Fanvid: "Grapevine Fires" (Star Trek)

[skywaterblue]

I couldn't think, of anywhere I would have rather been, to watch it all, burn away...

Fandom: pan-Star Trek (movies, 24th Century Prime timeline)
Characters: Spock, Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway...
Song: "Grapevine Fires" by Death Cab for Cutie
Length: 4:19
Downloads: 60.6 mbs in .mpg / 76 mbs in .avi (best)

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Star Trek - death, rebirth, death again.

It took almost nine months to make, though I did scrap a first draft when I switched from Premier Pro to Sony Vegas. I could have made a human being in that time. Special thanks to sarken who I forced to watch, cheerlead, and suggest Voyager clips where my knowledge ran dry. Couldn't have done it without her.

This video may seem like I'm deeply ambivalent about the new canon - I am not. Overall I appreciate the effort made by the Supreme Court of Bad Robot to ensure that the Trek I grew up with still 'happened' and matters. That said, I feel a deep sense of finality and regret about the movie: in redefining Star Trek to only be about the original crew, we're both saying goodbye to all the other characters and their journeys, and in some ways limiting the palette of what Star Trek can be about to the mass audience.

Here's to the journey, though! The Undiscovered Country! There really is no place I would have rather been, to watch it all burn away.

Comments

AS an TOS Trekker from the wayback,

[ravenholdt]

Honey, you made me cry. Its ridiculous how pervasive popular icons and shows are...they just stick with you, and here I am, raining on my keyboard. I can put a sensory memory to almost every single shot you had there. I was in the theatre, bawling my eyes out just like everyone else when Spock died. I was in that same theatre, cheering with the audience as Spock recalled Jim adn they rescued a couple of very confused Humback whales.
I was even in the theatre when that whole ridiculous mess with Veger went down, and I watched the Star Trek multiverse transform and change right on up through to Enterprise. I can honestly say that there was never a time in my life, when Star Trek in some fashion wasnt being eagerly expected in my home at least 2 days of the week. I was weaned on the stuff.
This video was wonderful in a way Im not even sure I can fully describe. Its as though you took me back to being 7 years old.
Its beautiful.

Re: AS an TOS Trekker from the wayback,

[skywaterblue]

Oh, so sorry for the lateness of this reply. Thank you - I'm touched that you felt moved to cry. I had hoped that some people would be moved by it, but I didn't want to expect that.

Like you, I grew up in a home of Trekkers, so I too can recall where I was when I first watched Spock and Kirk rescue the whales or fight shapeshifters in the snow. It was a great loss to my life when it finally was canceled, and so this video celebrates both the return of it and the death of the version we grew up with... so yes, thank you. I'm glad the power of the idea goes beyond my own brain.