There will be a convention on Second Life soon, Jonathan Frakes and Rod Roddenberry will be speakers at the convention so, not so lame after all especially for those of us in countries that have limited access to such things.

Sleeping that week was like crying in baseball. There’s no crying in baseball. My brain was melting, and my eyes were falling out by the end of it, but it was still a hell of a fun project.

Now, will something like this ever go up against the likes of The Incredibles, and other traditional CG films that take years to make? No, of course not. That wasn’t the point.

The point was simply to demonstrate what can be done in Second Life, to announce that CBS appreciates the massive amount of us Trekkies who reside in it (there really are a ton), and to poke a little light hearted fun at ourselves while doing it. No one’s a bigger die hard Trekkie than I am, I can assure you, and no one’s quicker to make fun of myself for being one either.

I didn’t have much to do with the script for the film, so I can’t offer much response to those of you who did or didn’t like it, except to echo what Jonboc said, which is that it’s not a pilot for a new series or anything like that. It was just two minutes of machinima, put together in one week by a small, talented group of professional metaverse content creators who love Star Trek, and who were honored to have been asked by CBS to create something for them. That’s it.

I invite all of you to come into Second Life, and check out the experience for yourselves. It’s a wonderful platform.

Kind of a YouTube meets MySpace. but just for Star Trek. Director of the Trekkies movies allowing us to use the name, so hope to be a repository for all Trek Fan-made media, and a community for all Trek fans. Multimedia message boards coming in late Feb.. in the meantime, come check us out, meet some fans.. and watch some great media!

Just felt like saying it.

Yeah the sample they showed was a bit hookey, but I found some funny things in it. Hey you can find some funny stuff throughout the Star Trek shows themselves. Some intentional and some not.;) How about some SPOCK BRAIN for instance or the goofy villians in the first couple of seasons or VOYAGER. I forget their names, but the lack of water and hair style cracked me up. Or when some characters turned into salamanders…;) Hey it is all entertainment in the end.

I personally thought this video was pretty funny – not hilarious by any means, but funny. But what caught my attention was not the way the guys acted or what they said – but what you could do and what the bridge looked like. I mean, until Star Trek Online comes out, there hasn’t really been any kind of Star Trek online game where you could do those things – I think its really neat. And the idea that a group of likeminded individuals could get together to create a kind of fan film from this thing is really cool to me too – anything to keep the dream alive.

I love Star Trek. I’m a season and a series short… err, make that two now that TAS came out… of owning every episode on DVD. That’s a lot of money. So I also take Star Trek very seriously – but I’m also able to laugh at it, and know when its bad, or when people are ribbing at it good naturedly. Its easy to tell when someone is just joking or when someone is really being hateful.