One of my all-time favorite fan series is the mash-up parody STONE TREK. From 2000-2007, BRIAN MATTHEWS, the creator of Stone Trek, and WALLY FIELDS, who did the voices, released nine hilarious episodes (eight of them 2-parters), masterfully combining the modern stone age of The Flintstones with the final frontier of Star Trek. You just have to see those episodes to appreciate their comedic perfection, and I’ve enthusiastically rated it as a MUST SEE fan film.
There was only one small problem. These nine episodes were all created in Adobe’s Flash application and never exported to YouTube. The original flash files weren’t even viewable from many smart devices because of the Flash format.
I interviewed Brian and Wally a few years ago (click here to read the interview), and after we finished up and were just shooting the breeze, I asked if he ever thought of maybe exporting the episodes in video format and uploading them to YouTube. Brian told me that he’d think about it, but in the years since then, all I ever saw were a few of the episodes posted to YouTube by other fans, in varying states of quality. But the majority of these nine comedy mashup classics remained absent from YouTube.
Until now, that is…
