"The Polyphemus Program" -- a Star Trek fan production

After a machine race leaves a trail of mentally damaged victims across Federation space, Fleet Captain Grigory--with the help of his Vulcan science officer, T’Sov, and a crew of officers in training--finds this robotic race might actually be victims of something more contagious than any plague. And now, accused of subverting the machine race’s routine, Alec Grigory returns to face the ultimate punishment: the erasure of his programming.
Starring Jeffrey Green as Fleet Captain Alec Grigory, M.J. Johnson as Executive Officer Cooper, Dawn Runyon as Chief Medical Officer Fanning, and Tina Plunkett as Science Officer T'Sov. Special Guest Stars: Omar Valdivieso as Mistaken Grigory #1, Tim Kirkman as Mistaken Grigory #2, Drew Barr as Husband of Mistaken Grigory #2, Melanie Valdivieso as the wife, Lydia Valdivieso as the older daughter and Alicia Valdivieso as the younger daughter.
Co-Starring: Chrissy Morgan as Comm Officer Veelah, Matt Rossler as Tactical Officer Eric Flanagan, Teran Sundy as Security Chief Rhys Kellen, James Weber as Security Officer David Kane, Blake Andrus as Medical Officer Sytheria Wrath, Christina Moore as Chief Engineer Lelia Tucker, Alyssa Rice as Navigator Mae Rogers, Jerry Brooker as Security Officer Szary and Daniel Rhodes as Duty Officer Gray Todd.
Featuring as Robot Voices: Chris Lobue, Quincy Lobue, Chrissy Morgan, Erik Parrent, Sarah Perkins and Randall Landers. Appearing in Archive Footage: Deborah Liss-Green, Dennis Proulx, Aaron Renfroe, Nic Wawruck, Aj Grimsley, Isha Mckelvin, Pamela Robinson, Jeremy Ellenberg, Richard Thornton, Leslie Lewis, Christopher Gilstrap, Ande Ross, Sara Higgins, Abby Evans, Rachel Riemke, and Christin Woods.
Written by David Eversole. Directed and Edited by Randall Landers. Music by Tony Lunn, Steve Gallant, Andrew Morgan Smith, and Michael Day. VFX by Ross Trowbridge. Sound by Randall Landers. Costumes by Randall Landers. Hair and Makeup by Jeffrey Green, Tina Plunkett, and
and the Entire Cast and Crew.
Second Unit (Producer, Editor, Director, Casting): Andrew Ortwein. Assistant Producers: M.J. Johnson, Tina Plunkett, Christin Woods. Associate Producers: Michael Day, Kevin Palm, Ross Trowbridge. Producers: Jeffrey Green, Tom Hagale, Chris LoBue, Andrew Ortwein. Co-Executive Producer: Rick Foxx. Executive Producer: Randall Landers.
Filmed on Location at Studio 4, Potemkin Pictures, Lexington, Kentucky.
20:09 mins
P38 “The Polyphemus Program”
Produced in 2024 by Randall Landers for POTEMKIN PICTURES.
From the Starship Potemkin Creative Group of Georgia and Kentucky.
Available on the @Potemkin1711 channel.

[@ChristinaMoore79]

Dude! I did not even know this was out today -- and I am in it! So freaking excited to see this first on-screen role at last. It turned out so very well!

[@joshuairwin2016]

I'm really happy for you that you got to be in this! Congratulations Christina!

[@MJ201254]

You had the best line too!

[@ChristinaMoore79]

@@MJ201254 LoL, yeah, we wanted to throw in a nod to a classic joke! Poor Tuesday gets such a bad rap. :)

[@ChristinaMoore79]

@@joshuairwin2016 Thank you, Josh! Now I just gotta find a way to get on screen in one of your films when you start another Star Trek project. Though that one Avalon credit got me an IMDb page!

[@whitecatcosplay722]

You did amazing!

[@robertf3479]

Welcome back Captain and crew of the Starship Potemkin. The best Star Trek stories are the ones that make one stop and think ... mission accomplished. I like your new Science Officer. I think Tina nailed the performance as T'Sov, especially when she began displaying the emotions unleashed by the mind meld and having to regain control afterward. Very, very well done all. Bravo Zulu as we say in the Navy.

[@MJ201254]

Tina is the consummate professional. We were all blessed to have been able to work with her!

[@whitecatcosplay722]

Thank you! It was a pleasure playing T’Sov and I hope to dig into the character more

[@ChristinaMoore79]

@@whitecatcosplay722 It was so much fun seeing you twice and acting on the same set with you. Can't wait to do it again!

[@whitecatcosplay722]

@@ChristinaMoore79same!

[@NickCookActingScribe]

Interesting follow up. Always a pleasure to see the Potemkin crew back, not to mention a script from David Eversole. I enjoyed it, and the Descartes joke made me laugh. :)

[@thecopycat7153]

Good to hear that awesome theme song again and seeing him back in action and good job on the machine aliens of that planet in my opinion they were very emotional in their own way and they had a very cool looking appearance to them thumbs up to all of you for a great job you did in making this fanfilm 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️!!!!!!!!!!!

[@davideversole9767]

Thanks for the kind comment. The machine race's emotion of course came from Girgory's infecting them.

[@wsims257]

this was awesome. I cannot believe what you've done to the production value. The lighting, framing, the sound, all amazing. Always loved your story telling method. Its as long as it needs to be.

[@kznte]

Excellent episode!!! :) Good to see Captain Grigory back in action :)

[@joshuairwin2016]

I've always enjoyed Jeffrey Green's performances. He's definitely one of the best actors in all of fan films.

