STAR TREK REVIEWED

1960's fan films - made on real film! - by teenagers just having fun! Released between 5-9 Sep 2021 with some commentary & details about the locations.

This black & white silent 8mm movie with the Original Series music looping over it could very well be the first Star Trek fan film. The child actors, hand-made CGI and effects were cutting edge for home movies at the time!

Barb Reader has a link to this at http://www.break.com/usercontent/2010/5/29/star-trek-the-8mm-movie-1848482 but this is a dead link as at Jun 26, 2021 and the Wayback Machine has no record of it.

Early Star Trek Fan Film, possibly the second ever created.

'Back in 1969 ten-year-old Peter ("Stoney") Emshwiller created his own version of a Star Trek episode using his dad's 16mm camera. The, um, fabulous special effects were created by scratching on the film with a knife and coloring each frame with magic markers. The movie won WNET's "Young People's Filmmaking Contest," was shown on national television, and, all these years later, still is a favorite at Star Trek Conventions.'

Excellent spoof of 'Star Trek'. Star Trek on the Huntley Film Archives. Complete with Captain Kirk look-alike, the group on an alien planet, Captain Kirk talks into his communicator. A green monster comes towards them. They try to be transported but it does not work. 'Spock' sits at a control panel. It says 'Molecular structure needs Heineken'. Spock smiles. Heineken is beamed down. The crew drink some Heineken and are beamed up, away from the scary green monster. The crew appears in the teletransporter room and clink glasses. A couple glasses of Heineken, 'refreshes the part other beers don't reach'.

German spoof of 'Star Trek' on the Huntley Film Archives in a Heineken advertisement. Complete with Captain Kirk look-alike, the group on an alien planet, Captain Kirk talks into his communicator. A green monster comes towards them. They try to be transported but it does not work. 'Spock' sits at a control panel. It says 'Molecular structure needs Heineken'. Spock smiles. Heineken is beamed down. The crew drink some Heineken and are beamed up, away from the scary green monster. The crew appears in the teletransporter room and clink glasses. A couple glasses of Heineken, 'refreshes the part other beers don't reach'.

Titled "Legacy of the Past", Ray Glasser created this film for his final exam in a TV production class at Ohio State University "back in the spring of 1971. I had it taped on 1" open-reel, then transferred to U-Matic and then to Beta. I got an A-."

A Star Trek sketch featuring British comedian Harry Worth from 1972 on his TV Series, "Thirty Minutes Worth".

Turist Ömer Uzay Yolunda, literally translated as "Tourist Ömer is on Space Road" (ie Star Trek), sometimes called simply 'Turkish Star Trek', is one of a number of comedy films about a character, 'Tourist Omer', who is a Turkish hobo. In this one he is picked up by the Enterprise!

"The spaceship Enterprise under the command of Captain Kirk is on its new mission. They must receive the reports from Professor Crater, who lives alone with his wife on the planet Orin 7. Mister Spak lands on the planet with a crew. However, one of the crew dies unexpectedly. The doctor had difficulty determining the cause of death. The killer is the professor's wife, Nancy. To save him, the Professor decides to lure an ancient creature to the planet with a time machine. Tourist Ömer is about to be married to a woman he did not know at that time. During the wedding ceremony, the machine pulls Ömer to Orin 7. Tourist Ömer thinks he is saved. However, the adventure has just begun."

Mark Pollock has released the film that he and Mike Sumen made in1973. Conceived & Produced by Mike in Plainfield, Indiana. Transferred to Youtube by Mark. "The audio was recorded on cassette tape. We gave a few showings at Plainfield Jr. Highschool back in the seventies."

A professionally (not) created film from 1975. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll probably vomit. Either way, you'll see the emotional story of the first voyage of the starship Win-a-prize. Led by Captain Woodrow N Cork, the crew of the Win-a-prize ventures into dangerous space. With an anibriated engineer, Mr. Scotch, miraculously, they survive this adventure. Starring Mark Schneider, Doug Max, Jay Brachman, Bob Kaynes, Peter Zaret, Carole Schneider and Amy Horowitz.

In a loose adaptation of the James Blish novel "Spock Must Die", the Federation, Klingons and Organians come face to face again! Filmed in 1974 on super 8mm, over the years it has been transferred first to BETA, then to VHS, then DVD and digital format. Originally a one hour and 20 minute production with bloopers and a making of it video, it has been edited down to two, 15 minute parts. 

John Fuller, who uploaded this video, says, "This is a comedy parody of the original Star Trek series with a theatrical coming attractions trailer. The film was made circa 1975 and shot on Super 8 film. The crew and actors were almost all students at Highland Park High School in Highland Park, IL. There was an original script but sound was not recorded on site. The film was later striped for sound and many hours were spent trying to lay in the sound afterwards using a borrowed friend's sound projector. The limitation of the format and the difficulty of getting everyone together again made finishing the soundtrack unfeasible.

I kept the original film canisters and 40 plus years later converted the films to digital format. Voices were laid in using a text to speech conversion program. Most of the dialogue is true to the original script but there have been some changes made as the film was re-edited for clean up and narrative purposes. The music is that which was originally chosen for the film, Gustav Holst's the Planets and particularly the track for Jupiter which I still feel was a likely inspiration for the soundtrack to the original Star Trek series. We've tried to contact original cast members to share this resurrection and were able to reach a few. Some, I'm sad to say, are no longer with us. But to them, I dedicate this re-christening of the wacky voyages of the Star Ship(t) Cheap Surprise. And I would particularly like to dedicate this premier to one of the cast members who is no longer with us, Dana Thompson or our Lt. O'Hurrah. And here is part of her touching and inspiring story: https://www.weremember.com/dana-thomp...

Please enjoy Star Flik."

This is one of those sad tombstones that mark the spot on the internet where a fan film once was. Barb Reader listed the first two videos on Blog 204 of the old Blogsite. She lists them as 8mm home movies from 1976 which were only posted on Youtube on 2017 and 2020 respectively from bruchorama but they are currently (Jly 01,2021) showing as unavailable.

The Underprize with Captain Jerk, Dr Decoy and Science Officer Spark beam down to a planet made of alcohol in this fuzzy black & white 'frat house' style parody made at Montclair State University between 1977-1982

As a teenager on Cape Cod in the late 70's, Rob Hampton was obsessed with movies and, together with his friends, recreated the blockbusters that they loved using a cheap Super 8 camera he got for Christmas. Twenty five years later, as a director and editor in L.A (IMDB) he added music, sound effects & dialogue and even got some of his old friends to voice their original lines.