Web Video / Star Trek Continues

Star Trek Continues is a fan-made web series set in the Star Trek universe. Its mission: to continue where Star Trek: The Original Series left off, and complete the final two years of the Five Year Mission of the Enterprise.

The cast is comprised of professionals in the film business who all also happen to be huge Star Trek fans. They are aiming to capture the spirit of the original series as accurately as possible while still creating new, high quality stories.

The team's first output were a series of three short vignettes that were released from July 31 to November 30, 2012. A batch of three full-length episodes, partly funded through Kickstarter, were then released from May 26, 2013 to June 15, 2014. A second batch of episodes is currently in pre-production.

It can be accessed here.

Since the series follows the crew of the original Star Trek: The Original Series, please refer to that page for most character tropes.

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This series provides examples of the following tropes:

• Addictive Magic: Old habits die hard for Apollo, apparently.
  • Addiction Displacement: At the end Apollo discovers that self-sacrifice can provide as much sustenance for him as worship.
• An Aesop: It wouldn't be Star Trek without one.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Despite a thorough dose of skepticism, the crew can't help feeling bad for Apollo's fate.
• The Atoner: What Apollo becomes in the end. In a way.
• Beauty Inversion: Jamie Bamber gets quite bruised and battered in his appearance.
• Cannon Fodder: When Security Chief Sulu says that there might be casualties trying to capture mirror!Spock, mirror!Kirk tells him to "Take Chekov and put him out front."
• Canon Foreigner: The series adds the psychologist Dr. Elise McKennah and a chief of security as actual characters.
• Chekhov's Gun/Book Safe: A copy of "The Fall Of The Roman Empire", on "Lolani".
• Chess Motif: The climax of "Fairest Of Them All" involves this, with mirror!Kirk viewing his crew as "pawns" and himself as the "king".
• Dead Star Walking: Between being a Red Shirt and being played by Jamie Bamber, it's obvious Mr. Simone is doomed.
• Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: McKennah shoots Apollo in the back with a phaser when he starts to revert to his A God Am I tendencies. He shrugs off the blast, but the fact that she pulled the trigger snaps him out of it.
• Distracted by the Sexy: Dr. McKennah suffers from this when she walks in on Kirk in his quarters when he's shirtless.
• Does Not Like Shoes: Lolani.
• Downer Ending: "Lolani".
• Engineered Public Confession: Mirror!Spock gets Mirror!Kirk to rant about how the crew are just pawns to be used, broken and sacrificed to service his lust for power. Too bad he didn't see the open communications panel.
• Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: Kirk dresses down a crewman in this manner who tries to assist Lolani in stealing a shuttlecraft.
  Kirk: Get a hold of yourself, Mister! (beat) I may have to tolerate the sovereignty of alien worlds, but what I won't tolerate is insubordination ON MY SHIP!
• A God Am I: In the first episode, the crew meets Apollo (again!).
• Gods Need Prayer Badly: Apollo, again.
• Green-Skinned Space Babe: The title character of the second episode "Lolani."
• Hey, That's My Line!: In the Gag Reel, this is Bone's response when a Red Shirt says He's Dead, Jim.
• I Die Free: Sadly, this isn't Lolani's ultimate fate. But maybe her death will an inspiration to others.
• If You Kill Him, You Will Be Just Like Him: Mirror!Spock takes this attitude when he mutinies against mirror!Kirk, believing that the Empire must change its ways. When Moreau shows him the Tantalus device, he refuses to use it. Also, he has the officers loyal to him set their phasers to stun instead of to kill. This surprising act of mercy on his part prompts mirror!Chekov and others to join his side.
  • Mirror!Kirk invokes this almost word-for-word when Mirror!Spock chokes him. It works.
• Informed Ability: Zaminhon states that Orion men secrete the same types of seductive pheromones as their female counterparts, but Dr. McKennah seems unaffected. It might be because the entire crew was inoculated, though.
• Is This Thing Still On?: The coup de grace in "Fairest Of Them All", as mirror!Spock listens to mirror!Kirk's shrieking rant about the crew being brainless sheep, then moves aside to reveal that the intercom was on and everyone throughout the entire ship heard that.
• Love Is in the Air / Smells Sexy: Orion females secrete pheromones.
• Mad Doctor / Torture Technician: The mirror universe McCoy is willing, even gleeful, to use his "patients" as guinea pigs.
• Mirror Universe: "Fairest Of Them All" provides yet another version of what happened after Kirk and Co. left.
• Mook–Face Turn: Mirror!Kirk's own henchmen are the ones who seize him at the end. One even knocks him out when he breaks loose.
• Mythology Gag: Scotty proudly shows Kirk the new holodeck technology he's working on. It should be great once they've worked the bugs out.
• Power Echoes: Apollo's voice gets increasingly boomier and echos as his power returns.
• Rapid Aging: By phlebotinum, to Hand Wave why the Character Aged with the Actor when in their time line, only a year or so passed.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right: Kirk in the end of "Lolani." Not that it helps.
• Special Edition Title: The titles in "Fairest of Them All", set entirely in the Mirror Universe, replace the familiar narrative with "Space, the Final Conquest..." while snare drums are heard in the title theme and the Empire's symbol of a globe with a dagger through it is added to the "Star Trek" logo. The visuals are also all mirrored compared to the normal series opening. The end credits for this episode are also different, using the series 2 font rather than the normal series 3.
• The Farmer and the Viper: Played with heavily in the plot of "Pilgrim of Eternity", though it is solved in the end.
• To Be Lawful or Good: The main moral conflict of "Lolani."
• Trap Is the Only Option: Mirror!Spock knows that mirror!Kirk's request for parley is just a ruse. But he believes that he should go anyway, to give mirror!Kirk a chance to see reason. But it doesn't mean that he isn't ready for the trap when it's sprung.
• Video Will: The final scene of and last farewell of the title character of "Lolani".
• You Have Failed Me: Don't tell Mirror!Kirk something can't be done or hesitate when he demands an answer unless you want a punch in the gut or a jolt from your agonizer.

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