Chimera is not associated with any current actual CBS or Paramount property. Any such apparent coincidence is just that.
The fan film parody operates as a "nod to Star Trek" but is clearly not official.
Libby's Brain comics and the Post Group associated pirated title both went under, and the later is a joke in the credits. Libby refers to a Pine Hill student from the 1980s.
The creators emphasize that this was made without a profit, and will not make a profit.
Post Group seems to be an in joke to the TNG era effects house, and to the church group that inspired Chimera back in 2003 with a Christmas Post play that was a crossover with then Locations.
The Sillian stories available to buy on Amazon are modeled after the Starship Locations saga, but skirt the rules by changing literally everything out that was Star Trek. They do not use any copyrighted ships, names or settings, but have changed them radically enough that it is considered "transitive new work", and yes, there is no more production company.
It is not a scam because there is and was never any money changing hands, and anyone volunteering understood they could not get paid, but could get a by line for free.
It does appear that certain Sillian names are actually fake, but again, nobody got paid for making lines. Maybe they had to put up fake names, or wanted theirs removed.
In 2015 during the ridiculous viral pitch scam of a little known fan of Star Trek, a gamer called Michael, these guys, Kat and Cards, apparently were a two voices of reason that started the counter argument that nobody can pitch their fan film to then current Star trek, and nobody can to this day.
Back in the 1990s, Adam and Jon did pitch when it was allowed in a contest, which ran for a few years, and their ideas were included in DS9 and Voyager, but they were not paid or asked to come to LA.
Then it appeared in 2019 that some of their stories from Sillian lore are indeed plot elements in Discovery, even crossing genres with a character "The Red Angel" ripped from Star Crackers, the online film from 2014, and in upcoming shows, although the angel was a "star system not a person". So the unnamed gamer could not pitch, but it appears they did.
It still seems muddy they might have some of those dozen role playing connections and they might return, but there is likely an NDA that sayus they cannot disclose who they are.
Michael's hideous script did see a spoof in a Sillian story, so his pitch did happen, but not to CBS. To the Sillians.
Maybe he is an overlord.
Friday, August 30, 2019
The Longest delayed Fan Film in History
On December 14, 2006, a script had been completed for "a sequel to Star Trek Nemesis" in which the original Next Gen crew had a new peril, Q's angry enemies, the Overlords from a little known fan role playing game from Milpitas and San Jose, California.
Former bit actor Brian Storey did his lines in a pre credited scene and because his brother's fan film was in production, both had a deal to appear on the other, given an NDA that then was established. Kat would have penned an episode of then Excalibur, and had a walk on. The walk on was never filmed.
Chimera began shooting in the fall of 2010 and finished off a fourth of the movie. They were using old cameras from Transformers meet Robotech, which then died.
So Brian did his lines and Joe forgot about the appearance, and his fan film did eventually make a trailer in 2011, 5 years later, spurring on the Chimera to being immediate reshoots with better camera.
Adam Browne, Jon Yeager and Tim Cantrell returned for some scenes, but Tim bowed out because of lack of time.
By 2014, nearly a dozen players of the then chimera game were eager to do lines, but only as of that date, Jim Buffkin did some lines as a Klingon gunner, and the Star Crackers alumn quickly tired of having "Klingons get beaten" and didn't want to show up after that.
In late 2016, the computer drive containing most of the completed film, about two full acts, died and was not recoverable. Fortunately, there were some early edits done with the second set of cameras and a backup copy, which had also died in that same year just prior to release of 50th anniversary stories.
The in 2017, Brian, reminded of his bit part having been found again in archives, announced that he was pleased, but that Joe had backed out of finishing Excalibur, and there would be no fan film with either of them in it. The NDA was moot.
Chimera stories did continue, with Kal Kat (Browne) and consultant Cards (Jon Yeager), and were completed by 2019, spurring interest in completing the film.
With 26 pages of script and about 34 minutes left, and a pair of excellent newer cameras, the footage was shot, as the Kats studio lost its lease and was immediately shuttered. Despite that nonprofit going belly up, (not bankrupt considering no money changed hands), and recent renwed Star Trek vigor, they trudged on.
Part of the inspiration was that the new Discovery, Picard show, and Lower Decks were going to beat them to it, and they had to finish. It had nothing to do with the re merger of the actual studios, as this never was associated with CBS and did not need to follow their edicts.
Production completed in earnest, almost silence, in the first floor of a bay area house, and it was completed officially in August 2019.
Some of the rumors are true, but nothing untoward happened at all, and it was just business.
For a fan film.
Former bit actor Brian Storey did his lines in a pre credited scene and because his brother's fan film was in production, both had a deal to appear on the other, given an NDA that then was established. Kat would have penned an episode of then Excalibur, and had a walk on. The walk on was never filmed.
Chimera began shooting in the fall of 2010 and finished off a fourth of the movie. They were using old cameras from Transformers meet Robotech, which then died.
So Brian did his lines and Joe forgot about the appearance, and his fan film did eventually make a trailer in 2011, 5 years later, spurring on the Chimera to being immediate reshoots with better camera.
Adam Browne, Jon Yeager and Tim Cantrell returned for some scenes, but Tim bowed out because of lack of time.
By 2014, nearly a dozen players of the then chimera game were eager to do lines, but only as of that date, Jim Buffkin did some lines as a Klingon gunner, and the Star Crackers alumn quickly tired of having "Klingons get beaten" and didn't want to show up after that.
In late 2016, the computer drive containing most of the completed film, about two full acts, died and was not recoverable. Fortunately, there were some early edits done with the second set of cameras and a backup copy, which had also died in that same year just prior to release of 50th anniversary stories.
The in 2017, Brian, reminded of his bit part having been found again in archives, announced that he was pleased, but that Joe had backed out of finishing Excalibur, and there would be no fan film with either of them in it. The NDA was moot.
Chimera stories did continue, with Kal Kat (Browne) and consultant Cards (Jon Yeager), and were completed by 2019, spurring interest in completing the film.
With 26 pages of script and about 34 minutes left, and a pair of excellent newer cameras, the footage was shot, as the Kats studio lost its lease and was immediately shuttered. Despite that nonprofit going belly up, (not bankrupt considering no money changed hands), and recent renwed Star Trek vigor, they trudged on.
Part of the inspiration was that the new Discovery, Picard show, and Lower Decks were going to beat them to it, and they had to finish. It had nothing to do with the re merger of the actual studios, as this never was associated with CBS and did not need to follow their edicts.
Production completed in earnest, almost silence, in the first floor of a bay area house, and it was completed officially in August 2019.
Some of the rumors are true, but nothing untoward happened at all, and it was just business.
For a fan film.
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