Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

Most of the articles I’ve seen about the Star Trek: Enterprise cancellation place the blame squarely on the people in charge of the show, but in a recent interview Scott Bakula who played Captain Archer in the series instead places much of the blame on UPN, the channel that showed the series. In an interview with the german magazine Space View, Bakula said this about the cancelation:

“definitely wasn’t because there…

J. Marcus Xavier of PlanetFandom.com has a great article posted at that site looking at the blossoming of fanfilms. Fan films have been around for ever, but it seems as though recently they’ve been taken to a whole new level in terms of production values and ambition (there’s still some work to be done on the acting mind you). Not content to produce a 10 minute fan film any more,…

The people behind the Star Trek: Excalibur fan film have released a teaser trailer for their series. Star Trek: Excalibur is planned as a non profit series inspired by Star Trek. It will chronicle the adventures of Captain Thomas H. Nelson and the crew of the USS Exalibur immediately following the end of the third season of the original series. Episodes will be available as a free download form the…

Scriptwriter Erik Jendresen was signed to write a script for the next Star Trek movie ealier this year. In an interview with Dreamwatch magazine recently he confirmed that he has now turned the first draft of that script in to Paramount.

According to Jendresen the working title for the next movie is Star Trek: The Beginning (which ought to give you some hints about where they’re going with it). The plan…

TrekToday reports that the Star Trek fans behind the Star Trek: New Voyages series of videos are planning to develop a New Voyages movie. As a result of these plans the third episode in the Star Trek: New Voyages series based on a script by D.C. Fontana will shout in September. The fourth episode with a script by Jack Trevino and Ethan Calk will form the basis of the movie…