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

[eccentrikita]

This is a wonderful idea, wonderfully executed.

I'm kind of lacking brain right now, but this is how I bookmarked you on delicious:

Well HOLY SHIT. This is a much different OldTrek/NewTrek vid, in that it acknowledges the impact of the new canon on ALL of the old, not just the original series. It comes across as incredibly bittersweet, because it's about the inevitable death of all things on both in- and out-universe levels -- but it still acknowledges the hope and forward movement of the new timeline. Or: "Star Trek is dead; long live Star Trek."

Seriously, thank you for this.

[skywaterblue]

That's an awesome rec. Thank you. I'm hella flattered that people are still finding this and getting it. :D