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RENEGADES: “THE REQUIEM, Part 2” available on YouTube until AUGUST 28!

Back in June of 2016, on the second day of filming the first hour-long episode of STAR TREK: RENEGADES , “The Requiem,” the production team received a nasty and potentially catastrophic surprise. CBS and Paramount had just released a new set of guidelines for Star Trek fan films that would essentially stop Renegades in its tracks.

The timing of the release might not have been entirely coincidental.

Six months earlier, CBS and Paramount had “stopped” the fan film AXANAR with a huge, multi-million dollar copyright infringement lawsuit. But there were still many other fan productions out there using the Star Trek name and intellectual property. And while Axanar had been the first to cross the million-dollar threshold by raising $1.2 million in donations from thousands of fans, Renegades was hot on Axanar ‘s heels with (at the time) over $850K in crowd-funding, also from thousands of fans.

And while Axanar featured one veteran Star Trek actor reprising his role from canon (GARY GRAHAM as Soval), Renegades would feature TIM RUSS as Tuvok, WALTER KOENIG as Chekov, NICHELLE NICHOLS as Uhura, CIRROC LOFTON as Jake Sisko, TERRY FARREL as “Jadzia” (minus the Dax symbiont), ROBERT BELTRAN as Chakotay, ARON EISENBERG as Nog, and even HANA HATAE as a grown-up Molly O’Brien.

The previous year, Star Trek: Renegades had premiered a 90-minute fan film with a red carpet premiere at the historic Crest Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles, calling the project a “backdoor pilot”or “spec pilot” for CBS to consider. Late in 2015, CBS requested (politely) that the Renegades team stop referring to their fan film as a pilot, a request they quickly compiled with. So instead they announced plans to release 12 half-hour webisodes per year (or “season”) oftheir spinoff Star Trek series, with “The Requiem” being the kickoff full-hour episode.

But the guidelines put the kibosh on all of that. No longer permitted to use Star Trek veteran actors or crew people, no longer allowed to pay professions, and constrained to no more than two 15-minute episodes and no sequels or seasons or ongoing series, Renegades had been effectively castrated as a Star Trek fan production before production come even get up to speed.

So a fateful decision was made. The script was quickly edited to remove all references to any Star Trek character or race or technology. The Federation became the “Confederation.” Chekov became “The Admiral.” The Romulans became the Rigelians. The CGI ships would be redesigned. Nog would trade in his Ferengi make-up for something totally new. The footage shot the first day had to be digitally manipulated to remove the Starfleet insignia comm badges. It was a mad scramble, but it ultimately resulted in the new independent film project: RENEGADES: THE SERIES .

“The Requiem, Part 1” debuted in February of 2017 exclusively to donors. Two months later, it was released to the general public…but not on YouTube. Instead, it was behind a firewall requiring a sign-up first. Although free to view, some fans objected to having to share their contact information before being allowed to see a fan film.

On July 6, 2017, “The Requiem, Part 1” was finally released with no firewall onto YouTube for free viewing by anyone…

And a week later on July 12, “The Requiem, Part 2” was shown for the first time at a theater in North Hollywood…along with Part 1. Like the red carpet premiere in Westwood two years earlier, the cast and crew attended, with tickets sold to donors at $20 each. Here’s the blog with photos and descriptions of that special event.

But since then, “The Requiem, Part 2” has never been posted to YouTube. Although still available behind the firewall on the AtomicTV website , many fans didn’t bother to go through the process of creating an account and have therefore never seen the conclusion…which features a stellar final scene with Walter Koenig. fast fake id

However, as a special tie-in to the 15-day Kickstarter for the new Renegades project OMINARA with Nichelle Nichols and Walter Koenig (more on that in my next blog!), “The Requiem, Part 2” is being posted for free on YouTube for a limited time—until August 28, 2020.

So watch it now while you can…!

2 thoughts on “RENEGADES: “THE REQUIEM, Part 2” available on YouTube until AUGUST 28!”

Thanks so much for drawing my attention to this. I stayed away from Requiem part 1 until now because, for exactly the reasons you gave, I did not fancy giving my personal details out to watch part 2. Anyway, I’ve just found time to watch it all with the attention it deserves and it was fantastic (FANtastic I mean 🙂 ). Sure, they were compressing a story that would have played out over a series into an hour with limited locations, but, overall, it was great!

