BJO FAN FILM AWARD WINNERS for 2018 announced!

17 thoughts on “BJO FAN FILM AWARD WINNERS for 2018 announced!”

1. I want to say to everyone who see this is a real big THANK YOU for all of your work on your story of all part of star trek there.
   I Kenny Smith like to see much more about this subject here.

2. So the elephant in the room wins most of the awards…..go figure…..congrats to all the winners and nominees. Your hard work keeping trek fan films alive is greatly appreciated.

   1. Well, the same thing kinda happened in 2015 when Prelude to Axanar was a nominee. But next years’ awards won’t have the “big guns” and should hopefully show a bit more diversity in the winners. That said, STC really earned every award it won.

3. As ABBA sang: the winner takes it all!
   Congrats to the other contestants, all this is really right stuff.

   1. Mama mia, that’s the name of the game! 🙂

4. It didn’t matter who didn’t win. Not everybody had new content to show.

   1. Not sure what that means…

5. I dare to say: Star Trek: The Mirror Frontier and Quark’s Space Station “Too Much Traffic” were two black horses in this year Bjos finale, as I see. Congrats for authors of both.

   But I have a question… Why 4-th episode of Quark’s Space Station wasn’t on nominees list?

   1. No idea. Someone has to nominate it. Maybe no one did.

6. I’m almost 9 minutes into “What are Ships for?” and I’m at the point where I can only watch no more than 60 seconds at a time (from the episode that won ‘best story/screenplay,’ mind you) and at this point after watching Vic and John Delancie the one thing that came to mind is:

   The Grandson: Hold it, hold it. What is this? Are you trying to trick me? . . . Is this a kissing book?
   Grandpa: Wait, just wait.
   The Grandson: Well, WHEN DOES IT GET GOOD?

   I’ll have to wait a few more hours before I can watch another minute. But really, when does it get good?

   1. 31:51.

      But don’t skip ahead. Fight your way through. The first half is VERY slow and plodding. But it’s worth it when you finally reach the last scene. The ending is VERY classic Star Trek…almost like the ending of one of the original 79 episodes. Let me know what you think when you finish it.

      1. Still struggling to get through, but I did manage to get up to 30:30. Other than the violation of the prime directive at 25:40 and the incredible slowness up to this point (I’m thinking like Crow T. Robot here: “Hey, it should be called ‘What are PLOTS for!!'” and when I try to imagine an invasion of ‘Obecians’ I can only picture a gaggle of fat white guys spreading diabetes as a form of some kind of STD . . . . Yeah, I know, but it’s hard to get that image out of my mind . . . . .)

         Maybe I’ll finish tomorrow or over the weekend.

         Strength and Honor.

         1. Hang in there, David! You’re almost up to the good part! 🙂

7. Aye yi yi. First 30 minutes: WAY over-developed; last 15 minutes: very underdeveloped to where I was being ‘jerked’ out of the story from logic flaws.

   SPOILER ALERT:
   To me there was a crucial scene missing: As edited once the Highlains saw color they would have NO reference that purple hair = Obecians and (IMHO) would not automatically make that link 5 seconds after their cone cells turned on. An added scene where an Obecian shuttle is shot down, survivors are captured (say in Act I or Act II) and when color is restored (ACT III or IV) all prisoners have purple hair implies all purple hair people on Highlia are Obecians. NOW there’s a causal link.

   When Council Leader John Delancie then remains a bigoted dork-head all Kirk has to do is then threaten to give the Highlians what they want: pull all Obecians off Delancie’s world, give Federation aid to Obecia, NO AID to Highlia (Per Prime Directive) , so Highlia has to choose: either get what they really wish for (no aliens) and keep falling behind in technology to Obecia as the Federation props up the latter OR live in peace with their friends they’ve known for years (even though they’re aliens) and stop being bigoted dick-heads.

   I’m thinking Vic was so busy being actor/producer he skimped on the writing part of being a showrunner. Seriously, I think it needed another pass in the writing room. But that’s just me. 🙂

   1. I don’t think it was just the purple hair but also the skin color. But yeah, if you wanted to poke that particular hole, you could. Of course, in “The Enemy Within,” they could simply have sent down a shuttlecraft or beamed down hundreds of more blankets. So it’s not like TOS was infallible either.

      As for your solution of the Federation’s “ultimatum,” I don’t think that’s what Kirk is all about. Force the Highlians almost at gunpoint to cooperate? Make them “an offer they can’t refuse”? That’s not the Star Trek way. Better to let them decide for themselves to work WITH their enemies and find common ground.

      Anyway, for me, the point of the episode was, of course, to point to our own xenophobia here in the U.S. and make us take a look at it through the “safe mirror” of science fiction. Was the metaphor a little hit-you-over-the-head-with-a-hammer? Yeah? So was “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield.” But that was still the heart of what Star Trek offered back in the 1960s.

      I’m sorry you didn’t like the episode, David. But there’s still ten others from STC, so it’s not a total loss…unless you didn’t like any of those either! 🙂

8. Oh, and what I think really doesn’t matter because it won the award for writing, anyway, but I just thought it could have been better.

   But then if it was better, then CBS would get their undies in a twist and would have balked at the episode coming in at 46 minutes. So like the cabin boy, maybe this rum was “just right.”

   1. Maybe! 🙂

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