By GustavoLeao / 22:04, 19 November 2012 / General Star Trek

Film Industry Network posted a new interview with director Tim Russ and producers Sky Conway and Ethan Halk, regarding their upcoming project, Star Trek Renegades, a new Star Trek independent web series coming 2013. Here are excerpts

Sky Conway

Ian: Having produced ‘Star Trek : Of Gods and Men’ what can Star Trek fans expect to see in terms of production values and special effects in ‘Star Trek : Renegades’?

Sky: Our goal is to exceed in all areas the production values and standards of Star Trek: Of Gods and Men. I learned a lot from Stogam and will be applying those lessons to improve Renegades.
 
We had an incredible CGI team last time but our team has grown and you will see some eye popping SFX in Renegades!
 
After Kickstarter, we will try additional fund raising with the fans, so the more we can raise the better the film.


Iain: With such a limited budget how will you go about finding good locations and what kind of equipment will you be using to shoot scenes? 
 
Sky: We will be using the latest HD cameras which are incredible. 
 
Sets and locations are tricky and you have to get very creative! We have a Studio in LA where will shoot most of the film. We will also shoot a lot more green screen this time.
 

Ethan Calk

Iain: How did the story of Renegades first come about and did you have particular cast members from Previous Star Trek franchises in mind when starting out?

Ethan: The idea came about on the last day of shooting of ST: Of Gods and Men.  We were at the Laurel Canyon Stages shooting the scenes in the relay station with Ethan Phillips and on the bridge of Gary Mitchell’s ship – Laurel Canyon has permanent derelict-looking spaceship sets, so we were using them for several ship sets.  The three writers (me, Jack Trevino and Sky Conway) were just talking between takes and Jack made a comment about doing some kind of Trek where the crew has to work “outside” the normal bounds of Starfleet – and the idea just grew from there.  It went through quite a few changes – possible characters we could use, different storylines, but the overall concept stayed the same – Star Trek, but not necessarily a Starfleet crew.
 
We didn’t have any characters or actors in mind then, but we knew we wanted to work with some of them again, and we are doing just that.

The full interviews (plus director Tim Russ) are here

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