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

[(Anonymous)]

Very nice. Very, very nice.

I have a question. What do you mean by "in redefining Star Trek to only be about the original crew, we're both saying goodbye to all the other characters and their journeys"? Does Spock coming back in time at that precise moment mean that other Start Treks didn't happen? I admit I am only up to the end of the Picard Star Trek, and that still makes sense - Spock was not as old in it as he was in the new movie. How about Voyager/DS9, etc.? Does this mean they are automatically out?

/kres@livejournal

[skywaterblue]

The opinion of the current 'Supreme Court' of Star Trek: JJ Abrams, Orci and Kurtzman is that when Spock!Prime gets booted back through the black hole, he creates a new universe. So all the old shows still happened, but they happened in the Primeverse, to which it is basically impossible to travel to from this new universe.

And in the new universe, time has happened differently: Kirk's father was murdered by Nero, Vulcan blew up. So there's no assurances that say, Picard, will even be born in this new universe.

And from the perspective of what will be shown on movies and in future tv series, if they occur, it seems really unlikely that they will go back to the Primeverse. So all those stories involving Picard/Sisko/Janeway can basically be considered done with now - we'll likely never see any of them again.

Glad you enjoyed the video!