New Trailer For Roddenberry’s ‘Trek Nation’ Doc Online September 22, 2008
by Anthony Pascale , Filed under: Fandom, Trek Franchise , trackback
Gene Roddenberry’s son Rod Roddneberry has been working on a documentary about his father and Trek fandom for a few years. Over the summer TrekMovie reported that Roddenberry had hired a new editor (Emmy winner Allan Holzman) who was finally putting it all together and had created a new trailer, which is now online.
As noted in our Comic Con report, this new trailer is much better than the first and it is clear that Holzman is having a positive impact on the project. You can watch a high resolution version of the trailer by clicking the image below.
[CLICK TO WATCH TRAILER...opens new window]
The Roddenberry team tell TrekMovie that there is still a way to go before the documentary is finished, but it should be releases sometime in the latter half of 2009. They are still hoping for a theatrical release before it comes out on DVD. More info at Roddenberry.com
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looks amazing. i think this is the perfect time for Star Trek to re-emergence into the mainstream consciousness again (not like it ever really left, but with new movie, new documentary on Gene, it’s definitely on the come back). Good job, Roddenberry Jr.
I wonder how many people will see “New Trailer” and go berserk before reading the rest of the title. I know I did.
amazing
Fantastic. I can’t wait to see this.
Looks nice. Not anything new, but like a lot of us big Trek fans we’ve heard the story many times. Will see this when it’s done.
It looks like this is going to be an amazing and powerful documentary that will finally give Trek its due as a global cultural and philosophical influence. Thank you Mr. Roddenberry and friends for doing this for us all. I can’t wait to see it in its entirety.
Not to mention an inspiration and a healing influence for countless souls.
The best line is where Roddenberry says that Trek fans are hungry and waiting for the 23rd century and it’s higher ideals of life. We all are desirous and capable of living up to these standards. As Gene said, “much more so than our petty governments and visionless leaders.”
I’ll buy this one.
The first documentary I’ve actually anticipated.
this is my 3rd attempt to write a comment. its a fraction of the size of the 2 previous. words have eluded me. amazing. really reawakened my profound feelings and thoughts about the trek phenomenon.
Very Impressive, I will see this for sure.
I think that if I hear the story about Nichelle Nichols meeting MLK one more time I’ll crap a Dinky die cast Enterprise!!!!
Darth “Tee Shirts and BullS^!t” Ballz
It looks like it was made with great respect to his father as well.
Great trailer. I still have the ‘Inside Star Trek’ record, but nothing to play it on anymore….. But managed to get hold of the TMP/Inside Star Trek double CD a few years ago.
IST is a great listen and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to get on the inside of what went on.
That thing gave me goose bumps. Very well made and quite succinct. Definitelz will be on the lookout for the movie.
Why TrekNATION though? This is a clearly an international phenomenon. I am writing this sitting in Germany, for example.
But that’s just nitpicking… ;)
Very nice!
#3 Haha, I did!!
Wow. Just, wow!
Definitely going to get this, it looks amazing.
Wow, what a trailer! I can’t wait to see this!
This has been in development for a LONG time, too. I don’t know much about what’s been going on behind the scenes, but I wonder what is delaying it so much.
Fascinating!
It will be interesting to see what new perspectives Rod can bring to a story many have heard before.
…and the adventure continues….
wow…very nice
Wow! That is extremely well done! Can’t wait to see the whole project.
Looking forward to this!
Interesting to hear George Lucas and Stan Lee’s reaction to Star Trek.
yeahhh Woooooow great trailer.
TrekNation has been in production so long, that I wonder if we’ll ever see it.
Looks great – something else to look forward to in ‘09!
Since long I`m waiting for this!
Wow, just to hear Lucas and Stan Lee talk about Trek is enough to make you have chills! I think this will certainly be worth seeing, and perhaps one of the first respectable documentaries about the true effect and message of Trek. Don’t get me wrong, the Trekkies movies were fun, but I think they missed the seriousness of TOS. Hopefully this one will finally help answer the questions that most of us fans have had to try and explain for years…
I can’t wait.
What a great trailer! I really look forward to that. Good work man.
31.
yeah, The trekkies movies mostly served as a freakshow, I got a few laughs, but they are hardly informative.
This looks great though, I loved all the footage…….A ton of which I’ve never seen before.
Hmmm, that trailer seems to tell us fans what we have known for ages.
I don’t see it getting a cinema release (hope it does).
It maybe good as a televsion special for when the Movie comes out
YEEEEAAAAAHH! Finallyy! The TRAILER for…. oh. Nuts.
Just kidding, man this looks good. It’s definitely miles away from the tone of Trekkies.
“Star Wars standing on the shoulders of Star trek.” George Lucas, paraphrased.
I guess it wouldn’t in the best spirit of ST to spam SW forums with a link to this video? No, no it wouldn’t…
Be right back…
Really nice look into the past. People need to look this over to appreciate the future ahead of us, I hope. JJ, don’t let us down…this trailer reminds me about why I really like Trek, especially the original recipe!!!
FINALLY.
Respect.
THANK YOU ROD!!
