This vid was incredible! I completely enjoyed the ‘brut art’ take on the Soviet-era propaganda art! It’s one of the best fan-made Trek shorts I’ve seen in a long time. I agree with all the others who commented “give this guy a job”!

Funny how misinterpreted the 60s have become as time passes by. Many of the comments about TOS and it’s ‘message’ indicate this. Did you know that Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise around the Sun?

This is the one area that has been overlooked by Par for at least a decade. If Par licenses Trek for animation, give it to one of the Japanese major studios and let them do a ‘take’ on it. One of the ongoing problems with Trek is that it’s too ~American~ at times, which loses the overseas audience. Trek has that universal appeal that comes with all monomythic epics, and this could easily be translated cross-culturally. How about a Japanese crew on a TOS/TNG/ENT era ship? Or perhaps a new timeframe (frankly, the franchise needs a new timeframe as much as it needed a ‘alternate’ timeframe). We’ve spent over 20 yrs in TNG timeframe and 40 yrs in TOS timeframe…perhaps it’s time to move forward another century.

The big mistake would be to create something animated that simply rehashes the 09 film.

I can’t believe how much short shrift Doohan gets in those eloborate “discussions.”

I just can’t agree when you say “There’s been a lot of talk about the translation not being just right, but Skip did it all alone and in secret and it was still accurately translatable back to English. That’s a hell of a successful job.”.

I would not agree that it is “accurately translatable”; the subtitles have only a glancing likeness to what I can make out of the Klingon words. I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feeling; Skip did an adequate job for someone working all alone and in secret, but it’s a successful job only if you consider the sentence “You dood gooding welly of movie thinging.” to be a successful compliment in English.

If you ever make another of these, I strongly urge you to not go it alone and in secret. There are plenty of skilled Klingon users who would be happy to help (and who can keep a secret). Klingon has a published grammar with real rules; if you’re not going to follow them, why bother at all?

http://www.farragut-animated.com/

Was it racism? Today I see that episode in a new and more relevant way. That list of social ills 68 thinks Star Trek ought to address is curiously missing a problem more dangerous than any of those he mentioned: political extremism.

That episode can easily describe political fanatics in our time who see the world in stark black and white terms, and then who hate or WISH they could kill each other because where the other is black YOU are white, and where you are white the OTHER is black. That is actually a more fitting current allegory for what we see happening politically right now than racism, because it reflects the truth: Political fanatics of different view points HATE each other precisely because their viewpoints are opposite on the same issues—which is an allegorically close match for being of opposite colors on the same side of your body.