A Fan’s Guide to the Best Star Trek Fan Films

Stories from fans, for fans: the greatest Star Trek storytelling is right here.

Odin Halvorson
9 min readMay 5, 2023

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A Fan’s Guide to the Best Star Trek Fan Films

When it comes to Do-It-Yourself projects, the ultimate expression has to be fan films. When you think “fan film,” you’re probably imagining something at the home-video quality, prepared by nerds with too much time on their hands.

But, what if I told you that some of these fan-made productions are better than the work produced by major studios? What if I told you that several fan productions feature professional actors reprising their original Star Trek roles?

Paramount Pictures

Star Trek has long encouraged a range of intrepid explorers in the field of film making. Fans from all backgrounds and walks of life have come together over the decades to share their love of the magic underlying this incredible setting.

Roddenberry’s vision for a future where all people work for the betterment of society as a whole, and their own self-growth, rather than the accumulation of profit, continues to inspire the creation of superb art.

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Odin Halvorson
Odin Halvorson

Written by Odin Halvorson

A futurist/socialist/fantasist writer, editor, and scholar. MFA/MLIS. Free access to my articles at OdinHalvorson.substack.com | More over at OdinHalvorson.com.

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