Star Trek: Phase II (fan series)

Star Trek: Phase II
James Cawley in Star Trek: New Voyages
Format	Science fiction / Fan Series
Created by	James Cawley and Jack Marshall
Developed by	James Cawley Jack Marshall
Starring	James Cawley Jeff Quinn John Kelley
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	7 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time	approximately 50 min. per episode
Broadcast
Original run	January 16, 2004 – Present
External links
Website

Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II (formerly known as Star Trek: New Voyages) is a fan-created science fiction series set in the Star Trek universe. The series was created by James Cawley and Jack Marshall in April 2003.^[1] The series, released exclusively via the Internet, is designed as a continuation of the original Star Trek (aka ST:TOS or just TOS), beginning in the fourth year of the starship Enterprise's "five-year mission." The first episode of the series was released in January 2004, with new episodes being released at a rate of about one per year, though producers have expressed their desire to accelerate production.

CBS (and previously Paramount Pictures), which owns the legal rights to the Star Trek franchise, allows the distribution of fan-created material as long as no attempt is made to profit from it without official authorization,^[2] and Phase II enjoys the same tolerance.

Star Trek New Voyages: Phase II stars James Cawley as Captain Kirk, Brandon Stacy as Mr. Spock, and John Kelley as Dr. McCoy. Eugene Roddenberry Jr., the son of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, serves as consulting producer. Some of the original actors have returned to reprise their roles, including George Takei as Sulu and Walter Koenig as Chekov. The episodes are filmed on new sets located in Port Henry, NY, at a long-shuttered car dealership.^[3]

The Phase II episode "World Enough and Time" was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form in 2008, alongside episodes of Doctor Who, Torchwood and Battlestar Galactica, but it lost out to the Doctor Who episode "Blink."^[4]

Episodes

Main article: List of Star Trek: New Voyages episodes

To date, seven episodes have been released: "Come What May" (the pilot episode); "In Harm's Way"; "To Serve All My Days"; "World Enough and Time"; "Blood and Fire," a two-part episode written by original series scribe David Gerrold; and "Enemy: Starfleet." Additionally, three more episodes have been shot and are in the various stages of post-production while more episodes are in pre-production.^[5]

Cast and crew

Regular characters

The actors on Phase II are mostly unknowns who were brought to the project because of their love of Star Trek.

Character	Actor	Rank	Position
James T. Kirk	James Cawley	Captain	Captain and commanding officer of the starship Enterprise.
Spock	Jeffery Quinn (0-3), Ben Tolpin (4-5), Brandon Stacy (6-8)	Commander	A human/Vulcan hybrid. Science and First Officer. One of Captain Kirk's closest friends.
Dr.Leonard McCoy	John M. Kelley	Lt. Commander	Chief Medical Officer and one of the captain's closest friends.
Montgomery Scott	Jack Marshall (0), Charles Root (1-8),	Commander	Chief Engineer and third-in-command. Best known as "Scotty."
Nyota Uhura	Julienne Irons (0-3), Kim Stinger (4-8)	Lieutenant	Communications officer and sole female commissioned officer in the regular cast.
Hikaru Sulu	John Lim (2-5), J.T. Tepnapa (6)	Lt. Commander	Helmsman. First appeared in the vignette "Center Seat" after being away for Starfleet command training.
Pavel Chekov	Jasen Tucker (0), Andy Bray (2-5), Jonathan Zungre (6-8)	Lieutenant	Navigator and Weapons Officer. Currently also holds position as Chief of Security.
Vincent DeSalle	Ron Boyd	Lieutenant	Relief helmsman. (Assistant Chief Engineer, and played by Michael Barrier, in TOS episodes: "The Squire Of Gothos"; "This Side of Paradise"; and "Catspaw.")
Peter Kirk	Bobby Quinn Rice	Ensign	Nephew of Capt. James T. Kirk. "Blood and Fire 1 & 2"; "The Child"; "Kitumba"; "Enemy: Starfleet!"

Secondary characters

Character	Actor	Episodes
Janice Rand	Meghan King Johnson	"Come What May"; "In Harm's Way;" "Blood and Fire 1 & 2"; "The Child"; "Enemy: Starfleet!"
Nurse Chapel	Shannon Quinlan/Giles	"In Harm's Way"; "To Serve All My Days"
Captain Kargh	John Carrigan	"In Harm's Way"; "To Serve All My Days"; "Blood and Fire 1 & 2"; "Kitumba"
Transporter Chief Kyle	Jay Storey	"Come What May"; "In Harm's Way"; "To Serve All My Days"; "Blood and Fire 1 & 2"; "The Child"; "Enemy: Starfleet!"
Lt. Sentell	Jeff Mailhotte	"In Harm's Way"; "To Serve All My Days"; "Blood and Fire 1 & 2"; "The Child"; "Kitumba"; "Enemy: Starfleet!"
Xon	Patrick Bell	"Blood and Fire 1 & 2"; "The Child"; "Kitumba"; "Enemy: Starfleet!"
Lt. Cmdr. Prescott	Paul R. Sieber	"Kitumba"

Crew

Original cast left-to-right: Bray, Irons, Quinn, Cawley, Kelley, Root, & Lim.

