History Trivia / StarTrekContinues

* TalkingToHimself: "Still Treads the Shadow" seems to have been made mainly to give Vic Mignogna an excuse to play three characters at the same time.

* ApprovalOfGod: Rod Roddenberry, son of Creator/GeneRoddenberry, has a cameo in one episode, and was elated with the entire project.

** Averted by Creator/ToddHaberkorn, who (like Creator/LeonardNimoy) played Spock in his thirties, Chuck Huber, who was about Creator/DeForestKelley's age, and inverted by Wyatt Lenhart, who played Chekov starting in his late ''teens'' (he left the show briefly to go on Mormon missionary activities), making him slightly ''younger'' than his character and ''much'' younger than Walter Koenig when he had played Chekov.

** [[Series/BuckRogersInTheTwentyFifthCentury Erin Gray]] plays Commodore Gray (also an example of StuntCasting).

** Vic Mignogna, as noted elsewhere, specifically pitched Todd Haberkorn for the role of Spock, both because of their strong working relationship and to take advantage of their (friendly) off-screen rivalry dynamic. The other producers were hesitant at the RaceLift that would result, preferring Haberkorn for the more "appropriate" (and much smaller) role of Sulu. Haberkorn turned them down flat and insisted that as far as he was concerned, it was Spock or bust. The other producers relented, but one wonders who might have played Spock if they hadn't, or if ''he'' had relented and had played Sulu after all.

** Averted by Chuck Huber, who was about Creator/DeForestKelley's age, and inverted by Wyatt Lenhart, who played Chekov starting in his late ''teens'' (he left the show briefly to go on Mormon missionary activities), making him slightly ''younger'' than his character and ''much'' younger than Walter Koenig when he had played Chekov.

** Vic Mignogna, as noted elsewhere, specifically pitched Todd Haberkorn for the role of Spock, both because of their strong working relationship and to take advantage of their (friendly) off-screen rivalry dynamic. The other producers were hesitant at the RaceLift that would result, preferring Haberkorn for the more "appropriate" role of Sulu. Haberkorn turned them down flat and insisted that as far as he was concerned, it was Spock or bust. The other producers relented, but one wonders who might have played Spock if they hadn't, or if ''he'' had relented and had played Sulu after all.

** [[Creator/VicMignogna Kirk]] and the new character Dr. Elise [=McKennah=] (Michele Specht) were married in real life.
** Michael Forest's wife Diana Hale plays Apollo's sister Athena.

* StuntCasting: Most prominently, [[Series/{{Mythbusters}} Grant Imahara]] as Sulu.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Following the June 2016 release of new rules regarding ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fan films prompted by the ''[[WebVideo/PreludeToAxanar Star Trek: Axanar]]'' debacle, the ''Continues'' team have stated on Website/{{Facebook}} that the series will not continue. However, they also called out irate fans that they should place blame for the show's end on ''Axanar'' lead Alec Peters' well-documented misbehavior, not on Creator/{{CBS}} or Creator/{{Paramount}}. Fortunately (and unlike a number of other fanfilms effected by the incident) Continues was able to complete a finale two parter and CBS/Paramount raised no objections to this being released.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: Following the June 2016 release of new rules regarding ''Franchise/StarTrek'' fan films prompted by the ''[[WebVideo/PreludeToAxanar Star Trek: Axanar]]'' debacle, the ''Continues'' team have stated on Website/{{Facebook}} that the series will not continue. However, they also called out irate fans that they should place blame for the show's end on ''Axanar'' lead Alec Peters' well-documented misbehavior, not on Creator/{{CBS}} or Creator/{{Paramount}}.

* ActorAllusion: Creator/LouFerrigno plays a [[Series/TheIncredibleHulk green-skinned]] Orion in the second episode.

