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

[some_stars]

I love, love, love the formatting of this--the mind melds opening up this whole amazing universe that we only see in flashes as it's disappearing. That is just an amazing inspired idea and it's totally almost making me cry.

[skywaterblue]

Well, first, thank you so much for the compliments.

Obviously I thought it was a clever enough conceit that it deserved a video - I was really terrified as the video took longer, and longer to make, that someone would get to this idea first and do it better. Fortunately while I've seen some people do the mind-meld to travel back to Prime!Kirk and Spock's relationship, and one which used it as a bridge to show the fanlove, no one ever got around to Kirk-Spock-PICARD.

What I found myself wishing as I placed the last clips in the montage was that the song was longer, or that I was a better editor. There's so much about the Prime Trekverse that I didn't have time to fit in - I wanted a clip of O'Brien and his family, of Guinan's adventures, of Neelix and Kes, of Quark's bar and Vic Fontaine and all of it...