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Star Trek Continues

This is an episode of a fan-made series whose storyline may be invalidated by later official studio productions.

Stardate not given: The Enterprise comes across a damaged and drifting Tellarite vessel with a single life form aboard. When beamed aboard, the ship’s sole survivor is an Orion slave girl who is prepared to fight off the entire crew of the Enterprise to save herself. She finally reveals her name – Lolani – and declares her wish to be free of the Orion system of slavery. But since Orion is not a Federation member word, Captain Kirk’s hands are tied when Lolani’s master comes to reclaim her. When he decides to go against express orders to avoid provoking the Orions by ignoring their laws, Kirk simply seems to make things worse, not only for himself but for a woman determined to change life for all women on her world.

Watch ItWatch Itwritten by Paul Bianchi and Huston Huddleston
story by Huston Huddleston & Vic Mignogna
directed by Chris White
music by Fred Steiner
additional music by Vic Mignogna

Cast: Vic Mignogna (Captain Kirk), Todd Haberkorn (Mr. Spock), Larry Nemecek (Dr. McCoy / Tellarite Crewman), Chris Doohan (Mr. Scott), Grant Imahara (Sulu), Kim Stinger (Lt. Uhura), Michele Specht (Dr. McKennah), Lou Ferrigno (Zaminhon), Fiona Vroom (Lolani), Star Trek ContinuesMatthew Ewald (Crewman Kenway), Erin Gray (Commodore Gray), Daniel Logan (Ensign Tongaroa), Reuben Langdon (Security Guard), Scott Grainger (Security Officer), Hannah Barucky (Crew Member), Stephanie Hall (Security Guard), Michelle Siles (Crew Member), Dom Baldwin (Security Guard), Abbey Hazel (Nurse Temple), Alexandra Preston (Crew Member), Felia Mano (Crew Member), Adam George (Crew Member), Stephen Cevallos (Security Guard), Danny Pytell (Crew Member), Donald Huston (Crew Member), Megan Warner (Crew Member), Hayley Warner (Crew Member), Kevin Fry-Bowers (Sev Bim Jor), Ryan T. Husk (Tellarite Mercenary)

Notes: Guest star Lou Ferrigno is best known for another role which required him to be painted green, as 1970s TV superhero The Incredible Hulk. Erin Gray is another ’70s genre star, known to fans of Buck Rogers In The 25th Century as Colonel Star Trek ContinuesWilma Deering. Daniel Logan may still be best known as the young Boba Fett, a role he played as a boy in 2002’s Star Wars Episode II: Attack Of The Clones. Matthew Ewald also guest starred as a young James T. Kirk in The Protracted Man, an episode of the fan series Star Trek Phase II. Co-writer Huston Huddleston is the organizer of the Enterprise-D Bridge Restoration Project, a non-profit, fan-supported project to build a museum around recovered pieces of the Star Trek: The Next Generation bridge set, both screen-used and replicas left over from the now-defunct Las Vegas Hilton Star Trek: The Experience attraction.

LogBook entry & review by Earl Green

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Battleground

Blake's 7Having become aware of a Federation equivalent to Orac – which may even be able to detect where the Liberator is by detecting Orac – the crew is racing to find the mind behind its development, a Federation officer named Mikhailov. Orac has narrowed down a list of possible leads, all of whom have proven not to be the person Blake and his crew are seeking. Only one possibility remains, on the planet Straxis, a world known informally to the Federation as Battleground 9. The planet is heavily defended, and when Blake and Avon teleport down, they find a war in progress between the Federation and forces led by a deposed Federation governor. He was removed from office and sent to Battleground 9 to serve as cannon fodder for training exercises, but he has instead organized a functional resistance movement that has become a thorn in the Federation’s side. Blake and Avon meet up with this rebel group, but are separated in the fierce shelling; Avon is captured by the Federation and interrogated by the officer grading the current training exercise – none other than Mikhailov herself, who finds herself answering as many questions as she is asking.

Order this CDwritten by Andrew Smith
directed by Ken Bentley
music by Alistair Lock

Cast: Gareth Thomas (Blake), Paul Darrow (Avon), Michael Keating (Vila), Jan Chappell (Cally), Sally Knyvette (Jenna), Timothy Bentinck (Abel Garmon), Abigail Hollick (Alexa Mikhailov), Alistair Lock (Zen/Orac), Dan Starkey (Voss Ferrell)

LogBook entry and review by Earl Green