Comments on: FanMade: Review Phase II “To Serve All My Days – Night in 69″ + New P2 Guest Cast Anouncement

By: Kurt Foster

Kurt Foster — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:43:34 +0000

I’m thinking that in order to not piss of CBS / Paramount, Cawley and company have chosen NOT to make the episodes downloadable. I’m sure that will change as time goes by.

Kurt.

By: mpolo

mpolo — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 13:36:36 +0000

There are some complaints about not being able to download the videos. You can in fact download them — for instance “To Serve All My Days – Night in 69″ is http://content2.dragonfly.com/stp2/STP2_TSAMD1969_725.flv .

To play it you will need some sort of Flash movie player. Mplayer on Linux does the trick, for instance.

By: Larry Talbot

Larry Talbot — Thu, 15 May 2008 21:14:08 +0000

83. Star Trek Phase II has amazing consistency with Nurse Chapel’s hair. Most people didn’t notice that in the very last episode of the original series (”Turnabout Intruder”), Majel Barrett had brunette hair instead of blond hair. So, since Phase II picks up some time after that, they simply continue with Nurse Chapel’s brunette hair.

See Nurse Chapel’s brunette hair here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10901121@N06/2494957437/

By: eagle219406

eagle219406 — Sat, 10 May 2008 01:41:39 +0000

I don’t know if people are still reading this, but I have just realized today that TV episodes that turn out to be all a dream is nothing new. I have seen it many times. Usually it happens sometime in the middle or near the beginning when somebody either faints, gets knocked out or goes to bed. It appears they wake up right away and go on with thier lives in the episode plot, but near the end, you find they have been asleep a lot longer than you thought and dreamed that whole episode. I happens a lot.

By: tleisha

tleisha — Sat, 10 May 2008 01:29:53 +0000

Wasn’t there supposed to be a sort of explanation for Chekov’s death in World Enough and Time? I just watched that and i didnt see any kind of explanation. I know its not canon and as such it doesnt really matter what they do, with regards to tos continuity… Except, for me, and others it kind of does, the events of To Serve All My Days make it harder to believe.
Very confusing.
While i can appreciate it for the story, and it most certainly was very good work, is it really gonna roll with hardcore trekkies?
It doesnt sit well with me.
I NEED a realistic explanation.
Did i miss something in World Enough and Time?

By: MiniKirk

MiniKirk — Thu, 08 May 2008 02:14:19 +0000

I have to say, as much as the rest of my friends bitch and moan about it, Star Trek: Phase II has been the best fan-made anything that I’ve ever seen. They’ve got a certain je ne sais pas (fancy French speak for “I don’t know what”) that sets them apart from all the fan-fiction dimwits. The scripts really add to the show, and the characters, and the actors, while obviously not always “A-List”, are at least damned good. And the budget! They make very little go very far, and you’d never know! I’m waiting for the next episode (next month, right?) with baited breath. Gotta have something to keep me amused until the movie comes out!

By: Falvoant

Falvoant — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:50:09 +0000

Mark
when watching WEAT do you experience the same problems?
You may need to increase your paging space in your computer so you are caching well ahead of your pointer…
Its a common issue and will make all your online video viewing better
you need at least 2.4 gig of cache space…
adjustable in windows control panal…..settings under performance..
with XP or Vista

I have no problem watching it..

Tony
STP2
Production Crew member

By: Mark Anton

Mark Anton — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:06:42 +0000

I wish James Cawley would tell us when (not if) TSAMD: A Night in 1969 is going to be made available for download. I’m tired of having to watch the beginning over and over, hoping that the video won’t freeze this time. All the others are available via bit torrent. Why not this one? It is such a better way to watch and enjoy them.

By: OM

OM — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:06:24 +0000

…On a side note, did anyone ever get a list of the commercials and interstitials that James added for that premier? I’m curious as to what he used, and whether or not he was successful in actually getting copies of commercials that would have aired in the fall of 1969.

By: OM

OM — Wed, 07 May 2008 22:02:17 +0000

New Horizon sez: :”Not sure if you are aware of this OM, but Doug Drexler IS Max Rem. lol So you just complimented him with one hand, and slapped him with the other.

Regardless of his status, the visual style and approach he used in the early NV episodes, and in the asteroid field scene, were really cartoonish. Treat the ships as if they were real ships…not the road runner.”

…IN order:

1) Mea Culprit on this one. I honestly was not aware that Max and Doug were one and the same. However, I still stand by my observation that the “Doomsday Rattlesnake” needs to be redone to look more like the one as seen on TOS. Regardless of whether it was Doug or Joe Schmoe and his pirated copy of 3DS that he just figured out how to get it to save a single frame with a background, that version of the planet killer wasn’t up to snuff with the rest of the episode. Compared to that, one can easily ignore the “flat look” of the matting between Pike’s bridge and the bridge dome in that opening homage to “The Cage”.

2) You know, I’m mixed on the whole debate over whether Max/Doug’s earler efforts were as “cartoony” as about half the fans have claimied. The other half have pointed out that all the zooming and swooping and diving and climbing and otherwise flying starships as if they were jet fighters, while not having an exact precedent, does have some canonical clearance from Spock’s observation of Khan’s lack of experience in starship command – i.e., the comment about how he’s not taking advantage of the fact that space combat isn’t as limited to the X-Y plane as conventional atmospheric combat tends to be.