Star Trek - Project: Potemkin "Just Once" P18

[@rahadyans199]

Very poignant. Thank you very much to all involved in this film.

[@GeorgeKayaian]

I keep coming back to this episode-- really love the acting and story!

[@Potemkin1711]

Thanks, George! Hard to believe the actress had never acted before!

[@GeorgeKayaian]

@@Potemkin1711 Wow-- They did a great job. It's tricky to tell a tale in so short a time. Hope all is well!

[@Potemkin1711]

@@GeorgeKayaian Working on getting things rolling here in Lexington KY.

[@SouthernWargaming]

Excellant.....so many possibilities....

[@larqven0192]

Nice to see a TMP -tech Kelvin-like starship. I would think that it might have a larger nacelle? Of course, for the Athena's duties, it might be slow and underpowered?

[@Potemkin1711]

She's very much modeled after the Kelvin. ;) and she's outmoded and out dated. Her function was to provide support for three distant science outposts.

[@wernerlouderback6796]

WOW 😲 they have a ship named after one of my granddaughters 😁👍

[@rickythompson2820]

Excellent!

[@aml5321]

Delightfully melancholy and atmospheric... moving even. And of course I always want to know what happens next.

[@randylanders3741]

Yes! But as has been said, "Always leave 'em wanting more!"

[@aml5321]

exactly. At any rate, I am enjoying the feel of this fan series...

[@randylanders3741]

aml5321 Glad to hear it! You'll really enjoy our upcoming productions!

[@aml5321]

Randy Landers Looking forward to it!

[@Lyraa357]

I want to know where the Athena went and what her crew experienced.

[@drmayeda1930]

Too bad there was no follow up. It would make an interesting series along the lines of ST voyager.

[@megalictis9002]

You even have a Caitian! Nobody else has a Caitian! (Until Lower Decks).

[@Potemkin1711]

My daughter volunteered. ❤️ ;)

[@captjami]

Hmmmm intriguing !

[@Potemkin1711]

Glad you found it so!

[@rahmanzulu]

This episode of funny the person that's playing the captain look like she's due for a retirement herself

[@Potemkin1711]

Dude, you should really watch the episode. That's exactly the reason she's aboard the Potemkin.

[@larqven0192]

@@Potemkin1711 It was strangely sad in that the 'Great Adventure' didn't start until she was off the Athena; and then, it happened like within the hour!

[@Potemkin1711]

@@larqven0192 Exactly. Irony can be pretty ironic at times.

[@larqven0192]

@@Potemkin1711 Captain Spurlock is very unlucky--or extraordinarily fortunate depending on how one wants to view the situation. Space is mostly a lot of empty space; even Kirk and crew had some boring periods, most action comes not from encountering unexpected natural phenomena but from strange new worlds. Particularly the 'strange' people who live on them. It's not so surprising that the disappointed captain never had a 'big adventure' in a desolate corner of space running supplies to three lonely outposts. But, a lot of this is 'The Grass is Greener'. Capt. Spurlock seems outright excited about the Potemkin encountering lost tribes of Vulcan, and 'filling a cosmic pothole'. I think that I've seen the adventures she's referring to. That 'pothole' cost a LOT of lives in lost Federation and Klingon ships, and could have cost the Potemkin in filling it. Likewise, the lost Vulcans was a terrible thorny problem with no good outcome, and a grim ending. Much of that grim outcome wouldn't have necessarily happened if the Potemkin hadn't stumbled onto that adventure. Well, the Athena might have no longer been Spurlock's responsibility, but its unexpected vanishing, possibly from the universe altogether, is an altogether evident price of the Big Adventure as the ship will likely never be seen again, doomed to be recorded lost with all hands?

[@Potemkin1711]

@@larqven0192 The Athena's adventures continue, but whether or not we will ever see them remains as uncertain as the fate of the ship and her crew. Perhaps one day...

[@ankoutechnica8211]

Wow. To go out to "the final frontier" only to have a lifetime of milk runs.

[@puffinvapor4551]

“Voyager” comes to mind?

[@Potemkin1711]

I suppose, but these people are in a different universe altogether, as evidenced by the final shot.