| Steam Trek: The Moving Picture | |
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| Directed by | Dennis Sisterson |
| Written by | Dennis Sisterson Ashley Levy |
| Starring | Jon Chapman Pete Dummer Ashley Levy Liz Sanders Dave Seymour Tom Paterson Glenn Maloney |
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Running time | 11 minutes |
| Language | English |
Steam Trek: The Moving Picture is a 1994 fan film that was made by fans of original Star Trek . It was directed by Dennis Sisterson and written by Dennis Sisterson and Ashley Levy. It parodies the television show as a silent film.
In the year 1980, the starship USS Isambard explores an unknown planet in hopes of finding more coal. However, the away team – led by Captain James T. Shirt (Jon Chapman) – find Klingons and a coal monster on the planet's surface.
Steam Trek: The Moving Picture was made in 1994 by the Ad Hoc Film Society. The idea originated from a story outline by Ashley Levy entitled Star Trek - The Silent Generation. Filming was done with Super 8 mm film. [2]
The film premiered at the Archon Convention in August 1994. [2] Digitized and restored version premiered 2014-06-27 at Swecon 2014/Steampunkfestival 2014 in the city of Gävle, Sweden.
Boing Boing 's Cory Doctorow reviewed Steam Trek: The Moving Picture as "great, Voyage to the Moon -style graphics and hilarious slates for dialog." [3] Gizmodo reviewed it as a "beautifully done Star Trek parody, created in 1994 but looking like it was made a hundred years ago." [4] TechRepublic called it a "hilarious send-up of both Star Trek and steampunk tropes rendered as a gleefully tongue-in-cheek silent movie". [5] Wired called it "stunning". [6]
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