Submissions for the 2024 Star Trek Fan Film SHOWRUNNER AWARDS are now complete. The window of eligibility to enter this year was January 1, 2019 to December 31, 2023—a five-year range—although the majority of our submissions were released last year. Next time around, we’re going to shrink that window down to three years, as the judges and felt that five years is fine for a long-term starship mission but might be a little much for fan films.
This year, we have a very impressive 27 entries combining for a total of just under 9 hours of viewing for our 12 showrunner judges (including yours truly). Last year we had 21 entries with a combined runtime 5 and 2/3 hours. So once again, anyone saying that Star Trek fan films are “dead” is full of caca!
As we’ve done for the previous two years, the winners will be announced on Star Trek‘s anniversary of September 8, 2024. There are 23 categories this year, with three winners in each category: Admiral, Captain, and Commander level. I salute all of our 27 entrants for 2024, and I wish each of them the best of luck. (Honestly, I wish they ALL could win!)
I realize that I say this every year, but once again, we have some really amazing Star Trek fan films this time—of all different run times—that cover the gamut from comedic to dramatic to suspenseful to thoughtful to parody/farce and even a music video! Some are episodes of ongoing fan or fanthology series, others are stand-alone releases. There are fan films shot on sets, on location, on green screens, some with heavy VFX, some light on VFX, a few with elaborate make-up and costuming, cool props, and several really standout acting performances and even original music. We truly have some of the best of the best that the world of Star Trek fan films has to offer this year!
So I strongly encourage you to watch as many of these marvelous productions as you can. Here are all of our entries for 2024 alphabetically by title…
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AIRPLANE! (DREADNOUGHT DOMINION)
BROKEN REALITY (TREK SHORTS)
CARDASSIAN SPACE STATION (STAR REKT)
CRISIS ON INFINITE EXCALIBURS (AVALON UNIVERSE)
DESTINY CALLS (SHORT TREKS)
DOPPELGANGER (THE FEDERATION FILES)
THE EQUINOX EFFECT (THE FEDERATION FILES
FALLEN HEROES (TREK SHORTS)
A FIGHTING CHANCE: ROARING THUNDER (NATURE’S HUNGER)
FLIGHT OF THE PROTOSTAR (TREK SHORTS)
FRIENDS AND FOES (THE FEDERATION FILES)
THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE FEDERATION (WARBIRD VALDORE)
THE GREEN MANIFESTO (THE FEDERATION FILES)
IN OUR OWN TIME (DREADNOUGHT DOMINION)
KNIGHTS OF THE VOID (AVALON UNIVERSE)
LEGACY OF THE ENTERPRISE-B (TREK SHORTS)
THE LOST STARSHIP (TALES FROM THE NEUTRAL ZONE
MASK (THE FEDERATION FILES)
NINETY-SECOND CINEMA: “BLUE STUFF?”
NO GOOD DEED (THE FEDERATION FILES)
PAKLED RESURGENCE (TREK SHORTS)
STALLED TREK: THE CITY ON THE EDGE OF FORECLOSURE
TASK FORCE 78: KLINGON KRAMPUS (CHRISTMAS 2023)
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
VOICES FROM THE PAST (THE FEDERATION FILES)
WHEN DUTY CALLS (TALES FROM THE NEUTRAL ZONE)