YOUTUBE - We Did It. We Watched Star Trek Continues.

Worf is the computer!!!!!

Vic Mignogna I miss his voice acting

Ahhh.... Vic Mignogna...the R. Kelly of the VA world.

Before they started on the full-length episodes, they did three short vignettes. The first one was, much like this, a direct continuation of Turnabout Intruder.

My first time watching STC. It was well done & enjoyable. But for me personally, I can't see anyone but the original actors playing these characters. No matter how good they are, it doesn't feel the same. If only we could have had several more seasons of the original!

Well, I have never watched this either. Looked at the cast list, there are a TON of sci-fi people and the like including the late Grant Imahara, who I had met a few years ago, as Sulu. About lost it when I saw that. So cool. Marina Sirts is the usual computer voice when in the prime universe, and the Halkan leader was former Dr. Who Colin Baker. This was a serious labor of love. Gonna take in the rest of it.

I'm not one of those people who treats Continues like it's canon or on the same level as TOS. There is a lot of love in the production though. Performances can be hit or miss, but the sets/props/effects are about as faithful as you can get, and the writing is pretty solid. I'd certainly take the stories in STC as the 4th and 5th years of the TOS crew over TAS. As long as you take Continues for what it is, a faithful tribute to the original by loving fans, it's really quite good. It does tie up a lot of loose ends and tells some original stories as well. The finale makes a nice bridge between TOS and TMP as well.

I love Star Trek Continues even more than TOS :D

Almost unwatchable. Feels like the Temu version of TOS...

Wow, so glad this turned out better than your last reaction video as I was becoming concerned that only Canon Trek will work for you guys. I picked up on this show due to the many previous comments under your channel and ended up loving it for what it is. I thought that maybe you would come to watch it in release order, but glad you picked an episode for us to choose.. and it worked out well for you guys 👍

This was better than I expected, but with a Mirror universe story especially, I felt at times like I was watching Homelander playing Kirk, lol.

I became a fan of Star Trek watching re-runs of the original as a kid. This series is one of the few fan fic efforts that I thought was good enough for the public to enjoy. Axanar and I believe there was one called Renegades that was in production when CBS got pissy that were alright as well.

You'd think in the Mirror Universe, they'd name the shuttle something other than Galileo. A minor despot, perhaps.

The quality of the set, production, feel and writing for these star trek continues episodes are so good that if you could actually put the original cast in, you wouldn't notice that they weren't official episodes.

I've never watched any independent "fan" produced Trek until this and I have to say I was very surprised and impressed at how they really duplicated the look of TOS. Most of the actors portraying the main characters were really good.

I still haven't watched Game of Thrones. Or Lost. I'm not going to. ;)

I had never watched this before. Excellent job Patrons. And good episode choice. Very good choice.

You spent considerable time just watching the screen, limited comments, hardly blinked in a few scenes. It was wonderful. The production values of this "amateur" production do come as a bit of a surprise given the memes.

I'm honestly pretty surprised to see several negative reactions to ST Continues in some of the comments! There are certainly some things I don't like about ST Continues - primarily I think that the acting doesn't quite hit the right notes for the original characters at times - but overall ST Continues is so well done and gets so much essentially **perfect** that since I first saw it I've considered it virtually canonical. The lighting, the blocking, WHEN they do certain lighting, WHEN they do certain blocking, the music and when and how they use it, the colors, the structure of the episodes, the particular ways they create tension, the story structures, the ways they resolve the plots in most of the episodes, the props and set design and so many other things.... it all so perfectly recreates the original series that the new actors are to my eye and ear the only thing that gives away that these aren't original. Put differently, if I had been stranded on a desert island in 1969 and when I was rescued someone had told me they just recast everyone and continued filming the series I'd have believed them.

I'm sorry, it's so poor I can't watch it, Continues I mean, not you guys. xxx

I'm so glad the two of you liked this. I too was super skeptical because this is not the only similar original series fan made production out there there are at least two others and this is seriously top shelf in my opinion. Most of the eps are not sequels or continuations but they remain pretty damn well written. Plus there's no denying the quality and passion that's put into the lighting direction acting trying to make it as authentic and experience as possible. And I truly believe that once you get past 2005 Star Trek reactions and start watching anything after that the two of you will be clawing to get back to Star Trek Continues. 😊

A few notes. If you guys do watch more of this, be careful, there are spoilers, in the sense that information that isnt revealed till later in the franchise affects things here as they are aware of future canon. Alll in all you're right, the writing is very good. They really made an effort as you may have read to do lighting, blocking, and other things that were done back then instead of modern styles to make it feel like Trek. The thing is, the actor who plays Kirk, who also does a lot of the writing, does a good job, but does a better job at "angry" kirk then regular Kirk. It's the kind of thing where I can watch a few and enjoy it but its not quite bingeable. Not a complaint, but they also bring in a modern sensibility in some episodes, as in its more in tune with sort of modern ethics then perhaps what it was in the 60s, which I'm ok with. All in all its definitely the best fan production of trek I've seen.

