Star Trek: Phase II

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	5
Production
Running time	approximately 50 min. per episode
Broadcast
Original run	January 16, 2004 – Present
External links
Official 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 in April 2003. 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,^[1] 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 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".^[2]

Episodes

In addition to the pilot "Come What May", three episodes, "In Harm's Way", "To Serve All My Days", "World Enough and Time", were all released as of 2008. A fourth, "Blood and Fire", was released in two parts, the first in late 2008 and the second in late 2009. Additionally, three more episodes have been shot and are in the early stages of post-production while several more episodes are in pre-production.^[3]

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.

Secondary characters

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

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 the Apprentice from Star Wars: The Force Unleashed) is the voice of the Guardian of Forever (credited as "Simon Judas Raye").^[7]

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. 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 2, there are four episodes in various stages of production. Blood and Fire, part 2 is well into post production and was released November 20, 2009 with temporary audio tracks for Act 3 onwards. "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. "Enemy: Starfleet" written by Patty Wright and Dave Galanter, has completed two principal photography sessions and is in post production, with the opening teaser and part of Act 1 already released online. "Kitumba", finished principal photography on June 15, 2009 and is now in post-production. The script was adapted from a early story draft for two episodes of the planned Paramount Phase II series in the 1977.

Production notes

• The pilot episode, "Come What May", begins with the late-1960's NBC "In Living Color" sequence. It ends, as did the 1960's 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 1960's 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".^[8]

• 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

External links

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Star Trek: Phase II (fan series)

• Star Trek: New Voyages official website; The Official Star Trek Phase 2/New Voyages Website
• Star Trek: New Voyages Official Media Site; The Official Star Trek Phase 2/New Voyages Media Site
• Star Trek: New Voyages at the Internet Movie Database
• Star Trek: New Voyages article at Star Trek: Expanded Universe, the fan fiction and fan production 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)