I have to say that the one thing that strikes me about this is the speed with which they turned around the production. I’m not knocking others (well possibly one, but I… well no, I shouldn’t, because I only watch the things, not make them) but I think they did it quicker than Interlude, which I think has been one of the faster higher quality productions. When it’s your own work (and I do some creative stuff in other fields) I can appreciate these things take time and it’s hard to know when to stop tweaking.

Really looking forward to Romulan War btw, which I see you’ve just featured.

I think the comparison to Interlude might be a little unfair, Alastair, simply because the Renegades folks had hundreds of thousands of dollars to work with and could pay their people respectable sums of money to prioritize production and post production tasks. They also had a much larger crew. I had 50 people, $20K, and mainly volunteers (we paid the caterer, of course, and some folks were reimbursed for travel and lodging expenses). As for comparisons to Axanar, that’s not exactly apples to apples either. The lawsuit shut down production for a year, forced a move across country, and required a start-from-scratch crowd-funding initiative that has been hampered by Alec’s inability (because of the settlement) to publicly promote where and how to make donations. And keep in mind that Axanar managed to do three shoots in five months and only needs one more. Had the pandemic not happened, all of the footage would have already been in the can by now, leaving only post production to finance and complete.

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The Jig Is Up, The News Is Out On New Star Trek: Renegades Trailer

| April 7, 2015 | By: Jared Whitley 141 comments so far

The first full trailer for Star Trek Renegades dropped today. Brought to you by the same team that did Star Trek: Of Gods and Men , the feature appears to be one of the most impressive pieces of fan-fic ever.

The 2 1/2 minute video features stunning special effects and appearances by a host of Trek alum and new faces. The cast boasts an impressive cross-section of Trek actors, including Walter Koenig, Tim Russ, and Robert Picardo, plus Gary Graham (Soval), Richard Herd (Adm. Paris), Manu Intiraymi (Icheb). Russ also directs.

The current release date for Renegades is uncertain. According to a January statement on the official website :

But… we know the question on all of your minds – when will I receive my download or DVD/Blu-Ray of Renegades? As much as we’d like to give you a definitive date at this point, that will all depend on CBS. Their response to our film will ultimately determine our final release dates. We are keeping our fingers crossed for good news, and we’ll pass on any developments as soon as we hear them.

And we wish the best of luck to them. Last month, Renegades dropped a music video (which looks like it was filmed on the set where they did the Gorn fight in Arena).

That looks pretty bad, like most fan films. Some good effects, but wooden acting, unconvincing makeup and awful dialog.

Plus, the presence of Manu Intiraymi is not a good thing–he’s an awful actor, and was one of the worst aspects of Voyager.

This looks pretty amazing. Probably the best fan film I have seen… definitely worthy of broadcast TV. I’m looking forward to seeing the final product! Nice job to the entire team behind this.

Unfortunately, this looks pretty lame and doesn’t say “Star Trek” to me.

Not a fan of the ‘grim dark’ trope in my ST, but I will check this one out.

Production values look good and it’s good to see so many Trek vets involved.

I will definitely watch this, but a bit of constructive criticism: The trailer could do a better job of saying what the movie is about. From what I gather, there’s a bad guy who wants to destroy the Federation, but the Federation can’t get involved in defending itself because of the Prime Directive (?)

A clearer indication of the movie’s main theme would make for a more compelling trailer without necessarily spoiling anything.

Bits and pieces look interesting, but there’s a disconnect between the Trek aspects (and present alumni) and whatever else this is supposed to be about. I just watched it twice, and… well, let’s just hope it’s a poorly edited trailer. The full thing may be more coherent… but that fix the cliche dialogue and weird, unpleasant to look at Starfleet uniforms. Or what I assume are uniforms, at least.

Some damned fine actors in there, though…and they clearly put a lot of work into this. I hope my first impression is wrong. :P

“Won’t fix”, rather. (It’s 2015 guys, can’t we edit these comments? :P)

This actually looks GREAT! Even Icheb looks amazing to me. Yeah, it has still got that B-movie feeling to it somehow, but it’s big improvement over Of Gods and Men visually. For a low-budget crowd-funded endeavour, it looks amazing! There are lots of movies like that out there – most of them not Star Trek-based – and none of them can compete with this one as far as we can tell from the trailer.

