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From Wired Magazine:

James Cawley, who plays Kirk, and director Jack Marshall are the cocreators of Star Trek: New Voyages. They are repairing a rift in the space-time continuum, fixing the most glaring flaw in the history of science fiction. As every geek in the galaxy knows, Captain Kirk and the crew of the USS Enterprise set out on a five-year mission to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before. But NBC canceled the show in 1969 after only three seasons. New Voyages aims to fill fans in on what they missed. . . . At their current pace of one episode a year, they'll finish the five-year mission in 2054.

Yes, that's right. A bunch of Star Trek geeks have banded together to shoot new episodes of the old-skool adventures of Kirk and crew with an all-new cast. Apparently, one of the script-writers of the original show is writing the new scripts, a few random production people who actually work for the official show are pitching in, plus the guy that played Chekov is even reprising his role when Chekov gets affected by an aging-virus. Director Jack Marshall, incidentally, is the guy responsible for "The Phantom Edit", a re-cut of Star Wars Ep.1 that floated about the internet, which cut out most of Jar-Jar's scenes and Anakin's "yippee!" lines, so it can't be all that bad, huh? The episodes can be downloaded for free from www.newvoyages.com

Now, on a certain level, I'll admit that what they're doing is pretty cool. It has indie written all over it, but man, I can think of lots of other things I'd rather pour my time and creativity into.

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