Red Sea - A Star Trek Fan Film

[@Allegheny500]

Cudo's to whoever designed the USS Red Sea, it looks awesome and just right for the time period. Deserves a resin model.

[@albudrow5436]

i agree, great looking design but the warp nacelles are too close if we stick to cannon

[@CASA-dy4vs]

@@albudrow5436radiation shielding:

[@EvilJ069]

The klingons nuked Hadley's Hope from orbit, it was the only way to be sure

[@ZombieGrandpa]

Lol, well said.

[@MM22966]

You sure don't want an Andorian attached to your face.

[@benrussell-gough1201]

First time that I've seen a photon torpedo attack on a ground target represented correctly.

[@arthurchadwell9267]

They were getting short, man! Game over!

[@Hey_MikeZeroEcho22P]

This is AWESOME!!! As a model builder, I LIKE this ... 'ROBERTS-class' (colony-ship/security cutter) with the "pods" on its back!!! IF.... I was the Captain of RED SEA, I would have used an empty pod with explosives inside to "clutter the field" with debris as I tried to escape the attack. As far as the colonists, one of the things I would have....if " I " was StarFleet, is to have a shield.."....to deflect any bombardment." (Star Wars quote).

[@chrislea1000]

Thanks and good idea. I spoke to the creator of the ship, Morgan Smiley, who gave me a load of really useful background information

[@Hey_MikeZeroEcho22P]

@@chrislea1000 I Must Also Say..... this 'short story' that You produce is TOP NOTCH Stuff!!! Good Show!! The work of close ups, lights, soundtrack ....... the Editing!!! Truly, Superior Work!!

[@windrunner6145]

Must say the Red Sea design is simply awesome

[@chrislea1000]

Thanks - based on a design by Morgan Smiley

[@pastorjerrykliner3162]

Naming the shuttles after the characters in "Alien"??? LOVE IT!

[@KrawmKruach]

the mining base was named hadleys hope, the name of the colony in aliens.

[@temetka]

This was remarkably good. Model design seemed period correct. I really enjoyed the old school music as well. Nice job.

[@glennlaroche1524]

You continually supply us with the greatest content on the internet.

[@richardvinsen2385]

The greatest content on the entire internet? That seems to be an overly generous compliment.

[@williamfarlow2442]

Really nice ship designs. Love the Red Sea, it's great to see some of the more "workhorse" ships in Starfleet. Nice work on the alternate Bird Of Prey too!

[@hemaccabe4292]

Great film, keep creating!

[@alexxbaudwhyn7572]

Lifelong trekker since tas first run and tos syndication. Dead nuts pre Tos ship designs while applying artful tech updates. Nice job

[@Toobeegort]

There is so much in this, like the nod to "Alien", the effects, the story progression, and still you left us with, what's going to happen next, well done.

[@IronWarhorsesFun]

a federation ship just pumping out magic carpet ride is awesome especially as it is not a star fleet ship and i would assume that discipline and rules would be a bit laxer.

[@pike100]

​@@IronWarhorsesFun The song wasn't actually coming from the starship. Rather, it was just part of the soundtrack of this short.

[@skichy4793]

That was a great bit of Trek content!!! The models look fantastic as well as the ship designs. Thank you for sharing. Bows

[@johnnyrico6202]

Holy crap! Are those models? What a good little film. It looks like passion and talent intersected on the high ground. Thank you and more please.

[@hemaccabe4292]

Amazing cinematography and sound design.

[@kerravon4159]

Great job on the Fed colony ship, it looked really cool.

[@ditzyneko637]

Fantastic work! Also the Alien references, 10/10

[@michaelaldredge-greenwell1692]

Fantastic, superb, stunning!! To all the cast & crew of this fantastic video, my greatest thanks for bringing us this wonderful film!! I can’t wait for the next episode in the series!! I want to know what happens next!!!