I’m definitely looking forward to this!

But yeah… still hoping for official A-lister stuff from CBS soon… It’s not our job to do THEIR work!

Llooking forward to it.

I wanted to like this so much… and I’ve no doubt that this is is the best fan-film out there at the moment and of course, it’s wonderful to see the prime Universe, albeit with a slightly odd Star Trek: Online looking ships, however, just because it is the best fan-film out there doesn’t make it excellent, or even just good. I imagine it’s far cheaper for film-makers to shoot dark and moody claustrophobic exchanges between cliche characters, than it is to produce strange and exciting new worlds and life forms… but where is the sense of fun, inspiration and adventure in this trailer? Like others have said, the acting seems wooden, the make-up unconvincing but worse of all, there is no awe-inspiring feeling that we all felt the first time we saw the opening credits of TNG or DS9 or Voyager for the first time? I appreciate this trailer has been edited to look more action-oriented, but instead of dazzling us with things we couldn’t imagine by ourselves, it shows us things we have seen dozens of times before (and filmed better) and instead of giving us an alternative to the loud yet vacant JJ-disasterverse, it comes across as a bad imitation (without the humour, or budget). I didn’t need an ‘USS Archer’… or 140 year old Chekov. What I needed was to see beautiful, magnificent things that inspire me, new worlds and life-forms that would keep me up tonight in bed wondering what the storyline might be. And don’t get me started about those baggy, ridiculously ill-fitting star trek uniforms. I thank Tim Russ for his efforts and would rather have this pilot exist than not, but it saddens me an opportunity was lost to show CBS something they weren’t expecting. There’s nothing game-changing to see here, and I believe with talented writers and conceptual artists, there could have been. Missed opportunity.

This is a tremendous trailer and easily better than the vast majority of professional production out there from the looks of things. Extremely promising — and I hope the actual movie lives up to this wonderful preview.

Axanar thus far has set the standard, but this trailer comes very close and the feature may be just as good.

Fan films have become real contenders as standard-bearers for the cinematic/audiovisual Star Trek universe, and only the multimillions spent by Viacom/Paramount give JJ Abrams’ movies the edge thus far.

It’s an edge that is evidently disappearing by the day.

“vast majority of professional productions”

As corrected.

Looks great the me!

I look forward to the film. I’m not up to speed on the CBS connection though. They have to approve it?

These fan films are an embarrassment to Star Trek. The only good ones I’ve ever seen that are actually done right are Axanar and Star Trek Aurora.

It says this continues the prime timeline. It doesn’t even look like Star Trek. What point in time does this even take place?

Yawn…predictably terrible looking screaming of fanzoid mentality, writing, acting and other assorted dreadfulness. Nice to see Walter…didn’t know he had fallen so far into the dumps to be in this.

Once a dumb jerk, always a dumb jerk

#15: A “dumb jerk?” Seriously? How old are you… seven years old? Grow up, kid. Finish elementary school. You’re embarrassing yourself.

#15: Plus, if you don’t like reading opinions that don’t match yours, why the hell are you even here? This is a discussion board. It’s for discussion. Again, grow up.

@Ralph Daay

I agree completely. This production might have terrific effects, but it is severely lacking in almost every other facet. The actors stink, the make-up looks cheap, and most importantly, it doesn’t feel like “Star Trek” at all.

There isn’t a snowball’s chance in hell this gets the greenlight from CBS.

#15 Silvereyes

I guess the truth hurts, eh?

@17. Red Dead Ryan,

“The actors stink, the make-up looks cheap, and most importantly, it doesn’t feel like “Star Trek” at all.”

You are aware that this is just a trailer, not the whole movie, right?

While I’m not impressed with the trailer that much, I’d rather wait to see the full movie before making any rash judgements or claim that “The actors stink”!

The trailer got me excited. The effects are good and I feel the quality of the real ST actors, but the writing, background sound, supporting actors, environmental effects, lighting, etc are holding them back.

