Jack of Harts

I recently watched Star Trek: Horizon.

For those who don’t know, it is a fan film based on Star Trek. Set between the Enterprise TV series and the original series, it concerns the Romulan Wars as the NX class ships are doing their thing. The star of the show is the starship (hehehe) Discovery, NX-04. And it concerns the old Temporal Cold War story of Enterprise. It does it in a good way.

Overall, I would say that the acting went from poor to really good. About what you’d expect in a fan film. The special effects were…amazing. Seriously. I could have done with a bit less lens flare, but that’s stylistic. And the new Star Trek movies are making it cool. Ish. In general though, the effects are at least equal to most movies I’ve seen. And the story is a good story. Very good fit for Star Trek.

The biggest thing I feel after watching Horizon is…regret. Horizon is good. Very good. We have so many Star Trek fans who are wanting to make movies and in the past they’ve chosen to make them about Star Trek. There are so many Star Trek fan films out there, going all the way back to the 60s and 70s. Star Trek makes people want to make new stories for it. It’s a world many of us want to live in, and so we make movies or write stories so we can do that. But now, that is going away. And that is why I feel regret.

Unless the companies who currently own Star Trek chose to change their minds and make more reasonable guidelines for fan films, we will never see the like of Horizon again. A true story with beginning, middle, and end. A full narrative that I was able to sit down and enjoy. A movie. But all these budding Star Trek fans who want to tell stories won’t be doing that anymore. They’ll be making their own stuff, and Star Trek fandom will be all the poorer for it.

But all of that said…if you like Star Trek, give Horizon a shot. I loved it. I think you’ll like it too.

Star Trek: Horizon