August 11, 2021
Before Of Gods and Men before New Voyages/Phase II, Star Trek Continues and Axanar’s bold grab for glory, there was a fan film called Star Trek: The Hunt for Peace.
The Hunt for Peace was made between 1990 and 1994 back when The Next Generation was still on TV, cameras had cassettes recording the action and the internet wasn’t for everyone to use.
The film was created in parents’ garages and at the telecommunications studio at Ball State University down in Muncie, Indiana.
This fan film comes in at a whopping one hour and forty-two minutes which is way longer than the majority of fan films that were made pre-guidelines and definitely longer than post-guidelines.
It is set aboard the USS Enterprise-A but it is not Kirk, Spock and McCoy in charge as it is Captain Conrad, Mr. Rayack and Dr. O’Brien as the big three command officers onboard.
Having a new crew on the Enterprise-A was a great creative move as Captain Kirk in his final log entry in Star Trek VI said “This ship and her history will shortly become the care of another crew”.
The Klingons are the antagonists of this story but all is not what it seems as the Klingons also have a problem of their own and it is down to the Enterprise-A and its new crew to stop the Klingons and end the threat that puts galactic peace at risk.
The Hunt for Peace uses parts of Star Trek movies for the starship exterior scenes which is understandable as CGI wasn’t available for the average person back in the early 1990’s and toy models wouldn’t of looked quite right on screen, it was the right move.
There are some sections of dialogue that come from various Star Trek movies but this is not a bad point as they are used creatively to fit with the action you see on screen.
There are sets in this fan film and while they are not the kind of sets that you saw in New Voyages etc. these are pretty good for the early 1990’s when things weren’t easy to come by like crowd funding and renting big warehouses for sets with a stack of screens built in etc. but you will see a full bridge setup of the Enterprise-A and Klingon vessels plus places such as Sick Bay and ship corridors.
There’s plenty of action in this fan film, there is the new crew, a Klingon assassination, rogue Klingons, destroyed Starfleet vessels, explosions, thrilling escape sequences in space and on land and more.
The cast and crew used every filming resource that had available to them such as zooming in on characters which was a neat touch and they told a great story, readers definitely have to watch this fan film especially if you seek to complete your fan film viewing collection.
Rating: 4.5 out of 5
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Hey Chuck, this is Brandon Hines, writer, director, actor, editor of STAR TREK The Hunt for Peace. Thanks for the review of our movie. Let me know if you need any more information on how our movie came to be 25+ years ago. I would love to get that review up from 3.75 to 4.75.
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I’ll give you an increase of 4.5, I just like the creativity in the film and the more I watch it the more I like it and that’s why it has been given an increase.
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Thanks for your review and kind words. We made the film with no budget in our spare time on old school over the shoulder home VHS cameras in our parents garages and at the telecommunications studio at Ball State University in Muncie Indiana. We never expected the views we are getting which I’m sure many are from your followers. I hope you enjoyed the story
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It was a good story and I have improved the review to post new thoughts after additional watches, it is always difficult to come up with a rating.
The review has 50 reads but I pretty much get a couple of reads each day which is nice, any total above zero is always good news.
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Andy’s character, the Klingon captain, was originally written to be the son of General Chang from STAR TREK VI where he was vengeful for the death of his father at the hands of the Federation. We ran out of time to explain that in the movie, but that was the inspiration behind his classically trained character’s lines.
When he finds the Enterprise, which is the same ship that killed his father, he crosses lines to torture them at the behest of his own crew which eventually leads to his own downfall in a Shakespearean way.
Thank you for the rating and the review!
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Thanks for the great review, I really enjoyed this one! The hallway explosions were amazing! The story starts off a little slow, but it is a high speed roller coaster at the end!
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This is amazing. Great story and awesome use of scenes from star trek 2 and 3. Even more impressive With the technology in use at the time.
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