Star Trek: A New Beginning
Silver Age Film; Series (Drama) — Wallingford, Connecticut.
A series of Star Trek fan films made by teenagers at Choate Rosemary Hall, a private, co-educational, college-preparatory boarding school founded in 1890 in Wallingford, Connecticut, "with a 5.0 megapixel digital stills camera, Windows Movie Maker 2.0, Microsoft Paint, Micro Machines, and a shoestring budget."
The school seems not to have been impressed with it though. "Two students were placed on restriction for six weeks while another three were assigned to Hill House 'trash duty' for three nights pertaining to the production of this motion picture"
News, Reviews, & Links
TreBBS forum thread discussing parts 1 & 2: https://www.trekbbs.com/threads/found-this-high-school-fan-film-saga-on-youtube.50919/ (07 Apr 2008)
Episodes
Part One (Part One of Two)
01.1 — 06min 14sec — 01 January 2005
Released Jan 06, 2007 on YouTube: https://youtu.be/wCLqBUSsDYY
"This Star Trek fan film is the first part of a three-part trilogy produced by two high school students in 2005. Windows Movie Maker and Microsoft Paint were the only editing programmes used in this production. The video quality has been significantly reduced."
Part One (Part Two of Two)
01.2 — 09min 41sec — 01 January 2005
Released Jan 06, 2007 on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pi8Z-Gjja78
Part Two (Part One of Two)
02.1 — 07min 47sec — 01 January 2006
Released Nov 12, 2007 on YouTube: https://youtu.be/MBGcdoWAXHs
"This Star Trek fan film is the second part of a three-part trilogy produced by two high school students between 2005 and 2006."
Part Two (Part Two of Two)
02.2 — 08min 46sec — 01 January 2006
Released Nov 12, 2007 on YouTube: https://youtu.be/pqAGY0kQy5k
Gunsmoke and Mirrors
02.5 — 09min 33sec — 01 January 2007
"This Star Trek fan film is a coda to the three-part Star Trek: A New Beginning trilogy, and was produced by two high school students between 2006 and 2007. It presents a conjectural history of the Mirror Universe as featured in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode 'Mirror, Mirror', and offers a glimpse of how the events portrayed in Star Trek: A New Beginning might have unfolded differently."
Released Jly 23, 2007 on YouTube: https://youtu.be/9PcbsNcHmTM
Part Three (Part One of Three)
03.1 — 09min 59sec — 01 January 2007
After a fifteen-year hiatus, Star Trek: A New Beginning is back!
Released 31 Jan 2021 on YouTube: https://youtu.be/hrX0tTlY_oo
A rough cut of this (9:32) was released on Youtube in early or mid-June, 2010. Shown as "removed by uploader" when the final release was made on 31 Jan 2021.
Part Three (Part Two of Three)
03.2 — 09min 18sec — 01 January 2007
Released 31 Jan 2021 on YouTube: https://youtu.be/5ryenLOxOy4
A rough cut of this (10:00) was released on Youtube in early or mid-June, 2010. Shown as "removed by uploader" when the final release was made on 31 Jan 2021.
Part Three (Part Three of Three)
03.3 — 07min 14sec — 01 January 2007
Released 31 Jan 2021 on YouTube: https://youtu.be/uOwT9fXEHNg
A rough cut of this (6:17) was released on Youtube in early or mid-June, 2010. Shown as "removed by uploader" when the final release was made on 31 Jan 2021.
Star Trek: A New Beginning, The Director's Edition
04 — 55min 32sec — 03 February 2021
The series as a single package!
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lidTvocqrkw