* CastingGag:
** Mr. Scott is played by Chris Doohan, the son of Creator/JamesDoohan, the original Scotty.
** On a more meta level, the computer voice is provided by Marina Sirtis, who played Counselor Troi. Her mother, Lwaxanna Troi, was played by Creator/MajelBarrett, who also provided the original voice of the computer.
** Bodybuilder Creator/LouFerrigno, who played the titular character in the live-action ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk'' series, appears in "Lolani" in the role of an Orion slaver, once again requiring him to put on lots of green bodypaint.
** The [[spoiler:female Romulan Commander, returning from "The Enterprise Incident",]] is played by [[spoiler: Amy Rydell, daughter of the original actress Joanne Linville.]] Just like Doohan, she ''strongly'' resembles the original actor - although the makeup job probably helped too.

* RoleReprisal: Michael Forest, the actor who played Apollo in "Who Mourns for Adonis?", returns to play the role in the first episode.

** [[Creator/VicMignogna Kirk]] and the new character Dr. Elise [=McKennah=] (Michele Specht) are married in real life.

*** As Leonard Nimoy was of Eurasian heritage, and Vulcan culture had some elements viewers were likely to associate with China[[note]]this got brought up in several contemporary reviews[[/note]], an Asian-American actor playing him is actually pretty appropriate.

* TheDanza: In "The White Iris", the character Nakia is played by the actress Nakia Burrise.

* ActorAllusion: Lou Ferrigno plays a [[Series/TheIncredibleHulk green-skinned]] Orion in the second episode.

** Bodybuilder Lou Ferrigno, who played the titular character in the live-action ''Series/TheIncredibleHulk'' series, appears in "Lolani" in the role of an Orion slaver, once again requiring him to put on lots of green bodypaint.

** Originally, the team had plans to do to more episodes, but due to ScrewedByTheLawyers situation brought upon all fan-productions with the debacle surrounding ''Star Trek: Axanar'', these plans were scrapped in favor of making sure that the two-episode finale could be finished in its originally planned form. Amongst the ideas mentioned by Vic Mignogna was a SequelEpisode to "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E17APieceOfTheAction A Piece of the Action]]".

** Originally, the team had plans to do to more episodes, but due to ScrewedByTheLawyers situation brought upon all fan-productions with the debacle surrounding ''Star Trek: Axanar'', these plans were scrapped in favor of making sure that the two-episode finale could be finished in its originally planned form.

** Originally, the team had plans to do to more episodes, but due to ScrewedByTheLawyers situation brought upon all fan-productions with the debacle surrounding ''Star Trek: Axanar'', these plans were scrapped in favor of making sure that the two-episode finale could be finished in its originally planned form.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Vic Mignogna, as noted elsewhere, specifically pitched Todd Haberkorn for the role of Spock, both because of their strong working relationship and to take advantage of their (friendly) off-screen rivalry dynamic. The other producers were hesitant at the RaceLift that would result, preferring Haberkorn for the more "appropriate" role of Sulu. Haberkorn turned them down flat and insisted that as far as he was concerned, it was Spock or bust. The other producers relented, but one wonders who might have played Spock if they hadn't, or if ''he'' had relented and had played Sulu after all.
** As Leonard Nimoy was of Eurasian heritage, and Vulcan culture had some elements viewers were likely to associate with China[[note]]this got brought up in several contemporary reviews[[/note]], an Asian-American actor playing him is actually pretty appropriate.

* TheOtherDarrin: Chuck Huber was busy with other projects during the filming of the show's first two episodes and could not play Dr. [=McCoy=], forcing creative consultant Larry Nemecek to step in and play the part himself. This is surprisingly the ''only'' bit of recasting throughout the show's run.[[note]]Contrast ''WebVideo/StarTrekNewVoyages'', which recast every major role at least once, and many of them ''twice''; albeit that series ran for 12 years whereas ''Continues'' ran for only five.[[/note]] Even when actor Wyatt Lenhart went on leave for his missionary activities, the role of Chekov was not recast but SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Ensign Tongoroa appeared in his stead until his return.

* PlayingAgainstType: The one and only John De Lancie as Galisti, leader of the Inner Council on Hyalinus. Galisti is far more grounded, not to mention more personable, than [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Q.]] [[spoiler:And if you're watching the whole episode waiting for the other shoe to drop, no, he does ''not'' play Q in disguise to "test" Kirk's abilities as a Captain or somesuch.]]