking you all to continue this, develop some backstory, work with "time agent" concept ...???

Hope you can find my comment I posted today...7/22/2021..You will know, as I mention ,I'm native American Marine Corp Veteran..Good luck..

Great job loved it all

Well done sir

Now if they can get actors and a screenplay writer.

But it sucked. And there is no way the writer is any fan of star trek.A fan would have burned the script and shot all involved with it.

@@thatman8987 lol Dude, my thoughts exactly.

Have you even watched the Big screen versions? This movie is ok but nothing like the big boys!

Oh come on, it was great! Sure, not as high quality as the originals, but he'll: With almost no budget and certainly less experience than the large ones can call their own, no network of companies after companies ready to assist... Cut them some slack! I'd love to see a sequel.

@@thatman8987 i like star trek but this is bad acting

increible!!!

Wow !!!

I'm all astonishment! $20,000, wow that is truly amazing. I'm standing in awe of this fan film! Thank you graciously.

Say, with about 10 actors in this movie, the Producer paid them $1000 each, then $10k left for equipment, scrip writers, film crews....

@@002starboy A labor of love that netted them a hefty reward.

👍 True AND funny.

Stays true to a timeline, without having to create a new timeline....and STILL screwing it up lol. (Just so theres no confusion, I am praising how well this is done.)

I really loved watching this epic "Star Trek" fan film. "Prelude to Axanar" is also another great "Star Trek" fan film. Did you know: "Star Trek: Horizon" won four of twelve categories in the 2017 Independent Star Trek Fan Film Awards (Best Special & Visual Effects; Best Original Music; Best Original Story or Screenplay; and Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form), presented at and by Treklanta?

Except we aren't supposed to see Romulan faces until TOS

@@bobwarfield3621 Dude that's what the Romulan helmets are for. They hid not only hide the pointy ears but also their forehead ridges. Also T'Mar the Romulan fugitive was augmented to look Human. The whole point is the producers wanted the Humans to think Romulans look Human but they're not Human (again that's what the Romulan helmets are for. They hid not only hide the pointy ears but also their forehead ridges.).

*amazing

I'm a big trek fan, the production values are excellent on this, the acting is acceptable for a fan film. I've seen more badly acted big budget TV shows.

Well said #wkrepelin#

the acting is not amazing but not hot garbage. Some camera shots where soo bad though. Like in the beggining when we saw almost a minute of someone's holsterd gun. SERIOUSLY WE GET IT YOU HAVE A GUN !!!!

my only concern is that everything is blurry...am I watching in the wrong resolution? I am only 20 mins in and this would be a great stand alone si-fi movie without the "enterprise" universe. and maybe a little less blurry too. LOL

+ered203 I grow on people, thanks.

That's not hard considering they show (or showed) WWE

yep

+Blazer Hell I guess you don't know Battlestar Galactica is from Syfy?

Kenny Mcgann At least they spend money at the right place back then....

I liked him in Bonanza

+Paul Lang Oh captain, my captain! Thank you so much, this means so much to me. You have no idea. I wouldn't trade this experience or working with you on the film or our friendship for anything! Here's to many future adventures together, whether or not they're on the bridge of the NX-04 Discovery!

+ProjectNReSource Here Here! (raises glass of whiskey) You trekkies heard it here first.Sounds like he left the possibility of a sequel open.

+Paul Lang Just wanted to say, you, and all the actors, did a wonderful job.

+Rendal Constantineau Thank you Rendal. We really appreciate the kind words.

+Paul Lang - well done! I liked your version of The Captain. Brilliant for a fan film - as others have said, bit less interiors and slightly tighter script, but hey - this is better than some of the Star Trek movies! :-)

I do.

@@carolprice1389 Thank you.

Excellent film, done by a big hearted and talented Star Trek fan. Just amazing 🤩👏👍👍

sounds like john carter at thw beginning

+Dangerous productions I'd like to see you do better! I haven't watched it yet, but will probably over the weekend. I've browsed through it and it seems ok to me, will review it after watching it in it's entirety,

Brett Goodson, I agree, I liked the way they ended The Enterprises 5 year mission and how Kirk how promoted. They left it hanging on TV, though not the fans fault, for some reason it was the ones who promoted it that wanted it to disappear, boy was that a big mistake. Again. Keep up the good work, perhaps we will see part 2 of Cloak and Dagger.

You should read Quran at 51 chapter to appreciate it.

+ardschuna88 Agreed.

Naomi Eltayeb the acting In renegades was not horrendous at all,it was humans being humans not corporate robots trying to act to poorly written scripts. So I guess our military soldiers are just as horrendous just being humans during conflict. There is a difference between acting a role or just simply being the role and renegades proves they are the roles they played. Star trek is not for everyone to truly understand let alone actually know the names of all the real cast members in which you referred to original cast in which it was not,but cast members from other star trek series from the original show to the modern shows (prime timeline)

You should read Quran at 51 chapter to appreciate it.

Dave Rubel he's believable

I like that too. Not the most handsome, not a womanizer and not the guy who ends up kissing the cute girl at the end.