I know nothing in movies but I feel I could polish this movie up with very basic common sense things e.g. – extreme scream which has no echo, sounds like your neighbor. – Admiral Paris needs to have his tilted eye brows waxed to hold them down. – Tim Russ has part of a mustache that is unshaven. I mean come on man.. you are Tuvok for crying out loud, don’t you know how to shave before you hit the set? – The writing is horrible. I don’t understand a thing about what the story is about. It’s jumping here and there and everwhere. – I would not use things like “Yeah! Let’s give-em hell!” That’s fan talk. A movie is more subtle. – the big rubbery, flopping around Halloween mask has no place in a movie. Light makeup is better. Focus on expression, emotion, writing.

Anyway I still liked the trailer. Itcheb, Tuvok, Chekov, Adm. Paris, and what looks like a clone of Majel Barrett, and a few other actors I recognize but can’t remember the names, all great stuff.

Is that Majel’s daughter?

And the captain in the red shirt looks like a couch potato – Make the guy sit upright. – Add some shoulder padding to give some square-ishness. – Give the shirt some style, add some crinkles.

Another trick (I think) is to render the trailers and movie itself in traditional 24fps (frames per second)

Adding imperfection (like 24FPS, and beaten down audio) often gives a sense of realism. When the sound is too clear, like someone is standing beside you, and when the shots are too close up and clear, it feels like a home movie.

Looks like a sy fy channel original movie. So wrong on so many levels…I want to give it a fair shake, but it won’t be easy!

Another thing… Like when the woman says to Tuvok: “Tell me….” her voice runs out of gas. 2

If I was the director I would make her redo the scene.

Something like “If you value your life… you WILL TELL ME!!!!!” (finishes in a crecendo — not some anticlimatic tire flattening “tell me…” cough cough… And in a moment like that you throw in some flashes, beads of sweats, intense facial expressions, breathing.. something.

The special effects by the way are pretty spectacular, they are Hollywood grade. The 2 torpedoes hitting the sovereign style ship got the excitement going.

1. BatlethInTheGroin – April 7, 2015

There is always a place in any universe for the person or persons can pick up a phone and film whatever interpretation of a franchise or idea they choose and express what they want to say and how they want to say it with all the freedoms that all people alive have.

To be critical of fan made work really does expose a lack of understanding or appreciation of how driven a person has to be to bring an idea to the screen. And like Ed Wood they will be remembered fondly and its their love for what they made that will always be remembered weather it be “Glen or Glenda” or “Renagades”.

No one can ever take away all the joy and happiness that your created when you made your film and you will have that happiness for the rest of your life while “BatlethInTheGroin” is going to be spending the rest of his life explaining to people how he stabbed himself in his own genitals with a plastic fan made batleth I wonder if he looked like that fat light saber guy from a few years ago when he did it.

That’s a fan film I really want to see can you upload that for us batleth?

Looks great keep up the good work

@ Paul from Montreal

Glad you are back!

I’ll give them props for having a lot of heart! Good for them!

Those have been following Star Trek Renegades, good for you. To those who have not been following, you should know that this Star Trek is indeed darker and is meant to be. Due to a threat to the Federation, bureaucracy, and the Prime Directive, a “suicide squad” of sorts is hired to do a “Mission: Impossible” type job that the Federation does not know exists. Icheb (not Manu Intiraymi) is “wooden” because he has been “used/developed” by Section 31 as a weapon. BTW, Manu’s role on Voyager was excellent as a lot of real fans will attest – and it’s obvious certain people have not seen his others roles from “One Tree Hill” onward. Fans asked for a trailer and they got several – as much as possible during pre (and post) production. It is a fan film so if you were expecting a 30 million motion picture, you’ve come to the wrong place. If there is any question as to what I’ve said, then simply go to all the cast’s interviews throughout the past year. As a matter of note, the “Icheb” role was going to be darker than as now written/portrayed.

It has to be better than Of Gods and Men!

Judging from the trailer, this looks… convoluted… cramped… But I’m definitely gonna give it a shot anyway.

This production looked terrible about a year ago and was dragging it’s heels quite badly. It’s great to see it’s looking better, but the acting still needs to go a little further. It has the potential to not only be the best fan made feature, but as good as professional one. Good luck and LLAP!

