5-31-08 Steam Trek: The Moving Picture
Posted by gavortnik on May 31, 2008
Oh yeah, Shanoah? Well I’m going to take my time machine into the future, too… into the fantastic, the mind-boggling future world of nineteen hundred and eighty! eighty! eighty! eighty!
Depicting Events in the Barbaric Reaches of the Galactic Firmament of an Astonishing and Morally Uplifting Nature.
Courtesy of DSisterson.
Okay, so this isn’t exactly steampunk. It’s more what Star Trek would’ve looked like if Gene Roddenberry had made his pitch to Thomas Edison instead of Desilu. You keep expecting the doughty Enterprise (which is designated NCC-1, by the way) to smush into the face of the Man in the Moon.
And no, I don’t know what the hell is up with the sock puppet.
But I like it, and you gotta love how they combined the original series episode The Devil in the Dark with the worst cliches of the damsel-in-distress genre.
Accoring to Dennis Sisterson’s site at http://www.sisterson.co.uk/, this was actually shot in 1994 and re-edited last year (production notes at http://steamtrek.blogspot.com/). Apparently, he used to belong to an amateur film group; one of the members, Ashley Levy, had the idea of “remaking Star Trek as it might have been done by Georges Méliès“, who was the guy who made A Trip to the Moon. It was shot in one bank holiday weekend.
Sisterson’s site has a slightly longer version of the movie, where we’re introduced to the crew, including Mr. Spex, “The Mysterious Martian Science Officer”, the hapless Lt. Penelope, the barbaric Klingons Thorax and Kolon and, of course, Ensign Expendable (this is Star Trek, after all).
