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jdavidb [soylentnews.org] writes:

Fan series Star Trek Continues [startrekcontinues.com] premiers their fifth episode today at Salt Lake Comic Con. Contributors to their Kickstarter just received a private link where they can view the episode; the episode premiers to the general public tomorrow, September 26.

Star Trek Continues has produced four prior episodes and three shorts, at impressive enough quality that fans have contributed over $300,000 in two kickstarter campaigns. They money has gone to fund additional episodes that are coming out this year as well as the construction of a set for Engineering and a planet set. Already the set includes scrupulously detailed replicas of the original Desilu sets where Star Trek was filmed in the sixties. There are several online featurettes about the construction including a tour [wired.com] and a specific look at constructing the captain's chair [wired.com].

Several Trek alumni have been involved in producing the series. Michael Dorn [wikipedia.org] and Marina Sirtis [wikipedia.org] have portrayed computer voices, Michael Forest [wikipedia.org] has reprised the role of Apollo that he portrayed in original series episode "Who Mourns For Adonis? [wikipedia.org]", and Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott is portrayed by Chris Doohan [wikipedia.org], son of James Doohan [wikipedia.org], who originated the role. The fourth episode was dedicated to the memory of Leonard Nimoy.

Not a Trek alum, but the right kind of nerds (like my kids) will recognize Grant Imahara [wikipedia.org] from MythBusters, portraying Mr. Sulu.

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