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.
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