Kal kat will preview the three acts of the Starship Locations Chimera fan film on Friday, Sept. 6, as the post production went incredibly well, at warp speed, and it looks like the Cards and Kat production will be bowing in September, but later have official release dates.
They separated it into three 51 minute acts because it being over 153 minutes was a little long and might have been problematic.
Recent last minute editing of one act has merely delayed an earlier release today.
The film stars mainly alumni from Star Crackers who worked for free on the film over a dozen years, but mainly the last 5, to bring out the best possible "chatty rose covered love letter to the Star Trek fans" that this could possibly be.
It will be the first animated parody like this, the first Star Trek like animated go motion film, and the first in over 40 years since the animated series of TOS.
It even acknowledges the TNG episode "Lower Decks" of which the later 2020 animated cartoon does, but it is of no relation.
"Right out of space dock, the fan film lands squarely in summer 2388 where a destructive wave threatens the galaxy, the Q are being menaced, and only our new crew and some old friends stands a remote chance of stopping it."
Current Starship Locations placed the year 2396 as the date, but the film takes place 8 years earlier.
"They are not making any profit, did not make any, and they're not a studio. All of this was done out of pocket with private collectables and constructed action figure playsets. It abides by the guidelines for fan films except for length."
A considerable camera improvement makes the final act look cinematic, but they're still action figures and this is still clearly extreme low budget. For what they did though, bravo.
"In the end, a dozen players of the game went down to two, the producers, who fought to the end to will it into being."
"We could not and did not have a kick starter, or pay anyone. This led to some of them leaving early on, but most left because, well, where's your movie, it's been a year, then five, then more."
"Well, here is is, and it's worth the wait. Every bit is a passion project where two avid TNG era fan trekkers give fans what they wanted, a true and proper send up following Nemesis that also pokes fun, and makes some of the mysteries of the canon make a whole lot of sense, like Seto and also Locarno being there. Others we messed with for fun, such as that Borg connection."
it will likely be in the preview cast and then some. Heh.
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