Thank you so much.

I'm so glad, Albert.

Thanks. And I expect that, if Scotch and Vodka make it to the future, Jägermeister must be there, too.

Thanks!

Feel free to do so, my friend. 🙂

All of the voices were generated by Eleven Labs' A.I. speech synthesis algorithm. Sadly, fan films are not allowed to hire any actors who appeared in Star Trek...not that I could ever afford Shatner's rate anyway! 🙂 For more about the making of this fan film and the A.I. process, check out this blog: fanfilmfactor.com/2024/04/29/how-i-used-a-i-technology-to-bring-the-voices-of-spock-and-mccoy-back-to-life-in-an-absent-friend-part-1-the-audio/

Not so sure about that, Snow.

what?

@@jonathanlane1377Yes it was proposed as Star Trek 6. Kirk and crew were to take the Enterprise A into a vortex and meet up with Enterprise E crew. Similar circumstances. I think Happy Gilmore Castillo was written for Kirk. This might have worked well. Kirk had to make a decision to stay in the alternate future or go back a face certain death. Probably some historical epilogue would have been written saying that the old Enterprise crew died saving the Klingons from a Romulan attack.

@@jonathanlane1377Not entirely the plan but they were discussing with Nimoy about plans for a transition movie and it was rumored they were considering this script which went through many rewrites to bring the old fold in a movie. “While discussing the ingenious alternate timeline worldbuilding of the episode, Moore also offered another amusing observation: He almost wishes the episode hadn't happened, so he could have used the same concept for Star Trek Generations four years later. "If we hadn't have done that episode, then [the movie] would have been the Enterprise-A coming through that wormhole, and you'd have Spock and Kirk and everyone on that ship, we'd play the same story," Moore said. "They - the original crew - they had to go back to their deaths. And Guinan knew Kirk, and Guinan knew Picard, and that would have been an amazing movie."”

Thanks for the kind words, JJJ. Don't give up on your dreams. I can't make cartoons either, but I found someone who could.

I hope those were good tears.

Indeed!

Thanks so much for your kind words, Bill.

Thanks for the kind words.

The honor is to serve, mio amico. 🙂

It was really excellently done and provided a wonderful and appropriate intro.

You are very welcome.

Closure. I never considered that.

@@jonathanlane1377 This would have given TOS closure. There were really not “Post” or “Half Credit” scenes in movies back then, but if there were, THIS should have been one in “Generations”. In my head cannon, it IS the post credit scene to “Generations”.

@@Kinglore2000 This would have given TOS closure. There were really not “Post” or “Half Credit” scenes in movies back then, but if there were, THIS should have been one in “Generations”. In my head cannon, it IS the post credit scene to “Generations”.

Neither Nmoy nor Kelley wanted to appear in that film, the latter because he was getting on in years and felt his time in front of the camera was done. Indeed, De passed away five years after Generations was released, and he was not in good health toward to end, I'm sorry to say.

Actually, I rather enjoyed it.

It could've been better in a few ways. I respect what happened to Kirk and such, but the destruction of the Enterprise D, that was bad. Like, not a good kind of bad, but like a BAD bad.

@@Kinglore2000 They crashed the Enterprises too many times! It was traumatic to watch.

Dr. M'Benga? How so?

Em português tem o som de: "my benga" ou seja: "meu grande penis". Ridículo e apelativo usar esse nome em um personagem negro.

M'Benga wasn't as close to Kirk as McCoy and Spock were. Indeed, we never saw him again after TOS (except in SNW, which was technically before TOS). And the bartender was based on a Starflet captain from the animated episode "The Pirates of Orion."

@@jonathanlane1377 Lt. Leslie wasn't close to Kirk - never uttered a word. And it's implied Lt. Kyle was killed by Khan in ST:II with the rest of crew, as only Chekov and Capt. Terrell were found alive.

@@DesertBro The Reliant's crew was stranded on Ceti Alpha V, as explained in Kirk's log entry at the end of Star Trek II. "Captain's Log, Stardate: 8141.6 - Starship Enterprise departing for Ceti Alpha V to pick up the crew of U.S.S. Reliant. All is well." Thanks for playing. 🙂

Indeed, Matt! You did such an awesome job on the artwork! Thanks so much.

Just read the blog - hope you're having more opportunities to get illustrating gigs.

Thanks so much!

he wouldn't be so crude but the sentiment is there

McCoy is angry and drunk. He's just lost his closest, oldest friend, and his anger has no place to focus itself. The first "victim" is that poor bottle of bourbon. But when Spock arrives, he becomes the most convenient punching bag. Some people need that when they mourn, and if they are lucky, they have a friend who is strong enough and cares enough to be willing to provide it. And note that McCoy's anger dissipated quickly. He realized that Spock was hurting, too, and misery loves miserable company...even if the latter can't actually show how miserable it truly is. Ultimately, the two men connect on a special level, as they need each other to get themselves through and past this loss.

I think he would

I also remember an episode with Kirk chiding McCoy, saying that he could learn something from Spock's logic, and encouraging him to be not so emotional sometimes. Spock was very patient and... empathetic with McCoy.

I'm guessing that's a good thing, yes? 🙂

@@jonathanlane1377 Sure is. It means perfection.

@@scottwells8064 Can't argue with that! 🙂

We appreciate your kind words, Jeffery.

Peace and long life...and our thanks.

Thank YOU, Rafael, from all of us.

The A.I. blew my mind with what it was able to do. Granted, I needed to generate between 10 and 100 takes for each line of dialogue, but the takes that worked REALLY worked. Thanks for your comment!

Happy to hear it.

Indeed there was! Glad someone finally noticed after more than 900 comments! You win the Internet today, Cat. 🙂

@@jonathanlane1377 I noticed you put in quite a few such references, but I don't mention them in the comments because I hate spoilers and don't want to be the source of any for the others who hate spoilers. All that said, they were well done and very much appreciated.

So glad you enjoyed it.

Much appreciated.

Thank you.

Thanks so much.

Wish I could take complete credit for that little chuckle, but McCoy previously called Spock "you pointed-eared hobgoblin!" in the TOS episode "Bread and Circuses."

I try, I try. 🙂

Actually, McCoy has done the job of therapist quite a few times...including with Spock in "The Tholian Web." 🙂 Thanks for the kind words, my friend.