Announcing Resistance from Aaron Vanderkley
Hot on the heels of his appearance on A Trekzone Conversation last week, Perth film maker Aaron Vanderkley has announced the cast for his next Star Trek: Voyager era fan film.
Fan Films
Fan Films
A Look at Star Trek Fan Films Today
For almost two decades, Star Trek fan films have been entertaining a niche market of Trekkies around the world. However in the past five years a perceived arms race between the biggest of the players built into an inevitable end game that saw the landscape irrevocably changed.
“It’s 150 Degrees Outside” – Trouble on the Set of Axanar’s First Filming Day
Many folks doubted whether he'd make it to this point, some questioned whether he ever actually would, but Alec Peters has wrangled a cast and crew together for the first of three shoots for the Axanar short films permitted under his settlement with CBS and Paramount almost three years ago.
Settlement Conditions Breached; CBS Issue Demands to Alec Peters
Axanar's in trouble with Star Trek's owners, and this time they may have finally come fully unstuck.
LIVE AND EXCLUSIVE: Line of Duty Premieres on Trekzone
Aaron Vanderkley's Star Trek fan film swansong, Line of Duty, premieres exclusively on Trekzone in a very special live stream direct from Waikiki.
One Year On… Once More With Feeling
One year ago today, Trekzone's second live action Star Trek fan film was released!
EDITORIAL: The Star Trek Fan Film Conundrum
I've long been a champion of true fan films set in our beloved universe - hosting numerous Fan Film Done Right interviews, while so many other Trek podcasts don't even give them a passing glance. But something caught my mind's eye last week and it's taken me a few days to conceptualise it in written form...
Reflecting On The Biggest Trekzone Event of 2018
It was our proudest moment of 2018. Today seems right to relive Trekzone's fan film.
Intrepid – Another Fan Film Done Right
Nick Cook, a Trek fan in the UK, has been fan filming for 16 years... it's week 3 of Fan Films Done Right!
FIRST ON TREKZONE: The Holy Core’s Trailer Drops; Shows Us An Awesome Glimpse Of What’s To Come
Gary O’Brien has been on Trekzone a couple of times in the past few months, promoting his forthcoming fan film The Holy Core… from giving me the exclusive details of...
Joshua Irwin On The Avalon Universe
Joshua Irwin swings by Trekzone to chat about his fan films, all set in the Avalon Universe...
Half A Decade In The Making : Sam Cockings on Temporal Anomaly
Go-to fan film VFX guy Sam Cockings swings by Trekzone to chat about his fan film Temporal Anomaly...
UPDATED: Destroying Alec’s Narrative
Yesterday, Alec replied to Christian's Friday interview on Trekzone. Today, Christian replies to Alec.
What Could’ve Been… The Axanar Only Alec Didn’t Want
Christian's back to counter the revisionist history applied by Alec and Joanthan during their recent Axanar Confidential live stream.
Endless Posturing, To Debate or Not To Debate and The Substantial Lack of Any Film Footage
The transcripts of An Axanar Fan's Perspective are in... and it's time for me to further reflect on those three hours when Axanar spokesperson Jonathan Lane took over Trekzone.
Announcing Project Phoenix
I've decided to jump on the momentum and announce that the next Trekzone fan film is coming.
Catching Up With Mike Bawden
It's been a while since we've heard from Mike Bawden, Axanar's PR man, so I reached out to say g'day...
Temporal Anomaly Is Here
The first fan film release of 2019 has been dropped by visual effects guru Samuel Cockings.
Axanar Confidential Confuses The Situation
Technical issues hampered the premiere edition of Axanar Confidential hosted by Alec Peters, a live YouTube show for fans of the beleaguered production.
The Best Bits from The Axanar Fan’s Perspective Podcast
Many said including all the ins and outs of my chat with Jonathan Lane was unnecessary and that they wouldn’t be listening. Others complained that I was unprepared and lacked...
Reflecting on the Axanar Fan’s Perspective Podcast
Well, it’s been about half an hour since the third and final installment in the Jonathan Lane interview was released and overall the reaction has been lukewarm to my interviewing...
An Axanar Fan’s Perspective – Part Three
Part three of the joint Fan Film Factor & A Trekzone Conversation podcast… For a while now there’s been a fracture in Star Trek fan film circles… those that support...
An Axanar Fan’s Perspective – Part Two
Part two of the joint Fan Film Factor & A Trekzone Conversation podcast… For a while now there’s been a fracture in Star Trek fan film circles… those that support...
An Axanar Fan’s Perspective – Part One
For a while now there’s been a fracture in Star Trek fan film circles… those that support Alec Peters’ Axanar and those that don’t. Following my exit from active posting...
Looking Ahead To The Axanar Fan’s Perspective
For a while now there’s been a fracture in Star Trek fan film circles… those that support Alec Peters’ Axanar and those that don’t. Following my exit from active posting...
Prelude to The Axanar Debate
Following my departure from “active” Axanar fact check and personal posting (some might say “negative”), Fan Film Factor’s Jonathan Lane suggested we record a Trekzone Conversation with a difference… it...
EDITORIAL: The Benevolent And All-Seeing Eye
One of the last takeaways from the Axamonitor Facebook group for me, as briefly mentioned in my previous post, was the attention placed on Ray Tesi’s Fan Appreciation Weekend –...
EDITORIAL: Why I Left The Daily Axanar Fight Behind
It feels like a long time coming, but today it finally happened. I put myself out there in the Axamonitor Facebook group and was summarily shut down for holding a...
EDITORIAL: For $91 You Can Join A Party At Alec’s Place…
Axamonitor has today revealed the itinerary of the “convention within a convention” cleverly titled “Axacon” – and what a con it seems to be. You’ll have to fork out at...
Exploring the Visual Effects of Once More With Feeling
Sam Cockings is a self taught CGI artist, having worked on a dozen Star Trek fan films. Most recently, his work can be seen on Trekzone’s fan film Once More...
Chapter IV : An Untitled Star Trek Fan Production
Throughout the fifteen years of TREKZONE.org – now The Trekzone Plexus, fan fiction and films have never been too far away from the center of attention and only one week...
Once More With Feeling Smashes Expectations
Trekzone’s return to the Star Trek fan film genre has exploded onto the scene overnight with almost an entire week’s worth of Trekzone Spotlight ratings gathered in just eleven hours...