[@SuperDawgbreath]

Amazing Job!! I was so wrapped up I didn't even notice it was ending. Don't leave us hanging for long! 😀

[@marcosargen3729]

Love the work! Great individualism by using the focusing effects. Makes the vessels seem far more real.

[@davidponseigo8811]

I really like these starships. Especially the Bird of Prey.

[@morgan97475]

Absolutely stunning! Thanks for bringing this ship to life.👍 Also, I liked the nod to "Alien".

[@MM22966]

Love the model designs; all the little details must have been a pain to render, but the "messy" exteriors make them look more like working starships, especially for a colony mission.

[@chrislea1000]

Yeah, little extra details always make ships look more real

[@Brian-pz3wh]

Really good job. Nice work. Even stayed true to Starfleets weak responses top attacks.

[@davidponseigo8811]

The more I see of these ships the more I like them. You are or have some really talented designers.

[@chrislea1000]

Thanks - it’s a one man show

[@ToddHofer]

The best part of the whole short was the opening scene. Magic Carpet Ride! Hell yeah! Well played!

[@sergioleone3583]

Wow!!! So much great stuff here. I especially liked the shuttles!

[@chrislea1000]

Glad you enjoyed it - did take a while to create :)

[@aurelius1964]

Brilliant as always :)

[@stevenewman1393]

🖖😎👍Very totally cool and very nicely greatly wonderfully spectaculary well done and executed in every detail way shape and format provided by you as always indeed Sir!👌.

[@chrislea1000]

Well thank you, more to come

[@pamelag7553]

Did a great job on the ships, the colony and the graphics. I only wish there was more of it. Maybe next time.

[@LAWLESSKING]

WOW!!! Great work!!

[@paulgonzalez4224]

This was amazing very well done!!

[@chrislea1000]

Thanks for watching and commenting

[@Nohan1967]

Excellent work!

[@crashoverride1000]

starting this film with a steppenwolf song was brilliant.

[@Hazmatt4700]

Really slick work. The designs are quite pleasing.

[@Aurivoo]

Wow! A bit alike Gerry Anderson's thunderbirds esque style of animation. Certainly that's a terrific trek fan film.

[@startrekphase2DE]

Excellent special effects, yet this feels like an unfinished story. The Red Sea should have put the shields up as soon as the anomaly was detected. The one Bird of Prey faced little resistance from the Red Sea. No photon torpedoes on that ship? The shields seemed to offer little resistance. Is their going to be a sequel to this story?

[@blue18404]

Please do the Eugenic Wars...

[@jamieleesphere1305]

This is so good I love it amazing work😊

[@morlockmeat]

Beautifully done!

[@JimmyJazzDystopian]

Looks great, i wish i had the talent to do something like this

[@Nesseight]

Damn, that Klingon Star Destroyer was so ticked off by the Federations presence that it set out on a six month journey just to attack them. That reminds me of my WotLK days when I took my level 2 paladin to Northerend. The Lich King himself came flying off of the Frozen Throne just to gank me.

[@wictimovgovonca320]

Love the shuttle launch

[@chrislea1000]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@sid2112]

Hey been looking forward to this!

[@kale27]

I hear a little ST: Armada in there. Awesome!

[@chrislea1000]

Glad you enjoyed

[@descendinguniverse]

stunning animation!

[@deanlawson6880]

Nicely done! Thanks for this!!

[@KhemistryIBMOR]

Your animation is beautiful.

[@WilhelmImperatorRex]

This is not just an amzing animationn as always, it is a true work of art! Thank you! *Remember the Red Sea!*

[@plantlord3266]

very well done film-love to see follow up and get those klingon...

[@manicpanda8741]

Was totally worth the wait. Really impressive

[@toddwatson7381]

Enjoyed the show!!! Well done. Thank you!!!!