I thoroughly applaud the effort of all involved but this doesn’t look like Star Trek to me. More like a horror movie with bad acting. The effects are very well realised but as the Star Wars prequels showed, effects alone cannot carry a movie.

Production values and cleavage look pretty good. Everything else, not so much. Also, that Starfleet ship looks really awkward. :/

I Skipped of Gods and Men, Renegades looks ok for a fan film, still Axanar is the best all around Fan Flick. Its good to see Koening and Picardo, love these Actors!

I find it interesting, that even those fan films, which lack a huge budget, don´t use the opportunity to concentrate on a good story but instead on action, just like the big budget films. Compared to them, this film does not stand a chance, of course. But it would have had a chance, if they were just thinking of a good story, with less action…very unfortunate!

Comparing this one to a blockbuster might not be very fair. They had about 0.2 percent (that is 1/500) of a budget of these kind of shows – it is probably less then their catering budget.

Of course, that does not need to result in a poor script or dialogue. But judging that on a trailer?

Does it “feel” Star Trek? I don´t know, to a certain degree. I think the producers said it would be a different kind, darker and not that optimistic. Which seems to be exactly what they have achieved.

The alien mask sure is less then convincing, but I wouldn´t dare to imagine how complicated it must be to achieve something like that.

I´m more concerned how all these actors and cameos will fit into one story – I hope they can achieve that.

Overall, the teaser looks several times better then “Of gods and men”, but I would reserve final judgement when the film opens – at least it has a lot of potential.

@22: Remember “Fire everything”?…..

Interestingly some of the comments are purely anger, as nothing but Shatner&friends should survive. However other are very supportive, on the spirit of ST. Must I remember that the acting on all ST series was sometimes very clumsy and cheesy, and yet we all love it? Well, about the trailer and production: they seem to be working just fine. FX are great, and I find some of the acting good or average. The only thing that sometimes apears low bodget is the scenery, that could have been made in CG (and perhaps make things harder for FX team). I just think we should all be supportive to such hard work and dedication to our beloved franchise.

Why dose tuvok look like a bar tender, why didn’t they use Starfleet uniforms from canon, There is a few rusty effects but other than that this looks really good.

So now humans can live past 150 and Chekhov is still kicking?

More ridiculous CG shots of ships lobbing photon cannon balls at each other over vast distances of a hundred meters as if they were WW2 naval battleships and not superheats space vessels?

Yeah, no. Rubbish.

Wow, a bunch of ungrateful whiners in here…

This took lots of work!! It features some of our favorite actors!! It’s Star Trek!! Give it a chance!!

Always some fight or flight bs. I’ll pass thanks.

Still not one word on New Voyage’s MIND SIFTER on this website.

Waiting for Axanar.

First of all, it’s incredibly difficult to film these shows with minimal funding. Unexpected delays, set construction issues can derail a film in about a day. So, kudos to them for getting this far. Second of all, this film IS NOT A PILOT for CBS, it never was and never will be. It’s a fan film, period.

@40. Do you remember that Admiral Leonard McCoy was onboard the USS Enterprise D in Encounter at Farpoint? Chekov was the youngest member of Kirk’s bridge crew, so what exactly is the problem with him still being around?

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WATCH: ‘Star Trek: Renegades’ Now Available For Free

“Star Trek: Renegades,” directed by Tim Russ and starring Walter Koenig, Adrienne Wilkinson, Sean Young, Manu Intiraymi, Gary Graham, Robert Picardo, Corin Nemec, Bruce Young, Tim Russ, Chasty Ballesteros, and Edward Furlong, is now available to view in its entirety for FREE online. The feature-length film, which was successfully crowd-funded in 2013, has been made available to fans via YouTube.

Clocking in at just under an hour-and-a-half, the feature is now being used as a pilot for a fan-supported online series.

Scroll down to watch the entire film embedded below.

