Fan-made animated movies.

After yesterday noting 'live-actor' fan efforts, today I look at an animated effort that is several years old now. The animator is using stone-age versions of now very popular graphics and animation packages like Blender and Poser.

The story is compelling. The antagonist and protagonist are lifelong friends. The antagonist helped the protagonist getting to terms with losing his father at Wolf359, the infamous Borg-battle. But then, the antagonist gets to deal with loss and proves to be unable to drink his own kool-aid. What follows is a gripping story of loss, love and betrayal that eventually affects three generations of Starship captains and three different versions of the antagonist that all are locked in an inability to not only see beyond, but also to reach beyond.

I think that the animated series is a great effort. The trilogy spans a little over 12 hours and nowhere loses the story steam or fails at keeping you interested. Since it being a fan-made story, the obligatory homosexual relationship between women is accounted for, though it has to be noted that most puppets resemble people the animator knows personally. I was unable to find out if the two women romantically interested in eachother are in real life likwise vested, as the animator is remarkably reclusive outside this Star Trek effort.

Here's the link to the first part in the trilogy. It runs for three hours, so be prepared. The story is worth it, once you get beyond the clunky animations and the animator's relative inexperience with the tools when he begun his story. I wish more fan-effort was like this, as this trilogy proves to some extend that quality is not always what a good story makes.

And a wise man once said that a good story deserves to be told again. So yeah.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGZDwzphAbQ&list=UUUYN_NoH7FWxskM_QNSlDEw