![]() It’ll all make sense after I tell you a little story that started way back in 1992. They’re just saying a lot of things they never actually said. Those really are the original cast members speaking. ROBERT: (Laughs…) No, I didn’t do the voices myself. JONATHAN: You did the voices? That’s a pretty amazing gift for doing impressions! ROBERT: That’s because I did all the voices-I did all the audio I laid in the sound effects and the music, too. JONATHAN: You mean you did the computer animation, right? But who recorded the voices of the original cast? I can’t find a reference to it anywhere. JONATHAN: Okay, Robert, I have to know: who made Beyond Antares? I caught up to Robert (or “Woody,” his ZBT fraternity nickname) just as he was settling in after recently moving to Concord, California, and Robert was only to happy to answer all my questions… And to do that, I would need to track down the person who produced it: Robert England. This lost episode deserved to be featured on Fan Film Friday, but first I needed to solve the mystery. Beyond Antares also wasn’t listed on any of the actors’ IMDb pages or anywhere else for that matter…only this unexplained but quite elaborate (and very professionally-looking) production on YouTube. How was this even possible? Was this like when those two never-before released Beatles songs were discovered and released decades later? Maybe the cast had made an audio adventure at some point? A quick search through Google didn’t turn up anything other than some story records from the 70s, and those didn’t even use the original actors. It was just a…well, it was a lost episode! There was always some “choose your path” stopping point that interrupted the flow. And besides, no Trek video game had ever been presented as a straight episode. I thought that maybe it was a rendering of some obscure Star Trek computer game, but there was too much story, too much detail. But as I listened to the dialog, this wasn’t one of the Filmation Trek cartoons from the 1970s. These weren’t impersonators.Īt first, I figured it was just someone taking one of the animated episodes and trying to do it in 3D (an idea that has floated around fandom for years). I heard the voices, and they were unmistakably Shatner, Nimoy, Kelley, and the rest. Then I discovered a digitally-animated, CGI version of TOS on YouTube. But I wake up knowing that’s not possible. I sometimes dream that I’m watching a “lost episode” of Star Trek (usually the original series) that I’ve never seen before. I’m one of those fans who’s seen every episode of every Trek series dozens of times. Impossible, you say? Then you’ve never seen Star Trek: Beyond Antares! Well, imagine it working on a farm…a computer “render” farm! Imagine your forgotten PC laptop or desktop computer helping to render animated scenes of an entirely original, never-before-seen Star Trek episode starring the actual voices of William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Deforest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, and Walter Koenig! ![]() Hey, listen up! You remember when you upgraded to a new computer and never got rid of the old one? It still works, right? You just never use it.
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