May 26 2020

Star Trek Continues ended with a two part finale titled ‘To Boldly Go’.

The Enterprise has been assigned to go to the Aldebaran III after the colony there went silent, it is also the planet where a top secret Starfleet laboratory is.

The landing party encounters automated defences that were stopped by Captain Kirk before meeting Lana, a woman who has similar powers to Gary Mitchell after he survived the galactic barrier and she tells them what happened to scientists and to the people just like her.

They also meet a Romulan commander and incapacitate him before he could harm the landing party with an overloaded weapon.

The Enterprise is ordered to follow the Romulans and get back the Espers and they are soon intercepted by a second Romulan ship, Spock appears on the bridge and the ship is revealed to be commanded by Commander Charvanek.

It turns out that there was no Romulan ship to chase and the Espers taken the SS Halifax instead to the Galactic Barrier.

The Romulan Commander was discovered to not be a Romulan, he was revealed to be Sentek, A Vulcan from Aldebaran who was married to Lana and is an Esper.

The USS Kongo finds the Halifax but when the Enterprise and Romulan ship catch up thanks to the Romulans, they find the Halifax not answering hails and then the Kongo comes out of the barrier as the Espers killed the Kongo crew and taken over the ship.

Lana breaks out of the brig and forces two security officers to be vaporised in a murder-suicide before herself and Sentek go to the bridge in an attempt to seize the Enterprise.

They were unsuccessful thanks to Lt. Smith, it turned out that Lt. Smith was an Esper after touching Gary Mitchell five years ago but her powers did not surface until that moment.

The Enterprise and the Romulan ship try to stop the Kongo but are unsuccessful even with the Enterprise using the separation sequence to fight the Kongo three ways.

The Espers made an offer to give the Kongo’s Captain to Enterprise in exchange for Dr McKennah to which Spock reluctantly agreed to but it turned out to be a deception with the Kongo crew lifesigns in the hanger bay an illusion.

The Enterprise is back in one piece and continues to chase the Kongo, on its way it discovers the Potemkin and Exeter destroyed after the Espers forced them to fire on each other.

The Enterprise engages the Kongo and beam Lt Smith on board after she volunteered to try and get onboard to help the Enterprise, she made her way to Engineering and destroys the engines to weaken the Kongo but at the cost of her life.

The Romulan ship fired a Plasma Torpedo at the Kongo fatally damaging her and then fired on the Enterprise damaging her too.

Lena self destructs the Kongo and the Enterprise tries to beam Dr McKennah back but radiation interference stops the Enterprise from bringing her back and Kirk, Spock, Scotty and McCoy have to to farewell her as her transporter pattern degraded.

The Enterprise comes back to Earth, the fleet is in ruins but Admiral Nogura promises the fleet would be rebuilt and Enterprise was getting a refit from the keel up and offers Kirk a promotion.

Kirk accepts the promotion and announces it to his crew, Spock decides to take a leave of absence to go to Vulcan and McCoy has had enough of Starfleet but the three agree to meet up with Kirk and McCoy at 1900 hours

Kirk boards the Enterprise one last time and looks around the bridge while in thought and the episode ends with the camera leaving drydock, the opposite way the camera goes in The Motion Picture.

This two part episode wraps up the Star Trek and Star Trek Continues story well with the beginning of Star Trek being neatly wrapped up by Star Trek Continues end.

It also sets up what comes up in the Motion Picture when Spock leaves Vulcan and McCoy rejoins Starfleet and everyone wonders why as it was a long time between Star Trek and Star Trek The Motion Picture.

This two part episode of Continues also ended the era of big fan productions as new guidelines blunted the abilities of others outside of CBS and Paramount to make Star Trek that was in the realm of professionalism.

The acting is superb and so is the story and the CGI, this two part would of made an excellent movie if it was totally professional.

To Boldly Go is in my opinion the best Star Trek fan production episode ever made and it is unlikely to be topped.

Rating: 5 out of 5.