I remember watching this episode once or twice when it came out, but I couldn't remember how it ended. I think it is probably the best episode of this series. A few years ago while thinking about the original series, I thought that "Mirror, Mirror" would have been the best story to stretch out into a two-part episode just because it was really cool but also because the regular actors played the bad guys -- no need to pay a lot of guest stars and create a lot of new sets. I didn't have any craving for the mirror happenings, but it was certainly interesting. The writer of the episode did a pretty good job.

Jesus this is horrible :D

The title The Fairest Of Them All confused me at first. Why did they call a sequel to Mirror Mirror the.....oh, I see.

Worf's voice as the computer was a nice touch

I usually sample fan stuff and have to turn it off. STC is the one exception. It is worthy. Glad you sampled it, a few other great episodes if you want to sample again.

Oh my God! I am so happy you guys enjoyed it! Star Trek Continues is actually really good and well made, true to the original series as much as one can. The performances, lighting, sets, score, effects and sound effects, especially writing of most part, and also true to the whole look like was made in then 60's. PLEASE, lol please continue to watch the rest, you won't be dissatisfied. Like one of you said, you about forgot you were watching a fan fiction because they do a good job of TOS. I always forget as well when watching, and Kirk def does a good job in the rest. WoooHOOO! lol you guys watched it and actually ate your words, Meme dead lol, said with love lol. Thank you for trying it and hope you guys do watch the rest! It is worth it. 😁🤓🖖

I like that they kept Scotty's right hand off camera. Such a nice attention to detail.

Having seen other actors play Kirk, it's striking to see an actor whose approach is basically "playing Shatner as Kirk."

Wow. I'm pleasantly surprised by their production quality. That really felt a LOT more like the actual show than I would have guessed. I may check out the other episodes now.

The Domination Sex Scoreboard - all approved by the Emperor All the power to the empire as we avoid the agonizer. Fulu - 1 Firk - 0 Fock - 0 Fones - 0 Fotty - 0 Fekov - 0 Fuhura - 0 nurse Fapple (? the one with Sulu?) - 1 extra: Kirk - 1 Marlania - 2 random Red shirt - 1

Is it just me, or does this video sound "pitchy," like it's running at, say, 1.25 speed? Actors speaking too fast and sound SLIGHTLY like they've sucked helium; music slightly too fast, etc.

Incidentally, the Star Trek Continues sets have completed their move to the Sandusky Mall and are, I assume, currently being reassembled there. #FairestOfTheMall

I like the way that they structured their episodes with dramatic builds that end in a commercial break… Even though they have no commercials. For nor are they permitted to have commercials by Paramount. That is a structural decision that shows faithfulness to the source material, even when they were free to use a more movie-like structure.

The meme is now dead and buried.

The lighting and cinematography were by Matt Bucy, a true genius in recapturing that Sixties Star Trek look. Head of wardrobe Ginger Holley is also incredible at her craft. To make the Mirror Kirk uniform she tracked down perhaps the last bolt of that sparkly fabric in existence, and to reproduce the Season 2 uniforms she got hold of some old velour cloth and dyed it in the various colors.

I'm glad you enjoyed this. I don't love all the episodes of this fan series equally but I really feel like this one and the final two-part episode in particular really honor the original work. It's truly a labor of love for many unpaid technicians, writers and actors who had several years and obviously many resources at hand to create a product to proudly display that love. Thank you both for giving it a shot.

Yep. Not as cringe as one might expect. There is some cognitive dissonance at times, but overall this production truly honors Star Trek and does not distract.

Been so long since I watched this I forgot about the Michael Dorn cameo. STC is a nice little diversion but I don’t think there is a need to come back to it any time soon. Far too much proper trek to watch!

Maybe this should become athing for "off season" you guys pug in a few ST:C episodes as a little bonus. Did you catch the voice cameo in the reaction and just no-sell it or what?

So you did. And now you can't unwatch it ;) Seriously... I may or may not watch this reaction (update: I'm watching it); it's been too long since I watched ST CONTINUES for me to say anything other than I tend to avoid fan productions for so many reasons, many of which are visible in abundance here. However, seeing episodes of this "eased me into" the idea of other actors playing these roles in the canonical productions, and it would have been impossible for me to enjoy the JJ films, Discovery, and Strange New Worlds without accepting that actors other than Nimoy-Shatner &c could play these parts. And they got a great "live experience" out of it (Ticonderoga NY).