In Rod we trust
I’ve always wanted to see a definitive, honest, and creatively interesting documentary on TREK and the trailer at least hints that this might be it. I only hope it doesn’t cling too strongly to the status quo and the party line — the media, fans, and “poplular culture:” tend to prefer nice, clean understandable narratives and enthusiastically engrave cloudy, complicated half-truths (and even outright lies) into stone, turning myths into Myth. There have been a lot of people involved with TREK over the years and who have determined what it is. Gene Roddenberry was a decent writer and producer with at least a hint of a visionary spirit but he was also a fascinatingly flawed human being (as are we all) and I hope the documentary places the creation and legacy of TREK into that context. In fact, it makes the whole enterprise more interesting.
The Documentary that should have been made FIRST!
Im sorry, Trekkies was funny, but it just hinged on the Stereotype of Star Trek, not the real reason it was created!
Heres to ST, All Five series and all ten movies!
Looks intriguing, to say the least. Can’t wait to see the whole thing.
I was there at Gene’s star ceremony in Hollywood in 1985 and, by a miracle, at the after-party on the Paramount lot. He was glowing that day; like a proud father on his child’s wedding day. It was exciting to see that footage again!
#16
The term Trek “Nation” doesn’t necessarily refer to one country but rather to one group of people that share a common like or belief that joins them together as one “nation”. Sort of how in American sports we refer to fans of the Boston Red Sox as “Red Sox nation” or the Oakland Raiders fans as “Raider nation”.
Nothing really U.S.centric should be taken from the terminology.
Amazing, and what a perfect time for the documentary! I had no idea that Nichelle Nichols had met Dr. King, much less that he was a fan, and how correct he was in the role that Star Trek’s example would be in times to come. I wonder if he could have known how right he was?
I’m glad he talked Nichelle into staying on the show. I just can’t imagine Star Trek without her.
Looking forward to this…
[...] New Trailer For Roddenberry’s ‘Trek Nation’ Doc Online: Gene Roddenberry’s son Rod Roddneberry has been working on a documentary about his father and Trek fandom for a few years. Over the summer TrekMovie reported that Roddenberry had hired a new editor (Emmy winner Allan Holzman) who was finally putting it all together and had created a new trailer, which is now online. [...]
For those who didn’t know, Rodenberry actually met Lucas in 1987. See link below for a photo.
http://starwars.yahoo.com/photos/george-lucas-meets-gene-roddenberry?ue_dpoa=021f5ec0121cc213527460be06c1f39e&ue_dpoat=videos&ue_dpat=photos&ue_dpam=soft&ue_dpln=Beneath+the+Dome%3A+Pt.+1
To Rod and the filmmaker’s:
Gene’s voice-over dedication to “Homer, my ex-convict friend” likely refers to a real person in Gene’s life who introduced him to reading John Carter of Mars, not the ancient author of The Odyssey, of whom very little is known and what is surmised is apocryphal I suggest The Odyssey lobby card be removed from the montage.
I’ll always remember those two guys from “Trekkies” who said where from the starship “Battle Queen”, ROFLMAO
aahhhh, they were totally straight
42, I second your comment.
The footage of the documentary looks stunning but I hope it will also contain a critical view on Star Trek and maybe even Gene Roddenberry. Many things in this franchise and this story are great and inspiring and even shaked up the world as we know it a bit, yet it has very certainly it’s flaws and I’d love for that to be incorporated into the film as well.
Time will tell.
um, Anthony, who is Rod Roddneberry?
The rather long piece runs more like a mini-doc. I hope there are some international footage and not just have it focus on fans in the US.
I’m looking forward to more movie coverage, esp TMP. Supposedly, Gene Roddenberry had an infamous blooper reel made of all the gaffes from the first movie that director Wise despised since it would damage his reputation. Some snippets of that and more behind-the-scenes photos and short films would be lots of fun.
If the new Trek film is a major hit, this doc should do well to be released on its heels…say late summer, early fall…fall to coincide with the DVD release.
Trailer looks great… Can’t wait!
Fantastic! Now, if Rod could get this released around next May to help with the overall buzz, that would be great. If not in the Theater, then at least on the SciFi network. I grew up in the south in a religious household and have had to work hard to shed some of the doctrine I learned and I credit Trek with allowing me to develop into a thinking, questioning individual…Futurama’s Church of Trek might not be to far off the mark…lol….Thanks Gene for the course you have helped me set for my life….Thanks Rod for bringing this to us….
Let us never forget my two favorite phrases uttered by James T. Kirk….
“All I ask is a tall ship and a star to stear her by” and “2nd star to the right and straight on till morning”
I think incorporating that into our universe says it all…..
I can’t waite for this to come out. This new trailer makes me want to see it even more!
Super! I saw a very early trailer for this over three or four years ago and even though I wish I were in it… :-) I’m finally glad to see it’s getting closer to an actual release.
I hope the final documentary is more professional – with a good cutter. The Trailer is very unprofessional.
Yes, I look forward to it.
And in a totally unrelated genre – if Maynard Ferguson’s daughter Kim gets her docu-movie about her father going it’ll be a good year for documentaries. Been waiting for it for a while now. Any jazz fans know anything about that one?