Star Trek: New Voyages episode Pilot, 1 and 2 were produced by James Cawley, Jack Marshall (series director), Pearl Marshall (Jack's wife), James Lowe, Jeff Quinn, John Muenchrath and Max Rem.

The pilot and the first two episodes were directed by Jack Marshall. However, it was announced on December 29, 2005 that Marshall would leave the series.

Trek alumni support

Several past members of the Star Trek cast and crew have expressed support for the project, and even contributed to it.

Guest actors

Actor	Character	Episode(s)	Notes/STAR TREK connection(s)
Walter Koenig	Pavel Chekov	"To Serve All My Days"	Koenig played Chekov in the Original Series and subsequent films.
George Takei	Hikaru Sulu	"World Enough and Time"	Takei played Sulu in the Original Series and subsequent films.
Grace Lee Whitney	Janice Rand	"World Enough and Time"	Whitney reprises her TOS role of Janice Rand in the third episode, as an officer on Captain Sulu's ship, the USS Excelsior. (This connects to her appearances as an Excelsior crewmember in the movie Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country and the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Flashback.")
Denise Crosby	Dr. Jenna Yar	"Blood and Fire"	Played the characters of Lieutenant Tasha Yar and Sela in Star Trek: The Next Generation. Also hosted/co-produced the films Trekkies and Trekkies 2. (Her character here has been referred to in promotional material for this episode as Tasha Yar's grandmother, and even goes so far as to refer to herself as Jenna Natasha Yar.)
Mary Linda Rapelye	Ambassador Rayna Morgan	"To Serve All My Days"	Rapelye appeared as "space hippie" and former Chekov love interest Irina Galliulin in TOS episode "The Way to Eden."
BarBara Luna	Veronica/Alersa	"In Harm's Way"; "Enemy: Starfleet!"	BarBara Luna appeared as "Captain's Woman" LT Marlena Moreau in TOS episode "Mirror, Mirror."
William Windom	Commodore Matt Decker	"In Harm's Way"	William Windom reprises his role of Commodore Decker from nearly 40 years ago in TOS episode "The Doomsday Machine."
Malachi Throne	Korogh (Kargh's father) and Commodore José Mendez (voice)	"In Harm's Way"	Throne played Commodore José Mendez in TOS episode "The Menagerie" and Romulan Senator Pardek in the TNG episode "Unification."
Eddie Paskey	Admiral Leslie	"Come What May"	Eddie Paskey plays the father of Lt. Leslie, an uncredited but frequent character he portrayed in the original series.[6]
John Winston	Captain Matthew Jefferies	"Come What May"	John Winston played the transporter chief Lieutenant Kyle in the original series.[7] His character's name here pays homage to the real Matt Jeffries, who designed the original starship Enterprise.
Larry Nemecek	Cal Strickland/Esterion	"Come What May"; "To Serve All My Days"	Larry Nemecek is an author. His most notable Trek-related work is the Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion. He was the editor of Star Trek Communicator, and is now a contributor to Star Trek Magazine.
Pony R. Horton	K'Sia	Kitumba	A new addition to the cast, Pony has previously created visual effects for Star Trek New Voyages, as well as for other films and TV productions. Cawley cast him for this upcoming episode after J.G. Hertzler was unable to join the cast. Though having worked mostly behind the camera, Pony was trained in stage and screen acting by Robert Baker, Walter Koenig, and Victor Izay.[8]

Other support

The first episode, "In Harm's Way," features Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry, Jr., the son of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, as a consulting producer. Sam Witwer ("Crashdown" from Battlestar Galactica, Doomsday in Smallville and Galen Marek from Star Wars: The Force Unleashed) is the voice of the Guardian of Forever (credited as "Simon Judas Raye").^[9]

For the second episode, "To Serve All My Days," written by original series writer D.C. Fontana, original cast member Walter Koenig reprises his role as Pavel Chekov. Mary-Linda Rapelye (Irina Galliulin in the original series episode "The Way to Eden") appears as an ambassador.

The third episode, "World Enough and Time," was co-authored by Marc Scott Zicree and Michael Reaves. Zicree, who also directed the episode, contributed the stories for the "First Contact" episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation and "Far Beyond the Stars" for Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Reaves, who co-wrote (with Diane Duane) the "Where No One Has Gone Before" episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, originally pitched a story to the unproduced Star Trek: Phase II series in which Sulu ages by thirty years, and that story served as the basis for this New Voyages episode. Majel Barrett Roddenberry provided the computer voice in this episode.

David Gerrold (author of TOS episode "The Trouble With Tribbles") has signed on to pen two episodes. One, originally entitled "Blood and Fire," was originally pitched for Star Trek: The Next Generation, but was rejected. Gerrold later claimed the story was rejected because it dealt with homosexuality and AIDS^{[citation needed]}. It was later re-worked as the third book in his Star Wolf series of novels.^{[citation needed]} Denise Crosby guest starred as Natasha Yar's grandmother, Dr. Jenna Yar, in David Gerrold's "Blood and Fire." In addition, Bill Blair guest starred as Commander Blodgett, and The Amazing Race host Phil Keoghan made a cameo appearance as Admiral Keoghan.