[@MJ201254]

You're right. Jeffery is the reason I got involved with the project.

[@ChristinaMoore79]

I was so freaking stoked to meet him! It was almost like meeting a celebrity for me because I had seen all of Potemkin more than once!

[@ActorPoetSwordsmanRogue]

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[@ActorPoetSwordsmanRogue]

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[@ActorPoetSwordsmanRogue]

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[@davideversole9767]

This is probably the episode with the uniformly best cast I've had the pleasure to be associated with. There is a level of excellence from Jeff down to the extras--what a pleasure to write for these actors and to watch them make it so much more than words on a page.

[@whitecatcosplay722]

This is simply amazing. Happy to see everyone look stunning on screen just as they were that day. And post production and edits are amazing. ❤

[@davemac2580]

Thank You! David Eversole, Randy Landers and the Awesome Team Potemkin for the delightful trip down memory lane with many of my favorites of the past. Please Sir, May I have some more?

[@davideversole9767]

Thanks Dave.

[@SamriBliss]

3:10 I was reminded of Pickard’s “There are four lights!”

[@tigdamch.6321]

Yes!

[@AndrewOrtwein]

This comment just made my entire day

[@jackieanderson9408]

This was sweet.👍🏿

[@wernerlouderback6796]

David congrats on your script 📖✍️🍸🤓🍾

[@davideversole9961]

Thank you.

[@DonDiesel885]

Yeeeeeeeeaaahhh‼️ Made me Hit the iPad w/ a serious double take had me checkin' out the upload date like it was a hot babe 😂

[@michaelaldredge-greenwell1692]

Another brilliant episode

[@ronhanks4610]

I absolutely loved this, it’s a great story. Well done to all involved and thank you.

[@rahadyans199]

I love the reference to Dr. Morbius's line from Forbidden Planet!

[@davideversole9767]

Intentional...

[@specialagent31alfa]

🖖🏾🔋👍🏽EPIC CONTENT, MORE, please.

[@Potemkin1711]

@specialagentronjaf157 Stay tuned. We should have more than a few films coming out before the end of the year.

[@allenlovell1604]

Just had this latest episode pop up on my KZbin channel feed, and this fan-made film is a true loving ❤️ tribute to Gene Roddenberry's vision of StarTrek ! Well done all involved! I look 👀 forward to seeing 👀 more forthcoming installments coming soon, I hope 🙏?

[@Potemkin1711]

@allenlovell1604 we have 122 fan films on line. This particular cast and crew have 37 of them. I recommend sampling all the films and figuring out which crew, all or any, touches your inner Star Trek fan. Our channel is www.KZbin.com/potemkin1711 Hope you find many as enjoyable as this one.

[@Potemkin1711]

@@allenlovell1604 i should add, we release 8-10 films a year, and plan on continuing that trend for the foreseeable future.

[@grimmy2444]

Spare parts always coming on Tuesday Damn engineering division 😅

[@ChristinaMoore79]

Not my fault! Logistics Division is to blame.

[@ryanc5572]

Loved the story, and T'Sov laughing when going through Alec's memories was great 😂 Very interesting theme of the robots not really knowing what is wrong with them. A concept of individuality would be alien to something previously not aware of it, indeed.

[@richardgroberto]

Great acting!

[@tigdamch.6321]

Very good episode :>

[@quoniam426]

Good that Capt Grigory still has a close enough Vulcan comfortable enough with him for mindmeld. I guess if the Borg want to assimilate that planet, they'll have some problems...

[@Potemkin1711]

@@quoniam426 The Borg would stay away from this planet, and Mudd's planet as well.

[@ussarng4649]

Good sh9w well done.

[@paularawlinson912]

Boy, your plot layout was weird, but at least it was understable in the end

[@paularawlinson912]

Yeah sorry the word was supposed to be understandable but I have fat fingers and it autocorrected stupidity. I did like the story.

[@rons9946]

cool

[@michaelreed4744]

Hello. Have you thought about submitting this idea to the CBS Network?

[@Potemkin1711]

@@michaelreed4744No, they have plenty of creative people working for them.

[@robertf3479]

I wouldn't recommend that. C-BS would either pigeonhole it or find some way to ruin it.

[@lisanidog8178]

I have this burning question for years. Can someone explain Star dates to me? Are they month dates, year dates or just numbers? Thanks to anyone who can solve this mystery for me.

[@Potemkin1711]

Here are a couple of theories: We look at it as YYMM.%oY For example today , January 9th is the 9th day of the year. So 9 / 365.25 = .024 X 100 = 2.4 So the Stardate for today would be 2501.2. This system works for the TOS Movie Era, but not the TOS era, nor the TNG Era. We added a 0 as a prefix for our stardates of our productions set in 2300. So anything we wrote or filmed today would be 02501.2. Others have other ideas. Here's a couple of KZbin videos as well. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bHeQonSDrMacopo and kzbin.info/www/bejne/e2rQpouJjaqShJI Your mileage may vary, of course. :)

[@lisanidog8178]

thanks! The second video seemed more understandable.

[@wernerlouderback6796]

So does T’Noshi having to return to Vulcan from pon far imply she’s married? 🤔

[@Potemkin1711]

@@wernerlouderback6796 I dunno. Interesting thought.

[@scottlyons8130]

Is that an ambassador era miranda?

[@Potemkin1711]

@scottlyons8130 Actually, it's a porcupine-class starship. Beautiful ship. She's a training ship in our timeline.

[@jackieanderson9408]

First