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765874 – Unification
"765874 – Unification" is the fourth in 765874 shorts, a series of short concept videos that use digital technology to visualize past actors and previously un-filmed imagery from the ''Star Trek'' franchise. Created by the Roddenberry Archive, a collaboration between the estate of ''Star Trek'' creator Gene Roddenberry and computer graphics company OTOY, the video features a reunion between the characters James T. Kirk and Spock after the events of the film ''Star Trek Generations'' (1994). It was directed by Carlos Baena (animator), Carlos Baena from a story by Jules Urbach. Urbach conceived of the short by mid-2023. It has no dialogue and is open to interpretation regarding whether the events are actually happening to Kirk, are in Spock's mind, or are taking place in a version of the afterlife. Location filming took place at Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California, in 2024. Sam Witwer was cast as Kirk while Lawrence Selleck returned from the previous videos a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
765874 Shorts
The Roddenberry Archive is a collaboration between the estate of ''Star Trek'' creator Gene Roddenberry and computer graphics company OTOY to digitally preserve assets related to the ''Star Trek'' franchise. It was announced in August 2021 by Gene's son Rod Roddenberry, Rod and OTOY founder and CEO Jules Urbach. Longtime ''Star Trek'' production artists Michael Okuda, Mike and Denise Okuda, Doug Drexler, and Daren Dochterman were curating the archive by then. It was made available in 2024 as ''The Archive'', a mixed reality app for the Apple Vision Pro. In addition to preserving documents, images, blueprints, and models from Gene's career, the archive team began digitally recreating the starship Starship Enterprise, USS ''Enterprise'' and other aspects of ''Star Trek'' stories. The archive also has featurettes made from interviews with various people connected to the ''Star Trek'' franchise, and several documentaries related to the digital recreations. In 2022, the archive team ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
