A week or more ago I blogged a piece about fan film-making, pointing out how a Star Wars fan film was making big news.
Today I read an article on the Canadian Broadcasting Company's web page about a Star Trek regular who will be making an appearance in a Star Trek fan film. Walter Koenig, best known as Star Trek's Mr. Chekov, will be reprising his role in an episode of the New Voyages series -- a fan film series that is creating Star Trek's "lost" fourth season. They have two episodes available for download on the internet.
What is interesting about this fan series is that the episode Mr. Koenig is to appear in, is being written by D.C. Fontana -- a writer for the original Star Trek series.
The author of the CBC article asks the question, if a film using Star Trek characters, has an actor from the original Star Trek series, and is written by one of the original series' writers, what makes it a fan film, and not a professional Star Trek film?
A good question. And no matter what we come up with for an answer (production values, bad acting, lack of pay, no making money off of the sales, etc) we can point to "professional" films that fit the same bill.
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