When a seemingly unstoppable new enemy threatens the very existence of the Earth, Admiral Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig) is forced to work outside the boundaries of Starfleet’s rules to combat this deadly new foe. When planet after planet winks out of existence, yet Starfleet refuses to act, Chekov turns to Commander Tuvok (Tim Russ, who also directs), the new head of Starfleet’s covert operations division, Section 31. Together, they assemble a new elite strike-force, consisting of rogues, outcasts and criminals, led by the fearless yet haunted Lexxa Singh (Adrienne Wilkinson). The Renegades’ mission is simple: take on an army and stop their leader, Borrada (Bruce Young), from destroying the Earth. Outnumbered and outgunned, the ragtag crew is in an adrenaline-pumping race against time and space. But they soon find their foes are the least of their concerns: the real trouble may be coming from within!

You can help support “Star Trek: Renegades” via StarTrekRenegades.com .

10 Comments

August 24, 2015 at 8:26 pm

AWESOME MOVIE!!!!!! When do we get the series?!!! Some of my fav Star Trek Characters + a Xena actress!!! I’m GEEKING out!!!

August 24, 2015 at 9:09 pm

Was Bloody good… Will only get better you guys did a brilliant job

James Hubbell

August 24, 2015 at 9:55 pm

it was good is. there going to be more

Dennis Wirts

August 25, 2015 at 10:33 pm

Well worth the wait! Koenig and Russ are an awesome team. Can’t wait for the new episodes.

Tonto L. Camper

August 26, 2015 at 12:52 am

This is an EXTREMELY OUTSTANDING MOVIE!!! Thank You!!! 🙂

Lynn Easton

August 26, 2015 at 10:24 pm

It was good, wasn’t best in terms of special effects or acting, but for a first & break away movie, I give a thumbs up & look forward to better episodes if it becomes a series in it’s own right!

rick oconnor

September 15, 2015 at 8:22 pm

too much music in the scenes to spacey you need music from voyager it was a little cheesy but seriously we need a new seriesto help the movies

September 15, 2015 at 8:25 pm

iam 55 yrs old and have watched star trek since the beginning i do hope there is more coming and mst of all we need to get the original writers that would all so help with the new ones

Christopher Dalton

November 22, 2015 at 10:27 pm

Star Trek Renegades – Star Trek’s own answer to both The Dirty Dozen and Blake’s Seven

If E.M. Nathanson had seen his classic anti-war novel ‘The Dirty Dozen’ converted into a classic Star Trek adventure, he probably would have been flattered. But, if he had seen his classic story, or the concept thereof, turned into something like Star Trek Renegades, he would have been bored to death by it and fallen asleep during its showing.

No doubt I did and I had to go through a second viewing. Or at the very least, picked up where I dozed off.

Thankfully, MGM did a better job in 1967.

All that aside, the plot of the Star Trek film is this.

Set a decade after the return of the Starship Voyager, some strange phenomena is erupting in certain sectors of the galaxy.

When a seemingly unstoppable new enemy threatens the very existence of the Earth, Admiral Pavel Chekov is forced to work outside the boundaries of Starfleet’s rules to combat this deadly new foe.

When planet after planet winks out of existence, Starfleet refuses to act. As a result of the current intergalactic crisis, Chekov turns to Commander Tuvok (Tim Russ, who also directs), the new head of Starfleet’s covert operations division, Section 31. Together, they assemble a new elite strike-force, consisting of rogues, outcasts and criminals, led by the fearless yet haunted Lexxa Singh (Adrienne Wilkinson). A woman who is surprisingly the daughter of the ill-fated and Khan Noonian SIngh, himself.

The Renegades’ mission is simple: take on an army and stop their leader, Borrada from destroying the Earth with his space-folding technology. Outnumbered and outgunned, the ragtag crew is in an adrenaline-pumping race against time. But they soon find their foes are the least of their concerns: the real trouble may be coming from within!

The tag-line wasn’t kidding when it said boldly going where no Star Trek has gone before.

And as our favorite Russian character(i.e. Pavel Chekov)points out in the film, ‘How far is too far?’

Judging by the end results, Sky Conway, Tim Russ, and even Alec Peters, himself went too far.

It is no wonder that CBS/Paramount rejected the idea of turning this pilot episode into a series. Assuming if you believe such a story.

Honestly, this film almost makes Conway’s first effort(i.e. Star Trek – Of Gods And Men)tolerable, despite that film’s own shortcomings.

