Starship Yorktown
Golden Age Film; Series (Drama) — USA
The release of "Yorktown: A Time to Heal" in 2022 represents the culmination of professional and fan efforts to bring a 38 year journey from a teenager's first fan film to a close. A tragic terrorist attack on the USS Yorktown has remifications long after that allow a young man to come to terms with personal loss.
This film not only hired George Takei, but also interested a diverse group of other entertainment industry figures (in alphabetical order)…
There are two Facebook Pages, a public group and a private group .
News, Reviews, & Links
Article about Yorktown in Issue #119 of Starlog Magazine, dated June, 1987, when the film was first shot. The article starts on p15 and continues on p16.(see also 20 Apr 2010 Mystartrekscrapbook blog article): https://archive.org/details/starlog_magazine-119/page/n13/mode/2up?view=theater (01 Jun 1987)
Blog entry on Mystartrekscrapbook about issue #119 of Starlog Magazine, dated June, 1987: http://mystartrekscrapbook.blogspot.com/2010/04/1987-article-on-sulus-solo-trek.html (20 Apr 2010)
FanFilmFollies article by Christopher Moshier: https://www.fanfilmfollies.com/news/yorktown-a-time-to-heal/ (14 Sep 2010)
Video Interview on the Trekspeak Youtube channel (36:31): https://youtu.be/AQCKawMei6Q (07 Mar 2012)
Danver’s Demented Features: Yorktown Interview. Interview with horror host Danver from Demented Features. The interview includes never-before-seen footage from Yorktown: A Time to Heal.: https://vimeo.com/76744288 (11 Oct 2013)
Episodes Yorktown: In Temporary Command — 01 July 1984
A video of the award ceremony for best Science Fiction film at the Hollywood Teen Film Festival (1984) from John Atkin's Vimeo channel: https://vimeo.com/102597423
Yorktown: In Temporary Command won the trophy for best Science Fiction film at the Hollywood Teen Film Festival for 1984, presented to the young filmmaker by actor Ernie Hudson (Ghostbusters). The success of this short student film lead to the making of Yorktown: A Time to Heal, starring George Takei and James Shigeta. It does not appear to have ever been released online.
Yorktown: A time to Heal VFX teaser Trailer 01min 30sec — 04 June 2011
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/mswALTOF5Hg
Yorktown: Behind the Scenes 08min 43sec — 13 December 2013
Watch on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/81806551
Unformatted Blogspot Notes (The original STR website included many notes, not all of which have been migrated to our new database yet. Here are additional notes about this series that have not yet been completely processed.)
This You Tube account contains CGI which may be in the works for this project: https://vimeo.com/johnatkin/videos http://vimeopro.com/johnatkin/yorktown (1:01) or http://www.yorktownfilm.com/ (1:01)http://www.fastcopyinc.com/orionpress/fanfilms/yorktown.htm .http://www.trekspace.org/group/yorktown http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=151211704904054&ref=ts https://vimeo.com/johnatkin going forward.
The trailer on You Tube will be taken down at some point.
1985
Shooting began on Super 8 film but unfortunately it was never released.
2009Break.com , on YouTube (2:52) also available directly on Yahoo.com [ALL Deadlinks Apr 6, 2022]http://www.fastcopyinc.com/orionpress/articles/star_trek_axiom.htm
2010
Star Trek: Axiom (Golden Age) has also worked on this project.
Apr 08: I received the following comment: Star Trek: Axiom *RESURRECTED* Links
Nov 22: I received the following in an e-mail, from the Axion group:
2011
Here is a VFX Teaser Trailer released June 5, 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mswALTOF5Hg&feature=player_embedded
2012
Mar 06:
Here is a trailer posted June 7, 2012: https://vimeo.com/43588987
Here is a short series of clips they released in October of 2012: https://vimeo.com/51264687 (0:55).
2013
This is their new Vimeo account as of August 2013: http://vimeopro.com/johnatkin/yorktown https://vimeo.com/65944786 (1:20)
Here is an interview (from October 2013):http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2nN8V4i13o (9:08)
2014
As of May 2014, They hope to have it done in 2015.
Footage released June 2014: https://vimeo.com/97575682 and https://vimeo.com/83416513 http://vimeo.com/65944786 (1:01)
September 17, 2014, Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS http://vimeo.com/106444433
2015
Footage released Feb. 25, 2015: https://vimeo.com/65944786
July: The film transfer is completed and new pictures from the film were being posted on their Facebook page.
2016
June 22: I left a message on their more active Facebook page asking if they were still on track for a September release.
2017
April 23: Posting stating rough edit of Act I was complete.
Jun 21: Personal Message on Facebook saying work was continuing, but some of the CGI work had been delayed as the volunteers were being paid to do CGI by other people.
2018
Jan: Left a message asking if I would live long enough to see this one.
Jly 22: I received the following PM from John T. Atkin on Facebook: "I'm changing the name of the Vulcan officer (Jesse Tebbs) in Yorktown to "Zar." Although Xon never appeared in a Star Trek episode, there is that cool test footage of David Gautreaux in Phase 2 and we didn't want to "recast" tht part. "Zar was the original namem for Sybok in the early scripts for Star Trek V before they changed it to Sybok in the film. It fits well, so I'm using it instead of Xon now. It is easy to dub the name "Zar" over Xon, so definitely works the best."
Dec. 2: I decided to not even bother to ask.
2019
Jan 28: Short clip released: https://vimeo.com/313741048?fbclid=IwAR0yPkUo91QPAiYIeOcuVf8IH_UFfkj3MhIxJGjeUbPJoExKd2FrE0JQCDc (0:28)
Undated
Axanar discussion of Yorktown: http://www.trek.fm/axp/35
The film project Ajax has separated from the studio, Starbase Studios, which has also acted as a set for Yorktown, and will be used by Starship Courageous and other Golden Age fan films.
Some Animation: http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=207224609290993
A discussion of this project: http://www.examiner.com/internet-entertainment-in-tampa-bay/forget-san-francisco-oklahoma-city-could-be-the-home-of-star-fleet
According to the Star Trek Expanded Universe Wiki, there was an earlier film that was called Yorktown: In Temporary Command, later renamed Yorktown: The Quadroplastine incident. Here is an article about the old film which has been posted on line: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_of7mShM5N1g/S8uzwRUpdNI/AAAAAAAABdM/uMEYIrev8Dk/s1600/sulus_solo_trek_01.jpg The previous film, Yorktown: In Temporary Command, is listed here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2111493/releaseinfo As of March, 2012, it has not been posted on the web, but may be posted in the next year or two. Here is a teen award ceremony for Yorktown In Temporary Command: http://vimeo.com/102597423 (2:25)
