Okay, so as of May 2025 a new film, an Homage to the 1985/2022 Star Trek fan-film “Yorktown: A Time to Heal was released. Before I can post more about that, let’s take a quick look at Yorktown…
Yorktown: A Time to Heal was shot in 1985 with professional Super8 film. Oh, you may have heard of Super8 as a consumer level film format. That’s because for the most of us who know Super8, it was an elcheapo way of shooting film. We’d simply slap a Super8 cartridge into a cheap camera, and shoot. There was no sound, because (most not all) cartridges were film only — no mag-track and certainly no optical sound track was attached. And the film quality was meehhh, because the old camera’s only were equipped with a pull-down claw. There was no registration pin on consumer level cameras.
Well Yorktown is the exception. It was shot on a pro-camera, you can see the stillness, or I should say the clarity of the image. Was it shot on Reversal film? Likely, but that’s yet another technical thing that you likely are not interested in unless you’re an ole’ Cinematographer like myself. Okay, so now Yorktown is done, with all new SpFx. It’s fantastic and you may watch it courtesy of John Atkin, who completed the film recently.
Below is a bunch of copied and pasted info, with some of my interjections in [brackets.] So, of course pardon me for doing things the easy way. Or, maybe just appreciate the fact that I’m trying to document things just in case they get deleted or disappear, as fan-film websites often do. : Starring James Shigeta & George Takei. Directed by Da Han. Produced by Stan Woo. Original music by Chris Barr. Original song by Rayna. [Rayna does a great job on vocals and this music is wonderful, watch it on my Roku channel.] VFX Supervisor: Samuel Cockings. VFX by Samuel Cockings, Henry Gibbens, Roland Baron, and Tobias Richter. Executive Producer: Jem Ong Woo. Executive Producers: John Atkin, Glen Wolfe [of Warp 66 / Arkansas based Trek fan studio ] and Kasey Shafsky. A Stan Woo Production. An Eastern Picture. [Some work was done at the Neutral Zone studio, now in Sandusky, Ohio.]
Borrowed summary (Imdb:) Having escaped capture by the Klingons, a damaged Starfleet reconnaissance probe crashes undetected on the planet Pahl III. Hikaru Sulu, serving as first officer on the retrofitted USS Yorktown, is sent by Admiral Nogura [Shigeta] on a secret mission to help locate the missing spy drone. In order to prevent a catastrophic war from igniting with the Klingons, the USS Yorktown (under the command of Captain Bradley Frame) races against time to quickly find the lost drone, with orders to conceal its existence. At the same time, a terrorist group called S.H.A.R.K. discover the drone’s location, and plot to steal the device and use it for their own nefarious means.
Okay, and here is some BEAM ME UP SULU info:
Beam Me Up, Sulu — Highway Child is the dotcom. Here’s their description: Beam Me Up, Sulu
In 1985, George Takei helped a group of diehard Star Trek fans to make a student film in the California forest, but the footage mysteriously disappeared. Nearly 40 years later, Beam Me Up, Sulu tells the story of Takei’s extraordinary act of kindness, explores the history of Asian-American representation in television, and shows what Star Trek’s legacy of inclusion means to millions of fans.
Featuring: George Takei, Eugene Roddenberry, Alexander Siddig, Christina Chong, Ian Alexander, and Garrett Wang. [from Voyager] Directed by Timour Gregory and Sasha Schneider.
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