Looking to the future of Star Trek: Phase II, there are five episodes in various stages of production. "Blood and Fire, Part 2" was released November 20, 2009 with temporary audio tracks for Act 3 onwards. It has since been re-released with permanent audio & effects. "Enemy: Starfleet," written by Patty Wright and Dave Galanter, was released online in mid-2011, featuring effects done by the DAVE School. "The Child," written by Jon Povill and Jaron Summers, and directed by Jon Povill, has wrapped principal photography. Post-production on that episode is in process. "Kitumba" finished principal photography on June 15, 2009 and is now in post-production. The script was adapted from an early story draft for two episodes of the planned Paramount Phase II series in the 1977. "The Protracted Man"--now retitled "Origins"--written by David Gerrold and Lee Cronin Jr., went before the cameras in June 2010.

Production notes

• The pilot episode, "Come What May," begins with the late-1960s NBC "In Living Color" sequence. It ends, as did the 1960s episodes, with the animated Desilu Productions logo, with no mention of Paramount.
• The sets for New Voyages are said to be near-exact copies of the ones from the 1960s series. This was made possible by the series having access to the original blueprints, rather than just photos.
• Star Trek: Enterprise made use of the fan series by borrowing some of their props (most notably the helmsman's pop-up console viewer) during the two-part episode "In a Mirror, Darkly" which was set in part on a similar ship, the USS Defiant, as seen in the 1960s episode "The Tholian Web".^{[citation needed]}
• The series was featured in the December 2005 issue of Wired, spotlighting the production of "To Serve All My Days."^[10]
• The series adopts some of the continuity from the "Shatnerverse" novels. For example, during a "possible future" sequence in "Come What May," Spock states, "Captain Kirk is alive," just after a sequence from Star Trek Generations. The Special Edition of "In Harm's Way" gives the date from which the Enterprise-A travels back as 2373 (and so is after Kirk's "death").
• A CGI rendering from the vignette "Center Seat" is the September 2008 picture in the "Ships of the Line" calendar.

References

1. ^ Bennett, Bruce (August 8, 2007). "Star Trek: A New Enterprise". New York Sun. http://www.nysun.com/arts/star-trek-a-new-enterprise/61402/. Retrieved 2011-07-09. "Since 2003, a crew as altruistically minded, culturally diverse, and indefatigable as the Enterprise's complement has periodically toiled in a former car dealership warehouse in upstate New York.... "Star Trek: New Voyages" is the brainchild of fans James Cawley and Jack Marshall." 
2. ^ Shuster, Fred (2006). "FUTURE `TREK' FROM VALLEY PORTAL, SPACE ODYSSEY TRAVELS ONTO THE WEB.". The Free Library. http://www.thefreelibrary.com/FUTURE+%60TREK'+FROM+VALLEY+PORTAL,+SPACE+ODYSSEY+TRAVELS+ONTO+THE+WEB-a0154473678. Retrieved 2009-10-23. 
3. ^ "Wired 13.12: To Boldly Go Where No Fan Has Gone Before". Wired.com. 2009-01-04. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.12/startrek.html. Retrieved 2011-08-17. 
4. ^ "2008 Hugo Award Results Announced". World Science Fiction Society. http://www.thehugoawards.org/?p=146. Retrieved 2008-08-14. 
5. ^ "Star Trek Phase II Featurette: Prime Timeline Strikes Back + P2 Update From Cawley". TrekMovie.com. http://trekmovie.com/2011/04/28/star-trek-phase-ii-featurette-prime-timeline-strikes-back-p2-update-from-cawley/. Retrieved 2011-08-17. 
6. ^ "Eddie Paskey: TV series filmography". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0664624/filmoseries#tt0060028. Retrieved 2007-03-24. 
7. ^ "John Winston (I): TV series filmography". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0935604/filmoseries#tt0060028. Retrieved 2007-03-24. 
8. ^ "J.G. Hertzler Returns to His Klingon Roots". Star Trek: Phase II News. Startreknewvoyages.com. 2009-01-22. http://www.startreknewvoyages.com/news20090122.html. Retrieved 2011-08-17. 
9. ^ "Sam Witwer". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1022429/. Retrieved 2007-03-24. 
10. ^ Suellentrop, Chris (December 2005). "To Boldly Go Where No Fan Has Gone Before". Wired (13.12). ISSN 1059-1028. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.12/startrek.html?pg=1&topic=startrek&topic_set=. Retrieved 2007-03-24. 

External links

• Official website
• Official media site Official website
• Star Trek: New Voyages at the Internet Movie Database
• Star Trek: New Voyages on Star Trek:Expanded Universe, an external wiki
• Interview with Walter Koenig on Slice of Scifi
• Interview with Jack Marshall on Slice of SciFi
• "These are the Voyages..." From the Washington City Paper (29 October 2004)