[@chrislea1000]

Glad you enjoyed it, more to come

[@LoganHunter82]

Star Trek combined with Star Wars... I like it

[@chrislea1000]

I’m glad

[@acebrandon3522]

Mr. Lea, you are truly a master of the visual arts. The story and special effects are again TRULY EPIC. Well done and could you make this into a three- part story arc? On the early colonial history of the Federation on the border of Klingon Space? Thank-You.

[@sergioleone3583]

I would love to see that era shown through the eye of Mr. Lea in more depth!

[@acebrandon3522]

@@sergioleone3583 That would be so much fun. This is me just thinking about it. 🤗

[@tdrewman]

I hear the song magic carpet ride and I see it in my head the night shift playing music to pass the time.

[@ah7910]

Imagine this had been the Discovery and Strange New Worlds aesthetic? (Sigh)

[@gerhuneng]

Best episode out of the series. Data lies, it's manipulated according to your agenda!

[@chrislea1000]

Thanks - and for watching

[@KevinWebb]

Great ships. Solid BoP precursor.

[@chrislea1000]

Thanks, as intended

[@MelonRace]

It feels like it answers "What if Gerry Anderson directed Star Trek?" Incredible detail...just wow.

[@jonathancoolidge4594]

The U.S.S. Red Sea is an awesome design! It really does a superb balance of both honoring TOS design language and early fan and tech manual designs while also fitting into more recent movies and shows, tying things together really well. I only wish we could have more of this story--what prompted the Klingons to show up and attack, and how the colony fared following the blasts... I really wish budget and legalities allowed for more, as I'd love to see characters, the bridge, colony sets, maybe Klingon bridge sets, etc. And, I know that can only happen in my head for now...

[@chriss2031]

That was quite a surprising discovery. I like it.

[@MovieSpottingBerlin]

I like your movies so much!

[@thomassalois3508]

Love the Klingon music when the bird of prey shows up😮

[@starbrand3726]

Wow! Everything looked great. I couldn't tell if these were models or CGI rendered ships (and that's actually a good thing.) I loved when the Klingons were flying at warp, that looked fantastic too. My only criticism or critique would have to be...in the beginning, where are the stars? There's no visible stars in the background for the first few minutes. Other than that, great job.

[@chrislea1000]

Thanks - may have the contrast too high or the environment texture too low. I'll turn the stars up in the next one :)

[@loadtoad]

That was really good! I enjoyed it very much! RIBBIT!!!

[@dmcdraws]

"Dallas to Lambert"... nice nod. :)

[@LostInTheFarmersMarket]

Does anyone know what the klingons are saying?

[@andytay5507]

Astounding!

[@chrislea1000]

Thanks for watching

[@AndrewSprague]

Loving the fact that the shuttles have names from the Alien movie.

[@lordanubis9783]

Sorry, if I have to say this but.....MORE .... GIMME MORE!!!! So Awesome!!!

[@chrislea1000]

Thanks, plenty more on the channel!

[@CaptainJonathan]

Nicely designed ships.

[@ZionSowles-kv7oz]

The random Klingon noises are killing me

[@JimmyBlether]

Not gonna lie, I was expecting the colony to just vanish in an atomic fireball considering how strong photons are supposed to be as weapons. Unshielded it probably would have had no chance. I do appreciate aswell that you have got better at weapon impacts compared to some earlier videos where a large amount of shots would be fired at relatively short range and none would hit, so that's good. I do like starfleet ships which tow stuff, especially the Ptolemy class. The Red Sea itself is neat and I like that some cargo containers were missing after they had been deployed though the colony did seem rather large for what they could hold, unless I am getting a bad sense of scale. Hearing colonisation shuttle and the scale of the ship does automatically irk me unfortunately as I've conditioned myself to think much, much bigger than that in terms of the hardware to make a true "colony," perhaps also because of how much I am into real spaceflight. In terms of the shuttles, I think I see runabout influence on the nose which is rather cool. Love that magic carpet ride was used aswell, what else could have been honestly. Also, nobody calls a colony hadley's hope without expecting some horrible accident to happen in one way or another, but that's gotta be the joke.

