THIS project would take up the WHOLE basement and THEN some! I had previously built a Romulan bridge set in my basement, using up only a little under half the space. Once I had the complete picture in my head, I really wanted to do it.
I paused it and looked at it, and I said to myself: “I could make that in my basement!” I had also seen a fan film where they’d made the DS9 Runabout console with the window frames a few months earlier. They were seated in the rear area conference room, and the bunks were visible in the back. I was watching the TNG episode “Timescape,” where four of the characters were taking a Runabout back to the Enterprise. GARY – Our Runabout set was inspired by the DS9 Runabout.
#DS9 RUNABOUT SERIES#
So where did the idea for a Project: Runabout fan series come from? Gary Davis JONATHAN – Congrats on another FANtastic production, Gary. Naturally, there was a lot to chat with him about… Of course, it’s kinda hard to make a “bad” music video when you’re playing RACHEL PLATTEN’s uplifting Fight Song! But Gary and Randy were also helped along by four newcomers to Star Trek fan films. What I was NOT expecting was…a music video? And honestly, a really good music video! Here, take a look… But the phrase I’d heard bandied about was “girl-power.” Well, alrighty, then! So I was kinda expecting a space battle of some kind, great VFX (because Sam isn’t capable of creating anything else) and an intriguing new “homemade” Star Trek set. I knew this first episode was titled “Pilot,” and I’d heard there was an all-female cast (with one male Klingon thrown in). I went in completely cold, knowing only that Gary had worked long and hard to build a brand new TOS-era cockpit set in his basement and that British VFX phenom SAMUEL COCKINGS had designed an awesome-looking CGI model of a 23rd century runabout and was really excited about the visual effects that he was creating for this initial release. That was certainly the case when I sat down to watch the premiere of the new fan series PROJECT: RUNABOUT, created by GARY DAVIS and RANDY WRENN, who are also the co-showrunners behind the veteran fan series DREADNOUGHT DOMINION. To paraphrase (De)Forrest Gump: “Fan films are like a box of chocolates-you never know what you’re gonna get.”
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