To celebrate the first ever Oscar to be awarded for a Star Trek film, we here at Zombie Room want to begin a huge operation, a human experiment of a unique nature. The question to be answered is:
What happens to two film nerds if they are exposed to the entire Star Trek franchise for two hours a day, every day for the duration of one year?
Yes. We’re going to watch everything ever released under the official Star Trek franchise in a moving picture format – all of the episodes of all of the TV-series, all of the feature films, the animated series… Everything.
First up you should know that we haven’t seen most of this content ever, so this should be quite an adventure for us. For Timo this feels like his holy duty as the director of the biggest Star Trek fan film – Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning – to fix the big, gaping empty hole in his cultural knowledge. As for Essi, she wasn’t even sure what’s the difference between a trekkieand a trekker – and still isn’t. So, when it comes to Trek fandom, we’re newbies of the worst kind – but we’re willing to be educated!
For you to really comprehend the magnitude of this mission, here’s what is in store for us:
Star Trek: The Original Series (1966-1969) (80 episodes + including pilot episode)
Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973-1975) (22 episodes)
Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986)
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994) (178 episodes)
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier 1989
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Star Trek: Deep Space 9 (1993-1999) (176 episodes)
Star Trek: Voyager (1995-2001) (172 episodes)
Star Trek: First Contact (1996)
Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)
Star Trek: Enterprise (2001-2005) (98 episodes)
That’s 726 episodes and 11 movies! Let’s say that one episode lasts approximately 45 minutes and a movie 2 hours. That’s 567 hours in total. That’s about two years in total if you would use an hour per day (every day) watching Star Trek. But that’s bullshit – we’re going to do it in one year.
The deadline will be 8.3.2011 – after that, we have seen all of the episodes of all of the seasons of all of the series and all of the films of the Star Trek franchise.
This might not seem like an impossible mission, but you have to keep in mind that we are a couple who watches tons of movies a week in the theater and in our home, make a living making our own films and believe it or not we actually have a social life on top of this. So incorporating this new regime to our already busy life is not going to be easy, but we love a challenge – so bring it on!
THE RULES & CONDITIONS:
Both of us needs to see all of the episodes and movies, or it won’t count. We don’t necessarily need to see all of them together, but in order to complete we both need to see all of the material.
We will be buying all of the TV-series and movies on Blu-ray (if available), so this mission will also be quite a big financial commitment from us. We will keep tabs on the money spending part as well.
HOW TO FOLLOW:
We will be tweeting every time we watch an episode or a movie and hashtag it #trekathon. You can follow our tweets at @ZombieRoom. Also we will blogging our thoughts after each season and after each movie.
GOING DOWN… OR ARE WE?
To add a bit of twist and interest to the thing, we’ll be blogging it. We don’t want to clot Zombie Room with daily rants, so we’ve set our own blog dedicated solely for the purpose of our Trekathon. There, we’ll be telling you not so much about Star Trek, but about what we feel and how we perceive ourselves, our relationship and human mind when exposed to such extreme conditions.
Follow our daily progress from a perfectly healthy and normal human being into… something else – here: http://trekathon.posterous.com/
(Yeah, of course we have a plan – after we’re done, we’ll release the blog as a book, and then make a film out of it, and then a HBO TV series. We’ll become filthy rich and laugh loudly rolling in our own awesomenesses.)
HELP US
In order to achieve this we will be needing your help and support. Please let us know if we left something out and we will add it to the agenda. If you think there’s something we absolutely need in order to complete our mission and want to send it out for us, this is our address:
Zombie Room
Saariniemenkatu 8 b 13
00530 Helsinki
Finland
Do you think we have what it takes?
We don’t.
Timo & Essi – a couple in love. At least, for now.
Hello.
How on earth could the director of Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning not already have seen all of these? I am far from being a Trekkie, but even I have seen about 75% of these, I have only seen about 5-10 episodes of Deep Space 9 (after all I can’t watch something that claims to be boldly going yet stays in one place all the time…) oh and I am lacking most of the first season of Voyager.
But all I can say is, good luck. Don’t let it drive a wedge between you. And what ever you do, don’t take it too seriously. Might I suggest that once a week, on top of your daily Star Trek dose, you submit yourselves to a dose of Babylon 5. You know, just to keep your feet on the floor so to speak…
A fine question there that deserves an answer.
I actually started as a director of Star Wreck a bit by accident – I never was or has been a Star Trek fan, I actually used to feel that the series is a bit annoying… So when I jumped on the Star Wreck, I read the script and stripped it out of all of the too deep-running you-need-to-be-a-super-nerd-to-get-this -jokes to make it more accessible to less fanatic viewers than our main crew. I think it was a good decision, the film became more of a film that stands on it’s own legs and doesn’t require one to be a HC Trekkie to get into it.
On the same note, I’d like to say that I’m a scifi nerd – but more into “film scifi” -genre.
My interest to Trek was actually resparked few months ago when we bought the new Star Trek film, and started watching one of the making of -featurettes that had clips from the old Star Trek. I realized that I just absolutely loved the look, feel, attitude and atmosphere of the Original Series, so we agreed that we need to watch them to understand.
And after the pilot (“The Cage”), I realized that man, the stuff is great. So here we are
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