[@HalNordmann]

The colony ship is a neat design indeed

[@Strykenine]

I love this ship design.

[@williamsquires3070]

I find it amusing that the song being played at the beginning was the same one Zefram Cochrane had playing on the Phoenix in Star Trek: First Contact, albeit at significantly higher volume levels than was safe for human hearing! 😅

[@95DarkFire]

I really like your ship models! They look like original Star Trek designs, but they have more details, like calssic Star Wars ships. This gives them a very "solid" feeling. It is basically an improved version of ST:Enterprise.

[@ChristinaMoore79]

An incredible short film, but I wanna know more!

[@cursecat111]

Cool. Hope you do a follow up Vid.We need a rescue Sir!!

[@shauljonah6955]

Very good and I can tell the klingons are mad as heck want someone to go have a talk with them i have a few ideas.

[@TheWonderer7]

That was fantastic! The only critical thing i can add, if i may, is that the voices sound pretty bored for all the action of getting blasted out of space...

[@chrislea1000]

First experiment in AI voices, not that great. Thanks for watching

[@TheWonderer7]

@@chrislea1000 it's my pleasure. You do great work.

[@georgesulea]

Great models, and don't think I missed the "Alien" references :)

[@richardsilva-spokane3436]

Wonderful production! I always wonder why Shields aren’t automated. Almost every TS production has them being commanded verbally by the Bridge.

[@atlantianson515]

Well, that was disappointing to see the Red Sea barely get of a shot or two and the Klingons got the upper hand on that one. But, Nicely Done!

[@marinbanicevic9457]

Interesting ship

[@vermontmike9800]

What class of ship/purpose of ship is this?

[@chrislea1000]

There’s more detail in the description but it’s a Hellas Class Colony Ship

[@dannyhicking]

Cool to watch

[@Adamstankevitch]

4:02 the clicking reminds me of a gas cooker

[@Akira-zt1ud]

Hadleys hope! (The aliens colony). Love the reference

[@chrislea1000]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@chrislea1000]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@richardvinsen2385]

Why did it sound like the captain was giving his orders over the telephone? Was he too busy to come to the bridge?

[@robotmonkeys]

This looks like physical models, especially when the shuttle lifts off

[@marshallc3]

Good stuff.

[@fhbaynes]

Totally epic

[@sivaschuh4396]

More!

[@TomMoore-u7v]

While I appreciate the Hellas class, what was wrong with using a Ptolemy class with colony support pod?

[@jeffhallam2004]

So loving these videos! Chris why dont you have Patreon or memberships???

[@chrislea1000]

Thanks Jeff, not good enough yet to ask for Patreon! Also, it’s a hobby and it’s been a way to get better at CGI. Thanks for commenting again

[@jeffhallam2004]

If you say so...well in anycase great work! @@chrislea1000

[@TheRezro]

Interesting ship design. It look like cargo version of Bonaventure class. Do it has name?

[@procyon6370]

Hellas Class, information on it and other fan designs can be found in the description.

[@Mrpurple75]

I approve, not that it matters but there you go

[@chrislea1000]

I’m glad that you do

[@MM22966]

Request: add hard subs for the Klingon parts. Not all of us are conversant in the Shakespearean language.

[@bettyswunghole3310]

It's another good'un!👍

[@TravelingCitrianSnail]

This is just *wrong.* At ST-TOS, 02X15: "The Trouble with Tribbles", 00:46, Spock is saying that the battle was fought "23 SOLAR YEARS AGO" = either late 2244, or early 2245. That was the time of the first hostile clash between the Federation and the Klingons, *not* 2223 (and, by the way: *not* 2256, as _"disastrovery"_ had claimed, either... 🙂).

[@einyv]

Cool but you would think they would have some type of defenses knowing the Klingons would attack. No defense satellites at all.