Okay, here are my gripes about this latest fan funded endeavor.

1. Walter Koenig once stated that his appearance as a much older Pavel Chekov in the Star Trek – New Voyages/Phase II episode ‘To Serve All My Days’ would be his last appearance as the stalwart Russian officer. That it was his way of saying good bye to the character of Chekov and bringing the character a sense of closure. If that was the case, then why did he decide to return as a 142 year old version of Chekov? Was he taking a cue from the late Leonard Nimoy? Who knows?

2. Vic Mignogna. Seriously, does this man have to be in every Star Trek production or incarnation, thereof? Whoever said that Vic was The Doomsday Machine of Star Trek fan films was not joking. His performance in his P2 rip-off Star Trek Continues proves that point. His antics on the set of Star Trek-Phase II’s ‘Kitumba’ was so bad that it was one of the many factors that made james Cawley turn the role of Jim Kirk over to professional actor Brian Gross. Mignogna’s antics even caused David Gerrold’s P2 episode ‘The Protracted Man’ to be scrapped. Then his and certain other individuals involvement in the theft of the Starship Ajax production’s newly built sets caused Ajax to be set back to the point of no return, and give the Starship Farragut production’s own reputation a severe tarnishing and major ruining(i.e. a black eye). Anyone from those productions that will tell you any different is just trying to create a smokescreen and cover their tracks. The role of the ill-fated Cardassian Garis certainly fit Mignogna like a glove and the character’s death all the more refreshing. As well as the derogatory descriptions branded the character by some of the leads(i.e. blasphemor, coward, butcher, etc). I’m amazed that Michele Specht was not in this dud in some supporting role.

3. When on Earth did Khan Noonian Singh have time to have a daughter? Seriously? A daughter? Unless this happened back in 1996 before Khan and his ill-fated folowers fled Earth in the Botany Bay, the very idea of Lexxa Singh’s existence is a pretty far fetched one. An idea that stretches credibility to the very breaking point. The late Ricardo Montalban and Benedict Cumberbatch must be wondering the same thing.

4. The production design not only looked cheap, the CGI effects were not all that up to par. It is almost as if both Conway and Russ were trying to cheaply copy the CGI effects that was used in the science fiction classic Babylon 5(which also starred Walter Koenig in the recurring role of Psi-Cop Alfred Bester).

5. Finally, some of the sound effects used in this episode were borrowed from the science fiction classics Space:1999 and the original Battlestar Galactica. Something that was done quite often on Phase II and Starship Farragut. Note to those involved in Star Trek fan productions, use your own sound effects or those from Star Trek instead of recycling others from different science fiction productions. You can do better than that.

While I found the new Starfleet Uniforms a bit interesting and the idea that Starfleet’s own black ops department Section 31 has gone through a complete overhaul, plus the idea that a century old Pavel Chekov is now a great grandfather, those elements really did nothing much to save Sky Conway’s second independent Star Trek film from total boredom.

While Star Trek Renegades boasted a cast from other Star Trek productions and those from other genre related productions(i.e. the latter being Louisville, Kentucky native Sean Young who starred in the classic Blade Runner and the surrealitic flop Dune, Corrin Nemec from Solar Crisis and Stargate SG-1, Edward Furlong from Terminator 2 – Judgement Day, and Herbert Jefferson, Jr from the original Battlestar Galactica), such a cast did little to make this Star Trek production an interesting one.

The Dirty Dozen concept was already used successfully in the original Battlestar Galactica two-parter ‘The Gun On Ice Planet Zero’. The Blake’s 7 format had fit perfectly in that universe. Unless the production had some clever ways of writing such scenarios and making them unique, they don’t really fit into the Star Trek universe.

If this is going to be a fan series, it is certainly not going to be an entertaining one.

To Sky Conway and Tim Russ, better luck next time gentleman. You’re going to need it.

Star Trek: Renegades stars Walter Koenig, Adrienne Wilkinson, Sean Young, Gary Graham, Robert Picardo, Corin Nemec, Tim Russ, Edward Furlong, John Corrigan, Richard Herd, Vic Mignogna, and Herbert Jefferson, Jr.